George IV, King of Great Britain (1762-1830) [Additional convention to Treaty of Ghent]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02304 Author/Creator: George IV, King of Great Britain (1762-1830) Place Written: Carlton Place, England Type: Document signed Date: 4 October 1822 Pagination: 25 p. : docket ; 37.5 x 24.5 cm. Order a Copy
The Russian copy in French and English in side by side columns. Signed by George IV and countersigned by George Canning as head of the Foreign Office. Diplomatic document comprising a rider or supplemental convention to the Treaty of Ghent, agreed upon on 24 December 1814. This convention pertains to compensation for seized American slaves. The first leaf constitutes the King's official Warrant addressed to John, Earl of Eldon, "Our Chancellor of Great Britain," to affix the seal of Great Britain to the treaty between Great Britain, Russia, and the United States. The following pages are the full text of the convention consisting of eight Articles, two Annexes, and an appendix. Text reads in part "...That the United States of America are entitled to claim from Great Britain a just Indemnification for all Private Property which the British Forces may have carried away; and, as the question relates to Slaves more especially, for all the Slaves that the British Forces may have carried away from the Places and Territories of which the Treaty stipulates the restitution, in quitting these same Places and Territories..." Tied with original blue silk ribbon on left margin with large paper seal. Pages 26-27 are blank. Discussion on this issue continued until 1823 after submission to the Czar for arbitration.
[draft excerpt from Seller's Description]
Warrant to affix "...the Great Seal of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" to the treaty "between Us, Our Good Brother The Emperor of all the Russias, and Our Good Friends the United States of America. for carrying into effect the Award made by Our said Good Brother upon the First Article of the Treaty of Peace and Amity between Us and Our said Good Friends, concluded at Ghent" on 24 December 1814. "respecting the true Construction and Meaning of which. differences had arisen between the Two Contracting Parties (Great Britain and the United States). and which had therefore. been referred to the decision of Our said Good Brother.-signed at St. Petersburgh ... by the Plenipotentiaries of Us and of Our said Good Brother and Good Friends ..."
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