Page:The European Concert in the Eastern Question.djvu/329

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
THE DANUBE TREATY OF 1883
313

No. VIII.

1883, 10th March.
Treaty between Her Majesty, the German Emperor, King of Prussia, the Emperor of Austria, the President of the French Republic, the King of Italy, the Emjperor of Russia, and the Sultan of Turkey, relative to the Navigation of the Danube, Signed at London, March 10, 1883[1].

In the Name of Almighty God.

The Signatory Powers of the Treaty of Berlin, having deemed it necessary to assemble their Plenipotentiaries in Conference at London, in order to come to an understanding as to the decisions to be taken in virtue of Article LIV of the Treaty of Berlin of the 13th July, 1878, and in respect of the execution of Article LV of the same Treaty, concerning the navigation of the Danube from the Iron Gates to its mouths, have appointed their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Granville George, Earl Granville, &c.. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Lord Edmond George Petty Fitzmaurice, &c.. Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ;

His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia, George Herbert, Count Mūnster, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty; His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary, Louis, Count Karolyi of Nagy-Karoly, &c., his Ambassador Extraordinary to Her Britannic Majesty ;

The President of the French Republic, Charles Tissot, &c., Ambassador of the French Republic to Her Britannic Majesty, and Camille Barrere, French Delegate on the Danube Commission, &c. ;

  1. Parl. Papers, 1883, Danube, No. 5 ; N. R. G. 2^0 Sdrie, ix, 392.