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111: PUBTAM( ' S TATR PAPER. ;OPT OP A NOTE most PIVINES strnerasteir cAsTLERrAwan, TO; LORD • "The undersigned, Sinhter ofSette ter Matti MLitt', Ida CO- ' ceived the Note in which Ids Fieelillieey Lord Cardetreagin pal Seeretsty of State of his'ilritsnerit . Majesty for Foreign'Affatres, inquires, in the risme of his Court, explanations of the at raugements determined upon with respect to -the I.:eminent, and chiefly with reeard to the three principal Power*" and also satl;fadtory ass/t -rances as to thole interests which are specialli contlillid to tile ho• bor and amicable intervention of Great Britain. At the sante time he has iereived a • prajert - of a Convention on the part of his Excel.: Jency, wilen dtclatts :he wishes of the British Government upon these last points. Th e uh dosigneel, itt profesSing That he is reedy to ifee, in coe sert with the other A ilied-Cabinets, the most flitch expleamtions on the first topic, hastens to apprise Loid Castlereagh, that havirg submitted the prititt of the Couveution to the Emperor, lie has been authorised by his Iniperiat Majesty to accept the inclosed, anti to cause to be drawn up a preliminary act of sect ptatice, which be has the honour herewith to transmit to his Excellency, and which shall be followed, as soon as possible, by an instrument prepared according to the usual forms. The uatiersigned has the honour to be, eS.:c." "Troyes, Feb. 15, I 8 , 14 . ." Dispatched also by his F.xcelleney Count Nessclrodeand his Ba cellency Prince Hardenberg. rnmummtnv ACT Or ACCESSION OF THE COURTS OF AUSTRIA, RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA, TO'TIIE PROPOSITIONS MADE BY MS EXULI4EitCY : LOUD VISCOUNT CASTLE- REAtin 'fitovEs, FEB. IS, 1811.—His Excellency Lord Viscount Cas tlereagh tee Pritieipat Secretary of State of his Majesty the King of the United KingdoM of Great Britain, having tranamitted to the undersigned a pr• jet ut a Cohvesitiou, of which the folicisving is the tenor :-- As the N'egociations with the client) , may terminate, perhaps, before the internal arrangements between the Allied Powers can be agreed upon, and his Biitaimic Majesty not cOnsideting himself in jastier called upon to mat sionsideroble Sacrifices of his conqiiests ( from France, fur 11W genteel good or Europe, without at least being certain relatively to those arrangements on the Continent which most directly concern his interests and Itisitountir t their impetiul and Royal Ma jesties , in order to.give his Britannic Mitjetty • proof of their gratitude for the persevering . and liberal aid which theyhave received iron) his said' Majesty during the conliimin - ce of tine war etrtl considerivg th e dtmatids c:f his Britgonit Mijisty as just in rheinselver and equally conformable to rile true interests of Europe, agree, 4 . 4 1. That the ISO& Provinces, to Mollie Meese sßaated, between the ancient frinrtiet of Francs aettliat river, as well as the country ,itnated beyond that river, comprised within a line drawn from the Meuse to Maestricht by Aix la-Chapelle and Duren, as far as Cologne on the Rhine, shall be netted to the P.inee of Orange, as Sovereign of the United Netherlands to be united for ever as an integral part of Holland. " That the other tetritories situated on the left bank of tare Rhine, if not wholly or in part nnitefl to Holland, shall be at least soelispn sed of as to provide security and protection for that country and the north of Germany in a maim); pointotview ; and that no arrange anent shill take place with respect to them Without the fish and entire consent ()fhb' Britannic Majesty. "3. That there shall be granted to the King of Sicily, in lieu of the Kingdom of Naples, a liberal indemnity iu Italy, the relations and position of which shall bassettled by common assent. and tire value of which shall not be below that proportion which his Sicilian Majesty has a right to, from the scale of his losset compared with thogeet other Sovereigns, having a right to indemnities, and Recanting to the means which the Allied Powers may reserve for satisfying those. claims. • • . • " 4. That the vesses of war found in any of the ports which. by virtue of the conclusion of peace, shall be ceded to the Allies, shall be iegatrted and treated as the remains of the means and implements of war, and shall not be replaced at the disposition of France. " And his Impel ial and Apostolic Majesty. (his Imperial Majesty • the Emperor of all the Russi-as ' and his Majesty the King of Prussin) having agreed to the eleinards of his Britanic . Majesty contained in lie four preceding articles, the undersigned Minister of State ; of JIMISTER. ~. Conferences,efid. of Voreigrf Affairs, (the Codteriigned Secretary i t t - Atate, and the Chencellor of State,)"is charged and.iiiithorised, iii the name and on the part of his august Master, to guarantee its accep tance and eietation bythi,preateit ect.-till'iltv Coln/union reposdd end acceded to can be elnatited in the litaialtornet._ • . " In vitinit of which 'the itinfersigsied.h4 affixed to the, preseitt Act his signature and the seal of his arms. • Done at:Troy...a the tetti of February, 1814, "The PKINCL METTERNICH." . a.-7.--- :• • : " Vienna, llth Feb. 1313.—The undersigned Mlliaters, Pleni potentiaries of his Majesty the King of Naples, have had the 100, , nom of addressing. to itii - Eleellency my Lord Castlereagh; principal Secretary o f St a te o f gala Hoitaani . e Majesty. for Foreign Afiaites, an official Note, dated the 29th December last, soliciting the COO. 'clibion of the definitive peace between the Crowns of Naples and Greet Britain. . . " His Excellency, my Lord Castlereagh was so good as to assure the undersigned first Plenipotentiary of his Neapolitan Majesty, that be would occupy 1111115 a with the object of that Note. alias nevertlielein retained to hiis day without any result. " Although the King casino!. but be keenly erected by this si lence, front the eagerness with Which he is desirous of entering into more intimate relations with England, be has tee Fetich dependence ,a 1 the sincerity mid justice of the *Ertglisli Goveiieneet, to allow him to dvnbt for a niono/nt . of its fidelity in fitlfilling the engage ineitts which it has contracted towards hint. • • • 44 If all these reasous which the undersigned, urged in Altar 'Nets of the '29th December last, required to be cert.. borefedby others, still more positerfid, they might regal to his Extefieece my Lord 'Castlereagh, the Convention . width he proposed' at Troyes; with the three other principal coeleseed povi , ertt, by which the Britannic Governmenti recognising the political existence of the King of Na . pies, solicited an indentpity in favour of the King of Sicily, as an iudemnification for the Klegduin 'et - Naples. " " Austria,. Rutetia; and !littlish, adhered by separate acts of ac •eeision, stipulated at Troyee, the 13th Tebitkary, 1814, to that Coneeinism, whirli hasirrevocgbly conkers:WO the prineiple of the political existence of the 4ing of Napes. ' . • "It 'whinged nett to the Poiers, in whose hands were all the disponible countries conquered from the enerily, to fiud and tOpro • pertiod the indemnity to be•gieen to the King of Sicily. . - "" His Neepoliesti Maieety could concur ntrotherwise in this titan by his good offices, and be Isis fulfilled on this point the l nese ments which he contracted by` kis Treaty' ot Alliance of the lttli January, 181 i, the untiefalgnettheeing declared by the note which they have had the honour of addressing to his Excellency my Lord Castlereagh, under date of the finds Deeembei last, that they were ready to concur iu the arrangements which Might be proposed for that effeet. . " Tin% under whitener point of view the Britannic Government 'wishes to vie* its y0;4408,0% regard 10 the King , of Naples. it can only cohsider lei. just MIA .rcatbliable the demenn which the under signed are • charged' with reiterating to his Excellency, my Lord Castlereagh, of proceedinglb the.grempt conclusiou of a defiuitive Treaty of.Peact between the ts*Crowes. ' "NO person can be batter qindifiett than my Lord Castlereagh to enlighten the English Government with respect to the affairs of Naples. Having concurred in the fir/relation which preceded and which followed - the accession of his Neapolitan Majesty to the coa , lition. be wad the organ of the engagements entered into by . the English GOveniMent towards the Court of Naples, and his character for justice and probity is too well known to allow the*underAgeed to suppose that his political Conduct .will vary in any Manner, and they are certain that he will support in London the engagements which lie contracted in the name of his Government towards the King of Naples, as well as the promises and verb.ii declarations made by him . during the lint catripaig of the coalesed armies, and principally at Chatmtout and Dijon. " The undersigned beseech his Eeeellency, my Lord Castlereagh, to accept the assurances of their very high consideration. (Signed) '' The Mike de CA MPOCHIAKO. " The Pt ince lie CAKIATI." Ministers and the Public Offices were in considerable bustle, ou Friday morning, in consequence of Lord Castle reagh having summoned a Cabinet Council at an how's no tice. The 111 embers of the Cabinet were assembled at tke Foreign Office by, about two o'clock , they continued in.de liberation till near five ; and at Their breLking up; Mr. John son, the King's Messenger, was •oideted to hold . likinself in • readiness for a foreign a °tansy: APR! For aititt4'.4 ft w ittin, went of , o p e riut to recur with grt cg reet nt wi;nesol An feet, 111 pearitric MO, SIIC pu t S. klibon ons bet' of innei (11411dk and V. rye (ni RUll I ten•pt, &ton b9th th t. St rttLin. tielseti cident the tit; combat had thi Eletut 4t6. fee, s, tif, wl close tl 5 , 11. CCurete 6th. av tUct DIIt 10 4or 1 - 16. and ex fightin Uth. auto r down; 9:h. ra!ly e 10;}. best ti 111 (hit It' 12t1 evtific 130 length was II( 1411 much accith Hit II F ISt far' 16 of right Ull irdce Shritt tail. '444 nr ~~