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SALE by AUCTION (without reserve), at their Great. Room,
Saville-row. THIS DAY, the 24th instant, and following day,
the ENTIRE STOCK of an eminent MANUFACTURER ,
declining that branch of business, consisting of nearly an hundred
Statues from the antique, among which are casts of the Medici
Venus, A polio, (Had iatm, Canova% large figures, and various others,
in imitation of marble and bronze, finished in.the highest manner,
as ornaments for saloons and halls, and to support patent lanr3 ;
200 Busts and Vans, antique and modern ; 40 French table lamps,
a few suspended ditto, and lustrts.
Catalogues may be had at the Room.

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL SILK AND LACE
WAREHOUSE,
No. 17, NEW BOND.S'r REET, Corner of Clifrord.street.
.L 74 RANSOM begs leave to return his sincere Thanks
• to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public in general, for the libe-
ral encouragement he hna hitherto received, and respectfully in.
forms them that he has entered into PART NERSII IP with Mr.
DAVIES, from the House of Messrs. Howell and James, Regent-
Street.

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SANSOM and DAVIES most respectfully inform the Nobi
lily, Gentry, and Polslie, that in consequence of their having wade
several very extensive purchases of SILKS previous to the late ad-
vance, S. and D. are enabled to oder fm inspection a large and
elegant solortinent of Sarceuets, (lens de Naples, Ducapcs, Lute-
strings, and Levantine', of every new and fashionable colour also
a great variety of new Shades in striped °made Naples and figured
Ducapes, of the most modern designs ; and an elegant assortment
of Silk Barege Neckerchiefs, Scarfs, and UMW,.
SA XIOM and DAVIES beg to remind the Nobility and Gentry
of their extensive and well-selected Stock of LACE GOODS, con-
sisting of White and Black Bobbin Veils, Scarfs, Squares, Fele-
' Tines, and Dresses, English and Foreign, Blonds, Mechlin', Va-
lenciennes, and British Thread Laces, dr.c. ate. Brussels and
Chantilly Veils.

Art. 111. When the average value of slaves shall have been as-
certained and fixed, the two Commissioners shall constitute a Board
for the examination of the claims which are to be submitted is
them, and they shall notify to the Secretary of State of the United
States, that they are ready to receive a definitive list of the slaves
and other private property, for whirls the citizens of the United
States claim indemnification ; it being understood rnd hereby agr,ed,
that the Commission shall not take cognisance of nor receive, and
that his Britannic Majesty shall not be required to make compensa-
tion for. any claims for private property under the first Article of
the Treaty of Ghent, not contained in the said list. And his
Britannic .Majesty hereby engages to cause to be produced before
the Commission, as material towards ascertaining facts, all tl e
evidence of which his Majesty's Government may be in postescion,
by returns from his Majesty's officers, or otherwise, of the miller
of slaves carried away. But the evidence so produced, or its de-
fectiveness, shall not go in bar of any claim or claims which shall
be otherwise satisfactorily authenticated.
Art. IV. The two Commissioners are hereby empowered and re-
quired to go into an examination of all the claimasubmitted through
the above-mentioned list, by the owners of slaves or other property,
or by their lawful attorneys or representatives, and to determine the
same respectively, according to the merits of the several a
under the vale of the imperial decision hereinabove recitalc,ra
having reference, if need there be, to the explanatory documents
hereunto annexed, marked A and B. And, in considering such
claims, the Commissioners are empowered and required to examine
on oath or affirmation all such persons as shall come before them,
touching the real number of the slaves, or value of other property
for which indemnification is claimed; and also a, receive in evi-
dence, according as they may think cons!stent with equity and
justice, written depositions or papers, such depositions or papers
being duly authenticated, either according to existing legal fornis,
or in such other manner as the said Commissioners shall see cause
to require or allow.
Art. V. In the event of the two Commissioners not agreeing in
any particular case under examination, or of their disagreement
upon any question which may result from the stipulations of thiq
Convention, then and in that case they shall draw by lot the name
of one of the two Arbitrators, who, after having given due colts
sideration to the matter contested. shall consult with the Commis-
shiners, and • final decision shall be given conformably to the
opinion of the majority of the two Commissioners and of the Ar-
bitrator so drawn by lot. And the Arbitrator, when so acting with
the two Commissioners, shall be bound in all respects by the rules
of proceeding enjoined by the fourth Article of this Convention
upon the Commissioners, and shall be vested with the same powers,
and be deemed for that case a Commisaismer.
Art. VI. The decision of the two Commissioners, or of the ma.
jority of the Board, as constituted by the presiding Article, shall
in all cases be head and conclusive, whether as to the number, the
value, or the ownership of the slaves or other property for which
indemnification is to be made. And his Britannic Majesty engages
to cause the sum awarded to each and every owner, in lieu a his
slave or slaves or other property, to be paid in specie without de-
duction, at such time or times, and at such place or places, as shall
be awarded by the said C.monissianers, and on condition of such
releases or assignments to be given as they shill direct ; provided
that no such payments s!ia'il be fixed to take place sooner than
twelve months from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of
this Convention.
Art. y. It is further a;reed that the Comm:toioners end Arbitra-
tors shall be respectively paid in such manner as shat be settled
between the Governments of Great Britain and the United States,
at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this Convention ;
and all other expenses attending the execution of the Commission
shall be defrayed jointly by his Britannic Majesty and the United
States, the same being previously ascertained and allowed by the
majority of the Board.
Art. B. A certified copy of this Convention, when duly ratified
by his Majesty the Bmpe:or of all the Russian, by his Britannic
Majesty, and by the President of the United States by and with
the advice and consent of their Senate, shall be delivered by each
of the contracting parties respectively to the Mounter or other
agent of the mediating Power accredited to the Government of
the United Szites,-ias soon as may be after the ratifications shall
have been exchanged, which last shall be affected at Washington
in six months from the date hereof, or sooner if possible.
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this
Convention, drawn up in two languages, and have hereunto affixed
their seals.
Dune in triplicate at St. Petersburgh this 30th day of June (12ih
July) 1122. (L. S.) NESSELRODZ.
IL. S.) CAPODISTRIAS.
L. S.) CHARLES BAGOT,
L. S.) REWRICIVIIDDLETON•
Annex A. The undersigned, Secretary of State directing the Im-
perial Department for Foreign Affairs, has the honour to commu-
nicate to his Excellency Sir Charles Bagot, Ambassador Extraor-
dinary and Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, the opinion
which the Eir.peror his master has deemed it right to express upon
the subject of the differences which have arisen between Greet
Britain and the United States respecting the interpretation of the
first Article of the Treaty of Ghent. Sir Charles Bagot is requested
to consider this opinion as the decision of the Emperor in the Arbi.
tration submitted to his Imperial Majesty by the two Powers.
It will douht:ess be in hin Excellency's recollection that be, as