Rescrit autographe que j'ai reçu de feu l'Empereur, le 2 Février, 1822, en réponse à la Lettre que je Lui ai écrite pour renoncer à la succession au Trône Impérial, Lettre qui avoit été présentée à Notre Mère et honorée de Sa part d'un assentiment qu'Elle a daigné me confirmer Elle-même, ma résolution irrévocable de Vous céder mes droits à la succession au Trône Impérial de Toutes les Russies. Je prie en même temps notre Mère bien-aimée de faire connoître à qui il appartient, mon inébranlable volonté à cet égard, afin qu'elle soit duement mise à exécution. Après cette déclaration, je regarde comme un devoir sacré de prier très-humblement Votre Majesté Impériale, qu'Elle daigne accepter de moi, tout le premier, mon serment de sujétion et de fidélité, et me permettre de Lui exposer que n'élevant mes vœux vers aucune nouvelle dignité, ni aucun titre nouveau, je désire conserver seulement celui de Césaréwitsch, dont j'ai été honoré pour mes services par feu notre Père. Mon unique bonheur sera toujours que Votre Majesté Impériale daigne agréer les sentimens de ma plus profonde vénération et de mon dévouement sans bornes, sentimens dont j'offre comme gage plus de trente Années d'un service fidèle et du zèle le plus pur qui m'a animé envers Leurs Majestés les Empereurs, mon Père et mon Frère, de glorieuse mémoire. C'est avec ces mêmes sentimens que je ne cesserai, jusqu'à la fin de mes jours, de servir Votre Majesté Impériale et ses descendans dans mes fonctions et ma place actuelles. Je suis avec la plus profonde vénération, &c., DECLARATIONS of the Dey of Algiers, on the renewal of Peace with Great Britain.—Algiers, 26th July, 1824. BY HIS MOST SERENE HIGHNESS THE DEY OF ALGIERS. WHEREAS His Majesty The King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has represented to Us, His expectation that We would give a more extended interpretation to the Enactments of the 17th Article of the Treaty concluded between Great Britain and Algiers on the 5th of April, 1686, which provides for the entire safety and freedom of the person and estate of His said Majesty's Agent and Consul-General residing in this our City and Kingdom of Algiers: We are readily disposed to comply with the wishes of His Britannick Majesty, in proof of our sincere desire to confirm and establish more lastingly the relations of peace and harmony which so happily subsist between Great Britain and this Kingdom; and We do, therefore, heartily promise and declare, and it is hereby agreed and declared: Istly. That for the future, and for ever, the British Agent and Consul-General, residing in the City and Kingdom of Algiers, shall be treated at all times with the respect and civility due to his Character II. That his Person and House or Houses should be inviolable; and if any Person injure or insult him, by word or deed, such Person shall be severely punished. III. That he shall have liberty to choose his own Interpreters and Servants, either Mussulmen or others, who are not to pay any Tax or Contribution whatever. IV. That he shall have liberty at all times of hoisting His Majesty's Flag at the top of his House, either in Town or Country, and in his Boat when he passes on the water. V. That he shall not pay Duty for Furniture, Clothes, Baggage, or any other Necessaries which he imports into the City or Territories of Algiers for the use of himself or of his Family, and that if the nature of His Britannick Majesty's Service, or any other motive, require his absence from this Kingdom, neither himself, his Servants, Baggage, nor Effects, shall be stopped or detained, upon any pretence whatsoever, but that he shall have free leave to go and to return as often as he may think it necessary; and finally, that all honours or privileges that are now or may hereafter be granted to the Agent, Consul, or Vice-Consul, of any other Power, shall likewise be granted to His Britannick Majesty's Agent and Consul-General, and to His Vice-Consul. Confirmed and sealed in the Warlike City and Kingdom of Algiers, in the presence of Almighty God, the 26th day of July, in the Year of Jesus Christ, 1824, and in the Year of the Hegira, 1239, and the 29th Day of the Moon Del Cada. BY HIS MOST SERENE HIGHNESS THE DEY OF ALGIERS. WHEREAS a Declaration was made and concluded on the 28th day of August, 1816, by Our Predecessor, His Most Serene Highness Omar Bashaw, with The Right Honourable Baron Exmouth, by which His Highness engaged, that, in the event of any future Wars with any European Power, not any of the Prisoners should be consigned to Slavery, but treated with all humanity as Prisoners of War, until regularly exchanged, according to European practice; and by which Declaration the practice of condemning Christian Prisoners of War to Slavery was formally and for ever renounced; We do hereby distinctly declare, that We are willing to abide in the strictest manner by that Declaration, according to the spirit and literal meaning of the same. Confirmed and sealed in the Warlike City and Kingdom of Algiers, in the presence of Almighty God, the 26th Day of July, in the Year of Jesus Christ, 1824, and in the Year of the Hegira, 1239, and the 9th Day of the Moon Del Cada. INDEX. A. 997 Page ACCOUNTS. Financial, Commercial, &c. See "GREAT BRITAIN," and "UNITED STATES." ACT of the British Parliament. Salaries and Fees of Consuls, &c..... 377 .Levant Company .. 531 of the Provisional Government of Greece, proposing to place the ADMIRALTY. Correspondence with British Naval Officers. Slave Trade.... 1824, 1825..353.368 Correspondence relative to the proposed assembling of a . General Confederation of the American Circular of General Bolivar. Reply of the Vice-President of Colombia. 7th December, 1824. 890 6th February, 1825. 892 Instructions to the Colombian Chargé d'Af- ARAB TRIBES. Treaty with Great Britain..... 8th January, 1820. 499 AUSTRIA. Convention with Sardinia. Free transfer of Property, &c. ...... Milan, 28th May, 1825. 973 19th September, 1825, 954 Speech of The Emperor. Opening of the Diet of Hungary. B. Page BANSWARRA, Rajah of. Treaties with Great Britain........ 1818. 476,485 BRAZIL. Treaty with Portugal. Independence of Brazil. BREMEN. Rio de Janeiro, 29th August, 1825. 674 Convention with Great Britain. Commerce and Navigation. BUENOS AYRES. Treaty with Chile. London, 29th September, 1825. 751 Buenos Ayres, January, 1819. 811 16th December, 1824. 858 Law of Union, of the Provinces of Rio de la Plata. 23rd January, 1825. 862 Message. Opening of the Provincial Assembly of BURMESE WAR. Correspondence of the East India Company. 1823, 1824. 422 Declarations of the Governor-General in Council in India.. C. CACHAR. Rajah G. C. of. Treaty with Great Britain, 6th March, 1824. 521 or ingress of Persons of Colour, November and December, 1824. 638 Friendship and Alliance..Buenos Ayres, Jan. 1819. 811 ..... Washington, 20th January, 1825. 604 CLAIMS of American Subjects against France.-Correspondence. ...... of do. 1823, 1824. 624 against Great Britain. do. |