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 collective Note from the Ministers of these Powers at Constantinople, dated 27th July, 1839, to the following effect : —

The undersigned have this morning received instructions from their respective Governments, in virtue of which they have the honour to inform the Sublime Porte that agreement between the five Powers is insured, and to invite the Porte to suspend any final determination without their concurrence.

It is well known that the policy of France subsequently diverged from that of the other Powers ; which, without her, signed the Treaty of London of 15th July, 1840, to the following effect : — In the name of the Most Merciful God. His Highness the Sultan having addressed himself to their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of all the Russias, to ask their support and assistance in the diflSculties in which he finds himself placed by reason of the hostile proceedings of Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt, — difficulties which threaten with danger the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and the independence of the Sultan's throne, — their said Majesties, moved by the sincere friendship which subsists between them and the Sultan ; animated by the desire of maintaining the integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire as a security for the peace of Europe ; faithful to the engagement which they contracted by the Collective Note presented to the Porte by their Representatives at Constantinople, on the 27th of July, 1839 ; and desirous, moreover, to prevent the effusion of blood which would be occasioned by a continuance of the hostilities which have recently broken out in Syria between the authorities of the Pasha of Egypt and the subjects of the Sultan; their said Majesties and His Highness the Sultan have resolved, for the aforesaid purposes, to conclude together a Convention, and they have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : —

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Henry John,