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brought into or carried out of these kingdoms by land as the said subjects pay on the same goods which they shall import or export by sea ; and all the rights, privileges, franchises, exemptions, and immunities which shall be granted or permitted to any nation whatever, shall likewise be granted and permitted to the said subjects ; the same shall be granted, observed, and permitted to the subjects of Spain in the kingdoms of His Britannic Majesty. (Article V.) If applicable to British Colonies. Not applicable to British Colonies. October 5, 1750. Commerce and Navigation. —Continued in force pending negotiations of a new treaty of commerce, by additional article of the 28th August, 1814. Most-favoured-Nation Treatment. Subjects: Sights, Privileges, 'Franchises, Exemptions, and Immunities. —His Catholic Majesty does hereby allow and consent that the said British subjects shall enjoy all those rights, privileges, franchises, exemptions, and immunities which they did enjoy before the last war, by virtue and in consequence of the schedules or the Royal ordinances that were made thereupon, and agreeable to tho Treaty of Peace and Commerce that has been made at Madrid in the year 1067. (Article VII.) Wools and Merchandises. — And that the said subjects shall be treated in Spain in the same manner as those of the most favoured nation, and that, consequently, no nation whatever shall pay less duties for the wools and other merchandises that are brought or carried away by them from the kingdoms of Spain by land, than the said subjects shall pay for the same merchandises that they shall import or export by sea. (Article VII.) Sights, Privileges, Franchises, Exemptions, and Immunities. —And that all the rights, privileges, franchises, exemptions, and immunities that are or shall be granted or allowed to any other nation shall be likewise granted and allowed to the said British subjects; and His Britannic Majesty does hereby consent that the same be granted and allowed to the subjects of Spain in His Britannic Majesty's kingdom. (Article VII.) If applicable to British Colonies. Not applicable to British Colonies. July 5, 1814. Commerce and Navigation. —No time fixed. Most-favoured-Nation Treatment. Trade, Spanish American Possessions. —In the event of the commerce of the Spanish American possessions being opened to foreign nations, His Catholic Majesty promises that Great Britain shall be admitted to trade with those possessions as the most favoured nation. (Article IV.) If applicable to British Colonies. Not applicable to British Colonies. August 28, 1814. Commerce and Navigation. —No time fixed. Most-faToured-Nation Treatment. All Treaties of Commerce confirmed. —It is agreed that, pending the negotiation of a new treaty of commerce, Great Britain shall be admitted to trade with Spain upon the same conditions as those which existed previously to the year 1796 ; all the treaties of commerce which at that period subsisted between the two nations being hereby ratified and confirmed. (Article I.) If applicable to British Colonies. Not applicable to British Colonies. SWEDEN AND NORWAY.—March .18, 1826. Commerce and Navigation. —These stipulations in favour of British commerce shall remain in force during the continuance of the present Convention, and as far as the Act of Parliament of the sth July, 1825, shall continue to grant to the navigation and commerce of Sweden equivalentfaciliti.es of the same nature. (Article X.) The present Convention shall be in force for the term of ten years from the date hereof, and, further, until the end of twelve months after either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same, each of the High Contracting Patties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other at the end of the said term of ten years; and it is hereby agreed between them that, at the expiration of twelve months after such notice shall have been received by either Party from the other, this Convention and all the provisions thereof shall altogether cease and determine. (Article XII.) Most-faToured-Nation Treatment. Import Dudes: Produce and Manufactures. —The High Contracting Parties engage that all articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of their respective dominions shall be subject to no higher duties upon their admission from the one country into the other than are paid by the like articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country. (Article IX.)