gal may direct, in discharge of claims for Portuguese ships detained by British cruizers previous to the 1st day of June, 1814, upon the alleged ground of carrying on an illicit traffic in slaves.

Art. 2. That the said sum shall be considered to be in full discharge of all claims arising out of captures made previous to the 1st day of June, 1814; his Britannic Majesty renouncing any interference whatever in the disposal of this money. (Signed)

(L. S.) CASTLEREAGH.
(Signed)

(No. 2.)-PORTUGAL. Treaty between Great Britain and Portugal, signed at Vienna, the 22d of January, 1815, in the English and Portuguese Languages.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal having, by the 10th article of the Treaty of Alliance, concluded at Rio de Janeiro on the 19th February 1810, declared his determination to cooperate with his Britannic Majesty in the cause of humanity and justice, by adopting the most efficacious means for bringing about a gradual abolition of the Slave Trade; and his Royal Highness, in pursuance of his said declaration, and desiring to effectuate, in concert with his Britannic Majesty and the other powers of Europe, who have been induced to assist in this benevolent object, an immediate

abolition of the said traffic upon the parts of the coast of Africa which are situated to the northward of the Line: his Britannic Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, equally animated by a sincere desire to accelerate the moment when the blessings of peaceful industry and innocent commerce may be encouraged throughout this extensive portion of the Continent of Africa, by its being delivered from the evils of the Slave Trade, have agreed to enter into a treaty for the said purpose, and have accordingly named as their Plenipotentiaries (Plenipotentiaries as before.)

Art. 1. That from and after the ratification of the present treaty, and the publication thereof, it shall not be lawful for any of the subjects of the crown of Portugal to purchase slaves, or to carry on the slave trade, on any part of the coast of Africa to the northward of the Equator, upon any pretext, or in any manner whatsoever provided, nevertheless, that the said provision shall not extend to any ship or ships having cleared out fron, the ports of Brazil, previous to the publication of such ratification; and provided the voyage, in which such ship or ships are engaged, shall not be protracted beyond six months after such publication as aforesaid.

Art. 2. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal hereby agrees, and binds himself to adopt, in concert with his Britannic Majesty, such measures as may best conduce to the effectual execution of the preceding engagement, according to its true

intent and meaning; and his Britannic Majesty engages, in concert with his Royal Highness, to give such orders as may effectuaily prevent any interruption being given to Portuguese ships resorting to the actual dominions of the Crown of Portugal, or to the territories which are claimed in the said treaty of alliance, as belonging to the said Crown of Portugal, to the southward of the Line, for the purposes of trading in slaves, as aforesaid, during such further period as the same may be permitted to be carried on by the laws of Portugal, and under the treaties subsisting between the two crowns.

Art. 3. The treaty of alliance concluded at Rio de Janeiro, on the 19th Feb. 1810, being founded on circumstances of a temporary nature, which have happily ceased to exist, the said treaty is hereby declared to be void in all its parts, and of no effect; without prejudice, however, to the ancient treaties of alliance, friendship, and guarantee, which have so long and so happily subsisted between the two crowns, and which are hereby renewed by the High Contracting Parties, and acknowledged to be of full force and effect.

Art. 4. The High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves, and engage to determine by a separate treaty, the period at which the trade in Slaves shall universally cease, and be prohibited throughout the entire dominions of Portugal; the Prince Regent of Portugal hereby renewing his former declaration and engagement, that during the interval which is to elapse before such general and

final abolition shall take effect, it shall not be lawful for the subjects of Portugal to purchase or trade in slaves upon any parts of the coast of Africa, except to the southward of the Line, as specified in the second Article of this Treaty: nor to engage in the same, or to permit their flag to be used, except for the purpose of supplying the trans-Atlantic possessions belonging to the Crown of Portugal.

Art. 5. His Britannic Majesty hereby agrees to remit, from the date at which the ratification mentioned in the first article shall be promulgated, such further payments as may then remain due and payable upon the loan of 600,000l. made in London for the service of Portugal, in the year 1809, in consequence of a Convention signed on the 21st of April of the same year; which Convention, under the conditions specified as aforesaid, is hereby declared to be void and of no effect.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

It is agreed, that in the event of any of the Portuguese settlers being desirous of retiring from the settlements of the Crown of Portugal on the coast of Africa to the northward of the Equator, with the Negroes bona fide their domestics, to some other of the possessions of the Crown of Portugal, the same shall not be deemed unlawful, provided it does not take place on board a slave-trading vessel, and provided they be furnished with proper passports and certificates, according to a form to be agreed on between the two governments.

The

The present Additional Article shall have the same force and effect as if it were inserted word for word in the treaty signed this day, and shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at the same time.

(No. 3.)-FRANCE.

Convention between Great Britain and France, signed at London 7th of March, 1815.

The trade in salt and opium throughout the British sovereignty in India having been subjected to certain regulations and restrictions which, unless due provision be made, might occasion differences between the subjects and agents of his Britannic Majesty and those of His Most Christian Majesty; their said Majesties have thought proper to conclude a Special Convention for the purpose of preventing such differences, and removing every cause of dispute between their respective subjects in that part of the world, and in this view have named for their respective Plenipotentiaries, viz.: his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Robert Earl of Buckinghamshire, &c.; and his Majesty the King of France and Navarre, the Sieur Claude Louis de La Chartre, &c.; who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles :

Art. 1. His Most Christian Majesty engages to farm to the British Government in India, the exclusive right to purchase at a fair and equitable price, to be regulated by that which the said

Government shall have paid for salt in the districts in the vicinity of the French possessions on the coast of Coromandel and Orixa respectively, the salt that may be manufactured in the said possessions, subject however to a reservation of the quantity that the agents of his Most Christian Majesty shall deem requisite for the domestic use and consumption of the inhabitants thereof; and upon the condition, that the British Government shall deliver in Bengal, to the agents of his Most Christian Majesty, the quantity of salt that may be judged necessary for the consumption of the inhabitants of Chandernagore; reference being had to the population of the said settlement: such delivery to be made at the price which the British Government shall have paid for the said article.

Art. 2. In order to ascertain the prices as aforesaid, the official accounts of the charges incurred by the British Government, for the salt manufactured in the districts in the vicinity of the French settlements on the coasts of Coromandel and Orixa respectively, shall be open to the inspection of a Commissioner to be appointed for that purpose by the agents of His Most Christian Majesty in India; and the price to be paid by the British Government shall be settled according to an average to be taken every three years, of the charges as aforesaid, ascertained by the said official accounts, commencing with the three years preceding the date of the present Convention.

The price of salt at Chandernagore to be determined, in the

same

Art. 4. With a view to the effectual attainment of the objects in the contemplation of the high contracting parties, his Most Christian Majesty engages to establish in his possessions on the coast of Coromandel and Orixa, and at Chandernagore in Bengal, nearly the same price for salt, as that at which it shall be sold by the British Government in the vicinity of each of the said possessions.

Art. 5. In consideration of the stipulations expressed in the preceding Articles, his Britannic Majesty engages that the sum of four lacs of sicca rupees shall be paid annually to the agents of his Most Christian Majesty duly authorized, by equal quarterly instalments; such instalments to be paid at Calcutta or at Madras, ten days after the bills that may be drawn for the same by the said agents shall have been presented to the Government of either of those Presidencies; it being agreed that the rent above stipulated shall commence from the 1st of October 1814.

Art. 6. With regard to the trade in opium, it is agreed between the High Contracting Parties, that at each of the periodical sales of that article, there

shall be reserved for the French Government, and delivered, upon requisition duly made by the agents of his Most Christian Majesty, or by the persons duly appointed by them, the number of chests so applied for, provided that such supply shall not exceed three hundred chests in each year; and the price to be paid for the same shall be determined by the average rate at which opium shall have been sold at every such periodical sale. It being understood that if the quantity of opium applied for at any one time, shall not be taken on account of the French Government by the agents of his Most Christian Majesty, within the usual period of delivery, the quantity so applied for shall nevertheless be considered as so much in reduction of the three hundred chests herein before mentioned.

The requisitions of opium as aforesaid are to be addressed to the Governor General at Calcutta, within thirty days after notice of the intended sale shall have been published in the Calcutta Gazette.

Art. 7. In the event of any restriction being imposed upon the exportation of saltpetre, the subjects of his Most Christian Majesty shall nevertheless be allowed to export that article to the extent of 18,000 maunds.

Art. 8. His Most Christian Majesty, with a view of preserving the harmony subsisting between the two nations, having engaged, by the twelfth article of the treaty concluded at Paris on the 30th of May 1814, not to erect any fortifications in the establishments to be restored to him by the said treaty, and to

maintain no greater number of troops than may be necessary for the purposes of police; his Britannic Majesty on his part, in order to give every security to the subjects of his Most Christian Majesty residing in India, engages, if at any time there should arise between the High Contracting Parties any misunderstanding or rupture, (which God forbid,) not to consider or treat as prisoners of war, those persons who belong to the civil establishments of his most Christian Majesty in India, nor the officers, non-commissioned officers, or soldiers, who, according to the terms of the said Treaty, shall be necessary for the maintenance of the police in the said establishments, and to allow them to remain three months to settle their personal affairs, and also to grant them the necessary facilities and means of conveyance to France with their families and private property.

His Britannic Majesty further engages to permit the subjects of his most Christian Majesty in India to continue their residence and commerce so long as they shall conduct themselves peace ably, and shall do nothing contrary to the laws and regulations of the government.

But in case their conduct should render them suspected, and the British Government should judge it necessary to order them to quit India, they shall be allowed the period of six months to retire with their effects and property to France, or to any other country they may choose.

At the same time it is to be ande: stood, that this favour is

not to be extended to those who may act contrary to the laws and regulations of the British Government.

Art. 9. All Europeans and others whosoever, against whom judicial proceedings shall be instituted within the limits of the settlements or factories belonging to his Most Christian Majesty, for offences committed, or for debts contracted, within the said limits, and who shall take refuge out of the same, shall be delivered up to the chiefs of the said settlements and factories; and all Europeans and others whosoever, against whom judicial proceedings as aforesaid shall be instituted without the said limits, and who shall take refuge within the same, shall be delivered up by the chiefs of the said settlements and factories, upon demand being made of them by the British Government.

Art. 10. For the purpose of rendering this agreement permanent, the High Contracting Parties hereby engage, that no alteration shall be made in the conditions and stipulations in the foregoing articles, without the mutual consent of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of his Most Christian Majesty.

Art. 11. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London in the space of one month from the date hereof, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have thereunto affixed the seals of their arms.

Done at London this 7th day of