The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-14

absorbing interest in this country, we have thougnt
proper to lay it before our readers 1t will be
continued from day to day till finished We copy
from the n Y. Albion.]
THE QUINTUPLE TREATY FOR THE SUP
PRESTON OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE
TRADE
Arr l. Their Majestes the Emperor of Austria,
King of Hungary and Bohemia, the King of Prussia,
and the Emperor of all the Russias engage to pro-
hibt all trade in slaves either by their respective
subjects by of capital belonging to their re-
spcctive subjects and to declare such traffic piracy
Their Majestes further declare that any vessel
which may attempt to carry the slave trade shall
by the fact alone, lose all right to the protection OF
their flag.
Arr. Ii. In order more completely to accomplish
the object of the present treaty. the high contracting
parties agree by consent that those of their
shi Of war which shall be provided with special
warrants and orders prepared accordngto the forms
Of the annex Of the present treaty, may search
cry merchant vessel belong to any one of the high
contracting parties, which shall, on reasonable
grounds be suspected Of being engaged in the traffic
in slaves, of having been fitted out for that pur
pose, or Of having been engaged in the traffic during
the voyage in which she shall have been met with
by the said cruisers and that such cruisers may de-
tain, and send, carry away such vessels In order
that they may be brought to trial in the manner here
after agreed upon.
Nevertheless, the abov right of search
ing the merchant vessels of any one or other of the
high contracting parties shall be exercised only by
ships of war whose commanders shall have the rank
Of captain that of lieutenant in the Royal or I'm
peral navy, unless the nand snail, by reason OF
death or otherwise have devolved upon officer of
inferior rank. The commander of such ships of war
shall be furnished with warrants according to the
form annexed to the present treaty, under letter A.
The said mutual right of search shall not be exer-
cha nit IN thpM e<iite anoan
space within which the exercise Of the said right shall
be confined shall be bounded the north, by the
32d parallel of north latitude: the west, by the
eastern coast Of America from the point where the
32d parallel of north latitude strikes that coast down
to the 45th parallel Of south latitude: the south,
by the 45h parallel of south latitude, from the point
where that parallel strikes the coast of Amer
to the 80th degree Of longitude east from the mer
dian of Greenwich and on the east, by the same de-
gree of longitude from the point where it Is intersec
ed by the 45th parallel Of south latitude up to the
coast of India.
Arr. ILL., Each of the high contracting parties
which may choose to employ cruisers for the suppress
sion of the slave trade, and to exercise the mutual
right of search, to itself to fix, according to
its convenience, the number Of the ships Of war
which shall be employed the service stipulated in
the second article Of the present treaty. well the
stations which the said ships shall cruise.
TIE of the ships appointed for this purE ose,
and those Of their COMMANDERS shall be communlcat
ed by each of the high contracting parties to the
others and they shall recirocaily apprse each other
evory time that cruiser shall be placed on station
shall be recalled thence in order that the necessary
warrants may be delivered by the Governments
thorixing the search, and returned those Govern
ments BY the Government which has received them,
when those warrants shall longer be necessary for
the execution of the present treaty.
ART. Nv. Immediately after the Government which
employs the cruisers shall have notified to the Govern
which is authorize the search the number and
the of the cruisers which it intends to employ,
the warrants authorizing the search shall be made out
according the form annexed to the present treaty,
under letter A. and shall be delivered by the Govern
ment which authorizes the search to the Government
which employs the cruiser.
In shall the mutual right of search be ex-
ercised upon the ships of of the high contracting
parties.
The high contracting parties shall agree upon a
particular signal, to be used exclusively by ,hose
cruisers which shall be invested with the right of
search.
Art. v. The cruisers of the high contracting par
ties authorized to exercise the right of search and de-
tention in execution Of the present treaty. shall
form themselves strictly to the instructions annexed t.
the said treaty. under letter B. in all that relates to
the formaites of the search and Of the detention
we'll the TO be TAKEN order that the
vessels suspected Of having been employed in the ra
6c may be delivered to the competent tribunals
The high contracting parties reserve to themselves
the right Of making in these instructions by COM
mon consent, such alterations circumstances may
render necessary
The cruisers of the high contracting parties shall
mutually afford to each other assistance in all
when it may be useful that they should act in concert
ART. vi. Whenever merchant vessel, sailing
under the flag of of the high contracting parties,
shall have been detained by cruiser Of the other du-
ly authorized to that effect comfortably to the provi
sons of the present treaty such merchant vessels,
we'll as the MASTER the crew. the cargo and the slaves
who may be on board, shall be brought into such
place as the high contracting parties shall have re-
spectively designated for that purpose and they shall
be delivered over the authorities appointed with
that view by the Government within whose posses-
sion such place is situated order that proceedings
may be had with respect to them before the competent
tril,onals in the manner hereafter specified
When the commander of the cruiser shall not
think fit to undertake himself the bringing in and
the delivery up of the detained vessel he shall ntrust
that duty to officer Of the rank Of lieutenant in
the Royal or Imperial Navy at least to the officer
who shall at the time be the third in au horty on
board the OBTAINING ship.
ART. VII. If commander of a cruiser of
one of the high contracting parties should have
10 suspect that merchant ssel sailing under
the convoy of, or in company with, ship of war of
one Of the other contracting parties has been en-
gagged in the slave trade or has been fitted out for
that trade, he shall make known his suspicious to
the commander of The ship of war, who shall pro-
Deed alone to search the suspected vessel and, in
case the last mentioned commander should ascertain
that the suspicion is well founded he shall ause the
vessel as wen as the master the crew, the cargo,
and the slaves Who may be board to be taken in
to port belonging to the nation of the detained YES
sell to be there proceeded against before the compe-
tent tribunals in the manner hereafter directed.
ART VIII. As merchant vessel del aimed
and sent in for adjudication shall arrive at the port to
which she is to be carried in conformity with annex
TO the present treaty. the commander of the cruiser
which shall have detained her. the officer appointed
to bring hei in, shall deliver to the authorities APP
pointed for that purpose copy signed by himself Of
all the lists, declarations and other documents speci-
he'd IN the instructions the present treaty
under letter b and the said authorities shall proceed
in consequence, to the search of the detained weasel