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sia, animated by the desire of 
prosecuting the negociations ad- 
journed at the Congress of Vi- 
enna, in order to fix the des- 
tiny of the Seven Ionian Is- 
lands, and to insure the in- 
dependence, liberty, and hap- 
piness of the inhabitants of 
those islands, by placing them 
and their Constitution under the 
immediate protection of one of 
the Great Powers of Europe, have 
agreed to settle definitively by a 
Special Act, whatever relates to 
this object, which, grounded upon 
the rights resulting from the 
Treaty of Paris, of the 30th of 
May, 1814, and likewise upon 
the British declarations at the pe- 
riod when the British arms libe- 
rated Cerigo, Zante, Cephalonia, 
Santa-Maura, Ithaca, and Paxo, 
shall be considered as forming 
part of the General Treaty con- 
cluded at Vienna on the 9th of 
June, 1815, on the termination 
of the Congress; and in order to 
settle and sign the said act, the 
High Contracting Powers have 
nominated Plenipotentiaries : that 
is to say, his Majesty the King 
of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, the Right 
Honourable Robert Stewart, Vis- 
count Castlereagh, &c.; and the 
Most illustrious and Most noble 
Lord Arthur, Duke, Marquis, 
and Earl of Wellington, Marquis 
of Douro, &c. and his Majesty 
the Emperor of all the Russias, 
the Sieur Andre Prince of Rasou- 
moffsky, &c., and the Sieur John 
Count Capoid’Istria,&c.; who, af- 
ter having exchanged their full 
powers, found to be in good and 
due form, have agreed upon the 
following terms :— 
Art 1.—The islands of Corfu, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
Cephalonia, Zante, Maura, Ithaca; 
Cerigo, and Paxo, with their de- 
pendencies, such as they are de- 
scribed in the Treaty between 
his Majesty the Emperor of all the 
Russias and the Ottoman Porte, 
of the 21st of March 1800, shall 
form a single, free, and inde- 
pendent State,- under the deno- 
mination of the United States of 
the Ionian [slands. 
Art. Il.—This State shall be 
placed under the immediate and 
exclusive protection of his Majes- 
ty the King of the United King- 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
his heirs and successors. The 
other Contracting Powers do con- 
sequently renounce every right 
orparticular pretension which they 
might have formed in respect to 
them, and formally guarantee all 
the dispositions of the present 
Treaty. 
Art. I1I.—The United States of | 
the Ionian Islands shall; with the 
approbation of the protecting 
Power, regulate their internal 
organization; and in order to 
give to all the parts of this. or- 
ganization the necessary con- 
sistency and action, his Bri- 
tannic Majesty will employ a 
particular solicitude with regard 
to the legislation and the ge- 
neral administration of those 
States, his Majesty will therefore 
appoint a Lord High Commis- 
sioner to reside there, invested 
with all the necessary power and 
authorities for this purpose. 
Art. [V.—In order to carry into 
execution without delay the sti- 
pulations mentionedin the Articles 
preceding, and to ground the po- 
litical re-organization which is 
actually in force, the Lord High 
Commissioner of the Protecting 
