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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 Commissioners.

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.

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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.

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No. 71.-ACCESSION of the King of Spain to the Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815. Signed at Paris, 7th June, 1817.

His Catholic Majesty, having been amicably invited by His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, both in his own name and in that of their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the King of France, His Majesty the King of the Kingdoms of Portugal and Brazil, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of all the Russias, and the King of Sweden and Norway, to accede to the Treaty concluded in consequence of the Treaty of Paris of 30th May, 1814 (No. 1), and signed between the Powers above named at the City of Vienna on the 9th of June, in the year 1815 (No. 27), which Treaty has been concluded and signed in eight original copies, all word for word alike, and wholly agreeing amongst themselves, of which seven copies were for each of the seven signatory Powers, and the eighth was deposited in fulfilment of Article CXXI. of that Act, in the Court and State Archives at Vienna, to serve as a common standard, as well for the signatories above mentioned as for the other Powers and States acceding to it.

And his said Catholic Majesty, after having received the communication, both of the said common Treaty of the 9th of June and of the Treaties, Conventions, Declarations, Regulations, and other Acts cited in Article CXVIII., and annexed to the said general instrument, being desirous of giving to His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland every proof of confidence and of amity which is in His power, has furnished for this purpose with his Full Powers M. Charles Gutierrez, of los Rios, Fernandez, of Cordoba, Sarminto de SotoMayor and Count of Fernan-Nuñez and of Barajals, Marquis of Castel Montcayo, Duke of Montellano de l'Arco, and of Aremberg, Prince of Barbanzon and of the Holy Roman Empire, &c., Five times Grandee of Spain of the First Class, Knight of the Illustrious Order of the Golden Fleece, and Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III., his Gentleman of the Bedchamber in exercise of his functions, his Great Huntsman, Colonel of the Regiment of Hussars of Ferdinand VII., &c., and his Ambassador at the Court of His Most Christian Majesty, to notify in his

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name this accession; who in consequence declares that His Catholic Majesty accedes by the present act to the above-mentioned Treaties, Conventions, Declarations, Regulations, and other Acts cited in Article CXVIII., all of which Acts are considered to be inserted here word for word, in binding himself formally and solemnly, both towards His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as also towards all the other Powers and States, who, whether as signatories or as accessories, have taken part in the engagements of the Act of the Congress to co-operate on his part in the fulfilment of the obligations contained in the said Treaty, in so far as they may concern His Catholic Majesty.

The present Act of Accession shall be ratified within 2 months after the delivery of the Act of Acceptance, and before the expiration of the said period the exchange of the instruments of Ratification of Accession on the one part, and of Ratification of Acceptance on the other part, shall be proceeded with, which instruments shall be copied in duplicate, one of the copies to serve as the standard between the accessory and accepting parties, and the other copy to be annexed to the General Treaty of the 9th of June, 1815 (No. 27), deposited at Vienna. In faith of which, we, the Plenipotentiary of His Catholic Majesty, have, in virtue of our Full Powers produced before the Plenipotentiaries of the respective Powers, signed the present Act of Accession, and have affixed the Seal of our Arms.

Done at Paris, the 7th June, in the year of our Lord, 1817.

(L.S.) LE COMTE DE FERNAN-NUNEZ. DUC DE MONTELLANO.

(L.S.) CHAS STUART.

BRITISH ACT of Acceptance of the Accession of the King of Spain to the Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815. Paris, 7th June, 1817.

As His Catholic Majesty has acceded to the Complementary Treaty of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May, 1814 (No. 1), concluded and signed at Vienna on the 9th of June, 1815 (No. 27), by the Act of Accession delivered by M. Charles Gutierrez, &c., Count of Fernan-Nuñez, furnished with the Full

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Powers of His said Majesty, the tenor of which Act of Accession follows here word for word.

(Here follows the Act of Accession.)

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has authorised the undersigned Charles Stuart, &c., to accept formally the said Accession, His said Majesty binding himself reciprocally towards His Catholic Majesty to co-operate on his part in the fulfilment of the obligations contained in the said Treaty, and in so far as they may concern His Britannic Majesty.

The present Act of Acceptance shall be ratified within the term of 2 months, and before the expiration of the said term the exchange of the respective instruments of Ratification of the accession and of the acceptance shall be proceeded with, which instruments shall be copied in duplicate, one of the copies to serve as a standard between the accessory and accepting Parties, and the other copy to be annexed to the General Treaty of the 9th of June, deposited at Vienna.

In faith of which we, the Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty, have signed the present Act of Acceptance, and have affixed thereto the Seal of our Arms.

Done at Paris, the 7th of June, in the year of our Lord, 1817.

(L.S.) CHAS. STUART.