The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-08-29
GfmeraI fattellfgeMce .
IMPORTANT TREATY.

On the 9th Of July Treaty was signed
at London by the ministers of Russia,
France, and Great Britain, on behalf of
those powers, for interfering to put stop
to hostilities between the Turks and
Greeks. The articles of the Treaty are as
follows:
article /. The contracting powers
will offer to the Ottoman Porte their medi-
alton, with the view of bringing about a
reconciliation between it and the Greeks.
"This offer of mediation shall be made
to this power Immediately after the ratifi-
cation of the treaty, by means of collect
i've declaration, signed by the Plenipoten-
tiaries of the Allied Courts at Constantine
pie; and there shall be made, at the same
time, to the two contracting parties, a de-
mand of an immediate armistice between
them, as a preliminary condition indispen-
sable to the opening of any negotiation.
"Art. II. The arrangement to be pro-
posed to the Ottoman Porte shall rest on
the following basis The Greeks shall
hold of the Sultan as of superior Lord
and, in consequence of this superiority,
they shall pay to the Ottoman Empire an
annual tribute (reIief the amount of which
shall be fixed, once for all, by common
agreement. They shall be governed by
the authorities whom they shall themselves
choose and nominate, but in the nomina-
ton of whom the Porte shall have deter
inmate voice. To bring about complete
separation between the individuals of the
two nations, and to prevent the collisions
which are the inevitable consequence of so
long a struggle, the Greeks shall enter up
on the possession of the Turkish property
situated either upon the continent or in the
Isles of Greece, on the condition of indem-
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the payment of an annual sum, to be added
to the tribute which is to be paid to the
Porte, or by some other transaction of the
same nature.
Art III. The details of this arrange
ment, as well as the limits of the territory
on the continent, and the designation of
the islands of the Archipelago, to which it
shall be applicable, shall be settled in a
subsequent negotiation between the high
powers and the two contending parties.
Art. ~. The contracting powers en-
gage to follow up the salutary work of the
pacification of Greece on the basis laid
down in the preceding articles, and to fur
nish, without the least delay, their repre-
sentatives at Constantinople, with all the
instructions which are necessary for the
execution Of the treaty now signed.
"Art. V. The contracting powers will
not seek in these arrangements any aug
mentation of territory, any exclusive infu-
ence, any commercial advantages for their
subjects, which the subjects of any other
nation may not equally obtain.
cart. VI. The arrangements Of recon-
citation and peace, which shall be definite
ly agreed upon between the contending
parties, shall be guaranteed by such of the
signing powers as shall judge it useful or
possible to contract the obligation: the
mode Of the effects of the guarantee shall
become the object of subsequent stipula-
tions between the high powers.
"Art VII. The present treaty shall be
ratified, and the notifications shall be ex-
changed in two months, or sooner if posi-
Bile.
ain faith Whereof the respective Pleni-
potentiaries have signed and sealed it with
their arms.
Done at London, July ], 1927.
"DUDLEY,
"POLIGNAC,
ELEVEN.