The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-10 00:00:00

.
BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE
COMMISSION.
(From last night's Gazette.)

MINUTE OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE. BRITISH AND
PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENTS, FOR THE ISSUE AND
PAYMENT OF THE .TITULOS OF THE 44 MIXED

DRITISII AND PORTUGUESE COMMISSION."
Preamble.—The labours of the Mixed British and
Portuguese Commission having advanced sufficiently
to enable the Commissioners to form an estimate of
the probable amount which will be required for the
payment of the whole of the " Titulos " to be issued
in conformity with the awards of the Commission, and
a large number of the awards having been prepared,
the undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and her Most Faithful Ma-
jesty's Minister at this Court, have agreed to direct
the Commissioners to issue " Titulos " to the claimants,
in accordance with Article 6 of the Minute of Instruc-
tions signed on the 13th of November, 1840, and they
have agreed upon the following articles, containing
regulations for the issue and payment of the above-
mentioned " Titulos :"
Art. 1. The undersigned having been informed,
that according to an estimate made by the Commis-
sioners, the sum of 162,5001. is the probable amount
which her Most Faithful Majesty's Government will
be called upon to provide for the payment of the
" Titulos" to be issued bi the " Mixed British and
Portuguese Commission,' and for the payment of the
interest which will accrue thereon, until the amount
specified in each "Titulo" shall be paid; it is hereby
agreed, that her Most Faithful Majesty's Minister at
this Court shall deliver to her Britannic Majesty's
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, thirteen bills
drawn by the Portuguese Minister of Finance upon
the Portuguese Treasury, in favour of her Britannic
Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for
the sum of 12,5001. sterling, each; and when those
bills are delivered, the Commissioners will take the
necessary steps for the delivery of the " Titulos" in
the manner hereinafter stated.
Art. 2. The first of the above-mentioned thirteen
bills shall be made payable on the Ist of October
next, the second on the Ist of April, 1843, and the re-
maining eleven bills shall be made payable in succes-
sion, each bill being payable six months after the
preceding one. The payment of an instalment of the
claims shall commence so soon as each of the said
bills shall be paid, and a day will be fixed, after which
the payment of each instalment will Cease.
Art. 3. The Commissioners shall deliver to each
claimant in whose favour a final award shall have been
issued, or to his representative or heir, a " Titulo,"
for the amount so awarded, and the Commissioners
shall take a receipt for the same in duplicate. And,
notwithstanding the arrangement contemplated in the
31st article of the " General Rules," signed on the
22d of June, 1841, the Commissioners are directed to
make the said " Titulos " payable to the claimant or
to "bearer," in order to obviate the necessity of inves-
tigating and demanding proofs of the validity of sig-
natures, at each time when the documents are pre-
sented for payment.
Art. 4. The time at which each " Titulo" is to be
paid shall be stated therein. And in conformity with
the Gth article of the " Minute of Instructions," and
with the 31st article of the " General Rules," each
" Titulo " shall contain a statement of the interest
which the total amount therein specified is to bear,
until such amount shall be paid ; and such interest
shall be paid half-yearly, at each period fixed for the
payment of instalments.
payment of
All awards upon claims for " prize money"
shall be provided for in distinct and separate " Titu-
los," the amount of which shall be paid in full, at the
time fixed for the payment of the last instalment.
Art. G. If any holder of a " Titulo" should neglect
to present the same during the period announced for
the payment of each instalment, the amount due
thereon will not be paid until the period next ensuing;
and the holder will not be entitled to receive interest
upon such "Titulo" for the time thus intervening.
Art. 7: If, before the closing of the Commission,

should turn out that the sums awarded to the claimants
should exceed the sum of 162,500/., the Portuguese
Government will, on receiving information to that
effect, give another bill for the amount required, pay-
able at the same date as the thirteenth of the bills
mentioned in Article 2. And if, on the other hand,
the total sum awarded should prove to be less than the
sum estimated, the British Goverment will cancel such
thirteenth or final bill, on receiving from the Portu-
guese Government, in exchange for the bill so can-
celled, another bill for the exact amount required, and
made payable at the same time.
Art. 8. At the conclusion of the payments, the
"Titulos" shall be cancelled; and the "Titulos" so
cancelled shall be delivered to the Portuguese Go-
vernment in acquittance of the claims of British sub-

jects who served in the Portuguese army and navy
during the late war for the liberation of Portugal ; but
the said acquittance shall not extend to claims on ac-
count of pensions, for the regular payment of which
suitable permanent provision shall be made by the
Portuguese Government, so soon as the Commissioners
shall make known to the Portugpese Government the
total amount of such pensions.
Art. 9. The Commissioners are hereby authorised
to make, from time to time, such further rules and
regulations as they may deem requisite, for the pro-
tection of the Portuguese Government from fraud,
and for the guidance of the claimants ; and they will
take care to exact from the agents' of absent parties
good and sufficient security for the due performance
of the trusts undertaken by those agents.
(Signed) ABERDEEN.

TORRE DE MORCOItVO.
Foreign-office, Aug. 26, 1842.
Office of the Mixed British and Portuguese Com-
missioners, 94, Mount- street, Grosvenor-square,
Sept. 8, 1842.
The Commissioners of the Mixed British and Por-
tuguese Commission, in virtue of the authority vested
in them by Article 9 of the " Minute of the Agree-
ment for the issue and payment of Titulos," signed on
the 26th day of August, 1842, by her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and
her Most Faithful Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary
at this Court, empowering the said Commissioners to
form such further rules and regulations as they may
deem requisite for the protection of the Portuguese
Government from fraud, and for the guidance of the
claimants ; and further to exact from the agents of
absent parties good and sufficient security for the due
performance of the trusts undertaken by those agents
—hereby give notice, that the following rules and re-
gulations, in reference to agents and claimants, will
henceforth be acted upon :-
1. No person shall be recognised, or permitted to
act as an agent before the Commission, unless he shall
have previously applied for and obtained a license
from the Commissioners for that purpose.
Before this license is granted, each agent shall
enter into a bond, with two sufficient securities, to
be severally and jointly bound to her Majesty, her
heirs and successors, in the penalty of five hundred
pounds, with the condition that such agent shall duly
account to all persons for whom, or for whose use
any Titulos or moneys, on account of awards, s 11
come into his hands.
2. If at any time after the grant of a license to an
agent, any claimant shall satisfactorily prove that any
such licensed agent has abused the trust reposed in
him by not duly accounting for Titulos or moneys re-
ceived by him on behalf of such claimant ; and if it
shall appear that any licensed agent has practised
any fraud or imposition on any claimant or claimants,
or upon the Commission, the Commissioners will, by
writing under their hand to be delivered to such
agent, or to be left at his last or most usual place of
abode, or where his agency may be carried on, revoke '
the license granted.
3. If any claimant shall revoke the appointment lof
a licensed agent, who shall have given security to the
Commission for the proper discharge of his trust,
such claimant shall not be permitted to appoint
another agent, but will be required to act for himself,
unless, when the period arrives for issuing the Titulo
or Titulos upon the award, it can be satisfactorily
proved to the Commission that the claimant is wholly
unable to attend in parson, in consequence of great
distance, or other adequate cause, on the validity aid
force of which the Commissioners reserve to them-
selves the power of deciding.
In the event of the Commissioners deeming it ne-
cessary to permit the appointment of a second agent,
such appointment must be made by a formal aid
stamped power of attorney.
4. Any person not desiring to act as an agent to
the claimants generally, but applying to act on be-
half of a single claimant under a power of attorney,
filled up aeoording to Form No. 3, annexed to the
Genera' Rules, signed on the 92d of June, 1841, shall
not be permitted to act unless it can be satisfactorily
proved to the Commissioners that the claimant s
wholly unable to attend in person.
If It shall be *proved that the claimant is unable
to attend in person, the Commissioners will require
his agent to provide such sedceuermitiensecasesstahre Commis-
sionersy, binding
each ease my
him duly to account wit eut fl•aud or delay to the
claimant, for whom or fc.r whose use any Titulos or
!none?, paid thereon shall come into his hands.
sfeed) H. C. SIRR ;A. T. VALDEZ..
Joint-Secretaries.

EXTRAORDINARY t.ARCIJNISTANct.,.--yesttrdav an
inquest was held before C. J. Cartistr, sq at the White
Hart Tavern, Greenwich, cm view of the tiody of a man
who was found in, the river, off the Isle of Dogs. From
the dresa of the deceased, it was presumed tht he had
I:tem a *toward on, board a foreign
could be adduced as to h; yessel, but nose
vidence
.4 uute or connections. It was
stated that on the body being found, an undertaker and
his assistant went dOWA the river, and placed the body in
mid were bringing it up to Greenwich in a boat,
"Alen the boat caPsizod, and the two gentlemen in black
were immersed in the water, and were in great danger,
but were, after much difficulty, rescued by some water-
men, put Qg to their assistance. The coffin, with
the body Pt the deceased in it, floated-some distance down
the river before it could be again picked up. The Jury
returned a Verdict of " Found drowned."