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fih o 1) Id make mention of the fall anti compete amnesty
each be!ligerent Power is to grant to its own sub-
jec,-.s for a!1 co-operation in acts of war.
The Pienip .tentlaries of Russia assent to this opinion,
whi,:;) is equally ngreer.l to by the other members of the
Congi ess.

(The signatures fAlow.)

PROTOCOL No. 8. —Sim:IQ, OF MALoa 185 G.
Present.—Tho Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Francs,
Great Britaio, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey.
Tile Protocol of the preceding sitting is read aud ap-
proved.

Baron Bitiquency gives an account of the la-
bours of the Commission which at the last meeting
had been charged with preparing the text of the Articles
of the Treaty concerning the future organisation of the
Principalities.

Br±ford reading the Articles proposed by the Commis-
sion, Barony B )urqueney establishes that the object Of
the labonrs of this Commission has been to reconcile the
opinions expressed at the last sitting.
The course proposed by the Commission, Baron B-Jur•
queney adds, rests on three principles :
To conclude peace without making the final instru•
meat depend on a diplomatic act ramaining; in suspense ;
To take proper measures for ascertaining the wishes
of the populations on questions of principle not yet
solved • ,

T. respect the rights of the Suzarain Power, and not
to overlook those ot the guaranteeing Powers, by estab-
lishing the double necessity ot a diplomatic act to record
the principles adopted as bases of the organisation of the
Principalities, and of a haul-she' if to promulgato the ap-
plication of those principles.
Starting from these three principles, the Commission
proposes to send delegates immediately to Bucharest,
who Waal' meet there an Ottoman Commissioner.
Divans ad hoc would be convoked without delay in
the capital of the two Provinces. These Divans would
be composed in such a manner as to afford guarantees of
a true and serious representation.
The European Commission, taking into consideration
the wishes expressed by the Divans, would revise the
statutes and regulations in force. The re-ollt of its labours
would be transmitted to the present seat of the Confer-
ences. A Diplomatic Convention, founded on these
labours, would be concluded between the Contracting,
Powers, and a hatti sherif, constituting the definitive or-
ganisation, would be promulgated by the Sultan.
The Congress adopts the proposed course, and defers to
a future sitting the definitive adoption of the text of the
Articles which Baron Bourqueney has read.
The Plenipotentiaries of Russia and Turkey communi-
nate to the Congress the project of the Convention which
is to be concluded between them, after being agreed to
by the other Plenipotentiaries relative to the light vessels
of war which the coast Powers shall maintain in the
Black Sea.

They announce that they are not agreed on one
point. The PleNipotentiaties of Russia think that the
Convention should authorise both Powers to maintain,
besides the vessels of war which shall be employed in the
police of the Black Sea, and a fixed number of transports,
some vessels of less tonnage for the purpo,e of watching
over the execution of the administrative and sanitary
regulations in the ports. The Pienipotentiaries of Turkey
are not authorised to accept a btipuiation framed in this
sense.

The Plenipotentiaries of Russia give to the Congress
explanations tending to prove the necessity of providing
for the internal police of the ports, and of inserting in the
Convention a clause relative to the stationary vessels
which shall be there employed, so as not to expose the
Powers on the coast of the Black Sea to the intepretations
which might be authorised by this subject being passed
over in silence.
The Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and France
reply that, as these vessels cannot be either of the dimen-
sions or armament of ships of war, there is no occasion
to m-ritien them in the Convection, and that if Russia
rnrans only to have in in her ports such boats as tho::e
callr~t" pataches," for the service of the custom-house
and quarantine, and which consequently would not he
employed at sea, there is no reason to fear that the prs-
Nene° of these " patachee" in the commercial ports can
give rise to objectionable interpretations.
The Plenipotentiaries of Russia withdraw their de-
mand relative to the insertion in the Convention of the
clause concerning the small vessels destined for the in-
ternal service of the ports, reserving, at the same time,
the approbation of their Court.
The Earl of C'a,rendon remarks that the transport-
vessels should not be armed.
Count Orloff replies that, like all the transports em-
ployed by the other Powers in other seas, the transports
of Russia in the Black Sea will be exclusively furnished
with a defensive armam:nt suitable to the nature of the
service for which they will be designed.
The Earl of Clarendon not considering that he should
be justified in admitting these explanations, the question
is adjourned.
The Congress resumes the discussion of the project for
drawing up the second point, which had been the subject
of its deliberations in the sitting of the 6th of March.
Count Buol states, that the principles established by
the Congress of Vienna, and intended to regulate the
navigation of rivers which traverse several States, lay
down, as the principal regulation, that the Powers on the
banks of rivers shall be exclusively entitled to arrange
regulations of river police, and to superintend the execu-
tion of such regulations ; that the European Commission,
of which mention is made in the terms inserted in the
Protocol No. 5, will comprise, besides the delegates of
the Powers on the banks of the Danube, delegates from
Powers not on the banks of that river ; that the perma-
nent Commission which is to be substituted for the
European Commission, will be charged with executing
the resolutions adopted by it ; that, from that time, and
in order to abide by the spirit as well as the terms of the
Act of the Congress of Vienuaf both Commissions should
confine their labours to the Lower Danube and its
mouths.
Count Walewski recalls attention to the bases of the
negotiation accepted by all the. Contracting Powers, and
which are to the effect that the liberty of the Danube
and its mouths should be efficiently secured ; conse-
quently it has been understood that the free navigation
of this river shall be provided for.
The Earl of Clarendon adds that, if it were otherwise,
Austria, remaining alone in possession of the Upper Da-
nube and sharing in the ,navigation of the lower part of
the raver, would acquire separate and exclusive advan-
tages which the Congress could not sanction.
The Plenipotentiaries of Austria reply that all the
efforts as well as the tendencies of their Government, in
commercial matters, have for their object to estaelish and
propagate on all points of the Empire, the principles of
complete liberty, and that the free navigation of the
Danube is naturally comprised within the limits of the
improvements which it proposes to make ; but that it
finds itself hampered, in this matter, by previous engage.
meats, and acquired right., which it is obliged to take
into account ; that its intentions, therefore, respond to
the wish recorded in the Preliminaries of Pean ; that,
nevertheless, they cannot recognise in the Commissions
which it is proposed to establish, an authority which
could not belong to them on the Upper Danube.
The first Plenipotentiary of France says that it is ne-
cessary, in fact, to distinguish between two resolutions,
equally admitted in principle, but Navin, each of them
an object perfectly distinct ; that, on the one hand, the
Congress ought to provide for the free navigation of the
Danube throughout its whols course, upon the bases
established by the Congress of Vienna ; and on the other,
to consult as to the means of removing the obstacles
which impede the movement of commerce in the lower
part of the river and at its mouths ; that it is solely this
latter task which will devolve on the Commissioners
whom it is proposed to appoint ; but that it is net less
essential to c-line to an understanding on the develop-
ment of the general principle, in order to cnuplete the
work which the Contracting Powers had in view in
stipulating, as is said in the Preliminaries, that the
navigation of the Danube and its mouths shall be
efficiently securer], reserving the special positions of the
river-bordering Powers, which shall be regulated on the
principles established by the Act of the Congress of
Vienna in the matter of river navigation.
After the preceding explanations, it is decided that
Plenipotentiaries of Austria shall present, at one of the
future sittings, the amendments which they shall think
it right to propose in the terms inserted in Protocol
No. 5.