TREATY of Commerce and Navigation between Prussia and Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh.—Signed ́at Berlin, the 4th October, 1828. (Translation.)

His Majesty The King of Prussia, on the one part, and the Senate of the free and Hanseatic City of Lubeck, the Senate of the free and Hanseatic City of Bremen, and the Senate of the free and Hanseatie City of Hamburgh, on the other part,—proceeding on the conviction that the placing of their respective Subjects and Citizens, reciprocally, upon an equal footing, with respect to the present and future Trade and Navigation Duties, will essentially tend to the furtherance of ther mutual commercial undertakings,-have, in order to the conclusion of a Convention for the attainment of so desirable an object, named as their Plenipotentiaries: viz,

His Majesty The King of Prussia, His Privy Councillor of Legation Ernst Michaelis; and the Senate of the free and Hanseatic City of Lubeck, the Senate of the free and Hanseatic City of Bremen, and the Senate of the free and Hanseatic City of Hamburgh, the Chamberlain, Resident Minister and Chargé d'Affaires of the free and Hanseatic City of Hamburgh at Berlin, Ludwig August von Nebeur; who have agreed upon the following Articles:

ART. I. Prussian Vessels, arriving in ballast or with cargoes in the Harbours of the free and Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburgh, and Vessels of Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburgh, arriving in ballast or with cargoes in the Harbours of the Prussian States, shall be treated, on their arrival as well as on their departure, upon the same footing as National Vessels, with regard to the present and future harbour, tonnage, light-house, pilot, and salvage duties, and to all others of the State Chest, as well as to the duties and burthens arising from State or Private Regulations, of every denomination whatsoever.

II. All wares, goods, and articles of commerce, whether of home or of foreign origin, which may hereafter be imported or exported in National Vessels, to or from the Royal Prussian harbours, or to ar from those of the free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburgh, shall, in like manner, be imported and exported in Vessels of either Party, without being burthened with higher or other duties of any kind than those to which they would be subject, on their importation or exportation in National Vessels. And the same bounties, drawbacks, allowances, and immunities, shall be granted, on the importation or exportation of such wares, goods, and articles of merchandize, in Ships of the other Party, as now are, or may in future be granted on their importation or exportation in National Vessels.

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III. As, agreeably to the preceding Article, with reference to the I nationality of the Ships of both Parties, an equalization of the duties to be levied on their cargoes is to take place, so likewise shall every difference cease which may exist, in the amount of those duties, on account of the Ownership of such cargoes. The importation and exportation of all goods, wares, and articles of commerce, in Ships of the Contracting Parties, belonging to Royal Prussian Subjects, in the harbours of the free and Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburgh, shall, therefore, be subject to no higher or other import, export, or other duties, than the property of the Citizens of those Cities; and, vice versa, all goods, wares and articles of commerce, belonging to Citizens of the free and Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh, in the Royal Prussian Harbours, shall be subject to no higher or other import, export, or other duties, than the property of Royal Prussian Subjects.

IV. The Stipulations of the preceding Article shall be operative, in their full extent, not only when the Ships of either Party come directly from their national harbours, or return thereto, but also when they come immediately from, or are destined to, the harbours of a third State.

V. Prussian Vessels, as well as those of Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburgh, shall reciprocally enjoy the rights and privileges assured to them by the present Treaty, provided that they be furnished with Ship's Passports and Muster-rolls, according to the Regulations of the Party whose Flag they may carry.

VI. The Stipulations of the above Articles, I to IV, relative to the Ships of either Party and their cargoes, entering into or departing from their harbours respectively, shall also extend to the reciprocal commerce by River Navigation. For Ships of the River Navigation it will suffice, in proof of their Nationality, that they produce a Ma. nifest, agreeably to the Act concerning the Weser Navigation, of the 10th of September, 1823* and to the concluding Protocol of the Commission for revising the navigation of the Elbe, dated Hamburgh, the 18th of September, 1824.†

VII. Should the Contracting Parties deem it advisable, for the promotion of their reciprocal commercial interests, to enter into Additional Stipulations, all Articles which shall be concluded for that purpose shall be considered as forming a part of this Treaty.

VIII. Although the present Treaty shall be considered valid in common to the Three free and Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburgh, it is nevertheless agreed, that no general obliga

* See Martens' Supplement, Vol. 10, Page 301.

+ See Martens' Supplement, Vol. 10, Page 588.

tion shall, in consequence, be binding upon their respective Govenments, but that the cessation of any of the provisions of the Treaty, with regard to one of them, shall have no effect upon the engage. ments which it contains on the part of the others; for which other Powers the Treaty shall, consequently, remain in full force.

IX. The duration of the present Treaty, which shall come into effect from the day of the exchange of the Ratifications, is provisionally fixed for the period until the 1st of January, 1840; and if no notice be given, on either side, 12 months before the expiration of that period, it shall thenceforth be considered as subsisting for a year longer, and until the expiration of 12 months after such notice shall have been given.

X. The present Treaty shall be ratified by the Contracting Parties, and the Instruments of Ratification exchanged at Berlin, within 5 weeks, or sooner if possible.

In faith whereof this Treaty has been signed and sealed by the Plenipotentiaries on both sides.

Done at Berlin, the 4th of October, 1828.

(L.S.) ERNST MICHAELIS.

(L.S.) LUDWIG AUGUST VON NEBEUR. [The Ratifications of this Treaty were exchanged at Berlin the 18th November, 1828.]

TREATY between Hanover, Saxony, and several other States of Germany, for the promotion of a reciprocal Free Trade and Intercourse.-Signed at Cassel, 24th September, 1828.

(Translation.)

THEIR Majesties the King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover, and the King of Saxony; their Royal Highnesses the Elector of Hesse, and the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach; their Serene Highnesses the Duke of Brunswick; the Landgrave of Hesse Homburg; the Dukes of Nassau, of Oldenburg, of Saxe Altenburg, Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Saxe Meiningen; also their Serene Highnesses the Princes of Reuss, of the Senior and Junior Branches, at Gratz, at Lobea stein, and Ebersdorf, and at Schleitz; the Prince of SchwartzburgRudolstadt*; as also the High Senates of the Free Cities of Bremen and Frankfort;-with the mutual desire of giving effect to the Agree ment signed at Frankfort on the Maine, on the 21st of May last, have nominated Plenipotentiaries, and have delegated the same to meet at Cassel, in order to the Conferences agreed upon to be held, namely: * The Prince of Schwartzburg Sondershausen acceded, subsequently, to this Treaty.