nourable East India Company, on the various points depending between him and the British Government in India. 3rd. If Rao Pundit Purdhaun shall agree to the foregoing Conditions, the Honourable East India Company and His Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah will assist him in the restoration of his just authority in the Mahratta Empire. 4th. For this purpose, Rao Pundit Purdhaun shall agree to subsidize, in perpetuity, such a Body of the said Company's Troops, as shall hereafter be judged necessary for the restoration and maintenance of his authority. II. Rajah Rhagojee Bhooslah shall be admitted to the benefit of this General Alliance on the following Conditions: 1st, Rajah Rhagojee Bhooslah shall accept the Honourable Company's Arbitration of all unadjusted points between His Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah and the said Rajah, according to the tenour of subsisting Treaties. 2nd. Rajah Rhagojee Booslah shall agree to such equitable interchanges of Territory with the Honourable East India Company, as shall be judged necessary to complete or improve their respective Frontiers, or to such cessions of Territory (in consideration of a just pecuniary equivalent) as shall be judged necessary to the same purpose. III. If, contrary to the spirit and object of this Defensive Treaty, War should hereafter appear unavoidable (which God avert!) the Contracting Parties will proceed to adjust the rule of partition of all such advantages and acquisitions as may eventually result from the success of their united Arms. The Contracting Parties entertain no views of conquest or extension of their respective Dominions, nor any intention of proceeding to Hostilities, unless in the case of unjustified or unprovoked aggression, and after the failure of their joint endeavours to obtain reasonable satisfaction, through the channel of pacific Negotiation, according to the tenour of the preceding Treaty. It is however declared, that in the event of War, and of a consequent partition of Conquests between the Contracting Parties, His Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah shall be entitled to participate, equally with the other Contracting Parties, in the division of every Territory which may be acquired by the successful exertion of their united Arms, provided His Highness the Nabob Asoph Jah shall have faithfully fulfilled all the Stipulations of the preceding Treaty, especially those contained in the XIIth and XIIIth Articles thereof. Signed, Sealed, and exchanged, at Hydrabad, on the 12th October, Anno Domini 1800, or 22d Jemmadee-ul-Awul, Anno Higeræ 1215. SCHEDULE referred to in the preceding Treaty. Schedule of His Highness the Nizam's Territorial Acquisitions by the Treaty of Seringapatam, dated the 18th May, 1792, and by the Treaty of Mysore, dated the 22nd June, 1799, and which, in conformity to the Vth and VIth Articles of the Treaty of 1800, are now, together with the Talook of Adoni, and all other Talooks situated to the South of the Rivers Toombuddrah and Kistnah, ceded in full and in perpetuity to the Honourable East India Company. List of Talooks acquired by the Treaty of Seringapatam. List of Talooks acquired by the Treaty of Mysore. Annagoondy ..... Kurpunkully (6 Talooks) Wurtnahpoor, and sundry other Villages in the Chittledroog District 7,800 0 10,000 0 0 60,100 0 0 1,10,030 8 0 5,840 140 Total. C. Pagodas. 7,93,300 10 0 Grand Total. C. Pagodas. 21,09,968 5 3 Districts situated North of the Toombuddrah, which, conformably to the VIth Article of the Treaty of 1800, remain with His Highness the Nizam, to be deducted from the above, as follows: C. Pagodas. F. A. Koopul............8 Talooks Gajjirdughur......8 do Kunnauckgherry 1 do...... Villages of the Anagoondy District, situated to the 106,137 3 O 101,977 9 0 79,100 0 0 8,710 0 0 Villages of the Tukkulcotah District, situated like wise North of the Toombuddrah....................... Retained by His Highness the Nizam C. Pagodas. F. A. 855 0 0 2,96,780 00 Remains to the Honourable Company C.Pagodas 18,13,188 43 Add the Adoni Country, which, together with all His Highness's remaining Possessions South of the Toombuddrah, is, by the VIth Article of the said Treaty, ceded, in exchange for the above Districts, to the Honourable Company... Rupees. 8,34,718 12 0 A true Copy, J. A. KIRKPATRICK, Resident. MESSAGE from the President of The United States to Congress, transmitting Correspondence, (1815, 1816,) relative to the execution of the 1st Article of the Treaty of Peace, of 1814, between The United States and Great Britain, concerning the Restitution of certain Slaves captured during the War-7th February, 1817. TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, I TRANSMIT to the Senate a Report of the Secretary of State, complying with their Resolution of the 28th of last month. JAMES MADISON. 7th February, 1817. Department of State, 5th February, 1817. THE Secretary of State, to whom has been referred the Resolution of the Senate of the 28th of last month, requesting the President to cause to be laid before the Senate such information as he may possess, touching the execution of so much of the Ist Article of the late Treaty of Peace and Amity between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America, as relates to the Restitution of Slaves, has the honor to submit to the President the accompanying Papers, marked A, B, C, D and E, as containing all the information in this Department supposed to be called for by the said Resolution. All which is respectfully submitted, JAMES MONROE. LIST. Page (A).—Correspondence with the British Chargé d'Affaires at Washington ............ 1815. (B.)-Communications from the American Commissioners in Chesapeake Bay........ .....1815. (C.)-Communications from the American Agents, sent to Cumberland Island ...... ........1815. (D.)-Communications from the American Agent at Ber muda ............ (E.)-Correspondence with the American Minister in Lon don..... 268 272 276 285 ............1815, 1816. 291 (A.)—CORRESPONDENCE with the British Chargé d'Affaires at Washington.-1815. (Extract.) The Secretary of State to Mr. Adams. Washington, 11th May, 1815. I AM Sorry to have to state, that the British Naval Commanders have construed the Stipulation in the Treaty, not to carry off with their Forces the Slaves whom they had taken from our Citizens, differently from this Government. My Correspondence with Mr. Baker, of which a Copy is enclosed, will show the ground of this difference, which appears to be so decidedly in favor of The United States, that it has excited surprise that it should have existed, and still greater that the British Officers should have acted on their construction, by removing the Slaves in question. Mr. Baker makes a distinction between the Slaves who were in British Ships of War in our waters, and those who were in the Posts held by their Forces at the time of the exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty, but I think without reason. It seems to have been the intention of the Parties, and to be the clear import of the Article, that they should carry off no Slaves that were then within our Limits. They were as much in the possession and under the authority of the British Commanders in the Forts or other Places held by their Troops on the Land, as in their Vessels. It was as much a carrying away in the one instance as in the other; and the injury to the Proprietors of the Slaves was the same. In short, I see no ground for such a distinction. The United States have a right either to the restitution of all these Slaves, or to compensation for their loss. I shall forward to you, without delay, a List of those thus removed, with an estimate of their value, the payment of which, if the Slaves themselves are not restored, you will claim of the British Government. Mr. John Quincy Adams. JAMES MONROE. |