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toms, or of their respective Deputies. Aid the afore-
said tariff or table of valuations shall be made an),
promulgated in each of the ports belonging to his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, in
which there are or may be Custom-houses. It shall
be concluded, and begin to have effect as soon as pos-
sible after the exchange of the ratifications of the pre-
sent treaty, and certainly within the space of three
months reckoned from the date of the exchange.
And it shall be revised and altered if necessary, from
time to time, either in the whole or in part, whenever
the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, resident within
the dominions of his Royal Highness the Prince Re-
gent of Portugal, shall make a requisition to that
effect through the medium of his Britannic Majesty's
Consul General, or Consul, or whenever the trading
and commercial subjects of Portugal shall make the
same requisition on their own part.
16. But during the interval between the exchange
of the ratifications of the present treaty, and the pro-
mulgation of the abovementioned tariff, should any
goods or merchandizes, the produce or manufactuie
of the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, arrive in
the ports of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of
Portugal, it is stipulated, that they shall be admitted
for consumption on paying the abovementioned duties
of 15 per cent. according to the value set on them by
the tariff now actually established, should they be
goods or merchandizes which are comprised or valued
in that tariff, and if they should not be comprised or
valued in that tariff (as also if any British goods or
merchandizes should hereafter arrive in the ports of
the Portuguese dominions without having been speci.
fically valued and rated in the new tariff or Pauta,
which is to be made in consequence of the stipulations
of the preceding article of the present treaty) they
shall be equally admitted on paying the same duties
of 15 per cent. ad valortm, according to the invoices
of the said goods and merchandizes, which shall be
duly presented and sworn to by the parties importing
the same. And in case that any suspicion of fraud or
unfair practices should arise, the invokes shall be ex-
amined, and the real value of the goods or merchan-
dizes ascertained by a reference to an equal number
of British and Portuguese merchants of known inte-
grity and honour ; and in case of a difference of opi-
nion amongst them, followed by an equality of votes
upon the subject, they shall then nominate another
merchant, likewise of known integrity and honour, to
whom the matter shall be ultimately referred, and
whose decision thereon shall be final, and without ap-
peal. And in case the invoice should appear to have
been fair and correct, the goods and merchandizes
specified in it, shall be admitted on paying the duties
abovementioned of 15 per cent. and the expences, if
any, of the examination of the invoice, shall be defray.
ed by the party who called its fairness and correctness
into question. But if the invoke shall be found to be
fraudulent and unfair, then the goodsand merchandizes
shall be brought up bythe officersofthe custom s on the ac-
count ofthe Portuguese Government, according to the.
value specified in the invoice,with an addition often per
cent. to the sum so paid for them by the officers of
the customs, the Portuguese Government engaging
for the payment of the goods so valued and purchased
by the officers of the customs within the space of 15
days. and the expences, if any, of the examination of
the fraudulent invoice shall be paid by the party who
' presented it as just and fair.
17. It is agreed and covenanted, that articles of
military and naval stores brought into the ports of his
Royal Highness the Prince Regentof Portugal, which
the Portuguese Government maybe desirous of taking
for its own use, shall be paid for without delay at the
prices appointed by the proprietors, who shall not be
compelled to sell such articles on any other terms.
And it is further stipulated, that if the Portuguese
Government shall take into its own care and custody
any cargo, or part of a cargo, with a view to pur-
chase, or otherwise, the said Portuguese Government
shall be responsible for any damage or injury that
such cargo, or part of a cargo, may receive while in
the care and custody of the officers of the said
Portuguese Government.
18. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Por-
tugal is pleased to grant to the subjects of Great
Britain, the privilege of being assignantes for the du-
ties to be paid in the custom-houses of his Royal
Highness's dominions, on the same terms, and on
giving the same security as are required from the sub-
jects of Portugal.
And it is on the other hand stipulated and agreed,
that the subjects of the Crown of Portugal shall re-
ceive, as far as it may be just or legal, the same fa-
vour in the custom-houses of Great Britain as is shewn
to the natural subjects of his Britannic Majesty.
19. His Britannic Majesty does on his part and in
his own name, and in that of his heirs and successors,
promise and engage that all goods, merchandises, and
articles whatsoever, of the produce, manufacture, in-'
dustry, or invention of the dominions or subjects of his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, shall
be received and admitted intoall and singular the ports
and dominions of his Britannic Majesty, on paying
generally and only the same duties that are paid upon
similar articles by the subjects of the most favoured
nation.
-And it is expressly declared, that if any reduction
of duties should take place exclusively in favour of
British goods and merchandizes imported into the do-
minions of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of
Portugal, an equivalent reduction shall take place on
Portuguese goods and merchandizes imported into his
Britannic Majesty's dominions, and vice terra—the ar-
ticles upon wl.ich such equivalent reduction is to take
_place being settled by previous concert and agreement
between the two high contracting parties. It is under-
stood, that any such reduction so granted by either
party to the other shall not be granted afterwards,
(except upon the same terms and for the same com-
pensation) in favour of any other state or nation what-
soever. And this declaration is to be considered as
reciprocal on the part of the two high contracting
parties —(To be continued.)

A hackney coach, in which were two young ladies,
was yest..2rd.iy overturned in Fleet-street, the coach-
man being precipitated to a considerable distance from
his horses, receiving by his fall several severe contu-.
sions. The ladies, we are •happy to state, escaped
unhurt.

A woman, named MU died lately at Sunderland
at the advanced age of 106. Her twin brother died
about five years ago, aged 101, and hel mother at.
ainect 108 }eats.- 1 '