2. Treaty between Great Britain and Por- a liberal indemnity for the parties whose pro

tugal, on the same subject, 22 January. perty may have been so detained under the 3. Convention between Great Britain and doubts as aforesaid; in furtherance of the

France relative to the East Indies, said object, the High Contracting Parties signed at London, 7 March.

have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, viz, 4. Convention belween Great Britain, Rus his Majesty the king of the United Kingdom

sia, and the Netherlands, respecting the of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Hon.

Russian Loan in Holland, 19 May. Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh, Knight 5. Treaty between Great Britain and Sar- of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a

diniu, respecting the Sardinian territo- Member of his said Majesty's Most Hon.

ries, signed at Vienna, 20 May. Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, Col. 6. Treaty between Great Britain and the of the Regiment of Militia of Londunderry,

Netherlands, respecting the territories his said Majesty's Principal Secretary of State

of the King of the Netherlands, 31 May: for Foreign Affairs, and his Plenipotentiary at 7. Convention between Greut Britain and the Congress of Vienna ; and his Royal High

Austria, concerning the custody of Na- ness the Prince Regent of Portugal, the Most poleon Buonaparté, signed at Paris, 2 illustrious and Most Excellent Dom Pedro de August.

Sousa Holstein Count of Palmella, a Member Translation of Ditto, 2 August.

of his Royal Highness's Council, Commander 8. Convention between Great Britain and of the Order of Christ, Captain of a Company

Russia, on the same subject, 2 August. of the Royal German Life Guard; the Most Translation of Ditto, 2 August.

Illustrious and Most Excellent Anthony de 9. Convention between Great Britain and Saldanba da Gama, a Member of his Royal

Prussia, on the same subject, 2 August. Highness's Council, and of his Council of Translation of Ditto, 2 August.

Finance, Commander of the Military Order of 10. Convention between Great Britain and St. Benedict of Aviz; and Dom Joachim Lobo

the United States of Americu, for regu- de Silveira, Member of his Council, and Comlating the commerce between the two mander of the Order of Christ, his Plenipo

countries, signed at London, 3 July, tentiaries at the Congress of Vienna; who, 11. Convention between Great Britain and having mutually exchanged their full powers,

the Netherlands, concerning the late found in good and due form, have agreed

Dutch West India Colonies, 12 August. upon the following Articles: 12. Treaty between Great Britain and Saxony, ART. I. That the sum of 300,0001. be paid

respecting the territories of Sarony and in London, to such person as the Prince ReWarsaw, signed at Paris, September. gent of Portugal may appoint to receive the

same; which sum shall constitute a fund to

be employed under such regulations, and in No. I. - PORTUGAL.

Convention between such manner as the said Prince Regent of Great Britain and Portugal, respecting Portugal may direct, in discharge of claims the Slave Trade, signed at Vienna 21st for Portuguese ships detained by British January 1815.

cruisers previous to the 1st day of June, 1814, in the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided upon the alleged ground of carrying on an

illicit traffic in Slaves. Trinity

ART. II. That the said sum shall be conHis Britannic Majesty and his Royal High- sidered to be in full discharge of all claims ness the Prince Regent of Portugal, being arising out of captures made previous to the equally desirous to terminate amicably all the 1st day of June 1814 ; his Britannic Majesty doubts which have arisen relative to the parts renouncing any interference whatever in the of the coast of Africa with which the subjects disposal of this money. of the Crown of Portugal, under the laws of ART. III. The present Convention shall that kingdom and the Treaty subsisting with be ratified and the Ratifications shall be exhis Britannic Majesty, may lawfully carry on changed in the space of five months or sooner a Trade in Slaves : and whereas several ships, if possible. In witness whereof the respecthe property of the said subjects of Portugal, tive Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have been detained and condemned, upon the have thereunto affixed the seals

of their arms. alleged ground of being engaged in an illicit Done at Vienna this 21st day of January, Traffic in Slaves; and whereas his Britannic 1815. Majesty, in order to give to his intimate and

(Signed) faithful Ally the Prince Regent of Portugal, (L. S.) Castlereagh. (Signed) the most unequivocal proof of his friendship and the regard he pays to his Royal High

(L. S.) Conde de Palmella. ness's reclamations, and in consideration of

(L. S.) Antonio de Saldanha da Gama, regulations to be made by the Prince Regent (L. S.) B. Joaquim Lobo de Silveira. of Portugal for avoiding hereafter such doubts, is desirous to adopt the most speedy and effectual measures, and without the delays infident to the ordinary forms of law, to provide

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No. II.-PORTUGAL.- Treaty between Great | chase Slayes, or to carry on the Slave Trade,

Britain and Portugal, respecting the Slave on any part of the coast of Africa to the Trade, signed at Vienna the 22d of Jan. northward of the Equator, upon any pretext 1815.

or in any manner whatsoever : Provided, In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided nevertheless, that the said provision shall noi Trinity.

extend to any ship or ships having cleared

out from the ports of Brazil, previous to the His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of publication of such ratification; and provided Portugal having, by the 10th Article of the the voyage, in which such ship or ships are Treaty of Alliance, concluded at Rio de Ja- engaged, shall not be protracted beyond six neiro on the 19th February 1810, declared months after such publication as aforesaid. his determination to co-operate with his Bri- ART. II. His Royal llighness the Prince tannic Majesty in the cause of humanity and Regent of Portugal hereby agrees, and binds justice, by adopting the most efficacious means himself to adopt, in concert with his Britannic for bringing about a gradual Abolition of the Majesty, such measures as may best conduce Slave Trade ; and his Royal Highness, in pur- 10 the effectual execution of the preceding suance of his said Declaration, and desiring engagement, according to its true intent and to effectuate, in concert with his Britannic meaning; and his Britannic Majesty engages, Majesty and the other Powers of Europe, who in concert with his Royal Highness, to give have been induced to assist in this benevolent such orders as may effectually prevent any object, an immediate Abolition of the said interruption being given to Portuguese ships traffic upon the parts of the Coast of Africa resorting to the actual Dominions of the which are situated to the northward of the Crown of Portugal, or to the territories which Line ; his Britannic Majesty and his Royal are claimed in the said Treaty of Alliance, as Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, belonging to the said Crown of Portugal, to equally animated by a sincere desire to acce- the southward of the Line, for the purposes lerate the moment when the blessings of of trading in Slaves, as aforesaid, during such peaceful industry and an innocent commerce further period as the same may be permitted may be encouraged throughout this extensive to be carried on by the Laws of Portugal, and portion of the Continent of Africa, by its under the Treaties subsisting between the being delivered from the evils of the Slave two Crowns, Trade, have agreed enter into a Treaty for ART. III. The Treaty of Alliance concluded the said purpose, and have accordingly named at Rio de Janeiro, on the 19th February 1810, as their Plenipotentiaries ; viz. His Majesty being founded on circumstances of a tempothe King of the United Kingdom of Great rary nature, which have happily ceased' to Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable exist, the said Treaty is hereby declared to be Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh, Knight void in all its parts, and of no effect; without of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a prejudice, however, to the ancient Treaties of Member of his said Majesty's Most Honoura- Alliance, Friendship, and Guarantee, which ble Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, have so long and so happily subsisted between Colonel of the Regiment of Militia of Lon- the two Crowns, and which are hereby redonderry, his said Majesty's Principal Secre- newed by the High Contracting Parties, and tary of State for Foreign Affairs, and his Pleni- acknowledged to be of full force and effect. potentiary at the Congress of Vienna; and ART. IV. The Iligh Contracting Parties his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Por- reserve to themselves, and engage to deter. tugal, the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent mine by a separate Treaty, the period at Dom Pedro de Sousa Holstein, Count of Pal- which the Trade in Slaves shall universally mella, a Member of his Royal Highness's cease, and be prohibited throughout the enCouncil, Commander of the Order of Christ, tire Dominions of Portugal; the Prince ReCaptain of a Company of the Royal German gent of Portugal hereby renewing his former Life Guard; the Most Illustrious and Most declaration and engagement, that, during the Excellent Anthony de Saldanha da Gama, a interval which is to elapse before such geneMember of his Royal Highness's Council and ral and final abolition shall take effect, it of his Council of Finance, Commander of the shall not be lawful for the subjects of PortuMilitary Order of St. Benedict of Aviz; and gal to purchase or trade in Slaves, upon any the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Dom parts of the coast of Africa, except to the Joachim Lobo da Silveira, a Member of his southward of the Line, as specified in the Royal Highness's Council

, and Commander 2d Article of this Treaty; nor to engage in of the Order of Christ, his Royal Highness's the same, or to permit their flag to be used, Plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Vienna ; except for the purpose of supplying the trans

; who, having mutually exchanged their full atlantic possessions belonging to the Crown powers, found in good and due form, have of Portugal. agreed upon the following Articles :

ART. V. His Britannic Majesty hereby ART. I. That from and after the ratifica- agrees to remit, from the date at which the tion of the present Treaty, and the publica- ratification mentioned in the 1st Article shall tion thereof, it shall not be lawful for any of be promulgated, such further payments as the subjects of the Crown of Portugal to pur- may then remain due and payable upon the

loan of 600,000l. made in London for the ser- every cause of dispute between their respecvice of Portugal, in the year 1809, in conse- tive subjects in that part of the world, and in quence of a Convention signed on the 21st of this view have named for their respective April of the same year; whichi Convention, Plenipotentiaries, viz. : his Majesty the King. under the conditions specified as aforesaid, is of the United Kingdoin of Great Britain and hereby declared to be void and of no effect. Ireland, Robert, Earl of Buckinghamshire, a

ART. VI. The present Treaty shall be ra- Peer of the United Kingdom, one of his Man tified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council in at Rio de Janeiro in the space of five months, England and in Ireland, and President of the or sooner, if possible. "In witness whereof Board of his Majesty's Commissioners for the the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed Affairs of India, and his Majesty the King of it, and have thereunto affixed the scals of France and Navarre, the Sieur Claude Louis their arms.

de La Chatre, descendant of the Princes of Done at Vienna this 22d day of January, Deols, Count de la Chatre, Commander of 1815.

the Royal and Hospitable Orders of St. La(Signed )

zarus and of Mount Carmel, Honorary Com(L, S.) Castlereagh. (Signed. mander of the Order of Malta, Knight of the

Royal and Military Order of St. Louis, Liene (L. S.) Conde de Palmella.

tenant-General of his Armies, and his Am(L. S.) Antonio de Saldanha de bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Gama,

at the Court of London; whe, after having (L. S.) B. Jouquim Lobo da Sil communicated to each other their respective veira.

full powers, found in good and due form, Additional Article.

have agreed upon the following Articles :

ART. I. His Most Christian Majesty enIt is agreed, that in the event of any of the gages to farm to the British Government in Portuguese settlers being desirous of retiring India, the exclusive right to purchase at a from the Settlements of the Crown of Por- fair and equitable price, to be regulated by that tugal on the Coast of Africa to the northward which the said Government shall have paid of the Equator, with the Negroes bonâ fide for Salt in the districts in the vicinity of the their domestics, to some other of the posses- French Possessions on the coast of Coromansions of the Crown of Portugal, the same del and Orixa respectively, the Salt that may shall not be deemed unlawful, provided it be manufactured in the said Possessions, does not take place on board a Slave-trading subject however to a reservation of the quanvessel, and provided they be furnished with tity that the Agents of his Most Christian proper Passports and Certificates, according Majesty shall deem requisite for the domestic to à form to be agreed on between the two

use and consumption of the inhabitants Governments.

thereof; and upon the condition, that the The present Additional Article shall have British Government shall deliver in bengal, the same force and effect as if it were inserted

to the Agents of his Most Christian Majesty, word for word in the Treaty signed this day, the quantity of Salt that may be judged neand shall be ratified, and the ratifications ex

cessary for the consumption of the inhabichanged at the same time.

tants of Chandernagore; reference being had In witness whereof the respective Plenipo- to the population of the said Settlement; tentiaries have signed it, and have thereunto such delivery to be made at the price which affixed the seals of their arms. Done at Vienna this 22d day of January, the said article.

the British Government shall have paid for 1815. [Signed as before.]

ART. II. In order to ascertain the prices

as aforesaid, the official accounts of the No. III.-FRANCE. Convention between charges incurred by the British Government,

Great Britain and France relative to the for the Salt manufactured in the districts in East Indies ; signed at London 7th of the vicinity of the French Settlements on the March 1815.

coasts of Coromandel and Orixa respectively, (Translation,)

shall be open to the inspection of a Commis

sioner to be appointed for that purpose by In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided the Agents of his Most Christian Majesty in Trinity.

India, and the price to be paid by the BriThe Trade in Salt and Opium throughout tish Government shall be settlcd according the British Sovereignty in India, having been to an average to be taken every three years, subjected to certain regulations and Restric- of the charges as aforesaid ascertained by the tions which, unless due provision be made, said official accounts, commencing with the might occasion differences between the sub-three years preceding the date of the present jects and agents of his Britannic Majesty and Convention. The price of Salt at Chanderthose of his Most Christian Majesty ; their nagore to be determined, in the same mane" said Majesties have thought proper to con- ner, by the charges incurred by the British clude a Special Convention for the purpose Government for the Salt manufactured in of preventing such differences, and removing the districts nearest to the said Settlement.

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ART. III. It is understood that the Salt, not to erect any Fortifications in the EstabWorks in the Possessions belonging to his lishments to be restored to him by the said Most Christian Majesty shall be and remain Treaty, and to maintain no greater number of under the direction and administration of the troops than may be necessary for the purAgents of his said Majesty.

poses of Police; his Britannic Majesty on his ART. IV. With a view to the effectual at part, in order to give every security to the tainment of the objects in the contemplation subjects of his Most Christian Majesty residof the High Contracting Parties, his Most ing in India, engages, if at any time there Christian Majesty engagės to establish in should arise between the High Contracting his Possessions on the coasts of Coromandel Parties, any misunderstanding or rupture, and Orixa, and at Chandernagore in Bengal, (which God forbid), not to consider or treat nearly the same price for Salt, as that at as prisoners of war, those persons who belong which it shall be sold by the British Govern- to the Civil Establishments of his Most ment in the vicinity of each of the said Pos- Christian Majesty in India, nor the officers, session's.

non-commissioned officers, or soldiers, who, ART. V. In consideration of the stipula- according to the terms of the said Treaty, tions expressed in the preceding Articles, shall be necessary for the maintenance of the his Britannic Majesty engages that the sun Police in the said Establishments, and to of Four Lacs of Sicca Rupees shall be paid allow them to remain three months to settle annually to the Agents of his Most Christian their personal affairs, and also to grant them Majesty duly authorized, by equal quarterly the necessary facilities and means of conveyinstalments, such instalments to be paid at ance to France with their families and private Calcutta or at Madras, ten days after the property.–His Britannic Majesty further enbills that may be drawn for the same by the gages to permit the subjects of his Most said Agents, shall have been presented to the Christian Majesty in India, to continue their Government of either of thosè Presidencies; residence and commerce so long as they shall it being agreed that the rent above stipu- conduct themselves peaceably, and shall do lated, shall commence from the 1st of Octo- nothing contrary to the laws and regulations ber 1814.

of the Government. But in case their conART. VI. With regard to the trade in duct should render them suspected, and the Opium, it is agreed between the High Con- British Government should judge it necessary tracting Parties, that at each of the periodical to order them to quit India, they shall be Sales of that article, there shall be reserved allowed the period of six months to retire for the French Government, and delivered with their effects and property to France, or upon requisition duly made by the Agents of to any other country they may choose. At his Most Christian Majesty, or by the persons the same time it is to be understood, that this duly appointed by them, the number of chests favour is not to be extended to those who may so applied for; provided that such supply act contrary to the laws and regulations of shall not exceed three hundred chests in each the British Government. year; and the price to be paid for the same ART. IX. All Europeans and others whoshall be determined by the average rate at soever, against whom judicial proceedings which Opium shall have been sold at every shall be instituted within the limits of the such periodical sale. It being understood Settlements or Factories belonging to his that if the quantity of Opium applied for at Most Christian Majesty, for offences com-, any one time, shall not be taken on account mitted, or for debts contracted within the of the French government by the Agents of said limits, and who shall take refuge out of his Most Christian Majesty, within the usual the same, shall be delivered up to the Chiefs of period of delivery, the quantity so applied for the said Settlements and Factories; and all Eu-" shall nevertheless be considered as so much ropeans and others whosoever, against whom in reduction of the three hundred chests judicial proceedings as aforesaid shall be inherein before-mentioned. The requisitions stituted without the said limits, and who shall of Opium as aforesaid, are to be addressed take refuge within the same, shall be delito the Governor-general at Calcutta, within vered up by the Chiefs of the said Settlements thirty days after notice of the intended sale and Factories, upon demand being made of shall have been published in the Calcutta them by the British Government. Gazette.

ART, X. For the purpose of rendering this ART. VII. In the event of any restriction Agreement permanent, the High Contracting being imposed upon the exportation of Salt- Parties hereby engage, that no alteration shall petre, the subjects of his Most Christian be made in the Conditions and Stipulations Majesty shall nevertheless be allowed to ex- in the foregoing Articles, without the mutual port that article to the extent of eighteen consent of his Majesty the King of the thousand maunds.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and IreART. VIII. His Most Christian Majesty, land, and of his Most Christian Majesty. with the view of preserving the harmony ART. XI. The present Convention shall be subsisting between the two nations, having ratified, and the ratifications shall be exengaged by the 12th Article of the Treaty changed at London in the space of one month' concluded at Paris on the 30th of May 1814, from the date hereof, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipo- | Majesty, &c. &c.; who, after having mutually tentiaries have signed it, and have thereunto exchanged their full powers, found in good affixed the seals of their arms.

and due form, have agreed upon the followDone at London this 7th day of March, ing Articles : 1815. Signed

ART. I. His Majesty the King of the Ne(L. S.) Buckinghamshire. Signed

therlands hereby engages to take upon him(L. S.) Le Comte de la Chatre. self, a part of the capital and arrears of inte

rests, to the 1st of January 1816, of the No. IV.-RUSSIA AND THE NETHER- Russian Loan made in Holland through the

LANDS.- Treaty between Great Britain, intervention of the house of Hope and Co. in Russia, and the Netherlands, respecting Amsterdam, to the amount of twenty-five the Russian Loan in Holland ; signed at millions of Aorins, Dutch currency; the anLondon, 19th May 1815.

nual interest of which sum, together with In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided an annual payment for the liquidation of Trinity.

the same, as hereafter specihed, shall be

borne by, and become a charge upon the His Majesty the King of the Netherlands Kingdom of the Netherlands. And his Mabeing desirous, upon the final re-union of the jesty the King of the United Kingdom of Belgic Provinces with Holland, to render to Great Britain and Ireland engages, on his the Allied Powers who were Parties to the part, to recommend to his Parliament to Treaty concluded at Chaumont on the 1st of enable him to take upon himself an equal March 1814, a suitable return for the heavy Capital of the said " Russian Loan, viz. expense incurred by them in delivering the twenty-five millions of florins, Dutch cursaíd territories from the power of the Enemy; rency; the annual interest of which sum, and the said Powers having, in consideration together with an annual payment for the of arrangements made with each other, mu- liquidation of the same, as hereafter specified, tually agreed to wave their several pretensions shall be borne by, and become a charge upon under this head in favour of his Majesty the the Government of his Britannic Majesty Emperor of all the Russias ; his said Majesty ART. II. The future charge, to which their the King of the Netherlands has thereupon said Belgic and Britannic Majesties shall be resolved to proceed immediately to execute respectively liable in equal shares on account with his Imperial Majesty, a Convention to of the said Debt, is to consist of an annual the following effect, to which his Britannic interest of five per cent. on the said Capitals, Majesty agrees to be a Party, in pursuance of each of twenty-five millions, together with a engagements taken by his said Majesty with sinking fund of one per cent. for the extinction the King of the Netherlands, in a Convention of the same, the said sinking fund being subsigned at London on the 13th day of August ject, however, to be increased on the demand 1814.

of the Russian Government to any annual In consequence thereof, the three said High sum not exceeding three per cent.; the same Contracting Parties have appointed as their to be payable till the capital of the said debt Plenipotentiaries, namely; his Majesty the shall be fully discharged, when the aforesaid King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain charge for interests and sinking fund shall and Ireland, the Right Honourable Robert wholly cease to be borne by their said Belgic Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Knight of the and Britannic Majesties respectively. Most Noble Order of the Garter, one of his ART. III. Their said Belgic and Britannic said Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coun- Majesties respectively bind themselves, on or cil, a Member of Parlianient, Colonel of the before the usual day or days in each year, on Londonderry Regiment of Militia, and his which the interest on the said debt shall be Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Af- due and payable, to deposit with the Agent fairs, &c. &c.; his Majesty the Emperor of of the Russian Government in Holland, their all the Russias, the Sieur Christopher Count respective proportions of the said interest and de Lieven, Lieutenant-General of his Armies, sinking fund, as above specified; provided alhis Aide-de-Camp-general, his Ambassador ways, that previously to the advance of each Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Bri- successive instalment so to be paid, the said tannie Majesty, Knight of the Orders of St. Agent shall be authorized to furnish a certifiAlexander Newsky, of St. George of the Third cate to each of the said two High Contracting Class, Grand Cross of St. Vladimir of the Se- Parties, declaring that the preceding instalcond Class, of St. Anne of the First Class, ment has been duly applied in discharge of Commander of the Order of St. John of Jeru- the interest, and in reduction of the principal salem, Knight of the Prussian Orders of the of the said debt; together with the corresBlack and the Red Eagles and Commander ponding payments, on account of the Russian Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the government, on that part of the debt which Sword; and his Majesty the King of the shall remain a charge on the said governNetherlands, the Sieur Henry Baron Fagel, ment. a Member of the Corps des Nobles of the ART. IV. The Russian government shall Province of Holland, his Ambassador Extra- continue, as heretofore, to be security to the ordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Britannie creditors for the whole of the said Loan, and (VOL. XXXII.

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