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MM. TREATY BETWEEN GREAW BRITAIN AND THE NET RERW N'D - .". 41 111W - r • • The following is the Note 9,Lthe Plenipotentiaries of Majest Kau t Naterlands, in reply to that of. n t gotentigriesetis Britannic Maj est y , con ceirVn near) , of London, concluded on the 17th of March : " The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands have found in the Note which has jest been presented to them by their Excel lencies the British Plen potentiaries, a faithful recapitu lation of the communications which had taken place at the time when circumstances, independent of the will of the negotiators, lel to a suspension of their conferences. " Being called upon to resume their labours, the com pletion of r hich has always been desired by both parties with equal sincerity, the undersigned speedily recog nized in their fellow-neg o tiators , that spirit of equity and conciliation which (a ‘ ilitates the adjustment of the most complicated questions, and to do justice to which they caa find no fitter occasion than the moment which is going to sanction, by the signature of a formal treaty, the arrangements adopted after mature examinatiun, as eminently calculated to maintain a good understanding even between the inferior agents of the contracting par ties. " This essential object, this principal tendency of the treaty, are palpable tor all persons who read with at tention the several articles. . . 44 The express stipulations which it contains appear sufficient to remove, by common consent, any uncer tainty which may occur in the sequel. However, as the British Plenipotentiaries have thought it proper to enter into some farther details, the undersigned, whoop their side feel the importance of leaving nothing to chance in so intetesting, an affair, make no difficulty of following them in these details, and of completing, by a succinct developemcnt of their way of thinking, the answer which they owe to the Note of their Ercellencits. " The 7th Article contains an exception to the gei netal principle of the liberty of tomtnerce. The ne cessity of this exception, which was already admitted by England in the conferences in 1820, is founded on the existence of the rystent relative to the exclusive trade in spices : if the delihei ations of the Government of the Netherlands leatl to the abandonment of this system, the freedom of commerce resumes its lights, and the whole of this Archipelago, which is very justly described as comprehended between Celebes, Timor, and New Guinea, is open to all lawful speculations, on the foot ing to be established by local otdonnances; and with respect to the subjects of his Britannic Majesty in par ticular, confoimably to the bases laid d 01.% n by the treaty for all the Asiatic possessions of the two contract ing Pow ers. On the other hand, so long as the ex ception in que-tion remains in force, the vessels which traverse the Moluccas are to abstain from putting into any other ports than those the list of which was officially communicated to the Maritime Powers some years ago, excepting in cases of distress, in which it is supetfluous to add that they will find at all places where the standard of the Netherlands is displayed, the services and assistance due to suffering humanity. If the Government of Great Britain, in disengaging it self, according to the principles established by the pre sent treaty, horn the connexions which its agents formed four or five )ears ago in the kingdom of Ac h een, think any real advantage will accrue to it from securing by some new stipulation the hospitable reception of the vessels and subjects of Great fliitain in die ports of that kingdom, the undersigned do not hesitate to believe, that on their side they see no inconvenience in it. And they believe that they can, at the same time, give the assurance, that their Government will proceed without delay, to regulate its relations with Acheen, in such a manner, that that State, without losing anything of its independence, may offer to the navigator and to the merchant that constant security which it seems cannot be established there but by the moderate exercise of the influence of some European Power. In addition to the information contained in the last Note of the British Plenipotentiaries on the subject of Bencoolen, their Excellencies have communicated to the undersigned the two Conventions, signed respectively, the 23d of May and the 4th of July, 1813, on the one pats by the Governor of that Settlement, and un the other by the Chiefs of some neiglibottrilf,.; tribes; they have also had communication of a dirpatch of the Governor-Gene ral in Council, dated trom Fort Wihiam, the 9th of May, I ts 23, by which the British Administration has abolished at Fort Ma.lborough the monopoly of pepper, encou raged the cultivation of rice, and placed on a stable and unlit)t m foundation the relations of the different classes of the natives, as well with each other as with their Chiefs. Now, unless the undersigned are deceived - in supposing that the object of this arrangement was to ensure the pi oseerity of agi ;culture, and to prevent the misunder standings which often result from the immediate con tact cf the native population with the subaltern antho iilies of a foreign Covet nment, they feel great satisfac din in saying, that, far From having to tear any retro active treasures, the individuals interested in the present ruder of things may, on the contrary, entertain the hope that the new Goverronent will have regard to then acquired rights, and to their welfare, which the undersigned especially take pleasure in win ranting it will canoe the :wicks of the conventions already men tioned to be strictly observed ; on the faith of which, the inhabitants of Pasummah, Uia, Manna, and other tribes, have tecogri,ed the authority, or accepted the protection el the British East India Company ; reserv ing, how ever, the faculty to substitute for them, with the full consent of die parties interested, other analogous conditions, if circumstances should render an altera tion necessai y. With its F ect to the equitable and benevolent dis positions of the Bi i:irti Goveininerit towards the loins bitauts of Molucca, and :he other Dutch settlements' ceded by tl:is Tteaty, the Plenipotentiaries of his Ma-1 jesty the KO - 1g of the Netherlands accept the assurance of theni with unlimited confidence; and the same send nicht induces theirs not to insist that the instructions and the orders which shall be sent to the English audio- Cities in India, relative to the delivering up of Fon Marlborough and its dependencies, shall be conceived in tot ms so clear, pr ecise, and positive, that no ground for uncertainty, no pretext tor delay may be found in them ; for they ate persuaded that the liiit,sll Pleiiipo tcadialies, after having she la n so much moderation and fait dealing in the fulfilment of their tiok, will take eat e that the result of their joint labours shall not he endan gered by a regard to aubm dinette inteic.ti: and secondary considei adults. This result is painted by the British Plenipmentiaties themselves in their last Note, and it re mains for the undersigned only to congiatulate them selves on hat ing concurred in it, and to unite their wishes n itli those of their Excellencies, that tire agents of the revective patties in the Asiatic possessions may Tways spew themselves deeply impressed by a sense of , the duties which two friendly Ration s, animated by tru l y liberal views, have to fulfil, as well towards each ether, as towards the natives whom the course of events or treaties have placed under their influence. 4 , The undersigned gladly embrace this opportunity to r enew to their Excellencies the British Plenipotentiaries the assurance of their most distinguished consideration. (Signed) " F. FAGF:L. " London, March 17, 1824. " A. R. FA Lek." SPANMH ACT OF AMNESTY. MADRID, MAY ee._ The following is a translation, at length, of the Act' of Amnesty promulgated by the King of Spain : Myr. I. I grant a general pardon, with the exception of corporeal and pecuniary penalties, to all and each of the persons who, since the commencement of 1820 to the Ist of October, 1823, when I was restored to the full exercise of the 'rights of my sovereignty, took part in the excesses and disorders which have occurred in these kingdoass, with the intention of supporting and pre. serving the pretended 'political Constitution of the Mo narchy, provided that the said persons are not found implicated in the Article following. ART. 11. Those persons ire excepted from this Am nesty, and must consequently he examined and judged in conformity with the laws, who are comprised in either of the following classes : 1. The principal authors of the military rebellions of Las Cabezas, the He of Leon, Corunna, Saragossa, Obiedo, and Barcelona, where the Constitution of Cadiz was proclaimed before the Royal Decree of the 7th of March, 1820, had been received ; and also the Civil and Military Chiefs who continued to command the Insurgents, or of whom they assumed the command, in the design of overturning the fundamental laws of the kingdom. es The principal authors of the conspiracy which originated at Madrid in tire beginning of March, 1820, to compel me, by violence, to countenance the aforesaid Decree, and also to extort front me an oath making the same Constitutional 3. Also the Military Commanders who took part in the rebellion of Ocagna,and mote particularly Lieut.-General Henry O'Donnell, Couift. d'Abishal. 4. In like manner are excepted the authors of the outrages which were resorted to for the purpose of compelling me to establish the pretended Provisional Junta, which is referred to in the Decree of March 2, 1820, where those individuals are described. 5. Also those who, dialing the Constitutional Regime, signed or authorised addresses tending td sdlicit my abdication, or foe the sus pension of the" august functions which I exercised, or for the nomi nation of some Regencrethich should replace me, or compelling my Royal Person, or the Princes of my family, to appear judicially before them, whether in the presence of the self•styled Cortes, or any other tribunal, and also those Judges who issued writs for that object. 6. Those also are excepted who, in the Secret Societies, during the Constitutional Government, m ade proposals tending to the same objects ; and also those who, be it under what pretext it :hay. shall hereafter assemble In such Secret Associations since the abolition of that Regime. 7. Also writers or editors of books or papers hostile to the dog mas of our Holy Catholic, Apostolic, and Ringian Religion. 8. In like manner are excepted the principal authors of the dis turbances which occurred at Madrid on the 16th of November, 1820, and during the night of the 19th of February, 1823, when the Royal Palace itself was violated, to prevent me from the free exer t cise of my prerogative in appointing and dismissing my Ministers. 9. Also the Judges and Reporters of the proceedings against Ge neral Elio, and of the First Lieutenant of the Spanish Guards, Don Theodore Goffieu, the victim of his signal loyalty, and the love he bore to the Sovereign and his country. 10. Those also are excepted who planned and executed the as sassination of the Archdeacon Don Mathew Vinucsa, and of the Reverend Bishop of Vich, and also the authors of the murders which were committed at Grenada, and at Corunna, on the persons of those who were arrested in the Chateau of St. Antoine, and others of the same description. Such assassins are in all cases to be considered as exempted from all general pardons, as having tried on all occasions to propel revolutionary movements. 11. Also the Commandants of Guerillas, which were embodied after the entrance of the Allied Army into the Peninsula, and I who demanded and obtained commissions to wage hostilities with the Royalist Army and that of my Allies. 12. Also those Deputies of the aforesaid sell styled Cortes who, in their sitting of the 11th of June 1823, voted for my abdication and the establishment of a pretended Regency, and who, persisting in their depraved views, pursued the same steps at Cadiz; and ex cepting those Individuals, in like manner, who, being nominated I Regents in the same city, accepted and exercised the trust, and also the General who commanded the troops that conducted me to the aforesaid place. Those, however, are exempted from this class who after this disgraceful event effectually contri!nited, not only to my liberation, but also to that of my family, in pursuance of the so lemn Decree which was issued by the Regency on the 3d June in the same year. 13. Also are excepted those European Spaniards who took a di rect part and efficaciously contributed in forming the Convention or Treaty of Cordova, which Don Juan O'Donsjo of hateful memory, signed with Don Augustin Iturbide, who beaded the insurgents in New Spain. 14. Those also who took an active part in the Constitutional Go vernment, and in the Revolution of the Peninsula; who thus sup ported that Government in America, with the design of continuing and supporting the insurrectionary cause in those our possession., and those individuals who remained there after they had received due notice front the Authorities to leave the country; but excepting from this exclusion to amnesty, those natives and inhabitants of New Spain who returned to their duty. ART. 111. All those not comprised in the exceptions just specified, or in any one of them, will enjoy the bene fits of grace, civil liberty, and personal security. ART. IV. Consequently those taken into custody for outrages not mentioned in the afore-stated exceptions, or merely for political opinion, shall be set at liberty, and the sequestration on their effects taken off, though they may heretofore have exercised judicial, political, or military authority, whether administrative or municipal, or were employed by the Constitutional Government. ART. V. The respective Authotities shall, notwith standing, proceed to the examination of the conduct of such individuals as may have given evident proofs of their adherence to the Constitutional Regime ; and if their present conduct shall be found to be that of faith ful subjects, they shall not be disquieted in any sort. But, on the other hand, if by actions, writings, or speeches in public, they are likely to trouble the public peace, they must be judged and visited with all the severity es hick) is announced for the guilty in the preceding exceptions. ART. VI. The proceeding with regard to persons not included in the Act of Amnesty must he laid before the superior Tribunals of those places where the offences were perpetrated. Ala.. VII. This pardon does not reinstate in their employments those who officiated before the 7th of March, 1820. The political conduct of such persons is to be examined by the means already pointed out. Awl.. VIII. The light of reparation, without prejudice, is reserved to the Royal Treasury, and to call to account those by whom its resources have been dilapidated. Awr. IX. Those individuals who belong to classes excepted from the present pardon, but who have been included in any of the capitulations granted by the Generals of the Army of his Most Catholic Majesty, Ithey being duly authorised, may continue to reside in the Spanish dominions, under the express condition of submitting to such judgment, and its consequences, as are applicable to the excepted cases. Aar. X. The Civil and Military Authorities charged with tike execution of this Decree ate responsinle 101 whatever shall be opposed to it, whether by excess or by twuit. Aim XI. The Most Reverend the Archbishops, and the Right I tevereud the Bishops, in their respective Dioceses, are re queste d to exert , upon t h e promu l gation of the p resent pardon, all the influence of their Ministry to re-establish union and a good understanding be tween Spaniards, in exhorting them to sacrifice on the altars of religion, and in affection totheir Sovereign and country, all personal resentments and party offences. They are also now requested to watch over, with equal solicitude, the conduct of Parish Curates and Ecclesias tical Teachers, and, on all occasions, to pursue such measures as may be dictated by a holy zeal for the wel fare of the Church and State. Aranjuez, May 1, 1824. Tlll4_, EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1824. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWKLVF. O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 954, %, for the Account, with little doing ; and for M o n e y 941, FOREIGN FUNDS. This befog Settling-day in all Foreign Securities, the Market Is rather heavy, and mn.t of the business is in settling accounts. Current Pricei:—Old Spanish 20 to %, New 15, Chitian 771, Russian 95, Mexican Scrip 1% to 4, French 164 4, Austrian 9i, Colombian Scrip 25 to 2 disc. Alliance Shares 15, Trish Shares * disc, to par, Paladium par to 4, Colombian SS4. PRICE oPs . roci:s AT ON K O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 226 1 / 2 229 . 3 per ( ent. Reduced 93% y s ii per Cent. Cons. 94 5 / i %-33 per Cts. 10078 N 4 per Cents. Assented 100: 1 / 4 1 / 2 4 per Cents. New 107 3 / 4 107 1 / 8 Bank Lg. Ans. T2 3 / 4 1-16 V s —lndia Bonds 775. 795. I:..%cl•equer I;ills (1:1,(X)0)'_!1. 8 18 Ditto (1:500) 28—Do. (12100 and :C200) 30 .4 211 Consols for Acct. 95% Vs I A • A very unnecessary alarm appears to us to be excited against Joint Stock Companies, and Walpok's Mergoirs and Anderson's Dictionary of Commerce are ransacked to supply the well-known details respecting the South Sea scheme and the bubbles cf the early part of the last century. So far as this may have the effect of repressing t he projects of needy adventurers, or giving a due caution to the Public, we approve of it; but when it is brought forward as a reason for preventing' any new association being formed, for commercial purposes, we object tothernodeof opposition as unfair and irrele vant. A Bill is now before Parliament for enabling Join t Stock Companies to engage in Maritime Insurance, that privilege being at present confined to two Char tered Associations, and to individual underwriters at Lloyd's Coffee-house, an establishment of the highest respectability, which has done more, perhaps, to extend our commerce, and to raise the credit of the British merchant than any other Institution ; but we do not conceive that the granting to public bodies the privi leges which men possess individually can be considered as unjust, nor do we believe that it would, as some con tend, either ruin Lloyd's, or injure, to the extent th it is conceived, the business of an underwriter.— For ourselves, we candidly confess, that we would in any transaction, rather do business with an individual than with a public body, and that there are hundreds of underwriters at Lloyd's, of whose responsibility for all their engagements we should be as satisfied as of that of the largest and wealthiest Companies that could be established. Among the difficulties thrown in the way of forming new Commercial Associations, a proposition by the Earl of LAUDERDALE, which comes on for discussion this evening in the House of Lords, is not the least ex traordinary. His Lordship proposes, that before any Company shall be incorporated, four-fifths of the in tended capital shall be paid into the Bank of England. His Lordship excepts canals, bridges, and other works requiring time: but how many commercial projects may there not be, of which a large capital can only gradually be used, and therefore it cannot be ne cessary to call for it ? If a Company is formed with a capital of four or five millions, divided into shares of £lOO each, and in the first year only half a million can be employed, where can be the necessity of the Share holders paying £BO each, and locking up three million; and a half in the Bank of England ? We would take, for instance, the proposed Alliance Insurance. Ad mitting that the Bill passes, and that the laws confining Maritime Insurance to the only two Bodies that possess that privilege, are repealed, will any person contend that four millions out of the five, which is the nominal capital, will at once be required ? Certainly not ; and therefore all that can be necessary is, to make the parties responsible to that amount—a measure which will be quite as effectually ensured by the proposed re gulations of Mr. Humes" which make every Share holder liable, not merely for the sum he subscribes, but for the general obligations of the Company, if, as a Company, it cannot meet its engagements. There is another objection to the plan of the Earl of LAUDER DALE, which is, that besides shutting up the money, by depositing it in the Bank of England, and thus de priving the subscribers of the means of employing it actively ill other ways, the Bank has already more ca pital than it can employ, either in loans or discounts at a low rate, and could not therefore pay the necessary inte rest to the sharehoLlers, if the law enacted that it should do this, and gave it the privilege of indulging in specula tions with the money, over which the persons to whom it actually belongs could have no controul. These a:e a few of the objections to the plan of the Noble hart, and although they are not the only ones that might be adduced, yet we think them sufficient to prove that it is impolitic and unnecessary. This forenoon we ►eceived the llfonikur of Saturday, ith a Supplement, and Galignani's Messenger, by Ex press. Both sheets of the lloniieur are almost filled with the debates in the two Chambers, the Treaty between this country and the Netherlands, with other extracts from the l•'n3ii'.w Papers. Tlie Ltoik of IStiday had pie _ 1411111b"—....41..aTe • .-, ..~~.. -, ...._ . ~.. . viouslY leached us. It contains a copy of the King of SPAIN'S Amnesty, a translation of which will be founi in a preceding column. The King of FRANCE, who , e health the stock-jobbing rumours rendered so dar.. gerous, transacts business daily with his Ministers. The Aloniteur quotes from the /'toile a sta;errien% that the Infant Don Micutc, of Portugal, had ell . barked in a frigate for England, and that the Qu ELs was coidined in the Convent of Estrella. On the sarrt authority, it is stated, that the Pariarch had been b.- nished to Busaco—that the King returned to his ie,,L ee on the 13th instant, and everything was quiet at Lishua. The Ui,cussion in the Chamber of Peers on the I. ;elating to the reduction of the French nodes still co,. - time,. On Wednesday, Comte de LAFORET great length in favour of the law; and was folle Ac ) COMM MOLLIEN, who had inscribed his nime to spe: OH it. Baron PASQUIER spoke against it. Thursday, bring ./tcension Day, the Chambers did 'tot meet, but on Friday the discus inn was re. sunned ; but the Moniteur -does not report die ceeiingi. In the Chamber of D:puties, on Flidai, time was a long discussion on the new Project of La w for modifying the Penal Code, which had been pasted in the Chamber of Peers, which was referred tc t e Bureaux ; another debate took place, on the Law 1 ,, Recruiting the Al my, which was adjourned, and no interest to the English Reader. The following e x . tracts arc from Galignanis .Messenger of Saturday: PARIS, NAY ‘2.9. STOCK • EXCH A NGE, MAY 128—Five o'Cl , ck.—TL market has been very dull, notwithstanding the approach of settling day. The price of Stocks has experiearel a decline, which is attributed to the fail in the Engliin Funds, and the uncertainty of the decision of the Cham• ber of Peers, 'dative to tliz reimbu; sement of the five per cents. Viscount de Favigny, secretary of the Embassy to Lisbon, set out on Thursday Isom Paris, with dispatches for M. Hyde de Neu% ille. It is expected that the report upon the law project for Septennial Elections will be brought up to the Chamber of Deputies to-day. According to letters from Augsburg, of the 21st May, at the moment of the departure of the Ottoman fleet, under the command of the Captain Pacha, some light Greek vessels were descried, which immediately set sai►, to carry the intelligence to Ipsara, as the Greeks had adopted measures to collect a considerable fleet. It is supposed that a naval action would take place beore the Turkish vessels would be able to land. A letter from Trieste, of the 15th inst. states Ibrahim Bey, who had rebelled against the Viceroy of Egypt, and made himself master of the citadel of Cairo, has a secret firman, appointing him to the Viceroyalty, which was delivered by the Envoy of the Porte. This firman promotes him to the rank of Generalissimo of the Ottoman forces. The following is intelligence from St. Petersburgh, of the Bth inst.—" Towards the end of the month there will be a grand Military Fete in the Camp de Mars, at which not only the corps of the Guards, but all the troops in our environs will be present." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CONSTANTINOPLE, DATED 25TH APRIL. The Ottoman Ministers being desirous to prove to the Greeks that the wishes of the Powers of Europe are fa vourable to the Porte, proposed to the European Con- suls to freight vessels to transport the troops of Egpyt and Natolia, which are destined to be landed in the Morea. The Consuls urged their neutrality, but the. Porte insisted: the Greek Senate had already addiesse,!, through the medium of the Senate of Ipsara, energetic representations to the Consuls residing at Smyrna, com• plairaing of the secret succour which was afforded to the Turks, and declaring they could not spare any flag which was abused for the purpose of furnishing arms, ammunition, and prosisions to their enemies. MADRID, MAY 17. The Gazette of the 15th contains two cirtulars of the Minister of Finance, one dated May 7, places the corps of armed revenue officers, under the command of the Intendant of the Provinces of Madrid ; the other, dated May 12, gives a further delay of 90 days, for the pie sentation of demands upon the State. Faiscii MENUS, May 20, 104 f. The Hampshire Chronicle, of Saturday, grounds a hope that the defeat of our troops at Accra may prove unfounded, on the circumstance that the VICTOR, sloop of war, had arrived from Sierra Leone, which place she left on tk 13th of February, "at which time not the slightest of the transaction h question had reached that place, and they were daily exrecting the arrival of Sir C. M`CARTITY from Cape Coast Castle." Nothing can be more absuid than this supposition, and had the Editor either consulted a map of Africa, or known anything of the navigatii:n of the coast, he would have found that it was impossib:e e of tire defeat of our troops could have reached S.Ct I Leone by the 13th of February. The battle is s.‘iu to have taken place on the 21st of January, and the pas sage from Accra to Sierra Leone is or dimuily six mei.L.: or two months ; besides, accounts were rec:iverl month ago, from Sierra Leone, of the 12. h of :\ lac ;1,, whicir were as silent as those of February on the stir) • ject, and yet there is unfortunately no hope to be of its not being true from that circumstance. We have been favoured with the perusal of letter. iron• Demerara to the 15th ultimo, brought by t.%e tannin to Liverpool. These, rye regret to state, inturrn us that the militia had apin been called out, in contx (pence of re;:otts of another Frojected revolt, intended to take place on the Laster Holidays. 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