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carry out a counterpoise of forces by the direct under-
standing and the mutual consent of the parties.interestielde:
Baron Bourqueney observes to him, that it 13sineDvreort.
less indisputable that the proposition made by
effect
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that
do Lhuys in the eleventh Conference, to the ha
the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and the Ports should come
to some understanding with each other,
. in the. presence. of
the Conference, on basis of counteip:es of • their respective
1
forces, which basis should be recorded in- an arrangem ant
which they should mutually sign, and which, annexed to
the lireatY, sbOuld have the same value and the same
force," bad been rejected.
Prince Gortschakoff reminds M. de Bourqueney that he
will find in the. Protocol of the sitting to which he refers
stehlef
sprdoiorfe.etthietehdiesrsotbsjeecatiinons did not bear on the idea it-
feasible in which it wasprgo'pobsendt
toeneathney method so little
After some obServations of Prince Gortchakoff, made
with a view of modifying the impression produced on Baron
Bourqueney by the circular cf the Chancellor of the Em-
pire of Russia, the meeting Was broken up.
(Signed) BUOL-SCRAIIENSTEIN.
PROKESOMOSTENT.
BOITRQUENET. GORTSCUAKOFF.
WESTMORLAND. TITOFF.
}BALI.
AARIF.

enclosure.
Annex to Protocol No. 14.
(Translation )
Article 1. The High Contracting Parties Wishing that
the Sublime Porte should participate in the advantages of
the system estab.7ished by public law between the diffe-
rent States of Europe, engage themselves severally to re-
spect the independence and territorial integrity of the
Ottoman Empire, guarantee together the strict observance
of this engagement, and will in consequence consider every
act or event wh,ch should be of a nature to infringe on it
as a question of European interest.
Tf a misunderstanding should arise between the Pprte
and one of the Contracting Powers, these two States, be-
fore having recourse to the employment of force, should
place the other Powers in a position to prevent the ex-
tremity by pacific means.

Art.-2.-the Russian Plenipotentiaries, and those of the
Sublime Porte, will propose by common agreement to the
Conference the equal amount of the effective naval forces
which the two sea-bordering Powers will keep up in the
Black Sea, and which shall not exceed the actual number
of Russian ships afloat in that sea. The arrangement which
they shall have made between themselves in this respect
shall form an integral part of the General Treaty.
There shall likewise be inserted in the Treaty the means
upon which the same Plenipotentiaries shall have agreed,
with the view of controlling the exact and constant obser-
vance of the stipulations of the present Article.
Art. 3. The rule of closing the Straits of the Bosphorus
and Dardanelles, sanctioned by the Treaty of July 13,
1841, shall remain in force, with the exceptions stipulated
in the following Article.
Art. 4. Each of the Contracting Parties which has no
establishment in the Black Sea shall be authorised by a fir-
man of his Highness to send into and to station in that sea
two frigates or ships of less force.
At. 5. In case (which God forbid !) the Sultan should be
threatened with an attack, he reserves to himself the right
of opening the Straits to all the naval forces of his allies.