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London, England, 1854-04-29 00:00:00

THE VIENNA PROTOCOL.

The protocol signed at Vienna. on the 9th of
April, 1854, by the representatives of Austria,
France, Great Britain, and Prussia has been pre-
sented to both Houses of Parliament by order of
her Majesty. This document, which forms No.
VIII. of the Eastern Papers, is as follows :

THE EARL OF WESTMORLAND TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON,
(Received April 18.)

Vienna, April 12, 1854.
My Lord,—l have the hollow to enclose herewith a copy
of the protocol signed in Conference on the 9th lust., the
certified copy of the swine being retained in the archives of
the mission.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) WESTMORLAND.

(Inclosure.)'
PROTOCOL OP A CONFERENCE HELD AT VIENNA
APRIL 9, 1851.
(Translation.)
Present—The representatives of Austria, France, Great
Britain, and Prussia.

At the request of the plenipotentiaries of France and of
Great Britain, the Conference met to hear the documents
read which establish that the invitation addressed to the
Cabinet of St. Pet-rsburg to evacuate the Moldo-Walla-
chian provinces within a fixed time having remained un-
answered, the state of war already declared between Rus-
sia and the Sublime Porte is in actual existence equally
between Russia, on the one side, and France and Great
Britain on the other.

This change which has taken place in the attitude of
two of the Powers represented at the Conference of Vienna,
in consequence of a step taken directly by France and
England, supported by Austria and Prussia as being
founded in right, has been considered by the representa-
tives of Austria and Prussia as involving the necessity of
a fresh declaration of the Union of the Four Powers upon
the ground of the principles laid' down in the protocols of
December 5, 1853, and January 13, 1854.
In consequence, the undersigned have at thin solemn-mo-
ment declared that their Governments remain united in
the double object of. maintaining the territorial integrity
of the Ottoimin Empire, of which the fact of the evacua-
tion of the Danubian Principalities is and will remain one
of the essential conditions; and of consolidating in an inte-
rest so much in conformity with the sentiments of the
Sultan, and by every means compatible with his indepen-
dence and sovereignty, the civil and religious rights of the
Christian subjects of the Porte.
• The territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire is and
remains the sine qua non condition of every transaction
having for its object the re-establishment of peace between
the belligerent Powers ; and the Governments represented
by the undersigned engage to endeavour in common to dis-
cover the guarantees most iikely to attach the existence of
that empire to the general equilibrium of Europe ; as they
also declare themselves ready to deliberate and to come to
an understanding as to the employment of the means cal
ettlated to accomplish the object of their agreement.
Whatever event, may arise in consequence of this agree-
meat, founded solely upon the general interests of Europe,
au t of which the object can only he attained by the return
of a firm and lasting peace, the Governments represented
by the undersigned reciprocally engage not to enter into
any definitive arrangement with the Imperial Court of
Russia, or with any other power, which would be at vari-
ance with the principles above enunciated, without pre-
viously deliberating thereon in common.
(Signed) BUOL-SCHAUENSTEIN.
BOURQU EN EY.
WESTMORLAND.
ARNIM.