The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-11

ecclesiastical immunities and temporal advantages
which were, ab aatiqto, accorded by the Porte TO
the four Patriarchs Of Constantinople, Antioch,
Alexandria, and Jerusalem, and also to the me
tTopoiitans bishops, and other spiritual heads Of
the oriental Church. In the presence of the OBJ
lections raised against these two clauses, the
FRINGE NleiischikOf has not refused entirely to
suppress them, and the result was the second
draught of Sessed, the occupation of which he
insisted for long time. AT length, when the
Porte persisted in rejecting every species of en-
gagement in biateral or synallagmatic form, our
Ambassador acting in the spirit Of his instructions,
went to the length Of declaring that, if the Porte
would Mt once accept and sign note in the terms
of the one which is appended to this letter, he
would consent to be satisfied with such docu-
ment as sufficient reparation and guarantee.
Such was, at the moment when the Prince
which the Imperial Cabinet proposed, and it was
only when the Porte still delayed accepting the
said note, that our Ambassador shipped his course
to Odessa, and broke off our diplomatic relations
with the Ottoman government.
The concessions he made successfully in the
form and the spirit Of our propositions. he made
also in the term which WINS originally fixed for
their admission. After waiting for q length of
tme and fruitlessly too lie had been instructed to
demand from the Porte defnitive reply within
three days, and although, consequently, he ought
to have had that reply on the 9th May, new
style,) he quilted. Constantinople late as the
2lst of that month. ui1asfa rs.ass i. t5sga
After three months ut laborous negotiations,
and after having exhausted even the last possible
concessions, the Emperor is now compelled per-
emptorily to insist on the unconditional (pur et
s;mple) acceptation of the draught Of the note.
But still, influenced by those considerations Of pa
thence and forbearance which have hitherto guided
him, he has granted the Porte a fresh reprieve Of
eight days, in which it has to take its decision.
That period passed, and painful though it may be
to his conciliatng disposition, he viii be compel
led to think of the means Of obtaining, by more
decisive attitude, the satisfaction which he has in
vain sought to obtain by peaceable means.
I He would not adopt such an attitude without
poignant and profound regret; but by dint OF
blindness and obstinacy partieshave attempted (om
aura poul~) to push him into a position in which
Russia, pressed, SO to say, against tho EXTREMIST
limits Of moderation, cannot yield another step,
unless it be at the cost of her political Importance
Sir, you will please to communicate these facts
to the government to which you are accredited
and you will submit to that government the i'm
portant document which is appended to this de-
spatch. We entreat that government to give the
document its most serious consideration, for it is
| at this moment the Gordian knot of the question
We still desire to unite that knot in peaceable
manner; but it appears that we are to be COMPEL.
timatum to the impartial Judgment of the cabinets
we leave them to decide whether, after the wrongs
Of which the Porte has been guilty against us
whether, after SO much cause Of legitimate resent
ment as it has given US, could possibly be con-
tent witha lighter satisfaction conscientious
examination Of the draught of our note will show
that, devoid Of the forms of treaty, and even Of
a synallagmatic contract, it contains nothing
whatever contrary to the rights of the Sultan Z
soyereignty-nothing which betrays our part
those exaggerated pretensions which are ascribed
to us by suspicion which is as insulting to us al
it is uniustifed by our former actions. We trust
this examination will suffice to shame down the
false rumors which have been bruited about oul
naughty exigencies, and to show that, if the re-
lection of the last means of Cancellation we pro
pose to solve the difficulties raised against il
the affair of the Holy Places should lead to com
plications which may break the peace, it is mo-
on our shoulders that the responsibility for sucl
events would rest. Accept, sir, &c.,
| NESSELRODE.-