The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-26 00:00:00

TIIE PORTFOLIO-NO. IV.

" COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM PRINCE LIEVEN AND COUNT
MATUSZEWIC, ADDRESSED TO COUNT NESSELRODE,
DATED LONDON, JUNE 1 (t 3), 1829.
" The courier, bearing your Excellency's despatches of
the 20th of May (Ist June), arrived here on the 2(ith (7th)
of the same month.

" We awaited his arrival with the greatest impatience,
as at the approach of the moment when the session of Par-
liament was to close, the English Ministry manifested a
daily increasing desire to know if the protocol of the 21st
of April would obtain the approbation of the Emperor, and
if his Imperial Majesty would consent to modify the ex-
tension which Rear-Admiral Ricord has just given to the
blockade of the Dardanelles.

'These two circumstances could not but materially in-
fluence the speech at the close of the session ; and Lord
Aberdeen, urged by the Duke of Wellington, bad fre-
quently insisted in his confidential interviews, both with
ourselves and with the Charge d'Affaires of France, on the
necessity of a protocol which should emancipate the British
Government from the embarrassments occasioned to it by
the blockades of the coasts of Roumelia. Although he had
always expressed himself on this subject with great modera-
tion, although M. de Roth had received a positive order to
rePire'sent;to him that thejCabinet of the TuileriekoUside4
any new protoCol entirely useless ;gad Witt on our side deve-
loping the same opinion we had proved to him that, before the
return of our courier it would be impossible to hold a positive
language on a matter of so delicate a nature, we had every
reason to think that there might be great inconvenience in
prolonging these delays too far ; and that the Ministry,
ignorant whether it ought to publish our blockades, and
to render them binding on all the subjects of his Britannic
Majesty ; or, whether it ought to calm the uneasiness and
jealousy which measures of this kind create here, would not
delay to demand of us precise answers, equally difficult to
give and to receive.

‘: Your Excellency's courier has put an end to this un-
pleasant alternative ; and we have applied ourselves, with-
out loss of time to fulfil the orders which he brought us.
" We could not conceal from ourselves that the idea of
the blockade of Enos would bring on some discussion with
the Cabinet of London ; that it would not correspond with
their hopes; that the public press would seize the oppor-
tunity to excite against us anew the passionate sentiments
which animate the British nation, the moment any question
arises of sea and commerce : and that this discussion might
re-awaken the dormant question, of the exercise of our
belligerent rights in the Archipelago ; nevertheless, in order
not to make any concessions without an evident necessity,
and above all, with a view to contribute as much as pos-
sible to the realization of the wishes of his Imperial Majesty,
we resolved to insist on the blockade of Enos, to develope
the motives which told in its favour, and not to make use
of our power to cede this point, until the moment when
such a decision would become indispensable, in order to pre-
vent interests of a higher order from being compromised.
" (We omit the relation of various interviews with Lord
Aberdeen and the Duke of Wellington, but give a few
extracts from the arguments used by the Russian Plenipo-
tentiaries).
" We represented to Lord Aberdeen that on the one
hand, the Gulf of Enos joined that of Saros ; and that it
' was as necessary to blockade the former as the latter, in
order to impede the provisioning of Constantinople ; that,
on the other hand, Adrianople equally drew its supplies
from the Gulf of Enos, and that we must consider it as
essential never to allow any supplies to reach the 'army en-
camped in the environs of 'Eke latter city. That thus this
. • operation offered us a double Inivantage. conse-
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