“ In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity;—The events which have taken place in Spain having terminated the state of hostility which unfortunately subsisted between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain, and united the arms of both against the common enemy, it seems good that the new relations which have been produced between two nations, now connected by common interest, should be regularly established and confirmed by a formal treaty of peace, friendship, and alliance ”

“ JUAN RUIZ APOCADA. Additional article The present circumstances not admitting of the regular negociation of a treaty of commerce and between the all two countries, with all the care and consideration due to so important a subject, the high contracting powers mutually engage to proceed to such negociation as soon as it shall be practicable so to do, affording in the mean time, mutual facilities to the commerce of the subjects of each other, by temporary regulations founded on principles of reciprocal utility. ”