cient powers, have figned thefe prefents with our hands, and thereto have put our feals. Namely the plenipotentiaries of his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, of his Britannick Majefty, of his majefty the king of Sardinia, at London the 28th day of Oct. and the plenipotentiary of his 8th day of Nov. moft Chriftian Majefty at Paris, the vember, in the year 1718. (L. S.) C. Provana. (L. S) C. de la Perroufe. (L. S.) Chrif. Penterridter (L.S.) Parker C. ab Adelfhaufen. (L.S.) Jo. Phil. Hoffman. day of No (L. S.) Sunderland P. (L. S.) Kent. (L. S.) Holles Newcastle. Convention between Charles VI. emperor of the Romans and Catholick king of Spain, George king of Great Britain, and the lords the States General of the United Provinces, relating to the execution of certain articles and points of the Barrier Treaty, concluded on the 15th of November, 1715. Signed at the Hague the 22d of December, 1718. SOME OME of the articles of the barrier treaty, concluded on the 15th of November, 1715, between his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, his Majefty the king of Great Britain, and the lords the States General of the United Provinces, being impoffible to be performed, by reason of certain difficulties that have occurred; and his majefty the king of Great Britain, and their High Mightineffes, being alike defirous to remove thofe difficulties by the most agreeable methods, in order to attain to the view propofed by the faid treaty, and the better to eftablish the foundations of a folid friendfhip and a good understanding, to which all the parties are inclined, his Imperial and Catho lick Majefty, his majefty the king of Great Britain, and their High Mightineffes have nominated and appointed to treat thereof, viz. his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, the fieur Hercules Jofeph Lewis Turenetti, marquis de Prie & de Pancalier, count de Mittelevurg & de CaftilJon, lord de St. Servolo & Caftelnovo in Carniola, of Fridaw & Rabonftein in Auftria, of Schiurge Belvar & St. Miclos in Hungary, a grandee of Spain, knight of the order of the annunciada, privy counsellor of his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, his minifter plenipotentiary for the government of the Netherlands, and his ambaffador plenipotentiary, for concluding and figning this prefent treaty, for the execution of the treaty of the barrier: his Britannick Majefty, William earl Cadogan, viscount of Caverfham, baron of Reading and Oakley, general of the foot, colonel of the 2d regiment of foot guards, governor of the Ifle of Wight, mafter of the wardrobe, privy counsellor, knight of the most noble and moft antient order of St. Andrew, and his ambaffador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the lords the States General of the United Provinces and their High Mightineffes, the fieurs John van Wynbergen, lord of Glinthorft, of the body of the nobles of the quarter of Veluwe, in the province of Guelderland; Wigbolt vander Does, lord of Noortwyck, of the order of the nobility of Holland and Weftfriesland, high bailiff and dykegrave of Rhinland; Anthony Heinfius, counsellor penfionary, keeper of the great feal, and fuperintendant of the fiefs of the province of Holland and Weftfriesland; Adrian Velters, late Echevin, fenator and penfionary of the town of Middleburg in Zealand; Gerard Godart Taats van Amerongen, canon of the chapter of St. John at Utrecht, affeffor in the council of fubfidies, conftituting the chief member of the ftates of the province of Utrecht, grand huntsman of the faid province, and affeffor in the council of the Heemrades of the river of Leck; Dancker de Kempenaar, fenator of the town of Harlingen, in Friefland; Everard Roufe, burgomaster of Deventer in Ove ryffel; and Eger Tamminga, lord in Zeeryp, Enum, Leerumus and Zandt, all refpectively deputies in our af fembly on the part of the ftates of Guelderland, Holland, and Weftfriefland, Overyffel and Groningen, and the Ommelands; melands; who by virtue of their refpective full powers, after having held feveral conferences together, have agreed as follows. I. Whereas certain difficulties have arifen with respect to the 17th article of the faid treaty of barrier, which relates to the fecurity of the frontiers, and the extending of the limits of their High Mightineffes in Flanders, from whence inconveniencies may arife, which all the parties are defirous to prevent, it is agreed to fubftitute the present article in the place of the faid 17th article. His Imperial and Catholick Majefty agrees and approves, that for the future the boundaries of the States General in Flanders fhall begin at the fea to the N. W. of the fort of St. Paul now demolifhed, which his majesty yields to them together with ten rods of land, each rod confifting of 14 feet round the ditch of the counterfcarp, to the weft and fouth fides; and a ftrait line fhall be drawn from the dyke which is to the fouth of the said fort, marked by the letter A on the map which has been formed and figned by all the parties, through the Polder called Hasegras, as far as where it joins to the dyke of Crommendyke, marked B. paffing along by a ditch on the weft fide of the faid demolished dyke, and from thence to the canal called Neeuwgedhelft marked C, and from thence to the Neeuwgedhelft Dryhoeck marked D; from whence the new limits fhall run along a watercourfe and ditch, marked E, as far as to the line marked F, which watercourfe and ditch fhall remain to his majefty. From the letter F they hall be continued along the faid line beyond the toll-house of his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, marked G, in an angle, where it fhall enter the dyke again, and run through the little polder level with a ditch as far as the waterfall of the black fluice, and continued on the point of a redoubt or traverse, which is upon the dyke beyond the two canals of Saute and Soute, marked H, near the fort of St. Donat, which his Imperial and Catholick Majefty yields in full fovereignty and propriety to the States General, together with the fovereignty of the land fituate to the north of the line, marked as above; provided that the gates of the fiuices of the faid Fort be, and continue taken down in time of peace, and that the proprietors be permitted to fink the the thresholds level with that of the black fluice, and to infpect them as often as they think neceffary, to the end that in time of peace the water may always have a free current to the fea. From the faid poft, the new limits fhall return back along the foot of the dyke, towards the polder, called the Worlds End, and from thence along the fea dyke, as it is fet down in the map, as far as the antient boundaries, to the cut in the dyke which clofes the creek of Lapfchure, marked I; and the land on the north fide of the line fhall belong to their High Mightineffes in fovereignty. From thence the old limits fhall be continued as far as the Barbara Polder, at which place the new limits shall enter and begin at the foot of the dyke, running along that polder, and the Lauraine Polder, to the long street marked K; and from thence in a ftrait line along the faid freet to the dyke which goes from Bouckloute, to the harbour of Bouckhoute, marked L; and from thence they fhall enter into the Chapel Polder, and continue in a ftrait line to an angle of the Grafjanfdyke, marked M; and from thence along the dyke, as far as the Red Polder. His Imperial and Catholick Majefty yields to their High Mightineffes in full fovereignty the Barbary Polder, Lauraine Polder, Chapel Polder, and the Red Polder; except what is referved by the line above drawn in the Chapel and the Laurain Polders, which fhall remain to his Imperial and Catholick Majefty. Their High Mightineffes permit the owners of the fluices of Bouckhoute to replace them where they were before, and that the faid fluices may have their currents directly to the fea, as they had before the late war. Their High Mightineffes fhall be permitted in time of war, when it is neceffary for the defence and fecurity of their frontiers, to occupy and fortify the neceffary posts in the Grafjanfdyke and Zydlingfdyke. As to the town of Sas van Ghent, the limits fhall be extended to the diftance of two-thirds of two geometrical miles round the town, beginning at the angles of the baftions, which fhall terminate on the fide towards Zelfate, at at the point of their antient limits on the bank of the canal of the Sas. And for the prefervation of the lower Schelde, and for the fake of the communication between Dutch Brabant and Flanders, his Imperial and Catholick Majefty gives up to the States General the full and entire fovereignty of the village and polder of Doel, as also of the polders of St. Anne and Keteniffe; provided nevertheless, that the ter ritory of their High Mightineffes fhall not extend between the forts of the Pearl and Liefkenfhoeck, farther than the midway between the two forts. His Imperial and Catholick Majefty, as foon as the barrier fhall be attacked, or a war begun, fhall deliver up the guard of fort Pearl to their High Mightineffes; on condition nevertheless, that as foon as fuch war is at an end, they shall reftore the faid fort Pearl to his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, together with the pofts they fhall have in that time taken poffeffion of, on the Grafjanfdyke and Zydling fdyke. Their High Mightineffes promife moreover, that if upon occafion of giving up to them fome fluices (wherof the inhabitants of Auftrian Flanders fhall retain the free ufe in time of peace) they should fuffer any damage or prejudice, either from the commanders or other military officers, the States General will not only remedy it immediately, but likewife make fatifaction to thofe concerned. And because, from this new fituation of the limits, there will be a neceffity of changing the toll houfes to prevent frauds, wherein his Imperial and Catholick Majefty and their High Mightineffes are equally interested; other places for establishing the faid toll-houfes fhall be agreed on, as well as the farther precautions that it fhall be thought convenient to take. It fhall moreover be ftipulated, that a just valuation fhall be made, in three months time, of the revenues which the fovereign receives from the lands that fhall be yielded up to their Hightineffes by this article; as alfo what have arifen to the fovereign by the renewing of the grants on the foot they have been agreed to for thirty years paft, to be deducted and ftruck off from the annual fubfidy of 5c0,000 crowns; but the payment of the faid fubfidy fhall not be re tarded |