The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-05

willingly contracts the engagement "a Ne IL anar,
bound Ly her promises 70 concert soiM hin he regards
with less apprehension the catastrophe which he still
desires TO prevent and avert much 1t shall depend
on him to do so.
No less precious to him the proofs Of friendship
and personal confidence the part Of her Majesty the
Queen, which Sir Hamilton Seymour has been directed on
this occasion to impart to him. He sees in them the
surest against the contingency which his fore
sight had deemed il right TO point out to that Of the Eng
lish government.
SIR G. H. SEYMOUR TO COUNT NEssELRoDE.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 24-March 8, 1853
My DEAR COUNT NnsUI RoDE-There is observation
respecting the very important memorandum placed yes.
tersay by your Excelency in my hands which feel
am most anxious to observe that this paper must
have been drawn up under the impression Of English
policy at Constannops having been very different from
can affirm, conscentously and distinctly, that the
object proposed to themselves well by the late by
friend in the contests the allied govern
ments and that far from having inclined as has been
actions II has been the desire Of the Queens advisers TO
observe neutral sttituds) that ample satsi.cticn
jesty's government were justified in making
This assertion should have no difficulty in substantial
ing by written evidence and win add that in any just
demand which England may have to make upon foreign
Cabinet only desire that the conduct Of friendly Power
tously the EnssS has pursued in the COM
pcated question of the Holy Places with regard to the
Request your Excellency good causing this
the real state of the case to be rightly understood at all
events, from preventing contrary belief from being
~ ~ ''A'e''''' : ''''''" G. H. SEYMOUR.
THE EARL OF CT ARENDON TO SIR g. H. SEYMOUR.
FOREIGN OFFICE, March % 1858.
SR-Your dispatches of the 21st and ed ult. have
been laid before the Queen, and commanded to ex-
judgment DISPLAYED by YOU in the conversations which
you had the honor to hold with the Emperor
need not you that the opinions of his Imperial
Nat havA ived h0r
the anxious and deliberate consideration that their i'm
portance demands and although her Majestys govern
feel compelled to adhere to the principles and the
lolcy laid down in Lord John Russes despatch OF the
9th Of February yet they gladly comply with the Empe
rors wish that the subject should be further and frankly
discussed. The generous confidence exhibited by the
Emperor entities hslmperal Majesty to the most cor
dial declaration Of opinion on the part Of her Malests
any understanding with references to future conngen-
cies being expeden indeed possible the word of his
Imperial Majesty would be preferable TO any convention
that could be framed.
Her Maestys government persevere in the belief that
Turkey still possesses the elements of existence and they
consider that recent events have proved the correctness
of the opinion expressed in the despatch of my predeces
cor that there was sufficient cause for ntmans to
the Sultan that he cannot keep peace home
friendly relations with his neghbors
Her Majesty's government have accordingly learned,
with sincere satisfaction that the Emperor considers
himself interested than England in preventing
Turkish catastrophe because they convinced that
Tpev mainly Sepeni the or the indefinite
postponemen of event which every power in Europe
is concerned in averng Her Maestys government are
convinced that nothing is calculated to precptate
that event than the constant prediction of its being near
at hand that nothing be fatal to the vitality of
Turkey than the assumption of its rapid and inevitable
decay and that the opinion of the Emperor that the
days of the Turkish empire were numbered became mo-
torous, its downfall must sooner than his
imperial Majesty now appears to expect.
But the supposition that from unavoidable causes
the catastrophe did take place, her Majestys govern
occupation Of consamtope BY eier Of ae greet Po,csrs
sooald be incompatible With the present balance Of por and
the maintenance Of peace ~ E'ope and must at once os
regarded impossible that there elementsfor the
reconstruction Of Byzantine empire; that the systematic
isgoernet Of Greece offers no encouragement to extend
ais for provincial communal government anarchy
would be the result of leaving the provinces of Turkey
to Themselves permitting them to form separate
publcs.
The Emperor has announced that sooner than permit
a settlement Of the question by any one of these
methods, he will be prepared for at every hazard
and however much her Msjestys government may be
disposed to agree in the soundness Of the views takey
predeterminaon OF what shall not be tolerated does lit
tie towards solving the real difficulties settling in
what manner it would be practicable even desirable,
t. deal with TIT heterogeneous materials OF which the
Turkish empire is composed.
England desires territorial aggrandisement, and
could be no party to previous from which
party to any understanding, however general that
be kept secret from other powers but her Majetys
events and that understanding could be kept
They would in the opinion of her Maestys government
ipcn and for revolts among the Christian subjects of
the Porte Each power and each party would endsayor
Turkish empire would be preceded by state of anarchy
which must aggravate every difficulty it did not render
apeaceful solution Of the question impossible
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cannot ,eisoSt Siorm reject on the at soald then
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Euyepean 70 get ia Of he obgai, hica she
imposed BY victorious eneies constant Of rrta
The main object Of her Majestys government that to
which their efforts have been and always will be directed
the Turkish empire from their conviction that no great
question can be agitaed in the East without becoming
source Of dscord in the West and that great
ton in the West will revolutionary character
and embrace revision of the entire social SYSTEM for
which the continental governments certainly in
The Emperor fully cognizant Of the materials that
are in constant fermentation beneath the surface of
peace and his Imperial Majesty will probably therefore
not dissent from the opinion that the first shot
may be the signal for state of things disastrous
even than those calamities that inevitably brings in
its train.
But such would be the result of the dissolution
and Acknowledgement Of the Turkish empire; and hence
the anxiety of her Majesty's government to avert
the catastrophe Nor they admit that the signs Of
urk a decay are now either more evident or more
and great wealth in Turkey; q disposition to i'm
prove the system of government is not wanting;
ruption, though unfortunately great Is still not Of
character carried to extent that threatens the
existence of the Sate the treatment of Christians not
harsh the liberation exhibited by the Porte towards
this portion Of its subjects might example
some governments who look with contempt upon Turkey
a barbarous Power.
Her Msjes'y's government believe that Turkey only re-
quires forbearance the part of its allies and deter
mnaton not to press their claims in manner humiliat
ing to the dignity and independence of the Suanthat
friendly support in short that with States with ind
vduals the weak entitled to expect from the strong
in order not only to prolong its existence, but to
move all cause of alarm respecting its dissolution
1t is in this work of bencvoence and of sound European
policy that her Majestys government DESTROYS of
operating with the Emperor they feel entire confdenc
in the rectitude of his Imperial Msesty's intentions
they have the satisfaction Of thinking that the inter
ests Of Russia and England in the East completed
identical, they entertain earnest hope that sima
policy there will prevail and tend to strengthen the ALI
between the two countries which ii is alike the OBJ
f lo.M Ill