Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-06-28
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NAPLES.
/ Copy of a note from Prince .Metternichto
i Lord Casttereagh.
The undersigned, Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs, has received the Note in
(which his Excellency Lord Castlereagh,
Principal Secretary Of State of His Britain
lnic Majesty for Foreign Affairs, requires,
lin the name of his Court, explanations of
1.-THE arrangements determined upon with
respect to the Continent. and chiefly with
regard to the three principal Powers /; and
|also satisfactory assurances as to those
Interests which are specially confded to
1.-The h onor & amicable intervention OF e.
britain. AT the same time lie has recelv-
ed a proiet of Conyentionon the part of
Ibis ExcelIencs-, which declares the wishes
| of the British Government upon those last
points.
The undersigned, in protesting that he
is ready to give, in concert with the other
Allied Cabinets, tie most frank explana
| tions on the first topic, hastens, to appr!ze
Lord Castlereash, that having submitted
1.-THE projet Of tie Convention to TIE
Emperor, lie has been authorized by lis
Imperial Majesty to acceEt the inclosed,
land to cause to be drawn I'D preliminary
act of acceptance, which he has TIE ho-
Incur herewith to transmit to lis Excel
Ilency, and which Shall be followed, as
soon as possible, BY an instrument pre-
pared according to tie usual forms. The
Undersigned has the honour TO De &c.
l,royes, February Is, 1914
Dispatched also by his Eycellercy
Count Nesselrode and his EXceiienoy
Prince TaTdenhurg.
Preliminary .Gct Of accession tie Courts
os .Ggsstrja, R5ssia, aad il1'aasjG,. 10 the
Tfopostioils .Vede by has LNceilency
Lord Yiscou1t Castlerpagh.
TRoYEs, Feb. Is, 1914.
His Excellency Lord Viscount Cas-
Itlerea4h, the Principal Secretary q
Estate of Els Majesty tie King Of the U.
Kingdom OF Great Britain, having tgans-
nitted to tue undersigned a FrcIet Of a
Convention, OF which tke following is the
tenor:
rs The negotiations with TIE enemy
lmay terminate, perhaps. before tie inter-
hal arrangements between tie Allied
Powers car De agreed upon, and His Bri-
Itsanic Majesty net considering binseii
II iasfice called uron to male cons.dera-
lbs sacrifices Of l:S conquests t.om
2.auce. fer tac genera good o. IuiDre..
i1ithoEt'a ias5t berg cerjnin Te,2t.self
to those arrangements CT TIE Continent
29ca r.ost directly ccncern lis Interests
Jana his hoEour t,aif l:nperial and Roy
.ai Maiesties, L, order t. giEe his Britannia
Majesty pyac Il their gratitude for TIE
Ipe,5erveriGg 2n liberal aid which they
I've receiyeli Iron his said Majesty, dur
l.ur the continuance cf the var, and con-
;saict;ng the demands Of las hritaniic
'ajesty az Just in themselves, and e4eGi-
,Iy cohfown&..ye to the true Interests q
lAav&pe aglee,
J. That tie Be'1.c provinces. as far
les tac MeHse, situated .atWccn TIE an
'c;cnt frontier of France and that r.Tee IS
we!l as tie country situated beyond u.at
river, comprised within line draw i
from TIE Nleuse to Maestricht BY Ai2-Ia.
Chapelie and Nurer, as lar as Cologne
len the Rhine, shall be ceded to tie PRICE
E9f 0rarge. and Sovereign Of the Cnites'
Netherlands, to he united forever as az
Integral rart OF Holland.
9. That the other territories situated
on the left bank cf the Rhine, If notw:.cl-
liz orr part united 10 Holland, snail be at
ieast 20 disrdsed Of as TO provide security
and protection for that country and tie
north OF Germany in military Point Of
view ;and that no arrangement shall ta:le
iplace with respect to them without the mil
land entire consent OF His Britannia Ma
Ejesty.
/ s. That there shall be granted to the
king OF Sicily, in lieu Of tie kingdom OF
Naples, Liberal Indemnity in Italy. the
relation and position of which shall be
settled by common assent, and tie value
of which shall not be below that proper
ton which his siciiian Majesty has
right to, from the scale of his losses com-
lpared with those of other soyereigns,
lhaving right to indemnities. and accor-
ding to the means which the allied powers
may reserve for satisfying those claims.
4. That the vessels of war found in any
of the ports which, by virtue Of the cor
clusion of peace, shall be ceded to the al
lies, shall be regarded and treated as the
remains of tie means and implements OF
war. and stall net be replaced at the dis