154 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



Great Brllain by the present treaty ; 

 it being well understood that, to 

 prevent all abuses, and to prove its 

 identity, even' Ionian vessel shall 

 be furnished with a patent, signed 

 by the Lord High Commissioner, 

 or his representative, 



Art. 9. The prerent convention 

 shall be ratified, and the ratifica- 

 tions thereof exchanged in London , 

 within the space of six months, oi 

 sooiicr if possible. 



Done at London, the 26tb of 

 September.. iS16. 



(L.S.) Castlereagh. 



(L.S.) C.^STELCiCALA. 



Separate and Additional Article. 



In order to avoid all doubt re- 

 spectint; the reduction upon the 

 duties in favour of British com- 

 merce, which his Sicilian Majesty 

 has promised in the 7th Art. of 

 the Convention, signed this day 

 between his Britannic Majesty and 

 his Sicilian Majesty, it is declared 

 by this present separate and addi- 

 tional article, that by the conces- 

 sion of ten per cent of diminution, 

 it is understood that, in case the 

 amount of tlie duty should be 

 twenty per cent, upon the value of 

 the merchandize, the effect of the 

 reduction of ten per cent, is to re- 

 duce the duty from twenty to 

 eighteen; and .so for other cases 

 iu proportion. And that for the 

 articles which are not taxed ad 

 valorem in the tariff, the redaction 

 of tlie duty shall be proportionate ; 

 that is to say, a deduction of a 

 tentli part upon the amount of the 

 sum payable shall be granted. 



The present separate and addi- 

 tional article, shall have the same 

 force and validity as if it had been 

 inserted^ v/ord for word, ir. the 



Convention of tliis day — it shall be 

 ratitied, and the ratitication thereof 

 sliail be exchanged at ttie same 

 time 



In witness whereof, &c. 



SUPPLEMENT TO THE iONDON 

 GAZETTE. 



India-Board, Nov. 5, 1317. 

 Despatches have b^n received 

 at the East-India Hcuse. address- 

 ed to the Secret Committee by 

 the Governor in Council at Bom- 

 bay, enclosing reports of the mea- 

 sures adopted for suppresing the 

 insurrection raised in the domi- 

 nions of the Peishwa, by Trim- 

 buckjee Dainglia, of which re- 

 ports the following are copies or 

 extracts : — 



Extract from a Dispatch from the 

 Hon. MountstuartEiphinstone, 

 the resident at the Court of the 

 Peishwa, to the Governor-Ge- 

 neral, dated Poona, April 7- 



Since I had last the honour to 

 address your lordship, Trimbuck- 

 jee has gone on increasing his 

 force as usual. He has persons 

 scattered through the villages for 

 a considerable extent of country, 

 recruiting for him, but finds some 

 difficulty in raising men ; some 

 refuse to join him, unless he will 

 show a warrant from the Peishwa, 

 in whose name he recruits ; while 

 others join him with less difficulty, 

 but desert ■\\henever there is any 

 report of an attack. Trirabuckjee 

 himself remains separate from his 

 troops, and often changes his 

 ground. He is now stated to have 

 retired across the Kistma, towards 

 Darwar, but the fact is uncertain. 

 His troops are now chiefly in the 

 district of Jut, between Punder- 



poor 



