[Defence of Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, &c.] The Grand Duke of Darmstadt would make himself liable for one-half of the private debts of the Prince of Ysemburg. The overplus of the above-named Indemnities will be employed to obtain for His Prussian Majesty the Sovereignty of the possessions of Wittgenstein and Berleburg. The best endeavours will be made to use the part of the country of Ysemburg, situated on the left bank of the Maine, in the exchanges which the Grand Duke of Hesse is to make with the Elector of Hesse for the bailiwicks above mentioned, sub Lit. C., and to obtain from the Elector of Hesse the whole of the road from Saalmünster to Haynau. [Defence of Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, &c.] B. On the Right Bank of the Rhine: The villages of Nieder-Ursel and Ober-Erlen- The Principality of Ysemburg 1,164 47,454 Total.... 201,646 C. The ownership of the Salt Mines of Kreutznach. [Ionian Islands.] No. 39.-TREATY between Great Britain and Austria, Prussia and Russia, respecting the Ionian Islands. Signed at Paris, 5th November, 1815.* Preamble. Treaty to form part of General Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815. 1. Independence. 2. British Protection. Guarantee of Austria, Prussia, and Russia. 3. Appointment of Lord High Commissioner by Great Britain. 4. Constitutional Charter. 5. British Occupation of Fortresses, &c. Military Force of the States to be under Orders of Commander-in-Chief of British Troops. 6. Maintenance of Fortresses. Payment of British Garrison. 7. British Jurisdiction over Honorary and Military Rights. Trading Flag. Commerce with Austria. Consuls or Consular Agents only to be accredited. 8. Acceding Powers to the Treaty. 9. Ratifications. (English Version.†) 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 Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and His Majesty the King of Prussia, animated by the desire of prosecuting the Negociations adjourned at the Congress of Vienna, in order to fix the destiny of the Seven Ionian Islands, and to insure the Independence, liberty, and happiness, of the Inhabitants of those Islands, by placing them and their Constitution under the immediate Protection of one of the Great Powers of Europe, have agreed to settle definitively, by a Special Act, whatever relates to this object, which, grounded upon the rights resulting from the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May 1814 (No. 1), and likewise upon the British Declarations at the period when the British arms liberated Cerigo, Zante, Cephalonia, Santa Maura, Ithaca, and Paxo, shall be considered as forming part of the General Treaty concluded at Vienna on the 9th June of the year * The Ionian Islands were united to Greece by the Treaty between the 5 Powers of 14th November, 1863, and the Treaty between Great Britain, France, Russia, and Greece of 29th November, 1864. + For French Version, see "State Papers," vol. iii, p. 250. [Ionian Islands.] 1815, on the termination of the Congress (No. 27); and in order to settle and sign the said Act, the High Contracting Powers have nominated Plenipotentiaries; that is to say, His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a member of His said Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, Colonel of the Londonderry Regiment of Militia, and His said Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; And the Most Illustrious and Most Noble Lord Arthur, Duke, Marquess and Earl of Wellington, Marquess of Douro, Viscount Wellington of Talavera and of Wellington, and Baron Douro of Wellesley, a member of His said Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a Field-Marshal of his armies, Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse-Guards, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, &c. And his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the Sieur Clement Winceslas Lothaire, Prince of Metternich-Winnebourg-Ochsenhausen, Chamberlain, Privy Councillor of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, his Minister of State, of Conferences and of Foreign Affairs; and the Sieur John Philip Baron Wessenberg, Chamberlain and Privy Councillor of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, &c.; who, after having exchanged their Full Powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles : Independence. ART. I. The Islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo and Paxo, with their dependencies, such as they are described in the Treaty between His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias and the Ottoman Porte, of the 21st of March, 1800, shall form a single, Free and Independent State, under the denomination of the United States of the Ionian Islands. * British Protection. Guarantee of Austria, Prussia, and Russia. ART. II. This State shall be placed under the immediate and exclusive Protection of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his heirs and successors. * Sec Appendix. The [Ionian Islands.] other Contracting Powers do consequently renounce every right or particular pretention which they might have formed in respect to them, and formally guarantee all the dispositions of the present Treaty. Appointment of Lord High Commissioner by Great Britain. ART. III. The United States of the Ionian Islands shall, with the approbation of the Protecting Power, regulate their internal organization; and, in order to give to all the parts of this organization the necessary consistency and action, His Britannic Majesty will employ a particular solicitude with regard to the legislation and the general administration of those States, His Majesty will therefore appoint a Lord High Commissioner to reside there, invested with all the necessary power and authorities for this purpose. Constitutional Charter. ART IV. In order to carry into execution, without delay the stipulations mentioned in the Articles preceding, and to ground the political re-organization which is actually in force, the Lord High Commissioner of the Protecting Power shall regulate the forms of Convocation of a Legislative Assembly, of which he shall direct the proceedings, in order to draw up a New Constitutional Charter for the States, which His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall be requested to ratify.* Until such Constitutional Charter shall have been so drawn up, and duly ratified, the existing Constitutions shall remain in force in the different Islands, and no alteration shall be made in them, except by His Britannic Majesty in Council. British Occupation of Fortresses, &c. Military Force of the States to be under Orders of Commander-in-Chief of British Troops. ART. V. In order to ensure, without restriction, to the inhabitants of the United States of the Ionian Islands, the advantages resulting from the high Protection under which these States are placed, as well as for the exercise of the rights inherent in the said Protection, His Britannic Majesty shall have the right to * Ratified by Great Britain 26th August, 1817. |