Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1816-01-02

plate possession OF lis rights, with respect to such
an intercourse.
.irficie The Third.--His Britannia Majesty agree
thai the vessels of The l. nited states of Americ;
shall be admitted, and hospitality received at the
principal settlements OF the British dominlons IL
.the East Indies, vide lcet, Calcutta, Madras, Bonn
bay, and Prince of Wales Island, and that the cit
.izens of the said nted States may freely carry
trade between the said principal settlements and the
said United states, in all articles OF which the inn
.ponatioh and expectation, respectively, TO and
from the said territories, shall not be entirely pro
hi0ited provided only that it shall not be lawful
for them in any time of war, between the British
government and any state or power whatever, 10
export from the said territories without the special
PERM sion of the British government, any military
stores or naval stores or rice. The citizens Of the
United states shall pay for their vessels when adj
mItted, no higher or other duty or charge THAI.
shall be payable on the vessels of the favored
European nations, and they shall pay no higher o.
other duties or charges on the Importation or ex-
portation of the cargoes of the said vessels, than
shall BE- pay able on the same articles when imPor-
ted or exported in the vessels of the most favored
European nations.
But ii is expressly agreed, that the vessels of the
United States shall not carry any articles from the
SAID principal settlements to any port or place, eX
cept TO some port or place in the Unrled States OF
America where the same shall be unladen.
1t is also understood, that the permission granted
by this article, is not to extend TO allow the vessels
oil the United States to carry on any part of the
coasting trade of the said British territories but
the vessels of tie United States having, in the first
instance, proceeded to of the said principal set
tlements'of the British Dominons in the East In
dies, and then going with their original cargoes or
part hereof, from one of the said principal settle
ments 10 another, shall not be considered as carry
ing on The ceaaing trade. The vessels of United
States may also touch for refreshment, but not for
canmerce, in the course of their voyage to or from
the British Territories in India, or to or from the
domnons of the Emperor of China at the Cape Of
Good Hope, the Island of st. Helena, or such other
places may be in the possessions of Great Britain,
10 the African or Indian seas, it being well UNDER
stood hst in all that regards this article, the cit.
oil the United States shall be subject, in all
spects, to the laws and regulations Of the British
Government, from time to time established.
article the Fourh.-It shall be free, for each Of
the two contracting parties, respectively to APP
point Consus, for the protection OF trade, to re-
side in the domnons and territories Of the other
party, but before any Consul shall as such, he
shall in the usual form be approved and admitted by
the government to which he is sent, aud it is here
by declared that in case of Illegal improper
duct towards the laws or government of the coun-
try To which he is sent snch consul may either be
punished according to law If the laws will reach the
case, Or ~ sent back the offended government as
signing the other the reasons for the same.
1t is hersby declared that either of the contract
ing parties, may except from TIE residence of Con-
sus such particular places as such party shall judge
tit to be SO excepted,
4rticle the FTM.-This convention, when the
same shall have been duly ratified by the President
of the United States, by and with the advice and
consent Of their Senate, and by his Rritannic Maj
esty, and the respective ratications mutually ex-
changed, shall be eialing and obligatory on the
said United Siafes and His Majesty tor four year
fron the date OF its signature, and the ratification
shall exchanged in six months from this time, or
Sooner if possible. Done at London, this third day
OF iuiy, in the year OF our Lord one thousanu
eigh hundred and fifteen