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with the Walachan population, whose dialect they
speak. They are the n0mad shepherds of Che val
eys Of Pndus. the towns and villages of which are
inhabited by Greeks. III
The Albanians have nothing in common with the
Sayonians. Their language is probably lllyrian'
According to the study which has been made Of it,,
the sxtieth part only of the words are Slovenian,
whereas the fifth part is Greek. ,.
II may be seen, therefore, BY this statement that
the Greek population is that which predominates by
number in European Turkey (ncluding free Greece)
that the Wallachians hold the second rank, the
Bulgarans the third, and the Slavonians only the
fourth.
Besides this, it is an incontestable fact that the
Christian Albanans and the Walks of Pindus are only
distinguished from the Greeks by their dialect, for
in everything else they identity themselves COM
petely with them; and it is by no means agreeable
to Botxaris Condouriotti to be told that he is
not Greek, because he is Albanian To the 100000
of Greeks, therefore, we must add 1900 600 mores
and we may here observe that among the Greeks OF
European Turkey We could not avoid counting the
Greeks OF the coast OF Ada Minor, which is, the
other side of this great basin. essentially Greek.
Latery, strong attempt has been made to In.
spre the three other populations-the Wallachians,
Bulgarians, and Slavonians of Servia-with senti-
ments of individual nationality but, excepting the
Wallachians-one portion of whom follow the Russian
policy, while another party out OF hatred to that
policy prefer throwing themselves into the arms os
the Turks-the Bulgarians and even the Siavonlanss
feel themselves much more drawn towards Tue UreeKa
of Byzantium whom they long acknowledged az
their masters, and together with whom they havG
born the oppressors yoke and sighed for liberty
than towards the Russians to whom nothing attracta
them, were it not for the skilfnl policy OF Russia
who overwhelms them with benefits and protection.
But in order accurately to appreciate the strength
OF the Greeks in comparison with that OF the other
populations of European Turkey, one must also re-
collect that they inhab the coasts and archipelagoa
Of the most beautiful Of seas that free Greece pos
80 900 sailors, and the whole Greek race can
offer than l40 900 excellent seamen, which is g
yerv considerable force, and finally that the Greeks
at the head 0f he Of fhQ
the decidedly the most active, the most en-
terprising, and the most susceptible Of deveope.
ment.
We see by this that it is not, as some pubicista
1 have said, that Turkey, once eliminated leaves
nothing behind her but chaos and void, as others,
who, wishing to prove that if the Turks are not sus-
sesbs Of regular @ sss the G an n thc
I Kingdom of Greece They follow the prejudces
which have been purpossly spread abroad by inter-
ested or misinformed persons. 1t is true that
graphs it is also true that her government is not
exemplary; but whose is the fault? 1t was foreign
]. intrgues that pushed her to violent revolutions
from which she has not yet been able to rise, and
which has chased from her ministry and from
her administration all the men OF capacity and ct
probity which she possesses. And yet, in spite Of
these disadvantages, an impartial observer cannot
see without establishment what Greece has become
in less than twenty years From 500 600 inhabitants,
| her population is now 200 900. Towns are rising
on all sides, the plains and valleys are now in fun
Il
with elementary and superior schools her UNIVERSE
ty spreads the higher branches OF study to the very
extremties OF the East and her commerce, it -
well known, is growing every day more considers
/ BILE. Let US ask it, starting from the same point,
any other country in Europe could arrive farther
than feeble Greece has done in so short time.
/ But there is another fear expressed by certain
writer's the East, which seems equally vain. 1t ia
not the slavonian, but the Greek race which pre-
dominates in European Turkey, and the Greeks are
not devoted to Russia unless they are forced into her
arlrs. When France claims the Holy Sepulchre, and
Russia, by condition or policy, assures 1t TO tlss
Greeks, she certainly wins their affections. When
I Russia endows their church, protects them against
the oppression of the Turks and is always purposely
Represented among them BY OF the most
generally belonging to their own nation,
She must naturally gain upon those who
dream Of the spiritual conquest of the country BY
| in his work, profess that, in the interest Of the
equilibrium of Europe, it is necessary to permit the
Turks to Cypress the Christians for fear the latter
should become nore Powerful than their masters or
men excellent III themselves perhaps, but incapable,
through the circumstances in which they have I'M
fortunately found themselves, of being individually
on cordial footing with the Greeks and their GO
vernment. And such is, it must be frankly avowed,
the position Of the present Minister of Great Britain
in Greece. The despaiiing doctrine that after the
inevitable fall Of Turkey, there is nothing to be ex
pected but social dissolution, a Russian domina-
ten, is certainly quite false. There is third solu
ion perfectly natural, and which would BE- advanta-
geous to everybody, but particularly to those who
trive in time to make it SO.
One of the most distinguished political writers Of
Europe M ST. Marc Girardin) said lately that there
is nothing now but commercial policy in the world It
ii, above all if Turkey and Asia Minor become Chris
tan and civilized State, that general commerce will
gain immensely. II is true that the European States
pay only three per cent the entrance Of their mer
chandse into Turkey. in all bsrbarous countries.
But, then, what is their active commerce with that
country? In order to understand how it would in
crease a hundredfold were that country to change
its condition, one has only to examine what the
commerce Of England with the Morea, Livadia and
the Archipelago under the Turks, when only three
per cent was paid, and what it is with the poor
kingdom of Greece since the introduction of the
usual rights On the affair of the Holy Sepulchre,
though now terminated, Russia demands treaty in
order to shut the door against all future claims NJ
de Ia Cour declaring that he has no instructions on
this point, has referred to his government.
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