Star.
London, England, 1828-02-25 00:00:00

THE TURKISH MANIFESTO.

FROM THZ MONITEUR, PER; tr.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. IL
MANIFESTO OF THE OTTOMAN PORTZ.
Even the least informed are aware, that all Mutlel-
men naturally bate the Infidels, and that the Infidels
on their side are the enemies of Musselinen ; that Rus-
sia above all has a particular hatred 'of Islamism, and
that she is thechief enemc of the Sublime Porte.- For
fifty or sixty years anxious (Mouse) to put. into execra-
tion her guilty projects against the Attussulman nation
and the Ottoman empire, she has constantli.prOfitted.
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by the slightest pretext to declare.. War ; the dis Orders
committed by the Janissaries, whoi theisk:Utio, ire
annihilated, favoured her progress 41.4004 degrees
invaded our provinces ; her sirthigareeettlidlef.preten.-
sinus have been ever augmenting: and she has at last
imagined that she has discosrered • an• easy methcd
executing her ancient plan against thC Sublime Porte
by exciting an insurrection-among her co-religionists,
the Greeks. The latterkunited in the name of religion,
made a simultaneous reioltr,-they did•all the evil they
possibly could to the Musthlmen, and, in concert with,
'the Russians, Who, on their 'part, attacked the Ottoman
Empire, conspired the extermination of all the faithful,
and the ruin Of the • Sublime Porte—which may GOD
avert! Thanks to Divine assistance, and to the'
protection of our Holy' Prophet, this perfidious._ plot
was discovered a short time before it was to be put in
execution.

The measures which were taken in the capital, without
loss of time, checked at their commencement .the guilty
projects which seemed so easy of accomplishment; the
sword inflicted justice on a good numbet.of the rebels
of the Morea, of Negropnnt, of Acarriania, of Misso.
longhi, of Athens, and tAher places on theZontinerit.—
The rebels of the More., and of the isles Foyer, dared
at the very beginnipg of tlise tionbles to engage with.
the Mussulmen; they killed-a great number of them:
they reduced their wives acid their children •to bondage,
and, under the name of the " Government of Greece,',
they committed Unheard of excesses. For many years
considerable forces, both military and naval, twefe sent:
against them but our land troops, discouraged -by
want of pay; did not display the 'requisite atdoittiyor
fleet also did not succeed, on account of theassiest air!
organization of the arsenal. The uszscer;being 'Ode
out, other Europeans, as well as the Rus.sians, animated
by ambition, furnished secretly every kiitinikeisistance
to the rebels, either by promises Or by deeds, and thus
became the chief cause of the prolongationasf our trou-
bles. At last, led away by the subtlety and initnna.
tions of Russia, England and France united themselves
to her, and, under the pretext' that their:commerce suf-
fered by the long continuance of those troubles, they
prevailed on the Greeks, by every kind of artifice, en-
tirely to renounce their duties as (rayahs) tributaries.
It was at different times proposed:, to the Sublime
Porte no longer to interfere with the affairs of the Greeks,
but to give them a form of independent Governiisent,
to seperate them altogether from the Mussulmen, to
establish among them a Chief as in Wallachia andiMel-
davia, and to grant them their liberty, on condition of
an annual tribute. Such, nearly, 'were the vain pro-
posals that were made. As it is evident that this pre-
tence of liberty tended to nothing else, which, may
Heaven forbid, than to make fall into the bands of the
infidels the whole of those countries in Europe and Asia
where the Greeks are mixed with the Mussulmea—to
place by degrees the Rayahs in the plAte of the Otto-
mans, and the Ottomans in the place of the Royal's—
to convert, perhaps, our Mosques into' Chutches, quid