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APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



Treaty between his Britannic 

 Majesty and his Catholic Ma- 

 jesty, for preventing their subjects 

 from engaging m any illicit 

 traffic in Slaves. Signed at 

 Madrid the 2Srd of September 

 1817. 



IN the Name of the Most Holy 

 Trinity ; — It having been 

 stated, in the second additional 

 article of the treaty signed at 

 Madrid on the 5th of July 1814, 

 between his majesty the king of 

 the united kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, and his 

 majesty the king of Spain and the 

 Indies, that " his Catholic Ma- 

 jesty concurs, in the fullest 

 manner, in the sentiments of his 

 Britannic Majesty, with respect 

 to the injustice and inhumanity 

 of the traffic in slaves, and 

 promises to take into considera- 

 tion, with the deliberation which 

 the state of his possessions in 

 America demands, the means of 

 acting in conformity with those 

 sentiments ; and engages, more- 

 over, to prohibit his subjects 

 from carrying on the slave trade, 

 for the purpose of supplying any 

 islands or possessions, excepting 

 those appertaining to Spain ; and 

 to prevent, by effectual measures 

 and regulations, the protection of 



the Spanish flag being given to 

 foreigners who may engage in 

 this traffic, whether subjects of 

 his Britannic Majesty, or of any 

 other state or power. 



And his Catholic Majesty, con- 

 formably to the spirit of this 

 article, and to the principles of 

 humanity with which he is ani- 

 mated, having never lost sight of 

 an object so interesting to him, 

 and being desirous of hastening 

 the moment of its attainment, has 

 resolved to co-operate with his 

 Britannic Majesty in the cause of 

 humanity, by adopting, in con- 

 cert with his said majesty, effica- 

 cious means for bringing about 

 the abolition of the slave trade, 

 for effectually suppressing illicit 

 traffic in slaves, on the part of 

 their respective subjects, and for 

 preventing Spanish ships trading 

 in slaves, conformably to law and 

 to treaty, from being molested or 

 subjected to losses from British 

 cruizers ; the two high contract- 

 ing parties have accordingly 

 named as their plenipotentiaries, 

 viz : his majesty the king of the 

 united kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, the right hon. sir 

 Henry Wellesley, a member of 

 his majesty's most honourable 

 privy council, knight grand 



cross 



