was signed at London, on the 26th January last*, in which Convention it is stipulated, that from and after the 5th day of April last, British Vessels entering into or departing from the Ports of France, shall not be subject to any higher Tonnage or other Duties than are levied on French Vessels; His Majesty is thereupon pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the 5th day of April last, the said Order of the 10th of March, 1824, be, and the same is hereby revoked accordingly:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. JAS. BULLER.

BRITISH ORDER in COUNCIL, prohibiting the Exportation of Gunpowder or Saltpetre, or Arms or Ammunition to certain Parts of the Coast of Africa.

At the Court at Carlton-House, the 3rd of May, 1826,

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the time limited by His Majesty's Order in Council, of the 30th September last for prohibiting the Exportation of Gunpowder or Saltpetre, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition, to any Port or Place on the Coast of Africa (except to any Ports or Places within the Streights of Gibraltar,) has expired; and whereas it is judged expedient that the said prohibition should be continued for some time longer; His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, doth therefore hereby order, require, prohibit, and command, that no Person or Persons whatsoever (except the Master-General of the Ordnance for His Majesty's Service), do, at any time during the space of 6 months (to commence from the date of this Order), presume to transport any Gunpowder or Saltpetre, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition, to any Port or Place on the Coast of Africa (except to any Ports or Places within the Streights of Gibraltar) or ship or lade any Gunpowder or Saltpetre or any sort of Arms or Ammunition, on board any Ship or Vessel, in order to transporting the same into any such Ports or Places on the Coast of Africa (except as above excepted), without leave or permission in that behalf, first obtained from His Majesty or His Privy Council, upon pain of incurring and suffering the respective forfeitures and penalties inflicted by an Act, passed in the 29th Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, [Cap. 16.] intituled "An Act to empower His Majesty to prohibit the Exportation of Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition, and also to empower His Majesty to restrain the carrying Coastwise of Saltpetre, Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or

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Ammunition; and also by an Act passed in the 33rd Year of His late Majesty's Reign, [Cap. 2.] intituled "An Act to enable His Majesty to restrain the Exportation of Naval Stores, and more effectually to prevent the Exportation of Saltpetre, Arms, and Ammunition, when prohibited by Proclamation or Order in Council:"

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, the Master-General and the rest of the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, and His Majesty's Secretary at War, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain. JAS. BULLER.

BRITISH ORDER in COUNCIL, granting to Prussian Vessels the Privileges of Trading with the British Colonies.

At the Court at Carlton-House, the 3rd of May, 1826,

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the Law of Navigation, foreign Ships are permitted to import into any of the British Possessions Abroad, from the Countries to which they belong, Goods, the produce of those Countries, and to export Goods from such Possessions to be carried to any Foreign Country whatever; and whereas also by an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the 6th year of the Reign of His present Majesty, [Cap, 114] intituled "An Act to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions abroad," it is enacted, that the privileges granted by the Law of Navigation to foreign Ships, shall be limited to the Ships of those Countries which, having Colonial Possessions, shall grant the like privileges of trading with those Possessions to British Ships, or which not having Colonial Possessions, shall place the Commerce and Navigation of this Country, and of its Possessions abroad, upon the footing of the most favoured Nation: and whereas within the Dominions of His Majesty the King of Prussia, the Commerce and Navigation of this Country, and of its Possessions abroad, have been placed upon the footing of the most favoured Nation; His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to declare, that the Ships of and belonging to the Dominions of His Majesty the King of Prussia are entitled to the Privileges so granted as aforesaid by the Law of Navigation, and may import from such the Dominions of His Majesty the King of Prussia, into any of the British Possessions abroad, Goods, the produce of such Dominions, and may export Goods from such British Possessions abroad to be carried to any Foreign Country whatever.

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Earl Bathurst, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

JAS. BULLER.

TREATY of PEACE between the Honourable East India Company on the one part, and His Majesty the King of Ava on the other, settled by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell, K.C.B. and K.C.T.S., Commanding the Expedition, and Senior Commissioner in Pegu and Ava, Thomas Campbell Robertson, Esquire, Civil Commissioner in Pegu and Ava, and Henry Ducie Chads, Esquire, Captain, Commanding His Britannic Majesty's and the Honourable Company's Naval Force on the Irrawaddy River, on the Part of the Honourable Company; and by Mengyee-Maha-Men-Klah- Kyan-Ten Woongyee, Lord of Lay-Kaeng, and Mengyee Mahah-MenKlah-Shee-hah-the-Ahren-Woon, Lord of the Revenue, on the Part of the King of Ava; who have each communicated to the other their Full Powers:-agreed to, and executed at Yandaboo, in the Kingdom of Ava, on this 24th day of February, in the year of our Lord 1826, corresponding with the 4th day of the decrease of the Moon Tuboung, in the year 1187, Mandina Era.

ART. I. There shall be perpetual Peace and Friendship between the Honourable Company on the one part, and His Majesty the King

of Ava on the other.

II. His Majesty the King of Ava renounces all Claims upon, and will abstain from all future interference with, the Principality of Assam and its Dependencies, and also with the contiguous Petty States of Cachar and Jyntia. With regard to Munnipore it is stipulated, that, should Gumbheer Singh desire to return to that Country, he shall be recognized by the King of Ava as Rajah thereof.

III. To prevent all future Disputes respecting the Boundary Line between the 2 great Nations, the British Government will retain the conquered Provinces of Arracan, including the 4 Divisions of Arracan, Ramree, Cheduba, and Sandowey; and His Majesty the King of Ava cedes all Right thereto. The Annonpeeteetonmien or Arracan Mountains, (known in Arracan by the name of the Yeornabourg or Pokhengloung Range), will henceforth form the Boundary between the 2 great Nations on that side. Any doubts regarding the said Line of Demarcation will be settled by Commissioners appointed by the re

spective Governments for that purpose, such Commissioners from both Powers to be of suitable and corresponding rank.

IV. His Majesty the King of Ava cedes to the British Government the conquered Provinces of Yeh, Tavoy, and Mergui, and Tenasserim, with the Islands and Dependencies thereunto appertaining, taking the Saluen River as the line of Demarcation on that Frontier. Any doubts regarding their Boundaries will be settled as specified in the concluding part of Article III.

V. In proof of the sincere disposition of the Burmese Government to maintain the relations of Peace and Amity between the Nations, and as part indemnification to the British Government, for the expenses of the War, His Majesty the King of Ava agrees to pay the Sum of 1 Crore of Rupees.

VI. No Person whatever, whether native or foreign, is hereafter to be molested, by either Party, on account of the part which he may have taken, or have been compelled to take, in the present War.

VII. In order to cultivate and improve the relations of Amity and Peace hereby established between the 2 Governments, it is agreed that accredited Ministers, retaining an escort or safeguard of 50 men, from each, shall reside at the Durbar of the other, who shall be permitted to purchase, or to build, a suitable place of residence, of permanent materials; and a Commercial Treaty, upon principles of reciprocal advantage, will be entered into by the 2 High Contracting Powers.

VIII. All public and private Debts contracted by either Government, or by the Subjects of either Government, with the other, previous to the War, to be recognized and liquidated upon the same principles of honour and good faith, as if hostilities had not taken place between the 2 Nations; and no advantage shall be taken by either Party of the period that may have elapsed since the Debts were incurred, or in consequence of the War; and, according to the universal Law of Nations, it is further stipulated, that the Property of all British Subjects who may die in the Dominions of His Majesty the King of Ava, shall, in the absence of legal heirs, be placed in the hands of the British Resident or Consul in the said Dominions, who will dispose of the same according to the tenor of the British Law. In like manner the Property of Burmese Subjects, dying under the same circumstances in any part of the British Dominions, shall be made over to the Minister or other authority delegated by His Burmese Majesty to the Supreme Government of India.

IX. The King of Ava will abolish all exactions upon British Ships or Vessels in Burman Ports, that are not required from Burman Ships or Vessels in British Ports; nor shall Ships or Vessels, the property of British Subjects, whether European or Indian, entering the Rangoon River, or other Burman Ports, be required to land their guns, or unship their rudders, or to do any other act not required of Burmese Ships or Vessels in British Ports.

X. The good and faithful Ally of the British Government, His Majesty the King of Siam, having taken a part in the present War, will, to the fullest extent, as far as regards His Majesty and His Subjects, be included in the above Treaty.

XI. This Treaty to be ratified by the Burmese Authorities competent in the like cases, and the Ratification to be accompanied by all British, whether European or Native (American), and other Prisoners, who will be delivered over to the British Commissioners. The British Commissioners, on their part, engaging that the said Treaty shall be ratified by the Right Honourable the Governor-General in Council, and the Ratification shall be delivered to His Majesty the King of Ava in 4 months, or sooner, if possible; and all the Burmese Prisoners shall, in like manner, be delivered over to their own Government, as soon as they arrive from Bengal.

The British Commissioners being most anxiously desirous to manifest the sincerity of their wish for Peace, and to make the immediate execution of the 5th Article of this Treaty as little irksome, or inconvenient as possible to His Majesty the King of Ava, consent to the following Arrangements with respect to the division of the Sum total, as specified in the Article before referred to, into Instalments, viz::upon the payment of 25 lacks of Rupees, or one-fourth of the Sum total, (the other Articles of the Treaty being executed,) the Army will retire to Rangoon; upon the future payment of a similar Sum at that Place, within 100 days from this date, with the proviso as above, the Army will evacuate the Dominions of His Majesty the King of Ava, with the least possible delay; leaving the remaining Moiety of the Sum total to be paid by equal annual Instalments in 2 years, from this 24th day of February, 1826, A.D., through the Consul, or Resident in Ava, or Pegu, on the part of the Honourable the East India Company.