IV. In order to carry into execution, without delay, the stipulations mentioned in the articles preceding, and to ground the poli ical re organization of the United Ionian States upon that organization which is actually in force, the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Power shall regulate the forms of convocation of a Legislative Assembly, of which he shall direct the proceedings, in order to draw up a new Constitutional Charter for the States, which His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall be requested to ratify.

Until such Constitutional Charter shall have been so drawn up, and duly ratified, the existing Constitutions shall remain in force in the different islands, and no alteration shall be made in them, except by His Britannic Majesty in Council.

V. In order to ensure, without restriction, to the inhabitants of the United States of the Ionian Islands, the advantages resulting from the high protection under which these States are placed, as well as for the exercise of the rights, inherent in the said protection. His Britannic Majesty shall have the right to occupy the fortresses and places of those States, and to maintain garrisons in the same. The military force of the said United States shall also be under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the troops of His Britannic Majesty.

VI. His Britannic Majesty consents, that a particular Convention with the Government of the said United States shall regulate, according to the revenues of those States, every thing which may relate to the maintenance of the fortresses already existing, as well as to the subsistence and payment of the British garrisons, and to the number of men of which they shall be composed in time of peace.

The same Convention shall likewise fix the relations which are to exist between the said armed force and the Ionian Government.

VII. The trading flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands shall be acknowledged by all the Contracting Parties as the flag of a free and independent State. It shall carry with the colours, and above the armorial bearings thereon displayed before the year 1807, such other as His Britannic Majesty may think proper to grant, as a mark of the protection under which the said United Ionian States are placed; and for the more effectual furtherance of this protection, all the ports and harbours of the said States are hereby declared to be. with respect to honorary and military rights, within British jurisdiction. The commerce between the United Ionian States and the dominions of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty shall enjoy the same advantages and facilities as that of Great Britain with the said United States. None but commercial agents, or consuls, charged solely with the carrying on commercial relations, and subject to the regulations to which commercial agents or consuls are subject in other independent States, shall be accredited to the United States of the Ionian Islands.*

See extract from the Constitutional Chart which follows this Treaty.

VIII. All the Powers which signed the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May, 1814, and the Act of the Congress of Vienna of the 9th of June, 1815; and also His Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, and the Ottoman Porte, shall be invited to accede to the present Convention.

XI. The present Act shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in two months, or sooner, if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their Arms.

Done at Paris, the 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

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No. 28.

Documents refering to the Seventh Article of the preceding Treaty. Constitutional Chart of the United Slates of the Ionian Islands, as agreed on and passed unanmously by the Legislative Assembly, on the 2 of May, 1817. EXTRACT. (Translation laid before Parliament.) Chapter VII. Miscellaneous.

SECTION IV. Of Foreign Relations.

I. Whereas in the latter part of the seventh Article of the Treaty of Paris; it is agreed," that no person, from any Power whatsoever, shall be admitted within these States, possessing or pretending to possess, any powers beyond those which are defined in the aforesrid article;" it is hereby declared, that any person who shall assume to himself any authority as an agent for a foreign Power, except as therein directed, shall be amenable to be tried before the Supreme Council of Justice, and be liable, if found guilty, to punishment, as in cases of high treason against the State.

II. No native, or subject of the United States of the Ionian Islands shall be held competent to act as Consul or Vice-Consul for any foreign Power within the same.

III. The British Consuls, in all ports whatsoever, shall be considered to be the Consuls and Vice-Consuts of the United States of the Ionian Islands, and the subjects of the same shall be entitled to their fullest protection.

IV. All applications necessary to be made by these States to any oreign Power, shall be transmitted by the Senate to His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Sovereign, who shall torward the same to the ambassador or minister of the Protecting Sovereign. resident at the Court of the said foreign Power, for the purpose of submitting them in due form to the said Power.

V. The approval of the appointments of all foreign agents, or Consuls, in the United States of the Ionian Islands, shall be by the Senate, through the medium of His Highness the President thereof, with the concurrence of His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Sovereign.

VI. With a view to ensure the most perfect protection to the commerce of these islands, every vessel, navigating under the Ionian flag, shall be bound, before leaving the port of the Ionian States to which she belongs, to provide herself with a pass signed by His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Sovereign, and no vessel sailing without such pass, shall be considered as navigating according to law. But it is reserved to His Majesty, the Protecting Sovereign, to decide how far it may be necessary, that, independent of such pass, they should further be bound to supply themselves with Mediterranean passes.

SECTION V. Of the Sanita.

I. Whereas the protecting and protected State have an equal right and interest in the great object of the preservation of the public health; it is hereby declared, the controul of the Sanita

throughout the United States of the Ionian Islands, shall be vested in the hands of His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Sovereign, who shall regulate, ace rding to the rules of Sanita, the relative quarantines to be performed in all instances, giving due notice of the same; shall fix the number of officers to be employed, and name, in each island, the heads of the office of Sanita, being either British or lonian subjects; but all other »ppointments made upon this head shall be subject to the approbation of the Senate, and, as far as relates to numbers and amount of salary, to the consideration of the Legislative Assembly, as herein before stated in regard to the civil list.

II. The post-office in each island shall, hereafter, be considered as an integral part of the Sanita.

SECTION VI. Of the National Colours and Armorial Bearings.

I. The National Commercial Flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands, as directed by the seventh Article of the Treaty of Paris, shall be the original flag of these States, with the addition of the British Union, to be placed in the upper corner, next to the flag-staff.

II. On usual days, the British colours shall be hoisted on all the forts within the United States of the Ionian Islands; but a standard shall be made, to be hoisled on days of public rejoicing and festivity, according to the model of the armorial bearings of the said States

III. The arms, or armorial bearings of the United States of the Ionian Islands shall hereafter consist of the British arms in the centre, surrounded by the arms of each of the islands composing the said States.

IV. The armorial bearings of each of the Islands shall consist of the individual arms of the island, and such emblem, denoting the Sovereign Protection, as may be deemed advisable. SECTION VII General Clauses.

III. In the instance of all maritime transactions, and the collection of the customs, it shall be competent for the proper authorities to employ either British or Ionian subjects.

V. A specific law shall settle the terms, time and mode for the naturalization of foreign subjects in these States; but the subjects of the protecting Power shall, in all instances, be entitled to naturalization in half the time that is required for those of any foreign Power; and a subject of the protecting Power, or of any other Power, may be at once naturalized by a bill to that effect, without reference to any fixed time of residence in these States, which shall be laid down in the law itself.

No. 29 Resolutions respecting the abolition of the Slave Trade, adopted in the Conference of the 28th November, 1822. TRANSLATION. The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, of France, of Great Britain, of Prussia, and of Russia, assembled in Congress at Verona; considering-that their August Sovereigns have taken part in the Declaration of the 8th of February, 1815, by which the Powers assembled at the Congress of Vienna, have proclaimed in the face of Europe, their invariable resolution to put a stop to the Commerce known by the name of the African Slave Trade:

Considering, moreover, that, notwithstanding this declaration, and in spite of the legislative measures which have in consequences been adopted in various countries, and of the several Treaties concluded since that period between the Maritime Powers, this Commerce, solemnly proscribed, has continued to this very day, that it has gained in activity what it may have lost in extent; that it has even taken a still more odious character, and more dreadful from the nature of the means to which those who carry it on are compelled to have recourse:

That the causes of so revolting an abuse are chiefly to be found in the fraudulent practices, by means of which, the persons engaged in these nefa*See page 180.

rious speculations. elude the laws of their country and the vigilance, of the Cruizers stationed to put a stop to their iniquities, and veil those criminal operations, of which thousands of human beings annually become their innocent victims:

That the Powers of Europe are called upon, by their previous engagements, as well as by a sacred duty, to seek the most effectual means, of preventing a traffic, which the laws of almost every civilized country have already declared to be culpable and illegal, and of punishing with severity those who persist in carrying it on, in manifest violation of those laws;

Acknowledge the necessity of devoting their most serious attention to an object of such importance to the honor and welfare of humanity ; and in consequence declare, in the name of their August Sovereigns :

That they continue firm in the principles and sentiments manifested by those Sovereigns in the Declaration of the 8th of February, 1815;—that they have never ceased, and never will cease, to consider the Slave Trade as― "a scou ge which has too long desolated Africa, degraded Europe, and afflicted humanity ;" and that they are ready to concur in every thing that may secure and accelerate the complete and final Abolition of that traffick.

That in order to give effect to this renewed Declaration, their respective Cabi ets will eagerly enter into the examination of any measure, compatible with their rights and the interests of their subjects, to produce a result that may prove to the World the sincerity of their wishes, and of their efforts in favor of a cause worthy of their common solicitude.

No. 50. Treaty between Great Britain and Portugal (and the States General) Signed at Lisbon, 16th May, 1703.*

EXTRACT. (Translation from the Latin.

I. All former Treaties between the abovesaid Powers are hereby approved, confirmed, and ratified, and are ordered to be exactly and faithfully observed, except in so far as by the present Treaty is otherwise provided and established; so that there shall be between the said Kingdoms and States, their people and subjects, a sincere friendship and perfect amity: they shall all of them mutually assist one another; and each of the said Powers shall promote the interest and advantage of the rest, as if it were his own.

XV. The personal privileges and freedom of trade which the subjects of Great Britain and the States of the United Provinces, at present enjoy in Portugal, the Portugueze shall, in their turn, enjoy in the Dominions of Great Britain and the States of the United Provinces.

Renewed by Article XXVI. of the Treaty of 1810.

XVIII. Piratical ships, of whatever nation, shall not only not be permitted or received into the ports which their Portugueze and Britannic Majesties, and the States General of the United Provinces, possess in the East Indies, but shall be deemed the common enemies of the Portugueze, the English, and the Dutch.

XIX. In time of Peace, there shall be admitted into the greater ports of the Kingdom of Portugal, six ships of war of each of the nations of Great Britain and the United Provinces, besides other six ships, which were permitted by virtue of former Treaties; so that in the whole twelve ships may be admitted, and all in the same manner as the former six were permitted. And into the lesser ports there shall be admitted such a number of ships as they can conveniently receive.

Lisbon, May 16, 1703.

Signed

PAUL METHUEN, [L. S.]
SCHONEMBERG,
[L. S

Signed at Lisbon,

No. S1. Treaty between Great Brain and Portugal.

27th December, 1703.*

(Translation from the Latin.)

Whereas the league and strict friendship which is between the Most Serene and Most Potent Princess Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and Most Potent Peter, King of Portugal, requires that the Commerce of both the British and the Portugal nations should be promoted as much as possible; and Her Sacred Royal Majesty of Great Britain hata signified to His Sacred Royal Majesty of Portugal, by the Most Excellent John Methuen, Esq. Member of the English Parliament, and Ambassador Extraordinary in Por ugal, that it would be very acceptable to Her, if the woollen cloths, and the rest of the woollen manufactures of Britain, might be admitted into Portugal, the prohibition of them being taken off; that this matter may be treated and transacted, they have given their full powers and commands; that is to say, Her Sacred Majesty of Great Britain, to the abovesaid Most Excellent John Methuen, and His Sacred Majesty of Portugal, to the Most Excellent Don Emanuel Telles Sivius, Marquis of Alegrete, Conde de Villa Majore, in the Society of the Knights of Christ, Commendador of St. John d'Alegrete, and of de Soure, and also in the College of

Commendador of St. John d'Moura, and of St Mary de Albuveira, one of the three Directors of the Treasury, and of the first Gentlemen of the Bed chamber, and Councillor of State to His Sacred Royal Portugueze Majesty; who, by virtue of the full Powers to them respectively granted, having maturely and diligently considered the matter, have agreed upon the following Articles:

1. His Sacred Royal Majesty of Portugal promises, both in His own. name and that of His successors, to admit, for ever hereafter into Portugal, Renewed by Article XXVI. of the Treaty of 1810; also the several Treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1061.