the different events which may take place, it is agreed that a merchant-vessel belonging to one of the contracting parties, and destined for a port which may be supposed to be blockaded at the moment of her sailing, shall not be captured or condemned for having in one instance attempted to enter the said port, unless it can be proved that the said vessel must have learned on her passage that the blockade of the place in question continued. But vessels which, having been once warned off, shall attempt during the same voyage to enter a second time into an enemy's port during the continuance of the blockade, shall then be subject to detention and condemnation.

Art. 14. The present treaty shall continue in force for eight years from the date of the ex. change of the ratifications, which shall take place within eight months after the signature, and sooner if possible.

(Signed)

COUNT ENGESTROM, JONATHAN RUSSELL, COUNT A. G. MORNER. Stockholm, Sept. 4, 1816. We, Charles John, by the Grace of God, King of Sweden, Norway, of the Goths and Vandals, make known that our dearly beloved father, the late King, of glorious memory, and the United States, having agreed to conclude a treaty of commerce, did respectively appoint.-[Here the appointment of the Plenipotentiaries and the articles agreed on are recited.] In consequence the United States of America having declared by their Minister Plenipotentiary, accredited at

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our Court, that for grave reasons they are prevented from ratifying articles 3, 4, and 6, of the said above recited treaty, and as we have found the tenor of these articles of such a nature that they may be excluded from the treaty, without prejudice to the interest of our faithful subjects, we have for these causes thought fit to ratify, approve, and accept the above inserted treaty of commerce, with the exception of the articles 3, 4, and 6; and we do hereby accept, approve, and ratify the same, &c.

(Signed) CHARLES JOHN.
Stockholm, July 24, 1818.

Report of the Secret Committee of the House of Lords, appointed to examine into the matter of the several Papers, sealed up, presented to the House by command of the Prince Regent.

By the Lords Committees appointed a Secret Committee to examine into the matter of the Papers presented to this House, in a Sealed Bag, by the command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and to report to the House as they shall see cause; and to whom were referred additional papers (sealed up,) also presented to the House by the command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

Ordered to Report:-That the committee have proceeded to examine the papers so referred to

them.

In execution of this duty they have proceeded, in the first place, to consider such of the said papers as contained information

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as to the state of those parts of England in which the circumstances detailed in the two reports of the former committees appear to have arisen.

In the last of those reports, presented to the House on the 12th of June last, it was represented that the period of a general rising, of which the intention and object were stated in the reports, appeared to have been fixed for as early a day as possible after the discussion of an expected motion for reform in parliament; that Nottingham appeared to have been intended as the head quarters, upon which a part of the insurgents were to march in the first instance; and that they expected to be joined there, and on their march towards London, by other bodies with such arms as they might have already provided, or might procure by force from private houses, or from the different depôts or barracks, of which the attack was proposed. That concurrent information, from many quarters, confirmed the expectation of a general rising about the time above-mentioned, but that it was subsequently postponed to the 9th or 10th of June, for which various reasons had been assigned. The report added, that the latest intelligence from those quarters had made it highly probable that the same causes which had to that time thwarted the execution of those desperate designs, viz. the vigilance of the government, the great activity and intelligence of the magistrates, the ready assistance afforded under their orders by the regular troops and yeomanry, the prompt and effiVOL. LX.

cient arrangements of the officers intrusted with that service, the knowledge which had from time to time been obtained of the plans of the disaffected, and the consequent arrest and confinement of the leading agitators would occasion a still farther postponement of their atrocious plans.

It now appears that in the night of the 9th of June last, a rising took place in Derbyshire, headed by a person who went for that purpose from Nottingham, and was therefore called "The Nottingham Captain." The insurgents were not formidable for their numbers, but they were actuated by an atrocious spirit. Several of them had fire arms; others had pikes previously prepared for the purpose: and as they advanced towards Nottingham, they plundered several houses of arms, and in one instance a murder was committed. They compelled some persons to join them, and endeavoured to compel others by threats of violence, and particularly by the terror of the murder which had been committed; and they proposed to reach Nottingham early in the morning of the 10th of June, and to surprise the military in their barracks: hoping thus to become masters of the town, and to be joined by considerable numbers there, and by a party which they expected would be assembled in Nottingham Forest, and which actually did assemble at that place, as after stated. The disposition to plunder, the resistance they met with, and other circumstances, so delayed their march, that they had not R

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liable to the highest duty, as if the vessel had imported only that single kind of merchandise.

Art. 5. The high contracting parties mutually grant the right of maintaining consuls, vice-consuls, or agents in each other's ports and commercial towns, who shall enjoy full protection, and receive every assistance necessary to enable them duly to execute their functions; but it is hereby expressly declared, that in the case of illegal or improper conduct against the laws or go. vernment of the country, to which any such consul, vice-consul, or agent is sent, he may be punished conformably to the laws, be deprived of his functions, or dismissed by the offended government; the said government giving an account of the transaction to the other; it being, how ever, well understood, that the archives and documents relative to the affairs of the Consulate

shall be subject to no examination, but shall be carefully preserved, being placed under the seals of the said Consul and of the Authority of the place where he shall have resided.

The Consuls, or their substitutes, shall, as such, have the right of acting as judges or arbiters in all cases of differences which may arise between the captains and crews of the vessels of the nation whose affairs are intrusted to their care. The respective Governments shall have no right to interfere in these sort of affairs, except in the case of the conduct of the crews disturbing public order and tranquillity in the country in which the vessel may happen to be, or in

which the Consul of the place may be obliged to call for the intervention and support of the executive power, in order to cause his decision to be respected; it being, however, well understood that this sort of judg ment or arbitration cannot deprive the contending parties of their right of appealing on their return to the judicial authorities of their country.

Art. 6. To remove all disputes or uncertainty with respect to what ought to be reputed the produce of the soil or manufactures of the contracting parties respectively, it is agreed that all articles shall be regarded as of this description which may be certified as such in the clearance which may be given to vessels that sail from the ports of the said high contracting parties.

Art. 7. Ships of either country arriving on the coasts or in the ports of the other, and not wishing to break bulk or unload, may prosecute their voyage without molestation, or being obliged to give any account of their cargo, and without paying any duties except those of pilotage, if a pilot have been employed; or duties for lights, &c., if such be paid by the ships of the country in the like case. It being, however, well understood, that when the vessels of either party are within the jurisdiction of the other, they shall conform themselves to the rules and ordinances relative to navigation which are established in the ports into which they may enter, and which are in force with regard to the most favoured nations; and it shall be permitted to the officers

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of the customs in the districts within which the said vessels may be, to visit them, to remain on board, and to take all such precautions as may be necessary to prevent all illicit communication during the stay of the said vessels. Art. 8. It is agreed that the vessels of one contracting party, on entering the ports of the other, may confine themselves to discharging only a part of their cargoes according as the captains or owners shall think fit, and that they may freely depart with the rest without paying duty, except for the part unloaded. They may then sail to other ports of the same country, and discharge other portions of their cargo in like manner. It being understood that the shipping duties, whatever they may be, shall be paid at the first port in which a vessel breaks bulk, and shall not be demanded in any others in which she may unload part of her cargo, unless additional duties be there paid, in the like case, by vessels belonging to the country.

Art. 9. The citizens and subjects of either country shall enjoy in the ports of the other, as well for their vessels as for their merchandise, all the duties and facilities of entrepot which the most favoured nations enjoy in the same ports.

Art. 10. In the case that any vessel belonging to one of the two states, or to their citizens or subjects, has suffered any damage on the coasts of the states of the other, every assistance shall be afforded to the persons shipwrecked. The ships and merchandise, or what they have produced, if sold, on being claimed

within a year and day by the owners or their agents, shall be restored on paying the same expenses of salvage as the natives would in like case pay.

Art. 11. It is agreed that Swedish and Norwegian ships arriving direct from Europe to the United States, or vessels of the said states arriving direct to Sweden or Norway, and furnished with certificates of health from the competent officer of the port whence they sailed, shall be subject to no quarantine, except such as may be necessary to give the officer of health of the port at which the vessel arrives the opportunity of visiting her, unless it shall appear that during the voyage some person on board has been attacked with a malignant or contagious malady, or that the country whence the vessel comes has been regarded as infected, and has been made the subject of a previous ordinance, directing all vessels arriving from it to be regarded as suspected, and subject to quarantine.

Art. 12. The Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, concluded at Paris in 1783, by the Plenipotentiaries of Sweden and the United States, shall be renewed and put in force by the present treaty, with respect to what is contained in Articles 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, and 25; and also, the separate Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, which were signed on the same day by the same Plenipotentiaries.

Art. 13. Considering the remoteness of the two high contracting powers, and the uncertainty resulting therefrom, as to

the

the different events which may take place, it is agreed that a merchant-vessel belonging to one of the contracting parties, and destined for a port which may be supposed to be blockaded at the moment of her sailing, shall not be captured or condemned for having in one instance attempted to enter the said port, unless it can be proved that the said vessel must have learned on her passage that the blockade of the place in question continued. But vessels which, having been once warned off, shall attempt during the same voyage to enter a second time into an enemy's port during the continuance of the blockade, shall then be subject to detention

and condemnation.

Art. 14. The present treaty shall continue in force for eight years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications, which shall take place within eight months after the signature, and sooner if possible.

(Signed)

COUNT ENGEstrom, JONATHAN RUSSELL, COUNT A. G. MORNER. Stockholm, Sept. 4, 1816. We, Charles John, by the Grace of God, King of Sweden, Norway, of the Goths and Vandals, make known that our dearly beloved father, the late King, of glorious memory, and the United States, having agreed to conclude a treaty of commerce, did respectively appoint.-[Here the appointment of the Plenipotentiaries and the articles agreed on are recited.] In consequence the United States of America having declared by their Minister Plenipotentiary, accredited at

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our Court, that for grave reasons they are prevented from ratifying articles 3, 4, and 6, of the said above recited treaty, and as we have found the tenor of these articles of such a nature that they may be excluded from the treaty, without prejudice to the interest of our faithful subjects, we have for these causes thought fit to ratify, approve, and accept the above inserted treaty of commerce, with the exception of the articles 3, 4, and 6; and we do hereby accept, approve, and ratify the same, &c.

(Signed) CHARLES JOHN. Stockholm, July 24, 1818. Report of the Secret Committee of the House of Lords, appointed to examine into the matter of the serveral Papers, sealed up, presented to the House by command of the Prince Regent.

By the Lords Committees appointed a Secret Committee to examine into the matter of the Papers presented to this House, in a Sealed Bag, by the command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and to report to the House as they shall see cause; and to whom were referred additional papers (sealed up,) also presented to the House by the command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

Ordered to Report:-That the committee have proceeded to examine the papers so referred to them.

In execution of this duty they have proceeded, in the first place, to consider such of the said papers as contained information