JB/110/004/001

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Copy of a Letter addressed to John Jeffery Esqr. His
Britannic Majesty's Consul General dated at Lisbon
12th July 1821. —

Sir: We the undersigned British Merchants & Factors
resident in this City, respectfully solicit your attention
to a Resolution passed by the Portuguese Cortes
on the 7th inst., subjecting British Woollens imported—
into this kingdom, to the payment of 30pr Ct. duties on
and after the 1st of August next. Such a Resolution,
if carried into effect, will doubtless be a direct violation
of the Treaty of Commerce of 1810, and must be
extremely prejudicial to the interest of the Woollen
Manufacturers of Great Britain, who form so important
a class of His Majesty's Subjects.

The Treaty abovementioned in the 15th Article
provides, that all Goods, Merchandises & Articles watsoever
of the Produce Manufacture, Industry, or Invention
of the Dominions & Subjects of His Brittanic
Majesty, shall be admitted into their kingdom, on paying
generally and solely duties to the account of the 15 pr cent.
The Portuguese Cortes, it would appear, take no other ground
for their Resolution abovementioned than the 26 Art. of
the same Treaty, which provides that "the stipulations
"contained in former Treaties concerning the admission
"of the Wines of Portugal on the one hand, & the Woollen
"Clothes of Great Britain on the other, shall at present
"remain unaltered." But we are humbly of opinion,
that this Art. in nowise repeals the 15th as relates
to the payment of the duties on Woollens, for the following
reasons.

The only Treaty referred to in that part of the
26 Art. quoted above, is allowed by the Portuguese Cortes
to be what is commonly called the Methuen Treaty of
1703, in which it was stipulated, that British

Identifier: | JB/110/004/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 110.
Date_1	1821-07-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	110	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	004	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	copy of a letter addressed to john jeffery esqr
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
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