The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-31 00:00:00

EDITIOV

E.A.STERN''OU'ESiiOIT.

The following communication has just reached us: The
circumstances under which we have been favoured with it are
such as to leave on our mind no doubts of its accuracy
Paris, Sunday Evening,
" I write to impart to you not an unlooked-for, but still a
very important piece of news.
" Many a council has sat in judgment upon the great
Eastern Treat, with which the ruling Powers here have, very
naturally, been coqueting, as in some sort an apology for
withholding from it their immediate assent ; but, whatever may
have been the obstacles and objections, by Wednesday
or Thurs-
day, at latest, the draft of the new compact will have been re-
turned to the hands of the Baronde Bourqueney, un-
less, indeed, some schism should yet arise among the
Ministers, or some difference between them and their Royal
master. The great difficulty has been the national amour
propre stimulated by M. 'Ehlers, and pushed advisedly, and
for the take of leaving no retreat, into demonstrations on a
scale of extravagance which the nation will rue fur many a
year. But M. Thiers's tricks are exposed, the nation is dis-
gusted, and the treaty will he in London within . twenty-four
hours after this letter reaches you.—Morning Post.

"COLLECTIVE NOTE DELIVERED ON THE 30TH OP JANUARY
TO SCIIEKLB EFFENDI, AMBASSADOR FROM THE SUBI IME
PORTE TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY, BY THE PLENIPO-
TENTIARIES OF AUSTRIA, GREAT BRITAIN, PRUSSIA, AND
RUSSIA :-
" The undersigned plenipotentiaries of the Courts of Aus-
tria' England, Pt ussia, and Russia, have maturely meditated
on the despatch from Reschid Pacha, dated Copstantinople,
13th schewal, 1256 (Bth December, 1810), which his Excel-
lency Schekib Effendi, ambassador from the Sublime Porte,
had received orders to communicate to the First Secretary of
State of her Britannic Majesty for the. Department of Foreign
Affairs, in orJer that it might be made known to the. Courts
that have signed the convention of the 15th July.
" Accoreting to this communication, his Highness the Sul-
tan refuses to grant Mehemet Ali the hereditary pachalic of
Egypt.
The undersigned, after having bestowed the greatest atten-
tion on this communication, have decided on begging his Ex-
celency Schekib Effendi to have the kindness to submit to the ;
Porte the following observation : —;11:ey consider it their duty
to state that on the day cf the despatch from Reschid Pacha,
the Representatives of the Four Couits had not made known
to the Porto the collective measure of the 15th October, and
that it appears from the last despatches ft mu Constantinople
even up to the 27th December, that at that epoch the
toßepre-
enottholuligglihtnetshsetinhr ad-
vice authorised
vice they were charged to communicate. Nevertheless the
views ot the Allied Courts have remained the same. Separ-
ated by gi eat distance, and having no occasion to come to
fresh understanding. they had addressed to their Representas-1
aJd.essthe Fourt theow3elrids htardy of his
fives at Constantinople orders bearing the mark en the moak
perfect unanimity.
0.,"
"-On the 17th December the Government of hee.Bs tatsv-
' Majestys of
address d to its representative at Constantinople in-
struction= expressly confirming these of the 15th October.
" The Coto t of Vienna forwarded precise orders to itesnuneio
on the 29th ot last December. The Court of Prussia ndhere,l
totally to the instructions decreed in common on the 15th of
October and the 14th of November. The Court of Russia, on
the 23d of December, addressed to is Charge d'Affaires at
Constantinople instructions drawn up in a similar spirit.
"In mentioning these facts the undersigned allow them-
selves to hope that the counsels given in this manner by the re-
presentatives of the four Courts, will exercise a great influence
on the opinions exposed by Reschid Paella in his above-men-
tioned despatch of the Bth Oct., and that these counsels will
remove the apprehensions expresses! by that Minister re-
specting the ulterior conduct to he followed by the Sublime
Porte.
" Nevertheless, to remove those apprehensions, and to avoid
all loss of time, the undersigned have thought expedient not to
await any further report from Constantinople, and, without de-
ferring replying to the communication of his Excelleney.
Schek.b Effendi,Jhey have thought it their duty to stake In
writing the opinion of their respective Courts, as they have had
the honour of doing by word of mouth.
" By this note, they engage the Sultan not only to ',recall
the firman of destitution decreed against Mehemet Ali, but,
moreover, to promise him that his descendants shall be succes-
sively called by his Highness to the Pachalie of Egypt, in-a •
direct line, whenever that office shall be Vacant by the death of'
the Pacha governing.
" With respect to this, the Four Powers will confine them •
selves to reminding the Sublime Porte of the intentions the
Sultan had himself manifested at the c-oinmencement of the
Oriental crisis—intentions which served as a basis for the Con- ,
vention of the 15th July. 'I he Four Powers, in giving the Porte
the counsel which the p,rcs,rif note is intended to renew, are
convinced that they do tiot-indiiate to him either an arrange-
ment contrary.to the rights of sovereignty, and to the legiti-
mate authority of the Sultan, or a measure in opposition to the
duties the Pacha of Egypt is bound to fulfil. as a subject of the
Sultan, appointed by his Highness to govern in his name apro.- •
vince of the Ottoman empire.
" This truth is confirmed not only by articles 111., V., and s
VI. of the separate Act annexed to the Treaty of the 15th
July, but also by the instructions that the Four Courts have
sent to their Ambassadors at Constantinople, in consequence '
of the declaration of the 15th. October. In feet this Act sti-
pulates (p. 5.) that all the treaties and laws now in vigour in
the Ottoman empire or which shall be so later, shall be ap-
p!ied to the Pachalic of Egypt as well as to the otheii• parts of
the Ottoman empire. This condition, which the Four Courts
consider indispensable, forms in their eyes one of the most so-
lid tics for uniting Egypt to Turkey, as an integral part of the
Ottoman empire. By the terms of (par. 6) the same Act the
land and sea forces, which the Poste may keep, form a part of
the force of the Ottoman empire, and shall be disposable for
the general service of the State.
"In fine, it has been formally recognised by the note,. of
the 15th October, deliberated in London, and by the i-siStrue-
tions confirmed by the memorandum of the 14+11= of last
November, if that Mehemet Ali, or one of 11:;gileseendants
should violate the conditions on which the her,,ditary Govt rn-
ment of Egypt is granted -to them, that. title shall be with-
drawn from them. The undersigned think that the complete
execution of the conditions above mentioned will fully, answer
the views of the Sultan, will satisfy the wishes of the Allied
Courts, and h.apl.ily terminate the work of pacification which
has been the aim of their reciprocal engagements fixed in the
Treaty of the 15th of July.
"In fact, by the accomplishment of these conditions, the •
aims which the solicitude audforesight of the high_emtneting
wrtits had in view wth he attained.' The Sultan would then
henceforward be able to rely on the obedience and submission
of his Pacha, the Gcvernor of Egypt, the inhabitants of that
province woold be sheltered from the oppression they have
experienced of late years in consequence of the abuses of the
local Administration,-'tin fine, Mehemet Ali would obtain a
secure posith n tar himself and his family, without encroaching
in any manner en his duties as a subject of the Ottoman
Porte. " The undersigned have the honour," &c.
(Here follow the signatures.)

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