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THE

SENATOR;

OR,

CLARENDON'S

Parliamentary Chronicle.

CONTAINING

AN IMPARTIAL REGISTER,

RECORDING,

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THE

PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES

OF THE HOUSES OF

LORDS AND COMMONS.

Being the FOURTH SESSION in the

Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain,

Held in the Year 1794.

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VOL. VIII.

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Authentic Copies of the feveral Treaties and Conventions, laid upon the Table in the Houfe of Lords by Lord GRENVILLE, and in the Houfe of Commons by Mr. Secretary DUNDAS. Convention between His Britannick Majefty and the Emprefs of Ruffia. Signed at London, the 25th of March, 1793.

THEIR Majefties the King of Great Britain and the Emprefs of all the Ruffias, equally convinced of the importance and advantage to the two monarchies of the extenfion of the commerce which has hitherto fubfifted between their refpective fubjects, have acknowledged the neceffity of immediately providing for this object by preliminary ftipulations, till a definitive arrangement for a treaty of commerce can be agreed upon between the two Crowns. For this purpose, they have chofen and authorised, viz. His Britannick Majesty, the Moft Illustrious and Moft Excellent Lord William Wyndham, Baron Grenville of Wotton, one of His Majefty's Privy Council, and his Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and Her Majefty the Emprefs of all the Ruffias, the Moft Illuftrious and Moft Excellent Lord Count Simon Woronzow, Lieutenant-General of the Armies of her faid Imperial Majefty, her Envoy Extraordinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary to His Britannick Majefty, and Knight of the Orders of St. Alexander Newsky, of the Military Order of St. George of the Third Clafs, and of St. Vlademir, Great Crofs of the First Class: Who, after communicating to each other their full powers, finding them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

ARTICLE I. The treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation, concluded at St. Petersburgh in the year 1766, between the two monarchies, fhall refume its force and activity, which fhall continue, in all the claufes and ftipulations, during the space of time hereafter fixed; and the two high contracting parties engage to employ themselves, in the interval, in the arrangement of a new treaty of commerce, for the purpose of fecuring, in a permanent manner, whatever may tend to confolidate and to extend the commerce and the navigation of the British and Ruffian fubjects. In confequence whereof, His Britannick Majefty, and Her Majesty the Emprefs of all the Ruffias, engage and promife reciprocally to execute, obferve, and accomplish, in all points, the above-mentioned claufes and ftipulations of the treaty of commerce of the year 1766, as if they were inferted here word for word, and in the fame manner in which they were executed, obferved, and accomplifhed before the year 1787, being the date of the expiration of the faid Treaty; with exception only of thofe alterations which are agreed upon by the prefent act, and which will be mentioned in the following Articles. ART. II. The college of commerce being no longer a court of justice, law-fuits, and other affairs of English merchants eftablifhed in Ruffia, fhall be judged and regulated by the tribunals eftablished for this pur pofe, in the fame manner as is practifed with regard to other nations who have treaties of commerce. In return for which, the Ruffian fubjects established in England fhall be under the fame jurifdiction of the fame tribunals before which the affairs of other nations are brought, who have treaties of commerce with England.

ART. III. Her Imperial Majefty of all the Ruffias, in continuation of the encouragement which the has uniformly granted, in her states, to the commerce and navigation of British fubjects, engages that they fhall enjoy, in her ports in the Black Sea, and the Sea of Azoph, all the advantages and diminutions of the Cuftom-houfe duties, which are specified in the VIth Article of the edict preceding the general tariff of the year 1782, and which is of the following tenor:

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