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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



ral of the Kingdom of France ; 

 and whereas, for the putting an 

 end to the calamities of war, as 

 soon, and as far as may be possible, 

 it hath been agreed between his 

 Majesty and his Most Christian 

 Majesty as follows : that is to say, 

 that as soon as the Convention shall 

 be signed and ratified, friendship 

 should be established between his 

 Majesty and the kingdom of France 

 by sea and land in all parts of the 

 world : and in order to prevent all 

 causes of complaint and dispute 

 which might arise with respect to 

 prizes that might be made at sea 

 after the signature of the said Con- 

 vention, it has also been recipro- 

 cally agreed, that the vessels and 

 effects which might be taken in the 

 English Channel and in the North 

 Seas, after the space of 12 days, to 

 be reckoned from the exchange of 

 the ratifications of the said Con- 

 vention, should be restored on both 

 sides ; that the term should he one 

 month within the British Channel 

 and North Seas to the Canary 

 Islands, and to the Equator ; and 

 five months in every other part of 

 the world, without any exception, 

 or other particular distinction of 

 time or place. And whereas the 

 ratifications of the said Conven- 

 tion were exchanged by the respec- 

 tive Plenipotentiaries abovemen- 

 tioned, on the 3rd day of this inst. 

 May, from which da}' the several 

 terms abovementioned, of 12 days, 

 of one month, and five months, 

 are to be computed : Now, in or- 

 der that the several epochs fixed as 

 aforesaid between his Majesty and 

 His Most Christian Majesty should 

 be generally known and observed, 

 we have thought fit, in the name 

 and on the behalf of his Majesty, 

 and by and with the advice of his 



Majesty's Privy Council, to notify 

 the same to his Majesty's loving 

 subjects ; and we do hereby, in the 

 name and on the behalf of his Ma- 

 jesty, strictly charge and command 

 all his Majesty's Officers both at 

 sea and land, and all other his Ma- 

 jesty's subjects whatsoever, that 

 they forbear all acts of hostility, 

 either by sea or land, against the 

 kingdom of France, her Allies, her 

 vassals, or subjects, under the pe- 

 nalty of incurring his Majesty's 

 highest displeasure. 



Given at the Court at Carlton 

 House, the sixth day of 

 May, in the 54th year of 

 His Majesty's reign, and in 

 the year of our Lord one 

 thousand eight hundred and 

 fourteen. 

 God save the King. 



ADDRESS OF THE LORDS ON THE 

 SLAVE TRADE. 



" To His Royal Highness the 

 Prince Regent. — The Humble 

 Address of the Lords Spiritual 

 and Temporal, in Parliament 

 assembled. 

 " May it Please your Royal 

 Highness ; 



" Relying with perfect confi- 

 dence on the solemn assurances re- 

 ceived by parliament in 180G and 

 1810, that his Majesty's govern- 

 ment would employ every proper 

 means to obtain a convention of 

 the Powers of Europe, for the imr 

 mediate and universal Abolition qf 

 the African Slave Trade — we most 

 humbly and earnestly represent to 

 your Royal Highness, that the 

 happy and glorious events which 

 promise the general pacificaton of 

 Christendom, the present union 



