30 TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS. 



or be sent back the offended Government assigning to the other the 

 reasons for the same. . 



It is hereby declared that either of the contracting parties may 

 except from the residence of Consuls such particular places as such 

 Party shall judge fit to be so excepted 



ARTICLE THE FIFTH. 



This convention, when the same shall have been duly ratified by 

 the President of the United States by and with the advice and con- 

 sent of their Senate and by His Britannick Majesty and the respec- 

 tive ratifications mutually exchanged shall be binding and obligatory 

 on the said United States and His Majesty for four Years from the 

 date of its signature and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six 

 months from this time or sooner if possible. 



Done at London this third day of July in the year of our Lord 

 one Thousand eight Hundred and Fifteen. 



SEAL. 



SEAL. 

 SEAL. 

 SEAL. 

 SEAL. 

 SEAL. 



JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 

 H. CLAY 



ALBERT GALLATIN 

 FREDERICK JOHN EOBINSON 

 HENRY GOULBURN 

 WILLIAM ADAMS 



[Annex.] 

 DECLARATION. 



The Undersigned, His Britannick Majesty's Charge d' Affairs in 

 the United States of America, is commanded by His Royal High- 

 ness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His 

 Majesty, to explain and declare upon the Exchange of the Ratifica- 

 tions of the Convention concluded at London on the third of July of 

 the present year, for regulating the commerce and navigation between 

 the two countries, That in consequence of events which have happened 

 in Europe subsequent to the signature of the convention aforesaid, 

 it has been deemed expedient and determined in conjunction with the 

 Allied Sovereigns, that St. Helena shall be the place allotted for the 

 future residence of General Napoleon Bonaparte, under such regula- 

 tions as may be necessary for the perfect security of his person ; and 

 it has been resolved, for that purpose that all ships and vessels what- 

 ever, as well British ships and Vessels as others, excepting only ships 

 belonging to the East India Company shall be excluded from all 

 communication with or approach to that Island. 



It has therefore become impossible to comply with so much of the 

 third article of the Treaty as relates to the liberty of touching for 

 refreshment at the Island of St. Helena, and the Ratifications of the 

 said Treaty will be exchanged under the explicit Declaration and 

 Understanding that the Vessels of the United States cannot be al- 

 lowed to touch at, or hold any communication whatever with the said 

 Island, so long as the said Island shall continue to be the place of 

 residence of the said Napoleon Bonaparte. 



ANTHONY ST. JNO. BAKER. 

 WASHINGTON, November &, 1815. 



