§ 7. If, at the expiration of the period of twenty days after the communication shall have been made to him (according to the stipulation of § 2), Mehemet Ali shall not accede to the proposed arrangement, and shall not accept the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt, the Sultan will consider himself at liberty to withdraw that offer, and to follow, in consequence, such ulterior course, as his own interests and the counsels of his Allies may suggest to him.
§ 8. The present Separate Act shall have the same force and validity as if it were inserted, word for word, in the Convention of this date. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at London, at the same time as those of the said Convention.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.
Done at London, the fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty.
| (L.S.) Palmerston. | (L.S.) Chekib. |
| (L.S.) Neumann. | |
| (L.S.) Bulow. | |
| (L.S.) Brunnow. |
Protocol signed at London, on the 15th of July, 1840, by the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Turkey.
In affixing his signature to the Convention of this date, the Plenipotentiary of the Sublime Ottoman Porte declared:
That in recording by Article IV. of the said Convention the ancient rule of the Ottoman Empire, by virtue of which it has been at all times forbidden to foreign vessels of war to enter within the Straits of the Dardanelles and of the Bosphorus, the Sublime Porte reserves to itself, as heretofore, to deliver passes to light vessels under flag of war, which may be employed according to custom, for the service of the correspondence of the Legations of Friendly Powers.
The Plenipotentiaries of the Courts of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, took note of the above Declaration, for the purpose of communicating it to their respective Courts.
| (Signed) | Palmerston. |
| Neumann. | |
| Bulow. | |
| Brunnow. | |
| Chekib. |