L29/568/86

Grantham, St. James's to Fitzherbert, Paris (No 5, copy) Has great reluctance in fixing a time for abolishing the Treaty of Commerce between Great Britain and France and Great Britain and Spain when the new ones are concluded. Particularly difficult with regard to the Treaty with Spain which is advantageous to Great Britain. France complains of the inefficacy of their Treaty of Navigation and Commerce at Utrecht in 1713 but is not anxious to have Great Britain's treaty with Spain altered. It is desirable that France gives up her expectation relating to the Treaty of 1713 for the sake of preserving the advantages she holds in Spain by Great Britain's Treaty of 1667 or she induces Spain not to insist upon the same condition of fixing a time. Hopes that the agreement to appoint Commissioners will satisfy both courts. It is necessary to mention this in the Preliminaries. Fitzherbert is to offer the Article as it now stands which promises that the "Subject shall be duly investigated without having annex'd to it a Condition so disagreeable as the cessation of the Treatys at any given time".

9 Jan 1783

From: 1667 To: 1783

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Lucas,
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron,
Fitzherbert, Alleyn

Foreign Secretary, political correspondence, Plenipotentiary, French, Spanish, treaties, trade and industry overseas, general, commissioner, Westminster Saint James, Paris, Britain, France, Spain, Utrecht