Circular of the Austrian, Prussian, and Russian Sovereigns to their respective Missions at Foreign Courts, respecting

the affairs of Spain, Portugal, and Naples. Troppau, 8th December, 1820. Short Narrative of the first results of the
Conference at Troppau1.
The Events which occurred on the 8th of March in Spain, on the 2nd of July at Naples, and the Portuguese catastrophe,
have naturally led to a feeling of great anxiety and sorrow in all persons who are under the obligation of watching over
the tranquility of States, but at the same time revealing to them the necessity of assembling together and deliberating on
the means of preventing all the evils which threatened to fall upon Europe.
It was natural that these feelings should especially create a lively impression on the Powers which had recently stifled
revolution, and which saw it again raising its head. It was... natural that those Powers, in order to battle with it for the
third time, should have recourse to the same means which they had adopted with so much success in that memorable
struggle which delivered Europe from the yoke which she had endured for 20 years.
Everything led to the hope, that that Alliance [which]... had delivered the Continent of Europe from the military tyranny
of the Representative of Revolution, would also be in a position to put a curb on a force no less tyrannical and no less
detestable, that of Revolution and Crime.
Such were the motives and the end of the meeting at Troppau....
The Powers have exercised an undeniable right, in concerting together upon means of safety against those States in
which the overthrow of a Government caused by revolution, could only be considered as a dangerous example, which
could only result in an hostile attitude against constitutional and legitimate Governments. The exercise of this right
became still more urgent, when those who had placed themselves in that position, sought to communicate to
neighboring States the misfortune into which they had themselves plunged, and to propagate revolution and confusion
around them....
This undeniable fact is the point from which the Allied Courts started. The Ministers who could be furnished at Troppau
with positive instructions from their Courts, concerted together on the principles of the conduct on which they were to
follow towards those States whose form of Government had received violent shocks, and on the peaceful or coercive
measures which, in cases where important effects of a salutary influence could be obtained might recall those States
within the bosom of the Alliance. The results of these deliberations were communicated to the Courts of Paris and
London, in order that on their part they might take them into consideration.
As the Revolution of Naples daily takes deeper root, that no other imperils the tranquility of neighboring States to a
danger so certain and so imminent, and that it is not possible to act so immediately and so promptly upon any other,
they have come to the conviction of the necessity of preceding according to the above principles, towards the Kingdom
of the Two Sicilies.
In order to prepare measures of conciliation for that purpose, the Monarchs assembled at Troppau invited by the King of
the Two Sicilies to join them at Laybach, a step the object of which was solely to deliver the will of His Majesty from
all external constraint, and to constitute the Monarch mediator between his erring peoples, and the States whose
tranquility they threatened. The Allied Monarchs being determined not to recognize a Government created by open
revolt, could only negotiate with the person of the King. Their Ministers and Agents at Naples have consequently
received the necessary instructions.
France and England have been invited to take part in this movement, and it is hoped that they will not refuse to give
their assent There is nothing new in the system followed by Austria, Prussia, and Russia; it rests upon the same maxims
as those which served as a bases of the Treaties upon which the Alliance of the European States was founded. The
intimate Union between the Courts which are in the very heart of this Alliance, can thereby only gain more strength and
durability. The Alliance will strengthen itself by the same means which the Powers to which it owes its origins adopted
to form it, and which have thus by degrees made it to be adopted by all the others, who have become convinced of its
advantages more than ever incontestable.
Besides, no other proofs are necessary, than that neither the spirit of conquest, not the pretext of infringing on the
Independence of other Governments in their Internal Administration, nor the project of preventingwise alterations freely
undertaken, and consistent with the true interests of the peoples, have had any part in the Resolutions of the Powers.
They only wish to maintain Peace, and to deliver Europe from the curse of Revolution, and to remove or abridge, as
much as in them lies, the evils which result from the violation of all principles of order and morality.
To such conditions, the Allied Monarchs think they may hope, as a reward for their efforts and their care, for the
unanimous approval of the world.

Tratto da Edward Hertslet (edited by), The Map of Europe by Treaty, London, Butterworth-s, 1875-1891, pp. 658-661.