Star. — London, England, 1828-05-12 00:00:00

vh. t .. 4 111 ' e THE EVENING ST R. . * 44 - 1 LONDOIV: b " S ONDAY, MAY 12, 1828. \ STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. _ - - Up to thi present hour, the Russian Manifesto has not had any effect 011 the 'Consul market, a* Consols opened this morning at 11414 he the ACIOUnt, which is the same price' as_tbey left off on SateMe y, and at present may be quoted at 851 sellers. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. • l'hii Russian Manifesto and Declaration is looked on in the City in various ways ; some think it pada*, while others assert that the deistaids of the CZAS for an indemnity for the past, and pledges Ilbejlit tutu,,, is decidedly - Amens, Mod Estaida will march her eta- Wilma legless to the end of the Ottoman ainplre. Consols may it present be quoted at 851, alternately hirers and sellers. PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 9061 India Stock 248 spieirresit. Red. 841 1 Rico Bonds 97 98 3 peva% Cons. 851 1 51 , 1 South Sea Stock 81 per Celt. . Old Anouldes - 31 per Cent. Red.94* I New Ditto 4 per Ct. New 1021 I £lOOO Eacheq. Rh 63 64 4 per Cent. Scrip 4300 Ditto 63 64 4 per Cont. 1816, 102 1 4100 and 1200 Ditto 63 64 Long Ann. 191 5.16 Consols for Acct. 851 d 851 FOREltibi FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK. ,1113aillan Bds. 3 p Ct. Do. 8de.11:125,5 pCt. 17 Do. Ace.sBll Porteg..Rds. 5p C. 521 3 212 1 Debtalk 'lds. 3 pCt. Do Acct. MI 21 2 31 21 2 1 likl'Aect. 8111 • Ru55.8d5.11152,5 perCt.Blll 1 1 Greek Bowls. S p Ct. De. Acct. 6a; 1 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. sacs mt. rain. 100 90 24 35 90 91 62 90 t'*eis ?redcoat 25 0 2 1121 pin Cambia* 100 221 161 16 Aim* British and Foreign 100 10 94 • Anglo Mexicali Brazilian the prey of a rapacious and arbitrary Government. Our subjects found themselves codsf v celled to break their osth,,or to leave without delay a hostile country. The Irospborus is closed ..OSIT trade annihilated. Our Southern Provinces, depriired of the only channel for the exportation of their produce, are threatened with in calculable injury. Nay, more !—At the moment when the negotiations between Russia and Persia are nearly concluded, a sudden change on the part of the Persian., Government checks the course of them. It soon appears that the Ottoman Porte exerts itself to make Persia waver, by promising powerful aid, arming in-haste the troops in the adjoining provinces, and preparing to support by a threatening attack this treacherous hostile language. This is the series of injuries of which Turkey has been guilty, from the conclusion of the Treaty of 4ckermann up to this day; and this is, unhappily, the frisk of the sacrifices and the generous exertions by which Russia has incessantly endeavoured to maintain' peace with a neighbouring nation. But all patience has kph:nits; the honour of the Russian name, the dignity of the Empire, the inviolability of its rights, and that of nor, national glory, have prescribed to us ihe.bounclo of . it. It is riot till after, baying weighed in their . fullest extent the duties imposed on us l)y imperative necessity, and insp!retrwith the greatest confidence in the justice of our cause, that we have ordered our army to advance under the Divine protection against an enemy, who violates the most :attest? obligations of the law of nip dons. We are convinced that our faithful subjects will join with our prayers the most ardent wishes for the success of . our eca4piise, and that they will implore the ALMIG HTY to lend his support to our brave soldiers, and to shed his Divine blessing on our arms, which are destined to defindrour liberty, religion, and our beloved country ! Given at St.Petersburgh, the 14th (£6th) April, in the year of oar Lord 18118, and the Third Maur Reign. (Signed) Countersigned the Vice Chancellor, Count N ESSELRODE. DECLARATION. All the wishes of Russia to remain at peace with a neighbouring nation have proved vain ; notwithstanding its great patience and the most costly sacrifices, it has been obliged to confide to arms theldefence of its rights in the Levant, and energetically to impress on the Ottoman Porte respect for exiting Treaties. It will, however, develope the imperative and just motives which impose on it the melancholy necessity of such a resolution..— Sixteen years have passed since the peace of Bucha rest, and, for the same, period, we have seen the Porte act contrary to the stipulations of the Treaty, evade its promises, or ihdefinitely *delay the fulfilment of them. But too many proofs, which the Im perial Cabinet will adduce, irrefragably proves the in fatuated hostile teudency of the policy of the Divan.— On more than one occasion, particularly in 1821, the Porte assumed, with respect to Russia, a character of defiance and open hostility. For these three months past it has again assumed this character, by formal acts and measures which are known to all Europe. Oa the same day that the Ambassadors of the three Powers, who, by *convention free from all self interested nen, are united in a cause which is no other than that of religion and of suffering humanity, expressed at their de• perm. from Constantinople an ardent wish that peace, might be preserved ; on the same day, when they pointed out the easy means of attaining that object, and when the Porte in the same manner most positively expressed its pacific 4), on that same day it summoned all nations professing the Mahometan faith to arms against Russia, denouncing it as the implacable enemy of Islamism; accusing it'of a design to overthrow the Ottoman empire ; and while it announces its resolution to negotiate, for the sole purpose of gaining time for arming, but never intending to fulfil the essential articles of the Treaty of Ackermann, it declares at the same time, that it concluded that Treaty with no other design than that of breaking it ; the Porte, knew well that in this manner it also broke all preced- 1 ing treaties; the renewal of which was expressly stipu lated by that of Ackermann ; but it had already taken its resolutions beforehand, and regulated all its steps ac cos ding) y. Scarcely had the Bultaa spoken with the vassats of his Crown when the privileges of the Russian flag were alrudy violated, the ships covered by it detained, their _cargoes sequestrated, the Commanders of the ships obliged to dispose of them at prices arbitrarily fixed, the amount of an incomplete and tardy payment re duced to one half, and the subjects of bis Majesty the Emperor compelled either to descend into the class of Mayas, or to leave In a body the dominio4s of the,Ot tom= Government. Meantime the Bosphorus is closed—the trade of the Black Sea hindered—the Russian towns, whose exis tence depends upon it, see destroction before their eyes —and the southern provinces of his Majesty the Ens poor lose the only channel for the exportation of their produce, and the only maritime connection which can promote the eschew of their commodities, render their industry productive, and favour their manufactures and prosperity. Even the boundaries of Turkey did not limit the expression of their hostile sentiments. At the same time that they were expressed at Constantinople, General Paskewitschs after the conclusion of a glo . rious cimpaign, 'was negotiating a treaty of pall, • ith Persia, the conditions of which were already ac cepted by the Court of Teheran. On a sudden, lokrol warmness succeeded to the eagerness which had hitherto een shown for the conclosien . of a Carnation, which' as alriad7 apptorea by bOth parties in all its parti culars. These delays were followed by difficulties, and then by an evidently hostile tendeacy ; and whil e on the neighbootl WAR WITH TURKEY. War is at last declared on the part of Russia against the Ottoman Porte, and no one will presume to calculate beforehand all the consequences which must necessatily be the result of this momentous event ! In both the Manifesto of war and the Declaration to the European, Powers, the Cabinet of Russia strongly points out the very mischievous and injurious effect which the arbitrary closing of the Bosphorus cannot fail to have on the commerce and prosperity of the SJuthern Provinces, actually *most valuable part of the Russian Empire. This is certainly one of the most solid giounds on which Rossia will attempt to act, not only in invading the Christian Provinces of Moldavia, Wallachia, and Ser. via, where its approach is hailed by delight, not only by the great mass of the inhabitants, but also those Plovinces'where Islamism prevails; and we may pre dict that it will not rest satisfied till it has planted its baolter on the Patriarchal Church at Constantinople. Every thing indicates the conquest of the capital of the Turkish Empire to be the plan of the Russian Govern ment ; and in what other manner, indeed, can that Cabinet secure to itself the undisturbed development of the commerce and industry of her Provinces of the Black Sea, but by keeping hold of that key whieb alone secures the natural communication between those countries and the rest of Europe, and the possession of which will yield to her that direct influence upon the Councils of the new Greek Government, to which she thinks herself entitled on the score of policy, religion, and tuitional sytr pathy. The politkal existence of the Ottoman Empire is at an end ; her power is broken, and we apprehend she will not sow with that assistance and devout support in the patriotism of her subjetts, which alone might, in her boor of trial, impede in some degree the progress of her enemy. The present SULTAN, by attempting to refines so many institutions, which the mass of his people con sidered as the hula ark of their national existence, has thrown the seed of discord and disaffection amongst them, and their antipathy increased with his deviation from the internal policy observed by his ancestors.— Even in the last month. all the great of the Empire as sepabled in the Capital. for the purpose of making reptesentatioos to their Sovereign. in order that he might put en end to a state of things , * hifb must terminate in the downfall of Islamism; but their prayers were of noavaa. The SULTAN. infatuated with the idea that his silt; thousand new segular troops would he sufficient to wtthstand victotiously the approaching storm, looks with contempt on the advice of his mote dispassionate servants, while be estranges from himself all the ad herents of the old system, and also his other irregular and Asiatic troops, such as the Koords, militia, Sic. We hasi.shet Government is about increasing our et 1$ thiMeditersanean to thirty hoe of bank ships and 610/11101.Wit rely upon the firmness of the present Ministry that they Will come forward in this most ma mow period, and act with that spirit of energy and rectitude which alone can secure to us that peace and preponderance so necessary to the prosperity and wet. fare of this Empire.—The following is the int ILIOSUMfAILT SUPPLIIIIRWT TO TUX FIRUSSIAW ST AT* OASZTTX. BERLIN, May 4. We have received to-day from St. Petersburgh the following offieial document.i MANI VEST° OV HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR. By the Gram et Gies we, leresios.as I. Emperor and Autocrat et all the Hondas, Ste. Ate. kc. The Treaty of Bucharest, concluded in the year 1812 with the Ottoman Porte, after basing been for sixteen years do-subject of reiterated disputes, new ao longer atrbsists, in spite of all osr exertions to maintain it and to preserve it from all attache, The Porte, not iati,fied with having destroyed the basis• of that Tseaty. now defies Russia, an*prepores to *age against it a beilais• et ixterneclo!ss, I it k ignaddt its reoplk in a mass le arms; accuses Russia of being . its'inkoncileafile ens-, my, s traymples eadmfoot OS Conveneoti of MOP inaftniss . r4 .ol a l4 . the Porte ibis not the cooditiotts of this its ig.tesitioßs: aed 'its ficatair is. t i # I C * the .tights of the vessels slid is coma ~_. 104 114talialt_ Laid. "FM 1.7 mikev wallow ins ....sr l one hsnd the conduct of the neighbooting pachas, who petit rtb ' kis ow 0 07:7 4 -,- . 57 7 ,armed, manifested this - teildrnty, on the other, 'its pseriett4. 4 61 : 4 4 • 4i • ncic idannstioia sod posilive confessions rcisteifisio cOetessiop imi4s < • efOlitaiiii Vista Iwo divided to, which was • iv/ Ate. *ld bilacirer flOth Dumber, O. lag. 0, 1 v gre pa ii "ld- 1 - 1 - 647•1` ), ; ,. , s i mproo oltsse ptedo Ap r u, to w id t h ours detained, and .th6e " * l ' • ed. W ittventO•snotonv. NICHOLAS. revealed the secret . of the promise of a diversion, which was to obligets to make new efforts. Thus the Turkish Government, in,its Proclamations, announced its intention of Leaking its Treaties with Russia, while it annihilated them by its actions. Thus it announced war for a remote future time, when it had . alTeady boson it in • part against the subjects and the aonsmerce of Russia. Where war was just extinguished, it %tied to rekindle it. Russia will no longer dwell on the motives which entitle it not to bear such evidently hostile actions. If a State could renounce its dearest interests—sacrifice its honour—and give up the trans. actions which are the monuments of its glory, and the pledges of its prosperity—it would be a traitor to itself, and by disregarding its rights, become guilty of disre garding its duties. Such rights and such duties appear in a stronger light when they follow the most evident moderation, and the most irrefragable proofs of pacific intentions. The sacrifices which Russia, ever since the memorable epoch which overthrew at the sarfil time military despotism and the spirit of revolution, has imposed on itself, with a view to secure , to the world a durable peace, these *sacrifices, equally voluntary and numerous, inspired by the most liberal policy, are known to tile world; the history of late years testifies them; and even Turkey, though little disposed duly to appreciate them, and in no wise entitled to pretend to them, has felt their favourable effects. Yet it has not ceased to overlook the advantages of its stipulations with the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh; of the fundamental Treaties of Kainandje, Jassy, and' Bucharest, which, while they place the existence of the Porte and the integrity of its frontiers under the protection of the law of nations, must naturally have an influence on the duration of the Empire. Scarcely was the Peace of 1812 signed, when it thought that the difficult but eventful circumstances in which Russia then was, might be ueed with impunity to redouble the violation of its engagements. An amnesty was promised to the Servians; instead of that, an invasion took place, and a dreadful massacre. The" privileges of Moldavia and Wallachia were guaranteed, but a system of plunder completed the ruin of those un happy provinces. The incursions of the tribes which in habit the left bank of Kuban were to be prevented by the care of the Porte; but Turkey, not contented with raising pretensions to several fortresses, absolutely ne cessary for the security of our Asiatic possessions— pretensions, the weakness of which it had itself recog nised by the Convention of Ackermann, made them still weaker, by favouring on the coast of the Black Sea, and even in our vicinity, the slave trade, pillage, and dis orders of all kinds.—Nay, more; then, as now, ships bearing the Russian flag were detained in the Bospho rus, their cargoes sequeitrated, and the stipulations of the Commercial Treaty of 1783 openly violated. This took place at the very moment when the purest glory and victory in a sacred cause crowned the arms of his Majesty, the Emperor Alexander, of im mortal memory. Nothing hindered him from turning his arms against the Ottoman empire. But that monarch, a pacific conqueror, superior to every feeling of enmity, avoided even the justest occasion to punish the insults offered him, and would not again interrupt the peace restored to Europe by generous exertions and with noble intentions, immediately after it had been consolidated. His situation offered him immense ad vantages-:-he renounced them to commence, in 1816, negotiations with the Turkish Government, founded on the principle and the wish to obtain by amicable arrangement securities for peace, and a faithful adhe rence to existing treaties, as well as for the maintenance of reciprocal pacific relations—securities which the Em peror's hand might have extorted from the Porte, which was not able to resist him. Such great moderation wait not, however, duly appreciated. For five years together the Divan was unmoved by the conciliatory overtures isf the Emperor Alexander, and endeavoured to tire out Miliiirkance, to dispute his rights, to call in question his goodissentions, to defy the superiority of Russia, which saw Welt bound solely by the wish of preserving the general peace, and to try its patience to the utmost. And yet a war with Turkey would not in any ebarr s as o sed co t n h v e e rela t ions ntioii con containing ni ßussia ng a wi th its other bare ba allies: gua rantee, no positive obligation connected the fate of the Ottoman Empire with the conciliatory stipu- lations of 1814 and 1815, under the protection of which civilized and Christian Europe reposed, after its long disseotions, and the Governments found them-1 selves united by the recollections of cotsison glory, and a happy coincidence in principles and - wiews. After five years of well meant endeavours, stpilfieted by the representations of Russia, and equally long rapines and delays on the part of the Porte, after several points of the negociation relative to the elecetioe of the Treaty of Bucharest seemed to .be already settled, a general insurrection in the Morey, .110 the 'hostile invasion, the chief of a party, unfailidd.to his duty, excited in the Turkish Governmeni and nation 411 the emotions of blind hatted against the Christians to it. without dip tinction between the guilty asti the innocent. Raisin did not hesitate: s reWment to testify its just disap probation of the enterprise if Prince Ypsilanti. As protector of the lira *wove& of the legal measures of defenettasuppression adopted by the Divans at the same time insisting on the necessity of not ainfonnding the innocent part of the population with the seditious. who were to be disarmed and punished- These Counciiiiime rejected; the represen tative of his Imperial &tipsy was inlaid la his own residence i the 'big Goa Clergy, v4llO llta Patriarch at their blad e wimp subjected to ea ialeapaus capital punishment, amidst the soleamities Oast Holy Reli. gloss All the Christimmorithont any ilistlectioa, were , seised. pleader's!, and saassersed wililiiiit 4 WialC the re mainder bd. The flame ctiinsurrectimkaur Mies abating. spread ranentime ow every side.ln,atiedidtbe Russian Ambassador endesvcrot to reedit the Porta a last ser vice. • In 'fain did te.ShOW 1 lb Vets vf Btl Mt, 1827, a way to safety and to reconciliation. had. protested against the climes and ebulli unparallelled in history, he found himsel obey the commands of his Sovereign, at Constantinople. About this time, it happened that the PG with Russia, whose interests equally required tenance of general peace, were eager to employ their services for the purpose of dit storm which threatened to burst over the Turkish Government. Russia, on its part, remedy of its own just grievances, in the should be able to conciliate what it owed with the moderation that the situation of - its tranquillity, at that time more than ever seemed to require. Great as these sacrifices were fruitless. All the efforts of the Emr were successively based by the obstinacy which, perhaps equally in error with respect motives of our conduct, and the extent of sources, persisted in the execution of a plat structioa of all the Christians su"ject to The war with the Greeks was prosecuted wil acrimony, in spite of the mediation, the .bj then was the pacification of Greece. The sit Divan, notwithstanding the exemplary fidelii vians,becamc from day to day more hostile t( and the occupation of Moldavia and Wallac tracted, notwithstanding , the solemn promi the representative of Greta Siitain, and es, standing the' manifest• willingness of Russii those promises were given to restore its foss with the Porte. So many hostile measures fail in the end to exhaust the patience of Alexander. In the month of October, 1825, an energetic protest to be presented to Ministry, and when a premature death away fromthe love of his penple, he had declaration, that he would regulate the i Turkey according to the rights and the in empire. A new reign began, and furnidied a Nailer that love of peace which the former Gove. left as a fair inheritance : scarcely had the ' cholas ascended the throne when te corn ciations with the Porte to settle various differ , concerned only Russia, and on the 2341 M, April, 1826, laid down, in common wit: the King of Great Britain, the bases of which the general good peremptorily call ardent wish to avoid extreme meatuses gu; duct. As his Imperial Majesty promised the union of the great Courts, a more easy termination of the war which desolates he renounced, on the one hand, the employ , partial influence, and banished every idea measures in this important cause. Oa the he endeavoured, by direct negeciations with , to remove a farther impedinisent to the reconciliation the Turks and the Greeks. Under such ; conferences at Ackermann were opened. them was the conclusion of an additional theTreatyof Bucharest, the terms of which of that deliberate moderation which, sul demand to the immediate principles of calculates neither the advantages of sittiatin, superiority of strength, nor the facility of - sending of a permanent mis.ion to Constant, followed this Convention, on which the Pr sufficiently congratulate itself, and the' 6th July, 1827, soon confirmed, in the world, the disinterested principles prod, Protocol of 4th April. While this Convention duly recognised and the wishes of an unhappy people, it Bate them by an equitable combination tegrity, the repose, and•the true interests of Empire. The most amicable means were; the Porte to accept this beneficent Convene entreaties called on it to put an end to th_ blood; confidential overtures, which unfolded the plans of the three Courts, informed time, that in case of refusal the — united three Courts would be obliged to poi contest which was no longer compai security of the seas, the .necessities and the civilization of the rest The Poste did not take the least notice of A Commander of the Ottoman troops conclusibd a provisional armistice, a hen word be bad given, and led at length I ment of force—the battle of Navatin simian./ result of evident breach of faith attack—this battle itself gave Russia another opportunity to express to the Man for the maintenance of the general peace, it to consolidate this peace—to extend of the Levant—and to establish it on conditl the Ottoman empire should add to the motets attending them, and which, by cessions, would secure it the benefits of pi This is the system—these are the acts Porte replied by its Manifesto of the 20. and by measures which are only so wan , the Treaties with Russia—so many vi rights—so many violent attacks on prosperity—so many proofs of a desire . embarrassment Its and enemies. Russia, now placed in a situation in w and its interests will not suffer it any for declares War against the Ottoman Poi( regret, after having, however, fur 16 ,neglected nothing to spare u the evils =any it. The causes of this siar suffit Oct. of it. Brought on by Turkey, upon it the burden of making good al caned by it, and the losses sustained by his Imperial Majesty : undertaken for sKotcing the Treaties which the Porte , lfta existing, it will aim at securing their obserroce mt. After fi t t Mims' of ragf elf obliged is , and to' leave I PO% err allied fired the Maim o offer and to dispelling the he infatuated t, delayed the le hope that it ,sued to itself r Europe, and (ndangered, ces were, they nperm's allies r of the Pone, 'expect to the I of its own re. ' len for the de. o its power..., with increased bject of which ituat ion of the it elk y of than. tow ards them o acbia was pro. vises made to even nntwith. cis, as soon stner relations tares could not I • the Emperor 325, he owed the Ottoman snatched him just made the relations with e terests of his 'other proof of we: nment had e Estoperor Ni. omenced sego. frerences which March and 4 to his Majesty a mediation lied for. The 'larded his coo- -1 himself, from icy and speedy tee the East, sy meat of every ea of exclusive be other hand, with the Dim, (conciliation of h auspices, the The result of Convention te. bear the stamp objecting every strict justice, nation, nor the f success. The tantinople soot Porte could not Treaty of the :he face of the :laimed by the ited the fie° it was to cocci- in with the kw- of the Ottoman tried to induce ention; urgent the shedding of afolded to it all it at the same fleets of' these at an end to a ttible with the of commerM of Europe. — of these us had scarcely 1 he broke the to the emplof' I ensued. nil faith and opts and its Adies Wean its niski 4C , en d to ofr it to the whole onditions which reciprocal IV' reasonable cos - pet feet security ;s to which the 20. h December, any breac hes et violations of its its commercial to bring ur n it which its hono ur I nger to rem a i n, to — not without I years together , which will se- hciently indicat e 1, it will I.olPek a ll the esPetuti ,y the subject'' of t h e pu r e considers es 9 ° their observance