Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-03-07
st. Petersburgh, October, 1888.
The Russian Minister n, reply.


The undersigned has received the note in
which M. j. De Lagrenee, Charge d'Afaires of
His Majesty the King of the French has signfi"
ed to him the profound regret which the concu-
sion Of the treaty Of the 9Th July, between Rus
STA and the Porte, has occasioned to the French
Government, without, at the same time, stating
either the motives Of that regret or the nature
of the objections to which the treaty can give
rise The undersigned cannot therefore, be &C
1uanted with them, still less can he understand
them. Ii fact, the treaty ofthe 9Th July is mere
ly defensive; it has been concluded between two
independent Powers, in the plenituGe of their
rights-t is without prejudice to the interests Of
any other State whatsoever. What then, can
be the objections which other Powers can justly
think themselves authorized to make against
such transaction2 Above all, how can they
declare that they Go not acknowledge it to be Of
any value, unless it be their object to overthrow
an empire which the treaty is intended to pre-
serve?
But such cannot be the design of the French
Government; it would be at open variance with
all the declarations made by it at the period of
the late troubles in the East. The undersigned
must consequently suppose that the opinion stat
ed in the note Of M. de LAGRANGE rests upon in
correct data, and that, when more accurately
informed on the subject by the communication
which the Porte has recently made in respect of
the treaty to the French Ambassador at Con-
ate the value and the utility of transaction the
spirit of which is no less pacific than conserva-
tive. 1t is true that this act changes the nature
of the relations between Russia and the Porte;
for, in the room of long. continued hostility it
substitutes that friendship and that confidence
in which the Turkish Government will hence
forth find a guarantee for it's stability; and, if
necessary, means of defence, calculated to in
sure its preservation. In this conviction, and
guided by the pureSt and most disntereSted in
tentions His Majesty the Emperor is resolved
in case of necessity, to discharge faithfully the
obligations imposed on him by this treaty Of the
9Th ofJuly; thus acting as if the declaration con.
tanned in the note of M. de Lagrenee had no
existence. NEssELRoDE.
st. Petersburg, October, 1888.
The Augsburgh Gazette Of January oath like
wise publishes the annexed extract of letter
from Berlin, dated the 18th, which thus refers to
the same subject:
"The Oriental question may be considered
settled, through the mediation of the Austrian
Cabinet the Courts of st. James and st. Peters
burgh, and the result of the steps taken by the
Austrian Ambassador in London was, that on
the 22d ultmo the British Minister despatched
a note to ST. Petersburgh, to say, as we are as
sured that he had indeed ordered the squadron
in the Mediterranean to be reinforced, on &C
! count of the alarming reports which came from
Constantinope relative to the equipments of
Russia In so doing he had but followed pub
lie opinion, the European journals having for
sometime described the views of Russia as most
dangerous
"But as the news from Constantinople was
now found to be exaggerated, he had given or
ders Tor the squadron to return to its winter
quarters, and he should confne himself to re-
neWlng the station in the Mediterranean. In
the turkish question, the British Ministry relies