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PROTOCOLS OF CONFERENCES

HELD AT
PARIS RELATIVE TO THE GENERAL

TREATY OF PEACE.

(Continued from, the ..run of last night.)
PROTOCOL No. 10.-IsT SITTING OF MARCH 18, 1856.
Present —The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France,
Great Britain, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey.
The Protocol of the preceding sitting is read and ap-
proved.
The Plenipotentiaries of Russis and of Turkey present
the draft of Convention arranged between them, relative
to the number and dimensions of the light vessels which
the coast Powers shall maintain is the Black Sea for the
police of that sea, and for the security of their coasts.
After having examined its terms, the Congress, finding
the draft to be in conformity with the bases which had
been laid down far it in the Preliminaries, decides that
the copy. deposited by and marked with the initials of the
Plenipotentiaries of Turkey and Russia, shall be annexed
to the present Protocol.
The Commission for drawing up the Treaty gives an
account of its labours, by the mouth of its reporter,
Baron de Bourqueney. In this capacity the second
Plenipotentiary of France states that the Commission
occupied itself, in the first place, with the order in which
the different stipulations shall be inserted in the Treaty;
and he adds that it had adopted the following distribu-
tion :—Re establishment of peace ; Evacuation of occu-
pied territories ; Prisoners of War ; Amnesty ; Entrance
of Turkey into the European System (concert) ; the Con-
dition of the Christians ; Revision of the Convention of
1841 ; Neutralisation of the Black Sea ; Freedom of the
Danube ; New line of the frontier of Turkey in Europe ;1
the two Principalities ; Servia ; Mixed Commission for
the revision of the frontier in Asia.
Proceeding' to read the texts prepared by the Commis-
sion, Baron de Bourqueney communicates a draft of pre-
amble thus drawn up :
" His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Her Ma-
jesty the Queen of Great Britain and Irelatd, His Ma-
jesty the Emperor of all the Russias, His Majesty the
King of Sardinia, and His Majesty the Sultan, animated
by the desire of putting an end to the calamities of war,
and wishing, in concert with His Majesty the Emperor of
Austria, to prevent the return of the complications which
occasioned it, have come to an agreement upon the
means of securing, through effectual and reciprocal
guarantees, the independence and integrity of the Otto-
man Empire ; and their said Majesties, having settled
the conditions adapted for the attainment of this two-
fold object, invited His Majesty the King of Prussia to
associate himself to this work of general pacificatioh.
"Their Majesties have accordingly named," &c.
Baron Bourqueney reads the following paragraphs :
" From this day, there shall be Peace and Friendship
between His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Her
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the King of Sardinia,
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, on the one part, and
His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, on the
other part; as welt as between their heirs and succees-
sors, their respective dominions and subjects, in per-
pettiity.
"Peace being happily re-established between their
said Majesties, the territories conquered or occupied
during the war shall be reciprocally evacuated.
"Special arrangements shall regulate the mode of the
evacuation, which shall be as prompt as possible.
"His ajesty the Emperor of all the Russias engages
to restore to His Majesty the Sultan the town and cita-
del of Kars, as well as the other parts of the Ottoman
territory of which the Russian troops are in possession.
"Their Majesties the Emperor of the French, the
Queen of Great Britain, the King of Sardinia, and the
Sultan, engage to restore to His Majesty the Emperor
of all the Russias, the towns and ports of Sebastopol,
Balaklava, Kamiesch, Eupatoria, Kertch, Jenikela,
Kinburn, as well as all other territories occupied by the
allied troops."

Lord Cowley observes that the placing in conjunction
of the last two paragraphs may admit of its being sup-
posed that the belligerent Powers are 'making an ex•
change, whereas the Preliminaries imply that Russia, in
exchange for the territories occupied by the allied armies,
consents to a rectification of her frontier with European
Turkey.

The'second Plenipotentiary of Russia replies that the
question here is that of a mutual restitution of territories
occupied, on either side, by the belligerent armies, and
by no means that of territorial cession ; that this latter
point will come in in its place, when, as the Prelimina-
ries stipulate, the rectification of the European frontier is
proceeded with.
The Reporter of the Committee then proposes the
lowing Paragraphs :
" His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russian. and
Their Majesties the Emperor of the French, the Queen
of Great Britain, the King of Sardinia, and the Sultan,
engage to set at liberty the prisoners of war, immedi-
ately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present
Treaty.
"Their Majesties the Emperor of the French, the
Queen of Great Britain, the Emperor of all the Russian,
the King of Sardinia, and the Sultan, grant a full and
Mire amnesty to all those of their subjects who may
have been compromised by their participation in the
events of the war in favour of the cause of the enemy.
" His Majesty the Emperor of the French, His Ma-
jesty the Emperor of Austria, Her Majesty the Queen
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
His Majesty the King of Prussia His Majesty the Em-
peror of all the Russias, and His Majesty the King of
Sardinia, declare the Sublime Porte admitted to partici-
pate in the advantages of the European system (concert).
Their Majesties engage, each on his part, to respect the
independence and the territorial integrity of the Ottoman
Empire, guarantee in common the strict observance of
that engagement, and will, in consequence, consider any
act or any event tending to its violation as a question of
general interest.
" The Conventions or Treaties concluded or to be con-
cluded between them and the Sublime Porte, shall
henceforth form part of the public law of Europe.
"If there should arise between the Sublime Porte and
one of the Contracting Powers, any mistinderstanding
calculated to threa4en the maintainence of their relations,
the two States, before having recourse to the use of force,
shall afford the other Powers the opportunity of prevent-
ing such an extremity by means of conciliation."
Count Buol announces that be has received the in-
structions of his Court on the second point, relative to
the Danube. He declares that Austria assents to the
entire application of the principles established by the
Act of the Congress of Vienna, to the Upper as well as
the Lower Danube, provided, however, that this mea-
sure is combined with the engagements previously taken
bona fide by the river-bordering Powers. Ile conse-
quently proposes a new wording, having for its object
fully to meet the principle of free navigation laid down
in the Preliminaries, taking those engagements into ac-
count, during a fixed period.
After having heard this new wording read, the Con-
gress decides that a copy of it shall be annexed to the
present Protocol, and defers the discussion of it 0 the
nexb sitting.
The present Protocol is read and approved.
(The signatures follow.)

ANNEX 1 TO PROTOCOL No. 10.

SEPARATE CONVENTION BETWEEN THE SUBLIME PORTE

AND RUSSIA.

His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, and His Majesty
the Emperor of all the Russian, taking into consideration
the principle of the neutralisation of the Black Sea sanc-
tioned in the General Treaty under the date of
to which they are Contracting Parties, and wishing,
in consequence, to regulate, by common agreement, the
number and the force of the vessels which they have re-
served to themselves to maintain in the Black Sea for
the service of their coasts, have resolved to sign, with
that view, a Special Convection, and have named for
that purpose : •

His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, Aali Pasha, Grand
Vizier and his first Plenipotentiary at the Paris Confer-
ence ; and Mehemmed Djemil Bey, his Ambassador EX-
traordinary and Plenipotentiary ;
And His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias,
Aide-de-camp General Orloff, his first Plenipotentiary at
the Paris Conference, &c., &c., &c. ; and the Baron de
Brunnow, &c., &c., &c.