1800.]- Monthly Commercial Report. 591 
The cargo of Pepper by the Sir Stephen Lufhington, lately arrived from Bencoolen, is 
as follows : 83 tons 13 cwt. and 23lbs. of white, 456 tons 14 cwt. 1 qr. 19lb. black, on ac- 
count of the Company ; and 14 tons of black pepper on account | of individuals. The ac- 
count of pepper remaining in the warehoufes at that coaft is as follows : at Saloomahnatal, 
Lays, Pedung, Manna, Cawpore, Croee, Ippoo, and Moco, white pepper 681 cwt. 1 qr. 
25lbs., valued at 71,200 pago das’? f. 35) C. 
The tetal amount of regular tonnage engaged by the Haft- India Company to proceed 
to the different prefidencics in they Eaft-Indies this feafon for cargoes is 29,555 tons. 
Three are new fhips and on their firft voyage, feven are on their fecond, fix on their third, 
four on their fifth, and thirteen on their fixth and laft voyages. The thip Venus has been 
licenced to proceed to the Cape of Goud-Hope this feafon with ftores, &c.. after which fhe 
is to proceed to the Sonth-Seas for the purpofe of fifhing. The Princefs Charlotte, one of 
the fhips engaged this feafon, is firft to touch at Madras, ana then to proseed to the Spice- 
Iflands, for the purpote of bringing home the remainder of the {pices collected at the feve- 
ral iflands laft featon, and depolited at Columbo, &c. 
Whatever advantage the Company, or individnals in the Eaft, may derive from the ac- 
quifition of the Dutch {pice-iflands, it does not feem hkely to have much effect in rendering 
fuch articles cheaper in this country, as a new and extenfive market has been opened tor 
the cinnamon, &c., of Columbo in the eaftern parts of our Afiatic territories, and the mer- 
chants purchafing thefe {pices vive bond, with fecurities, that they will not difpofe of them 
at avy port or place to the fouthward of the Bay of Bengal. 
The Eaft-India Company have declared for their hext Tea-fale, commencing the 5th of 
December, 6,200,000|bs. ; viz., Bohea, 700,000 lbs, ; Congou and Campoi, 3,500,000 lbs. ; 
Souchong and Pekoe, 700,000 Ibs. ; Singlo and Twankay, 800,000 Ibs.; Hyfon Skin, 
100,000 Ibs. ; fuperior ditto and Hyfon, 400,000 Ibs. Prompt 27th February, 1800, 
On the 3d of September the differences exifting between the French and American Ree 
publics were adjufted at Paris by the Commiflioners of both powers; and as fome of the 
articles of this convention are importantin a commercial point of view, we fhall infert a few 
of the principal of them in this place. 
Article 1V. The properties captured and not yet definitively condemned, or which may 
be captured before the exchange of ratifications, except contraband merchandize deftined 
for an enemy’s port, {hall be mutually reftored upon the proofs of property. 
VY. The debts contracted by either of the two nations towards the individuals of each fhali 
be acquitted, or the payment thall ke in courfe, as if there had been no mifunderftanding 
between the two ftates ; but this claute fhall not extend to indemnities claimed for captures 
or condemnation. 
VI. The trade between the two parties fhall be freer ; the hips of the nations, and their 
privateers, as well as their prizes, fhail be treated in their refpective ports as thofe of the 
moft favoured nation ; and in general the two parties fhall enjoy in each other’s ports, with 
refpect to commerce and navigation, the fame privileges as the moft favoured nations. 
IX. The debts due by individuals of one of the two nations to the individuals of the 
other, fhall not, in cafe of war or national difpute, be fequeftered or confifcated, no more 
than the claims or funds which hall be found in the public funds, or in the public or private 
banks. 
X. The two contracting parties may nominate for the prea of trade commercial 
agents, who fhall refide in France and the United States. Hach of the partics may accept 
fae place as it may j judge proper, where the refidence fhall be fixed. Before ey agent 
éan exercife his funétions, he mutt be accepted according to the received forins of the party 
to which he is fent,*and when he {thall be received and provided with his exe equatur, he fhail 
enjoy the rights and prerogatives which are enjoyed by fimilar agents of the inoft favoured 
nations. j 
XII. The citizens of the two nations may conduét their veffeis and their merchandizes 
(always excepting fuch as are contraband) from any port to another belonging to the ene- 
my of the other uation. They may navigate and commerce with their fhips and merchan- 
dizes in the countries, ports, and places, of the enemies of the two parties, or'of the one or 
the other party, without obftacles or interruption, and not only pats directly from the pees 
and ports of the enemy above-mentioned to neutral ports and places, but from every place 
belonging to an enemy to any other place belonging to an enemy, whether 18 be or be not 
fubject to the fame jurifdiction, unlefs thofe places or ports thall be really blockaded, be- 
fieged, or inveited. 
And in eafe, as it often happens, when veffels fhall be failing for places or ports belong- 
ing to an enemy, ignorant that they are blockaded, belieged, or inveited, it is agreed that 
every fhip which fhi all be found under fuch a predicament ‘hall be turned from that place or 
port without any part of its cargo bemg retained or confifcated (unlets it fhali be contra- 
band, or it fhall be proved that the faid hip, aiter having been informed of the blockade 
or inveffture, attempted to enter the fame port), but it fhall be allowed to go to any other 
port or place it fhall think proper. No flip of either nation, entered in a port oy place be~ 
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