Deduct Sums, which, although included in this Account, form no part of the Expenditure of Great Britain; viz. 447,573 13 31 2,384,591 192 126,489,948 11 51 Act 49 Geo. 3, c. 71 Loan, &c. for Ireland ...... Interest £.1 per Cent and Management on Portugusse Loan, per Sinking Fund on Loan to the East India Company. • This includes the sum of £.413,699 10s. 6d. for Interest, &c. paid on Imperial Loans. France Hanover Holland.. Oldenberg Portugal PUBLIC FUNDED DEBT. An Account of the PUBLIC FUNDed Debt of GrEAT BRITAIN, as the same stood on the 1st of February, 1815. 11,480,049 14 2 35,413,807. 18 7 Charges of Management. Annual or other Sums payable to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, by sundry Acts of Parliament. 22,391,877 19 11 1,303,585 14 53 238,294 10 0 Total of Annual Expense UNFUNDED DEBT. An Account of the UNFUNDED DEBT and DEMANDS OUTSTANDING on the 5th Day of January, 1815. FOREIGN STATE PAPERS. Convention between Great Britain and the United Netherlands, signed at London on the 13th of August, 1814. Article I. Great Britain agrees to restore the Dutch Colonies, with the exception of the Cape of Good Hope, Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice, to be disposed of in a supplementary Convention. 2 and 3. Great Britain cedes to the Netherlands the Island of Banca, in the Eastern Seas, in exchange for Cochin and its dependencies, on the coast of Malabar. The places and forts in the respective settlements to be exchanged in the state in which they were at the signing of the present Convention. 4. Grants the same privileges to the subjects of the Netherlands in British India as are granted to the most favoured nations. No forts to be erected in the Dutch settlements which are within the limits of the British Sovereignty in India, and only the number of troops necessary for the maintenance of police to be maintained. 5. The places to be restored on the AmericanContinent to be given up within three months; those beyond the Cape of Good Hope within six, from the date of the Convention. 6. No person in the places to be restored to be questioned for their former political opinions. 7. The natives and aliens in the countries in which a change of sovereignty takes place are allowed six years for the disposal of their property, and retiring if they think fit. 8. The Sovereign of the Netherlands engages to prohibit all his subjects, in the most effectual manner, and by the most solemn laws, from taking any share whatsoever in that inhuman traffic, the Slave Trade. 9. Stipulates for the ratification within three weeks, or sooner if possible. The first additional article stipulates, that to provide for the defence and incorporation of the Belgic provinces with Holland, and also a compensation in virtue of the 9th article of the treaty of Paris, for the cessions made by Sweden, which Holland should furnish, Great Britain engages to defray the following charges: 1st. The payment of one million sterling to Sweden, in satisfaction of the claims aforesaid, and in pursuance of a Convention executed with his Swedish Majesty's Plenipotentiary to that effect. 2ndly. The advance of two millions sterling, to be applied in concert with the Prince Sovereign of the Netherlands, and in aid of an equal sum to be furnished by him towards augmenting and improving the defences of the Low Countries. 3rdly. To bear, equally with Holland, such further charges as may be agreed upon between the said High Contracting Parties and their Allies, towards the final and satisfactory settlement of the Low Countries in union with Holland, and under the dominion of the House of Orange, not exceeding in the whole, the sum of three millions, to be defrayed by Great Britain. In consideration of the above engagements, the Cape of Good Hope, Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice are ceded to Great Britain, but with condition that the Dutch proprietors have liberty under certain regulations to trade with Holland. It is also agreed that Dutch ships may resort freely to the Cape of Good Hope for the purposes of refreshment and repairs, without being liable to other charges than such as British subjects are required to pay. Second Additional Article. The small district of Bernagore, situated close to Calcutta, is ceded to his Britannic Majesty, upon a payment of such sum annually to his Royal Highness, as may be considered by Commissioners to be appointed by the respective Governments, to be just and reasonable. publish the following Declaration of the causes of the war in which the British Government is engaged with the State of Nipaul, for general information. The British Government having been compelled to take up arms against the Nipaulese, his Excellency the Right Hon. the Governor-General has judged it proper to make known to the powers in alliance and friendship with the Hon. Company, the origin and progress of the transactions which have terminated in this crisis; in the full conviction that the exposition will establish beyond dispute the extraordinary moderation and forbearance of the British Government, and the injus tice, violence, and aggression of the State of Nipaul. The course of the Gorkah conquests having approximated their frontier to that of the Honourable Company, and of its ally the Nawaub Vizier, and the protected Sikh Chieftains, throughout an extent of country stretching from the eastern border of Morung to the banks of the Sutlege, it was scarcely to be expected that dif ferences should not occasionally arise between the inhabitants of the contiguous districts belonging to the two States, and even among the local public officers of each government; but a just and firm line of conduct on the part of the two governments, combined with a sincere disposition to maintain uninterrupted the relations of amity, and to respect the rights Declaration against the Rajah of of each other, could not have Nipaul. His Excellency the Vice President in Council, is pleased to failed to arrest the progress of those unhappy disputes which have terminated in war. While the conduct of the Bri |