of the customs in the districts within which the said vessels may be, to visit them, to remain on board, and to take all such precautions as may be necessary to prevent all illicit communication during the stay of the said vessels. Art. 8. It is agreed that the vessels of one contracting party, on entering the ports of the other, may confine themselves to discharging only a part of their cargoes according as the captains or owners shall think fit, and that they may freely depart with the rest without paying duty, except for the part unloaded. They may then sail to other ports of the same country, and discharge other portions of their cargo in like manner. It being understood that the shipping duties, whatever they may be, shall be paid at the first port in which a vessel breaks bulk, and shall not be demanded in any others in which she may unload part of her cargo, unless additional duties be there paid, in the like case, by vessels belonging to the country.

Art. 9. The citizens and subjects of either country shall enjoy in the ports of the other, as well for their vessels as for their merchandise, all the duties and facilities of entrepot which the most favoured nations enjoy in the same ports.

Art. 10. In the case that any vessel belonging to one of the two states, or to their citizens or subjects, has suffered any damage on the coasts of the states of the other, every assistance shall be afforded to the persons shipwrecked. The ships and merchandise, or what they have produced, if sold, on being claimed

within a year and day by the owners or their agents, shall be restored on paying the same expenses of salvage as the natives would in like case pay.

Art. 11. It is agreed that Swedish and Norwegian ships arriving direct from Europe to the United States, or vessels of the said states arriving direct to Sweden or Norway, and furnished with certificates of health from the competent officer of the port whence they sailed, shall be subject to no quarantine, except such as may be necessary to give the officer of health of the port at which the vessel arrives the opportunity of visiting her, unless it shall appear that during the voyage some person on board has been attacked with a malignant or contagious malady, or that the country whence the vessel comes has been regarded as infected, and has been made the subject of a previous ordinance, directing all vessels arriving from it to be regarded as suspected, and subject to quarantine.

Art. 12. The Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, concluded at Paris in 1783, by the Plenipotentiaries of Sweden and the United States, shall be renewed and put in force by the present treaty, with respect to what is contained in Articles 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, and 25; and also, the separate Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, which were signed on the same day by the same Plenipotentiaries.

Art. 13. Considering the remoteness of the two high contracting powers, and the uncertainty resulting therefrom, as to

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the different events which may take place, it is agreed that a merchant-vessel belonging to one of the contracting parties, and destined for a port which may be supposed to be blockaded at the moment of her sailing, shall not be captured or condemned for having in one instance attempted to enter the said port, unless it can be proved that the said vessel must have learned on her passage that the blockade of the place in question continued. But vessels which, having been once warned off, shall attempt during the same voyage to enter a second time into an enemy's port during the continuance of the blockade,

shall then be subject to detention and condemnation.

Art. 14. The present treaty shall continue in force for eight years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications, which shall take place within eight months after the signature, and sooner if possible. (Signed)

COUNT ENGESTROM, JONATHAN RUSSELL, COUNT A. G. Morner. Stockholm, Sept. 4, 1816. We, Charles John, by the Grace of God, King of Sweden, Norway, of the Goths and Vandals, make known that our dearly beloved father, the late King, of glorious memory, and the United States, having agreed to conclude a treaty of commerce, did respectively appoint.-[Here the appointment of the Plenipotentiaries and the articles agreed on are recited.] In consequence the United States of America having declared by their Minister Plenipotentiary, accredited at

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our Court, that for grave reasons they are prevented from ratifying articles 3, 4, and 6, of the said above recited treaty, and as we have found the tenor of these articles of such a nature that they may be excluded from the treaty, without prejudice to the interest of our faithful subjects, we have for these causes thought fit to ratify, approve, and accept the above inserted treaty of commerce, with the exception of the articles 3, 4, and 6; and we do hereby accept, approve, and ratify the same, &c.

(Signed) CHARLES JOHN. Stockholm, July 24, 1818. Report of the Secret Committee of the House of Lords, appointed to examine into the matter of the several Papers, sealed up, presented to the House by command of the Prince Regent.

By the Lords Committees appointed a Secret Committee to examine into the matter of the Papers presented to this House, in a Sealed Bag, by the command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and to report to the House as they shall see cause; and to whom were referred additional papers (sealed up,) also presented to the House by the command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

Ordered to Report:-That the committee have proceeded to examine the papers so referred to them.

In execution of this duty they have proceeded, in the first place, to consider such of the said papers as contained information

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as to the state of those parts of England in which the circumstances detailed in the two reports of the former committees appear to have arisen.

In the last of those reports, presented to the House on the 12th of June last, it was represented that the period of a general rising, of which the intention and object were stated in the reports, appeared to have been fixed for as early a day as possible after the discussion of an expected motion for reform in parliament; that Nottingham appeared to have been intended as the head quarters, upon which a part of the insurgents were to march in the first instance; and that they expected to be joined there, and on their march towards London, by other bodies with such arms as they might have already provided, or might procure by force from private houses, or from the different depôts or barracks, of which the attack was proposed. That concurrent information, from many quarters, confirmed the expectation of a general rising about the time above-mentioned, but that it was subsequently postponed to the 9th or 10th of June, for which various reasons had been assigned. The report added, that the latest intelligence from those quarters had made it highly probable that the same causes which had to that time thwarted the execution of those desperate designs, viz. the vigilance of the government, the great activity and intelligence of the magistrates, the ready assistance afforded under their orders by the regular troops and yeomanry, the prompt and effiVOL. LX.

cient arrangements of the officers intrusted with that service, the knowledge which had from time to time been obtained of the plans of the disaffected, and the consequent arrest and confinement of the leading agitators would occasion a still farther postponement of their atrocious plans.

It now appears that in the night of the 9th of June last, a rising took place in Derbyshire, headed by a person who went for that purpose from Nottingham, and was therefore called The Nottingham Captain." The insurgents were not formidable for their numbers, but they were ac tuated by an atrocious spirit. Several of them had fire arms; others had pikes previously prepared for the purpose: and as they advanced towards Nottingham, they plundered several houses of arms, and in one instance a murder was committed. They compelled some persons to join them, and endeavoured to compel others by threats of violence, and particularly by the terror of the murder which had been committed; and they proposed to reach Nottingham early in the morning of the 10th of June, and to surprise the military in their barracks: hoping thus to become masters of the town, and to be joined by considerable numbers there, and by a party which they expected would be assembled in Nottingham Forest, and which actually did assemble at that place, as after stated. The disposition to plunder, the resistance they met with, and other circumstances, so delayed their march, that they had not

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arrived near their place of destination at a late hour in the morning; and the country being alarmed, a military force was assembled to oppose them.

The language used by many persons engaged in this enterprise, and particularly by their leaders, leaves no room to doubt that their objects were the overthrow of the established government and laws; extravagant as those objects, were, when compared with the inadequate means which they possessed. In the course of their march, many of their body felt alarmed at the atrocious projects in which they had engaged, which had actually led to a cruel and deliberate murder; they found that their confederates had not arrived to their support, as they had been led to expect; and in the villages through which they passed, a strong indisposition being manifested towards their cause and projects, some of them threw away their pikes and retired, before the military force appeared; and on the first show of that force the rest dispersed, their leaders attempting in vain to rally them, many were taken prisoners, and many guns and pikes were

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month of July following, the grand jury found bills of indictment for high treason against forty-six of the persons charged with having been engaged in this insurrection; and several of those persons having been taken were arraigned upon the indictment before a special commission is. sued for that purpose, which sat at Derby in the month of October following. Four of the principal offenders were separately tried and convicted; three of them were executed; and the capital punishment of the fourth was remitted, on condition of transportation. The conviction of these four induced nineteen of the other persons indicted, whose conduct had been deemed in the next degree most criminal, to withdraw their pleas of not guilty, and to plead guilty to the indictment, in hopes of thus avoiding a capital punishment; and the sentence of death on these persons was afterwards remitted, on different conditions. Against all the other persons indicted, whowere in custody, the law officers of the crown declined producing any evidence, and they were accordingly acquitted. The rest of the persons included in the indictment, had fled from justice, and have not yet been taken.

guilt by those who withdrew their pleas of not guilty, and pleaded guilty to the same in dictment, and thus submitted themselves to the mercy of the Crown, appear to the committee to have established beyond the possibility of a doubt, the credit due to the information mentioned in the last report, respecting the plans of more extended insurrection, which had previously been concerted, and respecting the postponement of these plans to the 9th or 10th of June.

But this insurrection in Derbyshire was not the only circumstance occurring since the period described in the last of the two reports before mentioned, which demonstrates the correctness of the information on which the committee who made that report proceeded, in representing such a general rising to have been intended, and to have been postponed; and that Nottingham was the head quarters upon which a part of the insurgents were to march in the first instance; and that they were expected to be joined there by insurgents from different quarters.

Early in the same night on which the Derbyshire insurgents began their operations, the town of Nottingham was in a state of considerable agitation. It appears from the evidence given upon the trials at Derby, that during the march of the Derbyshire insurgents towards Not tingham, one of their leaders, afterwards convicted of high treason, was sent forwards on horseback, to obtain intelligence. On his return to the main body of the Derbyshire insurgents, it

was pretended that the state of Nottingham was favourable to their designs; the actual state of Nottingham and its neighbourhood, appears from the evidence given on the trials at Derby. In the night of the 9th of June, some persons, stated to be in number about one hundred, had assembled on the race course, in Nottingham Forest, where the Derbyshire insurgents, according to their original plan, were to have arrived at an early hour on the morning of the 10th, and expected to be joined by such a party. This party was seen about twelve at night; they were drawn up in line, two deep, and a part of them were armed with pikes or poles. They remained assembled on the race ground until past two o'clock in the morning, about which time they dispersed. Some appearances of disturbance in the town of Nottingham early in the night of the 9th, induced the magistrates to send for a military force from the barracks; and order being quickly restored, the military returned to their barracks, and were not again called out, until the morning of the 10th, when they were required to assist in dispersing the Derbyshire insurgents, who were then on their march.

Connected with these disturbances in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, a disposition to similar conduct was manifested in a part of the west Riding of Yorkshire. On the 6th of June a meeting of delegates was assembled at a place called Thornhill Lees, near Huddersfield; and at this meeting it was understood, that the time to be fixed for a general rising would be announced. The per