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leged deficit of two millions, which 1[ calls a discovery
made by the\Minister of Finance,and denies its existence.
FROM Tilt HAMM'S be PRANCE, MARCH 13.
11 . PARIS, MARCH 12.
The Austrian Observer of 3d March contains the fol-
lowing remarks on the document which has beenfor
vme time known in Europe by the title of " Manifesto
of the Ottoman Porte:"
" Vie Journals linve givenio the European public.
*Oder the form' of a formal political document, a F,rman
~eyed by thE.Porte to the Ayans (chiefs of districts)
of the several o°,4w-es, on their departute from the
capital. The Moititeur has even printed a pretended
translation of it, under the astonishing title of Mani.
'redo of the Ottoman Porte:: nay, has even accompanied
it with observations which give it the character of a
.atinifesto of war.
"'To rectify the ideas entertained of a rhapsody
which, in the forth in which it circulates in Europe,
• does not merit the title of an authentic act, still less of a
diplomatic document, we think it proper to make the
following remarks:
" 1. The Farman has neither been printed in Turkey,
nor (as falsely alleged) been read, in the mosques, but
delivered to the Ayans separately, in so many different
copeti, and even with considerable variations. This
circumstance suffices to explain why, among the versions
circulated in Europe, no two agree together.
" 2. The Porte has not recognised any of these ver-
sions as authentic ; nay, the'Reis Effendi has declared
a great number of passages which have been quoted to
him in conversation to be either lofted or falsified. All
the indications and inferences w. European Corn.
mentators have thought fit to draw horn these passages
are therefore either inadmissible, or at the least ex—
tremely precipitate.
"S. Fir from considering this Firtisaa as a Manifesto,
the Turkish Ministers have solemnly protested against
such an interpretation. According to the declaration
which they have made on the subject to the different
' Foreign Legations, their Government had no other
object than to make known, in case of a defensive war
(for the Porte would never act on the offensive) to the
inhabitants of the remote provinces, the possibility of
measures of defence, and the Reis Effendi has uttered
. severe reprotches on the improper circulation in foreign
countries of instructions which were solely adapted
to internal relations between the Government and its
subjects, whichlinstructions were in their nature secret,
• arid by no means diplomatic."
We hear from Sr. Petersburgh that the Emperor of
.Russia, having considered as a declaration of War
against him the Manifesto published on the '2oth of De-
cember last by the Ottoman Porte, has sent to his
Army of the Sou,h the orders to pass the Pruth on the
12th of April, and to enter the Principalities of Walla-
chia and Moldavia.
We have strong reasons for believing Chet his inten-
tioa in adopting immediately this measure, which he
bad proposed to -his allies, is not to separate his cause
from theirs. _ _ _

The greater part of this Paper is filled with the
French Budget.
The expected deficit in the French Revenue for the
year is 200,000,000 of francs (8,000,000 sterling),
which is to be provided for by an issue of bons royaux.
DECLARATION
ADDRESS= Er TM ECOSERNMENT OF GREECE TO THE EUILOPIAN POWERS.
LOIN t, Dsc.3o.
The Commission of the National Assembly has the
honour to submit to the High Powers some observations
upon the limits which the Treaty of the 6th of Jely
may render necessary with respect to Greece.
. The true line of demarcation which nature seems to
have formed expressly to separate for ever the North of
Greece from the adjoining countries, and which has
constantly triumphed over political and military events
in all ages, is traced on one side by the northern moms
tains of Thessaly, and on the other by the course of the
. river Anus or Vojussa and the mountains that crown it.
The first part of this line begins in the environs of Hatrin
to pass by Savia Gretirura, following at th'e same time
the course of the Haleacmon at the highest elevation of
Pindus; the other would commence at the district of
Canitsa, to descend to Vehemera. This second part is
called by some geographers the defiles of Pyrrhus. It
Was these defiles that the Roman General Flaminius,
after having reduced Macedonia, vainly attempted to
pass, and alter long and useless efforts was forced to
• write to Rome that the inhabitants clf Upper Epirus mere
a savage and barbarous people, who little des•rved tie
protection f the Senate: and that it was necessary to
draw a military cordon on their (cooties% to check their
invasions on neighbouring essentiiese We hire,: just
said, that it is nature he self wtp strelirjo haveaepa-
rated bj these frontiers Greece irate the neighbouring
fruntiele. In fact, Lower Epirus, or Eigtue eotisisting
of Thesprotia and Molossida, is still governed py the
Fopulatton of that nation, and the towns of Prevesa,
Asta, Janiaa, Paramythea, recall the acts of Nienpolis,
Angos, Amphilocheum, Kattenotum, Sec. however
great the tendency of the Greeks in their prosperity to
extend their colonies, which they pushed into ;oily,
Gibraltar, and the co.is.s of the Euxine, they were never
ab:e to euahlish themselves beyond the banks of the
Aous or Vojussa.
On the other hand, numerous. irruptions made in the
middle ages by various conquering nations, and 4spe-
eially by the slaves, and by the Albanians in Epirus, did
not succeed in destroying the Greek race, its language,
add that spirit which is natural to it ; that race, on toe
contrary, remained essentially pridominitting, so-power-,
fully did its local connections prevail over the effects of I
time and the force of events.
As much may be said for the natural frontier which
separates Macedonia from Thessaly. Tt,e first of those
provinces is peopled, in a peat measure, by Mirous or
13ulgarians, who have been established teere for many
centuries, while we do not find those heterogeneous ele-
ments in Thessaly, which has been enabled, from its
geograptlicel position, to preserve itself nude entire
through successive ages.
It will not be useless to remark, en passant, that even
the Turks, according to their national prejudices, consi-
dered all the countries on this side of the Nardar as less
Mosselmen, and attach less valet to them than to the
other parts or states which form the Ottoman Empire.
In fact, the Albanians and other Mahometans there
established, present a strange difference in their lan-
guage and ideas. It appears clearly that this line of
lrontier, or rather this separation, formed iu ancient
times the true limit of Greece, properly so called, as it
forms at the present day that of New Greece. It avoids,
at the same time, by its regular direction, the zigzag.r,
if they sought not to follow it, and which, among other
inconveniences, would have that of too greatly extend-
ing its limits.
It may be objected that it embraces some small points
where the population has remained the tranquil specta•
tors of events, but there are other localities, such as
Naourta, the Peninsulas, Capaddra, Modena, Choi ia.
fee. which have taken an active part in the war,
and are nct completwoded in it. The necessity of
this arrondissement justifies and even &mar ds their
beneficial measures. '1 he plea of necessity would find