Robert Thorpe

“ On the part of their respective subjects, mutually consent, that the ships of war of their royal navies, which shall be provided with special instructions for this purpose, as hereinafter provided, may visit such merchant vessels of the two nations, as may be suspected, upon reasonable, grounds, of having slaves on board, acquired by an illicit traffic ; and, in the event only of their actually finding slaves on board may detain and bring away such vessels, in order that they may be brought to trial before the tribunals established for this purpose, as shall hereinafter be specified. ”

“ By the second article it is agreed, that “the territories in which the traffic in slaves continues to be permitted under the treaty of the 22d of January, 1815, to the subjects of His Most Faithful Majesty, are the following :”
“ 1st. The territories possessed by the Crown of Portugal upon the coast of Africa, to the south of the equator, that is to say, upon the eastern coast of Africa, the territory lying between Cape Delgado and the Bay of Lourenco Marques; and upon the western coast, all that which is. situated from the eighth to the eighteenth degree of south latitude.” ”

“ Bounded ambition, and extensive humanity, having induced His Faithful Majesty thus to contract the sphere in which his pious subjects shall exercise this laudable traffic, Great Britain has thought it Only just to bestow on him a boon of three hundred thousand pounds sterling, for relinquishing the trade in Africa, north of the equator, after having already nearly desolated its western coast!!
Article 5. “ The two high contracting' powers, for the more complete attainment of' their object, namely, the prevention of all illicit traffic in slaves ”