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VARIOUS TREATIES

CONCLUDED BETWEEN

GREAT BRITAIN

AND

OTHER POWERS.

IN THE YEAR 1815.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by Command of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, 1816.

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No. 1. Copy of a Convention between Great Britain and Portugal, respecting the Slave Trade, Vienna, Jan. 21, 1315.

2. Copy of a Treaty between Great Britain and Portugal, on the same subject, Vienna, Jan. 22, 1815.

3. Copy of a Convention between Great Britain and France, relative to the East Indies, London, March 7, 1815.

Translation of Ditto.

4. Copy of a Convention between Great Britain, Russia and the Netherlands, respecting the Russian Loan in Holland, London, May, 19, 1815.

Translation of Ditto

5. Copy of Treaty between Great Britain and Sardinia, respecting the Sardinian territories, Vienna, May 20, 1815.

Translation of Ditto.

6. Copy of a Treaty between Great Britain and the Netherlands, respecting the territories of the King of the Netherlands, Vienna, May 31, 1815.

Translation of Ditto.

7. Copy of a Convention between Great Britain and Austria, concerning the custody of Napoleon Buonaparte, Paris, Aug. 2, 1815.

Translation of Ditto.

8 and 9, are similar Conventions, with Austria and Prussia.

10. Copy of a Convention between Great Britain and the United States of America, for regulating the commerce between the two countries, London, July 3, 1815.

11. Copy of a Convention between Great Britain and the Netherlands, concerning the late Dutch West India Colonies, London, Aug. 12, 1815.

12. Copy of a Treaty between Great Britain and Saxony, respecting the territories of Saxony and Warsaw, Paris, Sept., 1815.

Note.-Nos. 1 and 2 of the above Treaties were signed in the English and Portuguese languages.

No. 11 was signed in the English and Dutch languages. Nos. 10 and 12 were signed only in the English language.

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No. 1.

PORTUGAL.

Convention between Great Britain and Portugal, signed at Vienna 21st January 1815, in the English and Portuguese Languages.

In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity.

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HIS Britannick Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, being equally desirous to terminate amicably all the doubts which have arisen relative to the parts of the coast of Africa with which the subjects of the Crown of Portugal, under the laws of that kingdom and the Treaty subsisting with His Britannick Majesty, may lawfully carry on a Trade in Slaves and whereas several ships, the perty of the said subjects of Portugal, have been detained and condemned, upon the alledged ground of being engaged in an illicit Traffic in Slaves; and whereas His Britannick Majesty, in order to give to His intimate and faithful Ally the Prince Regent of Portugal, the most unequivocal proof of His friendship and the regard He pays to His Royal Highness's reclamations, and in consideration of regulations to be made by the Prince Regent of Portugal for avoiding hereafter such doubts, is desirous to

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