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ARTICLE VII.

Russian subjects shall enjoy, throughout the whole ext,•et ~f th
Ottoman Empire, as well by land as by sea, the full and entice
liberty of commerce secured to them by the Cornier treaties eun•
eluded between the two High Contracting 12111AWS. m'ritige
menu of that liberty of commerce shall be committed, tori:l.r .hail
it be permitted to be checked, in any case nor under .ny pretence,
by a prohibition or any restriction whatever, nor in consequence
of any regulation or measure, whether it be one of internal admi-
nistration or one of internal legislation. Russian subjects,
vessels, and merchandize, shall be secure against all violence,
*anti all chicanery. The former shall live under the exclusive
jurisdiction and police of the Ministers and the Consuls 0:
Russia. The Russian vessels shall not be subjected to any visit tin
board whatever on the part of the Ottoman Authorities, realm was
at sea nor in any of the ports or roadsteads belonging to the doom
niuns of the SuLlinie Porte. And all merchandise and conintudt
ties belonging to a Russian subject, after having paid the Custom
house duties required by the Tariffs, shall be freely cotivryed,
posited on land, in the warehouses of the proprietor, or of his reel
signer, or else transferred to the vessels of any other nation what-
ever, without the Russian subjects being required to give nut I, e
to the local authorities, and still less to ask their pernii,-inn
It is expressly agreed upon, that all grain proceeding frog•
Russia shall enjoy the same privileges, and that it, Itte
transit shall never experience, under any pretence, ael
difficulty or impediment. The Sublime Porte engages, le-sidss.
to watch carefully that the Commerce and Navigation of the
Black Sea shall not experience the slightest obstruction of all
nature whatever. For this purpose the Sublime Porte recog -
nixes and declares the passage of the Canal of Constantinople,
and the Strait of the Dardanelles, entirely free and open to
Russian ships under merchant flags, laden or in ballast. whe -
cher they come from the Mask Sea to go into; the idediterra •
nean, or whether, returning from the Mediteranean, they wish
to re-enter the Black Sea. These vessels, provided they Le
merchantmen, of whatever size or tonnage they may he, shall
not be exposed to any impediment or vexation whatever as
it has been stipulated above. The two Courts shall come
to an understanding with respect to the best means fur
preventing all delay in the delivery of the necessary clearances. Its
virtue of the same principle, the passage of tbc Canal of Capstan.
dnople and of the Strait of the Dardanelles is declared free and open
for all the merchant vessels of the Powers at peace with the
Sublime Porte, whether bound to the Russian ports of the Black
Sea or returning from them—whether laden or in ballast upon the
same conditions as those stipulated for the vessels under the Rus-
sian flag. In fine, the Sublime Porte, acknowledging the right of
the Imperial Court of Russia to obtain guarantee of this full liberty
of commerce and navigation in the Black Sea, solemnly declares that
she will never. under any pretence whatever, throw the least
obstacle in its way. She promises, above all, never to per-
mit herself in future to stop or detain vessels, laden or in ballast,
whether Russian or belonging to nations with which the Ottoman
Empire shall not be in a state of declared war, passing through the
Strait of Constantinople, and the Strait of the Dardanelles, to re-
pair from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean, or Crum the Me.
diterranean into the Russian ports of the Black Sea. And if,
which Gon forbid! any of the stipulations contained in the present
Article should be infringed, and the reclamation of the Russian

'Minister on that subject should not obtain a full and prompt satis-
faction, the Sublime Porte recognises, beforehand, the right in thr

Imperial Court of Russia to consider such infraction an act of hos-
tility, and immediately to retaliate on th.. Ottoman Empire.

ARTICLE VIII.

The arrangements formerly stipulated by the 6th Article of the
Convention of Akermann. for the purpose of regulating and liqui-

dating the claims of the respective subjects and merchants of bath
Empires, relating to the indemnity for the losses experienced at
different periods since the war of 1806, nut having lit4n yet car-
ried into effect, and Russian commerce having, since the conclu-
sion of the aforesaid Convention, suffered new and cun.iderable in-

jury, in consequence of the measures adopted respecting the navi-
gation of the Bosphorus, it is agreed and determined that the
Sublime Porte, as a reparation for that injury and those losses,
shall pay to the Imperial Court of Russia, in the course of 18
months, at periods which shall be settled hereafter, the sum o
one million five hundred thousand ducats of Holland ; so that the
payment of this sum shall put an end to all claim or reciprocal pre-
tensions on the part of the two Contracting Powers, on the sub-
ject of the aforesaid circumstances.