The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-19 00:00:00

ARTICLE VII.

It baying been the custom of Great Britain and the Su-
blime Porte, with a view to prevent all difficulties and delay
in estimating the value of articles imported into the Turkish
dominions, or exported therefrom by British subjects, to ap-
point, at intervals of 14 years, a commission of men well ac-
quainted with the traffic of both countries, who hare
fixed by a tariff the sum of money in the coin of the
Grand Seignior, which should be paid as duty on each
article ; and the term of 14 years, during which the last
adjustment of the said tariff was to remain in force,
having expired, the high contracting parties have agreed
to name conjointly fresh Commissioners to fix and determine
the amount in money which is to be paid by British subjects,
as the duty of three per cent. upon the value of all commo-
dities imported and exported by them; and the said Commis-
sioners shall establish an equitable arrangement for estimating
theinterior duties which, by the present treaty, arc estab-
lished on Turkish goods to be imported, and shall also deter-
mine on the places of shipment where it may be most conve-
nient that such duties should be levied.
The new tariff thus established, to be in force for seven
years after it has been fixed, at the end of which timeit
shall be in the power of either of the parties to demand a
revision of that tariff; but if no such demand be made on
either side, within the six months after the end of the first
seven years, then the tariff shall remain in force for seven
years more, reckoned from the end of the preceding seven
years, and so it shall be at the end of each successive period
of seven years.

ARTICLE VIII. •
The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications
shall be exchanged at Constantinople within the space of four
months.

In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have
signed the same, and have affixed their seals thereunto.
Done at Baits- Liman, near Constantinople, on the 16th day
of August, 1838.
(L.S.) PONSONBY.
(Signed in the Turkish original.)
(L.S.) MUSTAPHA RESHID.
(L.S.) MUSTAPHA KIANEE.
(L.S.) MEHEMED NOUREE.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES.
Certain difficulties having arisen between the Ambassador of
her Britannic Majesty and the Plenipotentiaries of the Sublime
Porte, in fixing the new conditions which should regulate the
commerce in British goods imported into the Turkish domi-
nions, or passing through the same in transit, it is agreed be-
tween his Exdellency the British Ambassador and the Pleni-
potentiaries of the Sublime Porte that the present convention
should receive their signatures, without the articles which have
reference to the above-mentioned subjects forming part of the
body of the said convention.
But at the same time it is also agreed—the following ar-
ticles having been consented to by the Turkish Government—
that they shall be submitted to the approbation of her Ma-
jesty's Government, and should they be approved and accepted
by her Majesty's Government, they shall then form an inte-
gral part of the treaty now concluded.
The articles in question are the following :
ARTICLE I.

All articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its depen-
dencies, and all merchandise, of whatsoever description, em-
barked in British vessels, and being the property of British
subjects, or being brought over-land, or by sea, from other
countries by the same, shall be admitted, as heretofore, into
all parts of the Ottoman dominions, without exception, on the
payment of three per cent. duty, calculated upon the value
such articles.

And in lieu of all other and interior duties, whether levied
on the purchaser or seller, to which these articles are at pre-
sent subject, it is agreed that the importer, after receiving his
goods, shall pay, if he sells them at the place of reception, or
if he sends them thence to be told elsewhere in the interior of
the Turkish Empire, one fixed duty of two per cent., after
which such goods may be sold and re-sold in the interior, or
exported, without any further duty whatsoever being levied or
demanded on them.

But all goods that have paid the three per cent. import duty
at one port, shall be sent to another free of any further duty,
and it is only when sold there, or transmitted thence into the
interior, that the second duty shall be paid.
It is always understood that her Majesty's Government do
not pretend, either by this article or any other in the present
treaty, to stipulate for more than the plain and fair construc-
tion of the terms employed ; nor to preclude, in any manner,
the Ottoman Government from the exercise of its rights of
internal administration, where the exercise of those rights
does not evidently infringe upon the privileges accorded by