The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-27 00:00:00

WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA.

The deputation from Wallachia to the Sublime Porte
addressed the following memorandum to the Turkish
Minister for Foreign Affairs on the sth :
`• Excellency,—The unexpected refusal of the Sublime
Porte to recognize the deputation commissioned by Su •
leyman Pacha to deposit at the foot of the throne the
grievances of the Wallachian nation, the false position
this refusal has placed us in, the deceitful and slande-
rous interpretations which have been occasioned, and
especially the communication made to us by Fouad Ef-
fendi last Sunday, has put us to the necessity of break-
ing the silence we were desirous of maintaining until
the Sublime Porte had formally made known to us
its final resolutions in our regard. Your Excellency
will, in consequence, permit us to retrace the acts
of the Wallachian nation to some weeks previous to
Suleyman Pacha's arrival in the principality. A revo-
lution, undertaken in the name of the rights of huma-
nity and of moral order, and ordained by the special
decrees of Divine Providence, broke out some weeks
previous to his Excellency's arrival. This revolution,
which it would have been next to an impossibility to
delay, has in no way endangered the rights of existing
treaties, either internal or external. In fact, no change
whatever was made in the original order of things, with
the exception that an insignificant party, formed of the
minority in the country, was crushed by the legal pres-
sure of events. This minority, almost imperceptible in
the nation, sustained by Russia, but anti-national—an
enemy to progress or ameliorations, both in moral and
political order, was ready to sacrifice all to recover its
ancient privileges. Such was the state of things when
Suleyman Pacha, as Commissioner, arrived in the
principality. Notwithstanding the legal manner in
which the revolution had been brought about—
notwithstanding the submission of the Wallachian
nation to the Sublime Porte, Suleyman Pacha considered
that the initiative made by the people was an attempt
to infringe the rights of sovereignty of the Divan, and
instantly required the dissolution of the Provisional
Government, and the annihilation of all its acts. This
was exacting much, but nevertheless the will of the
Sublime Porte was obeyed in this, as in every othersub-
sequent measure which was considered requisite for the
maintenance of its rights. Suleyman Pacha must from
this period have fully conceived the true motives of the
revolution, though foul misrepresentations were made to
persuade him it was an attempt to overthrow both social
and political order. Among the twenty two articles
which the Wallachians desired should become the basis
of their new organization, he himself noted such points
as required correction ; and suppressions and modifica-
tions were made at his own special demand. Subse-
quently, Suleyman Pacha, knowing the spirit of justice,
which characterises his Majesty the Sultan, expressed
his hope that a deputation of five members, to be chosen
by the Wallachians, would proceed to Constantinople,
and submit to the sanction of his Highness the new con-
stitution, such as it had been modified by common con-
sent. Under these auspices, and with the formal gua-
rantee of Suleyman ruche., the deputation set off fur
Constantinople. We beg pardon of your Excellency for
having troubled you with details totally at variance with
the object of this petition, but they are necessary to
establish the character of the deputation. Immediately
on our arrival here the Constantinople papers announced
the expedition of a new commissioner to Bucharest, and,
in an interview we had with this Envoy, the verbal
communication resolves Itself under the following heads
viz. 1—

" 1. The Sublime Ports refuses to acknowledge the
deputation in a legal or official character.
" 2. The guarantees given by Suleyman Paella engage
the Porte in such a sense, that it declares null and of no
tffect all that had hitherto been done in the principality.
_ _

"3. There is no salvation for Wallachia Cut under tiae
special condition that every trace of the revolution
should be effaced; that the nation should by a sulemn
act disavow the principles it has proclaimed and a3ted
upon in the principality, abandon itself entirely to the
absolute discretion of the Sublime Porte; that the lieu-
tennntcy general recognised and constituted by Suley-
man Pacha, should declare itself rebel, criminal, and
r,uilty of lea suzerainete in the face of the country and
of all Europe.
"4. On these conditions the Sublime Porte declared
itself ready to introduce such ameliorations as it thought

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" Truly we must assure your Excellency that
between the of Found Effendi and the tas•
surances we had previously received from Suley-
man Pacha, there was a deep chasm. Your excel-
lency will permit us to add, we were in no wise
astonished at this language. It became evident that it
was not the Sublime Porte that had changed, but that
circumstances were no more the same, and we are more
assured than ever that tho dispositions of the Sublime
Porte are still as favourable towards nests formerly. The
Sublime Porte, in persisting in its refusal to recognise
the Wallachian deputation, by sending a new Commis-
sioner to the principalities, imparts to its policy a vacil-
lation which will astonish Europe, and at the same
time produce disaffection among the faithful vassals of
the Sublime Porte. how are we to assure the people
that the Sublime Porte is not at liberty to keep the en-
eagements made in its name by its plenipotentiary ?
how are we to explain that the Sovereign who imposes
the duties on the population—the most remote from all
notions of civilization—allows to subsist in the most en-
lightened province of his empire a state of things worthy
of the barbarism of the middle ages ? In conse-
quence, the people—strangers to all the complications
%Welt have neutralised the good intentions of the
Sublime Porte, and unable to comprehend that
though their rights are secured by treaties, the
Sublime Porte is not possessed of power to enforce
them, will perceive that the usurping influence of Russia
is at present the only master of the destinies of the Wal-
lachian people. They, further, will be made to under-
stand that Suleyman Pacha has deceived them by vain
promises, which he knew beforehand would not be re-
garded, but whose intention, by procrastination and de-
lay, was to concentrate troops, which he ordered to ad-
vance from all parts of Rumelai. The people, rendered
distrustful by these deceptions, will perceive that they
have fallen into a snare by accepting the recent over-
tures which were made to them. Who can tell to what
excesses the populace will be carried when it finds the
ancient order of things reinstated ? The Sublime
Porte surely has not forgotten the recent intrigues of
Russia in Galatz—the attempts that were made to excite
the Greeks against the Turks. The incredible efforts
which are being made at present to excite anarchy and
disorder in the principalities will finally be suppressed
by the armed intervention of Russia, and thus will Russia
soil the fairest jewel of the crown of our beloved Sove-
reign, if it cannot pluck it for its own use."

The Turkish Government is dispatching troops to
wards the frontiers of Wallachia daily.

ITALY.

TUSCANY.

The insurrection at Leghorn is completely sup-
pressed, and the town has returned to its allegiance to
the GRAND DUKE, who on the 17th issued an order
of the day, permitting the National Guards of Pisa
and of other places to return to their homes, as there
was no further occasion for their services at Leghorn.