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 398 APPENDIX. of the Poi'te, which oflfer the prospect of realisation. They, therefore, hope that the replies awaited from the Cabinet of Eussia to the Prussian propositions, transmitted on the 8 th, will offer to them the necessary guarantee for an early withdrawal of the Eussian troops. In the event that this hope should be illusory, the Plenipotentiaries named on the part of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, Freiherr Earon von Hosse and Count Thun, and on the part of His Majesty the King of Prussia, Earon Manteuffel, have drawn up the following more detailed agreement with respect to the eventuality alluded to in the above-mentioned Article II. of the Treaty of Alliance of this day : iSiiigle Article. The Imperial Austrian Government will also on their side address a communication to the Imperial Eussian Court with the object of obtaining from the Emperor of Eussia the necessary orders, that an immediate stop should be put to the further advance of his armies upon the Turkish territory, as also to request of His Imperial Ma- jesty sufficient guarantees for the prompt evacuation of the Danubian Principalities ; and the Prussian Government will again, in the most emphatic manner, support these communications with reference to their proposals already sent to St Petersburg. Should the answer of the Eussian Court to these steps of the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin — contrary to expectation — not be of a nature to give them entire satisfaction upon the two points afore-mentioned, the measures to be taken by one of the Contracting Parties for their attainment, according to the terms of Article II. of the Offensive and Defensive Alliance signed on this day, will be on the understanding that every hostile attack on the territory of one of the Contracting Parties is to be repelled with all the military forces at the disposal of the other.