TABLE OF THE NUMBER OF BANKRUPTCIES IN ENGLAND, From Dec. 20, 1815, to Dec. 20, 1816, inclusive. Total Bankruptcies..2029. Increased from the last year...744 193 75 1 | 43 1 | 33 1 | 23 0 38 0 A Statement of the Quantity of Porter brewed in London by the Twelve first Houses, from the 5th of July, 1815, to the 5th of ... July, 1816 Barrels. Barclay, Perkins, & Co. . 330,200 Meux, Reid, and Co. 189,020 Truman, Hanbury, & Co. 185,041 Whitbread and Co. ... 168,855 Henry Meux and Co.... 114,277 Combe, Delafield, & Co. 100,655 VOL. LVIII. 2 A LIST Lord President of the Council, First Lord of the Treasury (Prime Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer. First Lord of the Admiralty. Master General of the Ordnance. {Secretary of State for the Home Secretary of State for Foreign ment of War and the Colonies. President of the Board of Controul for the affairs of India. Right Hon. C. Bragge Bathurst.. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan Right Hon. W. W. Pole.. caster. Master of the Mint. NOT OF THE CABINET. STATE PAPERS. BRITISH. TREATIES LAID BEFORE PARLIAMENT. (No. 1.)-Portugal. Convention between Great Britain and Portugal, signed at Vienna, 21st January, 1815, in the English and Portuguese Languages. TIS Britannic Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, being equally desirous to terminate amicably all the doubts which have arisen relative to the parts of the coast of Africa with which the subjects of the Crown of Portugal, under the laws of that kingdom and the Treaty subsisting with his Britannic Majesty, may lawfully carry on a trade in slaves; and whereas several ships, the property of the said subjects of Portugal, have been detained and condemned, upon the alleged ground of being engaged in an illicit traffic in slaves; and whereas his Britannic Majesty, in order to give to his intimate and faithful ally the Prince Regent of Portugal, the most unequivocal proof of his friendship and the regard he pays to his Royal Highness's reclamations, and in consideration of regulations to be made by the Prince Regent of Portugal for avoiding hereafter such doubts, is desirous to adopt the most speedy and effectual measures, and without the delays incident to the ordinary forms of law, to provide a liberal indemnity for the parties whose property may have been so detained under the doubts as aforesaid; in furtherance of the said object, the high contracting Parties have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, viz. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh, &c.; and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Don Pedro de Sousa Holstein Count of Palmella, &c.; the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Anthony de Saldanha da Gama, &c.; and Don Joachim Lobo de Silveira, &c.; who, having mutually exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles : Art. 1. That the sum of three hundred thousand pounds be paid in London, to such person as the Prince Regent of Portugal may appoint to receive the same; which sum shall constitute a fund to be employed under such regulations, and in such manner as the said Prince Regent of Portu gal |