The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-12 00:00:00

In the Name of the Most Holy and undivided Trinity.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of the
Netherlands, desiring to place upon a footing, mutually bene-
ficial, their respective possessions and the commerce of their
subjects ix the East Indies, so that the welfare and prosperity
of both nations may be promoted, in all time to come, without
those differences and jealousies which have, in former times,in-
terrupted the harmony which ought always to subsist between
them ; and being anxious that all occasions of misunderstand-
ing between their respective agents may be, as much as pos-
sible, prevented ; and in order to determine certain questions
which have occurred in the execution of the Convention made
at London on the 13th of August 1814, in so far as it respects
the possessions of his Netherland Majesty in the East, have no-
minated their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say :
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, the Right Hon. George Canning, a Member
of his said Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council, a Member of
Parliament, and his said Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs ; and the Right Hon. Charles Watkin
'Williams Wynn, a Member of his said Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, Lieutenant-Colonel
Commandant of the Montgomeryshire Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry, and President of his said Majesty's Board of Commis-
sioners for the Affairs of India :

And his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Baron Henry
Fagel, Member of the Equestrian Corps of the province of
Holland, Counsellor of State, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal
Order of the Belgic Lion, and of the Royal Guelphic Order,
and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of his said
Majesty to his Majesty the King of Great Britain ;—And
Anton Reinhard Falck, Commander of the Royal Order of the
Belgic Lion, and his said Majesty's Minister of the De-
partment of Public Instruction, National Industry, and
Colonies :

Who, after having mutually communicated the full powers,
found in good and due form, have agreed on the following
Articles :

ARTICLE I.—The High Contracting Parties engage to ad.
mit the subjects of each other to trade with their respective pos-
sessions in the Eastern Archipelago, and on the Continent of
India, and in Ceylon, upon the footing of the most favoured
nation ; their respective subjects conforming themselves to the
local Regulations of each Settlement.
ll.—The subjects and vessels of one nation shall not pay,
upon importation or exportation, at the ports of the other in the
Eastern Seas, any duty at a rate beyond the double of that at
which the subjects and vessels of the nation to which the port
belongs, are charged.
The duties paid on exports or imports at a British Port, on
the Continent of India, or in Ceylon, on Dutch bottoms, shall
be arranged so as, in no case, to be charged at more than double'
the amount of the duties paid by British subjects, and on Bri-
tish bottoms.

In regard to any article upon which no duty is imposed,
when imported or exported by the subjects, or on the vessels
of the nation to which the port belongs, the duty charged upon
the subjects or vessels of the other, shall in no case exceed six
per cent._. . _

lll.—The High Contracting Parties engage, that no Treaty
hereafter made by either, with any Native Power in the eastern
seas, shall contain any article tending, either expressly, or by
the imposition of unequal duties, to exclude the trade of the
other party from the ports of such Native Power : and tkat if,
in any Treaty now existing in either part, any article to that ef-
fect has been admitted, such article shall be abrogated upon the
conclusion of the present Treaty.
It is understood that, before the conclusion of the present
Treaty, communication has been made by each of the contract-
ing parties to the other, of all Treaties or engagements subsist-
ing between each of them, respectively, and any Native Power
in the Eastern Seas; and that the like communication shall
be made of all such Treaties concluded by them, respectively,
hereafter.

IV.--Their Britannic and Netherland Majesties engage to
give strict orders, as well to their Civil and Military Authori-
ties, as to their Ships of War, to respect the freedom of Trade,
established by Articles I. 11. 111. ; and, in no case, to impede
a free communication of the natives in the eastern Archipelago,
with the ports of the two Governments, respectively, or of the
subjects of the two Governments with the ports belonging to
Native Powers.

V.—Their Britannic and Netherland Majesties, in like man-
ner, engage to concur effectually in repressing piracy in those
seas : They will not grant either asylum or protection to ves-
sels engaged in piracy, and they will, in no case, permit the
ships or merchandize captured by such vessels, to be intro-
duced, deposited, or sold, in any of their possessions.
Vl.—lt is agreed that orders shall be given by the two Go-
vernments to their Officers and Agents in the East, not to form
any new settlement on any of the Islands in the Eastern Seas,
without previous authority from their respective Governments
in Europe.

VII.:-The Molucca islands, and especially Amboyna,
Banda, Ternate, and their immediate dependencies, are except-
ed from the operation of the I. 11. 111. and IV. Articles, un-
til the Netherland Government shall think fit to abandon the
monopoly of Spices • but if the said Government shall, at any
time previous to such abandonment of the monopoly, allow the
subjects of any Power, other than a native Asiatic Power, to
carry on any commercial intercourse with the said islands, the
subjects of his Britannic Majesty shall be admitted to such in-
tercourse, upon a footing precisely similar.
VIII.—His Netherland Majesty cedes to his Britannic Ma-
jesty all his establishments on the Continent of India ; and re-
nounces all privileges and exemptions enjoyed or claimed in
virtue of those establishments.

IX.—The Factory of Fort Marlborough, and all the Eng-
lish possessions on the Island of Sumatra, are hereby ceded to
his Netherland Majesty : and his Britannic Majesty further
engages that no British Settlement shall be formed on that
Island, nor any Treaty concluded by British Authority, with
any Native Prince, Chief, or State therein.
X.—The Town and Fort of Malacca, and its Dependencies,
are hereby ceded to his Britannic Majesty; and his Netherland
Majesty engages, for himself and his subjects, never to form
any Establishment on any part of the Peninsula of Malacca,
or to conclude any Treaty with any Native Prince, Chief, or
State therein.

Xl.—His Britannic Majesty withdraws the objections which
have been made to the occupation of the island of Billiton
and its Dependencies, by the Agents of the Netherland Go-
vernment.

Xll.—His Netherland Majesty withdraws the objections
which have been made to the occupation of the Island of
Singapore, by the subjects of his Britannic Majesty.
His Britannic Majesty, however, engages, that no British
establishment shall be made on the Carimon Isles, or on the
Islands of Battam, Bintang, Lingin, or on any of the other
Islands south of the Straights of Singapore, nor any Treaty
concluded by British authority with the Chiefs of these Islands.
the Colonies, possessions, and establishments
.which are ceded by the preceding Articles, shall be delivered up
to the officers of the respective Sovereigns on the Ist of March,
1825. The fortifications shall remain in the state in which they
shall be at the period of the notification of this treaty in India;
but no claim shall be made, on either side, for ordnance, or
stores of any description, either left or removed by the ceding
power, nor for any arrears of revenue, or any charge of admi-
nistration whatever.

XlV.—All the inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded,
shall enjoy, for a period of six years from the date of the Rati-
fication of the prbsent Treaty, the liberty of disposing, as they
please, of their property, and of transporting themselves, with-
out let or hindrance, to any country to which they may wish to
remove.

XV.—The High Contracting Parties agree that none of the
Territories or Establishments mentioned in Articles VIII. IX.
X. XI. and XII. shall be at any time transferred to any other
Power. In case of any of the said Possessions being abandon-
ed by one of the present Contracting Parties, the right of occu-
pation thereof shall immediately pass to the other.
XVI.—It is agreed that all accounts and reclamations, aris-
ing out of the restoration of Java and other possessions, to the
Officers of his Netherland Majesty in the East Indies, as well
those which were the subject of a Convention made at Java on
the 24th June, 1817, between the Commissioners of the two
nations, as all others, shall be finally and completely closed
and satisfied, on the Payment of the sum of 100,0001., sterling
money, to be made in London on the part of the Netherlands,
before the expiration of the year 1825.
XVII.—The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifi-
cations exchanged at London within ,3 months from the date
hereof, or sooner if possible.
In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed' the same, and affixed thereutito the seals of their arms.
Done at •London, the 17th ddy'of.illarch, in the year of our
Lord. 1824.

GEORGE CANNING.
(L.S:)-CIIARLES WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN.

Were follows a Note addressed by the British Plenipoten_
tiaries to the Plenipotentiaries of the Netherlands, with the
Reply, which we shall give on Monday.]