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on , or employ them in expeditions it may think fit to undertake , without being obliged to give an account of the motives by which it may have been determined . VIII . The demand of the succours stipulated in the preceding articles made bv one of the Powers , shall suffice to prove the need it has of them , and shall bind the other power to dispose of them , without its being necessary to enter into any discussion relative o he question , whether the war it proposes be offensive or defensive ; or without any explanation being required ivhich may tend to elude the most speedy and exact accomplishment of what is stipulated .

IX . The troops and ships demanded , shall continue at the disposal of the requiring power ciuriiiT the whole of the war , without its incurring in any case any exuence . The power called on shall maintain them in all places where its ally shall cause them to act , as if it employed them directly for itself . It is simply agreed on , that during the whole of the time when the aforesaid troops or ships shall be on the territory or in the ports of the requiring power , it shall furnish them from its magazines ov arsenals whatever may be necessary to them , in the same way , and at the same price as it supplies its own troops and ships .

X . The power called on shall immediately replace the ships it furnishes , which may be lost by accidents of war or of the sea . It shall also repair the losses the troops it supplies may suffer . XI . If the aforesaid succours nre found to be , or should become insufficient , the two contracting powers shall put on foot the greatest force they possibly can , as wellby sea as by iand , against the enemy of the power attacked , which sh . U ! eniplov the aforesaid forces , either by combining them , or by causing them lan concerted between them

to act separately , and this conformably to a p . XII . The succours stipulated by the preceding articles shall'be furnished in all the wars the contracting powers mav have to maintain , even in those in which the parly called on may not be directly interested , and may act merely as a simple auxiliary . XIII . In the case in which the ' motives of hostilities being prejudicial to both they declare with common assent against one or several

parties , may war one powers , the limitations established in the preceding articles shall cease to take place , and the two contracting Powers shall be bound to bring into action , against the common enemy , the whole of their land and sea forces , and to concert their p l ans so as to direct them towards Ihe most convenient points , either separately or by uniting them . Thev equally bind themselves , in the cases pointed out in the present article , not to treat for peace unless with one common assent , and in such a wav as that each shall obtain the satisfaction which is its due .

XIV . In the case in which one of the Powers shall act merely as an auxiliary the Power which alone shall find itself attacked may treat of peace separately , hut so as that no prejudice may result from thence to the auxiliary Power , and that it . innv even turn as much as possible lo its direct advantage . For this purpose , advice shall be given to the auxiliary Power of the mode and time agreed on for the opening and sequel of . lie negociations . XV . Without any deinv there shall be concluded a treaty of commerce on the which

m ' ost equitable basis and reciprocally advantageous to the two nations , shall secure to each of them , with its " ally , a marked preference for the productions of its soil and manufactures , or at the least advantages equal to those which the most favoured nations enjoy in their respective States . The two Powers engage to make instnntlv a common cause to repress and annihilate the maxims adopted bv any country whatever , which may be " subversive of their present princilesand which < iiay bring iino danger the safety of the neutral flagand the

p , ; , resnect which is" * due to it , as well as to niise and . re-establish the colonial system of Spain on the footing on which it has subsisted , or ought to subsist , conformably to treaties . XVI . The character and jurisdiction of the consuls shall be at the same time recognized an . ! regulated by a particular convention . —Those anterior to the present treaty shall be provisionally executed .