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 392 APPENDIX. Acts which had received its assent, and inasmuch as the conclusion of the definitive Treaty contains no greater re- servation for its inspection and interference. 4. Inasmuch as, Avhilst the propositions of the Porte ex- pressly require the revision of the Treaty of 1841, so as to make Turkey participate in the guarantees of the public law of Europe, this condition is passed over in silence. The Plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia, appreciat- ing the force of the observations ofTored by the Plenipo- tentiaries of rFrance aud of Great Britain, recognised in like manner on their part the remarkable differences pointed out between the Russian draft of preliminaries and the Protocols of the 13tli of January and 2d of February. In consequence, the Conference unanimously agreed that it was impossible to proceed with those propositions. (Signed) BUOL-SCHAUENSTEIK BOURQUENEY. WESTMORELAND. ARNIM. Protocol of a Conference held at Vienna, April 9, 1854.* (Tmuslation.) Present: The Representatives of Austria, France, Great Britain, and Prussia. At the request of the Plenipotentiaries of France and of Great Britain, the Conference met to hear the documents read which establisli that the invitation addressed to the Cabinet of St Petersburg to evacuate the Moldo-Wallachian provinces within a fixed time having remained unanswered, the state of war already declared between Russia and the • i.e., the veiy day before the Treaty of Alliance between England and France.