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" The tariff thus adopted shall remain in force for
ne period of seven years from the date of exchanging
the. ratifications. At the expiration of this period
each of the high contracting parties shall be at liberty
to demand a revision of this tariff. But if, within the
six months succeeding the expiration of the seven first
years, neither one or other should exercise this faculty,
the tariff shall continue to have legal force for another
seven years, dating from the day when the first seven
years shall have expired, and the same shall be the
case at the end of each succeeding period of seven years
" Conclusion—The present convention shall be ra-
tified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Con-
stantinople, within the space of six months, or sooner
if possible, and it shall commence to have effect imme-
diately after the exchange of ratifications.
The ten preceding articles having been agreed upon
and concluded, the present act has been signed and
sealed by us, and has been delivered to the plenipo-
tmtiary of the Hanse Towns, in exchange for that
which he has delivered to us. •
" Done at Constantinople this 21 Redjieb, 1257
(Sept. 7, 1841.) Signed " RIFAAT,
" P. COLQUHOUN.
" Ratified, 26 Moharrem, 1258 (March 10, 1842)."
Such are the contents of the Hanseatic treaty,
which, it will be seen, is based upon that concluded
by Lord Ponsonby in 1838: This convention cannot
• fitil to produce a salutary effect upon the commercial
interest of northern and central Germany, the greater
portion of whose export trade must pass through its
natural channels, the Hanse towns. Of the ex-
tent of this trade, as regards the latter place, some
idea may be formed from the fact that the value' of
the exports and imports of Prussia, passing through
the Hanse towns prior to the existence of the Custom's
Union, exceeded 49,771,000 rix dollars, or nearly 7i
millions sterling. This sum amounting at that pe-
riod to two-thirds of the total Prussian annual trade,
has much increased, and will continue to increase in.
proportion to the progress of the Silesian, and Saxon,
and Westphalian manufactures.
From the number of Georgian and other merchants
engaged in the Persian and Levant trade, who fre-
quent the fairs of Leipsic and the Hanse towns'
markets, especially that of Hamburg, combined with
various advantages local and administrative, causes the
above convention, may be regarded as not less useful
to the interior of Germany than it is to the ' ports
immediately interested ; and the more so, since the
facilities afforded by the cheapness and security of
the Hanseatic navigation tend to draw towards them
the produce of States which are either devoid of mari-
time convenience and carriage, or whose ports, like
thorn of Prussia, are less favourably situated.
Indeed, the convention thus negotiated by the
Hanse Towns' charge d'affaires may be said, as regards
the States forming part of the German Customs'
Union, to be a completion of that of a similar cha-
racter concluded by Prussia. For the treaty made
by the latter, however useful to her subjects per-
sonally, could only be considered as a dead letter,
in a general point of view, until the Hanse towns
entered into an arrangement with the Sublime Porte,
by which the produce and manufactures of Prussia
and the Customs' Union could be exported freely into
Turkey. However beneficial the Customs' TJnion
may be to internal circulation, yet, with
regard to distant countries, and epecially the
Levant and Persia, their external trade must
chiefly depend upon the assistance of the Hanse
towns, their best and natural carriers. Impeded
during many months by the ice of the Baltic, and its
expenses at all times increased by the Sound dues and
length of navigation, Prussia finds herself in a cer-
tain measure landlocked, and unless she avails herself
of the aid of Hamburgh or Bremen, has no eastern
channels open to her, save those by the Danube and
'Trieste, rendered tedious and expensive by long and
complicated carriage, by transhipments, by Austrian
transit duties, and other incidental risks and chal

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The Leipsie Gazette announces that the circulation
in Prussia of a French work, recently published in Paris,
entitled" Prussia and her political and religious Government," has been prohibited, although not a single copy of that work
had yet found its way into Prussia.

jects to be indemnified for any loss or vexations which
they prove themselves to have suffered thereby.
" Art. 3. All Hanseatic merchants, or their agents,
who shall prirchase any article whatever, the growth
or manufacture of Turkey, with intent to re .sell the
same for internal consumption in the Ottoman Em.
pire, shall pay, upon the purchase or sale thereof,
the same duties that are paid under similar circum-
stances by Mussulman subjects, or by the most fa-
voured class of Eayas who may be engaged in in-
ternal trade.
" Art. 4. All articles, being the growth and manu-
facture of Turkey, bought for exportation, shall be
conveyed, free of every charge or duty whatever, to
a convenient place of shipment ; upon their arrival
and entry there, they shall pay a fixed duty of 9 per
cent., ad valorem, in lieu of all former duties on in-
ternal commerce, which are abolished by the present
convention. Upon exportation, they shall pay the
duty of 3 per cent., as formerly established, and now
existing.
"It is well understood, however, that all articles
purchased for exportation at the place of shipment,
and which have already paid the interior duties on
entering the same, shall only pay the original import
duty of 3 per cent.
" Art. 3. All articles being the growth or manu-
facture of the free Hanseatic Republics, or of States
forming part of the Germanic Confederation, and all
merchandise whatsoever embarked in Hanseatic ves-
sels, being the property of Hanseatic citizens or sub-
jects, or conveyed by land or by sea from other coun-
tries by the same, shall be admitted as heretofore into
all parts of the Ottoman dominions without excep-
tion, upon the payment of 3 per cent., calculated upon
the value of such articles.
" And in lieu of all interior duties at present levied
upon such produce or manufactures, whether the im-
porter shall sell them at the place of reception or send
them for sale into the interior, he shall pay one fixed
additional duty of 2 per cent. If after this such pro-
duce or merchandise be re-sold in the interior, no fur-
ther duty shall be demanded of the seller or pur-
chaser, nor from him who having purchased may de-
sire to export the same.
" All merchandise that shall have paid the old im-
port duty of 3 per cent. at one port, may be sent to
another free of all further duty, and it is only when
sold or conveyed thence into the interior, that the ad-
ditional duty of 2 per cent. shall be paid.
"It is always understood that the Governments
of the free Hanseatic Republics do not pretend, either
by this, or by any other article of the present Con-
vention, to stipulate for more than the natural and
precise construction of the terms employed, nor
in any manner to deprive the Government of his
Imperial Majesty of the exercise of its rights of in-
ternal administration, in so far as the exercise of
these rights does not manifestly infringe upon the
stipulations of the treaty (18th May, 1839), or upon
the privileges accorded by the present convention to
Hanseatic citizens and subjects, or their property.
" Art. 6. All Hanseatic citizens and subjects, or
their agents, may freely trade throughout all parts
of the Ottoman empire, with merchandize brought
from foreign countries ; and if these go7ids shall
have paid upon entry the importation duty,
Hanseatic merchants, or their agents, shall have
the faculty of trading with the same upon paying
the additional duty of 2 per cent., to which they shall
be subjected, upon goods that they themselves may
have imported for sale, or for transmission with the
intention of selling them •in the interior. This pay-
ment being once made, the merchandise shall be free
from all further duties, no matter what may be its ul-
terior destination.
" Art. 7. No duties whatever shall be levied on
passing the Straits of the Dardanelles, Bosphorus,
and Black Sea, upon Hanseatic merchandise, whether
the growth or manufacture of the free Hanseatic re-
publics, or of states forthing part of the Germanic
confederation, or upon merchandise the growth or
manufacture of other foreign countries, when these two
kinds of merchandise shall be loaded in Hanseatic
vessels, or shall belong to Hanseatic citizen or sub-
jects, whether such goods shall remain on board the
vessels which brought- them, or whether they be
transhipped into other vessels, or whether, being in-
tended for sale elsewhere, they be landed for a limited
time, and then shipped into other vessels to continue
their voyage.
" All merchandise imported into Turkey for the
purpose of transmission to other countries, or which,
remaining in the hands of the importer, shall be trans-
mitted by him for sale in other countries, shall only
pay the first importation duty of 3 per cent., and on
no pretext whatever shall he be subjected to any fur-
ther duty.
" Art. 8. The firmans required to be issued to
Hanseatic vessels, on passing the Dardanelles and Bos-
phorus shall always be delivered to them in such man-
ner as to occasion the least possible delay.
"Art. 9. The Sublime Porte consents to the legis-
lation established by the present •convention shall
have affect throughout all provinces of the Ottoman
empire, that is to say, in all the possessions of his Im-
perial Majesty situated in Europe, in Asia, in Egypt,
and in other parts of Africa, belonging to the Sublime
Porte, and that it shall be applicable to all classes of
Ottoman subjects.
" Art. 10. In order to prevent all difficulties and
delays in estimating the value of articles imported into
Turkey, or exported from the Ottoman dominions by
llanseatic citizens or subjects, it has been agreed to
adopt, and it is hereby adopted, according to the sti-
pulations of the present convention, the tariff drawn
up in conformity with the stipulations of the English
convention, -which fixes the sum, in coins of the
Sultan, that must be paid as the duty of three per
cent. by Hanseatic citizens and subjects, upon the
value of all articles of commerce exported or imported
by them, as also the fair valuation of the interior
duties to which Turkish produce and manufactures,
destined for exportation, are subjected by the present
convention.