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

(From last Night's Gazette.)

CONVENTION APPENDED TO THE CAPITULATIONS GRANTED TO
GREAT BRITAIN BY THE OTTOMAN PORTE, AMENDING AND
ALTERING CERTAIN STIPULATIONS THEREIN CONTAINED, AS
REGARDS THE COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF THE TWO
COUNTRIES.

During the friendly intercourse which has happily subsisted
so long between the Sublime Porte and the Kings of Great
Britain, capitulations granted by the Porte, and treaties con-
cluded between the two Powers, have regulated the rates of
duties payable on merchandise exported from and imported into
the dominions of the Sublime Porte, and have established and
declared the rights, privileges, immunities, and obligations
of British merchants trading to or residing in the Imperial
territories. But since the period when the above.ipentioned
stipulations were last revived, changes of various kinds have
happened in the internal administration of the Ottoman em-
pire, and in the external relations of that empire with other
powers; and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Highness the Sultan,
have therefore agreed no ,v to regulate again, by a special and
additional act, the commercial intercourse of their subjects,
in order to increase the trade between their respective domi-
nions, and to render mere easy the exchange of the produce
of the one country for that of the other. They have conse-
quently named for their plenipotentiaries for this purpose, that
is to say :—Her Mak>sty the Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain end Ireland, the Right Hon. John Brahazon
Lord Ponsonby, Baron of Imokilly, a Peer of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and L eland, Knight Grand Cross
of the Must Honourable Order of the Bath, of the Nishan of
Honour, &c., her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary, and
Plenipotentiary at the Sublime Porte, &c. ; and his Highness
the Sultan, the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Vizir
Mustapha Reshid Pasha, Minister for Foreign Affairs, bearing
the decoration belonging to his high rank, a Knight Grand
Cress of the Legion of Honour of France, &c. ; the Excellent
and Most Distinguished Mustapha Kianee Bey, a Member of
the Supreme Council of State, Assistant to the Prime Minis-
ter, President of the Council of Agriculture end Industry, a
Minister of State of the first class, bearing the two decora-
tions belonging to his offices, &c. ; and the Excellent and
Meat Ustinguished Mehemed Nouree Effendi, a Councillor
of State in the department for Foreign Affairs, bearing the
Nishan of Honour cf the first class, &c., who, after having
communicated their respective full powers, found to be in due
and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the fol-
lowing articles :

ARTICLE I.
All rights, privileges, and immunities which have been con.
ferred on the subjects or ships of Great Britain by the existing
capitulations and treaties, are confirmed now and for ever, ex-
cept in as far as they may be specifically altered by the present
convention; and it is moreover expressly stipulated, that all
rights, privileges, or immunities which the Sublime Porte now
grants, or may hereafter grant, to the ships and subjects of any
other foreign Power, or which it may suffer the ships and sub-
jects of any other foreign Power to enjoy, shall be equally
granted to, and exercised and enjoyed by, the subjects and
ships of Great Britain.

ARTICLE 11.
The subjects of her Britannic Majesty, or their agents, shall
be permitted to purchase at all places in the Ottoman do-
minions (whether for the purposes of internal trade or exporta-
tion) all articles, without any exception whatsoever, the pro-
duce, growth, or manufacture of the said dominions; and the
Sublime Porte formally engages to abolish all monopolies of
agricultural produce, or of any other articles whatsoever, as
well as all permits from the local Governors, either for the
purchase of any article, or for its removal from one place to
another when purchased; and any attempt to compel the sub.
jects of her Britannic Majesty to receive such permits from the
local Governors shall he considered as an infraction of treaties,
and the Sublime Porte shall immediately punish with severity
any Vizirs ar d other officers who shall have been guilty of such
misconduct, and render full justice to British subjects for alt
injuries or losses which they may duly prove themselves to have
suffered.

ARTICLE 111.
If any article of Turkish produce, growth, or manufacture
be purchased by the British merchant or his agent, for the
purpose of selling the same for internal consumption in
Turkey, the British merchant or his agent shall pay, at the
purchase and sale of such articles, and in any manner of
trade therein, the same duties that are paid, in similar
circumstances by the most favoured class of Turkish subjects
engaged in the internal trade of Turkey, whether Mussulmans
or Rayahs.

ARTICLE IV.
If any article of Turkish produce, growth, or manufacture,
b, purchased for exportation, the same shall be conveyed by
the British merchant or his agent, free of any kind of charge
or duty whatsoever, to a convenient place of shipment, on its
entry into which it shall be I able to one fixed duty of nine per
cent., ad valorem, in lieu of all other interior duties.
Subsequently, on exportation, the duty of three per cent.,
as established and existing at present shall be paid. But all
articles bought in the shipping ports for exportation, and
which have already paid the interior duty at entering into the
same, will only pay the three per cent. export duty.