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liinces of accounts, and to bring 

 the whole into one general mass. 



V^I. The Russian subjects shall 

 receive out of the fund of the 

 English property, (collected as be- 

 fore directed,) after admission of 

 the validity and justness of the 

 claims, an equal dividend upon 

 their respective demands, and full 

 satisfaction. 



Vn. In case the fund of Eng- 

 lish property does not prove ade- 

 quate to the demandsof the Russian 

 creditors, or that there shall remain 

 a surplus, then the result shall be 

 communicated to the college of 

 commerce at St. Petersburgh. 



VIII. The commissioners shall 

 not be accountable or responsible 

 for their decisions, nor shall there 

 be any appeal from their determi- 

 nations, either by petition or in 

 any other way, on any account 

 whatever. 



IX. To defray the expense and 

 management of the board of com- 

 missioners, and for the salary of 

 theirclerks and agents, both debtors 

 and creditors shall allow them one- 

 half per cent upon the amount of 

 the respective sums brought under 

 their consideration. 



St. Petersburgh, Nov. 17, 1800, 



Note from Lord Carysfort to Count 

 Haugwitz. 



Berlin, Nov. 16, 1800. 



THE instant lord Carysfort, en- 

 voy extraordinary and mi- 

 nister plenipotentiary of his Britan- 

 nic majesty , learned that his Prussian 

 majesty was preparing to order a 

 detachment of his troops to enter 

 Cuxhaven, and that the reason 

 which he in public thought proper to 

 ateign for that measure, was the re- 



fusal given by the government of 

 Hamburgh to cause a vessel to be 

 released, which, taken by one of 

 the ships of war of his Britannic 

 majesty, had been compelled, in 

 order to avoid the dangers of the 

 sea, to enter that port, he thought 

 it his duty to demand an audience 

 of his excellency count Haugwitz, 

 minister of state and of the cabinet, 

 for the purpose of obtaining infor- 

 mation with respect to that affair. 

 He received from his excellency 

 the assurance that the intentions of 

 his Prussian majesty were in no 

 view hostile or contrary to the in- 

 terests of Great Britain ; but that 

 the occupation of Cuxhaven had 

 for its principal object the mainte- 

 nance of the authority of his Prus- 

 sian majesty, in his character of 

 chief and protector of the neutrality 

 of the north of Germany, and that 

 it was conducted with the consent 

 of the city of Hamburgh itself. 

 Lord Carysfort not being exactly 

 acquainted with the circumstances 

 under which the vessel in question 

 found itself, deferred to another 

 occasion the observations which he 

 might have wished to submit to 

 his excellency. He has now 

 grounds to believe that, laden with 

 contraband goods, it was captured 

 by one of his Britannic majesty's 

 ships as it was entering into the 

 Texel; that is to say, into a port •. 

 belonging to the enemies of his ma- ; 

 jesty ; and that it was restored as 

 soon as the officer who had the 

 charge of it could be informed of 

 the orders of his superiors. 



With respect to the occupation of 

 the town of Cuxhaven by the Prus- 

 sian troops, which must have been 

 founded on particular conventions 

 between his Prussian majesty and 

 the senate of Hamburgh, he does 



