154] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. 



coast: Uie men and property 

 •were saved; the hull of the vessel 

 alone was lost. 



The King of France, in the 

 month of March, presented the 

 following ^ro;ec/ of a law respect- 

 ing the slave trade. 



Louis, &c. We have ordained, 

 and do ordain, that the project of 

 a law, in tenour as follows, shall 

 be presented in our name to the 

 Chamber of Deputies, by our 

 Minister Secretary of State for 

 the Marine and Colonies, and by 

 Count Simeon and Baron Mous- 

 nier, State Counsellors, whom we 

 charge to explain the motives and 

 to support the purposes thereof. 



Art. 1. — Every part whatever 

 which shall be taken by French 

 subjects or ships, in whatever 

 places, under what pretext or 

 condition soever, and by foreign 

 individuals, in countries sub- 

 mitted to the dominion of France, 

 in the traffic known under the 

 name of the Trade of Blacks, shall 

 be punished by the confiscation of 

 the ship and of the cargo, and by 

 the interdiction of the Captain, if 

 he be French. 



2. — These cases shall be pro- 

 ceeded in befoi'e the Tribunals 

 which take cognizance of contra- 

 ventions in matters of revenue, 

 and are to be judged by them. 



Given at Paris, in the palace of 

 the Tuileries, in the month 

 of March 1818, and year 

 of our reign the 25th. 



PROJECT OF A FINANCIAL LAW. 



Louis, by the Grace of God, 

 King of France and Navarre. To 

 all present greeting : 



We have ordained and do 

 ordain, that the project of the 

 law, the tenour of which follows, 



fihall be presented to the Cliamber 

 of Deputies by our Ministers 

 Secretaries of State in the depart- 

 ments of Foreign Affairs and 

 Finance, and by the Sieurs Count 

 Simeon and Baron Mousnier, 

 Counsellors of State, whom we 

 charge to explain its grounds, and 

 support it in debate: — 



Art. 1. — For the purpose of 

 providing for the full and entire 

 execution of the dispositions of 

 the Treaty of the 30th May 18 S4, 

 and the Conventions of the 20th 

 November, 1815, so far as con- 

 cerns the payment of the debts 

 contracted by France anterior to 

 that epoch, beyond its own actual 

 territory, there shall be created 

 and inscribed upon the grand ^ 

 book of the public debt, with 

 interest from the 22dMarch, 1818, 

 a perpetual rente of 16,040,000 v 

 francs, to meet a capital of 'I 

 320,800,000 francs. 



Art. 2. — There is opened in 

 the Ministry of Finance a credit 

 of24,0C0,000 of rentes. Incon- 

 sequence the government is autho- 

 rized to create and inscribe on 

 the grand book of the public debt, 

 in concurrence with this sum, 

 rentes, which may be employed 

 only to complete the payment of 

 the sums due to the AUied 

 Powers, conformably with the , 

 4th article of the treaty of the ' 

 20th Nov. 1815. 



Art. 3. — An account shall be 

 given in the session of 1818, of 

 what shall have been done in 

 virtue of the above second article. 



Given at our castle of the 

 Tuileries, the 25th of April, 

 of the year of Grace 1818, 

 and the 23d of our reign. 

 (Signed) Lours. 



KiCHELIEU. 



His 



