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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



ARTICLES FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. 



TREATY OF COMMERCE AND 

 NAVIGATION 



Between His Britannic Majesty and 

 His Majesty the King of the Two 

 Sicilies, together with a separate 

 and additional Article thereunto 

 annexed. 



Art. 1. XT I'*' Hritannic Majesty 

 1 M consents that all the 

 privileges and exemptions which 

 his subjects, their commerce, and 

 shipping, have enjoyed, and do en- 

 joy in tlie dominions, j)orts, and 

 domains of his Sicilian Majesty, 

 in virtue of the Treaty of Peace 

 and Commerce, concluded at Ma- 

 drid, the 10th (28th) of May, 

 1667, between Great Britain and 

 Spain ; of the Treaties of Com- 

 merce between the same Powers, 

 signed at Utrecht tlie 9th of De- 

 cember, 1713, and at Madrid 

 the 13th of December, 1715 ; and 

 of the Convention concluded at 

 Utrecht the 'i.'jth of February, 

 1712 (March 8, 1713,) between 

 Great Britain and the kingdom of 

 Sicily, shall be abclished ; and it 

 is agreed upon in consequence, 

 between their said Britannic and 

 Sicilian Majesties, their heirs and 

 successors, that the said privileges 

 and exemptions^ whether of per- 



sons or of Hag and shipping, are 

 and shall continue for e\er abo- 

 lished. 



Art. 2. His Sicilian Majesty en- 

 gages not to continue, nor here- 

 after to grant to the subjects of 

 any other Power whatever, tlie 

 privileges and exemptions abo- 

 lished by the present Convention. 



Art. 3. His Sicilian Majesty 

 promises that the subjects of his 

 Britannic Majesty shall not be 

 subjected within his dominions to 

 a more rigorous system of exami- 

 nation and search by the officers 

 of customs, than that to which 

 the subjects of his said Sicilian 

 Majesty are liable. 



Art. 4. His Majesty the King 

 of tl^e Two Sicilies promises that 

 British commerce in general, and 

 the British subjects who carry it 

 on, shall be treated throughout 

 his dominions upon the same foot- 

 ing as the most favoiu'ed nations, 

 not only with respect to the per- 

 sons and property of the said 

 British subjects, but also with 

 regard to every species of article 

 in which they may traffic, and the 

 taxes or other charges payalile on 

 the said articles, or on the ship- 

 ping in which the importations 

 shall be made. 



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