Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-07-19

mcrclal relations OF the TWO nations, Inc
said governments, in the name Of those na.
tions, do promise to each other that they
will endeavor, in the most sincere and ear
,st manner, to settle the differences SO
arising, and to preserve the state of peace
and friendship in which the two countries
are now placing themselves; using for this
end, mutual representations and pacific me-
gotiations. And if, by these means, they
should not be enabled to come TO an agree
ment,a a resort shall not on this account be
had TO reprisals, aggression, or hostility of
any kind, by the one republic against the
other, until the government Of that which
deems itself aggrieved shall have maturely
considered, in the spirit Of peace and good
neighborship, whether it would not be bet
ter that such difference should not be set.
tied by the arbitration Of commissioners
appointed on each side, or by that OF
friendly nation. And should such course
be proposed by either party, it shall be ac-
ceded to by the other, unless deemed by it
altogether incompatible with the nature of
the difference, Or the circumstances of the
case.
ARTICLE XXI.
Ir(which is not to be expected, and
God forbid!) war shall unhappily break out
between the two republics, they do now,
W th view to such calamity, solemnly
nj edge themselves to each other and to the
world, to observe the following rules: abso-
lutely, where the nature Of the subject per-
mits, and as closely as possible in oil cases
where such absolute observance shall be
impossible:
/, The merchants of either republic
then residing in the other, shall ae allowed
to remain twelve manihs, for those dwell
ing in the interior and six months (for
those dwelling at the seapor,s, to collect
their debts and settle their affairs; during
which periods they shall enjoy the same
protection, and be on the same footing, in
all respects, as the citizens or subjects of
the most friendly nations, and, at the expi-
ration thereof, or at any time before, they
shall have full liberty to depart, carrying
off all their effects without moiestation or
hindrance: conforming therein to the same
laws which the citizens or subjects Of the
most friendly nations are required to con-
form to. Upon the entrance Of the armies
other, women and children, ecclesiasiics,
scholars Of every faculty, cultiyators of the
earth, merchants, artisans, manufacturers
and 6shermen, unarmed and inhabiting un-
fortified towns and villages, or places and
in general oil personsl whose occupa-
ton is for the common subsistence, and
benefit of mankind, shall be allowed to con-
tinue their respective employments unmo-
Tested in their persons. Nor shall their
houses Or 60 DDS be burnt or otherwise de-
stroyed, nor their cattle taken, nor their
fields wasted, by the armed force into whose
power, by the events of war, they may
happen to fall; but if the necessity arises
to take anything from them for the use of
such armed force, the same shall be paid f +
at an equitable price. Ill churches, hospi-
tails, schools, colleges libraries, and other es-
tablishments for charitable and bcnifcent
purposes, shall be respected, and sall per-
sons connected with the same protected in
the discharge of their duties and the pur-
suit of their vocation.
Q. In order that the fate of prisoners of
war may be alleviated, all such practices
as those of sending them into distant in
clement, or unWholesome districts, or
crowding them into close or aexieus places,
shall be studiously avoided. They shall
not be confined in dungeons prison-ships
or prisons; nor be put in irons, or bound,
or be otherwise restrained in the use Of
their limbs. Tire officers shall enjoy IL
barty on their paroles, within convenient
districts, and have comfortable quarters;
and the common soldiers shall be disposed
in environments, open and extensive enough
for air and exercises ,and lodged in barracks
as roomy and good as are provided by the
party in whose power they are, for its own
troops. But if any officer shall break his
parole by leaving the district so assigned
him, or any other prisoner shall escape
(rom the limits of his cantonment, after
they shall have been designated to him,
such individual, officer Or other prisoner
shall forfeit so muchof the benefit of this ar
ticle,as provides for his liberty on parole
or on eantonment. And if any officer so
breaking his parole, OF any common sold
ier SO escaping from the limits assigned
him, shall afterwards be found in arms pre-
viously to his being regularly exchanged,
the person SO offending shall be dealt with
according TO the established laws of war -
The officers shall be daily furnished by the
party in whose power they are, with as
mnny rations, and of the same articles, as
are allowed, either in kind or by commuta-
lion, to officers Of equal rank in its own
army; and all others shall be daily furnish
8, with such ration as is allowed to CON-
mon soldier in its own services the value
OF all which supplies shall at the close of
the war, or at periods to be agreed upon be
tween the respective commanders, be paid
by the other party, cn mutual adjustment
Of accounts for the ST. Is stence ofprisoners;
and such accounts shall not be mingled
with or set off against any others, nor the
balance due on them be withheld as a com
pensation or reprisal for any cause what.
ever, real or pretended. Each party shall
be allowed to keep conmissary of psiso-
ners, appointed by itself, with every can
tonment of prisoners in possession of the
other; which commissary shall see the pris-
oners as often as he pleases; shall be al
lowed to receive, exempt from all duties or
taxes, and to distribute whatever comforts
may be sent 10 them by their friends; and
shall be free to transmit his reports in open
letters 10 the party by whom he is employ
ed.
And it is declared that neither the pre.