The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-01-28

| flnpfruf al all the kttsslds, WIS conc Idpd
| aud signed 1T ST. Petersburg, on the hllh
seventeenth day of April, IN the year of
nur Lord one thnnsaad eight hundred and
tNeaiy tour which Convention, being IN
the French language, is, word fol word, as
tuons, Translation ol the same being
nafeio annexed:
TRANSLATION.
In the name q The most holy and liririSibls
Trinity:
The President al the United States of
America aud HI Majesty thr Emperor of
all the Russias, " i,tins 10 crment the bonds
| of amity nhici, unite them, and TO secure
between them the in,ailable maintenance
Of a perfect CONCORD, by means of the pre-
sent Convention, have named, as their
PleDipuienllarles, 10 tlls effect, To Wit -
The President of The u. States of Ameri-
ca, HENRY MIDDLETON, Il citizen of said
States, and lheW Envoy Extraordinary and
Munster Plenipotenllary nraI his Imperial
Majesty aud his Majesty the Emperor Of
all the Kussia-, his beloved and faithful
CHARLES RoBERT Countot NEssELRopE,
actual Pri,y Counsellor, Member OF tue
Council of State, Secretary of State dIrec
4 & Tie administration of Foreign Affairs,
Il, tual Chamberlain, kuisht of the order Of
s Alexander Ne.sky, Grand Cross of ihr
order of y Waldimrr of the first class,
Knight of that Of the Wti,e |. gls of Pc
la d, Grand Cross of the 5rdt D 81. Ste
phrn OF Hong ~, Knight vi h orders o
the Holy Ghost and Uf ST. Airnarl, aud
q aud ross 4f the Legion Of 10 u ii
+ ance, knight Grand Cross of tn atdefs
IA u ~, =,
Prussia, of the Annunelatlon of SARDINIA, OF
Charles Ill. uf Spain, of st. ferdinand ~
Of Nett of Naples, of the Elephant OF
Denmark, ofthc Polar Star of Sweden, Of
The Growu Of WrtemberS, OF the Gurlphs
of Hanover, Of the Beige Lou, al fld,llty
of Baden aud Of ST. Constantine OF Parn
aud Pierre d. Polcilca, actual Counsellor
of State, Knight of the order OF 81 Anne
OF the first class, and Grand Grass of the
order Of st. Vladimir of the second wis,
after having exchanged their full powers,
| found in good aud duc foHn, have a@rred
npoa, aud signed, the following sllrula
tIJns:
ARTICLE FIRST.
1t is agreed, that, in any part Of the
Great Ocean, commonly called the Pdclic
Dceau, or South Sea, the respective cin
zcns or subjects of the high contracting
powers shall be neither disturbed nor re
strHned, either ia Navigation or IN fishing,
Or In the power OF reso'tns To the coasts,
| np0n points winch may mot aIread. hr oe
capped, for the pu,posr ot tradlaS with the
| natives, SAVING ALWAYS the restrictions and
conditions drtera.ined by the following ar
| tcles
| ARTICLE SECOND.
With the view of preventing the RICH Is
of IA i.ation aud Ottisling Exercised upon
| h. grra ocean hy the cItlZ. rs and ,uh
| jerts of tie high contracting powers, fto n
becoming the ptetrXt for a Ilcit trade, II
is agteed that the Citlzens Of The U. states
-hall n"' resorl % ~ point whore there
is ii Russian establishment, without the
prrmIs-l,n nf Ire 60. nor ~ roil ,nander !;
aud that, recipractlly, th,. sub jacto q Rus
sian shall not r. "rl, without p.Imiss"n, IL
anN establishment Of the [. ). upon the
Northwest Coast.
ARTICLE THIRD.
Ii is moreosef agreed, that, hereafter,
there shall NOT hr formed by the citizens
OF the United States, ar under the anlhorl
" of the said states, any .slah ishnent up
in any of The Islands adjacent, 10 the north
of fifty four degrees aud forty miIol.s Of
nori5 latitude and that, In the sane man
ner there shall be none FORMED hy Russian
SUBJECTS, or nuder he aufhoiuy OF Rassia,
south ot tire same parallel.
ARTICLE FOURTH.
II Ia, nevertheless aaderstnod, that, du
riuG term of ten years, cau0Ilag ttom lhe
stSusttte Of the present cunsrntlpn, the
-hips ot both powers, or which t''ioug To
taei. citizcns or subjects, respectively may
rrclprocdly frequent. without any hind
rance vta,rver, the interior seas, guts,
harbors. and creeks, upon The coast men
toned in the preceding rticle, for the Fur
pose of fishing and trading with the natives
Of the country.
ARTICLE FIFTH.
All spiituuus liquors. fire arms, other
arms, pow der, aud mnni'lnn~ Of war at
very kind, are always excepted from this
same comnr,re permitted by the proceed
ing article !; and the lNo powers engage
lfo3Ipuocai,, neither 10 4rll, or sniier them
To br sold to the natives by their resp-c
tive citizens aad subjects, NOV by any per
sou who may be undrr Their authority. 1t
~ likewise stimulated thlt this restriction
shall never afford pretrxt, nor be ad,anc
ed, In any east, 10 auihoriZr either search
or detention of the Vessels, srizurt of the
merchandise, nr, IN line, any measures al
cuU.lraint Whatever towards the mrI chants
or the crews WHO may cary nn tbs com
merce the high contracting Powers reel
procally resrrving to themselves 10 deter.
mine upon the penalties 10 he incurred y
10 iuhict the puni'hmenls IN cat OF the
c u,rnraton Of ibis article, by their re
preventative citizens Or subjects.
ARTICLE SMITH.
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