ART. 17 After the exchange of the ratifications, both high contracting parties shall proceed to appoint their respective plenipotentiaries for the purpose of adjusting and concluding the definitive treaty of peace which is to be concluded between the republic of the United Provinces and the Empire of Brazil.

ART. 18. If. contrary to expectation, the high contracting parties should not come to an adjustment in the said definitive treaty of peace, though questious that may arise in which they may not agree, notwithstanding the mediation of his Britannic majesty, the republic and the empire cannot renew hostilities, before the expiration of five years stipulated in the tenth article; nor even after this time can hostilities take place. with out notification being reciprocally given, with the knowledge of the mediating power, six months previously

ART. 19 The exchange of the ratifications of the present convention shall be effected in the city of Monte Video, in the term of sixty days from the date hereof, or sooner if possible.

In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned plenipotentiaries of the government of the United Provinces, and his majesty the Emperor of Brazil, in virtue of our full powers, sign the present convention with our hand, and seal it with the seal of our arms. Done in the city of Rio Janeiro, on the 28th day of the month of August, in the year of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1828. L. S.] JUAN RAMON BALCARCE. [L. S.] JOSE CLEMENTE PEREIRA. L. S. THOMAS GUIDO. L S. JOAQUIN D'OLIVERA ALVAREZ.

L. S.] MARQUEZ DE ARACATY.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

Both the high contracting parties oblige themselves to employ all means in their power in order that the navigation of the river Plate, and of all others that empty into it, may be kept free for the use of the subjects of both nations, for the space of fifteen years, in the form that may be agreed upon in the definitive treaty of peace.

The present article shall have the same force and vigour as if it had been inserted for word word in the preliminary convention of this date.

Done in the city of Rio Janeiro, &c. &c.

ABSTRACT

OF

JUDICIAL DECISIONS,

ON POINTS CONNECTED WITH OUR

FOREIGN RELATIONS.

REFERENCES

TO THE

PRINCIPAL CASES DECIDED IN THE COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND IN SOME OF THE STATE TRIBUNALS,

IN

REGARD TO POINTS OR PRINCIPLES

CONNECTED WITH OUR

Foreign Relations.

Britian.

1. After the treaty of peace of 1783, no proceeding Treaty with Great could be maintained in Pennsylvania, upon an attainder for Attainder. treason, in adhering to the King of Great Britain, during the

war.-Respublica v. Gordon, 1 Dallas, 233.-Supreme Court

of Pennsylvania. 1788.

2. The law of Nations forms a part of the municipal law of Foreign minister. Pennsylvania, and violations of that law may be prosecuted

by indictment, and punished by fine and imprisonment.— Respublica v. De Longchamps, 1 Dallas, 114. Court of Oyer and Terminer, Philadelphia, 1784.

3. A Foreigner, committing an act in violation of the law of Nations in regard to the person of a secretary of legation of the nation to which such foreigner belongs, cannot be delivered up, by the Executive of the State, to the minister of that nation; although cases may occur, where, pro bono publico, and to prevent atrocious offenders evading punishment, they may be delivered up to the justice of the country to which they belong, or where the offences were committed;nor can such offender against the law of nations be imprisoned until his Government shall declare that the reparation is satisfactory.-id 116.

id.

4. The municipal laws of a country can not change the law id. of nations, so as to bind the subjects of another nation.Miller v. Ship Resolution, 2 Dallas, 4 — Federal Court of Ap

peals, 1781.

Treaty with

5. America was bound, as an ally of France, by the capitulation between Great Britain and France, for the surrender of France. Dominica.-id 15.

6 The ordinance of Congress founded on the Russian armed neutrality, declaring that free ships should make free goods, included British property.-id. 18. 36.

Armed neutrality.

usual form, be approved and admitted by the Government to which he is sent; and either of the Contracting Parties may except from the residence of Consuls, such particular places as either of them may judge fit to be so excepted.

ART. 11. For the better security of commerce between the subjects of His Britannick Majesty, and the inhabitants of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, it is agreed, that if at any time any interruption of friendly commercial intercourse, or any rupture should unfortunately take place between the two Contracting Parties, the subjects or citizens of either of the two Contracting Parties residing in the dominions of the other, shall have the privilege of remaining and continuing their trade therein, without any manner of interruption, so long as they behave peaceably, and commit no offence against the laws; and their effects and property, whether entrusted to individuals or to the State, shall not be liable to seizure or sequestration, or to any other demands than those which may be made upon the like effects or property, belonging to the native inhabitants of the State in which such subjects or citizens

may reside. ART. 12. The subjects of His Britannic Majesty residing in the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, shall not be disturbed, persecuted, or annoyed on account of their religion, but they shall have perfect liberty of conscience therein, and to celebrate divine service either within their own private houses, or in their own particular churches or chapels, which they shall be at liberty to build and maintain in convenient places, approved of by the government of the said United Provinces: liberty shall also be granted to bury the subjects of His Britannic Majesty who may die in the territories of the said United Provinces, in their own burial places, which, in the same manner, they may freely estabish and maintain. In the like manner, the citizens of the said United Provinces shall enjoy, within all the dominions of His Britannic Majesty, a perfect and unrestrained liberty of conscience and of exercising their religion publickly or privately, within their own dwelling houses, or in the chapels and places of worship appointed for that purpose, agreeably to the system of toleration established in the dominions of His said Majesty.

ART. 13. It shall be free for the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, residing in the United Provinces of Rio de La Plata, to dispose of their property, of every description, by will or testament, as they may judge fit; and, in the event of any British subject dying without such will or testament in the territories of the said United Provinces, the British Consul-General, or, in his absence, his representative, shall have the right to nominate curators to take charge of the property of the deceased, for the benefit of his lawful heirs and ereditors, without interference, giving convenient notice thereof to the authorities of the country; and reciprocally.

ART. 14. His Britannic Majesty being extremely desirous of totally abolishing the Slave Trade, the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata engage to 00-operate with His Britannic Majesty for the completion of so beneficent a work, and to prohibit all persons inhabiting within the said United Provinces,