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VIII. The subjects of the Ionian Islands shall, in consequence of their being actually under the immediate protection of His Britannic Majesty, enjoy all the advantages which are granted to the Commerce, and to the subjects of Great Britain by the present Treaty-it being well understood that, to prevent all abuses, and to prove its identity, every Ionian vessel shall be furnished with a patent, signed by the Lord High Commissioner. or his representative.

IX. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof exchanged in London, within the space of six months, or sooner, if possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and thereunto affixed the seal of their arms.

Done at London, the 26th of September, 1816.

Signed

CASTLEREAGH, [L. S.]

SEPARATE AND ADDITIONAL ARTICLE

CASTELCICALA, [L. S.]

duties in favour of British Article of the Convention,

In order to avoid all doubt respecting the reduction upon the Commerce, which His Sicilian Majesty has promised in the 7th signed this day between His Britannic Majesty and His Sicilian Majesty, it is declared, by this present Separate and Additional Article, that by the concession of ten per cent. of diminution, it is understood, that in case the amount of the duty should be twenty per cent. upon the value of the merchandize, the effect of the reduction of ten per cent, is to reduce the duty from twenty to eighteen, and so for other cases in proportion. And that for the a ticles which are not taxed ad valorem in the tariff, the reduction of the du ty shall be pro portionate; that is to say, a deduction of a tenth part upon the amount of the sum payable shall be granted

The present Separate and Additional Article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted, word for word, in the Convention of this day it shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at the same time.

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

Done a London, the 26th of September, 1816.

Signed

CASTLEREAGH, [L. S.]

CASTELCICALA. [L. S.]

No. 36. Treaty between Great Britain and Sardinia. Signed at Vienna,

20th May, 1815.

EXTRACT. (Translation, as laid before Parliament.)

I. The borders of the former States of Genoa, and of the countries called Imperial Fiefs, united to the States of His Majesty the King of Sardinia, according to the following Articles, shall be the same as those which, on the 1st of January, 1792, separated those countries from the States of Parma and Placentia, and from those of Tuscany and Massa.

The Island of Capraja, having belonged to the ancient Republic of Genoa, is included in the cession of the States of Genoa to His Majesty the King of Sardinia.

II. The States which constituted the former Republic of Genoa are united in perpetuity to those of His Majesty the King of Sardinia; to be, like the latter, possessed by Him in full Sovereignty and hereditary property,

and to descend, in the male line, in the order of primogeniture, to the two branches of His House, viz. the Royal Branch, and the Branch of Savoy Carignan.

IV. The Genoese shall enjoy all the rights and privileges specified in the Act, intituled A. A. Conditions which are to serve as the bases of the union of the Genoese States to those of His Sardinian Majesty." and the said Act shall be considered as an integral part of the present Treaty, and shall have the same force and validity as if it were textually inserted in the present Article.

V. The countries called Imperial Fiefs, formerly united to the ancient Ligurian Republic, are definitively united to the States of His Majesty the King of Sardinia, in the same manner as the rest of the Genoese States; and the inhabitants of those countries shall enjoy the same rights and privileges as those of the States of Genoa, specified in the preceding Article.

Done at Vienna, the 20th May,

(Signed) CLANCARTY, [L. S.]

1815.

The Marquis de St. MARSAN, [L. S.]
The Count Rossi, [L. s]

A. A. Conditions which are to serve as the bases of the Union of the Genoese States to those of His Sardinian Majesty.

EXTRACT. Translation, as laid before Parliament.

IV. The free port of Genoa shall be re-established, with the regulations which existed under the ancient Government of Genoa. Every facility shall be given by the King to the transit, through His States, of merchandize proceeding from that free port, under such restrictions as His Majesty shall judge expedient for preventing the said merchandize being illicitly sold or consumed in the interior. It shall be subject only to the usual moderate duty

XV. The King shall preserve to Genoa a Tribunal and a Chamber of Commerce, with the powers actually belonging to those two establishments.

No. 37. Convention of Commerce and Navigation, between Great Britain and the Free Hanseatic Republics of Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburgh. Signed at London, September 29, 1825.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part, and the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Lubeck, the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, and the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, (each State for itself separately) on the other part, being equally desirous of affording every facility and encouragement to their subjects and citizens engaged in commercial intercourse with each other, and being of opinion that nothing will more contribute to the attainment of this desirable object, than a reciprocal abrogation of all discriminating and countervailing duties levied upon the ships of the High Contracting parties, or upon the cargoes of such ships, in the ports of either, have appointed their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Convention for that purpose, that is to say:[Here follow the names and titles of the plenipotentiaries on both sides.]

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:

ART. I. From and after the date hereof, British vessels entering or departing from the ports of the Free Hanseatic Republics of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh, and Lubeck. Bremen, or Hamburgh vessels entering or depar ting from the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall not be subject to any other or higher ship duties or charges, than are or shall be levied on national vessels entering or departing from such ports respectively.

II. All goods, wares, and merchandize, whether the production of the territories of the Free Hanseatic Republics of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh, or of any other country, which may be legally imported from any of the ports of the said Republics into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in British vessels, shall, in like manner, be permitted to be imported in Lubeck Bremen, or Hamburgh vessels:-and all goods, wares, and merchandize, whether the production of any of the dominions of His Britannic Majesty, or of any other country, which may be legally exported from the ports of the United Kingdom in British vessels. shall, in like manner, be permitted to be exported from the said ports in Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh vessels And all goods, wares. and merchandize, which may be legally imported into or exported from the ports of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hainburgh, in national vessels, shall, in like manner, be permitted to be imported into or exported from the ports of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh, in British vessels.

III. All goods, wares, and merchandize, which can be legally imported into the ports of the United Kingdom directly from the ports of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh, or either of them, shall be admitted at the same rate of duty, whether imported in British vessels. or in vessels belonging to either of the said Republics: -and all goods, wares, and merchandize, which can be legally exported from the United Kingdom, shall be entitled to the same bounties, drawbacks, and allowances, whether exported in British or Hanseatic vessels. And the like reciprocity shall be observed, in the ports of the said Republics, in respect to all goods, wares, and merchandize which can be legally imported into or exported from any or either of the said ports, in vessels belonging to the United Kingdom.

IV. No priority or preference shall be given, directly or indirectly, by any or either of the Contracting Parties, nor by any company, corporation, or agent, acting on their behalf, or under their authority, in the purchase of any article, the growth, produce or manufacture of their States, respectively, imported into the other, on account of or in reference to the character of the vessel in which such article was importe l; it being the true intent and meaning of the High Contracting Parties, that no distinction or difference whatever shall be made in this respect.

V. In consideration of the limited extent of the territories belonging to the Republics of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, and the intimate connection of trade and navigation subsisting between the Republics, it is hereby stipulated and agreed, that any vessel which shall have been built in any or either of the ports of the said Republics, and which shall be owned exclusively

by a citizen or citizens of any or either of them, and of which the master shall also be a citizen of either of them, and provided three-fourths of the crew shall be subjects or citizens of any or either of the said Republics, or of any or either of the States comprised in the Germanic Confederation, as described and enumerated in the LIIId and LVIth Articles of the General Treaty of Congress signed at Vienna on the 9th of June 1815.* such vessel, so built, owned, and navigated, shall for all the pu poses of this Convention, be taken to be and considered as a vessel belonging to Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh.

VI. Any vessel. together with her cargo, belonging to either of the three Free Hanseatic Republics of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh, and coming from either of the said ports to the United Kingdom, shall, for all the purposes of this Convention, be deemed to come from the country to which such vessel belongs; and any British vessel and her cargo trading to the ports of Lubeck, Bremen, or Hamburgh, directly or in succession, shall, for the like purposes, be on the footing of a Hanseatic vessel and her cargo making the same voyage.

VII. It is further mutually agreed, that no higher or other duties shall be levied, in any or either of the States of the High Contracting Parties, upon any personal property of the subjects and citizens of each, respectively, on the removal of the same from the dominions or territory of such States, (either upon inheritance of such property, or otherwise,) than are or shall be payable, in each State, upon the like property, when removed by a subject or citizen of such State respectively.

VIII. The High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves to enter upon additional stipulations for the purpose of facilitating and extending, even beyond what is comprehended in the Convention of this date, the commercial relations of their respective subjects and dominions, citizens, and territories, upon the principle either of reciprocal or equivalent advantages, as the case may be; and, in the event of any Article or Articles being concluded between the said High Contracting Parties, for giving effect to such stipulations, it is hereby agreed that the Article or Articles which may hereafter be so concluded, shall be considered as forming part of the present Convention.

ART. 53. The Sovereign Princes and Free Towns of Germany, under which denomination for the present purpose, are comprehended their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Kings of Prussia, Denmark, and The Netherlands; that is to say, the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia for all their possessions which anciently belonged to the German Empire, the King of Denmark for the Duchy of Holstein, and The King of the Netherlands for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, establish among themselves a perpetual Confederation, which shall be called The Germanic Confederation

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56. The affairs of the Confederation shall be confi led to a Federative Diet, in which all the members shall vote by their Plenipotentiaries either individually or collectively, in the following manner, withou prejudice to their rank:

1. Austria. 2. Prussia. 3. Bavaria. 4. Saxony. 5. Hanover. 6. Wirtemberg. 7. Baden. 11. The Nether8. Electoral Hesse. 9. Grand Duchy of Hesse 10. Denmark, for Holstein. lands, for Luxembourg. 12. Grand Ducal and Ducal Houses of Saxony. 13. Brunswick and Nassau. 14. Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Strelitz. 15. Holstein Oldenburg, Anhalt, and Schwartzburg. 16. Hohenzollern. Litchenstein, Reuss, Schaumburg-Lippe, Lippe and Wal17. The Free Towns of Lubeck, Frankfort, Bremen, and Hamburgh, Total Seven

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teen Votes.

IX. The present Convention shall be in force for the term of 10 years from the date hereof; and further, until the end of 12 months after the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part of the Governments of the Free Hanseatic Republics of Lubeck. Bremen, or Hamburgh, or either of them, on the other part, shall have given notice of their intention to terminate the same; each of the said High Contracting Parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other, at the end of the said term of 10 years: and it is hereby agreed between them, that, at the expiration of 12 months after such notice shall have been received by either of the parties from the other, this Convention, and all the provisions thereof, shall altogether cease and determine, as far as regards the States giving and receiving such notice; it being always understood and agreed, that if one or more of the Hanseatic Republics aforesaid shall, at the expiration of 10 years from the date hereof, give or receive notice of the proposed termination of this Convention, such Convention shall, nevertheless, remain in full force and operation, as far as regards the remaining Hanseatic Republics or Republic, which may not have given or received such notice.

X. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London within one month from the date hereof, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

Done at London the 29th day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1825. [L. S.] GEORGE CANNING. [L. S.] JAMES COLQUHOUN.

[L. S.] W. HUSKISSON.

No. 38. Treaty between Great Britain and Muscat.
the 10th of September, 1822.

Statement of the Requisitions made to His
Highness the Imaum of Muscat, by Cap
Moresby of His Majesty's Ship Menai,
Commissioner, vested with full powers by
His Excellency Sir Robert T. Farquhar,
Baronet, Governor of the island of Mauri-
tius, &c. &c. &c.

1stly. The Imaum to abolish the foreign slave trade, for ever, in his dominions.

2dly. The Imaum to order the seizure of all such vessels, attempting the foreign slave traffic, and to seize and punish the captain and crew as Pirates.

Concluded at Muscat,

Translation of answers in Arabic, under the hand and seal of His Highness the Imaum of Muscat, to the requisitions made by Captain Moresby of His Majesty's ship Mena, Commissioner, &c. &c. &c.

1st. I did write last season to all my officers, positively prohibiting the sale of slaves to any christian nation, and I will repeat those

orders.

2d. I will send orders to all the officers throughout my dominions, that if they find (the owners of) any Arab vessels buying slaves for sale in christian countries, they must take possession of all such vessels and inflict penishment on the commanders, (owners) thereof, even though they be bound for Madagascar.

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