ica, to make
such regulations as they may judge necessary, relative to the
conduct which their respective vessels and privateers ought to
hold in relation to the vessels which they shall have taken and
conducted into the ports of the two powers.

In faith of which, We, the Deputies and Plenipotentiaries of the
Lords the States-General of the United Netherlands, and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, have, in virtue
of our respective authorities and full powers, signed these
presents, and confirmed the same with the seals of our arms.

Done at the Hague the eighth of October, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-two.

John ADAMS. [L.S.]
George VAN RANDWYCK. [L.S.]
B. V. D. SANTHEUVEL. [L.S.]
P. V. BLEISWIJK. [L.S.]
W. C. H. VAN LIJNDEN. [L.S.]
D. J. VAN HEECKEREN. [L.S.]
Joan VAN KUFFELER. [L.S.]
F: G: VAN DEDEM, TOT DEN GELDER. [L.S.]
H: TJASSENS. [L.S.]

No. 14. (p. 086)
PLATE XIV.

_1782._

Libertas Americana. [Rx]. Non sine diis animosus infans.

LIBERTAS AMERICANA.

[_Surrender of the British Armies at Saratoga and at Yorktown._]

LIBERTAS AMERICANA. (_American liberty._) The head of a beautiful
maiden, facing the left, with dishevelled hair floating in the wind,
and with the rod of liberty surmounted by the Phrygian cap on her
right shoulder. Exergue: 4 JUIL. (_sic_) 1776. (_4 Julii, 1776: July
4, 1776._) On edge of bust, DUPRE.

NON SINE DIIS ANIMOSUS INFANS.[52] (_The courageous child was aided by
the gods._) The infant Hercules (_America_), in his cradle, is
strangling two serpents, while Minerva (_France_) stands by, helmeted,
and with spear in her right hand, ready to strike a leopard
(_England_) whose attacks she wards off with her shield decked with
the lilies of France. Exergue: 17/19 OCT. 1777/1781. (17/19 _Octobris_
1777/1781: 17/19 _October_, 1777/1781.)[53] DUPRE. F. (_fecit_).[54]

[Footnote 52: Horace, Book III, Ode iv, 20.]

[Footnote 53: Dates of the surrender of the British
armie