Star.
London, England, 1823-10-23 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKSY.

NOTE PROM COINT NESSZLRODE, SECRETARY OP STATE
TO HIS MAJESTY CIP ALL THE RUSSIAS, TO LORD
STRANGTORD, AMBASSADOR FROM DORT • BRITAIN;
DATED ST. PETERSBORGH, MAY (7)'19, 1823.

" My LORD—The letter which your Excellency, ad-
dressed to me, dated the 28th of February, as well as
the Note annexed thereto from the Reis Effendi, have
been in my possession for some few days. These docu-
ments I submitted, without loss of time, to the consi-
deration of the Emperor. To you, my Lord, his Ma-
jesty has charged me to convey the assurance that he
duly appreciates the first result of your efforts. His
sentiments are not unknown to you, and you are not
ignorant that peace will be always the object of his
most anxious wishes. The present communication from'
the Reis Effendi bears an amicable character, and proves'
that the Forte is desirous of entering into friendly rela-.
tions with Russia. In that view, therefore,. ,the cons.%
munication cannot be otherwise than satisfactory to his
Majesty ; id othei respects, too, it possesses no ordiiiary
importance. For the. first time, the language of the
Ottoman Minister breathes a spirit of reconciliation.
The sentiments of the Emperor have been appreciated,
and a pit:igt.. is given that existing treaties shall be ful-
filled. Thus, one of the formalities is observed.

~ When I compare this letter of the Reis Effendi with
some documents of an anterior date, which have ema-
nated from the Cabinet of Constantinople; of iefirring
to the minutes, of conferences which took place before
your departure for Vienna, it is impossible not to
see that the policy of the Divan has undergone an
amelioration. We readily. recognise the progrest which
you have made, the confidence which you have in-
spired, and the Emperor' receives with utilfaction the
present events as a pledge-of your •ultioseteaucoess.4—
This shadow of amelioration the Emperor has. availed
himself-of. or this your Excellent, wails convinced
by the inclosed answer, which I have,transasittad to the.
Ottoman Minister. by the Emperor's orders: Permit..
me, my Lord, to explain to you the true object of this:
reply, and to desrelope the motives of it. You cannot,
•surely, pretend urbe.ignoraitt of everything that should
Make us wish for' the letterof. the Reis Effendi. You
are too just and tomenlighterad not so feei'this. Of the
three conditions sent byrthe liwiperor towardathe re-
establishment of the si iploamtic, reiations with the forte,
414 . which, are alsP, ex pAisted .le-lhe gIiPPIP 9I the SOP-
*dotes at Verona, . Won't-IV 3,0,11111410 r Pf . the. &Ss I
irk ow has been felaied4 tug opiztbeikwote6tigiem
nosies• of fproudimkt,r. bLos woo W. 3 no 1:-.,:olds (. 1
• ii It is-true that the commuaieatigkallitlo4.l

" If that •Boyar is innocent, as we must suppose he is
until the contrary is proved, the conduct of the Pacha
appears, in the eyes of the Emperor, a manifest Viola;
Lion of all the privileges enjoyed by the Principalities.
If lie be guilty, the carrying him away is no less a via?
lation of the Conntions, which insure to the Molda-
vians and Wallachians the right of being tried by their
own tribunals. Besides, Villera had a right to partake
Of the benefits of thegeneral amnesty proclaimed by the
Turkish Government, or it will never be possible to put
faith in the promises of that Government. •
-44 You ought to know already, my Lord, .the point of
view in which she Court of Austria has considered this
deplorable act of violence,
.as well as the demand of a
just satisfaction which the Internuncio had orders tu
make from the Porte. It belongs not to Rugua, in the
present state of its discUssions with the Divan, to repeat
these demands ; but I leave to the judgment of your
Excellency to decide, if, whilst the Ottoman Minister
declines to take, with regard to-Villera; the measures
pointed out •by Prince Metternich, in his. dispatch to
Baron Ottinfels, dated the 20th of April, the return of
out agents into the Principalities can take place? Is it
that 1 Russian agent could tolerate such violence's, or
be simply a spectator of them ? • • • .
" I now pass to another circumstance which hai ex-
cited in a livery manner the attention of -the Emperor
A few days after the receipt of your letter, there was
dispatched to me from Odessa the new Finnan for the
Tutkish Commercial Marine; containing sixth regule-
tions.as it became necessary for the ships and merchants
of that natioas-of Europe to be governed by in all the'
ports pt the Levant.; To ..convey to,Tou, my Lord, a
just idea of the consequences with %WO thispecree
thiratened the commerce of iheßlaCi Sea, 7, hiye only
to refer you to the following Obseieithini WiliaMette
made its the margin of the rirnian, and Wllleirshevt, in
the mist evident, matxnerrthat the-regiuladems •in Ties-
don•wotild,plainge that trade into,*conipiftn inaction‘
Finnan grants to4the,ifull extent the, pi iviie •.
Of this cOMITIQrCe to the 1 utkish Hag only, whereas 'at
this dif there is no longer a Turkish navy. At deprives
iliii•opean ships 'of the facility of iiiterchangiq Edney
cittgeed in the portr of(the Levant; it subjects them t 6
charges and difficulties unknown before, and finally
shuts up slat passage,* ,the Bosphorus to,Spanish, Pon:
tugnesek qmolitaqmpitiiish, and Sardinian vessels,
"j pray ou. now, Ty Lord, to consider that vessels
under' the Russian flag thimCelves arc every day
ex-
pgsed to•fii‘rsiteit and 'detained,' and under such Cir-
CUllistanCes'ttSlVlliitlia admit' that Russia could never
nosint to thitte inersiaires. For two Nears the Emperor.
mokieg wqriftcy .flit the general sood, but 41
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cimin, ,to , ceege eecessatre the; prolonzed'spiqpnACtpe
Teifiiikxspops in Moldavia, an 4 w.anfolta,r,t3pst Abair
losence must necestatily produce rs4,ctinns and di:-
pricier-that it I. in contravention of existing, treaties,
and tbatabe preponderance would not he long. doubtful
fietwqep;,the Hotpedars placed Solely at the hen 4 of the
Civil-ildministration and.the• Pachas commanding the
'militnry fOree. :I:aisitein.from all 'further ;remark en
such a state or : thtngs. Your 'Eicellestcy is.lttrant of
it, add fully settsible of what consequence it ,ii, that
It ihoidd cee4 t.- • -• • - . .
-„ .infine,..sny.iprtf,_tbe Protocol of Verona; which
explains the conditions upon which: the _Emperor of
Russia accedes to the re•establishment of diplomatic re-
lations with the Ottoman Government, determines also
an alternative with regard.to the affairs Of Greece.
" We respect the .motives which have prevailed
with you to Withhold from the Divan this part of the
demands of his Jniperial Majesty, but neuerthelest they
do not appear test este:aidl in the eyes of thi:Esoperor.
" Humanity itself dictates her deniadds: existing
treaties sanction them, since they recognise in his Im-
perial Majesty a right of protection isi favour of the
Greek religion throughodt the whole of the 'Turkish em-
pire. The last instructions which your Excellency has
received from the Cabinet of his Britannic' Majesty 1,
leave us no doubt as to the Means which are at yenta's-
posal, my Lord, to attain the object of our tvishes
These are the reasons why a clear explanation with the
Porte appeased more natural, ;and we consider .it frost
the beginning as an indispensable condition, prelimi-
nary to a'complete and total reconciliation. t )
" I have not made mention, either in my letter to the
Reis.Effendi or in that which I had the honour to:art.
dress to you, of the Note in which the Turkish Minis*r
communicates to the Allied Powers the-cohtents of th,,
letter which he addressed to me. The ordiearerule.4
the Emperor's conduct- will lbeetbily fecogniied intt*
silence which his Imperial Majftty mainrains tinvarda
the Divan on the subject of the said Note, so little satin-
factory, in itself, and which.is consistent with its aim.
" iltit On.authentic act of so much importance could
not fairte,duract the most especial attention, of his Ma-
jesty, and to fix the course which Russia would obierei
with regard to the Porte.• The more the Emperor ste‘
sired peace, the more it was, incumbent upon .hint tit
follow the measures by which peace could•bebbtainedi
doubtless it would have been agreeable to his Majefee
to concur in the *deice of your Excellency, and to send
a Charge d'Affaires to Constantinople ; but his Majesty
was, above all, bound to take into consideration tlie*Po.
sition in which his agent would have found hinitelf,
when he should have entered the Turkish capitol.
" If he had kept silence respecting the ceremonial
above alluded to, and, especially, respeetieg; what raw;
cents the Principalities, commercial affairs, those' tit
Greece, and the whole past add present Condlict Ofifig
Turkish Minister, it would have had theair tikiegiet*;
lug the rights and interests of Russia; but bodge pten•
tested against the conduct towards Villers, itgaidit.the
useless presence of the Turkish croopi in the priipall-
ties, and against the Finnan-relative-to narigatiotv'be
would then have exposed himself .to the dine of cc:
casioning, in a few days, a calamitous rupture. •
" The resolutions which his Majesty has count tt'
have had for object to avoid both these dangers; sod
are of a nature to make known the portion ofthePorte'#.
document which•isosatisfactory: There sesolutio*,'
which are entirely conformable to the viewiref hisAlliK
present to your Excellency the most .powerful motives
for opening negotiations, seeing that you find. yourself
enabled to convince the Turkith Goverdinent hew.
pacific the disposition of Rtitsia 'is' and
st...iliiiit*
Porte that, when it will act With frantinitii;'itdd• 1,
its actions are' in -Consonance • withits diehttitmea this.
diplomatic relations between the two Etnpitelt'etill .nt=j•
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ceive a happy issue. •
" The Emperor. is plsistiled .
to thiek'dht
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tions'emitained in. this lettit'brill enableseit, ttly''Petrik.
M enter tiptin 41sittipeitsittedffiir. 'kit horthylif" ,
fonl. it iet'erests. Europe, and **ill 'obeiiii 'fel' JO/ 2
lionont 'Of having
Powers *hitt ' are the frikddiof pear& '! - • 11‘',. 1 .
. .' • : • •4 I hive the finials to Vi, ke.: (I '' • I,coa`i. .
i . . : : (Signed), 1. ' ; 641/81,IRSRELRODIC.";2
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' •f• We' may be permitted to reirend the'reader of the numerausj
&toile whitts we have given of the dreadful statO of Moldavia ,and., 1
Wellethia, our constant,ddrerente "with thi.lPurcomaa Joann* on
this point, muttoq . various proposals to pat ,an end to thieostine,gt,
things, by the fortiation of A
.State equallyintlependent of tj yilitioi..!
Russia, and Austria, in those.litie countries of the Lower IX •
This State avoid eerie as i Debut' vied betlisten these thneeltht.e,
Ores, And opening the Danube to commend, viould pronsousiluai.
very 'inviter manner the civilization of that past of Eassessirieriaeyid
mote of the Editur,of the Jourael.des Dehts. • ' • ' .t it.ll
I This explaidi (tie rfewi which we pilbriebA si.x wee. age; dr
airimarkable change in the polii7 'of the 'Cabinet, Aith AO-'
garei co Gteeoe.. Unfoitanitely, the .subsegaiitt ;what elesi hart.
re...uspeq that On this Points no. ot, Wile orM; POW n.
~ fhe,Mmlisli Cabinctio neither Arm enough, nor . , igifita
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