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faction, soil of the successiveconcessions which we have been led
to make. by ,'nr leeirr to maintain with the Turkish Gliveniment
kindly and amicable relations. You know that having renounced
it Met the idea of a guarantee obtained under the form of • con-
vention, Netted, or other united (synallagniatique) act, we have
reduced our detniuids to the simple signing of a simple note such
ate that Of which the text has been triunimitted to you. You may
have seen that title note, independently of the tuTattgententa
which specially relate to the holy places, iticlulles substantially
nothing else asecgards the general guarantee del tttttt .1.91 in favour
of religion than a 14111111 ii, continuation of that which we lame
long enjoyed. I have called your attention to the fact that the
signature of this article constitutes, in the eyes of the Emperor,
the oily real reparation which he can accept for the offence com-
mitted against lane by Ow violation of the finnan of the year Isfi2,
fie $11,4110f She personal promises which he of the same thane reeeleed
front the 'dint. I lIHVO leldaol that a similar aet was hi tiltlefl hi.
dispensable, since the obtaining of new tinetuta, susceptible of
Wing infringed as well its the first, could no longer of itself alone
offer ILK a sufficient pledge for the future. Finally, 1 have nut
conevaled front you that if, after eight days of relectien, the Ot-
boom Porte refiised to grant our demand, thu I.:taperer would
feel himself under the obligation of having recourse—hi under to
obtain satisfaction—to measure more decisive than a simple in-

terruption of the relations of the two
" lu nulanitting the uiUnlahuu to the Porte we hail more paw-
Ocularly informed the leading Cabinets of our intentions. We
hail appealed to Fr •e and to Great Britain not to complicate
by their attitude tint iliffieultleo of the idtuati !!!! and net to adopt
too semi measure); which, on the hand, might have the effect
of enconniging the oppooition of the Porte; and, 1111 the other,
of cionproinising still more than they already have 1101.11 compro-
mioed in the question the honour awl the dignity of the Emperor.
" I regret to at to to you keility that this double attempt
has noliappily been vain.
"The Porte, as you will men by the necempiulying letter of
Ileneltid Paella, has given to that which 1 hail addressed to hint
a negative, or at lewd tin evasive, answer.
" On the other hand, the two maritime powers have not thought
it their duty to defer to the considerations which we hat reran•
mended to their serious attention. Taking the initiative before
us, tiny have thought it, holispensible to ado at Immediately an
effective measure in advance of those which we hail only an-
nounced to them as purely contingent (ereviluelles), Moro we
rendered their execution dependent on the final resolutions of
the Porte; and, even at the moment at which I write, that exe.
+quiet' has not as yet commeneed. They inimediately eent their
fleets to the neighbourhood of Constantinople. They already
oecupled the water+ and the harbours of the Ottoman empire,
within reach of the Darilanelleo. By this ndvanced position the
two powers have plowed 1114 ler the weight of a threatening de.
monatrotion,whieli, as we hail forewarned them, must have added
new complications to the crisis.
" In the face of the refined of the Porte, supported by the de-
moment, ion of Fronee and England, it bee ,sllllll'l. impensible
for us than ever to modify the resolutions announced by the
Empenir.
His Imperial Majesty, therefore, has Piot sent to the body of
our troops stationed at this moment in Ileostarabitt the order to
peas the frontier for the purpose of occupying the principalities.
" They entered them, not fur the purpose of waging against
the Porte an OffellalVil war, WhiChWO shall, on the contrary, avoid
to the utmost of our power as long am it shall not force its to it,
but because the Porte, in persisting to refines no the moral gnu-
ruuGv which we hit a right to expect, obliges UN to sitbotittitefor
it provisionally a mat eriol gitorantee, 10.1101101t110
0111 two powers have taken up in the harbours and the waters of
the Ottoman empire, ill. ricer +Ten of ifs enisital, not bring eapable
of being considered by us in the actual cireunistaneem otherwise
than am a maritime occupation, gives us moreover a reason for re-
establishing the equilibrium of our respective positions by means
of a military occupation.
" We have, however, no intention of maintaining that position
longer than our interest or our honour shall require. It will be
ninigether temporary; It will iitily eery+, as a pledge until better
•ils shall lime prevailed ht the is of the ministers of '
the Siiltim. In ecetipying the principalities for a titan, we dis-
avow lwfornhand every idea of conquest. We do not pretend to
obtain any Recession of territory. Knowingly and willingly we
will not seek to excite any rising amidst the Christian popula-
tion ilf 'rurkey. As soon as that power shall have granted us
the sotisfaetiont whirl' is slue to us, mid as resin, at the same
tinte, as the 111110101r0 which the attitude which the maritime
power+ exert-two on us shall C 1.11140, lour troops will re-enter at
that very instant within the limits of Mimeo. As to the in-
liabitanto of the principalities, the presence of our forces will
subject them to no new charges or contributions, The articles
with widely they may flattish its shall lie toad for out of Our mili-
tary chest at the oppcirtime liniment, and sit a rate fixed upon
beforehand with their Ouivernment. The principles and the
rules of conduct %Odell we hove preseribist to 011r10.1t14 1111 this
you will 61111 11011 down iu the 111111C‘011101whilliattiiii.
Whist, General Prince I tortschiikotf, chief of the army of Well.
11114 1111111 11i1'01.10.11 til 101111i1111 011 his entry into the two
provinces,
Islet us be permitted to way it—the actual dispute, awl all the
noisy distinct' which it has I-is...lied from the duress ',Middle of
viaducts, rest upon it 1111.11. utisrmuderslauuliug, or upon a want of
sufficient Attila iuu to ell 11111* 11111 it 'l4ll /111t0e1•111`1101.
" PC111.11• 20.1•111 ii..t 111 he 11W1111., or to lose sight, of the fact that
Russia vicluudly enjoy., by position mud by treaty, an ancient
right to won+ uiver the efficacious protection of its religion in
the East.: mud people represent the maintenance of this ancient
right, which OW 1.01111 mint abtutduu, 1114 all act which involvesll4 a
totally new pretension to a 11rIllIS1.40ratl.Ill once religions and
politic. lot' %litchi the meaning and the eiiiisopiences lily the future
are ckaggeretisl.
" it is nisei this miserable misunderstanding that the whole
crisis at this moment 'lisle's.
(Signed) " NEssr.t,tionr.."
In the proclamation alluded to by Count Nessel
rode, Prince tiortschakolf, as Commander-in-Chief
of the invading forces, thus addresses the inhabitants
of the occupied provinces :
"We come among von neither with projects of conquest
nor with the intention to modify the histittitions 111,414.1.
Wilirll you live, or the political position which aoletun
treaties liiive guaranteed to you.
" provisional occupation of the principalities which
I ant °Merril to effret is for no other purpose than that of
nn immetliiite /11111 VtliCall'illUS protection iii grave and mi.
1;0E144411 eiremnstances.
" lit lliS mognmiiiiiity, in his constant (login• to maintain
pence in the Fast its will as in Europe, the Einticror will
avoid all aggressive war against Turkey. SO long us
beta
dignity and illlCrettlS of his empire shall permit him
hi do so.
•' hi the (lay on which he obtains the riptiritt which
is (lite tei ham. 1110 the guarantees which 114' has right to
claim for the future, his troops shall return within the
frontiers of Russia.
" Inhabitants of Moldavia and Wallachia'
" Look tranquilly to the; future! Eligogr; with security

SATUItDA?,

in your agricultural labours and commercial hpeculstions!
Be obedient to the laws under which you live, and to the
established authorities. It is by the faithful discharge of
these ditties that you will acquire the best claim to the
generous solicitude and the powerful protection of his
Majesty the Emperor."