British-Dutch Treaty of 1814
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The British-Dutch Treaty of 1814 (also known as the London Convention ) was a treaty between Great Britain and the United Netherlands to clarify Dutch possessions in America , Africa and Asia .
history
The British-Dutch Treaty of 1814 was signed on August 13 by Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh for Great Britain and Hendrik Fagel for the Netherlands.
conditions
The treaty restored the colonial possessions of the Netherlands as they had been on January 1, 1803, before the Napoleonic Wars caused the British to take them away. Exceptions were the country at the Cape of Good Hope and the South American possessions Demerara , Essequibo and Berbice , where the Netherlands, however, regained trading rights. In addition, Great Britain gave the island of Banca in the Malay Archipelago to the town of Cochin and its dependent areas on the coast of Malabar in India . The Dutch, on the other hand, waived the Bernagore district near Calcutta and received an annual payment from the British in return. The contract also contained a declaration that no Dutch citizen was allowed to be involved in the slave trade .
Britain went on to agree to pay Sweden £ 1,000,000 to claim the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe . Furthermore, both parties agreed that each side would spend £ 2,000,000 on building the fortifications in the Netherlands.
Effects
The treaty of 1814 left a number of questions unanswered, which could only be clarified with the follow-up treaty of 1824 .
Web links
- (Contract text) ( Memento of February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )