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 400 APPENDIX. 1. That the Convention concluded between France and England, as well as that signed on the 20th of April between Austria and Prussia, bind both of them, in the relative situations to Avhich they apply, to secure the maintenance of the principle established by the series of Protocols of the Conference of Vienna. 2. That the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and the evacuation of that portion of its territory Avhich is occupied by the Eussian army, are, and will continue to be, the constant and invariable object of the union of the four Powers. 3. That consequently, the Acts communicated and an- nexed to the present Protocol correspond to the engage- ment which the Plenipotentiaries had mutually contracted on the 9tli of April, to deliberate and agree upon the means most fit to accomplish the object of their union, and thus give a fresh sanction to the firm intention of the four Powers represented at the Conference of Vienna, to combine all their efforts and resolutions to realise the object which forms the basis of their union. (Signed) BUOL-SCHAUENSTEIN. r.OURQUENEY. WESTMORELAND. ARNIM. Convention between His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria and the Ottoman Porte. Signed at Boyadji- Keuy, June 14, 1854. (Translation.) His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, fully recognising that the existence of the Ottoman Empire within its pres- ent limits is necessary for the maintenance of the balance of power between the States of Europe, and that, specifi- "f