[center] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/320px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png[/img] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/320px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png[/img] [b][u]Anglo-Dutch Colonial Exchange[/u][/b] The United Republic of Great Britain and Ireland hereby transfers sovereignty and all economic and political rights over the southern portion of Africa (extending north to Portuguese West Africa and east to Dutch East Africa), the whole of the British Gold Coast and the Lagos Colony to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as well as transferring five ships-of-the-line from the British Republican Navy to the Royal Netherlands Navy. The Kingdom of the Netherlands hereby transfers in turn both its sovereignty and all of its economic and political rights over the island of Sumatra in the East Indies to the United Republic of Great Britain and Ireland, with the exception of the island's southern-most territory. [i][X] Gladstone, British Prime Minister. [X] King William III, King of the Netherlands.[/i] [/center]