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from the date of the exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty, to settle the affairs which connected them with the country, and to remove to the Turkish States without molestation.

Recognition by Turkey of Constitution of Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia.

ART. II. By the instrument executed separately at Adrianople (No. 145) relative to the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, the Sublime Porte undertook to recognise formally the Regulations made, while the Russian troops occupied those Provinces, by the principal inhabitants for their internal administration; the Sublime Porte finding nothing in the Articles of that Constitution which can affect its Rights of Sovereignty, consents henceforth formally to recognise the said Constitution.

It engages to publish for that purpose a Firman, accompanied by a Hatti-sheriff, two months after the exchange of the Ratifica. tions, and to give a copy of the same to the Russian Mission at Constantinople.

Appointment of Hospodars of Wallachia and Moldavia.

After the formal recognition of the Constitution, the Hospodars of Wallachia and Moldavia shall be named, but for this time only, and as a special case, in the manner which was agreed upon some time since between the two Contracting Powers, and they will proceed to govern the two Provinces conformably to the Constitution, which is a consequence of the Stipulations above mentioned.

Evacuation of Principalities by Russia. Tribute to be Paid to Turkey by Wallachia and Moldavia.

His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, wishing to afford a new proof of the esteem and consideration which he entertains towards His Highness, and to hasten the moment when the Sublime Porte shall exercise the rights which the Treaties secure to it over the two Provinces, will order his troops, so soon as the Princes shall have been named, to retire from the two Provinces. This measure shall be executed two months after the nomination of the Princes. And as compensation is justly due for the advantages which the Sublime Porte grants in favour of the Wallachians and Moldavians, it is agreed and ordained that the annual Tribute, which

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the two Provinces ought to pay according to the Treaties, shall be fixed henceforth at 6,000 purses (that is to say, at 3,000,000 Turkish piastres); and the Princes shall take care that this sum be annually paid, counting from the 1st of January, 1835.

Number of Troops in Principalities to be Fixed by Turkey. Colours to Garrisons and Flag to Moldo-Wallachian Merchant Vessels.

It is agreed between the two Courts that the number of troops which shall be employed as Garrisons in the interior of the two Provinces, shall be fixed in an invariable manner and at the pleasure of the Porte, which shall give Colours to the Garrisons and a Flag to the Valacho-Moldavian merchant-vessels that navigate the Danube.

Turkish Engagements Modified.

ART. III. Agreeably to the desire manifested by His Highness to execute scrupulously the engagements which he has undertaken by Article III of the Explanatory and Separate Act (No. 145), which is annexed to the Treaty of Adrianople, and by the Treaty of St. Petersburgh, relative thereunto, His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias has been pleased to afford to the Sublime Porte new facilities for the execution of the engagements contracted by the Acts above mentioned; and it is accordingly agreed:

Payment of Indemnities to Russia.

1. That, although it has been stipulated by Article II of the Treaty of St. Petersburgh that the Sublime Porte shall pay annually and during eight years 1,000,000 Dutch ducats, it shall pay only 500,000 ducats per annum.

2. That the Sublime Porte shall no longer be obliged, as it has hitherto been, to pay in the month of May of each year, and at one time, the whole sum due for the year, and that it shall henceforth pay the 500,000 ducats by degrees; the entire sum being, however, paid within the interval between the month of May of one year and the month of May of the following year.

3. That His Imperial Majesty renounces his right to demand the difference, which existed at the period of each payment of the portion of the Indemnities for the expenses of the War and for Commerce, between the price at which the Sublime Porte paid the ducat in Turkish piastres and the real value of the ducats.

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Reduction of Indemnity.

4. That His Imperial Majesty, moreover, taking into consideration the embarrassments in which the Treasury of that Empire has been lately involved, consents to the immediate reduction of 2,000,000 ducats, which is one-third of the amount of the Indemnities for the expenses of the War.

Periods of Payment.

5. That considering the deduction above specified, and the other arrangements already mentioned, the sum total of the Indemnities amounts to 4,000,000 Dutch ducats, of which the first portion, to be paid in one year, as one instalment, consists of 500,000 ducats, and shall be paid between the 1st of May, 1834, and the 1st of May, 1835, and the corresponding portions in the following years in the same manner, until the whole debt be discharged; but upon condition that the securities, guarantees, and facilities stipulated in Articles IV, V, VI, VII, and IX of the Treaty of St. Petersburgh shall continue down to that period in all their force, as if they had been inserted word for word in the present Treaty.

Ratifications.

In virtue of the powers which have been given to me, I have concluded the present Treaty, which shall be ratified by the two Contracting Parties, and the Ratifications of which shall be exchanged at Constantinople, within the term of 6 weeks, or sooner if possible; I have affixed to it my Seal and Signature; and I have delivered it to their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of the Court of Russia at St. Petersburgh, in exchange for the instrument which they have delivered to me.

Done the 18th Ramazan, 1249. [29th January, 1834.]

(L.S.) NESSELRODE.

(L.S.) ALEXIS ORLOFF.

(L.S.) MOUCHIR AHMED PACHA.

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No. 171.-TREATY between Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain, for the Pacification of the Peninsula. Signed at London, 22nd April, 1834.*

1. Expulsion of Don Carlos from Portugal.

2. Co-operation of Spanish Troops to enforce Withdrawal of Don Carlos and Dom Miguel from Portugal.

3. Naval Force to be supplied by Great Britain.

4. Co-operation of France.

5. Amnesty.

6. Provision to Infant Don Carlos.

7. Ratifications.

(Translation, as laid before Parliament.†)

HER Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, during the minority of her daughter Donna Isabella the Second, Queen of Spain, and His Imperial Majesty the Duke of Braganza, Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal and of the Algarves, in the name of the Queen Donna Maria the Second, being impressed with the conviction that the interests of the two Crowns and the security of their respective dominions require the immediate and vigorous exertion of their joint efforts to put an end to Hostilities which, though directed in the first instance against the Throne of Her Most Faithful Majesty, now afford shelter and support to disaffected and rebellious subjects of the Crown of Spain; and their Majesties being desirous at the same time to provide the necessary means for restoring to the subjects of each the blessings of internal Peace, and to confirm, by mutual good offices, the friendship which they are desirous of establishing and cementing between their respective States, they have come to the determination of uniting their forces in order to compel the Infant Don Carlos of Spain and the Infant Dom Miguel of Portugal to withdraw from the Portuguese Dominions.

In consequence of this Agreement, their Majesties the Regents have addressed themselves to their Majesties the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the King of the French; and their said Majesties, considering the interest See Additional Articles of 18th August, 1834; Convention of 27th April, 1835; and Protocol of 21st May, 1847.

For French, Spanish, and Portuguese versions, see "State Papers," vol. xxii, p. 124.

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they must always take in the security of the Spanish Monarchy, and being further animated by the most anxious desire to assist in the establishment of Peace in the Peninsula, as well as in every other part of Europe; and His Britannic Majesty considering, moreover, the special obligations arising out of his ancient Alliance with Portugal,* their Majesties have consented to become Parties to the proposed engagement.

Their Majesties have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honorable Henry John Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a Member of His Britannic Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, and his Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c.;

Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, during the minority of her daughter Donna Isabella the Second, Queen of Spain, Don Manuel Pando, Fernandez de Pinedo, Alava y Dabila, Marquis of Miraflores, Count of Villapaterna, and of Floridablanca, Lord of Villagarcia, a Grandee of Spain, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Britannic Majesty, &c.;

His Majesty the King of the French, the Sieur Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince-Duke de Talleyrand, Peer of France, His said Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Britannic Majesty, &c.;

And His Imperial Majesty the Duke of Braganza, Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves in the name of the Queen Donna Maria the Second, the Sieur Christopher Peter de Moraes Sarmento, a Member of the Council of Her Most Faithful Majesty, Nobleman Knight of the Royal House, and Her Most Faithful Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Britannic Majesty, &c.;

Who have agreed upon the following Articles:

Expulsion of Don Carlos from Portugal.

ART. I. His Imperial Majesty the Duke of Braganza, Regent. of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves in the name of the Queen Donna Maria the Second, engages to use all the means in his power to compel the Infant Don Carlos to withdraw from the Portuguese Dominions.†

*See note, p. 760.

Don Carlos arrived in England on the 13th July 1834, and he returned to Spain on the 9th July following.