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 394 APPENDIX. of a firm and lasting peace, the Governments represented by the undersigned reciprocally engage not to enter into any definitive arrangements with the Imperial Court of Russia, or with any other Power, which would be at vari- ance with the principles above enunciated, without previ- ously deliberating thereon in common. (Signed) BUOL-SCIIAUENSTEIN. BOURQUENEY. WESTMO It ELAND. AKNIM. Treaty of Alliance, Offensive and Defensice, between Austria and Prussia. (Translation.) His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and His IMajesty the King of Prussia, penetrated with deep regret at the fruitlessness of their attempts hitherto to prevent the breaking out of war between Russia on the one hand, and Turkey, France, and England on the other ; Mindful of the moral obligations entered into by them by the signing of the last Vienna Protocol ; In the face of the military measures ever gathering on btjth sides around them and of the dangers resulting there- from for the general peace of Europe ; Convinced of the high duty which, on the threshold of a future pregnant with evil, is imposed, in the interest of the European welfare, on Germany, so intimately united with the States of the two High Parties ; Have determined to ally themselves in an offensive and defensive alliance for the duration of the war which has broken out between Russia on the one hand, and Turkey,