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Dublin University-Right Hon. W. C.

Plunkett.

Dundalk-Gerard Callaghan.
Dungannon-*Thomas Knox.
Dungarvan-Hon. George Walpole.
Ennis-Spencer Perceval.

Enniskillen Bo.-Richard Maginnis, sen.
Fermanaghshire-Hon. Sir G. Lowry

Cole, G. C. B. Lieut.-gen. M. Archdall. Galwayshire-Jas. Daly, Richard Martin. Galway-Town-Valentine Blake. Kerryshire-Right Hon. M. Fitzgerald, James Crosbie.

Kildareshire-Lord W. C. O'Brien Fitz-
gerald, Robert Latouche.
Kilkennyshire-Hon. J. W. Butler, Hon.
F. C. Ponsonby.

Kilkenny Bo.-Hon. C. H. Butler.
King's County-T. Bernard, J. Parsons.
Kinsale G. Coussmaker.

Leitrimshire J. Latouche, L. White, Limerickshire-Hon. R. Fitzgibbon, Hon. W. H. W. Quin.

Limerick City-Hon. J. P. Vereker. Lisburn-*John Leslie Foster. Londonderry-G. R. Dawson, A. R. Stewart.

Londonderry City-Rt. Hon. Sir George
Fitzgerald Hill, bart.

Longfordshire-Sir T. Fetherston, bart.
G. J. Viscount Forbes.
Louthshire-Right Hon. John Foster, Rt.
Hon. R. Viscount Jocelyn,

Mallow-William Wrixon Becher,
Mayo-D. Browne, J. Browne.
Meathshire-Thomas Earl of Bective, Sir
M. Somerville, bart.

Monaghan C. P. Leslie, Hon. H. R.
Westenra.

Newry-Hon. General Francis Needham.

Portarlington-Richard Sharp.

Queen's County-Rt. Hon. W. W. Pole,
Sir Henry Parnell, bart.
Roscommonshire-A. French, Hon. S.
Mahon.

Ross, New-John Carroll.
Sligoshire C. O'Hara, E. S. Cooper.
Sligo Borough-John Bent.

Tipperary-Richard Viscount Cahir, Hon,
Montague Mathew.
Tralee-Edward Denny.

Tyroneshire Rt. Hon. Sir John Stewart, bart. William Stewart.

Waterfordshire-Richard Power, Lord G. T. Beresford.

Waterford City-Right Hon. Sir John Newport, bart,

Westmeath-Hon. H. R. Pakenham, G. H. Rochfort.

Wexfordshire-Robert Shapland Carew, C. Colclough.

Wexford-Richard Neville.

Wicklow Hon. G. L. Proby, *W. H. Parnell.

Youghall-James Viscount Bernard,

APPENDIX

APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE.

TREATY between his Britannic Majesty and his Catholic Majesty, for preventing their subjects from engaging in any illicit traffic in Slaves. Signed at Madrid the 23rd of September 1817.

N the Name of the Most Holy Trinity-It having been stated, in the second additional article of the treaty signed at Madrid on the 5th of July 1814, between his majesty the king of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his majesty the king of Spain and the Indies, that "his Catholic Majesty concurs, in the fullest manner, in the sentiments of his Britannic Majesty, with respect to the injustice and inhumanity of the traffic in slaves, and promises to take into consideration, with the deliberation which the state of his possessions in America demands, the means of acting in conformity with those sentiments; and engages, moreover, to prohibit his subjects from carrying on the slave trade, for the purpose of supplying any islands or possessions, excepting those appertaining to Spain; and to prevent, by effectual measures and regulations, the protection of

the Spanish flag being given to foreigners who may engage in this traffic, whether subjects of his Britannic Majesty, or of any other state or power.

And his Catholic Majesty, conformably to the spirit of this article, and to the principles of humanity with which he is animated, having never lost sight of an object so interesting to him, and being desirous of hastening the moment of its attainment, has resolved to co-operate with his Britannic Majesty in the cause of humanity, by adopting, in concert with his said majesty, efficacious means for bringing about the abolition of the slave trade, for effectually suppressing illicit traffic in slaves, on the part of their respective subjects, and for preventing Spanish ships trading in slaves, conformably to law and to treaty, from being molested or subjected to losses from British cruizers; the two high contracting parties have accordingly named as their plenipotentiaries, viz: his majesty the king of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the right hon. sir Henry Wellesley, a member of his majesty's most honourable privy council, knight grand

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cross of the most honourable order of the Bath, and his majesty's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to his Catholic Majesty; and his majesty the king of Spain and the Indies, Don Josef Garcia de Leon y Pizarro, knight grand cross of the royal and distinguished Spanish order of Charles 3rd, of that of Saint Ferdinand and of Merit, of Naples, of those of Saint Alexander Newsky and of Saint Anne of Russia, and of that of the Red Eagle of Prussia, counsellor of state, and first secretary of state and of the general dispatch; who, having exchanged their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

Art. 1. His Catholic Majesty engages, that the slave trade shall be abolished throughout the entire dominions of Spain, on the 30th day of May 1820, and that, from and after that period, it shall not be lawful for any of the subjects of the crown of Spain to purchase slaves, or to carry on the slave trade, on any part of the coast of Africa, upon any pretext or in any manner whatever; provided, however, that a term of five months, from the said date of the 30th of May 1820, shall be allowed for completing the voyages of vessels, which shall have cleared out lawfully previously to the said 30th of May.

Art. 2. It is hereby agreed, that from and after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, it shall not be lawful for any of the subjects of the crown of Spain to purchase slaves, or to carry on the slave trade on any

part of the coast of Africa to the north of the equator, upon any pretext or in any manner whatever; provided, however, that a term of six months, from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, shall be allowed for completing the voyages of vessels which shall have cleared out from Spanish ports for the said coast, previously to the exchange of the said ratifications.

Art. 3. His Britannic Majesty engages to pay in London, on the 20th of February 1818, the sum of 400,000l. sterling, to such person as his Catholic Majesty shall appoint to receive the same.

Art. 4. The said sum of 400,000l. sterling is to be considered as a full compensation for all losses sustained by the subjects of his Catholic Majesty engaged in this traffic, on account of vessels captured previously to the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, as also for the losses, which are a necessary consequence of the abolition of the said traffic.

Art. 5. One of the objects of this treaty on the part of the two governments, being mutually to prevent their respective subjects from carrying on an illicit slave trade; the two high contracting parties declare, that they consider as illicit, any traffic in slaves carried on under the following circumstances. 1st. Either by British ships, and under the British flag, or for the account of British subjects, by any vessel or under any flag whatsoever. 2nd. By Spanish ships, upon any part of the coast of Africa north of the equator, after the exchange

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of the ratifications of the present treaty; provided, however, that six months shall be allowed for completing the voyages of vessels, conformably to the tenor of the second article of this treaty. 3rd. Either by Spanish ships, and under the Spanish flag, or for the account of Spanish subjects, by any vessel or under any flag whatsoever, after the 30th of May 1820, when the traffic in slaves, on the part of Spain, is to cease entirely; provided always, that five months shall be allowed for the completion of voyages commenced in due time, conformably to the first article of this treaty. 4th. Under the British or Spanish flag, for the account of the subjects of any other government. 5th. By Spanish vessels bound for any port not in the dominions of his Catholic Majesty.

Art. 6. His Catholic Majesty will adopt, in conformity to the spirit of this treaty, the measures which are best calculated to give full and complete effect to the laudable objects which the high contracting parties have in

view.

Art. 7. Every Spanish vessel which shall be destined for the slave trade, on any part of the coast of Africa where this traffic still continues to be lawful, must be provided with a royal passport. conformable to the model annexed to the present treaty, and which model forms an integral part of the same. This passport must be written in the Spanish language, with an authentic translation in English annexed thereto; and it must be signed by his Catholic Majesty, and countersigned by the minister of

marine, and also by the principal naval authority of the district, station, or port from whence the vessel clears out, whether in Spain, or in the colonial possessions of his Catholic Majesty.

Art. 8. It is to be understood that this passport, for rendering lawful the voyages of slave ships, is required only for the continuation of the traffic to the south of the line; those passports which are now issued, signed by the first secretary of state of his Catholic Majesty, and in the form prescribed by the order of the 16th of December 1816, remaining in full force for all vessels which may have cleared out for the coast of Africa, as well to the north as to the south of the Line, previously to the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty.

Art. 9. The two high contracting parties, for the more complete attainment of the object of preventing all illicit traffic in slaves, on the part of their respective subjects, mutually consent, that the ships of war of their royal navies, which shall be provided with special instructions for this purpose, as hereinafter mentioned, may visit such merchant vessels of the two nations as may be suspected, upon reasonable grounds, of having slaves on board, acquired by an illicit traffic and in the event only, of their finding slaves on board, may detain and bring away such vessels, in order that they may be brought to trial before the tribunals established for this purpose, as shall hereinafter be specified. Provided always that the commanders of the ships of war of the two royal navies, who shall be employed on

this service shall adhere strictly to the exact tenor of the instructions which they shall receive for this purpose. As this article is entirely reciprocal, the two high contracting parties engage mutually, to make good any losses which their respective subjects may incur unjustly by the arbitrary and illegal detention of their vessels. It being understood that this indemnity shall invariably be borne by the government whose cruizer shall have been guilty of the arbitrary detention; provided always, that the visit and detention of slave ships, specified in this article, shall only be effected by those British or Spanish vessels, which may form part of the two royal navies, and by those only of such vessels which are provided with the special instructions annexed to the present treaty.

Art. 10. No British or Spanish cruizer shall detain any slave ship, not having slaves actually on board; and in order to render lawful the detention of any ship, whether British or Spanish, the slaves found on board such vessel must have been brought there for the express purpose of the traffic; and those on board of Spanish ships must have been taken from that part of the coast of Africa where the slave trade is prohibited, conformably to the tenor of the present treaty.

Art. 11. All ships of war of the two nations, which shall hereafter be destined to prevent the illicit traffic in slaves, shall be furnished by their own govern ment with a copy of the instructions annexed to the present treaty, and which shall be con.

sidered as an integral part thereof. These instructions shall be written in Spanish and English, and signed for the vessels of each of the two powers, by the minister of their respective marine. The two high contracting parties reserve the faculty of altering the said instructions, in whole or in part, according to circumstances; it being, however, well understood, that the said alterations cannot take place but by the common agreement, and by the consent of the two high contracting parties.

Art. 12. In order to bring to adjudication with the least delay and inconvenience, the vessels which may be detained for having been engaged in an illicit traffic of slaves, there shall be established, within the space of a year at farthest, from the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, two mixed commissions, formed of an equal number of individuals of the two nations, named for this purpose by their respective sovereigns. These commissions shall reside-one in a possession belonging to his Britannic Majesty-the other within the territories of his Catholic Majesty; and the two governments, at the period of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, shall declare, each for its own dominions, in what places the commissions shall respectively reside. Each of the two high contracting parties reserving to itself the right of changing, at its pleasure, the place of residence of the commission held within its own domi. nions; provided, however, that one of the two commissions

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