The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

THE PRESS, AUGUST 8, 1857.

need scarcely disquiet yourself with what the French say,
whose journals treat you as a Greek.
The Turkish Secretary to the London Em-
bassy, writes again to his namesake, 15 (27)
April, 1557 :
I advise you to follow blindly in everything the Austrian
representative, despite all his faults. Austria, the Sublime
Porte, and Britain are agreed ; and it comes to this, that
when Austria iN cdnicnt, Turkey and England are so likewise.
As to gngland, abe will Rnt permit the Union to takb
place, eTen shaurd 'the DiVans pronounce in its favour',
but that must never 1.,1te . . You werequ'lid
right illat to grant libeftl‘ftbe press to these brainless
Moldavians, who would o ly have employed it as a means
of promoting the Union. .

M. PHOTIADES, the Chargé d'Affaires of
Moldavia, writes to Kaimakan VOGORIDES, inter
alia :
I could have wished that the second letter had been
sent to the Metropolitan ; but the Grand Vizier having
repeated to me what M. Thouvenel hail told him, viz., that
your Excellency was obliged to deviate from the line of
impartiality in consequence of the secret instructions of
the Porte, and because your family were here as hostages
in the hands of the superior Government, we think it
better to postpone the transmission of said letter for the
moment. I have taken care to employ every means to
invalidate the words of M. Thouvenel, and I am assured
by Baron Prokesch and Lord Redcliffe that I have suc-
ceeded ; hut, meantime, in the name of Heaven let your
Excellency beware of your conversations with the French
Consul, and pay attention to every word that can compro.
mice you with the Porte. Preserve appearances !
Here in a few words you have the policy of the Porte:—
Act energetically against the Union, but without noise,
and especially without divulging that you receive such
instructions from him. The Porte must have some con-
sideration for foreign powers, but your Excellency, having
no such engagements, has full authority from the Porte to
act wisely, and do all that may tend to advance his views.
The instructions sent by his Government to Lord Red-
cliffe are clear and precise. The Sublime Porte is well
satisfied with them. To-day Baron Prokesch and Lord
Redcliffe arranged measures to be taken against the Union.

ETIENNE VOGORIDES, ex-Bey of Lamos, and
father of Kaimakan VOGORIDES, thus addresses
his son :

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 13, 1837.
I hear that Sir Henry Bulwer and the Austrian repro-
sentative understand each other perfectly. Seffet Eft'endi
is much approved of. Basin is the most dangerous of the
commissioners ; here we cultivate his superiors. The
En 'lish Ambassador begins to have a good opinion of you.
The future of Moldavia does not depend on the Molda-
vians, but on the Sublime Porte and some influential
ambassadors, whom we don't fail to cultivate. Follow the
advice that I so often gave you. Be firm, patient, and,
above all, conceal your thougths; be silent, and—Allah
Kerim. Whilst invoking the aid of God, we watch here.
In a letter today from Kostaki Musnrus,
of London, he mentions hearing regularly from you; anti
that according to your letters so are his communisations
with Lords Palmerston and Clarendon. Both he and the
English Ministers are satisfied with your administration.
You ought to write often to Kostaki, and come to a perfect
and secret understanding with the Austrian Consul, for
Baron Prokesch proposed your nomination to the Kaima-
kanship, giving as reason and gua 7antee that you were your
father's son.
From the same to the same :

Aran. 24.
I will only draw your attention to the elections, which you
ought to hasten as much as possible, for everything
depends on their result.

APRIL 27.

Baron Prokesch has contributed much to the nomina-
tion of Caleb Pacha. Let your Excellency endeavour to
cultivate still further the good will of the Austrian, and,
above all, of Baron Prokesch, for you must know that I
serve here as the secret instrument of the relations of his
Excellency with the Grand Vizier. Everything goes well,
and I hope in God that we shall attain our aim.

For the present we limit ourselves with the
foregoing extracts from this amusing and
instructive correspondence, every line of which
corroborates our assertion of the subser-
viency of England to the views of Aus-
tria. Nay, the Secretary to the Turkish
Embassay at London blurts out the actual
truth, and says, " Pour cela, when Austria is
" satisfied so are Turkey and England." It is
hardly credible that this hand-in-glove
alliance (rapprochement, according to the
Palmerstonian code), this utter sacrifice of all
principles of honour and of honesty, can have
taken place by and under the same Govern-
ment that could formerly find no language
too strong for the conduct of Austria. Lord
PALMERSTON seems determined to try the extent
of his tether, to see how far his Liberal suppor-
ters will aid him in contradicting himself and
stultifying them. The object for which all these
sacrifices have been made, all these discredit-
able intrigues employed, is nothing more than
for the purpose of nullifying our own policy
and negativing our own protestations at
the Congress of Paris. What is it these
poor Roumans demand? " The free ex-

" presssion of their wishes." And those
wishes are, as we know whenever they
have been allowed to speak—" Permission
" to pay their tribute to, and preserve treaties
" and amicable relations with, Turkey ; per-
" mission to unite Moldavia and Wallachia,
" and pay one governor and Government
a " instead of two ;permission to choose their
" own prqice, as t. hatp always done up to
" thTroty of P'' s, iii‘d to select him, or,
" rat er an qtutrai, ret the Congress of
" Pa i select him-, from where they will, so
" long as he is not from Moldo-Wallachia;
" and lastly, permission to make and enjoy
" their own laws, without the interposition of
" a firman to override them as often as the
" Grand Vizier at Constantinople takes the
" whim into his head."

It was worthy of England, in order to crush
such audacious aspirations on the part of five
millions of tihristians writhing under the
tyranny of foreign rule, to have employed her
influence in rivetting their fetters. It is clear
that if the conduct of Lord PALM E RSTON's
Government is to be supported, that every
one of those great and honourable efforts by
which in the course of two years we secured
the independence and exalted the position of
Turkey, which enabled her to withstand the
dangers and vicissitudes of that arduous con-
test which afforded the means of security to
Europe at the same time that they saved
Turkey from the calamities of conquest—if the
conduct of Lord PALMERSTON be politic, be just
or honourable, then the whole of these efforts
were made in vain, for our tortuous Eastern
policy, since the conclusion of peace, has had
no other result than the sacrifice of the true
interests of Turkey by playing into and up to
the hand of Austria—the very Power that not
so long since offered to reoccupy the Princi-
palities, or divide them conjointly with
Russia, guaranteeing Russia from the inter-
ference of England !
It is to be hoped the British nation will
not allow itself to be hoodwinked on
the present occasion, but will be up
and stirring will require an account
of these transactions will demand why
the action of England and France is so
distinct and disunited on the banks of the
Danube, and will not allow an alliance—
cemented by so much bloodshed—an alliance
beneficial to England and securing the peace of
the world—to be dissolved, or even threatened,
because Lord PALMERSTON end his Liberal
Government choose to play fast and loose
with principles, to violate sacred promises and
solemn treaties, and, by involving us in compli-
cations most delicate in their nature and dan-
gerous in their consequences, threaten to
plunge us into difficulties of prodigious extent,
and excite such a flame in Europe as neither
France nor England shall have it in their power
to extinguish.