Star.
London, England, 1807-04-07 00:00:00

STATE PAPER.

MANIFESTO OF THE PORTE AGAINST RUSSIA.
" From the remota periods, human fociety has
been indebted for the fecurity and tranquillity it has
enjoyed to the confcientious obfervance difplayed by
nations of their treaties and conventions, and thofe

Powers who have ailed contrary to this confcientinus
adherence, conßantly bring diforder and confufion
into the harmony of the whole. Every lawful So-
vereign is at liberty, when he pleafes, to break with
another Power, but not before he has confidered with
the utmoß attention the Reps which ought to he taken
in fimilar circumflances. The Ruffian Court has
long ufurped a fuperiority in order to opprefs the
neighbouring Powers, and all her endeavours have
been directed to break through her treaties. Her
avarice, the perfidy with which the conaantly inter-
rupts the peace of nations, and her hoßile dehgns
again(! the Ottoman Empire, are nniverfally known.
The Court of St. Peterthurgh has always con-
felled the value of that friendly difpofition which the
Porte has on all occafions evinced ; and yet the has
returned this kindnefs with the bare( ingratitude.—
Among other inflances it may be mentioned, that
by the Treaty of t 188 cf the Hegira, Ruffia had no
jurifdielion over the Crimea, yet has the reforted to
every poffible artifice to ufurp polleflion 'of that Pro.
wince, and at length, in the time of Peace, the
marched a numerous army, and inveßed herfelf with
the full fovereignty of the province.
6‘ Into the political and civil occurrences in Geor-
gia, which was under the fovereignty of the Ot-
toman Sceptre, the Ruffian Court has for a long
time obtruded herfelf by a thoufand intrigues, and
has at la!' inveßed herfelf with the fovereign autho-
tit), of that province alit', without the (mallet( pre-
tenfions.
" The confuls who were Rationed in the Turkifh
cities, have been in the praCtice of feducing the fub-
id(' of the Porte from their allegiance. By this
condo& they have abufed the freedom of Navigation,
which was permitted them for the put pv.fe of trading
only, and they have embarked a great number of
Turkifh fubjeas, in Ruffian vefiels, and fent them off
for Ruffia.
There ConfUls alf,) gave patents to the Turk:fh
fubjeCts, and flags to the (hips of the Elands in the
Archipelago, being cities of the Ottoman Empire ;
and thus attempted in a moll unlawful manner to
potret; themfelves of iminenfe numbers of Turkith
vetfels and fubjeas.
" It was to be hoped,that as friendthip was again
teßored, by a Treaty of Alliance between Ruffia and
the Sublime Porte, the former would abtlain from
her perfidious coodua : on the contrary, the con=
trived, out of this new league, a Rill more daring me-
thod of difplaying her malignant defigns. With the
vain glorious idea of exciting a general infurreetion,
in order to fpread domeflic diflurbances, even in the
cities of her Allies, the reduced the fubjeas of Strvia
from their allegiance ; and as the furnithed them with
money and ammunition, the was in fart their fuppert
and leader.
" Upon a tingle occafion only, the Ruffians had
been permitted to tranfmit provifinns to their troops
at Tiflis; the Sublime Porte, out of refpeer to their
Allies, delayed not a moment in doing the requisite
firman. Scarcely had the Ruffians received this
permit ion, when they embarked upon the Phafis nu-
merous bodies of troops, with cannon, and other
implements of war, by means of which they feized
upon the Cattle of Anacava, and as they have now
fortified it, they hare !hewn plainly their bale deigns.
'When the Porte, with great propriety, requetied of
the Ruffian Minifler at Contlantinople, that thefe pro.
ceedings thould be detifled from, an evafive anfwer
was always returned, a d n, difpotition whatever was
(hewn to make a becoming reparati rn.
" The conduit of the Court of Rut% feems al-
ways to have been aEluated by a 11.44 totally con•
trary to the terms on which the had al ie ! herfelf to
the Porte. B .th empires had agreed, that Ruffs
bad no fuperior controul over the Republic of the
Seven Iflands, which had acknowledged the love.
reignty of the Sublime P a te. Each Power had given
that Republic a gar trantee. When circumllances
required tionps to be marched into thefe territories,
both the Allied Powers were to furnith them jointly,
and the coottitotioa of the Republic was fully eßa-
blilbed, acknowledged, and approved of by both
Powers. Nora it handing this conventi, al, the Ruffian
Court feta as many troops as they pleated to thefe
Iflatvls; a c.arttitotion was framed at St. Pett rfbnrgh;
and tranfroitted to this Republic, the OirICCS In which
were tilled up by Ituffia, as if it were a country which
lawfully belonged to her. Betides all this, thefe
illands were made a receptacle for the Turkifh fish-
jeer, fr,rn Ramelia, who were either fecretly or pub-
licly feduced from their allegiance ; and proteCtion
been thub held out u' traitors of every defct
fed with thr,. there was no into igtie which
relented to againil the Miniflers or the Sub-
ate in there ifland; and particularly again(
:ellency Ali Pacha of Janina.
se Sublime Porte had refolved to r bferve the
.nfcientious neutrality towards the Powers of
now at oar ; and the Ruffian Court, which
d none of the rules of neutrality, and alto
to &limy that of the Porte, abufed the pia-
alloo ed her of fending her (hips through the
Sea for the ale of the Seven Iflands alone.
Ruffians, by means of their emilToies, fecrerly
!d troops in Albania, and tranimitted them,
rans of the above privilege of navigation, to
without the knowledge of the Porte.
feemed "determined to diflurb the peace
Wad, when the excited, by means of her emit
an ik.7arrettion at Montenegro, when the
ad troops into the very heart of the Todd&
1, and committed a variety of other a& tend.
provoke

" With the fame views, Roffia publithed patents poffibility of placing any confidence in her muft be
in the provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia, and ap• allowed by ill nations who are guided by lenity and
propriated to herfelf inhabitants without number, candour.
under various pretended tides. She treated both 66 Although the above motives for going to war
thefe provinces as if they were her own poffeffions : are the refult of tranfa&ions openly acknowledged by
her confuls took a (hare in their adminittration : . the whole world, and it may not be thought necef-
fhe petered with conflant complaints and hone de• i fary to make any declaration on the fubjeft ; yet, in
monarations the Hofpodars who had been named by order to conform to diplomatic etiquette, the prefent
[ the Porte, and who did not fulfil her wishes, and 1 Manifetto is hereby communicated to all the Foreign
openly proteSed all Inch as teftified an adherence to Minifters at Conflantinople, in order that they may
Ruffia ; fo that the nomination by the Porte of the tranfmit it to their refpeftive Courts.
Hofpodars of theft two provinces became an dale& " Given at Conitantinopla, the asth of the month chevoal,
. . in the year of Hegira tact--(sth January 184)."
of derition.
44 Although every item of this condo& of Rata
might he a junifiable ground for a declaration of
war, yet the Sublime Poi to always evinced the utmoff
patience, not becanfe (he thought herfelf weak or
incapable. but becaufe ate wiffied to condo& herfelf
in the molt friendly manner in refpeft to the fubje&s
of both empires, and was anxious to avoid the (bed.
dine, of human blood. We (hall here give an example
of this.
44 The Sublime Porte lately difmifTed the two
Hofrdars of Moldavia and Wallachia, in conk-
quence of canting cir cumfiaaces. The Ruffian Go-
-1 vernment took offence that they were not confulted,
and prefumed to oppofe this arr..ngement. Any
longer indulgence to the traitorous Hofpodar of Wal-
lachia, whlie perfidy had been ft.fficiently evinced
on many occafions, vinuld have been highly deiti-
mental to the Porte, and if Ruffia had been apprifcd
of his intended difmiffal, the intelligence would have
reached that Hofpodar, which would have ocea-
finned a great deal of confulion ; on which account
Raffia was not informed until he was aftually dif-
miffed. Some time afterwards, the Ruffian Mini-
(ter at Conffantinople made a requifition to the
Porte on behalf of his Government, that thefe Hot
podars timid be reflored, and he was commanded,
in the event of a refufal. to leave Conflantinople
with all his fuite, as he afferted in all his communi-
cations. He afterwards declared that his Govern-
ment did not feize this as a pretext to difplay the
lion& defignr imputed to it ; but added, that the
refforation of the Hofpodars was the tole and true
cask& of his Government ; and that if the Porte con-
, tented to it, all mifunderltandings between the two
Courts would ceafe; and that as he was commanded
to communicate the refult of this negotiation to the
frontiers, he would immediately write on the fubjed.
The Sublime Porte taw from this official declaration,
that the Ruffian Court fought a pretext for declaring
war, and it was obvious frcm her unjutlifiable and
narrow minded arrogance, thather °Nat was to blame
the Porte with the difplay of thole hoffile intentions
which the herfelf cherithed. The Porte contented,
though contrary to its intereft, to rellore the two
Hofpodars, in order that the Ruffian Government
might have no caufc for complaint to the other powers
of Europe.
44 It was for a while believed that Ruffia, afhamed
of her condoe, had defined from all intention of
making war upon the Porte. Two months and a half
thus elaptzd without fufpicions, when, at the very
I, moment that every thing belpoke peace and it iendfhip,
1 Ruffian troops appeared on the Turkith frontier—
while the inhabitants, as well as the Governors of
I Choczim and Bender, conadered themfelves in full
fecurity is confeguerce of the alliance fubaiting be-
tween the two Empires. The Commanders of the
Ruffian troops abufed the confidence they repofed in
them as friends, and after prafliting every fpecies of
artifice, poffeffed themfelves of thefe two fortreffes,
, contrary to the law of nations, as refpefted by every
I civilized Power.
" The Sublime P.,rte which had not been apprized
of tLis invafinn, required a declaration on the fubje&
from the Ruffian Nlininer at Constantinople: the latter
repeatedly declared that he had written to his Court
of the refforation of the Hofpodars, as well as that
of the Ruffian Confab, on the Dniener, by virtue of
the difpatches he had received on thefe fubje&s ; and
that the recent advance of thole troops was no con-
fequence of the above proceedings; fo far as he was`
concerned himfelf, he knew of no ground for any
rupture, and his Court had made no communication
to him on the fubjeft. As the Sublime Porte received
the intelligence quite unexpe.ftedly of the honilities
of the Ruffians, by their occupation of the above
fortreffes, and the ufurpation of the Turkith cities,
1 they might have removed the Ruffian Minifter im-
mediately from the capital ; and although it would
have been but fair to refort to ufurpation againft
ufurpation, yet the Sublime Porte, which had always
evinced fo much lenity, was unwilling that indivi-
duals fhould fuller from the inconveniences of war ;
and therefore allowed the Ruffian Minifter a certain
time in order to obtain from his Court a declaration
on the fubje& of thefe proceedings. The Ottoman
Porte arced in this manner with the view of giving
the Court of Raffia an opportunity of aging with
[reining continency in the eyes of other Powers, and
thinking the would, for (hame fake, at leaff refpe& the
laws of nations.
4; But after waiting 3o days from the commence-
ment of 'lnfinities, no anfwer was obtained from the
Ruffian Minifter, except affurances that he had re•
caved no declaration from his Court on the fubjeft ;
and as the patience of the Porte was nearly exhauit•
ed, it would have been dangerous and detrimental to
have granted any farther delay. On the other hand,
General Michelfon had fent inflammatory Proclama-
tions to the Judges and Governors of Romelia, in
order to (educe the Muffulmen, and to tow difcord
in the cities of t"e Empire.
" To conclude, the Ungraceful condo& of Ruffia
to the Ottoman Court is without example, and will
never be imitated perhaps by any other power. As
the hoililities of the Ruffians have now openly cons-
rnencett, every Isluffulman i., hound, by his religion,
and the law of nations, to take vengeance on thefe
per fidious enemies, againfl whom it has become ne-
ceffary folemnly to declare war. The Sublime Porte
places its whole confidence on the Almighty and
avenging Goy; and in order to check the career of.
the enemy, it has become neceffary to make exertions
both by lea and land, to organize all our forces, and
to a& with energy and vigour. The Sublime Porte
has therefore declared war, becanfe its extraordinary'
lenity has only tended to increafe the arrogance and
tiforpations of Rtiffia.
44 As the Sublime Porte has done every thing to
conciliate, the Ruffian Court will be anfwerable for
the blood which mutt be thee, and the miferies which
mutt befal mankind, and until the latter Conti is
taught to telped her unties and alliances, the im-

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, APRIL 7.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

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PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
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Long. Ann. t7jl 7.16 Codas for ace. 64
India Bonds, 31. 45. pr.

Yetterday the Dividends to
Bank ; and this day payments I.

Bankers began paying at the
made to the Polk at large.

Dutch Papers to the lit inilant arrived yeflerday
evening, but they bring nothing of importance. It
is reported that private accounts have been received
from Rotterdam, dated two days later than the above
journals, which Hate, that on the preceding day

(Thurfday laft), an exprefs had arrived there, with
an account of a great battle having been fought on
the 23d of March, in which the French were com-
pletely vidorious, and poffefted themfelves of Konigf-
burg. That the two armies could not remain long
in their refpeetive fituations without coming to battle,
we have repeatedly dated ; but we cannot lightly
credit reports refpeiting an event of fuch moment,
without any pofitive accounts on the fubjed being
received. A Hague paper of Wednefday laft, of
which we have fern a copy, brings accounts from
Berlin to the 27th, in which no mention is made of
any fuch battle. To this we add, that in an Edin-
burgh paper received this morning, there is ati
extraB of a letter from Palau, received by a Gentle-
man in Aberdeen, dated the 26th ult. three days later
than the date of the reported battle, which takes no
notice of any fuch event. The writer Pays—" lam
happy to inform you, that the enemy are every where
defeated. They are upon the retreat, and purfued
by the Ruffian army. This fortunate event fecures
our communica ion with Britain, whence chips may
now come in all fafety."
Another report of a nature direltly the reverfe of
the above is alfo in circulation, that the left wing of
the French army in Poland was defeated by the
Ruffians on the atth ult.—Such an event, however,
could hardly have taken place at that date, without
the particulars having been dated in Come way or
other in the journals already received.
We wait with much anxiety the receipt of regular
acounts from tte theatre of war; events of great
magnitude may be expeEted fpeedily ; for Naro,.som
would hardly have fent to Italy for MASSENA, if
he had had any thoughts of allually refinquithing
his views on Poland, without narking another
great effort to retrieve his aff,irs in that quarter.
—The next battle will iirohably lie a mpft bloody
one. NAPOLEON Milt out flank and &teat the left
wing of the Ruffian army, or entirely fail in his
views. BEKNIGSEN knows this, and of courfe is pre-
pared Niche onfet ; but he has an arduous talk to
perform, as he mull, at ,he fame time, provide for
the relief of Dantzic. We have •reafon, however, to
believe that by this time lie•has received confiderable
reinforcements ; and the. difplay he has already given
of military (kill and prowefs, affords ftrong grounds
to hope that he will foil his enemy in the objet he
has in view.
A veffel from the coalt of France, which left
Cherburgh on Friday lad, brings an account of Come
difturbances having broken out in the neighbourhood
of that town, in confequence of an extraordinary
levy of confcripts, which bad been made of boys,
one year younger than any aho had yet been de-
manded for the army. So determined was the oppo•
fition of the inhabitants to this oppreffive meafure,
that it was neceffarily given up. Throughout the
whole of the data of La Vendee no levy has been
lately enforced.

The Emperor ALKICANDER, accompanied by his'
brother the Grand Duke Con rrserrtas, has fet off
from Saint Peterfburgh to join the Armies, and of
courfe, we prefume, to take the command into his
own hands. _ _

Saturday evening, after the Cabinet Council, Mr.
JAcxsoN, the extraordinary Mellinger, was fent off
with difpatches to Lord Hurc Him SON.
•

A Cabinet Council will be held to.morrow, a cir-
cular letter having been fent to all the Members of
the New Cabinet, defiring their attendance.
Yeflerday the Duke of RICHMOND and Lord
Hewcassuav tranfafted bufinefs with the Duke of
You at hib Office.

The Right Honourable MAURICE FITZGERALD,
commonly called the Knight of Kerry, has refigned
his fituation as one of the Lords of the 16111T:calory.

Advices were yellerday received at the Admiralty,
from Admirals DOUGLAS, HOLLowAY, and RussEL,
but they did not contain any thing of importance.
Captain WHITE, of Dencaller, is appointed the
Commiflioner of the Dock yard at Antigua, in the
room of Commitlioner 14Krf who rcfigns in coaer
queue of ill health.

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