The Litchfield County post., 1828-06-26

1 in body the dominions of the Ottoman gov
 ernment. Gen. Paskewitch after the cOnclu-
 sion of glorious campaign. was negotiating
 treaty of Peace with Persia, the conditions lOf winch were already accepted by the court of Teheran. On a sudden lukewarmnes:
 succeeded to the eagerness which had hither-
 to been shown for the conclusion of cOnven. { ton, and which was already approved by
 both parties in all its particulars. These de-
 lays were followed by difficulties. Authentic
 information revealed the secret of the prom
 ise of a provision which was to Oblige us to
 make new efforts.
 "Scarcely was the peace of 1912 signed
 when the Porte thought that the difficult and eventful circumstances in which Russia then was, might be used with imP'unity to redOub- 1 le the violation of it's engagements. An am
 nesty was promised to the Servians; instead
 of that an invasion took place and a massa-
 ere. The privileges of MOldavia and Walla- chia were guaranteed, but the system of plunder completed the ruin of those unhappy provinces. The incursiOns of the tribes
 which inhabit the left bank uf the Kuban
 were to be prevented by the care of the Porte but Turkey, not contented with rais- ing pretentiOns to several fortresses absolute
 ly necessary for the security of our Asatlc possessions pretensiOns, the weakness of which it had itself recognised by the conven- ton of Akerman, made them still weaker by EavOring, on the coast of the Black Sea, & even in our vicinity, the Slave Trade, plage,
 and disorders of all kinds. Nay more ;--
 then as now, ships bearing the Russian Gag.
 were detained in the Bosphor,ls, thrirr"ar- goes srquestered. and the stpulatIons of the
 os.l s,f plv nfn
 This took place at the very moment when
 the purest glory and victory in sacred cause
 crowned the arms of his majesty the Empe
 TOT Alexander, of immortal memory. No thing hindered him from turning his arms a. gainst the Ottoman Empire. But that mon- arch pacific conqueror, superior to every feeling of enmity, avoided even the justest occasion to punish the insults offered him, & would not again interrupt the peace restored to Europe by generous exertions. and with noble intentions, immediately after it was consolidated. For five years together the Divan was unmoved by the conciliatory over lures of the Emperor Alexander, and endea- vored to try out his .patience-to dispute his rights-to call Tn question his good intentions ito defy the superiority of Russia, which saw itself bound solely by the wish of pre- serving the general. peace. aud to try her pa tience to the utmost.
 "And yet war with Turkey would not in any way have embarrassed the relations of Russia with her other Allies. No Conven- ton containing q guarantee, no positive Obli- gatiOn incorporated the fate of the Ottoman Empire, with the consolidating stipulatons of 1914 and '15, under the protection of which civilized and Christian Europe reposed after its long, dissensions, and the governments found themselves united by the recoections of common glory, and happy coincidence of principles and views. After five years of well meant endeavors, supported by the rep resentatives of Russia, and equally long eva sions and delays on the part of the Porte after several points of negotiation relative to the execution of the treaty of Bucharest seemed to be already settled-a general in surrection in the Morea, and hostile inva- sion of the chief of party, unfaithful to his duty, excited in the Turkish government and nation, all the emotions of blind hatred a. gainst the Christians in it. without distinction between the guilty and the innocent. Russia did not hesitate moment to testify its dsap- probation of the enterprise of Prince Ypsi- lanti, at the same time insisting on the neces- SlLy OI COLlOuJOliIS buuOCcuI part Ck the population with the seditious, who were to be dsarmed and punished.-Thcse coun- sels were rejected, the Representative of his Imperial Majesty insuIted in his own residence, the Chief Greek Clergy, with the Patriarch at their head. were subject to an infamous capital punishment, amidst the solemnities of our holy Religion. All the Christians with out any distinction, were seized, plundered, and massacred without trial; the remainder fled. The flame of insurrectIOn far from d. batting, spread meantime on every side. In vain did the Russian Ambassador endeavor to render the Porte last service. In vain did he show. by his note of the 9th July 1897, a way of reconciliation. After he had pro- tested against the crimes and ,ebulIitions of rage unparalleled in history, he found himself obliged to obey the command of his sove- reign and leave Coustantinople.
 "The situation of the Divan. notwithstan- ding the exemplary fidelity of the Servians, became from day to day more hostile towards them, and the occupation of MOldavia and Wallachia, was protracted notwithstanding the solemn promises made to the Represent tatives of Great Britain, and even notwith- standing the manifest willingness of Russia, as soon as those promises were given, to re- store it's former relations with the Porte. So many hostile measures could not fail in the end to exhaust the patience of the Emperor Alexander. In the month of Oct. 1925, he caused an energetic protest to be presented to tha n4torooo Msnsstru apA xbon ,>ro-