The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-02 00:00:00

rupting the relations of amity between the
Allied Courts and the Turkish Government,—
must have appeared difficult to a less prejudiced
person than the Reis Effendi. The question
was not resolved, and could not be resolved, by
the diplomatists of Constantinople. Its first
and its only solution took place on the 20th of
October, in the bay of Nayarit).

" REPORT OF TIIE DRAGOMANS OF FRANCE, GREAT

BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA, DATED DTII SEPTEMBER,

1827.
" The undersigned, in consequence of the joint
instruction which they received from their Excel-
lencies the Representatives of the Courts of France,
Great Britain, and Russia, went together this day,
the 9th September, to the country house of the
Reis Effendi, where this Minister expected them,
being prevented by serious indisposition from going
to the Porte.

" The first Dragoman of France was chosen to
repeat verbally the instructions of their Excellencies.
At the commencement, the Reis Effendi declared
that if they had any intention of delivering a paper
to him, he would not receive it. Monsieur Des-
granges announced that he wa; sent, with his col-
leagues, to tell the Reis Effendi that they were ready
to give him the explanations he had urgently re-
quested, upon the means and the measures announced
in the declaration of the 31st of August, if his Ex-
cellency should persist in that request. 4 Undoubt-
edly I do,' said his Excellency ; speak—l am
listening to you.'
" Monsicur Desgranges then began—' In case the
Sublime Porte should refuse the mediation'-4 Do
not substitute a supposition for a fact,' interrupted
the Reis Effendi; the Sublime Porte refuses the
intervention,—there is no possibility of raising a
doubt on that point.' On another passage his Ex-
cellency also desired us to observe that he had not
accepted the declaration of the 31st of August, and
that his only knowledge of it was derived from the
verbal explanations of that day. his Excellency
made no other remark.

" When Monsieur Desgranges had given, word
for word, a most exact translation of the instructions
with which he was charged, the Reis Effendi col-
lected himself for a few moments, and delivered,
with much calmness and suavity, a long speech, in
which his Excellency repeated the same things
several times, and of which the tenor is as follows:

" The Sublime Porte has presented to the Mi-
nisters of the friendly Powers a declaration con-
taining the principles from which it will never de-
viate. These principles are eternal. The Sublime
Porte owes to the force of its arms the conquest of
Greece. The Greeks are its subjects ; no foreign
Power has the right to interfere in any thing which
concerns the Greeks and the Mussulmans.

" The holy law of the latter is the only code
whose benefits their Rayahs can implore. These
benefits have never been refused to them. Our
Rayahs were happy. An inspiration from hell alone
can have bewildered them. The hope of foreign
assistance even yet prevents, in some places, their
return to obedience. We are continually receiving
acts of submission. Only a few days ago numerous
petitions were addressed to us by several districts.
" The territory belongs to us; the subjects are
ours; our right is incontestable. We rested our
cause upon the most irresistible argument : what do
the Powers desire of us ? They are all our friends,
we ask nothing of them,—what pretension, then,
can they bring forward ? Have we broken the ties
which attach their Governments to ours ? We
have treaties with France, with Great Britain, with
Russia; does any one of their articles give a right to
the pretensions put forward by the Powers ? Have
we been found to neglect the least of our obligations
towards them ? Whence are derived the proposi-
tions of intervention, of armistice, and of pacification ?
Justice and reason reject them all. The Sublime
Porte repeats it, it will refuse to listen to them till
the day of judgment.
" Nevertheless, the Ambassadors, bent on the
prosecution of a project which justice condemns,
have spoken to the Subtime Porte of means and of
measures which their Courts were to take in con-
cert. If I then asked you, gentlemen, to announce
to me openly what their Excellencies meant by
these expressions, it was not that I was not perfectly
aware of their true meaning. I knew their whole
tendency, but till now all that has passed has only
been a question of words.
" Previously to their being followed up by any
act, I wished to declare to you that the Sublime
Porte sets a greater value on peace than any other
Power,—to repeat to you that your language appears
unintelligible to it,—that that which you assure us
makes no breach in our friendship, is, in our opinion,
an infraction of this same friendship ; and that, in
short, the means of which you speak, present so re-
markable an incompatibility, that one may say that
fire and cotton, or water and fire, are not more op-
posed. In fact, you announce that your fleets will
intercept the sending of men and munitions of war;
they are also to stop our forces whenever, in execu-
tion of the orders of his Highness, they advance
upon the rebels to chastise them if they do not sub-
mit. What conduct would be more regular than
that of our commanders,—what conduct more irre-
gular than that of yours, if they oppose ours ? You
will receive Consuls, you say, from Greece, and you
will send others thither ; but, setting aside the con-
sideration of what is contrary to justice and to right
in this step, how will the safety of these agents
be guaranteed ? Every thing has an end. The
revolt will only last for a time. It mud soon
finish. Examine with impartiality the true state
of things, you will perceive that wherever
your influence has not penetrated, the rebellion
has ceased. Almost all the provinces of the conti-
nent have been brought to reason. Some districts
on the coast, where the influence of which I speak
still reigns, alone remain to be subjected. Every
misfortune which has occurred may be attributed to
some hundred individuals. Refuse, then, your sup-
port, and order will be every where restored. It is
my wish, therefore, gentlemen, to make you explain
officially the means and the measures announced in
the declaration of their Excellencies the representa-
tives of the three friendly Courts, in order to point
out to you their injustice and incoherence. It was,
moreover, my duty to make known to you the only
course of conduct which the Sublime Porte could
pursue. The hopes daily held out to our Rayahs by
the reports which are unceasingly disseminated
amongst the public, necessarily nourish in their
imagination the ideas of liberty. Two liberties or
two sovereignties cannot exist in one and the same
empire; the one must annihilate the other. The
Sublime Porte does not think itself called upon to
give an account of its views. It will be sure to
conduct itself according to events with that wisdom
which has always distinguished it. Whenever the
commanders of your squadrons put into execution
the measures which you announce to us, the aggres-
sion will be on their side. From that time, our
commanders will act according to the orders which
they will have received, and the Sublime Porte will
take such measures as it may judge fitting. I❑ short,
gentlemen, the Courts have promised to themselves
the maintenance of a general peace, the repose of the
world; and God knows if the road they are pursuing
will not lead to an universal disturbance, and an un-
exampled conflagration !
" I cannot too often repeat it, the Sublime Porte
is desirous of peace, and of the continuation of all
those relations of friendship which attach it to the
Powers. lever will it violate treaties; they are

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sacred to it. in this world, and in the next, all
the blame will fall upon those who shall have been
the first to infringe them. The Sublime Porte is
glad to proclaim beforehand, that it throws back
upon them the responsibility of every infraction.'
" These were the last words of the Reis Effendi's
speech. The first Dragoman of France thought it
his duty to repeat in answer the most formal assur-
ance that the high contracting Courts, being re-
solved to pursue the work of pacifying Greece, have
no other end whatever in view than that pacification.
" As the Reis Effendi had from the beginning
declared that he would receive no paper, the un-