GENERAL HISTORY. 



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ftnd for the government of these 

 deposit ports, I have ordered, and 

 do order, as follows : 



1. Articles of legal commerce 

 proceeding from foreign ports, 

 whether belonging to Spanish or 

 foreign merchants, shallbe allowed 

 to be deposited free of import 

 duties. The products and mer- 

 chandize of America, accompa- 

 nied by certificates, shall enjoy 

 the same advantage. 



2. Foreign property shall be 

 placed under the guarantee of 

 the laws, and will never be liable 

 to any reprisal on account of war 

 between governments, except 

 that of reciprocity in the case of 

 articles the property of Spanish 

 merchants not being respected. 



3. The deposits shall continue 

 one year, if the accommodation 

 of the owner require that time ; 

 and the period may be prolonged 

 for extraordinary causes, by the 

 authority of the minister of 

 finance. 



4. To defray the expense of 

 the warehouses and clerks, 2 per 

 cent shall be levied on the mer- 

 chandize, one half on the entry, 

 and the other half on the removal. 



The subsequent articles, in all 

 31, contain minute regulations 

 respecting the management of 

 the warehouses, the mode of ad- 

 mitting and removing the deposits, 

 levying the duties, &c. 



Theking of Spain, having heard 

 the opinion of his supreme coun- 

 cil of war on the 27th of Febru- 

 ary last relative to foreigners who 

 make common cause with the in- 

 surgents of Spanish America, 

 has decreed that every foreigner 

 who shall be taken with arms in 

 his hands in liis majesty's domi- 

 nions of America shall be treated 



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as a rebel, and be subject to the 

 same pimishment as natives, hav- 

 ing a due regard to the different 

 ranks in which thej' serve. 



A note was transmitted on the 

 12th of June to the high allied 

 powers, by the cabinet of Madrid, 

 relative to the situation of South 

 America, of which the following 

 is the conclusion : 



His Majesty received the 

 answers of his High Allies with 

 the greatest satisfaction. They 

 cleared the way to ver}^ important 

 negotiations, and led the powers 

 to interpose in the unfortunate 

 circumstances in which America 

 was placed, in order that measures 

 of prudence and vigour might be 

 adopted to reduce the revolted 

 provinces, and to put a period to 

 the immorality and political con- 

 tagion arisins; from such an order 

 of things. To follow up proceed- 

 ings so happily commenced, his 

 Majesty considers, that the 

 moment is arrived when he ought 

 solemnly and categorically to re- 

 present to his High Aihes, the 

 principles which he has prescribed 

 to himself to produce the good 

 which he has in view, and such 

 as, from his sentiments of huma- 

 nity, they ought to expect. 



Accordingly, and in reference 

 to the propositions he has already 

 made, his Majesty declares, that 

 the following are the points on 

 which he is invariably fixed : 



1. General amnesty to the in- 

 surgents on their submission, 



2. Admission of native Ameri- 

 cans, endowed with the requisite 

 qualifications, to all offices in 

 common with European Spaniards. 



3. Regulation of the commerce 

 of the provinree with foreign 

 .states, according to free princi- 

 LM] pies 



