Colleccao de Tratados E Concertos de Pazes Que O Estado Da India Portugueza Fez Com OS Reis E Senhores Com Quem Teve Relacoes NAS Partes Da Asia E Africa Oriental Desde O Principio Da Conquista Ate Ao Fim Do Seculo XVIII (12) (Portuguese, Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Nao ilustrado. 1886 edition. Excerto: ...of an article to be made the basis of future negotiation and which note or article as the case might be when agreed upon between the two Governments, may be invested with the same force as it inserted in the body of the Treaty. The undersigned must however frankly state to the Viscount de Sa da Bandeira that, if this question is to be made now a cause for any further delay in the conclusion of the Treaty, the signature of which by His Excelleucy, in its present form, the undersigned has been led to expect for some time past, it will become his painful duty to declare that the negotiations with reference to this Treaty must be looked upon as terminated with him, nor can he hold out under such a contingency, the possibility of their being again resumed until after a decision shall have been taken by the British Parliament on the subject of the slave trade. The undersigned has received positive instructions to obtain without loss of time a distinct answer from the Portuguese Government as to their intention with regard to the Treaty of which the undersigned presented the draft on the 15.th April last. The undersigned has already delayed his departure three weeks beyond the time when the result of the negotiations in which he has been engaged with His Excellency, has been expected by Her Majesty's Government, and as on the result of that negotiation must depend the attitude to be taken by Her Majesty's Government in Parliament with respect to the slave trade, the undersigned considering the advanced period of the session does not feel himself authorized on new grounds, brought forward at the eleventh hour, to protract the negotiation or to postpone any longer rendering personnally an account of the state of this important question as...