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PROCLAMATION.

F. ADAM.

By His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Adam, G. C. S. M. S. G. His Majesty's Lord High Commissioner in and to the United States of the Ionian Islands, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS a Proclamation has been issued by the Provisional Government of Greece, and addressed to his Majesty's Consul at Constantinople, and the other Consuls and Vice Consuls of the Powers of Europe in the Archipelago, to the following effect::

"That, as the Masters of sundry European vessels have freighted their ships to the Turkish Government for the conveyance of troops, stores, and provisions, in opposition to the advice of their Consuls, and in contravention of the principles of neutrality professed by their respective Sovereigns in the present contest in which Greece is engaged, all such vessels, together with their crews, shall be considered as no longer belonging to any neutral nation, but as enemies; and shall as such, be attacked, burnt, or sunk, together with their crews, by the ships of the Greek fleet, or by any other armed Greek force that may fall in with them."

And whereas his Majesty, for the vindication of the rights of that neutrality, the duties of which he has himself strictly and uniformly observed during the existing hostilities, and for the protection of the commerce as well as of the lives of his subjects, and of the Ionian people placed under his exclusive protection, has directed the Lord High Commissioner to require, in his Majesty's name, of the

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Provisional Government the immediate recal of a Proclamation, so contrary to the law of nations, and to every principle of humanity and of the intercourse of civilized countries:

And whereas the Lord High Commissioner has accordingly required, in his Majesty's name, the recall of the said Proclamation, and the Provisional Government have refused to recall the same; and whereas such refusal bas been duly notified to the Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's Naval forces ;—

Be it known that, in conformity with instructions to that effect given by the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty, the said Commander-in-Chief will forthwith proceed to seize and detain all armed vessels, or vessels carrying armed men, fitted out by, or under, or acknowledging the authority of the Provisional Government of Greece; and that those instructions will continue in force until the said Proclamation shall be fully and authentically recalled by the Provisional Government, and the said recall duly notified by the Lord High Commissioner to the Commanderin-Chief of his Majesty's Naval forces.

The present shall be printed in the three languages, English, Greek, and Italian, promulgated and sent to whom it concerns for its execution.

Palace, Corfu, 6th September, 1824.

By Command of His Excellency,

J. RUDSDELL,

Secretary of the Lord High Commissioner.

TREATY FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF

GREECE.

IN the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity :

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his Majesty the King of France and Navarre, and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, penetrated with the necessity of putting an end to the sanguinary contest which, by delivering up the Greek provinces and the isles of the Archipelago to all the disorders of anarchy, produces daily fresh impediments to the commerce of the European States, and gives occasion to piracies, which not only expose the subjects of the High Contracting Parties to considerable losses, but besides render necessary burdensome measures of protection and repression; his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of France and Navarre, having besides received, on the part of the Greeks, a pressing request to interpose their mediation with the Ottoman Porte, and being, as well as his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, animated by the desire of stopping the effusion of blood, and of arresting the evils of all kinds which might arise from the continuance of such a state of things, have resolved to unite their efforts, and to regulate the operations thereof by a formal treaty, with the view of re-establishing peace between the contending parties, by means of an arrangement, which is called for as much by humanity as by the interest of the repose of Europe.

Wherefore they have nominated their plenipotentiaries to discuss, agree upon, and sign the said treaty, viz.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable William Viscount Dudley, Peer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Councillor of his Britannic Majesty in his Privy Council, and his Principal Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign Affairs :

His Majesty the King of France and Navarre, the Prince Jules Count de Polignac, Peer of France, Knight of the Orders of his Most Christian Majesty, MajorGeneral of his Armies, Grand Cross of the Order of St. Maurice of Sardinia, &c. &c. and his Ambassador to his Britannic Majesty :

And his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, Christopher, Prince de Lieven, General of Infantry of the Armies of his Imperial Majesty, his Aid-de-Camp General, Knight of the Orders of Russia, of those of the Black Eagle and of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of that of the Guelphs of Hanover, Commander of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword, and of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Britannic Majesty ;

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Who, after having communicated their full powers, and found the same in good and due form, agreed upon the following articles :

"Art. 1. The Contracting Powers will offer to the Ottoman Porte their mediation, 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 ratification of the Treaty, by means of a collective Declaration, signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the Allied Courts at Constantinople; and there shall be made, at the same time, to the two contending parties, a demand of an immediate armistice between them, as

a preliminary condition indispensable to the opening of any negociation.

"Art. 2. The arrangement to be proposed to the Ottoman Porte shall rest on the following basis: the Greeks shall hold of the Sultan, as of a superior Lord (Suzerain); and, in consequence of this superiority, they shall pay to the Ottoman Empire an annual tribute (relief), the amount of which shall be fixed, once for all, by a common agreement. They shall be governed by the authorities whom they shall themselves choose and nominate, but in the nomination of whom the Porte shall have a determinate voice.

"To bring about a 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 upon possession of the Turkish property situated either on the Continent or in the Isles of Greece, on the condition of indemnifying the former proprietors, either by 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. 3. The details of this arrangement, 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 negociation between the High Powers and the two contending parties.

"4. The contracting Powers engage to follow up the salutary work of the pacification of Greece on the basis laid down in the preceding articles, and to furnish, without the least delay, their Representatives at Constantinople with all the instructions which are necessary for the execution of the treaty now signed.

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