The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-21 00:00:00

PRINCE MICHAKL TO GAL AUIBL.L.

Belgrade, June 29 (July 9), 1862.

My Lord, —The government of her Majesty the Queen is
aware of the violence and aggression of which the riervian
people have recently been the victim. At a tame when my
officials were making every possible effort to maintain
order and mime the public tranquillity, a bombard-
meat, without example in history, in defiance of
all laws human and Divine, without any warning, with-
out even any motive, as has been agreed by the consular
body, threw terror into the population and transformed the
capital of my country, the centre of the commerce and
wealth of all Servia, into a deserted and ruined town. The
trait of so much labour, the fortunes of thousands of
families have been destroyed and lost, a city hitherto pros-
perous has been driven backwards 20 years, and God alone
knows how and when it will be possible to repair this great
evil which has come upon us in the midst of profound
peace, when, on the falth of treaties and under the guano.
tee of the European Powers. we thought ourselves in perfect
security.

Tree, my lord, to all the laws of good faith, I did not
hesitate to repress the natural enthusiasm of my people foe
their brethren of the Herzegovina and of Bosnia, and even to
make aserifloes trying to my feelings (dduldureuz d mon
exurb with the sole;object of failing in no respect in my
duty of loyalty towards the suzerain, and of preventing el.
Wier complications and disasters.
In acting thus, my lord, I was very far from thinking that
the ruin of the town of Belgrade and the lamentable con-
sequences which result from it would be the recompense of
such conduct.

I beg your lordship to judge yourself whether it is pos.
sage for Sonia to resign herself to so desperate s fate. Cm
the government of her Majesty the Queen leave the country
a prey to continual terror, at the mercy of the most simple
accident, or Well of pure chance Can it, above all, undo
the work of humanity and civilieation which it has, up to
the present time, in common with other power', guaranteed
and encouraged in Sonia!
I should fear to trespeas too long on your attention, my
Iced, in submitting to your consideration all that I have to
may on this important subject. The government of her
Majesty the Queen, also, is acquainted with my claims. I
confine myself, therefore, here to a special appeal to the
kindness of your lordship in favour of my just complaints,
and to a prayer, through your mediation, to the govern-
ment of her Majesty not to leave Serves in this extreme
danger without her powerful assistance. The security, the
peace, and the happiness of a million inhabitants depend
for their safety upon the arrangements; that the govern-
ment of Great Britain is called upon to make, in common
with the Sublime Porte and the guaranteeing powers, for
Ipteeerving Seevia and the general peace of the Ottoman
empire (rem such catastrophes.
In earnestly begging your lordships to give your power-
ful support to the cause of my country, I pity you, tee.,
(Signed) M. W. Onannovtrecs.
EARL RUSSELL TO PRIEM MICHAEL OBILEROVITSCH.
Foreign-office, July 53,

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Priace,—The government of her Majesty the Queen have
heard with great concern of the events which have takes
place at Belgrade.
It appears that an attack was made by the Punkas oa
the gates of the town, occupied by the Turks in virtue cif
ancient usage and recent treaties, especially the Treaty at
Paris of 1856. - -

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Two of these gates having been carried by assault, the
consuls persuaded the Turks to evacuate the remaining two,
in all four gates. But no sooner had the Turkish residents
left their houses than those houses were plundered by a
disorderly mob.
For this pillage and disorder no redress was offered by the
Servian authorities, and the next morning musket• were
fired at the garrison in the citadel.
Upon this occurrence the pasha took the alarm, and map
advisedly, and, as it appears to her Majesty's government,
unjustifiably, bombarded the town at intervals for four
bourn .. . .
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It is no wonder that peaceable inhabitanta were seised
with peak and left the town.
Bat, so far as her Majesty's government are informed.
these lamentable events had their origin in the viol►tion by
the SCRTialle of the relations established by treaties between
the Sublime Potte and Servia. . . . •

Your Highness assumes merit for not having joined in the
insurrection of the Herzegovio,. Your Highness deserves
the credit of having, in that respect, shown regard to the
obligations of good faith.
If your Highness will, in the same spirit, conform to the
duties imposed open you by European treaties, her Majesty's
government will most willingly use their idiocies with the
Sublime Porte for the improvement of the condition of a
million of Berrien', in whose welfare her Majesty the
Queen takes a deep interest.
But so long as ill-intentioned persons are allowed to draw
your Messer into measures of defiance and of violence, in
open violation and contempt of solemn treaties, it is im-
possible that her Majesty's government can ask the Sultan
to give to his enemies means for assailing the security of
his empire.-1 am, 3a,
(Signed) Rum=