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Ithaca, &c. shall be called " The 

 Seven United Islands" and shall 

 enjoy the same privileges as Ragusa. 

 The two powers shall ratify the 

 new constitution of the republic, 

 after it shall have been accepted. 



Art. 3. The inhabitants of the 

 said isles shall enjoy the same privi- 

 leges in Turkey as the Ragusans. 

 They shall have in that country 

 their own consul, and their ships 

 shall be protected from the corsairs 

 of the states of Baibary. 



Art. 4. The republic shall pay 

 every year to the Porte 75,000 

 piastres, which it shall send, as Ra- 

 gusa does, by a solemn embassy; 

 and in consequence of this tribute 

 the subjects of the new states shall 

 in Turkey be exempted from every 

 other imposition. 



Art. 5. In case of necessity, 

 Russia and the Porte shall send to 

 these isles during the present war, 

 but not beyond that period, the 

 troops and vessels requisite for their 

 defence. 



Art. 6. The ships of the republic 

 may in future navigate freely by 

 the Black Sea under tlieir new flag. 



Art. 7- First, the Ex- Venetian 

 countries, such as Prevesa, Parga, 

 \'onitz, and Butrinto, which are 

 situated on the continent and border 

 on Albania, shall hereafter belong 

 to tlie Porte, and the Christians of 

 those countries sh^xU be subject to a 

 Turkish commandant, as well as 

 those of Wallachia and Moldavia. 

 The Mahometans shall not be al- 

 lowed to purchase there any pro- 

 perly. The Raja princes of these 

 Ex- Venetian countries shall be at 

 liberty to rebuild their churches, 

 and for two years they shall be ex- 

 empt from all imposition, and shall 

 pay hereafter to tlie I'orteonly what 

 they before paid to Venice. — Se- 



condly, as a testimony of the friend- 

 ship which unites his majesty the 

 emperor of Russia to his majesty the 

 Ottoman emperor, and at the same 

 time to show how much the former 

 is interested In the happiness of the 

 sublime Porte and its allies, he pro- 

 mises to employ his good oflSces to 

 cause his allies and the other powers, 

 who shall be invited for that pur- 

 pose, when a general peace takes 

 place, to accept and guarantee 

 every thing contained in the 2d, 

 5th, 7th, and 8th articles of this 

 convention, and every thing that 

 relates to the political existence of 

 these islands. 



Art. 8. The present convention 

 shall be ratified within the course 

 of two months. 



Done at Constantinople, 

 March 21, 1800. 

 (Signed) Esseid Ibrahim IsmetBey. 



Ahmed Alif Reis-EfFendi. 



V. Tamara. 



Speech of his Swedish Majestif to 

 the Diet, assembled at Norkojnng, 

 March IQ. 



High and well-born, noble and 

 well-born, reverend, wor- 

 thy, well-learned, noble- 

 born, wise, respectable, 

 brave, and honest, good 

 lords, and men of Sweden, 



WITH the utmost pleasure I 

 see you tliis day assembled, 

 for the first time before my throne, 

 convinced that I may confide my 

 cares lor the welfare of faithful sub- 

 jects in their bosom. Eight years 

 iiave now elapsed since the last 

 diet: it was then when my de- 

 ceased father addressed you for the 

 last time from this throne, and ex- 

 ])resscd his pleasure to be king of a 



