The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-03-10


for Russia, in the whole transaction, appears 10
be perfectly certain, and that the whole is a
scheme to provoke the Porte into war with
the latter power, does not seem to admit OF
doubt. The reply of the Porte, through Me-
hemet Ali, the Grand vizier, is dignifed and
decided. General Leiningen having demanded
an answer in three days, the 4 urkish Minister
tells him that he does not wish even that time
TO decide upon such propositions. With re-
spect TO the cession of sovereignty over any
portion whatever OF its territory, he declares
that the Porte will not weld so much as hair 8
bre adth. He maintains that the christian SUBJ
jects of the Porte want no foreign protection,
not being oppressed, and enjoying the most
perfect liberty of conscience and OF action IN
all religious matters. Ifthey needed such pro-
lection ever so much, he declares that AUSTRIA
unfaithful to many treaties guaranteed by Eng
land espec tally, and by nearly every other
Power of Europe, and in defiance OF those trea-
ties utterly denying TO the Hungarian Profess
lanrs even the shadow of religious liberty, is
the last Power upon earth, to which they would
appeal. He asserts that no parallel can be
drawn between the condition of the christian
subjects of the christian Emperor of Austria,
and those Of the Sultan, in the provinces Dor.
dering upon the Austrian territory, in Molda-
via and Wallachia. In these provinces, he
says, the Turkish Sultans, centuries ago,
abandoned the right to exercise the Mahome-
tan religion, and have faithfully kept their
word. In Servia, while the exercise Of the
Mahometan religion is confined to the fortresses
garrisoned by Turks, in Bosnia, where the
Rojahs :evolted and were subdued, they are
placed on an equality, civil, religious and po-
litical, with their conquerogs, and in Montene-
gro itself, the Turkish Government had never
interfered, in any way, in matters either civil,
religious, political. or military. In alludng to
the proposed recognition of Montenegro, the
Turkish Minister significantly calls the alen
ton of the Austrian Ambassador TO the con-
duet Of his OWE government with regard to
Hungary and Italy.
Such was the heroic reply Of the Turk
ish Minister, a reply which, unless France
and. England interfere to prevent it, must
bring on collision between Russia, the real
principal in the negotiation, and the Porte,
whose territories it marked for spoliation, SO
long ago as the reign Of Peter the Great.
But all depends upon the part which the two
powers alluded TO shall take in the contest.
Should they determine to protect the Porte,
they have il in their power nolonly TO drive back
the Gear into his own frosts, but TO dismember
utterly the Empire of Austria, ready as Hun
gary and Italy are 10 burst out into rebellion
whenever the signal shall have been given
England can at once send ships enough through
the Dardanelles into the Black Sea, to annhi-
late every vestige of Russian vessel in that
quarter. Having entire command of that great
inland lake, she can ravage the Crimea, and all
the southern provinces of Russia with impu-
nifty, and can arm against her all the Wild
tribes in the neighborhood THE Caspian. who
await but a signal to revolt. In conjunction
with France, she can, in few weeks, long be-
fore the Russian troops shall have approached
the Balkan, land three hundred thousand of the
best troops in Europe English and French,l at
Constantinople, or at any other given point of
the Turkish dominions. In the meantime, Ma
poleon has but to march an army into Italy.
and the whole country, from the Alps to the
toe of the Italian boot, will be in arms in his
favor.
viii England and France unite for this OBJ
ject? That is the question, probably, upon
which the fate of the world depends: 1t is
much to be regretted that the English Ambas-
sador, Stratford Canning, was absent when the
proposals of the Austrian Envoy were present
ed, and there seems to be little doubt that the
occasion for presenting them was selected, es.
pecally with view to this fact. The bold an
swer of the Porte, in the meanwhile, seems to
warrant the hope that it has been assured of
sympathy from some strong quarter. 1t is
said, however, that the Emperor of the French
had has private interview with the Russian
Ambassador, probably with view TO this very
subject. In the meantime, we cannot believe
that England, even without the assistance of
France, will suffer the Porte to be overwhelm-
| ed by any power, least of all by Russia. To
say nothing of the utter destruction of the bal.
ance OF power, which since the reign of Hen
ry the VIII she has always claimed to hold in
her own hand-to say nothing of the vast in
convenience to which her commerce would be
subjected by Russia's obtaining such foot
hold on the Mediterane ANT is yet impossi.
BILE that she should not be alive to the danger
with which it would threaten her East India
possessions, and of the much greater exertior
she would be compelled TO make for their de-
fence in future wars, than she would make in
one at this time.
As for Turkey, herself, she could not, We
presume, Withstand the shock of the Russian
armies, greatly as the valoref those armies, al
f proved by the Polish conteN, has been over
rated. She would fall, beyond a doubt, ant
thus become a prey of the molt wicked powel
that has ever proiassed to CALI itself civilized
Is no" saia mat the MonteAegrne war wal
provoked by Austria at the ins6p at;on IF Rms
STA, the latter power wishing t6 conceal unde
the mask of religion, the w5ckedness of he
designs upon Turkey.
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