176 TREATY WITH PRUSSIA. 1799. on them be withheld as a satisfaction or reprisal for any other article, or for any other cause, real or pretended, whatever. That each party shall be allowed to keep a commissary of prisoners of their own appointment, with every separate cantonment of prisoners in possession of the other, which commissary shall sae pgispnerg as often asf hp pleas? al all dt `ean isrruewaevercomorsmay e ggntltdllhetrinby therriiiifdxdsg and shall be free to make his reports in open letters to those who- employ him; but if any officer shall, break his parole, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of hislcantonment after they shall have been designated to him, such individual officer or other prisoner shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his enlargement on parole or cantonment. And it is declared, that neither the pretence, that war dissolves all treaties, nor any other whatever shall be considered as annulling or suspending this and the next preceding article; but on the contrary that the state of war is precisely that for which they are provided, and during which they are to be as sacredly observed as the most acknowledged articles in the law of nature and nations. ARTICLE XXV. Cvnwls. 6¤¤· The two contracting parties have granted to each other the liberty of
- l5‘;“l:‘l;‘; 'g°;_ having each in the ports of the other, consuls, yipe-consul;, agents and
minions of th, commissarres of their own appointment, who s lenyoy the same pr1· two parties- vileges and powers, as those of the most favoured nations. But if any such consuls shall exercise commerce., theylshall be submitted to the same laws and usages, to which the private individuals of their nation are submitted in the same place. ARTICLE XXVI. Igtpvourg grant. { If either party shall hereafter grant polpny other napticgn, any particular ° °°l 6F *0 avour in navigation or commerce it s a imme iate y ecome common l’f,°;£§°;§fl t° to the other party, freely, where it,is freely granted to such other nation, or on yielding the same compensation when the grant is conditional. ARTICLE XXVII. Limitation of His Majesty the king of Prussia and the United States of America ilw ¤‘¤¤W· _ agree, that this treaty shall be in force during the term of ten years from the exchange of the ratincations; and if the expiration of that term should happen during the course of a war between them, then the articles before provided for the regulation of their conduct during such ahwar, shall continue in force untill the conclusion of the treaty, which s all restore pence. This treaty shall be ratified on both sides, and the ratifications exclppiged within one year from the day of its signature or sooner if possr e. Inhtestimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries before mentioned, have ereto subscribed their names and affixed their seals. Done at Ilierlin the eleventh of July, in the year one thousand seven hunred and ninety-nine. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. (1.. s.) gH$JR}.ES GUILLAUME Comte de Finkenstein. (L. S.) H I’PE CHARLES rZ’Alvcnsleben. (1.. s.) CHRETIEN HENRI CURCE Comte d’Hau wiz. 1.. s. é'
