356 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



STATE PAPERS. 



BRITISH. 



CONTENTIONS AND TREATIES 

 LAID BEFORE PARLIAMENT. 



(No. 1.) — Portugal. 

 Convention between Great Britain 

 and Portugal, signed at Vienna, 

 2\st January, 181.5, in the En- 

 glish and Portuguese Languages. 



HIS Britannic Majesty and his 

 Royal Highness the Prince 

 Regent of Portugal, being equally 

 desirous to terminate amicably all 

 the doubts which have arisen re- 

 lative to the parts of the coast of 

 Africa with which the subjects of 

 the Crown of Portugal, under the 

 laws of that kingdom and the 

 Treaty subsisting with his Bri- 

 tannic Majesty, may lawfully 

 carry on a trade in slaves ; and 

 whereas several ships, the pixi- 

 perty of the said subjects of Por- 

 tugal, have been detained and 

 condemned, upon the alleged 

 ground of being engaged in im 

 illicit traffic in slaves ; and where- 

 as his Britannic Majesty, in order 

 to give to his intimate and faith- 

 ful ally the Prince Regent of 

 Portugal, the most unequivocal 

 proof of his friendship and the 

 regard he pays to his Royal High- 

 ness's reclamations, and in con- 

 sideration of regxilations to be 

 made by the Prince Regent of 

 Portugal for avoiding hereafter 



such doubts, is desirous to adopt 

 the most speedy and effectual 

 measures, and without the delays 

 incident to the ordinary forms of 

 law, to provide a liberal indenmity 

 for the parties whose property 

 may have been so detained under 

 the doubts as aforesaid ; in fur- 

 therance of the said object, the 

 high contracting Parties have ap- 

 pointed 3S their Plenipotentiaries, 

 viz. His Majesty the King of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and 1 1 eland, the Right Honour- 

 able Robert Stewart Viscount 

 Castlereagh, &c. ; and his Royal 

 Highness the Prince Regent of 

 Portugal, the Most Illustrious 

 and Most Excellent Don Pedro de 

 SousaHolstein Count of Palmella, 

 &c. ; the Most Illustrious and 

 Most Excellent Anthony de Sal- 

 danha da Gama, &c. ; and Don 

 Joachim Lobo de Silvcira, &c. ; 

 who, having mutually exchanged 

 their full powers, found in good 

 and due form, have agreed upon 

 the following articles : — 



Art. 1. That the sum of three 

 hundred thousand pounds be paid 

 in London, to such person as the 

 Prince Regent of Portugal may 

 appoint to receive the same ; 

 which sum shall constitute a fund 

 to be employed under such regu- 

 lations, and in such miinner as 

 the said Ptince Regent of Poitu- 



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