AUSTRIA. BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, granting to Austrian Vessels the privilege of Trading with British Ports and Possessions from the Ports of the Danube, as far as Galatz. 23rd June, 1841. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of June, 1841. PRESENT, THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS by an Act, made in the session of Parliament holden in the 3rd and 4th years of Her present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to enable Her Majesty to carry into effect certain stipulations contained in a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Her Majesty and the Emperor of Austria, and to empower Her Majesty to declare, by Order in Council, that ports, which are the most natural and convenient shipping ports of states within whose dominions they are not situated, may, in certain cases, be considered, for all purposes of trade with Her Majesty's dominions, as the national ports of such States," it was, amongst other things, enacted, that, from and after the passing of the said Act, it should be lawful, notwithstanding anything contained in the Act of the 3rd and 4th of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, for Her Majesty, from time to time, to declare by Her Order in Council, to be published in the London Gazette, that all Austrian vessels arriving from the ports of the Danube, as far as Galatz inclusively, should, together with their cargoes, whether such cargoes were the produce of Austria or not, be admitted into the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, See Vol. 5. 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A and of all possessions of Her Majesty, exactly in the same manner as if such vessels came direct from Austrian ports; and that thereupon, and for so long a time as such Order should be declared to be in force or remain unrevoked, it should be lawful to import into the British Dominions from such ports of the Danube, in Austrian ships, any goods which, by the laws in force at the time of such importation, might be there imported in Austrian ships from Austrian ports: Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased, in pursuance of the power and authority in Her vested by the said Act, to order and declare, and doth hereby order and declare, that all Austrian vessels arriving from the said ports of the Danube, as far as Galatz inclusively, shall, together with their cargoes, whether such cargoes shall be the produce of Austria or not, be admitted into the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of all possessions of Her Majesty, exactly in the same manner as if such vessels came direct from Austrian ports: And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. WM. L. BATHURST. TREATY between Great Britain, and Austria, France*, Prussia, and Russia, for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade. Signed at London, 20th December, 1841. In the name of the most Holy and Indivisible Trinity. THEIR Majesties the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of all the Russias, being desirous to give full and complete effect to the principles which have already been recorded in the solemn Declarations made by Austria, Prussia, and Russia, in common with other European Powers, at the Congress of Vienna, on the 8th of February, 1815†, and at the Congress of Verona, on *Not ratified by the King of the French. See Protocols, 1842. France. † See Vol 1. Page 9. the 28th of November, 1822*,-Declarations by which the said Powers announced that they were ready to concur in everything that might secure and accelerate the complete and final Abolition of the Slave Trade: and their Majesties having been invited by Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and by His Majesty the King of the French, to conclude a Treaty for the more effectual suppression of the Traffic, their said Majesties have determined to negotiate and conclude together a Treaty for the final abolition of that Traffic and to this end they have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable George, Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Gordon, Viscount Formartine, Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarvis, and Kellie, a Peer of the United Kingdom, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, and Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the Sieur Augustus, Baron de Koller, Knight of the Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit of. Sicily, Councillor of Embassy, His Chargé d'Affaires and Plenipotentiary in London; His Majesty the King of the French, the Sieur Louis de Beaupoil, Count of Ste. Aulaire, a Peer of France, Grand Officer of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, one of the Forty of the French Academy, His Ambassador Extraordinary to Her Britannick Majesty ; His Majesty the King of Prussia, the Sieur Alexander Gustavus Adolphus, Baron de Schleinitz, Knight of the Royal Order of St. John of Jerusalem, His Chamberlain, Councillor of Legation, Chargé d'Affaires and Plenipotentiary in Lond. And His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russi Sieur Philip, Baron de Brunnow, Knight of the Order White Eagle, of St. Anne of the first class, of St. Stanithe first class, of St. Wladimir of the third, Commander Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, Knight of the Order and of all possessions of Her Majesty, exactly in the same manner as if such vessels came direct from Austrian ports; and that thereupon, and for so long a time as such Order should be declared to be in force or remain unrevoked, it should be lawful to import into the British Dominions from such ports of the Danube, in Austrian ships, any goods which, by the laws in force at the time of such importation, might be there imported in Austrian ships from Austrian ports: Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased, in pursuance of the power and authority in Her vested by the said Act, to order and declare, and doth hereby order and declare, that all Austrian vessels arriving from the said ports of the Danube, as far as Galatz inclusively, shall, together with their cargoes, whether such cargoes shall be the produce of Austria or not, be admitted into the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of all possessions of Her Majesty, exactly in the same manner as if such vessels came direct from Austrian ports: And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. WM. L. BATHURST. TREATY between Great Britain, and Austria, France*, Prussia, and Russia, for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade. Signed at London, 20th December, 1841. In the name of the most Holy and Indivisible Trinity. THEIR Majesties the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of all the Russias, being desirous to give full and complete effect to the principles which have already been recorded in the solemn Declarations made by Austria, Prussia, and Russia, in common with other European Powers, at the Congress of Vienna, on the 8th of February, 1815†, and at the Congress of Verona, on *Not ratified by the King of the French. See Protocols, 1842. France. † See Vol 1. Page 9. the 28th of November, 1822*,-Declarations by which the said Powers announced that they were ready to concur in everything that might secure and accelerate the complete and final Abolition of the Slave Trade: and their Majesties having been invited by Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and by His Majesty the King of the French, to conclude a Treaty for the more effectual suppression of the Traffic, their said Majesties have determined to negotiate and conclude together a Treaty for the final abolition of that Traffic and to this end they have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: : Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable George, Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Gordon, Viscount Formartine, Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarvis, and Kellie, a Peer of the United Kingdom, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, and Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the Sieur Augustus, Baron de Koller, Knight of the Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit of. Sicily, Councillor of Embassy, His Chargé d'Affaires and Plenipotentiary in London; His Majesty the King of the French, the Sieur Louis de Beaupoil, Count of Ste. Aulaire, a Peer of France, Grand Officer of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, one of the Forty of the French Academy, His Ambassador Extraordinary to Her Britannick Majesty ; His Majesty the King of Prussia, the Sieur Alexander Gustavus Adolphus, Baron de Schleinitz, Knight of the Royal Order of St. John of Jerusalem, His Chamberlain, Councillor of Legation, Chargé d'Affaires and Plenipotentiary in London; And His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Sieur Philip, Baron de Brunnow, Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, of St. Anne of the first class, of St. Stanislaus of the first class, of St. Wladimir of the third, Commander of the Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, Knight of the Order of the 4×9 *Sce Vol. 3. Page 1 A 2 |