ment from the death of her Royal Highness, in the lifetime of his Serene Highness, and to be paid quarterly; and the first quarterly payment to be made at the end of three calendar months after such her decease, when the said annuity, payable during their joint lives, is to determine.

IV. The son or daughter, or descendant of the said marriage for the time being, next in succession to the Crown of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Princess Charlotte Augusta, shall be brought up in such manner as his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or his successors, may be pleased to direct, and no children of this marriage shall be allowed to mari y without the consent of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or his successors for the time being.

V. It is understood and agreed, that her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Augusta shall not, at any time, leave the United Kingdom without the permission, in writing, of his Majesty, or of the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, and without her Royal Highness's own consent.

And in the event of her Royal Highness being absent from this country, in consequence of the permission of his Majesty, or of the Prince Regent, and of her own consent, such residence abroad shall in no case be protracted be. yond the term approved by his Majesty, or the Prince Regent, and consented to by her Royal Highness. And it shall be com

petent for her Royal Highness to return to this country before the expiration of such term, either in consequence of directions for that purpose, in writing from his Majesty, or from the Prince Regent, or at her own pleasure.

VI. This treaty shall be ratified by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent on the behalf of his Majesty, and by his said Serene Highness, ant the ratifications shall be exchanged in ten days, or sooner, if possible.

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

Done at London, the 13th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

It is hereby expressly declared, that no article or provision, contained in the treaty of marriage signed this day, shall in any manner be taken, or deemed to affect or prejudice any right or prerogative of his Majesty, his heirs or successors, touching or concerning the education or marriages of any of the children or descendants of her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Augusta, or the education or marriages of any of the Royal Family or their descendants.

The present additional article shall have the same force and effect as if it were inserted, word for word, in the treaty of marriage signed this day. It shall be included in the ratification of the said treaty.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed

the

PROCLAMATION.

Parma, March 20. "We, Francis, by the grace of God Emperor of Austria, &c. -By our letters-patent of the 2d of April 1815, we made known, that, on the request of our beloved daughter, the Archduchess Maria Louisa, Duchess of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, we charged ourselves with the preliminary administration of these provinces. The circumstances which at that time led us to such a determination being happily ended, we restore the thus intrusted government into the hands of our beloved daughter; and we have ordered that the same shall be made known to the people by letters-patent. Done at Milan, this 7th of March 1816, the 25th of our reign."

The above was accompanied by the following proclamation :

"We, Maria Louisa, Imperial Princess, Archduchess of Austria, by the grace of God Duchess of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, &c.-Our illustrious and dearly beloved father, his Majesty the Emperor and King, having desired that on our repairing to our duchies of Parma, &c. we should again take into our hands the government of these provinces, which he had so graciously accepted in trust for us (as we communicated in our letters-patent from the Imperial Palace of Schoenbrunn of date the 31st of March 1815), we have therefore thought proper to make

that we again take upon ourselves the government of our subjects, at the same time giving thanks for the care which our illustrious father has taken of the welfare of our subjects:-We moreover declare, that it is our pleasure to confirm all the ordinances issued by our father during his government, and strictly enjoin the inhabitants of our said duchies to conform thereto. Given at Venice, this 17th March 1816."

IONIAN ISLES.

Proclamation by Sir Thomas Maitland.

Among the various and high duties intrusted to the adminstration of his Excellency by his gracious Sovereign, there is none more important in itself than the conservation of all the rights, privileges, and prerogatives, of the dominant and of the tolerated religion.

It has been, and always will be, a fixed maxim of the policy of Great Britain, and an invariable principle of its conduct, both with regard to those countries that may be under its immediate sovereignty, and those that may be under its exclusive protection, to guarantee and maintain the various religious establishments, as being essentially connected with the vital principles of good government, morals, and happiness.

His Excellency, impressed with this truth, and having observed with regret that the French, with that impious indifference which distinguished their revolutionary

career,

career, now happily ended, forcibly took away many of the sacred places of public worship in this city, and converted them to military and other uses and his Excellency having understood, from a report made to him three days ago by the high police, whose constant assiduity merits his highest praise, that some officers of that department, led by their extreme zeal, had entered a church of the dominant religion in pursuit of a person suspected of a high offence, and that no express general rule exists on that subject, his Excellency therefore directs as follows:

1st. That every place of public worship shall be completely evacuated, and given up to the respectable head of the respective religion to which it belonged.

2d. That no soldier, officer of police, or other individual whatsoever, shall on any account dare or pretend to pursue any person, of whatever offence suspected, into the sanctuary or interior of any church, but shall confine himself to placing around the church such sentinels as may be necessary to prevent the escape of the suspected person, at the same time giving an account thereof to the governor, who will take the necessary steps for placing this person in the hands of justice, by the intervention of the head of that religion to whom the church belongs.

This present shall be printed in Greek and Italian, and published for universal information.

By order of his Excellency,
WM. MEYER, Public Sec.

Palace, Corfu.
March 19, 1816.

I cannot close this Session of Parliament without again expressing my deep regret at the continuance of his Majesty's lamented indisposition.

"The cordial interest which you have manifested in the happy event of the marriage of my daughter, the Princess Charlotte, with the Prince of Saxe-Coburg, and the liberal provision which you have made for their establishment, afford an additional proof

of

your affectionate attachment to his Majesty's person and family, and demand my warmest acknowledgments.

"I have the pleasure to acquaint you, that I have given the royal consent to a marriage between his Majesty's daughter, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Glocester; and I am persuaded that this event will be highly gratifying to all his Majesty's subjects.

"The assurances which I have received of the pacific and friendly disposition of the powers engaged in the late war, and of their resolution to execute inviolably the terms of the treaties which I announced to you at the opening of the session, promise the continuance of that peace so essential to the interests of all the nations of the world.

"Gentlemen of the House

of Commons,

"I thank you for the supplies which you have granted for the service of the year; and I am sensible of the beneficial effects

which may be expected to result from the salutary system of making provision for them in a way calculated to uphold public credit. "The arrangements which you have adopted for discharging the incumbrances of the civil list, and for rendering its future income adequate to its expenditure, by relieving it from a part of the charge to which it was subject, are in the highest degree gratifying and satisfactory to me; and you may be assured that nothing shall be wanting on my part to give full effect to those arrange

ments.

"The provision you have made for consolidating the revenues of Great Britain and Ireland, will, I doubt not, be productive of the happiest consequences, in cementing and advancing the interests of the United Kingdom; and must afford an additional proof of the constant disposition of Parliament to relieve the difficulties and promote the welfare of Ireland.

My Lords and Gentlemen, "The measures to which I have been under the necessity of resorting, for the suppression of those tumults and disorders which had unfortunately occurred in some parts of the kingdom, have been productive of the most salutary effects.

"I deeply lament the continuarce of that pressure and distress which the circumstances of the country, at the close of so long a war, have unavoidably entailed on many classes of his Majesty's subjects.

"I feel fully persuaded, however, that after the many severe

trials which they have undergone, in the course of the arduous contest in which we have been engaged, and the ultimate success which has attended their glorious and persevering exertions, I may rely with perfect confidence on their public spirit and fortitude in sustaining those difficulties, which will, I trust, be found to have arisen from causes of a temporary nature, and which cannot fail to be materially relieved by the progressive improvement of public credit, and by the reduction which has already taken place in the burdens of the people."

Treaty between the King of Spain and the King of the Netherlands.

In the name of the Most Holy

and Indivisible Trinity.

His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, and his Majesty the King of Spain and the Indies, animated with an equal desire to put a check upon the piracies of the Barbary Regencies, and to procure to the trade and navigation of the Mediterranean all possible security, desiring to cement their alliance by a solemn treaty, and to fix the extent and the means thereof, have given their full powers for this purpose, viz. his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, to Mr. Hugues Zuylen de Nyevelt, Knight of the order of the Belgic Lion, and his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Catholic Majesty, and his Majesty the King of Spain and the Indies, to Sieur Pedro Cevallos y Guerra, Counsellor of State, Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece, &c.

First Minister of State, &c. who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed on the following articles :

Art. 1 This alliance is purely defensive, and its object is to protect the commerce of the powers who are parties to it.

2. This alliance shall subsist so long as the Regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli do not renounce their offensive system towards the property of the subjects of the Contracting Powers.

3. If one of these should be injured by any corsair of the three Regencies, it shall be the duty of the Consuls of the Allied Powers to claim reparation of the Government of the offending party by legal means, and if justice should not be done, the Allied Powers shall agree, if necessary, to proceed to reprisals, to an amount answerable to the offence committed.

4. It shall be considered as an offence against the Allied Powers, if one of the Regencies takes justice into its own hands by seizing the property of the subjects of the Contracting Parties, without having previously tried other means, or established proceedings to obtain justice and satisfaction.

5. As an offence committed against the Allied Powers shall be considered the arrest of the Consuls for debts of private persons, or of their respective Sovereigns, since the Regencies ought to employ for the purpose of claiming them the methods adopted by civilized nations.

6. The Allied Powers will also consider themselves offended if any pre-ent is demanded from

them as obligatory, even though founded on custom.

7. When one of the Powers shall be attacked by the Barbary States, without having provoked the attack by any hostile act, then the alliance shall have effect.

8. The obligation of the Allies to defend the offended party shall subsist till just reparation has been obtained for the damage caused by the offence, and also an indemnity for the expenses of the

war.

9. Neither of the Allies can enter into a negotiation with the common enemy without the consent of the other.

10. The Contracting Parties engage to employ a sufficient force to defend and protect their commerce against the piracies of the Barbary Powers.

11. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands shall furnish in consequence a ship of the line and six frigates, and his Catholic Majesty a ship of the line, two frigates, a brig, and 16 gun-boats.

12. The chief command shall belong to the senior officer of the same rank.

13. Each Power shall bear the expense of maintaining its respective forces, and all shall be stationed in the ports of Spain the best situated and defended to fulfil the object of the alliance.

14. The maritime forces of the Netherlands shall be supplied at a reasonable price in the ports of his Catholic Majesty with all articles of urgent necessity, as well for the repairs as ammunition and provisions, on payment in bills of exchange, at sight, on the Government of the Nether lands.

15. The