full powers, and exchanged copies of the same, have agreed on and concluded the following Articles; viz. ART. 1. There shall be between all the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe, and the territories of the United States, a reciprocal liberty of Commerce. The inhabitants of the two countries respectively shall have liberty freely and securely to come with their ships and cargoes to all such places, ports, and rivers in the territories aforesaid, to which other foreigners are permitted to come, to enter into the same, and to remain and reside in any parts of the said territories respectively; also to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce; and generally the merchants and traders of each nation respectively shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce; but subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively. ART. II. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territorities of his Britannic Majesty in Europe, of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the United States, and no higher or other dutics shall be imposed on the importation into the United States, of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of his Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, than are or shall be payable on the like articles, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country, nor shall any higher or other duties or charges be imposed in either of the two countries on the exportation of any articles to his Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, or to the United States, respectively, than such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed upon the exportation or importation of any articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, or of his Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, or to or from the said territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe, to or from the said United States, which shall not equally extend to all other nations. No higher or other duties or charges shall be imposed in any of the ports of the United States on British vessels, than those payable in the same ports by vessels of the United States; nor in the ports of any of his Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe on the vessels of the United States, than shall be payable in the same port on British vessels. United States, whether such importation shall be in British vessels or in vessels of the United States. The Sante duties shall be paid, and the same bounties allowed on the exportation of any articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of his Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, to the United States, whether such exportation shall be in vessels of the United States or in British vessels; and the same duties shall be paid and the same bounties allowed, on the exportation of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, to his Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, whether such exportation shall be in British vessels, or in vessels of the United States. It is further agreed, that in all cases where drawbacks are or may be allowed, upon the re-exportation of any goods, the growth, produce, or manufacture of either country, respectively, the amount of the said drawbacks shall be the same, whether the said goods shall have been originally imported in a British or American vessel; but when such reexportation shall take place from the United States in a British vessel, or from the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe in an American vessel, to any other foreign nation, the two Contracting Parties reserve to themselves, respectively, the right of regulating or diminishing, in such case, the amount of the said drawback. The intercourse between the United States and his Britannic Majesty's possessions in the West Indies, and on the continent of North America, shall not be affected by any of the provisions of this Article, but each party shall remain in the complete possession of its rights, with respect to such an intercourse. ART. III. His Britannic Majesty agrees that the vessels of the United States of America shall be admitted, and hospitably received at the principal settlements of the British dominions in the East Indies, viz. Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and Prince of Wales' Islands, and that the citizens of the said United States may freely carry on trade between the said principal settlements and the said United States, in all articles of which the importation and exportation, respectively, to and from the said territories, shall not be entirely prohibited: provided only, that it shall not be lawful for them in any time of war, between the British Govern ment and any State or Power whatever, to The same duties shall be paid on the im- export from the said territories, without the portation into the United States of any arti- special permission of the British Government, cles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of any military stores or naval stores, or rice. his Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, The Citizens of the United States shall pay whether such importation shall be in vessels for their vessels, when admitted, no higher of the United States or in British vessels, and or other duty or charge than shall be payable the same duties shall be paid on the importa- on the vessels of the most favoured Eurotion into the ports of any of his Britannic Ma-pean nations, and they shall pay no higher jesty's territories in Europe, of any article, or other duties or charges on the importation the growth, produce, or manufacture of the or exportation of the cargoes of the said ves sels, then shall be payable on the same articles when imported or exported in the vessels of the most favoured European nations. But it is expressly agreed, that the vessels of the United States shall not carry any articles from the said principal settlements to any port or place, except to some port or place in the United States of America, where the same shall be unladen. It is also understood, that the permission granted by this Article, is not to extend to allow the vessels of the United States to carry on any part of the coasting trade of the said British territories, but the vessels of the United States having, in the first instance, proceeded to one of the said principal settle ments of the British dominions in the East Indies and then going with their original cargoes, or any part thereof, from one of the said principal settlements to another, shall not be considered as carrying on the coasting trade. The vessels of the United States may also touch, for refreshments, but not for commerce, in the course of their voyage to or from the British territories in India, or to or from the dominions of the Emperor of China, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Island of St. Helena, or such other places as may be in the possession of Great Britain, in the African or Indian seas; it being well understood, that in all that regards this article, the citizens of the United States shall be subject, in all respects, to the laws and regulations of the British Government, from time to time established. ART. IV. It shall be free for each of the two Contracting Parties respectively to appoint Consuls, for the protection of trade, to reside in the dominions and territories of the other party; but before any Consul shall act as such, he shall in the usual form be approved and admitted by the Government to which he is sent; and it is hereby declared, that in case of illegal and improper conduct towards the laws or government of the country to which he is sent, such Consul may either be punished according to law, if the laws will reach the case, or be sent back, the offended Government assigning to the other the reasons for the same. It is hereby declared, that either of the Contracting Parties may except from the residence of Consuls such particular places as such party shall judge fit to be so excepted. ART. V. This Convention, when the same shall have been duly ratified by his Britannic Majesty and by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, and the respective ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be binding and obligatory on his Majesty and on the said United States for four years from the date of its signature; and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from this time, or sooner, if possible. Done at London this Srd day of July, 1815. The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in the United States of America, is commanded by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to explain and declare, upon the exchange of the ratifications of the Convention concluded in London on the 3rd of July of the present year, for regulating the commerce and navigation between the two countries, that in consequence of events which have happened in Europe subsequent to the signature of the Convention aforesaid, it has been deemed expedient and determined, in conjunction with the Allied Sovereigns, that St. Helena shall be the place allotted for the future residence of General Napoleon Buonaparté, under such regulations as may be necessary for the perfect security of his person, and it has been resolved, for that purpose, that all ships and vessels whatever, as well British ships and vessels as others, excepting only ships belonging to the East India Company, shall be excluded from all communication with or approach to that Island. It has therefore become impossible to comply with so much of the Third Article of the Treaty as relates to the liberty of touching for refreshment at the Island of St. He lena, and the ratifications of the said Treaty will be exchanged under the explicit declaration and understanding that the vessels of the United States cannot be allowed to touch at, or hold any communication whatever with the said Island, as long as the said Island shall continue to be the place of residence of the said Napoleon Buonaparte. Signed. of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, being proprietors in the colonies of Demerara, Essequebo and Berbice, shall be at liberty (under certain regulations) to carry on trade between the said settlements and the territories in Europe of his said Majesty, have nominated for their Plenipotentiaries, viz. his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Henry Earl Bathurst, a Member of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and one of his Principal Secretaries of State; and his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, the Sieur Henry Baron Fagel, a Member of the Corps des Nobles of the province of Holland, and his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Britannic Majesty: who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in due and proper form, have agreed to the following Articles: ART. I. It is hereby agreed that for the space of five years from the 1st January 1816, the aforesaid trade may be carried on in any ships being the property of subjects of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, wheresoever built, and without any restriction or limitation as to the mariners navigating them but at the expiration of the said five years, or as much sooner as his Majesty the King of the Netherlands shall think proper, such trade shall be carried on only in such ships as are Dutch built, and whereof the Master and three-fourths of the crew are subjects of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands. ART. II. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands reserves to himself the liberty of imposing such duties as he may think fit, upon the importation into the European dominions of his said Majesty, of the produce of the Colonies in question; and vice-versá, with regard to exportation: but the duties to be paid within the Colonies shall be applicable to the Dutch, as well as to the British trade. ART. III. The subjects of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, being proprietors in the said Colonies, shall be at perfect liberty to go to the said Colonies, and to return, without being subjected in this respect to any delay or difficulty; or to appoint persons to act for them in the management of the said intercourse or of their properties in the said colonies; subject, however, during their residence there, to the laws and regulations of the same. They shall also have full liberty to dispose of their property in any manner in which they may think fit: but it is understood that in regard to negroes, they are to be subject to the same restrictions as British subjects. ART. IV. In order to protect the proprie tors of estates in the said Colonies from the ruinous effects of the immediate foreclosure of mortgages due to the subjects of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, it is further agreed, that in all cases in which the proprietor of an estate shall offer to the (VOL. XXXII.) holder of any mortgage on the said estate, made prior to the 1st of January 1814 (such mortgagee being a subject of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands) the security hereinafter specified, such mortgagee shall not be at liberty to proceed to the immediate or summary foreclosure of the said mortgage; it being however understood, that in all cases in which no such security shall be offered by the proprietor, the mortgagee shall retain all those rights as to foreclosure, to which he is at present entitled. The security in question must provide that the mortgagee shall receive, at the expense of the proprietor of the estate, a new mortgage for the whole amount of the debt now due to him, including both that part of the original debt which has not been discharged, and the interest which may have accrued upon it up to the 31st December 1814 inclusive. That this security shall reserve to the mortgagee that priority of claim over other morgagees and creditors to which he is entitled under his original mortgage; that it shall bear an annual interest, beginning from the 1st January 1815, at the same rate, and payable in the same manner, as that which was payable under the original mortgage; and that the whole amount of the new debt shall be payable by eight annual instalments, the first of which is to become payable on the first of January, 1820. The new security shall also afford to the mortgagee all those means of legal redress, in the event of non-payment of the interest, or omission to discharge the principal when due, and all those other privileges and advantages to which he would be entitled under his existing mortgage, and shall place him, with respect to the debt for which the new security is given, in the same situation as he stood with respect to his original claim upon, the estate, excepting only in what relates to the period at which the payment may be demanded, so that no later creditor shall derive, from this arrangement, any power to affect the rights of the original creditor, and that no further suspension of payment (surchéance) beyond that herein agreed upon, shall take place without the original creditor's especial consent. It is farther agreed, that in order to entitle the mortgagee to receive the security specified in this Article, he shall, as soon as the said security is duly recorded in the said Colony and delivered to the mortgagee or his agent, in the Colony (the expenses of such record being defrayed by the proprietors), deliver up to be cancelled the mortgages or bonds originally granted to him, or exhibit legal proof that the said mortgages and bonds have been duly cancelled, and are no longer of any value. It is further expressly agreed, that, with the exceptions of the modifications specified in this Article, the rights of mortgagees and creditors shall remain intact. (R) made out every year, by order of the King of the Netherlands, containing the names and places of abode of the proprietors resident in the Netherlands, together with the name and description of the estate belonging to them respectively, specifying whether the same be a sugar or other plantation, and whether the whole or only part of the estate belongs to the proprietor in question: similar lists shall also be made out of the existing mortgages on estates, in as far as these mortgages are ART. V. It is agreed that all Dutch proprietors, acknowledged to be such by the present Convention, shall be entitled to supply their estates from the Netherlands with the usual articles of supply; and in return, to export to the Netherlands the produce of the said estates. But that all other importation of goods from the Netherlands into the Colonies, or export of produce from the Colonies to the Netherlands, shall be strictly prohibited; and it is further agreed, that the exportation of all such articles as may be prohi-held by Dutch subjects, specifying the amount bited to be exported to those Colonies from the British dominions, shall be also prohibited to be exported from the Netherlands. ART. VI. By Dutch proprietors are to be understood:-1. All subjects of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands resident in his said Majesty's European dominions, who are at present proprietors in the said Colonies. 2. All subjects of his said Majesty who may hereafter become possessed of estates now belonging to Dutch proprietors therein. 3. All such proprietors as being now resident in the above Colonies, and being natives of the Netherlands, may (by virtue of Article VIII. of the present Convention) declare that they wish to continue to be considered as such; and 4. All subjects of his said Majesty who may be the holders of mortgages on estates in the said Colonies, made prior to the date of this Convention, and who may, under their mortgage deeds, have the right of exporting from the said Colonies to the Netherlands, the produce of the said estates; subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions specified in Article IX. ART. VII. In all cases where the right of .supplying the mortgaged estate with articles of supply, and exporting produce from it to the Netherlands, is not actually secured to the mortgagee by the mortgage deed, the mortgagee shall be allowed to export from the Colony only such quantity of produce as will be sufficient, when estimated at the current prices of the Colony, to pay the amount of interest or principal annually due to him, and to import into the Colony articles of supply in the same proportion. ART. VIII. All proprietors, subjects to his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, now residing in the above Colonies, must, in order to entitle themselves to the benefit of this Convention, declare, within three months after the publication of this Convention in the said Colonies, whether they wish to be considered as such. ART. IX. In all cases where both Dutch and British subjects have mortgages upon the same property in the said Colonies, the quantity of produce to be consigned to the different mortgagees, shall be in proportion to the amount of the debts respectively due to them. ART. X. In order more easily to carry into effect, and the better to ensure the execution of the provisions of this Convention, it is agreed, that exact and specific lists shall be of the debt on mortgage, either actually existing, or to be made out by virtue of the provisions of Article IV. These lists shall be delivered over to the British government, and shall be sent to the Colonies in question, in order to make out from them, in conjunc tion with a list of the Dutch proprietors resident in the said Colonies, the whole amount of the Dutch population and property on interest in the said Colonies. ART. XI. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, having represented to his Britannic Majesty that the Company of Dutch Merchants and others (styling themselves the Berbice Association), have a just claim to certain estates formerly settled by them in the colony of Berbice, of which they were dispossessed by the Revolutionary Government of Holland, and which, on the capture of the said Colony by his Britannic Majesty, were considered as Government property; his Britannic Majesty engages to restore to the said Berbice Association, within six months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention, the estates of Dageraad, Dankbaarheid, Johanna, and Sandooul, together with all the negroes and stock now actually employed upon the same; such restoration to be in full compensation and satisfaction of all claims which the said Association may have, or may pretend to have, against his Britannic Majesty or his subjects, on account of any property heretofore belonging to them in the Colony of Berbice. ART. XII. All questions of a private nature, relating to such property as comes within the operation of this Convention, shall be decided by competent judicial authority, according to the laws in force in the said colonies. ART. XIII. His Britannic Majesty engages, that the utmost fairness and impartiality shall be shown in all matters affecting the rights and interests of Dutch proprietors. ART. XIV. The two High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves the power of making such future modifications in the present Convention, as experience may point out to be desirable for the interest of both. ART. XV. Lastly, it is agreed, that the provisions of this Convention shall be in force from the date of the exchange of the ratifications. ART. XVI. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall tentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms. Done. at Paris this day of September, 1815. (Signed) be exchanged in London, within three weeks from the date hereof, or sooner, if possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed thereunto the seal of their arms. Done at London, the 12th of August 1815. (Signed) (LS.) Bathurst. (Signed) (L. S.) W. Fagel. No. XI. SAXONY.-Treaty between Great Britain and Saxony, signed at Paris, September 1815. In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, having agreed to the arrangements made respecting Saxony and the Duchy of Warsaw, by the Great Act of Congress, signed on the 9th day of June last, and also by the Treaty of the 18th of May thereto annexed, and herein after particularly set forth; and his Majesty the King of Saxony, desirous of procuring the immediate accession of his Britannic Majesty to the said Treaty of the 18th of May, having invited, and his said Majesty having agreed, to accede thereto by a direct Treaty with his Saxon Majesty; their said Majesties have named; his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, one of his Majesty's Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, Colonel of the Regiment of Londonderry Militia, and Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and his Majesty the King of Saxony, Count de Schulenburg, a Privy Counsellor, Chamberlain of his said Majesty, and Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; who, having exchanged their respective full powers, have agreed upon the following Articles: ART. I. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, accedes to all the stipulations of the Treaty entered into between their Majesties the Kings of Prussia and Saxony, bearing date the 18th of May 1815, and also between his said Majesty the King of Saxony, and the Emperors of Austria and Russia respectively, as hereafter inserted. [Here follows a copy of the Treaty referred to, for which see General Treaty of Congress, Act, No. IV.] ART. II. His Majesty the King of Saxony accepts of the above Accession, and renews to his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the engagements therein contained, and engages to fulfil and execute, in the whole and every part thereof, all the stipulations of the said Treaty, which his Saxon Majesty has on his part therein stipulated to fulfil and execute. (L. S.) Castlereagh. (Signed) (L. S.) Le Comte de Schulenburg. DEFINITIVE TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE, SIGNED AT PARIS THE 20TH NOVEMBER 1815, AND OTHER CONVENTIONS AND DOCUMENTS.] Lord Castlereagh also presented a Paper, intituled, "CLASS C. Definitive Treaty between his Majesty and his Most Christian Majesty, signed at Paris, the 20th of November 1815; and other Conventions and Documents;" of which the following are Copies; CLASS C. DEFINITIVE TREATY BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY AND HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY. Signed at Paris the, 20th of November, 1815; and other CONVENTIONS AND DOCUMENTS. 1. Definitive Treaty between Great Britain and France, signed at Paris, 20th November 1815. 2. Additional Article to the preceding Treaty, relative to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 20 November. 3. Convention between Great Britain and France, relative to the Pecuniary Indemnity to be furnished by France to the Allied Powers, 20 November. 4. Convention between Great Britain and France, relative to the occupation of a Military Line in France by an Allied Army, 20 November. 5. Additional Article to the preceding Convention, relative to Deserters, 20 Nov. 6. Tarif, annexed to the preceding Convention, 20 November. Note from the Ministers of the Allied Powers to the Duke of Richelieu, on the nature and extent of the powers attached to the Command of the Duke of Wellington, 20 November. 7. Convention between Great Britain and France, relative to the claims of British subjects on the French Government, 20 November. ART. III. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged in the term of three months, or sooner, if possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipo-11, 9 Extract of a Protocol, relative to the ter |