The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-17 00:00:00

I. LETTER FROM THE PRINCE OF MOLDAVIA TO

REDSCHID PACIIA, DATED JUNE 25.
" I had the honour yesterday to transmit to your
Highness* statement of the events which have
ensued from the occupation of the Princi-
palities by the Russians. With the keenest
pain I see myself obliged to-day to lay before you a
communication which the Russian Consul-General
at Bucharest has additneed - • •
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"nil moment received. The contents of the two
official papers, of which copies are inclosed, will give
Four Eminence a clear idea of the requisitions made
to me in the name of the Emperor of Russia to sus-
pend my relations to the Sublime Porte, and the
remittance of tribute in the presence of the Russian
army. Immediately after the receipt of these docu-
ments I had an interview with Prince Gortschakeff,
to whom I deemed it my duty to submit my remarks
on the affair, and to whom I declared that Ifound my-
self under the necessity to give information respecting
the matter to the Sublime Porte. His Excellency
offered no objection. As I feel that it is beyond my
ability to discuss measures which must be decided on
by the two high Powers, I make haste to report
them to your Highness, in order that your wisdom
may determine what steps it becomes you to take."
LETTP.RII. FROM M. KATCHINSKI, RUSSIAN CONSUL
GENERAL AT BUCHAREST, TO THE PRINCE OF
MOLDAVIA, DATED JUNE 23. _ _

" I have the honour to communicate, in confidence,
to your Highness, the copy of a despatch which the
Chancellor (Startts-Kaitzler) addressed to me on the
3rd of June. You will find in it, my Prince, the
moat precise directions respecting the conduct you
have to pursue in consequence of the military occu-
pation Athe Principalities by the Russian troops, and
of the steps which you have to take for retaining
the tribute which Moldavia is bound to pay to the
Ottoman Government.

" Inviting you to obey the Imperial commands con-
tained in this despatch, I have the honour to
be, &c."

111. DESPATCH FROM COUNT NESSELRODE TO CON-
SUL GENERAL KATCHINSKI, DATED ST. PETERS-
BURG, JUNE 3.

"The military occupation of the Principalities
is not intended, as I have already inti-
mated to you, to superinduce any change with
respect to their civil administration or
the persons of their high functionaries, except in so
far as the Hospodars may deem the change of some
officials advisable, in order to ensure the greatest
possible regularity in the various departments of
their service, especially of that which is charged with
the maintenance of the imperial troops. Still, a
question arises respecting which I ought to inform
both princes of the view which is taken of it here,
that they may regulate their conduct accordingly.
I allude to their relations to Constantinople and
the Ottoman ministers. These relations must cease
from the day that our troops take military
possession of the country, when all active influence,
all interference of the suzerain power, must cease.
Another consequence of the new state of affairs will
be the ceasing to remit the tribute which the Pro-
vinces are bound to pay to the Porte. The money
for this purpose is to be collected as usual, but re-
served for the disposition of the imperial govern-
ment, which reserves to itself the right to make such
use of it as shall seem most expedient. You will
communicate this decision, which I transmit to you
by order of the Emperor, to the Hospodars."

IV. LETTER FROM REDSCIIID PACHA TO PRINCE
STIRBEY OF WALLACIIIA, DATED CONSTANTINOPLE,
JULY 25.

"My Prince,—Russia declared, when her troops
entered Moldavia and Wallachia, that she had no in-
tention to alter the public institutions by which those
provinces are governed, or the position which is en-
sured to them by solemn treaties, and the Sublime
Porte, which gave credence to these assurances, re-
solved to allow your highness and the Prince of
Moldavia to continue at your posts. But we now
learn from the documents which the Prince of Mol-
davia has transmitted to us, that the Russian go-
vernment has ordered his highness and you to
break off your relations with Constantinople, and
to retain the due tribute, which has quite taken
us by surprise. Since the Russian Court has thus
violated in its fundamental principle the system of
the provinces in a point which materially affects the
right of property, the Porte sees clearly that it must
be impossible in this state of affairs to exercise legiti-
mate authority in the Principalities, Wallachia and
Moldavia. The Sublime Porte has, therefore, re-
solved that your Highness and the Prince of Mol-
davia shall quit the Provinces, and this resolution
has been officially intimated to the Great Powers.
It is therefore necessary that, in conformity with the
command which has gone forth from the Imperial
Throne, you forthwith quit the provinces. Should
you act against this high command, the Sublime
Porte will be at liberty to take such measures as its
interests shall seem to require."