Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-04-15
FOREIGN.
FROM ENnLAND-

NE" YORK, April BY the ship Samuel
Robertson, Capt. Choate, we have received Lor-
don paper OF the 18th, and Liverpool of the 9th
February, being one day later than our direct ad
| vices. From the latter we have copied the Tur
kish Manifesto under an impression that our rea.
ders would be anxious TO see and peruse a doc
ument of which they have heretofore heard so
! much. ~
Inc Paris Monlteur states that the receipt of
the Manifesto at Paris, occasioned surprise amon-
all classes. The Gazette de France thinks tbaf
fresh efforts on the part of the Austrian cabinet
and the blockade Of the Dardanelles by the tbre..
european squatrons, (Which would probably he
the consequence might lead the Diyan to be sem
siOie oil the insuihciency oil its efforts against the
live great powers of Europe, Austria and Prussia
cordially joining the three powers who signed
the treaty.
THE TURKISH MANIFESTO.
FROM the 1Rontfeur Of Thursday, February 2I
CoNsTANTINoPL Jan. II.
Even the least informed are aware, that all Mus
suimen naturally hate the Infidels, and that the
infidels on their side are the enemies of Mussul-
men; that Russia, above all, has a particular ha-
tired oil lsianlism and that she is the chief enemy
OF the Sublime Porte. For fifty or sixty yearS~
anxious Oalouse) to put into execution her guilty
projects against the Mussulman nation and the o.
toinan empire, she has constantly proftted by the
slightest preteXt TO declare war; the disorders
committed by the Janissaries, who, thank Cod are
annlhilated, tavoured her progress: she has bv do,
grees invaded our Provinces her arrogance and her
pretensions have been ever augmenting and she
hdS' at idSt Imagined that she has discovered an
easy method OF executing her ancient plan against
the Sublime Porte, by exciting an Instruction a.
nong her co-religionists, the Greeks. The latter
united IN the name of religion, made simultane-
Gus revoit-they did all the evil they possibly
could to the Mussulmen, and, in con ert wit the
Russians, who, on their part, attacked the Ottoman
empire, conspired the determination of all tba
faithful, and the ruin of the Sublime Porte-wbich
may Goi avert! Thanks to Divine assistance, s.
10 thS protection of our Holy Prophet! this parii
dlous plot was discovered short time before IL
was TO be put in execution
The measures which were taken in the can't
tai, without loss OF time, checked at their com
mencement the guilty projects which seemed en-
easy of Accomplishment; the sword Inflicted iustice
on good number of the rebels of the Morea Of
Negropont; OF Arcarnania, Of Missolonghi, of A.
mems, and other places the Continent The
reoeiS OF the Morea, and of the isles Foyer dared,
at the very beginning of these troubles TO engage
with the Mussulmen; they killed great number
OF them; they reduced their wives and their chill
dren TO bondage, and, under the name of the
Government oil Greece they committed I'M.
heard-ot excuses. Tor many years considerable
forces, both military and naval were sent AGAINST
tneIn but our land troops, discouraged by want
OF pay, did not display the requisite ardor our
ileet did not succeed on account of the ancient
reorganization OF the arsenal. The matter helm,
spun out, other Europeans, as well as the Rus.
SLAMS, animated by ambition, furnished secretly.
every KIND OF assistance to the rebels either by
promises or by deeds, and thus became the chief
cause Of the Proiongation Of our troubles Az
last, led away by the subtlety and insinuations OF
Russia, England and France united themselves TO
her, and under the pretext that their commerce
suffered by the long continuance of those trou
6les, they prevailed on the Greeks, by every
Alilu Oh aruhce' entirely to renounce their duties
as (rayahs) tributaries.
Ii was at different times proposed to tbe Sinh
lime Porte no longer 10 interfere with the affairs
oil the Greeks, but TO give them a form of indie
Pendent government; to separate them altogether
IffacrF tfugr, IL
a chief as in Wallachia and Moldavia; and 10 Grant
them their liberty, on condition OF an annual til
bute. Such, nearly, were the vain proposals that
were made. As it is evident, that this pretenco
OF liberty tended to nothing else, which NAV Hea-
yen forbid than TO make fall into the hands of the
ini1deis the whole, Of those countries i'm Europe
anu ASA, where the Greeks were mixed with fh-
NJ uss,lmen-to place by degrees the Kayaks in
Ihe pace OF the OttonaSs, and the Ottonans in
the place Of the Rayahs-to convert perlaps
our Mosques into Churches and TO rinor bells
within them; in word, to annibiIate Islamisu
win case and promptitude; neither reason, nor
law' nor policy, nor religion, could admit OF such
proposals being accepted. The Sublime Porte
gave repeatedly, both by writing and by word Of
mouth, the necessary answers, with an Official
ornanty, and according TO the tenor oftreaties.-
Although the object Of the Franks had beer obyi-
BUS from the beginning, and although every thing
ihnouhced, that, at last, the sword alone must
answer thei,ProPosas, nevertheless not to trouble
ne repose OF Mussulnen, and, on the other hand,
o gain the necessary time for warliko prepare
ions, the Sublime Porte endeavored TO tempo
ne (seioraea de tomporiseT) much possible
~ Satisfactory answers and official conferences on
ne subject OF the disbouour and Of the injury
which the proposals Of the three powers would
cause to the empire and to the nation.
1T IS here proper to observe, that although the
demands made at AkcrmsnO by the Russians on
he subject Of indemnities, and especially in res
Ject TO the ScTvi9ns, were not IN any respect
proper TO be granted, nevertheless, circumstances
oingPresaing, TO complied With hem whether