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London, England, 1827-07-12 00:00:00

TREAT? volt THE SEMENIEN or GREECE.

al In the name of the Must Holy and Undivided
Trinity,
" His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great-Britsln
and Ireland, his Majesty the King of France and Numeric, and his
Majesty the Emperor of all the Russia., peeetrated with the neees.
- *1 of putting an end to the sanguinary contest which, by deitver-
.lioup the Greek provinces and the isles of the Archipelago to all
the disorders of anarchy, produces daily fresh impediments to the
~'corltmerce of the Heropean States, and glees occasion to piracies,
hillieh not only expose the subjects of the High Contracting Parties
considerable losers, but besides render necessary burdensome
'''hilasureii of protection and repression ; his Majesty, nia • King of
"life' United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Maids Majesty
''''tbe King of France and Navarre, basing besides received, on the
' of the Greeks, a pressing request to interpose their mediation
with the Ottoman Porte, and tieing, as well as his Majesty the Em-
peror of all the Russia;, animated by the desire of stopping the ON-
' 'Atm of Mood, and of anrestitig the evils of all kinds which might
arise from the continuance of such a state of things, have resolved
tn• mike their efforts, and to regulate the operation thereof by a
formal Treaty. with the •iew of re-establishing peace between the
contending parties by means of an arrangement which de called for
as much by humanity as by the interest of the repose of Europe.
" Wherefore they have nominated their Plenipotentiaries to dis-
cuss, agree upon, and Ain the said Treaty, via.
" His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain end Ireland, the Right Honourable William Viscount Dudley,
Peer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Coun-
cillor et his Britannic Majesty in his PrivyComaell. and his Prin.
cipal Secretary of State for the Depa.rtment of Foreign Affairs;
" His Majesty the King of France slid Navarre, tie Prince
• Jules Count de Mew, Peer of Frame, Knight of the Orders of
his Nest Christian Majesty, Major-General of his Armies, Grand
Cross of the Order of St. Maurice of Sardinia, dr.c. &c. and his
Ambassador to his Britannic Majesty
" And his Majesty the Emperor of an the Russia% Christopher
' Prince de Lieven, General of Infantry of the Armies of his Impe-
Yiif Aide-de-camp General, Knight of the Orders of
Russia,of those of the Black Eagle and of the Red Eagle of Pros-
es, of tined the Guelphs of Hanover, Commander Grand Cross of
the Order of the Sword, and of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem,
Ms Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his /khan-
vie Majesty ;
" Who, after having communicated their full powers, and found
the same in good and due form, agreed upon the following articles t
• " Aar. 1. The conttacting Powers will offer to the Ottoman
Porte their mediation with the view of bringing about a reconcilLs-
Yon between it and the Greeks.
" This offer of mediation shall be mule to this Power imme-
diately after the ratification of the Treaty, by means of a collective
declaration signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the allied Courts at
Constantinople; and dire shall be made, at the same time, to the
two contending parties, a demand of an immediate armistice be-
tween them, as a preliminary condition indispensable to the opening
of any negocia:ion.
" Art. I( The arrangement to be proposed to the Ottoman
Porte shall rest on the following bases:—The Greeks shall hold ed
the Sultan, as of a • superior lord ; and in consequence of this
superiority, they shall pay to the Ottoman Empire an annual ttibute
(retie), the amount of which shall be axed, once for all, by a come
mon agreement. They shall be governed by the authorities whom
they shall themselves choose sod nominate, but in the nomination
of whom the Porte shall have a determinate voices
" To bring about a complete. separation between the indivielonlal
of the two nations, and to prevent the collisions which are the he.
esitable consequence of so long a struggle, the Greeks shall enter
upon poSsession of the Turkish property situated either on the con-,
tinent or in the isles of Greece, on the condition of indemnifying
the former proprietors, either by the payment of an annual sum, to
ba added to the tribute which is to be paid to the Porte, or by
some other transaction of the same nature.
" Art. 111. Tce details of this arrangement, as well as the limits
of the territoty on the continent, and the designation of the islands
of :he Archipelago, which it shall be applicable, shall be settled in
a subsequent negotiation between the High Powers and the two
•conrending pnrtles.

M Art. IV. The contracting Powers engage to follow up the salu-
tar y work of the pacification of Greece on the bites laid down in the
preceding articles, and to furnish without the IPAtt delay their Re-
presentatives at Constantinople with all the instructions which arf!
nnesslry for the execution of the treaty now signed.
" Am V. The contracting Powers will not seek in these arrange-
ments any augmentation of territory, any exclusive Influence, and
commercial advantalte for their subjects, which the subjects of any
other nation may not equally obtain.
" VI. The arrangements of reconciliation and peace, which shall
he definitively agreed upon between the contending parties, shall be
guaranteed by such of the signing Powers as shall judge it useful or
to contract the obligation : the mode of the effects of this
guarantee shall become the object of subsequent stipulations be-
tween the High Powers.

" Art. VII. The present treaty eta be ratified, and the radii.
cations shall be exchanged in two months, or wmner ((possible.
" fa faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed,
and waled it with their Arms.
" Done at London, Jul) 6, t 827.

"DUDLEY.
"POLIGNAC.
"LIEVEN."
ADDITIONAL AND SECRET ARTICLE.

." In case that the Ottoman Porte does not accept, within the
apace of one month, the mediaticn which shall be proposed. the
High Contracting Parties agree upon the following measures :
" 1. It shall be declared, by their representatives at Constam
tinnple to the Porte, that the inconveniences and evils pointed out
In the politic treaty a. inseparable from the state of things sub-
sisting in t►e East for the last six years, and the termination of
which, thtough the means at the disposal of the Sublime Porte,
appears still remote, impose upon the High Contracting Parties
the necessity of taking immediate measures for an approximation
with the Greeks.

0 It is to be understood that this approximation shall be brought
about by establishing commercial relations with the Greeks, by
sending to them for th►t purpose, and receiving from them, Con-
sular Agents, so long as there shall exist among them Authorities
capable of maintaining ouch relation..
•' 2. If within the sail term of one month, the Porte do not
accept the armistice proposed in the first article of the public
treaty, or if the Greeks refuse to execute it, the High Contracting

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Powers shall declate to that one of the two contending parties
art ich shall wish to cnntinue am to both if such become
to y, that the said High Contracting Power• intend to exert
s 'tie meamt which circumstances may ouggest to their prudence

to obtain the immediate-effect of the armistice, the execution of

which they desire, by preventing, in op far as may be in their
• bower, all collision between the contending parties, and, in fact,
insimediatt•ly after the aforesaid declaration, the High Contracting
peuper• will conjointly employ all their means in the accomplish-
ago of the object thereof, without, however, taking any part in
thwhiadlides between the two contending parties.
esilsopmertioence the High Contracting Powers will, lamed'.
• Mei selb. law signature of the present additional and secret article,

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