The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-19 00:00:00

FROM THE " PORTFOLIO."

COPY OF A VERY SECRET DESPATCH FROM
COUNT POZZO DI BORGO.
Dated Paris, the 28th of November, 1828.
The confidential note which the Imperial Cabinet has,
thought proper to transmit to its Representatives at the four.
principal European Courts, respecting the events of the cam-
paign,and the reciprocal situation in which the two belligerent
Powers are placed at the termination of the season of mi-
litary operations, gives a just and complete idea of the cha-
racter of the war, and of the manner in which it had been
carried on.
Nothing in this exposition, as you have remarked, Min-
sieur le Comte, justifies the odious and unfounded hopes of
the enemies of Russia ; and it justly excites our astonish-
ment that hatred and jealousy could have so far blinded
themselves, as thus, so grossly, to mistake the evidence of
truth.

In resolving to obtain justice by force of arms, the Em-
peror carried, both in the number and disposition of his
forces, that spirit of moderation and humanity, which was
inseparable from the motives and• object which forced his
Majesty to take up arms, in the hope, on the one hand,
that the enemy, less obstinate in risking his own ruin, would
seek his safety in peace ; and, on the other, that the Cabi-
nets interested in this result, and especially the Cabinet of
Vienna, would have proved themselves sincerely anxious in
recommending to the Ottoman Porte so prudent and neces-
sary a conduct. This expectation, although founded upon
plausible data, has been frustrated, we are forced .to ad-
mit it, through the inconsiderate obstinacy of the Sultan, and
the. hostile and deceitful policy of the Austrian Cabinet.
This resistance, and these intrigues, have not, however,
been able to hinder the signal successes obtained in the cam-
paign,, nor the conquests achieved by the only part of the
Imperial army which was engaged, in spite of the obstacles
constantly opposed to it, by the valour and despair of the
enemy, and still more by the barren and rugged nature of
the country.
There is no doubt that, from the moment when the im-
patience of the public, and the allusions of our adversaries,
will have afforded time to allow events to appear, and show
themselves as they really are, that the force of truth will
triumph over prejudice and error; and that our present si-
tuation will be appreciated with all its advantages. The
sacrifices we have made in order to obtain them, although
considerable, are by no means disproportionate with the
results ; and the magnitude of our resources displays itself
still in a formidable manner to those even who are the most
disposed to question them. Those truths, Monsieur le
Comte, are evident to the French Government, which has
never mistaken them ; and to just and impartial persons in
this country. I will even add, from information I have ac-
quired, that they are equally so to the Duke of Welling-
ton. This great military man has never drawn serious con-
sequences from accidental successes, and from the unex-
pected resistance of the Turks. He has given to each event
its degree of importance, and has carefully avoided exag-
gerating its effects. From the moment that he became
aware of the number of Imperial troops which had passed the
Danube, he no longer, it is true, expected decisive results:
but he was perfectly sensible that the relative superiority
would remain to tiur arms ; and that discipline would tri-
umph over enthusiasm. It is this conviction which makes
him foresee the probability, and the almost certainty of a
new campaign ; and makes him apprehend the most disas-
trous consequences for the Ottoman Empire ; because he
thinks, with reason, that experience will point out, to us
the precautions we must take, and that the Emperor has
the means of preventing any from being neglected. I have
acquired this information in a positive manner from the
Prince de Polignac, who has just arrived from London, and
who has communicated it to the King and his Ministers ;
and I am the more disposed to place faith in it, because it is
in harmony with that innate sagacity which I have always
found the Duke to possess, whenever he was called upon
to exercise his judgment upon questions relating to a profes-
sion in which he has excelled in such a transcendant manner.
This new campaign which our adversaries, or those who
are jealous of our greatness, are so fearful of seeing com-
menced, has become, Monsieur le Comte, necessary and
inevitable. The dignity, the honour, and the interests of
the Emperor and the empire require it.
When the Imperial Cabinet examined the question, whe-
ther it had become expedient to take up arms against the
Porte, in consequence of the provocations of the Sultan,
there might have existed some doubts of the urgency of this
measure in the eyes of those who had not sufficiently re-
flected upon the erects of the sanguinary reforms which
the Chief of the Ottoman Empire had just executed with
such tremendous violence, and also upon the interest with
which the consolidation qf that Empire inspired the Cabinets
of Europe in general, and more especially to those which
were less disposed towards Russia, THE EXPERIENCE WE
HAVE JUST MADE MUST NOW RE-UNITE ALL OPINIONS

N FAVOUR OF THE RESOLUTION WHICH HAS BEEN

ADOPTED. The Emperor has put the Turkish system to
the proof; and his Majesty has found it to possess a conz-
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eiicenient of physical and moral organization which it hi-

therto had ,tot. If the Sultan have been enabled to offer
us a more determined and regular resistance, whilst he had
scarcely assembled together the elements of his new plan of
Reform and ameliorations, how formidable should we have
found him, had he had time to give it more solidity, and to
render that barrier impenetrable which we find so much dif-
ficulty in surmounting, although art has hitherto done so
little to assist nature.

Things being in this state, we must congratulate ourselves
upon having attacked them before they became more dan-
gerous for us, for delay would only have rendered our re-
lative situation worse, and prepared us greater obstacles than
those with which we meet.

If required to add another proof of this truth, I would
seek it in the whole tenour, and in the views contained in
the confidential note of the Imperial Ministry. Far from
lowering the demands and conditions of the peace, I have
seen with lively satisfaction that it augments them, after the
campaign has afforded it a more correct estimate of the real.
state of things, and has convinced it of the necessity of
multiplying precautions, in order to diminish the dangers of
the future. This conviction is not the result of speculative
reasoning, but of experience acquired on the spot, and in
the midst of battles. It justifies the resolution taken to
make war, and shows the correctness of the motives which
have caused it to be adopted.
There is another reason which renders further successes
and a more decided superiority in our favour indispensable,
if we wish to obtain the object of the war. When the
Emperor commenced it, Europe was informed that his Ma-
jesty would abstain from conquest, and would only require
to be indemnified for his expenses, and be assured of a mo-
ral guarantee for the freedom of his commerce. It is na-
tural that the Cabinets, far from being disposed to give any
latitude to these general expressions, must desire to circum-
scribe their effect within the narrowest possible results.
Let us now suppose, that, when the Sultan partly
surpasses their hopes by' his resistance—when some of
them may still indulge in the idea of our weak-
ness, that we advance the conditions judiciously expressed by
your Excellency in your confidential note, they will all raise
their voices against our enormous pretensions, and all, with-
out exception, will find them hard, and perhaps unjust. I
say, without exception, because in that case I neither ex-
cept France nor Prussia. These two Courts have without
doubt a friendly and kind policy towards Russia, and will
not arm against her ; but their desire of peace is such, and
the necessity they feel of seeing an end put to the compli-
cations which the continuation of hostilities may cause, is
so pressing, that they will consider it incumbent upon them
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to zes—the fortresses and the Asiatic littoral of the Black Sea.
The destruction of those which exist on the right bank
of the Danube and on the face of the Balkan, will be
looked upon as having for its object the almost immediate
overthrow of the Ottoman Empire. They will appeal to
our promises, they will refuse to admit our explanations,
and thus will be formed throughout Europe, a desire more
or less vehement, it is true, and with difference of intention,
but, nevertheless, in the main opposed to what we are under
the necessity of obtaining. .

This en-Slarrassing and even untoward result for us,
would be the immediate and inevitable consequence of any
negotiaf,on in the prose nt state of things. If this negotia-

tion took place, it wauld be impossible-for us not to avow
operily our intentions. The Turks Nvould immediately
make an appeal to Christian Europe, who unaoubtedly
would receive their protest.; although, as I have already
observed, with those differences which would proceed from
the degree and nature of their sentiments. But this dif-
ference in action, would not produce any in the unfavour-
able manner of judging our pretensions both in a moral and
political point of view.
(To be continued.)

Lord Melbourne's indisp Jsition arises from a slight
attack of the gout.
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joint exertions in the Hunchback, have drawn large au-
diences to Covent-Garden, last week. The pantomime of
Guy Fawkes, so well calculated to please the. holiday
people, is, however, entitled to a large share of the attrac-
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