Vol. I. Ch. II. STATES. Convention between Great Britain and the United States. Signed at Lon. don, Oct. 20, 1818. which have happened in Europe subsequent to the signature of the Convention aforesaid, it has been deemed expedient and determined, in conjunction with the Allied Sovereigns, that St. Helena shall be the place allotted for the future residence of General Napoleon Buonaparte, under such regulations as may be necessary for the perfect security of his person; and it has been resolved, for that purpose, that all ships and vessels whatever, as well British ships and vessels as others, excepting only ships belonging to the East India Company, shall be excluded from all communication with or approach to that Island. It has therefore become impossible to comply with so much of the 3d Article of the Treaty as relates to the liberty of touching for refreshment at the Island of St. Helena, and the ratifications of the said Treaty will be exchanged under the explicit declaration and understanding that the vessels of the United States cannot be allowed to touch at, or hold any communication whatever with the said Island, so long as the said Island shall continue to be the place of residence of the said Napoleon Buonaparte. Washington, November 24, 1815. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, desirous to cement the good understanding which happily subsists between them, have, for that purpose, named their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say; His Majesty, on His part, has appointed the Right Honourable Frederick John Robinson, Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy, and President of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations; and Henry Goulbourn, Esq. one of His Majesty's Under Secretaries of State :-And the President of the United States has appointed Albert Gallatin, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France, and Richard Rush, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of His Britannic Majesty : Who, after having exchanged their respective full Powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the following Articles : 1. Whereas differences have arisen respecting the liberty claimed by the United States, for the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, and cure fish, on certain coasts, bays, harbours, and creeks, of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions in America, it is agreed between the high Contracting Parties, that the inhabitants of the said United States shall have, for ever, in common with the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every kind, on that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, on the western and northern coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, and also on the coasts, bays, harbours, and creeks, from Mount Joly, on the southern coast of Labrador, to and through the streights of Belleisle, and thence northwardly indefinitely along the coast, without prejudice, however, to any of the exclusive rights of the Hudson's Bay Company and that the American fishermen shall also have liberty, for ever, to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of the southern part of the coast of Newfoundland hereabove described, and of the coast of Labrador; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose, with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground. And the United States hereby renounce for ever any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof to take, dry, or cure fish, on or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions in America, not included within the above AMERICA, OR UNITED STATES. mentioned limits: provided, however, that the American fishermen shall be Vol. I. Ch. II. admitted to enter such bays or harbours, for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying, or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved to them. 2. It is agreed that a line drawn from the most north-western point of the Lake of the Woods, along the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, or, if the said point shall not be in the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, then that a line drawn from the said point due north or south, as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude, and from the point of such intersection due west along and with the said parallel, shall be the line of demarcation between the Territories of His Britannic Majesty and those of the United States, and that the said line shall form the southern boundary of the said Territories of His Britannic Majesty; and the northern boundary of the Territories of the United States, from the Lake of the Woods to the Stony Mountains. 3. It is agreed, that any country that may be claimed by either Party on the north-west coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present Convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high Contracting Parties may have to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other Power or State to any part of the said country, the only object of the high Contracting Parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves. 4. All the provisions of the Convention" to regulate the commerce between the Territories of His Britannic Majesty and of the United States," concluded at London, on the 3d day of July, in the year of our Lord 1815, with the exception of the Clause which limited its duration to four years, and excepting also, so far as the same was affected by the Declaration of His Majesty respecting the Island of St. Helena, are hereby extended and continued in force for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present Convention, in the same manner as if all the provisions of the said Convention were herein specially recited. 5. Whereas it was agreed by the first Article of the Treaty of Ghent, that "All territory, places, and possessions whatsoever, taken by either Party from the other during the war, or which may be taken after the signing of this Treaty, excepting only the islands hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored without delay, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any of the artillery or other public property originally captured in the said forts or places, which shall remain therein upon the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, or any slaves or other private property;"-and whereas, under the aforesaid Article, the United States claim for their citizens, and as their private property, the restitution of, or full compensation for, all slaves, who, at the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the said Treaty, were, in any territory, places, or possessions whatsoever, directed by the said Treaty to be restored to the United States, but then still occupied by the British forces, whether such slaves were, at the date aforesaid, on shore, or on board any British vessel, lying in waters within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States; and whereas differences have arisen, whether, by the true Vol. I. Ch. II. intent and meaning of the aforesaid Article of the Treaty of Ghent, the United States are entitled to the restitution of, or full compensation for all or any slaves, as above described, the high Contracting Parties hereby agree to refer the said differences to some friendly Sovereign or State, to be named for that purpose; and the high Contracting Parties further engage to consider the decision of such friendly Sovereign or State to be final and conclu sive on all the matters referred. 6. This Convention, when the same shall have been duly ratified by His Britannic Majesty and the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, and the respective ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be binding and obligatory on His Majesty and on the said United States; and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from this date, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have thereunto affixed the seal of their arms. Done at London, this 20th day of October 1818. Signed FRED. JOHN ROBINSON, (L.S.) ALBERT GALLATIN, (L.S.) Vol. I. Ch. II. SARDINIA. 1. 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 Treaty between 1st of January 1792, separated those countries from the States of Parma and Placentia, and from those of Tuscany and Massa. Great Britain and Sardinia. Signed at Vienna, 20th May 1815. 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. 2. 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. 4. 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. 5. 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 these 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 of May 1815. Signed CLANCARTY, (L.S.) 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 4. 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. 15. The King shall preserve to Genoa a Tribunal and a Chamber of Commerce, with the powers actually belonging to those two establishments. Vol. I. Ch. II. SARDINIA. MADAGASCAR. Robert Townsend Farquhar, Esq. Governor and Commander in Chief, Captain General, Vice-Admiral of the Island of Mauritius and its dependencies: By His Commissioners, Captain Stanfell of the Royal Navy, commanding His Majesty's ship Phaeton, and T. R. Pye, Esq. Assistant-Agent for His Excellency's Government at Madagascar, who are vested with full 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: 1. 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. 2. 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 the soil of Madagascar into any country, island, or dominion of any other Prince, Potentate, or Power whatever; and that Radama King of Madagascar will make a proclamation and a law prohibiting all his subjects, or persons depending on him or his dominions, 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. 3. 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 incurred by Radama King of Madagascar, the Commissioners on the part of His Excellency the Governor of Mauritius do engage to pay Radama, yearly, the following articles. Vol. I. Ch. II. MADAGASCAR. Treaty between Great Britain and Madagascar. Signed at 'Tamatave, 23d October 1817. Additional Article. 400 stocks. 12 serjeants' swords, regulation, with belts. 400 pieces of white cloth 200 pieces of blue cloth India. A full-dress coat, hat, and boots, all complete, for King Radama;-and upon a certificate being received that the said laws and regulations and pro- 4. 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 piracy; and these proclamations shall be particularly distributed in the ports and on the sea-coast of Madagascar. 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 Britain; 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. Phaëton, Senior Naval Officer and THOS. R. PYE, Agent of the British Go vernment and Commis- RATZALIKA for RADAMA. RAMALAZA, as Witness. Vol. I. Ch. II. Capitulations and Articles of Peace between Great Britain TURKEY. SULTAN MEHEMED, "Let every thing be observed in conformity to these Capitulations, and con trary thereto let nothing be done." THE command, under the sublime and lofty Signet, which imparts sublimity to every place, and under the imperial and noble Cypher, whose glory is renowned throughout all the world, by the Emperor and Conqueror of the Empire, finally earth, achieved with the assistance of the Omnipotent, and by the special confirmed by the grace of God, is this: and the Ottoman |