The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-22 00:00:00

.11.4N1FESTO OF THE GRAND SEIGNOR.

The 3mairisus OUerrer of the 7th of September
contains the following important docanient:—

To the Illustrious Viziers, the Honourable liirimi-
ranes. the Estimable Mollas, Judges, Sult-Judges,
Mutteselins, Wayvodes, and Ayans, to the other lla-
iriatratrs sal lislara of thfrearatty, tti *et at is art
the other lien in authority throughout all Anatolia,

is addressed the following Order:--
" It is evident that all the rules and political dispo-
sitions, which from ancient times have been observed
in my Sublime Empire, are founded upon the noble
commandment of that pure law, whose solidity and du-
ration are guaranteed by Goo, even until the day of the
resurrection ; it is, therefore, that it has never been per-
mitted at any time, either to the Ministers of the Em-
pire, nor to the Functionaries of my Sublime Porte, our
to any individual professing the Mahometan lteligion,
to act in contravention of their authority. It is in no
wise less evident that all the ragas (the subjects who
are not Maliometants), who from time immemorial
have, under the dominion and the safeguard of my Sub-
lime Empire, fulfilled the conditions of their vassalage,
have had their properties and their lives respected, and
have themselves been objects of the favour and protec-
tion of my Sublime Porte; but when they have trans-
gressed the bounds of vassalage and the limits of obe-
dience, recourse must be had to the punishment which
has become necessary, and which is further continued
by law.
" The Greek people have been at all times tributary
subjects of my Sublime Porte; mercy and clemency
have been exercised towards them in every particular;
their honour, their properties, and their lives have been
defended, protected,- and secured; they have never ex-
perienced any other treatment than favour and every sort
of kindness, even beyond that which had been promised
in the treaties with the ragas; nevertheless, they had
the audacity to trample under foot the divine mercies
of which they have been the objects, to pursue the paths
of ingratitude, and with their characteristic perfidy to
maintain a perverse and traitorous conduct, opposed at
once to their allegiance and to good faith.
" If in some places the Greeks have succeeded in rising
against my sublime Government, to which they are sub-
jects, and which treats them with so much lenity, my
great empire continues (thanks be given to the Almighty)
to be the empire of Mahomet. and my people the people
of Ahmed. By the grace, and with the assistance of
God, the defender of onr faith and of our people, as
well as by the blessings of the spiritual help of our legis.
lator and Sublime Prophet, my Sublime Porte has been
informed of the insurrection at the very moment of its
breaking oat. It has therefore, without delay, adopted
proper measures, and caused at various times paternal
exhortations and instructions to be addressed to the in-
dividuals of every rank of the said Greek nation, as well
by the proper authorities appointed for that special pur-
pose, as also through the Patriarch. It has exhorted
them to continue in the way of fidelity and loyalty, and-
within the limits of sabn.ission and obedience, and it
has also fully acquitted itself of all the duties of mercy
and clemency ; on the other hand it has inquired into
the conduct of those who, taking a share in the revolt,
have rejected every sentiment of repentance, and after a
previous conviction it has indicted upon them the neces-
sary punishment.
" Bat they have sot appreciated tt clemency and
mercy which have been evinced towards them, and they
have not listened to the counsels and exhortations which
have been addressed to them. Their pride and their re-
volt making en the contrary every day further progress,
my Sublime Porte considered only of the means of main-
taining the order and security of the State, and of re-
storing the trasquillitg of its inhabitaaes. Soperior Or-
den have in consequence hoes transmitted into my well.
defendyd provinces, hearing the Roger, in victim, of a
Sublinie Fetwa width proceels !rpm the brilliant law,