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intent and meaning ; and his Bri- 

 tannic Majesty engages, in con- 

 cert with his Royal Highness, to 

 give such orders as may effectu- 

 ally prevent any inteiruption 

 being given to Portuguese ships 

 resorting to the actual dominions 

 of the Cro^vn of Portugal, or to 

 the. territories which are claimed 

 in the said treaty of alliance, as 

 belonging to the said Crown of 

 Portugal, to the southward of 

 the Line, for the purposes of 

 trading in slaves, as aforesaid, 

 during such further period as the 

 same may be permitted to be 

 carried on by the laws of Portugal, 

 and under the treaties subsisting 

 between the two crowns. 



Art. 3. The treaty of alliance 

 concluded at Rio de Janeiro, on 

 the 19th Feb. 1810, being found- 

 ed on circumstances of a tempo- 

 rary nature, which have happily 

 ceased to exist, the said treaty is 

 hereby declared to be void in 

 all its parts, and of no effect ; 

 without prejudice, however, to 

 the ancient treaties of alliance, 

 friLndship, and guarantee, which 

 hare so long and so happily sub- 

 sisted between the two crowns, 

 and which are hereby renewed by 

 the High Contracting Parties, 

 and acknowledged to be of full 

 force and effect. 



Art. 4. The High Contracting 

 Parties reserve to themselves, and 

 engage to determine by a separate 

 treaty, the period at which the 

 trade in Slaves shall universally 

 cease, and be prohibited through- 

 out the entire dominions of Por- 

 tugal ; the Prince Regent of Por- 

 tugal hereby renewing his former 

 declaration and engagement, that 

 duiing the interval which is to 

 elapse before such general and 



final abolition shall take effect, it 

 shall not be lawful for the sub- 

 jects of Portugal to purchase or 

 trade in slaves upon any parts of 

 the coast of Africa, except to the 

 southward of the Line, as specified 

 inthe second Article of this Treaty: 

 nor to engage in the same, or to 

 permit their flag to be used, except 

 for the purpose of supplying the 

 trans-Atlantic possessions belong- 

 ing to the Crown of Portugal. 



Aii. 5. His Britannic M jesty 

 hereby agrees to remit, from the 

 date at which the ratification 

 mentioned in the first article shall 

 be promulgated, such further 

 payments as may then remain 

 due and payable upon the loan of 

 600,0001. made in London for 

 the service of Portugal, in the 

 year 1809, in consequence of a 

 Convention signed on the 21st of 

 April of the same year ; which 

 Convention, under the conditions 

 specified as aforesaid, is hereby 

 declared to be void and of no 

 effect. 



ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. 



It is agreed, that in the event 

 of any of the Portuguese settlers 

 being desirous of retiring from 

 the settlements of the Crown of 

 Portugal on the coast of Africa to 

 the northward of the Equator, 

 with the Negi'oes bona fide their 

 domestics, to some other of the 

 possessions of the Crown of Por- 

 tugal, the same shiill not be deem- 

 ed unlawful, provided it does not 

 take place on board a slave-trad- 

 ing vessel, and provided they be 

 furnished with proper passports 

 and certificates, according to a 

 form to be agieed on between the 

 two governments. 



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