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APrENDIX. 401 Ciilly, the ovacuatioii of the Danubian Principalities is one of the essential conditions of the integrity of that Empire ; being, moreover, ready to join, with the means at his dis- posal, in the measures proper to insure the object of the agreement established between his Cabinet and the High Courts represented at the Conference of Vienna : His Imperial Majesty the Sultan having, on his side, accepted this offer of concert, made in a friendly manner by His Majesty the Emperor of Austria ; It has seemed proper to conclude a Convention, in order to regulate the manner in which the concert in question shall be carried into effect. With this object. His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, ^I. le Earon Charles do Bruck, Privy Councillor of His Imperial and Poyal Apostolic Majesty, his Internuncio and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Sublime Ottoman Porte, Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of Leopold, Knight of the Imperial Order of the Iron Crown of the first class, &c. ; And His Imperial ^Majestythe Sultan, Mustapha Peshid Pasha, late Grand Vizier, and at present his Minister for Foreign Affairs, decorated with the Imperial Order of Medjidi(^ of the first class, ifec. ; Who, after having exchanged their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles : Article I. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria engages to exhaust all the means of negotiation, and all other means, to obtain the evacuation of the Danubian Principalities by the foreign army which occupies them, and even to employ, in VOL. II. 2 C