Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-23
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
COMPLIED rRoN rHr xrHspArrrs.

COMPILED IRON NEWSPAPERS.
The relations Of these two Powers absorb the at
tention Of the press both Of England and France.
1t is placed beyond doubt that Russian troops have
now passed the Pruth.
On the 26th Of June the Emperor Of Russo
issued the following manifesto:
BY the grace Of God, We, NICHOLAS ], Emperor and
AutOcrat Of all the Russas and Gar Of Poland &C., in
form all people.
BE il known to our beloved and faithful subjects the
defence Of faith has always been the sacred duty
our blessed ancestors.
From the day it pleased the Almighty to place me on
the throne Of fathers the maintenance Of the holy
obligations with which it Is nseparaby connected has
been the object Of constant and attention these
acting the groundwork Of the famous treaty Of Kahn
adr, which subsequent solemn treaties with the Ottoman
Porte have fully confirmed have been directed to-
wards unfolding the rights Of our Church.
But 70 our extreme grief in latter times notwithsand
ing all efforts defend the involabiy Of the rights
and privileges Of orthodox church. numerous wilfu
acts Of the Ottoman Porte have infringed upon these
rights and threaten finally the entire overthrow of a
that ancient discipline SO precious to orthodoxy
All our efforts to restrain the Porte from such acts
have proved IN VAIN and even the word Of the sultan
soemnly gwen US BY himself, was soon faithlessly
broken.
Having exhausted all means Of conviction and having
IN vain tried all the means By which just claims could
be peaceably adjusted have deemed Il
to move our armies into the provinces on the Danube in
order that the Porte may see to what her subborrness
may lead.
In occupying those provinces wish to hold sufficient
pledge to guarantee for ourselves the reesashmcnt
our rights under any circumstances whatever.
We do not seek for conquest Russia does not require
them We seek to ndcate those rights which have been
so openly violated.
We are even yet ready to stop the movements Of ou
armies il the Ottoman Porte win bind itself solemn,
TO respect the involability Of the orthodox church bu
II obstinacy and blindness viii il otherwise them calling
God to our aid leave il to Him decide our quarrel
and in full confidence in the right hand Of the Almighty
We shall move forward on behalf Of the orthodox faith
Given at Peterhof, on the Nth (2Gtb) day Of june il
the year Of the birth Of Christ 1853 and Of reig
abe 2sth
Sealed at the Senate in st. Peersburgh on the lit
(26th) june 1865.
To the original Of this document the own hand Of hi
Majesty is signed. NIK0LAI.
The London correspondence Of the New York Commercia
Advertiser comments upon the Of this manifesto
indicating readiness the Cars part to avoid ex
IRENE measures, IL possible. lie says:
&C. There certain circumstances which tend TO in
spre the belief that the Czar would be glad that matter
should stop with the act he has just committed and that
having made what he considers display Of his deter
1nination he would be glad to make loopholes 70
negotiation The Emperor Of Austria has just dispatches
Count Gyula on q special mission from Vienna to ST
Peersburgb for the purpose, II Is understood Of cli
tang pacfcation and this step may perhaps be locke
pon as having been taken in obedience TO ahint Of II
being desired The wording Of the proclamation q th