The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-03 00:00:00

GERMANIC DIET.

EXTRACT OF THE PROTOCOL OF THE
SITTING OF THE. MOST SERENE GER-
MANIC DIET, DATED Nov. 12, 1840.
"SEC. 292.—COMMUNICATION MADE IN THE NAME
OF AUSTRIA, PRUSSIA, RUSSIA, AND GREAT BRI-
TAIN, RESPECTING THE CONVENTION CONCLUDED
IN LONDON FOR THE PACIFICATION OF THE EAST.
" The envoy of his Imperial, Royal, and Apostolical
Majesty, the President of the Diet, announces that he
has been authorised to address to the Most Serene Diet,
in the name of the Courts of Austria, Prussia, and
Russia, official communications relative to the treaty
concluded between those Powers and the Ottoman
Porte for the pacification of the East, and he adds that
the Minister of Great Britain has communicated the
same treaty to the Germanic Confederacy, to which he
is accredited, and which returned to him thanks for that
communication.

" AUSTRIA AND Peussta.—The Envoy has been
charged to communic Ito to the Most Serene Diet a
copy of the Convention concluded in London on the
15th of July of the present year between the Plenipo-
tentiary Ministers of the august Courts of Austria,
Prussia, Great Britain, and Russia, on the one hand, and
the Plenipotentiary of the Ottoman Porte on the other,
together with a copy of the Protocol signed by the said
Plenipotentiaries, after the exchange of the ratifications
of that Convention.
" The spirit in which the High Contracting Parties
have concluded those Treaties, and the object which
they proposed to themselves, are too clearly exposed in
those acts, and particularly in the Protocol signed in
London on the 17th of September of the present year,
to require further explanation.
" The preservation of the Ottoman Empire in its in-
tegrity and independence is one of the essential con-
ditions of the maintenance and consolidation of the
general peace of Europe.
" It is for the sake of guaranteeing so great an in-
terest, an interest equally precious for princes and
nations, that the Four Powers have concluded with the
Porte the convention thus communicated.
" The Powers, in fulfilling this duty, conceive that
they have acted with so much moderation and disin-
terestedness, that all the friends of peace and right will
commend their conduct.
" Austria and Prussia have no doubt that the high
confisderates will do justice to that spirit.
" The note which M. d'Oubril, Extraordinary Envoy
and Plenipotentiary Minister of his Majesty the Em-
peror of all the Russias accredited to the Germanic
Confederation, has sent in on that subject to the High
Diet, under date Nth October, (sth of Nov.) of the
present year, is of the following tenour :
." The undersigned, Extraordinary Envoy and Pleni-
potentiary Minister of his Majesty the Emperor of all
the Russias, accredited to the Most Serene Germanic
Confederacy, has been charged by his august Govern-
ment to communicate to the Diet the convention con-
cluded between the Ottoman Porte, Great Britain,
Austria, Prussia, and Russia, with a view to secure
the peace of Europe by affording the Sultan an effica-
cious assistance against the menaces and encroachments
of one of his rebel vassals.
The text of this convention, which the under-
signed has the honour to enclose herewith to his Ex-
cellency Count de Munch 13411inghausen, President of
the Diet, will prove to that high Assembly that the
Allies have neglected none of the stipulations calcu-
lated to render their assistance efficacious for the Otto-
man Porte, and at the same time to convince Europe
that none of the Powers, parties thereto, have been
actuated by personal views, and that the interest of
Europe alone has prevailed in the combinations and
resolutions which they were under a moral obligation
to grant the Porte, since the latter had demanded and
obtained the promise of their support, and had conse-
quently relinquished the intention of treating separately
with the rebel Pacha.
" The undersigned has the honour to invite his Ex-
cellency Count de Munch to place this convention, in
the name of the Imperial Government of Russia, under
the eyes of the Ministers composing the Diet, and he
trusts that this illustrious assembly will recognise in that
act the object for which it was concluded, namely, the
maintenance of legitimate authority, and the re-esta-
blishment of peace in the LeVant, on which depends
that of the entire of Europe.
" The undersigned, congratulating himself on being
charged to give by this communication to'the Most Se-
rene Germanic Confederacy a mark of the especial con-
fidence and consideration of the Emperor his august
Sovereign, flatters himself that his Excellency Count de
Munch will soon enable him to report to his Court the
sentiments with which it was received.
" ' He avails himself of this opportunity to renew to
his Excellency the assurances of his high consideration.'
" The President here read the draught of a reply to