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civilized nations of the earth, the 
saidPlenipotentiaries flatter them- 
selves they shall engage all other 
governments, and __ particularly 
those who, in abolishing the traf- 
fic in slaves, have already mani- 
fested the same sentiments, to sup- 
port them with their suffrage in a 
cause, of which the final triumph 
will be one of the greatest monu- 
ments of the age which undertook 
it, and which shall have glori- 
ously carried it into complete ef- 
fect. 
Vienna, Feb. 8, 1815. 
Note from the Plenipotentiaries of 
his Majesty the King of Naples, 
to Lord Castlereagh. 
Vienna, Feb. 11, 1815. 
The undersigned Ministers Ple- 
nipotentiaries of his Majesty the 
King of Naples have had the ho- 
nour of addressing to his Excel- 
lency my Lord Viscount Castle- 
reagh, Principle Secretary of State 
of his Britannic Majesty for Fo- 
reign Affairs, an official Note, 
dated the 29th of December last, 
soliciting the conclusion of the de- 
finitive Peace between the Crowns 
of Naples and Great Britain. 
His Excellency my Lord Castle- 
reagh was so good as to assure 
the undersigned first Plenipoten- 
tiary of his Neapolitan Majesty, 
that he would occupy himself with 
the object of that note. It has 
nevertheless remained to this day 
without any result. 
Although the King cannot but 
be keenly affected by this silence, 
from the eargerness with which he 
is desirous of entering into more 
intimate relations with England, 
he has too much dependence on 
the sincerity and justice of the 
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English Government, to allow 
him to doubt for a moment of its 
fidelity in fulfilling the engage- 
ments which ithas contracted to- 
wards him. 
If all those reasons which the 
undersigned urged in their note of 
the 29th of December last re- 
quired to becorroborated by others 
still more powerful, they might 
recall to his Excellency my Lord 
Castlereagh the Convention which 
he proposed at Troyes, with the 
three other principle Coalesced 
Powers, by which the Britannic 
Government, recognising the po- 
litical existence of the King of 
Naples, solicited an indemnity in 
favour of the King of Sicily, as 
an indemnification for ‘the king- 
dom of Naples. 
Austria, Russia, and Prussia 
adhered by separate acts of acces- 
sion, stipulated at Troyes, the 
15th of February, 1814, to that 
Convention, which has irrevoca- 
bly consecrated the principle of 
the political existence of the King 
of Naples. 
It belonged next to the Powers 
in whose hands were all the dis- 
posable countries conquered from 
the enemy, to find and to propor- 
tion the indemnity to be given to 
the King of Sicily, 
His Neapolitan Majesty could 
concur no otherwise in this than 
by his good offices; and he has 
fulfilled on this point the engage- 
ments which he contracted by 
his Treaty of Alliance of the 11th 
of January, 1814, the undersigned 
having declared by the note which 
they have had the honour of ad- 
dressing to his Excellency my 
Lord Castlereagh, under date of 
the 29th of December last, that 
they were ready to concur in the 
