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London, England, 1856-04-30 00:00:00

ANNEX TO PROTOCOL No. I.

Present.—The Representatives of France, Austria,
Great Britain, Russia, and Turkey.
In consequence of the acceptance by their respective
Courts of the five propositions contained in the annexed
document under the title of a Project of Preliminaries,
the Undersigned, after having affixed their initials to it,
in conformity with the authority to that effect which they
have received, have agreed that each of their Govern-
ments shall name Plenipotentiaries furnished with the ne-
cessary full powers in order to proceed to the signature
of formal Preliminaries of Peace, conclude an armistice
and a Definitive Treaty of Peace. The said Plenipoten-
tiaries shall meet at iiaris within a period of three weeks
from this day, or sooner if possible.
Done at Vienna, in quintuplic.ste, the first of Febru.
ary, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
(Signed) BouRQumNEY- GORTCELIKOFF.
BUM', SCII.IUF.NSTEIN.
G. H. SEYMOUR.
(Initials affixed) B.

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A.
M. D.

PROJECT OF PRELIMINARIES.
1. DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
Complete abolition of the Russian Protectorate.
Russia shall not exercise any special or exclusive right
of protection or of interference in the internal affairs of
the Danubian Principalities.
The Principalities shall preserve their privileges and
immunities under the suzerainty of the Porte, and the
Sultan, in concert with the Contracting Powers, shall
further grant to these Principaiities, or confirm therein,
an iaternal organisation suitable to the wants and wishes
of the populations.
The Principalities shall, in concert with the Suzerain
Power, adopt a permanent defensive system required by
their geographical situation ; no obstacle shall be thrown
in the way. of the extraordinary defensive measures
which they may be called upon to adopt in order to re-
pel any foreign aggression.
In exchange for the fortified positions and territories
occupied by the allied armies, Russia consents to a ree
tification of her frontier with Turkey in Europe. This
frontier, thus rectified in a manner suitable to the geile-
ral interest°, would start from the neighbourhood of Cho-
tyn, fellow the line of mountains which stretches in the
south-easterly direction, and terminate on Lake Salzyk.
The line would be definitively settled in the Treaty of
Peace, and the ceded territory revert to the Prineipali,
ties and to the suzerainty of the Porte.
2. DANI:Me.
The freedom of the Danube and of its mouths shall be
effectually secured by European institations, in which
the Contracting Powers shall be equally represented,
without prejudice to the special positions of the river-
bordering Powers,which shall be settled upon the prin.
eiples established by the Act of the Congress of Vienna
on the subject of river navigation.
Each of the Contracting Powers shall have the right
of stationing one or two light vessels of war at the
mouths of the river, for the purpose of insuring the exe-
cution of the regulations relative to the liberty of the
Danube.

3. BLACK SEA.
The Black Sea shall be neutralised.
Its waters, thrown open to the mercantile marine of
every nation, shall be interdicted to ves3als of war.
Consequently there shall neither be created nor main-
ned there any military maritime arsenals.
The protection cf the commercial and maritime interests
of every nation shall be assured in the respective p )rts of
the Black Sea, by tke establishment of institutions in
conformity with international right and the established
usages in such matter.

Tile two Powers bordering on it shall mutually engage
to maintain there only the number of light vessels, of
fixed force, necessary for the service of their coasts. The
Convention to be concluded between them to this effect,
after having previously received the approbation of the
Powers signing the General Treaty, shall be annexed to
the said Treaty, and shall bare the same force and value
as if it formed an integral portion of it. This Separate
Convention shall neither be annulled nor modified with-
out the assent of the Powers signing the General Treaty.
The closing of the Straits shall be subject to the excep-
tion i❑ favour of the stationary vessels mentioned in the
preceding Article.
4. CHRISTIAN POPULATIONS SUBJECT TO THE PORTE.
The immunities of the Ravah subjects of the Porte
shall be confirmed, without prejudice to the independence
and dignity of the Sultan's crown.
Deliberations being in progress between Austria,
France, Great Britain, and the Sublime Porte, with the