tors and curators:
provided, nevertheless, that this disposition cannot take place
but in cases where the testator shall not have named guardians,
tutors or curators by testament, codicil or other legal
instrument.

ARTICLE VII.

It shall be lawful and free for the subjects of each party to
employ such advocates, attorneys, notaries, solicitors or factors
as they shall judge proper.

ARTICLE VIII.

Merchants, masters and owners of ships, mariners, men of all
kinds, ships and vessels, and all merchandizes and goods in
general, and effects of one of the confederates, or of the
subjects thereof, shall not be seized or detained in any of the
countries, lands, islands, cities, places, ports, shores, or
dominions whatsoever of the other confederate, for any military
expedition, publick or private use of any one, by arrests,
violence, or any colour thereof; much less shall it be permitted
to the subjects of either party to take or extort by force
anything from the subjects of the other party, without the
consent of the owner; which, however, is not to be understood of
seizures, detentions, and arrests which shall be made by the
command and authority of justice, and by the ordinary methods, on
account of debts or crimes, in respect whereof the proceedings
must be by way of law, according to the forms of justice.

ARTICLE IX.

It is further agreed and concluded that it shall be wholly free
for all merchants, commanders of ships, and other subjects and
inhabitants of the contracting parties, in every place (p. 078)
subjected to the jurisdiction of the two powers respectively, to
manage themselves their own business; and moreover as to the use
of interpreters or brokers, as also in relation to the loading or
unloading of their vessels, and everything which has relation
thereto, they shall be, on one side, and on the other, considered
and treated upon the footing of natural subjects, or, at least,
upon an equality with the most favoured nation.

ARTICLE X.

The merchant ships of either of the parties, coming from the port
of an enemy, or from their own, or a neutral port, may navigate
freely towards any port of an enemy of the other ally: they shall
be, nevertheless, held, whenever it shall be required, to