Brooks: Diplomacy and the Borderland


which the said grants shall be null and void.-All grants made since
the said 24" of January 1818. when the first proposal on the part
of His Catholic Majesty, for the cession of the Floridas was made,
are hereby declared and agreed to be null and void.

 ART. 9.
 The two High Contracting Parties animated with the most
earnest desire of conciliation and with the object of putting an end
to all the differences which have existed between them, and of con-
firming the good understanding which they wish to be forever
maintained between them, reciprocally renounce all claims for
damages or injuries which they, themselves, as well as their re-
spective citizens and subjects may have suffered, until the time of
signing this Treaty.
 The renunciation of the United-States will extend to all the in-
 juries mentioned in the Convention of the 11" of August 1802.
 2. To all claims on account of Prizes made by French Privateers,
 and condemned by French Consuls, within the Territory and Juris-
 diction of Spain.
 3. To all claims of indemnities on account of the suspension of
 the right of Deposit at New-Orleans in 1802.
 4. To all claims of Citizens of the United-States upon the Gov-
 ernment of Spain, arising from the unlawful seizures at Sea, and
 in the ports and territories of Spain or the Spanish Colonies.
 5. To all claims of Citizens of the United-States upon the Span-
 ish Government, statements of which, soliciting the interposition
 of the Government of the United-States have been presented to the
 Department of State, or to the Minister of the United-States in
 Spain, since the date of the Convention of 1802, and until the sig-
 nature of this Treaty.
 The renunciation of His Catholic Majesty extends,
 1. To all the injuries mentioned in the Convention of the 11h
 of August 1802.
 2. To the sums which His Catholic Majesty advanced for the
 return of Captain Pike from the Provincias Internas.
 3. To all injuries caused by the expedition of Miranda that was
 fitted out and equipped at New-York.