The National Register.
London, England, 1822-02-17 00:00:00

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1829.

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which were discussed ell the points now in agita-
tion between the Sublime Porte and the Court of
Russia, and which gate also to some other repre-
sentations; and the limit of this conference having
also been communkothxl to the said ministers and
memben of oouncili the whole has been brought
within their knov.
It would be'superilikous to speak, and would be
as unnecessary to pros See evidence of the good opi.
nion which the Sublime Porte has always entertained
of the Court of England, her greatest and most af-
fectionate ally, of the confidence which she reposes
in her, or of the genuine and unequivocal friend-
ship which subsists sputually between the two illus-
trious Courts, as it sit to declare that the Porte has
equally in view, with the allied Powers, the main-
tenance of general tranquillity; that she has no
other object than this that she never will be dis-
posed to adopt the detestable measures of violating
treaties, and of being the first to commence war,
and that her attention and scrupulous cares to fulfil
exactly and literally her engagements towards the
Cohn .of Russia are cotenant and manifest.
Whilst it is necessary. however, on the other side,
that Russia should observe in the first instance, and
before the execution of any other article, that con-
cerning the surrender of fugitives, (the first point in
discussion, which admits no qualification, and, with
reference to the state of rebellion, ought to be sub-
ject to no delay), she his signified that under present
circumstances she cannot, whatever may be the
motive, deliver those fugitives whom the Sublime
Porte demands by virtnp,of treatits, and because she
considers that delivery ,essential to the re-establish-
ment of trempilligyo ?with regard to the Greek
nation, which is.fortiting imaginary projects of cre-
ating a country, and rendering herself independent,
she has begun by a revit in the, two principalities,
and in some other districts, from the Ottoman em-
pire. As at this moinota `he continues to hoist the
standard of insurrection, and to curry on war in
different provinces, the Sublime Porte, in the sole
view of maintaining good order in her state, and in
order to restore public tranquillity, proceeds to chas-
tise the rebels accorail ato the dictates of necessity,
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the rights of sovereign and the interests of her
internal affairs. In this state of things, it would be
highly inconvenient to withdraw the Ottoman troops
from Walachia and Moldavia, and to appoint and
send princes thither; fot those provinces would then
become an asylum and refuge for traitors and for
robbers.
However this may be, it would appear that the
end of Russia, in setting up this pretension, is to
obtain the countenance of Europe in actin',, at her
own discretion. The point, as it affects the Sublime
Porte, is replete (and this is as clear as the day) with
every species of inconvenience, both as it touches
upon civil or national relatioas, or as it concerns
those of law and of religion. It is a matter whirl)
may, perhaps, as has been already seen by the com-
munications which Lave taken place by command of
, the Sublime Porte, lea gain to disturb that tran-
quillity which it is d Lie to establish, and to
intrude her authority ad 'gilts.
The Sublime Porte hastens, then, sincerely to de-
clare to her allies who wish for general tranquillity,
and who recognise as just the obvious reasons fbr
which she delays her assent upon this point, at least
for the present, that since it is announced that Russia
cannot surrender fugitives, whatever be the motive,
all which the Porte can do, and this only in the
view of preserving peace with Ituisia, and out of
respect to the friendly representations made by the
Court of England on this subject, is to postpone her
lust demand with regard to refugees.
But on the point of evacuating the two princi-
palities, and of appointikig there two princes afresh,
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as the Greeks have rev ted with the avowal of an
intention to deliver Grt. ce, as they arc now in open
insurrection in various aces, and as the first rebel-
lion took place in the litre of Walachia and Mol-
davia, it is impossible at present, or until the revolt
is subdued, either by the punishment of the rebels,
or by their submission and appeal to ckinetiey—int-
' possible whilst the Sublime Porte remains unsatis-
fied that there is nothing to be apprehended from
their part—to name two individuals as princes
amangst them, or to confide to them the adminis-
tration of two rich and flyile provinces, forminz a
part of his H:glatess's hut:lit:try states.
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