112. Act for abridging the form of extracting decrees of the Court of Session in Scotland, and for the regulation of certain parts of the proceed ings of that court. 113. Act for enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of 3,000,000l., for the service of Great Britain. 114. Act for granting to his Majesty a sum of money, to be raised by Exchequer bills, and to be advanced and applied in the manner and upon the terms therein mentioned, for the relief of the united company of merchants of England trading to the East Indies. 115. Act for granting to his Majesty certain sums of money out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned, for the service of the year 1810; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament. 116. Act to extend and amend the term and provisions of an act of the thirty-ninth and fortieth year of his present Majesty, for the better preservation of timber in the New Forest, in the county of Southampton, and for ascertaining the boundaries of the said forest, and of the lands of the crown within the same. 117. Act to direct that accounts of increase and diminution of public salaries, pensions, and allowances, shall be annually laid before Parliament, and to regulate and controul the granting and paying of such salaries, pensions, and allowances. 118. Act for regulating the offices of registers of Admiralty and Prize Courts. 119. Act for further amending and enlarging the powers of an act of the forty-sixth year of his present Majesty, for consolidating and render ing more effectual the several acts for the purchase of buildings, and further improvement of the streets and places near to Westminster Hall and the two houses of Parliament. No. II. Treaty between Napoleon and Louis Buonaparte. His Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the League of the Rhine, and Mediator of the Swiss Confederacy, and his Majesty the King of Holland, being desirous of terminating the dif ferences that have arisen between them, and of making the independence of Holland harmonize with the new circumstances wherein the English orders in council of 1807 have placed all the maritime powers, have agreed to come to a mutual understanding thereon, and to that end have nominated as their plenipotentiaries, viz. his Majesty the Emperor of France, &c. the Sieur John Baptiste Nompere, Count de Champagny, Duke of Ca dore, Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, &c., his Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs, &c.; and his Majesty the King of Holland, Charles Henry Verheuil, Admiral of Holland, Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Dutch Or der of Union, his Majesty's Ambassador to the Emperor and King; who, after exchanging their full powers, have agreed upon the following articles : ART. I. Until the English govern ment shall have solemnly abrogated the restrictions contained in its orders in council of 1807, all commerce whatsoever is prohibited between the ports of England and the ports of Holland. Should there be reasons for granting licences, those only shall be IV. All vessels violating the first article, that may be taken on the Dutch coast by French men of war, or privateers, shall be declared good prizes; and in case of any doubt arising, such difficulty can alone be decided upon by his Majesty the Emperor. V. The restrictions contained in the above articles shall be revoked, as soon as England shall have solemn ly revoked her orders in council of 1807; and from that instant the French troops shall evacuate Holland, and restore to her the full enjoyment of her independence. VI. Inasmuch as it has been adopt ed as a constitutional principle in France, that the thalweg of the Rhine forms the boundary of the French empire; and as the dock-yards of Antwerp are, by the present state of the boundaries between the two countries, unprotected and exposed, his Majesty the King of Holland cedes to his Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, &c., Dutch Brabant, the whole of Zealand, including therein the Isle of Schouwen, that part of Guelderland which is situate on the left bank of the Waal; so that henceforth the boundary between France and Holland shall be the thalweg of the Waal, from the fort of Schenkens, leaving on the left bank Nymeguen, Bommel, and Wondrichem; then the principal stream of the Merwe, which runs into the Biesboch, through which, and also through the Hollandsch Diep, and the Wolkerak, the line of demarcation shall be continued, until it reach the sea at Bieningen or Gravelingen, leaving on the left the Isle of Schou wen. VII. Each of the ceded provinces shall be released from all debts not incurred for its own interests, sanctioned by its particular government, and funded upon its territory. VIII. His Majesty the King of Holland, in order to co-operate with the force of the French Empire, shall have afloat a squadron of nine sail of the line and six frigates, armed and provided with six months stores, and ready to put to sea by the 1st day of June next ensuing; and also a flo tilla of 100 gun-boats, or other armed vessels. This force shall, during the whole period of the war, be maintained and kept in constant readiness. IX The revenues of the ceded provinces shall belong to Holland until the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty. Until the same day the King of Holland shall defray all the charges of their administration. X. All the merchandize imported by American vessels that have arrived in the ports of Holland since the 1st of Feb. 1809, shall be put under sequestration, and made over to France, in order to her disposing thereof according to the circumstances and the state of her political relations with the United States. XI. All merchandize of English manufacture is prohibited in Holland. XII. Measures of police shall be adopted, for the purpose of strictly watching and taking into custody all insurers of prohibited traffic, all smugglers, their abettors, &c. In a In a word, the Dutch government pledges itself to extirpate the contraband trade. XIII. No depot of goods prohi bited in France, and that may give a colour to contraband traffic, can be established within a distance of four leagues from the line of the French custom-houses; and in case of trespass, all such depots shall be subject to seizure, though upon the Dutch territory. XIV. With the reserve of these restrictions, and so long as they shall be in operation, his Majesty the Emperor shall suspend the prohibitory decree which shuts the frontier barriers between Holland and France. XV. Fully confiding in the manner in which the engagements resulting from the present treaty shall be executed, his Majesty the Emperor and King guarantees the integrity of the Dutch possessions, such as they shall be pursuant to this treaty. XVI. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Paris, within the period of fifteen days, or sooner, if possible. Done at Paris, this 16th of March, 1811. (Signed) CHAMPAGNY, Duke of Cadore. The Admiral VERHEUIL. No III. Decree for annexing Holland to Palace of Rambouillet, July 9th, 1810. We, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation, &c. &c., have decreed, and hereby decree, as follow :- TITLE I. ART. 1. Holland is united to France. 2. The city of Amsterdam shall be the third city of the empire. 3. Holland shall have six senators, six deputies to the Council of State, 25 deputies to the Legislative Body, and two judges in the Court of Cas sation. 4. The officers by sea and land, of whatever rank, shall be confirmed in their employments. Commissions shall be delivered to them signed with our hand. The royal guard shall be united to our imperial guard. TITLE II.-Of the Administration for 1810. 5. The Duke of Placentia, archtreasurer of the empire, shall repair to Amsterdam in the capacity of our lieutenant-general. He shall preside in the council of ministers, and attend to the dispatch of busi ness. His functions shall cease the 1st the French administration shall comof January, 1811, the period when mence. 6. All the public functionaries, of whatever rank, are confirmed in their employments. TITLE III. Of the Finances. 7. The present contributions shall continue to be levied until the first of January, 1811, at which period the country shall be eased of that burden, and the imposts put on the same footing as for the rest of the empire. 8. The budget of receipts and dis bursements shall be submitted to our approbation before the 1st of August next. Only one third of the present amount of interest upon the public debt shall be carried to the account of expenditure for 1810. The interest of the debt for 1808 and 1809, not yet paid, shall be reduced to one third, and charged on the budget of 1810. 9. The custom-houses on the frontier, other than those of France, shall ibe organised under the superintendiance of our director-general of the custom-houses. The Dutch customhouses shall be incorporated therewith. The line of custom-houses, now on the French frontier, shall be kept up until the 1st of January, 1811, when it shall be removed, and the communication of Holland with the empire become free. 10. The colonial produce, actually in Holland, shall remain in the hands of the owners, upon paying a duty of 50 per cent. ad valorem. A declaration of the amount shall be made before the 1st of September at farthest. The said merchandize, upon payment of the duties, may be imported into France, and circulated through the whole extent of the empire. TITLE IV. 11. There shall be at Amsterdam a special administration, presided over by one of our counsellors of state, which shall have the superintendance of, and the necessary funds to provide for the repairs of the dikes, polders, and other public works. TITLE V. 12. In the course of the present month there shall be nominated, by the Legislative Body of Holland, a commission of 15 members, to proceed to Paris, in order to constitute a council, whose business shall be to regulate definitively all that relates to the public and local debts, and to conciliate the principles of the union 4 Act of Election of the Prince of Ponte Corvo (General Bernadotte) to be Crown Prince. Dated at Stockholm, September 1, 1810. We, the undersigned, States-General of the kingdom of Sweden, Counts, Barons, Bishops, Representatives of the Nobility, Clergy, Burghers, and Peasants, assembled in the Extraor dinary Diet at Orebro, make known, that his Royal Highness Prince Charles Augustus of Schleswig Holstein Augustenburg, elected Prince Royal of Sweden, of the Goths and Vandals, being deceased without heirs male, and judging that it is our duty to prevent and to avert the danger to the independence and tranquillity of the kingdom, as well as to the rights and privileges of its inhabitants, which might result from a vacancy of the throne, and a consequent election; exercising, at the same time, the power which is reserved to us by the ninety-fourth article of the constitution of the 6th of June, 1809, of electing in such case a new dynasty;for these reasons, and considering that the High and Mighty Prince and Lord Jean Baptiste Jule Bernadotte, Prince of Ponte Corvo, is endowed with virtues and qualities which give us the well-founded hope of enjoying under the reign of that prince a good administration and prosperity, the fruits of a legal, energetic, and bene ficent government, We, the StatesGeneral of Sweden, upon the propo sition of our august King now reigning, under condition that the said Prince and Lord the Prince of Ponte Corvo have, before his arrival on the Swedish territory, embraced the evangelical Lutheran religion, and signed the conditions drawn up by us, have voluntarily elected, by free and unanimous suffrage, for ourselves and our descendants, the High and Mighty Prince Jean Baptiste Jule Bernadotte, Prince of Ponte Corvo, to the dignity of Prince Royal of Sweden, to reign in Sweden and its dependencies after the decease of our present august sovereign (whose days may the Almighty prolong!) to be crowned King of Sweden, and receive the oath of fidelity; in short, to govern the kingdom according to the literal sense of the constitution of the 6th of June, 1809, and of the other laws in force, as well fundamental as general and special, the whole conformable to the answers which his royal highness shall now give, and afterwards at his accession to the throne. We also confer on the legitimate male descendants of his royal highness, the right of filling the throne of Sweden, in the order and manner which are literally prescribed in the law of succession which we have established.-We, the States-General of Sweden, have, in consequence, confirmed the present act of election, by the signature of our names and affixing our seals. Done at Orebro, the 21st of August, in the year of the Christian era 1810. No. V. Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation between his Britannic Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal.-Sign ed at Rio de Janeiro, the 19th of February, 1810. In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity. His Majesty the King of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, being equally animated with the desire, not only of consolidating and strengthening the ancient friendship and good understanding which so happily subsist, and have during so many ages subsisted between the two crowns, but also of improving and extending the beneficial effects thereof to the mutual advantage of their respective subjects, have thought that the most efficacious means for obtaining these objects would be to adopt a liberal system of commerce, founded upon the basis of reciprocity and mutual convenience, which by discontinuing certain prohibitions and prohibitory duties might procure the most solid advantages on both sides to the national productions and industry, and give due protection at the same time to the public revenue, and to the interests of fair and legal trade. For this end, his Majesty the King of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, have named for their respective Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries, to wit, his Britannic Majesty, the most illustrious and most Excellent Lord Percy Clinton Sydney, Lord Viscount and Baron of Strangford, one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Military Or der of the Bath, Grand Cross of the Portugueze Order of the Tower and Sword, and his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary at the Court of Portugal; and |