Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-04-13
THE SECRET CORRESPONDENTS BE-
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THE SECRET CORRESPONDENTS BE-
TWEEN RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.
Inc last foreign arrivals bring somewhat ex-
traordinary secret correspondence between Rus
Sia and England, which took place just before
the latter had fully made up her mind to rup-
Cabinet have now laid before the world, with
the object, doubtless, of duplicating England in
the Cars designs for the destruction of the
Ottoman Power, causing distrust Of her sinceri-
ty in going into the Turkish Alliance, and ere
ating general jealousy Of her among the Wes-
tern Powers of Europe, now rapidly combining
against this great, but evidently much disturbed
Power of the North.
This correspondence, which seems to have
created no little stir in England, and has been
greedily seized upon by the Russian party in this
country-for, strange as it may appear, there Is
Russian party in this country, started by the
Slavery propagandists of the South in reference
to their designs on Cuba, and now spreading
among the dough-faces of the North, this re-
markable correspondence is altogether too vol
luminous for a common newspaper, but when
stripped of the formal verbiagc of diplomacy
its whole pith and drift may be found in the
brief but, we think, correct abstract and just
conclusions of the New-York Erening Post, the
only paper in which we have seen the cores
pondence entire.
We devote all the space we can spare to-day
to the secret correspondence between the Czai
and the British Government about the partition
Of Turkey, to which the attention of the world
was directed by recent semi-oficial article In
the St. Petersburgh Gazette. The tone of that
article left the impression, that the British gov.
eminent had listened favorably to proposals.
about Turkey from the Car, quite inconsistent
with its present warlike attitude and with good
faith
This challenge has brought out the whole cor.
resrondence, filling some seven or eight solid
columns of the London Times, and all of which
we have found so curious and interesting, that
we have resolved to lay it entire before our rea-
ders, instead Of giving extracts from it, as onl
contemporaries have uniformly contcnted them
selves with doing.
1t is quite the most satisfactory glimpse into
the penetraHa of the Cars Cabinet, the world
has ever been INDUCED with
We have the Emperor taking Sir Henry Sey,
mour by the button-hoe, and telling him, con
fidentially, that Turkey is sick, mortally sick
will die soon, and the body will smell unless
some arrangements are made at once, for the dis
position of it, That England and Russia car
take care of it, if they will put their heads to
gether. Sir Henry intimates doubt whether
Turkey is 50 sick as the Emperor thinks, but
writes home aboutit. Lord John Russell docs mo-
think Turkey so very sick, and is afraid to make
any arrangement about the body, for fear it will
be found out, and not only aggravate the inva
| lids distcmper, but make trouble with the 9th
er powers.
Nicholas sticks to it, however, that Turke,
cannot live, that her dissolution would tak(
them by surprise and make trouble, unless Eng
ing. lie did not want anything in writing. The
word of a gentleman is enough. Sir Henry was
not accustomed to this imperial pertinacity. II,
| fought shy, and wrote home for instructions
which would excuse him from the necessity o
debating the subject any longer with the Gar
their conference having become more cmbarrass
ing than complimentary.
A letter was finally sent him, which left tn,
question, as far as England was concerned
Were it stood at the beginning of the cores
pondence, but with which the Gar affected t.
be satisfied. After q careful perusal of the cor
respondence, We are satisfied that the imputa
tons of the ST. Petersburgh journal were un
founded, and that no completely between thu
Car and the English cabinet with regard tt
Turkey is established. 1t does, however, estab
fish foregone conclusion on the part of thu
Gar, taken i'll connection with subsequen
events, to hasten that dissolution of the Turkish
Empire for which he was so anxious to be pre-
pared.
Only two days before the first of these CONVEX
sations with the Emperor, Sir Hamilton Sey
mour reported to his government, that he hat
reason to believe that one hundred and forty
four thousand men were ordered to march t,
the frontier of the Danubian principalities
and during the whole course of the negotiation
the mission of Prince. Menchikoff was in prepa
ration, or in progress
On the Goth of February, when the Gar un
bosomed himself most fully to Sir Henry, an,
insisted that " the sick man was dying, Prime
Mcnchikof was actually on his way to Constan
tinonle to initiate the mischief which has sine,
matured.
1t was undoubtedly the policy of the Gar, i,
pursuing England so pertinaciously for som
sort of an agreement about what Mr. Maintain
would have termed " the demned body" to pu
England in position which would prevent he
becoming an ally Of France in'opposing what
ever might occur in Turkey. With Engan
neutral, the Gar expected to undermine an
ruin Turkey without an open war. lis failur
to effect this understanding, compelled him t.
pursue the course which he has finally chosen