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London, England, 1815-08-11 00:00:00

PROTEST OF THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR ACIAINST THE

DF...MIONS OF THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA.

The undersigned, Ambassador of his Majesty the
King of Spain, has remarked, that no mention ap-
pears in the Protocol, of that conference which took
place yesterday evening. He presumes, that, instead
01 a conference, it was rather an act of courtesy
which Messrs. the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Great
Britain, France, Russia, and Prussia, spewed towards
him. in order to communicate to him the act with
which they have resolved to terminate their labours.
and in which they, as he is told, have irrevocably
agreed among themselves alone respecting the rights
of his Majesty the King of Spain, and ids Majesty
the King of Etruria, in Italy, as well as respecting
the singular recommendation made to his Catholic
Majesty. in an article of the Treaty, respecting the
cession of Oliveuza to Portugal, an affair with which
the Plenipotentiaries of the above powers must surely
have interfered by mistake, since it has at no time
become the Congress, and much less any of its parts,
to interfere in that business. And as it is of the
greatest importance, that either in the Protocols or in
the diplomatic archives, some record should remain
of what the undersigned yesterday declared verbally,
therefore, he has the honour now to repeat it ;n
writing. He then declared, that all that he could do,
out of respect to the Powers whose Plenipotentiaries
were assembled yesterday evening, was, that he must
leave to his own Court the decision in relation to the
communicated treaty, and till then cannot subscribe Ur
1. Because his instructions forbid him to subscribe
any agreement contrary to the immediate and com-
plete restoration of the three Duchies of Parma,
Piacenza, and Guastalla, as he had the honour to
make known to Prince Metternich- in a note of the 3d
of April, which has remained unanswqred, and which
6bas not been imparted to Congress, contrary to the
express wishes therein set forth.
• 2. Because, while Spain has desired of Austria, in
its own name, the restoration of Tuscany, and sub-
sidiarily of Parma, and while besides his Catholic
Majesty takes an immediate interest in the fate of his
Majesty the King of Etruria, even had the under-
signed not been summoned, like the Plenipotentiaries
of other powers who signed the Treaty of Paris, and
admitted to the Congress of Vienna, in no way could
the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Britain, &c. legiti-
mately .decide respecting the fate of Tuscany and
Parma. without thsa mom And, wit will
be impossible to persuade any man that that can be'
called entering into negotiation between two powers,
when the Plenipotentiary of the one is merely invited
to adopt that which, the mediating powers have irre-
vocably fixed with the other, and which then is made
the formal article of a Treaty.
S. Because, among. the great number of articles of
which the Treaty consists, there is only a small num.'s
ben respecting which information was given in the
conferences to the Plenipotentiaries of the eight
Powers who signed the Peace of Paris, and as all these
Plenipotentiaries are reciprocally equal, and the
Powers whom they represent equally independent, it
cannot be admitted that a part of them have the right
of deciding and concluding, and the rest of them only
that of subscribing, or refusing subscription, without
an open contempt of the most essential forms, without
the most manifest subversion of all ,principles. and
without the introduction of a new law of nations, to
which the Powers of Europe cannot submit without
ipefacte renouncing their independence, and which,.'
however general it may become, shall never be so on
the other side of the Pyrennees.
The undersigned requests his Highness Prince Met-
ternich, in his capacity of President of the Congress,
w lay this note before the other Plenipotentiaries, and
to permit its insertion in the protocol of conferences.
He embraces this opportunitT of renewing to his
Highness this assurance (ibis high conideradon.
(Siffned)' QOM= LAJUUDONI.
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