The European Concert in the Eastern Question

THE

EUROPEAN CONCERT

IN THE

EASTERN QUESTION

A COLLECTION OF

TREATIES AND OTHER PUBLIC ACTS

EDITED

WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES

BY

THOMAS ERSKINE HOLLAND, D.C.L.

OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW
CHICHELE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DIPLOMACY
FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD
HON. LL.D. GLASGOW
MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

M DCCC LXXXV

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
The Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire		page 1
CHAPTER II. Greece (1826-1881).
Introduction		4
Texts: No. I.	Protocol, No. 1, of 3rd February, 1830, of the Conference of London	28
II.	Protocol, No. 3, of ditto	32
III.	Convention of 7th May, 1832	33
IV.	Explanatory Article of 30th April, 1833	39
V.	Treaty of 13th July, 1863	40
VI.	Protocol of Conference at London of 13th October, 1863	44
VII.	Treaty of 14th November, 1863	45
VIII.	Protocol (A) of Conference at London of 25th January, 1864	50
IX.	Treaty of 29th March, 1864	51
X.	Protocol of Conference at London of 29th March, 1864	58
XI.	Act of Accession of Sultan to No. IX of 8th April, 1865	58
XII.	Convention of 24th May, 1881	60
CHAPTER III. Samos and Crete (1830-1878).
Introduction		70
Texts: No. I.	Note of the Porte as to Samos of 10th December, 1832	74
II.	Organic Law for Samos of 1834	76
III.	Organic Law for Crete of 1868	77
IV.	Firman, modifying No. III, of 1878	83
CHAPTER IV. Egypt (1839-1885).
Introduction		89
Texts: No. I.	Firman of 1st June, 1841	110
II.	"27th May, 1866	114
III.	Firman of 15th June, 1866	116
IV.	"8th June, 1867	116
V.	"29th November, 1869	118
VI.	"10th September, 1872	119
VII.	"25th September, 1872	120
VIII.	"8th June, 1873	121
IX.	"2nd August, 1879	125
X.	The Règlement for the International Courts	128
XI.	Accessions of Powers to No. X.	141
XII.	Decree (establishing the 'Caisse') of 2nd May, 1876	147
XIII.	Decree (Unifying Debt) of 7th May, 1876	150
XIV.	Decree (Goschen-Joubeet) of 18th November, 1876	154
XV.	Decree (Rothschild Loan) of 15th November, 1879	165
XVI.	Decree (Commission of Liquidation) of 31st March, 1880	167
XVII.	Decree (Law of Liquidation) of 17th July, 1880	169
XVIII.	Declaration, at London, of the Great Powers and the Porte, of 17th March, 1885, with Annexed Convention and Decree	194
CHAPTER V. The Lebanon (1842-1883).
Introduction		206
Texts: No. I.	Protocol of Conference at Pera of 9th June, 1861	210
II.	Règlement for the Lebanon of 6th September, 1864	212
III.	Protocol of Conference at Constantinople of 8th May, 1883	218
CHAPTER VI. The Balkan Peninsula, etc. (1856-1885).
Introduction		220
Texts: No.I.	The Treaty of Paris of 30th March,	241
	Conventions annexed to this Treaty	255
II.	The Tripartite Treaty of 15th April, 1856	259
III.	The Treaty (Bessaeabia and Danube Delta) of 19th June, 1857	260
IV.	The Danube Navigation Act of 2nd November, 1865	269
V.	The Treaty of London of 13th March, 1871	272
VI.	The Treaty of Berlin of 13th July, 1878	277
VII.	The Additional (Danube Navigation) Act of 28th May, 1881	308
VIII.	The Treaty of London (Danube Navigation) of 10th March, 1883	313
	Règlement annexed to this Treaty	316
APPENDIX.
No. I. Religious and Political Equality in Turkey.
(1) The Hatti-Scheriff of Gulhané		323
(2) The Hatti-Humayoun of 1856		329
(3) Extracts from the Ottoman Constitution of 1876		335
No. II. Russia and the Porte
(1) The Treaty of San Stefano (1878)		335
(2) The Definitive Treaty of Peace (1879)		348
(3) The War Indemnity Convention (1882)		350
No. III. Great Britain and the Porte.
(1) The Cyprus Convention of 4th June, 1878		354
(2) Annexe to this Convention (1st July, 1878)		355
No. IV. Austria and the Porte.
The Convention, as to Bosnia and Herzegovina, of 21st April, 1879		356
Additional Note		359
Index		361