State Papers.
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The folloaine are the state papers presented onwednesdav night, b command of his Ilajesty. to the House of Comnons, by MIr. Canmng- COXVENTION BETWEEN HIS 5rAJESTY AND THE )IMPFROnS OF AUSTRIA, FGR THE D)FrINITIV SETTLEMENT OP TN E AUSTRIAN LOAN, SIGNED AT VIENNA, 5otv. 17, 1823. His Majesty the King of the Unitedl Kingdom of Great Britain aand Irelan , and his ajesty the Em peror of Austria, being equally desirous of coming to a definitive agreement upon the subject of the Austrian Loan, and of cancelling t}.- whole debt with which Aus- tria is burdened under this denomination, their said 3iniesties have resolved tc rrmake this the .subject of a Convention,' and have named thei. respective Plenipotentiaries for drawring UD and con- cluding the same, to wit-:-His Britannic MsaJesty, the Hon. Robert Gordon; and his Majesty the Emperor of Autstria. Clement M 'encezlas Lothaire, Prince Aletternich-WTinnebourg, Prince of Ochhenhausen, Dukte of Pottella, Knight of the C-olden Fleece, (,rand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen of I-iuiigary, of the Civil Cross of Bonour, asd of St. John of Jerusalem, Chan- cellor of the 31ilitary Order of Mirria Theresa, Grand Cross of the Guelphic Order, and of several others, thamberlain, Privy Councallor of his Imperial Maljesty, his Majesty's Minister of State and of' Conferences, Chanceilor of Court and State, and of the Imperial House, &c., &x., &c., who, after having communicated their full powers have agreel upon the following ari-les:- Article I. His MlajivLy tile Emperor of Austria engages to pay the sum of two mtilions five hundred tlhousand pounds sterling, in satis- faction of the vhole ot the British claims upon his im-uperial Majesty tulher the head ot the Austrian Loan. Article 2. It is agr,eed that this sum of tvo millions five hundred thousand pounds srerling shall be paid into the British Treasury, in the name and on the behalf of the Austrian Government, by the houses of Baring, Reid, and Irving, and Rothschild, in Lolidon: the said houses having been appointed and fully empoweredf by the Ausnian G overnment to make the above payment, according to such terms as nave been agreed to, andl are judged satisfactory, by the British Govemment. A-rticle 3. Immediately after the ratification of the present con- ienrion by lie f M 'ajesties the Kin- of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Emperor of Austria, his Bri- tannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary will deliver up to such persons as -hall be appointed by his Imperial M1ajesty to receive them, the ori- ginal letters of octroi, and th2e who7e of the imperial bonds, which have been held in thie possessian of his Britannic Majesty's Govenn- moent, as securities, from the timne of raising the Austrian loan, anid his Btitannic Mlajesty's Government will hIenceforth be responsible for the complete release of the Austrian Government from all Bri- tisli clamns that could be founded upon the said loan. Article 4. It is expressly undlerstood that, in virtue of the present convention, aU pecuniary claims upon Austria that are connected wivti the Austrian loan, as well as all pecuniary claims upon G ireat Britain, of rlhatsoever descrietion they may be, which have existed. or inight be considered to exist, on the part of the Imperial Govern- uneiit of Austria, are declared to be extinct, and are hercby totallv abolished. Article S. Tl1e present convention shall be ratified within tt:e ipace of six wecl;s, or sooner if pnssible, andi the instrunients of ra- fiflcation i,hall be exchanged in London. it faith of vvhich the re- spective Plenipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their signatures and the seals of their arms. Done at V'iena. this seventeenth day of Novemober, in the year f ouT Lolrd one thousand eight hundred and twenrv-three. (L.S ) IL GORDON. tL.S.) METTERNICH. SLAVE TRADE. ADi)TTION'At ARITICLES TO TIIE COs-VENTION' BETIVEEN ItlS BRtETANNIC MAJESTY AXD HIS IOST rAtTlIFUf. _MA- J}STY, SIN'ED IXe LONDON. tON ImiEz 28TIl OF JULY 1817 HisMlajesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great iritain and Ireland, and his .Majestv the King of the United Kingdom of i'ortugal. Brazil, andl AIrgrves, wishilng to remove every obstacle Eo the faithiful exeecition of the convention signed in London by their l respective Plenipotentiaries, on the 28th of Julv, 1817, tbr the nur- I pose of preventing their subject, from cnt'aging in any illicit traffic in slahes; and iceing thic necessity of adding, to that intent, certain art cs to the said coiivention, have, for this purpose, namned their Pleti;oren tiriee, rhat is to sar :-his Na.esty thie Kin of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, EdWaTdllichlel Wart, Esq., his Cha'g6 d'Afi'aires at the fourt of Lisbon, and his Majesty the King of the United KRingdonm of Portugal,, razil, and AlGrarves, -Jze Bafilio Rademaker, Knight Professed in the Order of Christ, arnd Chief Clerk of the Department of State for Foreign Affairs :-who. aftet ha.,ing exchanged their respective full powers, foiund to be it good and due form. have agreed utpon the fol- lowing rticles:_ Article I. Whereas iL is stated in the first article of the instiuc- nons intendfd for the Briuish and Portuguese ships of war em- ployedta prevent theClliC6t traffic in slaves, that 'ships on board of which no slaves shall lie founcl, intended for pturposes of traffic shall not be detained On any account or pretence wh.tever: and vehereas it tias been found. by experience, that vessels employed in the illegal traffic have. put their slaec inotnentarily on shore, immriediately prnor to their being visited G" ships of war, and that such vessels have thus found mean, to evade rtfteirture. and have been eniabled to pursue their uidlatvfal course with impunity, contrars to the true objlect and spirit of the convention of the 28th of July, 1817; the tw,) high contracting partics. rtieretbre, feel i necessary to declaret anti tt i heieby declared hw theil, that if there shall be clear and ndtleniabla proof that a silae or slaves, of uithier sex, has or have bten puit on board a vessel for the pttrpose of illegil traffie in the partictlar sovage on which the vcrsel was captured, then and on that arcount, according to the true intent and meaning of the stipu- I'l ions of the nboven-mention,el convention, such veesel shall be tie. tained by rtie cruisers, aticl finally ccnlemred bv the Cominissioners. Article2. Inasmuch as the C onvention of the 28th .July, 1817, does tot stipulate the mode ot supplying th. absence of the Comrnuiesion- ers, occuriing from ally other cause besides that (if deatit, which is the toney casc provided for by the fourteenth article of' the Ilegdla. tions t'ir rhe .Mixed Contitsitons, annexed tt) the saitr ('onvenrion the tiv.c high contracting parties have agreed, that, in the event of recall, or sf the absence oti accountof illness, or any other uinavoid- able cause. of any of the Gomtninisiotters, Jtdges, or ArbitratorI; or in thle tase of their absencein conseqtuenceofleavefrom their Go- vernilent wbhicl must te notified to the respective Comnmissions), tleir poo,ts shall lWe supplied in the hame form and maanner as is de- tertiuredi for the case of death, by the aboe-.mentioned foutrteentih article o' the said regulation. These additional articles shall have the samne force and eflect as if they were inserted, word for word, in the saidi Convention, and shall be considered as forming part of'the same: they shall be ratiflet, and the ratitications thereof exchanged in Lisben, within three mnotlhse at latest, after the date of their signature. In witness thereof the tndersigncd, being furnished with full towvcrs to that effect, have signed thcse articles, and affiietd there 1nto the seals of their aerns. Don, it ials,on, this fifwenth dIay of Alarch, in the year of our [Ot Olnt' tnonsanda eight liiind.de( and twenty-three. (L.S) P. Al. WARD. IL.S.) JOZr, BAZlAirf RADEIAKIEKR.f STATE PAPERS.