Sdly. The Imaum to punish all persons serving on board ships dealing in slaves, who do not give information to the Imaum, or his Governors, that they have been slave dealing. 4thly. His Highness to appoint, at such places as His Majesty the King of Great Britain may wish, habitations for the residence of consuls, agents or others, charged with the suppression of the slave trade by English subjects; such consuls, agents or others, are to receive the assistance, on application, of His Highness the Imaum or his Lieutenant Governor or others, for the apprehension and detention of any English subjects who may attempt the traffic. 5thly. The Imaum to authorize British cruizers to seize all Arab vessels that may be found loaded with slaves, after the expiration of four months from the present date if bound to any port out of His Highness's dominions. 6thly. The Imaum, or his Governors to provide all Arab vessels with passes (port clearances.) Any vessels found with slaves on board, who have not such port clearances, to be seized according to the 5th requisition, by any British cruizers that may meet them. FAIRFAX MORESBY, Captain H.M.S. Menai. Additional Requisition by Captain Moresby to the Imaum of Muscat. That it may be understood in the most comprehensive manner, where Arab ships are lia ble to seizure by His Majesty the King of England's cruizers, after the expiration of 4 months, the Imaum to authorize that the King of England's cruizers, finding Arab ships with slaves on board to the eastward of a line drawn from Cape Delgado, passing 60 miles east of Socotra, on to Diu Head, torining the western point of the Gulf of Cambay (unless driven by stress of weather,) shall be seized and treated by His Majesty's craizers in the same manner as if they were under the English flag. F. MORESBY, Captain H. M. S. Menai. 3d I will instruct my officers, and publish generally such instructions throughout my dominions, that the crews of any vessel carrying slaves for sale, in christian countries, be enjomed, on their return to the Arab port, to give information to the authority at such port, that he may punish the commanders, and that if they come to be detected in concealing such information, they (the crews) shall themselves suffer punishment. 4th. The authority you require, permitting the settlement of an agent on your part in Zanzibar, and the neighbouring parts, for the purpose of having intelligence, and watching the traffic in slaves with christian nations, is granted, and I now give it to Captain Moresby. 5th. The authority you have required, permitting to you after the expration of four months, the seizure of all vessels laden with slaves bound for christian countries, is hereby granted to captain Moresby. 6th. I will write to my Governors, regarding the statement to be given in writing to all ships departing on a voyage, certifying from what port they have come and whither they are bound, and you may seize every vessel you may fall in with beyond Madagascar, and in the sea of Mauritms, after 4 months from the date of the permission contamed in the answer to the 5th requisition above acceded to, and you may carry into me, for my disposal, any ship you may meet even on this side the Isle of France, provided she have not the writing statement required from the Governor of the port whence she sailed. Signature of the Imaum. [L. S.] Tamatave, Oct. 23,1817. No. 39. Definitive Treaty of Friendship between Great Britain and Persia. Signed at Tehran, 25th November, 1814. EXTRACT. (Preamble.) What relates to Commerce, Trade, and other Affairs, will be drawn up and concluded in a separate Commercial Treaty: Signed at Tehran, 25th November, 1814. Signed JAMES MORIER, [L.S.] HENRY ELLIS, [L.S.] Signed MIRZA HAHAMMED SHEFFI. No. 40. Treaty between Great Britain and Madagascar. Signed at Tamatave, 23d October, 1817. Robert Townsend Farquhar, Esq Governor and Commander in Chief, Captain General, Vice-Admiral of the Island of Mauritius and its dependencies: By His Commissioners, Captam Stanfell of the Royal Navy, commanding His Majesty's ship Præton and T. R. Pye, Esq. Assistant-Agent for His Excellency's Government at Madagascar, who are vested with fuli Powers, and Radama, King of Madagascar and its dependencies, by His Commissioners Ratzalika, Rampoole Ramanou and Raciahato-representing the said Radama, and with full Powers from His Majesty Have agreed upon the following Articles and Conditions: I. It is agreed by the Parties to these presents, respectively, that the mutual confidence, friendship, and brotherhood, which are hereby acknowledged to subsist between the Contracting Parties, shall be maintained and perpetuated for ever. II. It is agreed, and the two Contracting Parties hereby covenant and agree that, from the date of this Treaty, there shall be an entire cessation and extinction through all the Dominions of King Radama, and wherever his influence can extend, of the sale or transfer of slaves, or other persons whatever; to be removed from off he soil of Madagascar into any country, island, or dominion of any other Prince, Potentate, or Power whatever; and that Radaina, King of Madagascar, will make a proclamation and a law prohibiting all his subjects, or persons depending on him or his dominious, to sell any slave to be transported from Madagascar, or to aid or abet, or assist, in any such sale, under penalty that any person so offending shall be reduced to slavery himself. Ill. And in consideration of this concession on the part of Radama, the King of Madagascar and His nation, and in full satisfaction for the same, and for the loss of revenue thereby incur red by Radaina, King of Madagascar, the Commissioners on the part of His Excellency the Governor of Mauritius, do engage to pay Radama, yearly, the following articles: upon a certificate being received, that the said laws and regulations and proclamations have been enforced the preceding quarter; which certificate shall be signed by Radaina, and countersigned by the agent of His Excellency Governor Farquhar, resident at the Court of Radama. IV. And further, it is agreed by the Contracting Parties mutually to protect the faithful friend and Ally of England, the King of Johanna, from the predatory attacks to which he has been for many years annually exposed from some of the smaller States of the sea-coast of Madagascar ; and to use every means in their power, by their subjects, allies, and dependents, to put a final end to this system of piracy; and for this purpose, proclamations shall be made by Radama and the Governor of Mauritius, prohibiting all persons whatever from engaging in this pira cy; and these proclamations shall be particularly distributed in the ports and on the sea-coast of Madagascar. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. The Contracting Parties agree in considering this Treaty as provisional, until ratified and confirmed by His Majesty's Ministers on the part of the King of Great Britam,-which Ratification will be forwarded, without loss of time, to the King of Madagascar (Radama) by His Ambassador to that Court. This formality, however, is not to prevent the stipulations of the Treaty from being carried into full and complete effect from the date hereof. Done at Tamatave, Island of Madagascar, October 23, 1817. Signed FRANCIS STANFELL, Captain H. M. S. Phæton, Senior Naval Officer and Commissioner. RATZALIKA for RADAMA. RAMALAZA, as Witness. THOS. R. PYE, Agent of the British Government and Commissioner. No. 41. Treaty between Great Britain and the Sublime Porte. the Dardanelles, the 5th of January, 1809. In the Name of the Most Merciful God. Concluded at The object of this faithful and authentic Instrument is as follows:Notwithstanding the appearances of a misunderstanding between the Court of Great Britain and the Sublime Ottoman Porte, consequent upon the occurrences of the moment, the two Powers, equally animated with a sincere desire of re-establishing the ancient friendship which subsisted between them, have named their Plenipotentiaries for that purpose, that is to say, His Most August and Most Honored Majesty George the Third, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, has named for His Plenipotentiary, Robert Adair, Esq. one of the Members of the Royal Parliament of Great Britain; and His Majesty the Most Noble, Most Powerful, and Most Magnificient Sultan Mahomet Han II. Emperor of the Ottomans has named for His Plenipotentiary, Seyde, Mehmed-Emin Vahid Effendi, Director and Inspector of the department called " Mercoufat;" and invested with the rank of Nichan gi," of the Imperial Divan; who, having reciprocally communicated to each other their full Powers, after several conferences and discussions, have concluded the peace equally desired by both Powers, and have agreed upon the following Articles: I. From the moment of signing the present Treaty, every act of hostility between England and Turkey shall cease; and in furtherance of this happy peace, the prisoners on both sides shall be exchanged without distinction, in thirty-one days from the signature of this Treaty, or sooner if possible. II. Should any fortresses belonging to the Sublime Porte be in the possession of Great Britain, they shall be restored to the Sublime Porte, and given up, with all the cannons, warlike stores, and other effects, in the condition in which they were found at the time of their being occupied by England, and this restitution shall be made in the space of thirty-one days from the signature of the present Treaty. III Should there be any effects and property belonging to English merchants under sequestration, within the jurisdiction of the Sublime Porte, the same shall be entirely given up, and restored to the proprietors; and in like manner should there be any effects, property, and vessels, belonging to merchants, subjects of the Sublime Porte, under sequestration at Malta, or in any other islands and possessions of His Britannic Majesty, they also shall be entirely given up and restored to their proprietors. IV. The Treaty of Capitulations agreed upon in the Turkish year 1086, (A. D. 1675) in the middle of the month Gemmaziel Akir, as also the Act relating to the Commerce of the Black Sea,* and the other privileges (Imtiazat) equally established by Acts at subsequent periods, shall continue to be observed and maintained as if they had suffered no interruption. V. In return for the indulgence and good treatment afforded by the Sublime Porte to English merchants, with respect to their goods and property, as well as in all matters tending to facilitate their commerce, England shall reciprocally extend every indulgence and friendly treatment to the flag, subjects, and merchants of the Sublime Porte, which may hereafter frequent the Dominions of His Britannic Majesty for the purposes of commerce. VI. The last custom-house tariff established at Constantinople, at the ancient rate of 3 per cent. and particularly the Article relating to the interior commerce shall continue to be observed, as they are at present regulated and to which England promises to conform. VII. Ambassadors from His Majesty the King of Great Britain shall enjoy all the honors enjoyed by Ambassadors to the Sublime Porte from other nations; and Ambassadors from the Sublime Porte at the Court of London shall reciprocally enjoy all the honors granted to the Ambassadors from Great Britain. VIII. Consuls (Shahbenders) may be appointed at Malta, and in the Dominions of His Britannic Majesty where it shall be necessary to manage and superintend the affairs and interests of merchants of the Sublime Porte, and similar privileges and immunities to those granted to English Consuls resident in the Ottoman Dominions, shall be duly afforded to the Shahbenders” of the Sublime Porte. IX. English Ambassadors and Consuls may supply themselves, according to custom, with such Dragomen as they shall stand in need of, but as it has already been mutually agreed upon, that the Sublime Porte shall not grant the Baral" of Dragoman in favor of individuals who do not execute that duty in the place of their destination, it is settled, in conformity with this principle, that in future, the "Barat" shall not be granted to any person of the class of tradesmen or banker, nor to any shopkeeper or manufacturer in the public markets, or to one who is engaged in any matters of this description, nor shall English Consuls be named from among the subjects of the Sublime Porte. X. English patents of protection shall not be granted to dependants, or merchants who are subjects of the Sublime Porte, nor shall any passport be dePermission granting the Navigation of the Black Sea, by English merchant vessels, entering through the Straights of Constantinople. livered to such persons on the part of Ambassadors or Consuls, without permission previously obtained from the sublime Porte. XI. As ships of war have at all times been prohibited from entering the canal of Constantinople, viz. in the straits of the Dardanelles and of the Black Sea; and as this ancient regulation of the Ottoman Empire is in future to be observed by every Power in time of Peace, the Court of Great Britain promises on its part to conform to this principle. XII. The ratifications of the present Treaty of Peace between the high Contracting Parties shall be exchanged at Constantinople in the space of ninety-one days from the date of this Treaty, or sooner if possible. In faith of which and in order that the ratification of the twelve Articles of this Treaty (which has been happily concluded, by the assistance of God. and in the sincerity and good faith of the Two Parties) may be exchanged. I, Plenipotentiary of the Sublime Porte, have, in virtue of my full Powers. signed and sealed this Instrument, which I have delivered to the Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty, in exchange for another Instrument exactly conformable thereto, written in the French language, with a translation thereof, which has been delivered to me on his part, agreeably to his full powers. Done near the Castles of the Dardanelles, the 5th of January, 1809, which corresponds with the year of the Hegira 1223. the 19th day of the Moon Zilkaade. Signed SEYD MEHEMMED EMIN VAHID EFFENDI, [L. S.] Signed ROBERT ADAIR, L. s] No. 42. Treaty of Peace between Russia and Turkey. Signed at Adrianople, September 14, 1829. In the name of God Almighty. His imperial majesty, the most high and most mighty emperor and autocrat of all the Russias, and his highness the most high and most mighty empe or of the Ottomans, animated with an equal desire to put an end to the calamities of war, and to establish, on a solid and immutable basis, peace, friendship. and good harmony between their empires, have resolved, with a common accord, to intrust this salutary work to, &c. {Here follow the names and titles of the different plenipotentiaries on both sides.] ART. 1. All enmity and all differences which have subsisted hitherto between the two empires shall cease from this day, as well on land as on sea, and there shall be in perpetuity peace, friendship, and good intelligence, between his majesty the emperor and padishah of all the Russias, and his highness the padishah of the Ottomans, their heirs and successors to the throne, as well as between their respective empires. The two high contracting parties will devote their particular attention to prevent all that might cause misunderstandings to revive between their respective subjects. They will scrupulously fulfil all the conditions of the present treaty of peace, and will watch, at the same time, lest it should be infringed in any manner, directly or indirectly. |