[Pacification of Portugal.] fore determined by the Plenipotentiaries of the 4 Powers, that the assistance to be afforded to the Queen of Portugal should be given forthwith; and accordingly the Plenipotentiaries of Spain, France, and Great Britain engage that the Naval Forces of their respective Governments now stationed on the coast of Portugal shall immediately co-operate with the Naval Force of Her Most Faithful Majesty in any operations which the commanders of those combined forces may judge necessary or expedient for carrying into effect the objects of this Agreement; and the Plenipotentiary of Spain further engages that a body of Troops, the number of which shall be agreed upon between the Spanish and Portuguese Governments, shall enter Portugal for the purpose of co-operating with the Troops of Her Most Faithful Majesty; and that those Troops shall withdraw from the Portuguese Territory within two months after the time when they shall enter, or as soon as the objects for which they shall have entered shall have been accomplished. The Plenipotentiaries of the 4 Powers undertake that orders, in conformity with the engagements of this Protocol, shall be sent forthwith to the Naval Officers of the respective Governments on the Coast of Portugal, and to the general officers commanding the Spanish troops on the Frontiers of Spain. XAVIER DE ISTURIZ. PALMERSTON. TORRE DE MONCORVO. [Italian Boundaries.] No. 206.-TREATY between Lucca and Tuscany. Signed at Florence, 4th October, 1847.* 1. Abdication of Duke of Lucca in favour of Grand Duke of Tuscany. 2. Retention of Titles of Duke and Prince of Lucca. 3. Acceptance of Cession by Tuscany. Appanage to Duke of Lucca until Reversion of Duchy of Parma. 4. Purchase of Furniture of Palaces by Tuscany. 5. Purchase of Horses, &c., belonging to Duke of Tuscany. 6. Possession of Allodial Estates by Duke of Lucca. 7. Pensions of Functionaries, &c., to be paid by Tuscany. 8. Cessions of Territories to be made by Tuscany. 9. Cession of Fivizzano, &c., to Modena. 10. Cession of Pontremoli, &c., to future Duke of Parma. 11. Annual Assignment to be made to Duke of Lucca. 12. Duration of Appanage to Duke of Lucca. 13. Revenues, &c., to pass to Grand Duke of Tuscany. 14. Recognition of the Public Debt and Private Debt due to Duke Charles Louis. 15. Communication of Treaty to Austria, Modena, and Sardinia. 16. Ratifications. (Translation as laid before Parliament.†) Abdication of Duke of Lucca in favour of Grand Duke of Tuscany. ART. I. His Royal Highness the Infante Charles Louis of Bourbon, now Duke of Lucca, proceeds from this day, for himself and his family, with the concurrence and assent of the hereditary Prince Don Ferdinando, to abdicate the temporal Sovereignty of that State, so that the same may immediately pass by way of Cession of transference to His Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to whom it would definitively devolve in the case contemplated by the Treaty of Vienna of the 9th June, 1815 (No. 27), and by that of Florence of the 28th November, 1844 (No. 200). Retention of Titles of Duke and Prince of Lucca. ART. II. Their Royal Highnesses shall nevertheless retain respectively and personally the Titles of Duke and Prince of Lucca, until the reversion of the Duchy of Parma shall pass to * See Decree of 22nd March, 1860, for annexation of Tuscany to Sardinia. For French Version sec "State Papers," vol. xxxvi, p. 1172. [Italian Boundaries.] His Royal Highness the Infante Charles Louis, or the hereditary Prince his son, by the event contemplated in the Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27), and in the Treaty of Paris of 10th June, 1817 (No. 73), or by any other event whatever which should previously bring about such reversion. Acceptance of Cession by Tuscany. Appanage to Duke of Lucca until Reversion of Duchy of Parma. ART. III. His Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany accepts the Cession of transference made to him by anticipation of the Duchy of Lucca, and in return he obliges himself to make to His Royal Higness the Duke of Lucca an Appanage of 9,000 francesconi per mensem, tranferable to his Son if the death of the present Duke should precede the Reversion of the Duchy of Parma, it being always understood that in either case that charge will wholly cease whenever the Reversion of the said Duchy of Parma shall really take place. ART. IV. Purchase of Furniture of Palaces by Tuscany. ART. V. Purchase of Horses, &c., belonging to Duke of Tuscany. ART. VI. Possession of Allodial Estates by Duke of Lucca. ART. VII. Pensions of Functionaries, &c., to be paid by Tuscany. Cessions of Territories to be made by Tuscany. ART. VIII. His Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke having been induced to conclude the present Treaty solely by a desire to procure the utmost advantage to the people of Lucca, and at the same time to comply with the request made to him spontaneously by His Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca, and in no way to increase even temporarily his Dominions beyond the Limit agreed to in the Treaties, intends, so far as appertains to him, to proceed on his part, so soon as he shall be in possession of the Duchy of Lucca, to the Cession of the Territories which should devolve to other Sovereignties, in full conformity with the stipulations of the Treaties of Vienna (No. 27) and Florence (No. 200); so much as is provided in this last Treaty relative to the Territories of Barga and Pietra Santa, remaining unaltered. Cession of Fivizzano, &c., to Modena. ART. IX. In conformity with the principle set forth in the [Italian Boundaries.] preceding Article, His Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke cedes to His Royal Highness the Archduke Duke of Modena, without prejudice to any compensation which may be agreed to between His Highness and the Duke of Lucca, in whose free act this anticipated Cession originates, the Territory of Fivizzano, &c., which will form a portion of the Modenese State, according to the provisions of Article CII of the Treaty of Vienna (No. 27), and of the other Treaty of Florence (No. 200), several times quoted. Cession of Pontremoli, &c., to future Duke of Parma. ART. X. In like manner His Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke intends to cede to His Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca and future Duke of Parma, the Territory of Pontremoli and the centres of the Province of Lunigiana, which will form part of the Duchy of Parma, in conformity with the Treaty of Florence of the 28th November, 1844 (No. 200), and in full execution thereof. ARTS. XI to XVI. (See Table.) Florence, the 4th day of October, 1847. (L.S.) THOMAS WARD. (L.S.) L. SERRISTORI. [By an Edict, dated 5th October, 1847, the Duke of Lucca abdicated in favour of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.] [Neutrality of Neuchatel and Valengin.] No. 207.-DECLARATION of the King of Prussia, relative to the Neutrality of Neuchâtel and Valengin. Berlin, 19th November, 1847. (Translation as laid before Parliament.) WE, Frederick William IV, by the grace of God King of Prussia, Sovereign Prince of Neuchâtel and Valengin, &c., greeting. After we have taken cognisance of the Resolution adopted in the sitting of the Legislative Assembly of the 29th of October of this year, pronouncing the Neutrality of the Cantons during the Civil War which has now broken out in Switzerland, and after we have been informed of the complete concurrence of the corporations, of the clergy, and of the most distinguished organs of the country, with this Resolution; we declare hereby that we entirely approve of the motives which have induced the Legislative Assembly to take this Resolution; that accordingly, in our capacity of Prince Sovereign, we of our accord Ratify and Confirm this Resolution, and accordingly declare our Principality of Neuchâtel and Valengin to be a Neutral and Inviolable Territory for the whole duration of the present Civil War, in the manner in which this Neutrality and this Inviolability have been understood and specified by the Legislative Assembly and the Council of State of Neuchâtel. In witness whereof we have signed the present Declaration with our own hand, and affixed to it our Royal Seal. Given at Berlin, the 19th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, 1847. (L.S.) FREDERICK WILLIAM. WERTHER. |