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purpofe of navigation, and fhall be 
“met by Englith fhips, fhall not be 
hindered in their navigation, pro- 
vided that in the Britifh fea they 
conform themfelves to cuftom ; but 
every fort of afiiftance fhall- be 
given to them both in the ports 
fubje& to Great Britain, and in 
the open fea, 
IV. It is agreed that the fubjeéts 
of Great Britain may carry, by 
water or by land, in their own 
fhips and carriages, or in thofe 
which they fhall have freighted or 
hired for that purpofe, into any 
province whatever of Ruffia, ail 
forts of merchandife or effeéts, of 
which the trade or entry is not pro- 
hibited ; that they fhall be permit- 
ted to keep them in their houfes or 
magazines, to fell or exchange them 
wholefale, freely and without mo- 
leftation, without being obliged to 
become citizens of fuch city or 
place where they fhall refide or 
trade. By felling wholefale, is un- 
derftood one or more bales of goods, 
chefts, cafks, barrels, alfo feveral 
dozens of {mall articles of merchan- 
dife of the fame kind, colle&ed in 
the fame place, and in confiderable 
lots, or other forts of package.’ It 
is further agreed, that the fubjects 
of Ruffia may carry, in the fame 
manner, into the ports of Great 
Britain and of Ireland, where they 
fhall be eftablifhed or refide, all 
forts of merchandife or effects of 
- which the trade or the entry is not 
prohibited; which is underftood 
equally of the. manufactures and 
productions of the Afiatic provin- 
ces, provided that it be not aétually 
prohibited by. fome law now in 
force in Great Britain; that they 
fhall be permitted to keep them in 
their houfes or magazines, to fell or 
exchange them wholefale, freely ; 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 179%. 
become citizens of {uch city or 
place where they fhall refide, or 
trade ; and that they may buy and 
tranfport out of the dominions of 
Great Britain all forts of merchan- 
dife and effeés which the fubjects 
of any other nation may there buy 
and tranfport elfewhere, particu- 
larly gold and filver, wrought or un- 
wrought, except the coined money 
of Great Britain. It is agreed that 
Britith fubjects, trading in the do- 
minions of Ruflia, fhall have the 
liberty, in cafe of death, of an ex- 
traordinary event, or of an abfolute 
neceflity, when there remain no 
other means of procuring money, 
or in cafe of bankruptcy, of difpof- 
ing of their effeéts, either in Ruffian 
or foreign merchandife, in the 
manner in which the perfons in- 
terefted fhall think moft advanta- 
geous. The fame thing fhall be 
obferved with regard to Ruffian 
fubjects in the dominions of Great 
Britain. All this is to be under- 
ftood with the reftriction, that every 
permiffion on either fide, fpecified 
in this-article, fhall be in nowife 
contrary to the laws of the country ; 
and that the Ruffian fubjects, as 
well as the Britifh fubjects, and 
their clerks, conform themfelves, 
on both fides, punétually to the 
rights, ftatutes, and ordinances of 
the country in which they fhall 
trade, in order to obviate all forts 
of frauds and pretexts. It is for 
this reafon the decifions of the faid 
cafes happening to the Brittfh fac- 
tories in Ruflia fhall depend, at St. 
Peterfburgh, upon the college of 
commerce ; and in the other cities, 
where there is no college of com- 
merce, upon the tribunals which 
have cognizance of commercial af- 
fairs. ! 
V. And in order to preferve a 
jute 
