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 at its meetings, the Plenipotentiaries resolved: 'that their Courts, while released from their trusts by circumstances unprovided for by the Convention of 1832, could not indefinitely defer the time when it would be fitting to replace Greece under a system conformable to the monarchical principles which it is their interest to maintain in the new State founded by their united efforts.'

At a sitting of 5th June, attended by the Plenipotentiary of Denmark, there were read the decree of the National Assembly of Greece, offering the crown to Prince William, and a note, dated 4th June, announcing the acceptance of the offer by the King of Denmark. The three Powers thereupon expressed their approval of the choice, and it was agreed that should the Ionian Parliament vote for annexation to Greece, and should Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia assent to it, Her Britannic Majesty would recommend to that Parliament to appropriate £10,000 to the King's civil list; that each of the three guaranteeing Powers would remit annually £4000 from its claims against the Greek Government for the same purpose; that the legitimate successors of King George I to the Greek throne should, in accordance with the principle recognised by the Treaty of 1852, and proclaimed by the decree of the National Assembly of 30th March, 1863, profess the tenets of the orthodox Church of the East; and that the crowns of Greece and Denmark should in no case be united on the same head.

By a Protocol of 26th June the three Powers place upon record their agreement to continue, and extend to the Ionian Islands, their guarantee of the frontiers of Greece, in accordance with Article 4 of the Convention of 1832, and to watch over in concert the execution of the engagement of the Greek Government made in 1860 with reference to obligations incurred by it under Article 12 of the Convention.

A Treaty, in accordance with the resolutions of the Conference, declaring Prince William to be 'King of the Greeks,' with the title of George I, was signed at London, on 13th