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"authorised to furnish a certificate to each of the said two high "contracting parties, declaring that the preceding instalment had "been duly applied in discharge of the interest, and in reduction of "the principal of the said debt, together with the corresponding payments on account of the Russian Government, on that part of "the debt which should remain a charge on the said Government; "and it was further agreed, that the Russian Government should "continue as heretofore to be security to the creditors for the whole "of the said loan, and should be charged with the administration of "the same; the Governments of the King of the Netherlands and "of His Britannic Majesty remaining liable and bound to the Government of His Imperial Majesty for the punctual discharge as "above of their respective proportions of the said charge; and it was thereby understood and agreed between the high contracting parties, that the said payments on the part of the King of the "Netherlands, and of His Majesty as aforesaid, should cease and "determine, should the possession and sovereignty (which God forbid) of the Belgic Provinces at any time pass or be severed "from the dominions of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, previous to the complete liquidation of the same; and it was also "understood and agreed between the high contracting parties, that "the payments on the part of the King of the Netherlands and of "His Majesty as aforesaid should not be interrupted in the event "(which God forbid) of a war breaking out between any of the three "high contracting parties; the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias being actually bound to its creditors by 66 a similar agreement: And whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom have resolved that provision be made for enabling His Majesty to defray the expenses which may be incurred in the "execution of the said Convention: May it therefore please your "Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's "most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of "the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present "Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the “Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of the Treasury of "Great Britain, or any three or more of them, for the time being "respectively, shall be and he and they is and are hereby empowered "from time to time, out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain, "to cause to be issued such sums of money as shall be required for the payment of the interest on such part of the capital of the said Russian "loan as is agreed to be borne by His Majesty as aforesaid, and also "for the payment of a sinking fund of one pound per centum, or not exceeding three pounds per centum, as the case may be, on the "said part of the said capital, for the extinction of the same, as and "when the same may from time to time respectively become payable, "and so long as the same should be payable conformably to the tenor "of His Majesty's engagements, as specified in the said Conventions

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"respectively, and also such sums as may be required to satisfy all the expenses attending the execution of this Act. "II. That the said Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, shall cause to be prepared, and shall lay before both Houses of Parliament, within twenty days after the commencement of every session, an account up to the 31st day of "December then next preceding, of the total sums which shall from "time to time have been issued and applied by virtue of this Act "for paying and satisfying the interest on the said part of the said "loan so agreed to be borne by His said Majesty, on all or any of "the said securities, and towards paying and satisfying the principal "thereof (in case the principal of any of the said securities shall "then have been paid) and also for paying the expenses of carrying "this Act into execution and the sinking fund for the extinction of "the same; and such account shall also specify how much of the "said part of the said loan has been discharged, and how much remains to be discharged.

An Act to enable His Majesty to carry into effect a Convention made between His said Majesty and the Emperor of all the Russias (o). [3rd August, 1832.]

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"WHEREAS, by a Convention made and signed at London on the "16th day of November, in the year 1831, between His Majesty and "the Emperor of all the Russias, His said Majesty and the said Emperor of all the Russias, considering that the events which had "occurred in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands since the year 1830, had rendered it necessary that the Courts of Great "Britain and Russia should examine the stipulations of their Con"vention of the 19th day of May, 1815, as well as of the additional "article annexed thereto, considering that such examination had led "the two high contracting parties to the conclusion that complete agreement did not exist between the letter and spirit of that Con"vention, when regarded in connection with the circumstances which "had attended the separation that had taken place between the two "principal divisions of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, but "that, on referring to the object of the above-mentioned Convention "of the 19th day of May, 1815, it appeared that that object was to afford to Great Britain a guarantee that Russia would on all questions concerning Belgium identify her policy with that which "the Court of London had deemed the best adapted for the mainte"nance of a just balance of power in Europe, and on the other hand "to secure to Russia the payment of a portion of her old Dutch debt, "in consideration of the general arrangements of the Congress of

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"Vienna, to which she had given her adhesion, arrangements which "remained in full force, their said Majesties, being desirous that the "same principles should continue to govern their relations to each "other, and that the special tie which the Convention of the 19th "day of May, 1815, had formed between the two Courts should be maintained, agreed upon and concluded the following articles, among others; that is to say,

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"ART. I.—In virtue of the considerations above specified, His "Britannic Majesty engages to recommend to his Parliament "to enable him to undertake to continue on his part the pay"ments stipulated in the Convention of the 19th day of May, "1815, according to the mode and until the completion of the sum fixed for Great Britain in the said Convention: “ART. II.—In virtue of the same considerations, His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias engages that if (which God "forbid) the arrangements agreed upon for the independence "and the neutrality of Belgium, and to the maintenance of "which the two high Powers are equally bound, should be endangered by the course of events, he will not contract any "other engagement without a previous agreement with His "Britannic Majesty, and his formal assent:

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"And whereas the said Convention has been ratified, and the ratifi"cations thereof were exchanged on the 21st day of June last: And "whereas by the stipulations of the said Convention of the 19th day "of May, in the year 1815, between His Majesty the King of the "Netherlands and His late Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, "to which His late Majesty King George III. agreed to be a party, "mentioned in the said recited Convention of the 16th day of No"vember, 1831, His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, by the "first article thereof, engaged to take upon himself a part of the "capital and arrears of interest to the 1st day of January, 1816, of "the Russian loan made in Holland through the intervention of the "House of Hope and Company in Amsterdam, to the amount of twenty-five millions of florins Dutch currency, the annual interest "of which sum, together with an annual payment for the liquidation "of the same, as thereafter specified, should be borne by and become a charge upon the kingdom of the Netherlands; and His Majesty "the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland engaged on his part to recommend to his Parliament to enable "him to take upon himself an equal capital of the said Russian loan, videlicet, twenty-five millions of florins Dutch currency, the annual "interest of which sum, together with an annual payment for the liquidation of the same, as thereafter specified, should be borne by "and become a charge upon the Government of His Britannic Majesty: And by the second article it was provided that the future charge to which their said Belgic and Britannic Majesties should "be respectively liable in equal shares, on account of the said debt,

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was to consist of an annual interest of five per centum on the said "capitals, each of twenty-five millions of florins, together with a sinking fund of one per centum for the extinction of the same, the "said sinking fund being subject however to be increased, on the "demand of the Russian Government, to any annual sum not exceeding three per centum, the same to be payable till the capital "of the said debt should be fully discharged, when the aforesaid charge for interest and sinking fund should wholly cease to be "borne by their said Belgic and Britannic Majesties respectively; "And by the third article their said Belgic and Britannic Majesties "respectively bound themselves, on or before the usual day or days "in each year on which the interest on the said debt should be due "and payable, to deposit with the agent of the Russian Government "in Holland their respective proportions of the said interest and "sinking fund as above specified: Provided always, that previously "to the advance of each successive instalment so to be paid the said agent should be authorised to furnish a certificate to each of the "said two high contracting parties, declaring that the preceding "instalment had been duly applied in discharge of the interest and "in reduction of the principal of the said debt, together with the corresponding payments on account of the Russian Government on that part of the debt which should remain a charge on the said "Government: And by the fourth article it was provided that the "Russian Government should continue as theretofore to be security "to the creditors for the whole of the said loan, and should be charged with the administration of the same, the Governments of "the King of the Netherlands and of His Britannic Majesty remaining liable and bound to the Government of His Imperial Majesty "each for the punctual discharge as above of the respective propor"tions of the said charge: And by the fifth article it was thereby "understood and agreed between the high contracting parties, that "the said payments on the part of their Majesties the King of the "Netherlands and the King of Great Britain as aforesaid should " cease and determine should the possession and sovereignty (which "God forbid) of the Belgic Provinces at any time pass or be severed "from the dominions of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands "previous to the complete liquidation of the same; and it was also "understood and agreed between the high contracting parties, that "the payments on the part of their Majesties the King of the Nether"lands and the King of Great Britain as aforesaid should not be interrupted in the event (which God forbid) of a war breaking out between any of the three high contracting parties, the Government "of His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias being actually "bound to its creditors by a similar agreement: And whereas an "Act was passed in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty "King George III. for carrying into effect the said last-mentioned "Convention: And whereas it is expedient that His Majesty should

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"be enabled to carry into effect the said Convention of the 16th day " of November, 1831: be it therefore enacted by the King's most "Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords "spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament "assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall be law"ful for His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and they are hereby "authorised, considering the circumstances of the separation between "the two principal divisions of the United Kingdom of the Nether"lands, to continue the payments stipulated in the said Convention "of the 19th day of May, 1815, according to the mode and until the "completion of the sum fixed for Great Britain in the said last-men"tioned Convention, and to complete and carry into effect in all "other respects the stipulations of the said last-mentioned Conven"tion, and of the said Convention of the 16th day of November, "1831; and all the powers given by the said recited Act to the "Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury, or any "three or more of them, for enabling His Majesty to make the pay"ments required, and to defray the expenses which might be in"curred in the execution of the said Convention of the 19th day of "May, 1815, and all the enactments in the said Act contained shall "be and continue in force, and shall be extended and applied to the "completion and carrying into effect the stipulations of the said Con"vention of the 19th day of May, 1815, and of the said Convention "of the 16th day of November, 1831.

APPENDIX VI.-PAGE 127, PART VI., CHAP. I.

RIGHTS OF SOVEREIGNS.

DECISIONS IN THE FRENCH COURTS.
Tribunal du Havre.

(Correspondance particulière.)

Audiences des 10, 23 et 25 Mai.

AFFAIRE DE ME BLANCHET, AVOCAT, CONTRE LE PRÉSIDENT DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI (a).

"À L'AUDIENCE du 10, Me Blanchet a répliqué. Après de nou(4 veaux détails sur l'importance et l'étendue de ses travaux, il con"tinue ainsi :

“Vous avez été payé, m'a-t-on-dit! Il est vrai que la commis"sion instituée par le président Boyer a fait un savant calcul "d'économie politique, pour établir que j'avais trop reçu, puisque

(a) Gazette des Tribunaux, May 27, 1827. Numéro 554.

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