La présente convention sera ratifiée et les ratifications en seront échangées à Londres, à l'expiration de deux mois, ou plus tôt si faire se peut. En foi de quoi les plénipotentiaires respectifs l'ont signée et y ont apposé les sceaux de leurs armes.
Fait à Londres, le 13 juillet 1841, signé:
BOURQUENEY, ESTERHAZY, NEUMANN, PALMERSTON, BULOW, BRUNNOW, CHEKIR.
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Texte anglais de l'extrait du discours prononcé par lord Palmerslon à Tiverton, devant ses électeurs (Morning-Chronicle du 30 juin 1841).
We brought within British influence, in one campaign, a vast extent of country larger than France, almost as big as half of Europe; and the way in which this was done and the results which have followed are well deserving of the people of England. There is a contrast of which we may have reason to be proud, between the progress of our arms in the East and the operations which a neighbouring power, France, is now carrying on in Africa. The progress of the British army in Asia has been marked by a scrupulous reference to justice, an inviolable respect for property, an abstinence from anything which could tend to wound the feelings and prejudices of the people; and the result is this that I saw, not many weeks ago, a distinguished military officer who had just returned from the center of Afghanistan, from a place called Candahar which many of you perhaps never heard of, and told me that he, accompanied by half a dozen attendants, but without any military escort, had ridden on horseback many thousand miles, through a country inhabited by wild and semibarbarous tribes who, but two years ago, were arrayed in fierce hostility against the approach of British arms, but that he had ridden through them all with as much safety as he could have ridden from Tiverton to John Great's house, his name as a British officer being a passport through them all, because the English had respected their rights, and afforded them protection, and treated them with justice. Thence it is that an unarmed Englishman was safe in the midst of their wilds. The different system pursued in Africa by the French has been productive of very different results; there the French army, I am sorry to say, is tarnished by the character of their operations. They sally forth unawares on the villagers of the country; they put to death every man who cannot escape by flight, and they carry off into captivity the women and children (shame, shame!) They carry away every head of cattle, every sheep, and every horse, and they burn what they cannot carry off. The crop on the ground and the corn in the granaries are consumed by the fire (shame!) What is the consequence? While in India our officers ride about unarmed and alone amidst wildest tribes of the wilderness, there is not a French man in Africa who shows his face above a given spot, from the sentry at his post, who does not fall a victim to the wild and justifiable retaliation of the Arabs (hear, hear!) They professed to colonize Algeria; but they are only encamped in military posts; and while we in India have the feelings of the people with us, in Africa every native is opposed to the French, and every heart burns with desire of vengeance (hear, hear!). I mention these things because it is right you know them; they are an additional proof that, even in this world, the Providence has decreed that injustice and violence shall meet with their appropriate punishment, and that justice and mercy shall also have their reward, etc. etc.
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Lettre de lord Palmerston à M. Bulwer communiquée à M. Guizot (texte anglais).
Carlton Terrace, 17 August 1841.
My dear Bulwer,