[Luxemburg, &c.]

being destined, in virtue of the Arrangements made at Paris between the Allied Powers, to strengthen the line of defence of the States bordering on France, His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, shall receive the sum of 60,000,000 francs for that purpose.

Part of Indemnity to be employed for Defence of Frontiers.

His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, undertakes to employ this sum in the necessary works for the defence of the frontiers of His States, conformably to the System adopted and the agreement made by the Allied Powers with regard thereto, in the Protocol of the Conference of their Ministers of the 21st of November, 1815 (No. 49), annexed to the present Treaty, and which shall have the same force and validity as if it were inserted herein word for word.

Relinquishment of Claim to Indemnification under Treaty of 20th November, 1815.

ART. III. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, justly appreciating the advantages which result from the preceding arrangements, both as they regard the extension of His territory and its means of defence, gives up, in reference to the sums stipulated in Article IV. of the Treaty of Paris of the 20th of November, 1815 (No. 40), the share which His Majesty might lay claim to, under the head of Indemnifications, and which was fixed by the Protocol of the Conference of the 21st of November, 1815, at 21,264,832 fr. 224 c.

Indemnity to be divided between Austria and Prussia.

His Majesty agrees that this share shall serve to complete the Indemnifications to Austria and Prussia, and shall be divided in equal proportions between those two Powers.

Fortress of Luxemburg to be a Fortress of the Germanic Con

ART. IV. Article III. of the Treaty of Vienna of the 31st of May, 1815 (No. 22), and Article LXVII. of the Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27), having stipulated that the Fortress of Luxemburg shall be considered as a Fortress of the Germanic Confederation, that stipulation is maintained and expressly confirmed by the present Convention, and the question of its maintenance is reserved for the discussions of the Diet.

[Luxemburg, &c.]

Prussia to appoint Governor and Commandant of Fortress of Luxemburg. Composition of Garrison.

ART. V. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, concedes to His Majesty the King of Prussia the right of appointing the Governor and the Commandant of that Fortress, and agrees that the garrison in general as well as each particular description of force, shall be composed of three-fourths Prussian troops, and one-fourth Belgic troops; thus relinquishing the right of appointment secured to His Majesty by Article LXVII. of the Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27), without however this arrangement, which is solely of a military nature, affecting in any respect the right of Sovereignty of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, over the City and Fortress of Luxemburg.

Civil Government over City and Fortress of Luxemburg vested in King of Netherlands.

ART. VI. The right of Sovereignty belonging in all its plenitude to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, over the City and Fortress of Luxemburg, as well as throughout the whole of the Grand Dutchy, the Administration of Justice, the collection of Duties and Taxes of every description, as well as every other branch of the Civil Administration, shall remain exclusively in the hands of His Majesty's Agents.

Confirmation of Treaties of 1815.

ART. VII. The Treaty concluded with His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, at Vienna, the 31st of May, 1815 (No. 22), as well as all the Articles of the Act of the Congress of Vienna of the 9th of June, 1815 (No. 27), which concern His Majesty's interests, or which have been stipulated with Him, are confirmed in all the points and arrangements which are not expressly changed by the present Convention, or þy that concluded between His Majesty the King of Prussia, and His said Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, the 8th of November, 1816 (No. 64).

Ratifications.

ART. VIII. The present Convention shall be ratified and the

[Luxemburg, &c.]

Acts of Ratification exchanged within the space of three months, or sooner if possible.

In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their Hands and Seals.

5th

Done at Frankfort-on-the-Mayne, the of April, in the

Year of our Lord, 1817.

17th

(L.S.) D'ANSTETT.

(L.S.) LE BARON DE GAGERN.

ANNEX.-Protocol of Conference of 21st November, 1815.

(See No. 49.)

(Parga.]

No. 70.-CONVENTION between British and Turkish Commissioners, respecting the Cession of Parga to Turkey.* Signed at Joannina, 17th May 1817.

1. Terms of Cession of Parga to Turkey to be decided by Commissioners. 2. Indemnity to Inhabitants leaving Parga to be determined by the Com

missioners.

3. Assistance to be sought for Valuation of Property.

4. British Troops to evacuate Parga on settlement of Indemnity.

(Translation.)

THE Cession of the Place of Parga to the Sublime Porte having been stipulated between the Court of London and the Imperial Court of Constantinople, by the Mediation of his Excellency the Minister of England at Constantinople, the undersigned named Commissioners to arrange definitively the Indemnities to be made to those of its inhabitants who shall have the intention to expatriate themselves for the Property that they must abandon, as also for the expense of their passage to the Ionian Islands ; to wit, John Cartwright, Esq., British Consul in the Morea, on the part of the British Government, and the ci-devant Silihdar Kiatily Hamed Bey, on the part of the Sublime Porte, have agreed to the following Articles :

Terms of Cession of Parga to Turkey to be decided by Com

missioners.

ART. I. The terms of the Cession of the Place of Parga and of its Territory, shall depend on the realization of the Indemnities above-mentioned, due to those inhabitants who shall expatriate themselves; and the two Commissioners engage themselves to give to the accomplishment of this object all their attention, and to occupy themselves on the subject with zeal and activity.

Indemnity to Inhabitants leaving Parga to be determined by the Commissioners.

ART. II. To this effect, after the signature of the present Convention by the two Commissioners, they shall transport themselves without delay to Parga, to make a list of those inhabitants *Ratified by the Sultan of Turkey, 24th April, 1819.

[Parga.]

who shall have determined to quit their country, and fix in an equitable manner the value of the Property they shall abandon, as also the expenses of their voyage to the Ionian Islands.

Assistance to be sought for Valuation of Property.

ART. III. For the purpose of making out this Valuation in a prompt and equitable manner, the undersigned shall take the assistance of some persons accustomed to those matters, whether from the Islands or from the Continent.

British Troops to evacuate Parga on settlement of Indemnity.

ART. IV. When the value of the Property of the Inhabitants who shall expatriate themselves shall have been agreed upon and established by the two Commissioners, as also the expenses of their passage to the Ionian Islands, the undersigned shall agree upon and fix the time when the whole sum shall be paid to the British Commissioners named for this purpose, and after that the said Payment shall have been made, and the departure of the Inhabitants effected, the English Troops shall retire, and the Place and the Territory of Parga shall be delivered to the Commissioners of the Sublime Porte.

Joannina, 17th May, 1817.

HAMED BEY.

JOHN CARTWRIGHT.