[Treaty of Ackermann. Servia.] sealed, and signed by us, and delivered into the hands of the Plenipotentiaries of the Sublime Porte. 25th September, Done at Ackermann, 1826. 7th October, (L.S.) COMTE M. WORONZOW. (L.S.) RIBEAUPIERRE. (Annex 2.) SEPARATE ACT relating to Servia. (Translation.†) Privileges to be granted to the Servian Nation. THE Sublime Porte, with the sole intention of faithfully fulfilling the stipulations of Article VIII of the Treaty of Bucharest, having heretofore allowed the Servian Deputies at Constantinople to lay before her the demands of their nation upon the matters most suitable for the consolidation of the security and well-being of the country, those Deputies had heretofore set forth in their memorial the wish of the nation with respect to certain of those matters, such as freedom of Religious Worship, the choice of its Chiefs, the Independence of its Internal Administration, the re-annexation of the Districts detached from Servia, the consolidation of the various Taxes into a single sum, the making over to the Servians the administration of the Properties belonging to Mussulmans, subject to the payment of the proceeds thereof at the same time with the tribute, liberty of Commerce, permission for the Servian merchants to travel in the Ottoman dominions with their own Passports, the establishment of Hospitals, Schools, and Printing-houses; and, finally, the prohibition to Mussulmans, other than those belonging to the Garrisons, to establish themselves in Servia. Whilst the Articles above specified were being inquired into and settled, certain obstacles which occurred were the occasion of their being deferred. But the Sublime Porte, still persisting at the present time in the firm resolution of granting to the Servian nation the advantages stipulated in Article VIII * See Treaty of 14th September, 1829, Art. VI; Firmans of 1st October, 1829; October, 1830; December, 1833; and 24th December, 1838; General Treaty of 30th March, 1856, Art. XXVIII; and Protocol of 4th September, For French version, see "State Papers," vol. xiii, p, 907. 1862. Treaty of Ackermann. Servia.] of the Treaty of Bucharest, will settle, in concert with the Servian Deputies at Constantinople, the above-mentioned demands of that faithful and submissive nation, as well as all the other demands which may be laid before her by the Servian Deputation, and which may in no respect be contrary to the character of subjects of the Ottoman Empire. Court of Russia to be informed of Privileges granted to Servia. The Sublime Porte will acquaint the Imperial Court of Russia with the manner in which Article VIII of the Treaty of Bucharest shall have been executed, and will communicate to it the Firman decorated with the Hatti Sheriff, by which the abovementioned advantages shall be granted. Wherefore, we the Undersigned, Plenipotentiaries of His Majesty the Emperor and Padishah of All the Russias, furnished with sovereign Full Powers, in concert with the Plenipotentiaries of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, have agreed upon and settled, with respect to the Servians, the above points, which are the result of Article V of the Convention explanatory and confirmatory of the Treaty of Bucharest, concluded in 8 Articles in the conferences at Ackermann, between us and the Ottoman Plenipotentiaries. Accordingly, the present Separate Act has been drawn up, sealed, and signed by us, and delivered to the Plenipotentiaries of the Sublime Porte. Done at Ackermann, the 25th September, 1826. 7th October, (L.S.) COMTE M. WORONZOW. (L.S.) RIBEAUPIERRE. [Hostilities. Portugal and Spain.] No. 132.-BRITISH CIRCULAR to Foreign Ministers in London, relative to the Hostilities between Portugal and Spain. Foreign Office, 14th December, 1826. THE Undersigned, &c., has the honour to transmit to.... for the information of the Court of ....... ..., copies of a Message from His Majesty, delivered on Thursday, the 11th instant, to both Houses of Parliament, and of the Addresses voted by the two Houses in return. In making this communication to ..... .., the Undersigned is expressly commanded by His Majesty to assure ... .... that the Declarations contained in His Majesty's Message, and the measures which are in preparation in conformity thereto, far from menacing any interruption of the General Peace, have, in His Majesty's judgment, become indispensably necessary for the prevention of a War between the two nations of the Peninsula. Repeated inroads into the territory of Portugal by bands of Portuguese deserters, harboured, supported, and equipped in Spain, prove a connivance, if not an encouragement, on the part of the Spanish authorities, which could not fail to produce, at no distant time, measures of justifiable retaliation on the part of the Portuguese Regency. These inroads constitute a case in which, under the faith of Treaties,* Portugal is entitled to call, and does call, upon His Majesty for assistance. His Majesty has no choice but to comply with the requisition of his Ally, by sending a military force for the defence of the Territories of Portugal against an aggression foreign in its character, although the instruments with which it has been executed may be Portuguese. To that single defensive purpose the British corps, now under orders for Lisbon, is intended to be applied. His Majesty disclaims the right, and abjures the intention, of interfering in the internal concerns of any nation. But His Majesty will not endure that foreign force or foreign intrigue shall introduce confusion and Civil War into a country with which Great Britain has been for centuries in relations of the The Treaties appealed to by Portugal were those of the 23rd June, 1661, Arts. XV-XVII, and Secret Article; 16th May, 1703, Arts. I—III; British Guarantee of Treaty, 6th February, 174; and Treaty of 22nd January, 1815, Art. III. (See Appendix.) [Hostilities. Portugal and Spain.] strictest Amity and Alliance, and whose Government has not given any just cause of offence, either to Spain or to any other Power. The Undersigned, &c. Foreign Office, Dec. 14th, 1826. GEORGE CANNING. A copy is subjoined of His Majesty's gracious Reply to the Addresses of the two Houses of Parliament. (ANNEX.) Message of the King of Great Britain to both Houses of Parliament, relative to the Hostilities between Portugal and Spain. 11th December, 1826. GEORGE R. His Majesty acquaints the House of Lords [Commons] that His Majesty has received an earnest application from the Princess Regent of Portugal, claiming, in virtue of the ancient Obligations of Alliance and Amity subsisting between His Majesty and the Crown of Portugal His Majesty's aid against an hostile aggression from Spain. His Majesty has exerted himself for some time past, in conjunction with Ilis Majesty's Ally, the King of France, to prevent such an aggression; and repeated assurances have been given by the Court of Madrid of the determination of His Catholic Majesty neither to commit, nor to allow to be committed, from His Catholic Majesty's territory, any aggression against Portugal. But His Majesty has learnt with deep concern that, notwithstanding these assurances, hostile inroads into the territory of Portugal have been concerted in Spain, and have been executed under the eyes of Spanish authorities by Portuguese regiments which had deserted into Spain, and which the Spanish Government had repeatedly and solemnly engaged to disarm and to disperse. His Majesty leaves no effort unexhausted to awaken the Spanish Government to the dangerous consequences of this appa rent connivance. His Majesty makes this communication to the House of Lords [Commons] with the full and entire confidence that the House of Lords [his faithful Commons] will afford to His Majesty their cordial concurrence and support in maintaining the faith of Treaties, and in securing against foreign hostility the safety and Independence of the Kingdom of Portugal, the oldest Ally of Great Britain. G. R. [Boundary. Poland.] No. 133.-BOUNDARY TREATY between Austria and Russia. Signed at Brody, 14th December, 1826. 26th Preamble. Reference to Treaty of Vienna, of 3rd May, 1815. 1. Detailed Demarcation of the Line of Frontier between the Kingdoms of Poland and Gallicia, starting from the Frontier of the Territory of the Free City of Cracow. 2. Mutual Cessions by Russia and Austria of Farms, Villages, and Lands. 3 and 4. Planting of Stakes fixing the Limits. 5 and 6. Limits of the River Vistula. 7. Map of Frontier. 8. Ratifications. (Translation.) Reference to Treaty of Vienna, of 3rd May, 1815. In the Name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity. Be it known to all whom it may concern: His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, King of Poland, and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, and Gallicia, having resolved to carry out Article XXXVIII of the Treaty of Friendship concluded at Vienna on the 21st April, 1815 (No. 12), by executing the demarcation of the Frontier between the Kingdoms of Poland and Gallicia, in accordance with the terms of Article III of the same Treaty, have to that effect furnished with their Full Powers, namely: 3rd May His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, King of Poland, the Sieur Frederic Auguste d'Auvray, General of Infantry of his Armies, &c.; and the Sieur Adam Bojanowicz, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Staff, &c.; His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, and Gallicia; the Sieur Emanuel Baron de Lipowski, Government Councillor, his Resident and Consul General in the Free City of Cracow, &c.; and the Sieur Emeric Baron de Blagoevich, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Staff, &c.; Who, after having executed and caused to be executed the different labours which were required, having discussed in 18 meetings (the Procès-verbaux of which have been drawn up and signed) the different questions which had arisen, and fixed in a |