APPENDIX. No. I. CONVENTION between his Britannic Majefty, and the Emperor of Ruffia, figned at St. Peterburgh the 17th June 1801. In the Name of the Moft Holy and undivided Trinity. THE mutual defire of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of his Majefty the Emperor of all the Ruffias, being not only to come to an understanding between themselves with respect to the differences which have lately interrupted the good understanding and friendly relations which fubfifted between the two ftates; but alfo to prevent, by frank and precife explanations upon the navigation of their respective fubjects, the renewal of fimilar altercations and troubles which might be the confequence of them; and the common object of the folicitude of their faid Majefties being to fettle, as foon as can be done, an equitable arrangement of those differences, and an invariable determination of their principles upon the rights of neutrality, in their application to their refpective monarchies, in order to unite more closely the ties of friendship and good intercourse, of which they acknowledge the utility and the benefits; have named and chofen for their their plenipotentiaries, viz. his Majefty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Alleyne Lord Baron St. Helens, his faid Majesty's Privy Counfellor, and his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Majefty the Emperor of all the Ruffias; and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Ruffias, Sieur Nikita Count de Panin, his Privy Counsellor, Minister of State for the department of foreign affairs, prefent Chamberlain, Knight Grand Crofs of the orders of St. Alexander Newfky, and of St. Anne of the first clafs, of that of St. Ferdinand, and of Merit, of the Red Eagle, and of St. Lazarus; who, after having communicated their refpective full powers, and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following points and articles: ARTICLE I. There fhall be hereafter between his Britannic Majefty and his Imperial Majefly of all the Ruffias, their fubjects, the states and countries under their dominion, good and unalterable friendship and understanding; and all the political, commercial, and other relations of common utility between the refpective fubjects, shall fubfift as formerly, without their being disturbed or troubled in any manner whatever. ARTICLE II. His Britannic Majefty and the Emperor of all the Ruffias declare, that they will watch over the most rigorous execution of the prohibitions against the trade of contra band band of their fubjects with the enemies of either of the high contracting parties. ARTICLE III. His Britannic Majefty and his Imperial Majefty of all the Ruffias having refolved to place under a fufficient fafeguard the freedom of commerce and navigation of their fubjects, in cafe one of them fhall be at war, whilst the other fhall be neuter, have agreed :— 1. That the fhips of the neutral power may navigate freely to the ports, and upon the coafts of the nations at war. 2. That the effects embarked on board neutral ships fhall be free, with the exception of contraband of war, and of enemy's property; and it is agreed not to comprise under the denomination of the latter, the merchandife of the produce, growth, or manufacture of the countries at war, which fhould have been acquired by the fubjects of the neutral power, and fhould be tranfported for their account, which merchandife cannot be excepted in any cafe from the freedom granted to the flag of the faid power. 3. That in order to avoid all equivocation and mifunderstanding of what ought to be confidered as contraband of war, his Britannic Majefty, and his Imperial Majefty of all the Ruffias, declare, conformably to the 11th article of the treaty of commerce concluded between the two crowns on the roth (21ft) February g February 1797, that they acknowledge as fuch the following articles only; viz.-cannons, mortars, firearms, pistols, bombs, grenades, balls, bullets, firelocks, flints, matches, gunpowder, faltpetre, fulphur, cuiraffes, pikes, fwords, fword-belts, knapfacks, faddles and bridles; excepting, however, the quantity of the faid articles which may be neceffary for the defence of the ship and of those who compofe the crew; and all other articles whatever not enumerated here fhall not be reputed warlike and naval ftores, nor be fubject to confiscation, and of course fhall pafs freely, without being fubjected to the smallest difficulty, unless they be confidered enemy's property in the fenfe above fpecified. It is also agreed, that that which is ftipulated in the prefent article shall not be prejudicial to the particular ftipulations of one or the other crown with other powers, by which articles of a fimilar kind fhould be reserved, prohibited, or permitted. 4. That in order to determine what characterizes a blockaded port, that denomination is given only to a port where there is, by the difpofitions of the power which attacks it with fhips ftationary, or fufficiently near, an evident danger in entering. 5. That the fhips of the neutral power fhall not be ftopped but upon juft caufes and evident facts: that they be tried without delay, and that the proceeding be always uniform, prompt, and legal. In order the better to ensure the refpect due to these ftipulations, dictated by the fincere defire of conciliating |