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London, England, 1824-02-05 00:00:00

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ale United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves,
wishing to remove every obstacle to the faithful execu-
tion of the Convention signed in London by their re-
soective Plenipotentiaries, on the '2Bth of July, 1817, for
the purpose of preventing their subjects from engaging
in any illicit traffic in slaves ; and seeing the necessity
of adding, to that intent, certain Articles to the said
Convention, have, for this purpose, named their Pleni-
potentiaries, that is to say Majesty the King, of
the United Kingdom of Great B: itain and Ireland, Ed-
ward Michael Ward, Esq. his Charge d'Affaires at the
Court of Lisbon ; and his Majesty the King of the United
Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves, Joze Ba-
zano Radeittaker, Knight Prole,sed in the Order of
(.:lOIST, and Chief Clerk of the Depaittnent of State
for Foreign Affairs ;--who, after having exchanged
their re.l.ective full powers, found to be in good and due
form, have agreed u, on the following Articles:
AKTICLIt 1. Wits reas it is stated, in the knit article of the instruc-
tions intended for the British and Portuguese ships of war em.
ployed to prevent the illicit traffic in slaves, that " ships on board
of which no slaves shall be found, intended for the purposes of
traffic, shall not be detained ton any account or pretence whatever :"
and whereas it has been found, by experience, that vessels em-
ployed in the illegal traffic have put their slaves momentarily on
shore, immediately prior to their being visited by ships of war, and
that such vessels haste thus found means to evade turfeiture, and
have been enabled to pursue their unlawful course with im.
punity, contrary to the true object and spirit of the Convention of
the ‘2Bth of July, 1517 ; the two high contracting parties, theretore,
feel It necessary to declare, and it is hereby declared by them, that,
if there shall be clear and undeniable proof that a slave ur slaves,
of either sex, has or have been put on hoard a vessel for the pur-
pose of illegal traffic, in the particular voyage on which the vessel
be raptured, then, and on that account, according to the true intellt
anti meaning of the stipulations of the abovementioned convention
such vessel shall be detained by the cruizers, and hually condemnesi
by the Commissioners.
t. Inasmuch as the Convention of the 28th of July, 1817, does not
stipulate the mode of supplyilit, the absence of the Commissioners,
occurring from any other cause besides that of death, which is the
only ease provided for by the fourteenth Article of the Regulations
for the biked Commissions, annexed to the said Convention; the
two high contracting parties have agreed, that, iu tke event of the
recall, or of the absence on account of illness, or any other un-
avoidable cause, of any of the Commissioners, Judges, or Arbitra-
tors ; or in the case of their absence in consequence of leave front
their Government (which must be notified to the respective Com-
mision), their posts shall be supplied in the same form and manner
as is determined for the case of death, by the abovementioued four-
teenth Article of the said Regulation.
These additional Articles shall have the same forte
and effect as if they were inserted, word for word, in the
said Convention, and shall be considered as forming
part of the same they shall be ratified, and the rata
cations thereof exchanged in Lisbon, within three mouths
at latest, after the date of their stgnature.
In witness whereof the undersigned, being furnished
with full powers to that effect, have signed these AN
and affixed thereunto the seals of their arms.
Done at Lisbon, this fifteenth day of March, in the year of otszl
Lotto one thousand eight hundred and tweuty-three." •
(LS.) E. \l. WARD.
(LS.) JOZE BAZI LlO RADEIVAKEIL