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London, England, 1824-02-06 00:00:00

STATE PAPERS.

The following are the State il'apers presented on Wed_
neaday night, by command of hie Majesty, to the House of
Commons, by Mr. Canning:—
CONVENTION
'BETWEEN RIB MAJESTY •ND THE 11/NTEBION OP ATI.
TULA. roa THE DEFINITIVE 111 OP ?RE •1116 TEIAN LOAN; SIGRID AT TtFNNA, !ft:WENDER 17, Ira His Majesty the King of the United of Great Beim,
and Ireland, and his Majesty the Emperor of Anse* hie.
equally desirous of coming to a definitive movement upon the pge:
ject of the Austrian Loan, and of caneelling the whole debt codwhich Austria is burdened under this denominsdon, don
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jesties have resolved to nuke this the object of a Convention, spa
have named their respective Plenipotentiaries for drawing op and
concluding the same, to wit :—Hs Britannic Majesty, tie
Robert Gordon;and his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, Unmet Wenetclas Lothaire, Prince Metternich-Winnebtarg, him*
Ochstnhausen, Duke of Patella, Knight of the Gadep
Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, delis'
Civil Cross of Honour, and of & John of Jerusalem, Clippetg,
or the Military Order of Maria Theresa, Grand Creme el np
Guelphic Order, and of several atben ; Chamberlain, Prim.
calor of hie Imperial Majesty ' his Majesty's :Minister efetaleand of Conferences, Chancellor of Court and state, and of the
House, &c. lae ice., who, after having onemunimesd gig
powers, bare agreed upon the following articles:—
Article I. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria rpm
the sum of two millions five hundred thousand andleg,
satisfaction of the whole of the British chaos spa hi Irk
Majesty, under the head of the Austrian Lam
Article Y. It is agreed that the sum of two minions In Make
thousand pounds sterling, shall be paid into the British
in the name and on the behalf of the Austrian Government,
, houses of Baring, Reid, and Irving, and Rothedlikl, LOW.
the said houses having been appointed and fully empowered by the
Austrian Government to make the above penmen asseedmvp
such terms as may have been agreed to, and Arejudipit
by, the British Government.
Article 1. Immediately after the ratification of tin win* Go.
vention by their Majesties the King of the Gaited !hoiden ef
Great Britain and Ireland, and the Emperor of Awe* bis
Del
tannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary will deliver up to such pineal es
shall be appointed by his Imperial Majesty to noun. them, He
original letters of ottroi, and the whole of the hoparial heeds,
which have been held in the possession of his Britannic Ms"
ty's Government, as securities, from the time of raising the
Austrian Loan : and his Britannic Majesty's Government will
henceforth be responsible for the complete release of the Austriaa
Government from all British claims that could be founded ups the
said Loan.
Article 4. It is expressly satinwood that, hi virtue of the pre.
sent Convention, all pecuniary claims upon Austria that aroma.
netted with the Austrian Loan, as well as all pecuniary dews
upon Great Britain, of whatever description they may be, which
have existed, or might be considered to exist, on the pen tithe 1..
penal Government of Austria, are declared to be nese, and are
hereby totally abolished.
Article b. The present Convention shall be ratified within the
space of six weeks, or sooner if possible ; and the inatruments
ratification shall be exchanged in London. In faith of which thew
spective Plenipotentiaries have hereunto &trued their signatures and
the seals of their arms.
Done at Vienna, this seventeenth day of November, in the
year of our Lurd one thousand Met hundred and twee-
ty-tbne. (M.. 5.) R. GORDON.
(184 METTERNICH.