be enabled to come to an agreement, a resort shall not, on this account, be had to reprisals, aggreſsion or hostility of any kind, by the one Republic against the other, until the Government of that which deems itself aggrieved, shall have maturely considered, in the spirit of peace and good Neighbourship, whether it would not be better that such difference should be settled by the arbitration of Commiſsioners appointed on each side, or by that of a friendly nation. And should such course be proposed by either party, it shall be acceded to by the other, unleſs deemed by it altogether incompatible with the nature of the difference, or the circumstances of the case.
Article XXII.
If (which is not to be expected, and which God forbid!) war should unhappily break out between
