Greece, has unanimously pronounced in favour of that union[1]; and the condition prescribed by the last clause of the Protocol signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the Five Powers on the 1st of August last[2] being thus fulfilled; their said Majesties, that is to say, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of all the Russias, have resolved to record in a solemn Treaty the assent which they have given to that union, stipulating at the same time the conditions under which it shall be effected.
For this purpose their said Majesties have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:—
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable John Earl Russell, &c.. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the Count Felix de Wimpffen, &c., Chargé d'Affaires to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty;
His Majesty the Emperor of the French, the Sieur Camille de Nompère de Champagny, Marquis de Cadore, &c.. Chargé d'Affaires to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty;
His Majesty the King of Prussia, the Sieur Albert Count de Bernstorff-Stintenburg, &c.. His Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty;
His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Sieur Philip Baron de Brunnow, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty, &c.;
Who, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have concluded and signed the following Articles:—
Renunciation of Protectorate.Art. I. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland renounces on the conditions hereinafter specified, the Protectorate over the Islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo, and Paxo, with their dependencies, which, by the Treaty signed at Paris