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Protocol of the conference held in London at the office of foreign affairs, on the 22d of March, 1829.

Present, the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, France, and Russia. Immediately after their arrival the plenipotentiaries of France and England will open with the government of the Ottoman Porte, and in the name of the three allied courts, a negotiation founded on the treaty of the 6th of July, 1827, respecting the pacification and future organization of Greece. It is well under. stood that each of the three courts reserves for itself the right of weigh ing the value of the objections which the Porte may make to the propositions addressed to it in fulfil. ment of the present protocol; and that, should those objections induce the courts to present other propositions, they would yet endeavour to come to a determination on the question of fixing, as promptly as possible, the limits of the continent and the isles of Greece.

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It will be proposed to the Porte that the frontiers of continental Greece should extend to the mouth of the gulph of Volo, along the reverse of Oflhy mountains, up to the western point of Agrapha, where those mountains form their junction with the chain of Pindus. that point the frontier will edge the valley of Aspro-Potamos as far as Leontelos, which remains part of the Turkish territory. It will then pass through the chain of the Macri. noros mountains, and the river which bears that name, and which, coming from the plain of Arta, throws itself into the sea through the Ambracian gulf.

All the countries south of this line will form part of the new state of Greece. The islands in the neigh

bourhood of the Morea,that of Eubœa or Negropont, and the isles known under the name of Cyclades, will also belong to that state.

Tribute. It will be proposed to the Porte, in the name of the three courts, that Greece do pay her annual tribute of 1,500,000 Turkish piastres. The rate of the Turkish piastre shall be settled at once, that it may never be taken for the high Spanish piastre.

In consequence of the present poverty of Greece, it will be agreed that, from the moment when the payment of the tribute shall commence, the first year, there shall not be paid more than one third, or less than one fifth of this sum of 1,500,000 Turkish piastres, and that this proposition shall be raised from year to year until the fourth, when the maximum of 1,500,000 shall be paid. At the expiration of these four years Greece shall pay the whole tribute annually, without any diminution or augmentation.

Indemnity. It will be proposed to the Porte that the indemnity men. tioned in the second article of the treaty of July 6th, be determined and settled in the following manner.

1st. The Mussulman (private individuals) proprietors of estates on the newly constituted Greek terri. tory.

2dly. The Mussulman (private individuals) who, in the capacity of tenants or hereditary administractors, have an interest in the Vacuf. Sady, of mosques on lands formerly Turkish, deduction being made of the amount of the impost levied on that Vacuf.

Both these classes of Mussulmen, whose claims shall have been recognised as valid, shall be bound to proceed themselves to the sale of their property, within the space of a year,

with a proper reserve for the amount of the debts secured upon those estates. If within that time sales cannot be effected, commissaries shall be appointed to estimate the value of the unsold lands; and when once that value shall have been as. certained and fixed, the Greek go. vernment shall give to the proprie. tors or heirs, whose claims and rights shall have been established, bills upon the state, payable at periods agreed upon.

The verifications of the titles and debts, and the appraisement of the estates to be sold, shall be made by a commission composed in equal numbers of Mussulmans and Greeks. It will be authorized to do justice to every claim, and to pronounce upon every case submitted for its consideration, and on the losses experienced by the claimants during the revolution.

In order to prevent all difficulties and differences which might arise between the commissioners of the two nations, with respect to the above mentioned operations, to abridge and facilitate liquidation, and to arrive at a prompt and universally convenient settlement, a court of appeal shall be formed, and a tribu. nal of revision, composed of commis. sioners from the three allied courts, who shall decide in the cases in which the Greek and Mussulman commissioners shall not be able to agree.

Suzerainete.-Greece, under the suzerainete of the Ottoman Porte, shall possess that internal adminis. tration best suited to her wants, and best calculated to secure to her li berty of conscience, of worship, and trade, and the enjoyment of property and peace. For this purpose the administration of Greece shall assume, as nearly as possible, a monarchical form, and shall be intrust

ed to a Christian chief or prince, whose authority shall be hereditary in the order of primogeniture.

In no case shall the choice of this chief fall on the family of any of the three courts parties to the treaty of 6th of July. It shall be agreed in common between them and the Ottoman Porte.

To secure to the Porte the stabi lity of the tribute allowed her by the present treaty, every chief shall receive the investiture of his dignity from her, and at his accession shall pay her the additional tribute of a year. Should the reigning branch be extinguished, the Porte shall take the same part in the nominations of a new chief as she did in that of the first.

Amnesty and right of departure. -The Ottoman Porte will proclaim full and entire amnesty, in order that in future no Greek may be called to account, in the whole extent of her empire, for having taken part in the Greek insurrection. On its side the Greek government shall grant the same security, within the limits of its territory, to every Greek or Mussulman of the contrary side.

The Porte will allow a whole year to any of his subjects who may wish to leave her empire to settle in Greece, for the purpose of selling their property. They shall be permitted to depart freely. Greece will insure the same facility and the same period for the sale of their property to the Greeks, who will prefer returning under Mussulman domination.

The commercial relations be. tween Turkey and Greece shall be settled as soon as the articles spe cified in the present protocol shall have been reciprocally adopted.

The ambassadors of France and England shall claim from the Otto. man Porte the continuance of the

truce which the Reis Effendi stated existed de facto on the part of the Turks towards the Greeks, in his address to the representatives of the allied powers in the Archipelago, dated the 10th of Sept. 1828.

At the same time the three allied courts having decided upon the step which they take in opening fresh negotiations at Constantinople, with the sole view of settling the fate of the Greeks, shall claim from the provisional government of Greece the cessation of hostilities on every point, and the return of the Greek troops within the line of the limits described in the foregoing proposi. tion, without, however, any detri. ment to the future boundaries of Greece.

As soon as the preceding dispositions shall have been agreed to by the Porte, their execution shall be placed, conformably with the sixth. article of the treaty of the 6th of July, under the guaranty of the three powers by whom the treaty was sigued, and the rest will become the object of ampler stipulations between the three allied courts, as declared in the pre-recited article.

Let it be understood that from the present instant the guaranty of the Greek state now about to be formed is insured by the three powers against all hostile enterprise on the part of Turkey against the Greeks.

The ambassadors of France and England shall reject all dispositions which might militate against this fixed basis.

Although Russia, while adhering to these dispositions, be not represented at Constantinople by any individual invested with special pow ers, it is understood that the negotia. tion will be carried on in her name

as in the name of France and Eng. land; that all the articles shall be debated and agreed to in common by the three courts, and that under no pretence whatever shall any thing be acceded to which might tend to exclude Russia from the negotiation or its results.

The ambassadors of France and England shall employ every means in their power to attain, in the shortest period possible, the acces. sion of the Porte to the propositions which they are authorized to make to her. They will require from the Ottoman government a prompt and decisive answer.

The official documents, to which the present negotiation may give rise, shall be drawn up in common by the two ambassadors in the name of the three powers; a triple copy shall be signed, and one shall be forwarded to each of the contracting parties.

The basis of the present protocol shall serve as instructions for the two ambassadors in their negotia. tions which they are to open with the Porte.

The plenipotentiary of his ma. jesty the emperor of Russia has formally declared, on the part of his sovereign, that he has been authori, zed to negotiate with the Turkish go. vernment on all the points making part of the present protocol, and the plenipotentiaries of England and France have announced that in order to attain the end in view, the repre. sentatives of their courts at the Ot. toman Porte considered themselves authorized to negociate, without any other formalities, in the name of his majesty the emperor of Russia, as in the names of their respective sovereigns, and will for that purpose immediately repair to Constantino,

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TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

In the name of God Almighty!— His imperial majesty, the most high and most mighty emperor and autocrat of all the Russias, and his highness the most high and most mighty emperor of the Ottomans, animated with an equal desire to put an end to the calamities of war, and to establish, on a solid and immutable basis, peace, friendship, and good harmony between their empires, have resolved, with a common accord, to intrust this salutary work to, &c. [Here follow the names and titles of the different plenipotentiaries on both sides.]

ARTICLE I.-All enmity and all differences which have subsisted hitherto between the two empires shall cease from this day, as well on land as on sea, and there shall be in perpetuity peace, friendship, and good intelligence, between his majesty the emperor and padishah of all the Russias, and his highness the padishah of the Ottomans, their heirs and successors to the throne, as well as between their respective empires. The two high contracting parties will devote their particular attention to prevent all that might cause misunderstandings to revive between their respective subjects. They will scrupulously fulfil all the conditions of the present treaty of peace, and will watch, at the same time, lest it should be infringed in any manner, directly or indirectly. ARTICLE II.-His majesty the emperor and padishah of all the Russias. wishing to give to his

highness the emperor and padishali of the Ottomans a pledge of the sincerity of his friendly disposition, restores to the Sublime Porte the principality of Moldavia, with all the boundaries which it had before the commencement of the war to which this present treaty has put an end.

His imperial majesty also restores the principality of Wallachia, the Banat of Crayova, Bulgaria, and the country of Dobridge, from the Danube as far as the sea, together with Silistria, Hirsova, Matzia, Isakiya, Toulza, Babadag, Bazardjik; Varna, Pravedy, and the other towns, burghs, and villages, which it contains, the whole extent of the Balkan, from Emine Bouroun as far as Kazan, and all the country from the Balkans as far as the sea, with Siliminea, Jomboli, Aidos, Karnabat, Missanovica, Akhioly, Bourgas, Sizopolis, Kirkkilissi, the city of Adrianople, Lule Bourgas, and all the towns, burghs, and villages, and in general all places which the Russian troops have occupied in Roumelia.

ARTICLE III. The Pruth shall continue to form the limit of the two empires, from the point where the river touches the territory of Moldavia to its junction with the Danube; from that spot the frontier line will follow the course of the Danube as far as the mouth of St. George's, so that, leaving all the islands formed by the different arms of that river, in possession of Russia, the right bank shall remain, as formerly, in the possession of the Ottoman Porte. Nevertheless, it is agreed that this right bank shall remain uninhabited from the point where the arm of the St. George separates itself from that of Souline, to a distance

of two hours from the river, and that no establishment of any kind shall be formed there, any more than on the islands which shall remain in possession of the court of Russia, where, with the exception of the quarantines which may be established there, it shall not be allowed to make any other establishment or fortification. The merchant-vessels of the powers shall have the liberty of navigating the Danube in all its course; and those which bear the Ottoman flag shall have free entrance into the mouth of Keli and Souline, that of Saint George remaining common to the ships of war and merchant vessels of the two contracting powers. But the Russian ships of war, when ascending the Danube, shall not go beyond the point of its junction with the Pruth. ARTICLE IV. Georgia, Imeritia, Mingrelia, and several other provinces of the Caucasus, having been for many years and in perpetuity united to the empire of Russia, and that empire having besides, by the treaty concluded with Persia, at Tourkmantchai, on the 10th of February, 1828, acquired the Khanats of Erivan and of Naktchivan, the two high contracting powers have recognised the necessity of establishing between their respective states, on the whole of that line, a well determined fron. tier, capable of preventing all future discussion. They have equally taken into censideration the proper means to oppose insurmountable obstacles to the incur. sions and depredations which the neighbouring tribes hitherto committed, and which have so often compromised the relations of friendship and good feeling between the two empires; consequently, it has

been agreed upon, to consider, herceforward, as the frontiers between the territories of the imperial court of Russia, and those of the Sublime Ottoman Porte in Asia, the line which, following the present limit of the Gouriel from the Black Sea, ascends as far as the border of Imeritia, and from thence, in the straighest direction, as far as the point where the frontiers of the Pochaliks of Akhaltzik and of Kars meet those of Georgia, leaving in this manner to the north of, and within that line, the town of Akhaltzik and the fort of Khallnalick, at a distance of not less than two hours.

All the countries situate to the south and west of this line of demarkation towards the Pachaliks of Kars and Trebisond, together with the major part of the Pachalik of Akhaltzik, shall remain in perpetuity under the domination of the Sublime Porte, whilst those which are situated to the north and east of the said line towards Georgia, Imeritia, and the Gouriel, as well as all the littoral of the Black Sea, from the mouth of the Kouben, as far as the port of St. Nicholas inclusively, under_the domination of the emperor of Rus

sia.

In consequence, the imperial court of Russia gives up and restores to the Sublime Porte the remainder of the Pachalik of Akhaltzik, the town and the Pachalik of Kars, the town and Pachalik of Bayazid, the town and Pachalik of Erzeroum, as well as all the places occupied by the Russian troops, and which may be out of the above mentioned line.

ARTICLE V. The principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia having, by a capitulation, placed themselves under the suzerainete of the

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