Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-11

Cor whose benefit the loan is made.
Z N IRELAND.
The Situation Of Ireland is said to be far more
calm than it has been for long period.
FRANCE
Marshal Soult has developed his plan for the
reduction Of the effective force Of the French Ar
nv, With a reserve. The effective force is TO be
fixed at. $4,000 men, which, added to the re-
serve of $780, 900, and the noblised National
Guards. 273 900, will amount to a total OF 1885,.
600 men available in case Of war.
PORTUGAL.
If the accounts from Portugal can be credited
the cause Of Don Pedro is highly favorable.
tam it is that large reinforcements sailed D
England for his army towards me close II my.
This induced the Duke Of Wellington give
notice of an intended motion from him. PRAYING
for strict neutrality between the contending
parties.
Accounts from Paris mention that the Ambss.
sador of Don Pedro had an audience Of NJ Bro.
gIie, and it was reported that loan OF ten mil.
lions Of francs were to be loaned to Don Pedro.
HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.
There is at length some prospect that the seem
ingly everlasting question between Holland and
Belgium Is speedily to be brought to an amicable
conclusion The annexed treaty between France.
England and Holland, opens the navigation of
the Scheldt; removes the Embargo; restores the
Dutch prisoners now in France; and makes pro.
vision for a de6nitive negotiation, in which Rus
STA, Austria, and Prussia are to participate.
CONVENTION between His Majesty and the King
of the French on the one part, ami the King OF the
Netherlands on :he other part; together with an ex
planstory article ihereunto annexed. Signed at
London, May 81, 1883
TRANSLATION.
Their Maiesties the King If the United King.
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the King of
the French, and the King of the Netherlands,
Grand Duke Of Luxembourg, being DESTROYS OF
re.estabshing the relations between them as they
existed before the month Of November, 1882.
have for that purpose resolved TO conclude Con-
venti0n, and have named al their Plenipotentia.
ries, viz
His Majesty the King Of the United Kingdom
Of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Hon.
Henry John Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple,
Peer of Ireland, member of His Britannia
Majesty's most Hon. Prisy Council. Knight
Grand Cross of the most Hon. Order Of the Bath,
member of Parliament, aud his Principal Sc
cretary of State fur Foreign Affairs.
His Majesty the King Of the French, the Sieur
Charles Maurice de Teller and P.rigord, Prince
Duke de Talleyrand. Peer of France, Ambas
saior Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoentia-
~ from his said Majesty to His Britannia Ma
iesty, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Knight of the Order of Golden Fleece, Grand
Cross Of the order of St Stephen Of Hungary,
of the order Of st. Andrew, of the order Of the
Black Eagle. &c.
And His Majesty the King of the Netherlands,
the Sieur Solomon Dedel. Commander Of the Or.
der Of the Lion Of the Netherlands.
Who, after having exchanged their full powers.
found to be in gopd and due torn, have agreed
upon and concluded the following articles:-
.4rticie l-Immediately after the exchange of
the Publications Of the present convention, their
Maiesties the King of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and the King Of the
French, will take of the embargo which they
have placed upon the ships, vessels, and goods,
belonging to subjects of his Majesty the King of
of the Netherlands, and all the vessels detained,
together with their cargoes, shall be Immediately
released, aud restored to their respective owners.
In like manner, His Majesty, the King Of the
Netherlands, will revoke the measures taken in
his states with respect to the English and French
flags.
..4riicle 2-At the same period. the Neither.
land troops. both OF the royal navy and army, at
present detained in France, shall return to the
states OF His Majesty. the King of the Neither.
lands with their arms, baggage, carriages, horses,
and other effects belonging either to the corps or
to individuals.
.frficie $50 long as the relations between
Holland and Belgium shall not be settled BY a
definitive treaty. his Nether!and Majesty enga-
ges not to recon nence hostilities against Beigl.
um. and to leave the navigation of the Scheldt en-
tirely free
.friicie 4-Immediatey after the exchange Of
the rati6cations of the present convention. the
navigation Of the Meuse shall be opened TO com
merce; and until dcfnilIse arrangement he made
in this respect. II snail be subjected to The pros-
sions OF the convention signed at Mentz the 8 st
of March, 1851, for the Navigation Of the Raine.
so far as those provisions may be applicable to
the said river
The communications between the fortress Of
Maestricht and the frontier of North Brabant,
and between the said fortress and Germany, shall
be free and without impeachment.
Article 5-The high contracting parties engage
to occupy themselves. without delay. about the
defintive treaty which is to fix the relations be-.
tween the states Of His Majesty the King Of the
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