Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-02-13
Great Britain aud Hungary.

The New York Commercial Advertiser gives Ar
interesting summary of the official correspondence
between the British Secretary of Foreign Affairs and
the British minister at Vienna, during the progress
of the Hungarian struggle BY this it appears that
on the 25th of August, 1S49, the Austrian minister
presented to the Turkish cabinet a strong official
note demanding the extradition of all the refugees
Poles and Hungarans without distinction between
political and criminal offences and that the Russian
envoy seconded the demand urging that his govern
ment was dissatisfied with the conduct of the Turk
sh cabinet. This being announced by Sir Stratford
Canning to Lord Pamerston, the latter replied un-
der date of September 24h that the 18th article of
the treaty of Belgrade, under which the extradtion
claimed did not require them to be delivered up
to Austria and that the most that could be demand
ed that they should not be permitted to reside
permanently in the Turkish empire. This article
is translated thus:
Article IS. Henceforth asylum and refuge shall
longer be afforded to evil doers to discontinued
and rebelious subjects; but each of the contracting
parties shall be compelled to punish people of this
description also robbers and brigands, when
subjects of the other party.
This, Lord Palmerston remarks could not be
strained to construe it to apply to the officers and
soldiers of the Hungarian armies who have been
fighting for the constitutional rights of Hungary a.
gainst the armies of Russia and Austria The French
Minister took the view, and thus sustained,
Turkey resisted the demand. But this correspon-
dence also shows that Great Britain only sustain
ECU ny QeclafauOn, out promised 10 90 so by
arms IT necessary. Count Sturmer the Austrian
Minister at Constantinople, and N. de Titof, the
Russian Envoy, went so far as to declare that the
escape of single refugee would, in the estimation
OF their Governments. constitute beli. Sub
Sequently, Count Sturmer found it necessary con-
Yenlent to adopt another tone, and denied having
used the expression.
Correspondence soon followed respecting the kind
and extent of the support Great Britain would, joint
ly with France, afford to Turkey if the Sultan
Il. Il.
refugees On the 9th of October, lS49, Lord Pal
merston distinctly advised Sir S. Canning that in
contemplation of the results which might follow the
Sultans persistence in his refusal to surrender the
fugitives Great Britain would afford to the Turkish
Government g the moral and if necessary, the ma
terial support it required and asked and that Eng
land would Immediately enter into communication
with France, in order to concert common course of
proceeding
Lord Bloomfield, the English Minister at ST. Pc
tersburg and Viscount Ponsonby, the resident Min
lister at Vienna the same day advised Of the
determination of the English Government, as were
the Lords of the Admiralty, to instruct Sir William
Parker to proceed at " once to the neighborhood of
the Dardaneles, in order to take his squadron up to
Constantinope, should he be invited by the Sultan,
through Sir S. Canning" He also instructed to
take on board one of his vessels and remove to any
place agreed upon, any of the refugees whom Turkey
might wish to assist in escaping from her territory
In interview of the British envoy with the Rus
sian Premier, at st. Petersburg, the despatch in
question being read to Count Nosselrode he was 81
lent for time and then denied that Russia de-
sired pretext for making upon Turkey; that
she very glad to have got out of one war, and
no wish inclination to enter into another with
the Turkish Empire the existence and stability of
which she was most anxious to support - that Rus
sia wished, above all things, to live good terms
with her neghbors but that she could not submit to
have her frontier kept in continual state of agta
ton by the numerous Adventures, subjects of the
Emperor, who had established themselves in the Of
toman dominiOns.n