Methuen Treaty higher tariffs on Portuguese goods, and the Irish Volunteers' 1782 Dungannon resolutions included calls for a boycott of its wines. The 1786 Eden Agreement between Britain and France caused Portugal to relent in 1787 and allow Ireland low tariffs. Methuen Treaty The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between England and Portugal that was signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession. The treaty stipulated that no tax higher than the tax charged for an equal amount of French wines could be charged for Portuguese wines "(but see below)" exported to England, and that
Treaty Between Great Britain and Lagos, 1 January 1852 Majesty and the King of the French for their suppression of the Traffic In Slaves, signed at London, May 22, 1845. "In faith of which we have hereunto set our hands and seals, at Lagos, on board Her Britannic Majesty’s ship Penelope, 1st January, 1852. (L.S. ) H. W. BRUCE (L.S. ) JOHN BEECROFT (L.S. ) KING AKITOYE (L.S. ) ATCHOBOO (L.S. ) KOSAE Treaty Between Great Britain and Lagos, 1 January 1852 The Treaty Between Great Britain and Lagos, 1 January 1852 was an agreement between the United Kingdom (represented by Commodore Henry William Bruce, Commander of the British