Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-03-22
The Four Points.

The Four Points.
Our readers will find below the Four Points,
which have been so much talk ed and written
about of late They were agreed upon about
the last of December, by France, England and
Austria, dr,,ughted by the French Minister at
Vienna, and submitted to the Russian Minis
ter, GORYscHAKOFF, "not as an official docu-
ment, but to be used as an aide-memoire,' -
which means that they are to be regarded as a
general sort of platform on which the Allies
are willing to treat, subject, however, to such
notifications and alterations as may appear
to them to I've desirable and reasonable. The
CAR will certainly not accept them in their
present form, antil he has been pretty well
drubbed ; nor does it appear to us that Eng
land and France have vet achieved anything
against him to entitle them to ask so much
not more than is right AMI proper, perhaps
for the protection of Turkey, but more than
they can expect TO get, unless they take Sc
wOrsted, and although all the advantages
gained by Nicholas are of negative kind,
still they have been valuable to him and very
injurious to his antagonists. These, since the
declaration of war; have sent to the East about
one hundred and seventy thousand soldiers,
of which not less than fifteen thousand have
died of the cholera, and not less than twenty
five thousand have died in battle, of wounds,
and of all kinds of diseases. Nor can they
muster now in the Crimea more than ninety
thousand. So that the war, as regards the
personnel of the army, has been a most absorb
ing one, and rs regards the mateTId not less
so for already very little less than 5 l50,OOO,-
600 have been expended, exclusive of what
Turkey has paid, and promised to pay. The
London Times says, at the end of Il years
war England will be minus on account of it
about twenty millions sterling, and France
will have expended not less, probably. 1t
would be 4 pretty fair calculation to assume,
that so far, the war has cost the Allies twice
as many men, and twice as much money rs
it has cost Nicholas /; and this is taking very
favorable view of it for them. England, if
she has not lost her army, will get it back so
cut NJ, and wasted, and worn, that an entire
loss would not be much more disastrous
THE FOUR POINTS.
"For the purpose of fixing the sense which
/ their Governments attach to each of the prin-
/ ciples contained in the four articles but re-
serving to themselves, as they have always
hitherto done, the power subsequently to make
such special stipulations as appear to them
demanded by the genral interests of Europe,
Ovei and above the four guarantees, for the
prevention of the return of the late complica-
tons, the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France,
and Great Britain, declare that
a.. Their Governments are Jointly of opin-
\ ion, that it is necessary to abolish the exclu-
sive protectorate which Russia has exercised
over Moldavia, Wallschia and Servia, and
from henceforth to place the privileges ac-
corded by the Sultans to these Principalities,
which form part of their territories, under the
/ Joint guarantee of the Five Powers and that
they (the Governments have, therefore, con-
sidered, and do consider, that none of the
stipulatiOns of the old treaties of Russia with
the Porte, having reference to the said prov
inces, can, at the conclusion of peace, be put
again into force; and that the arrangements
which have to be made in reference to them,
must in future be combined in such a way as
to afford perfect and entire consideration for
the rights of the Sovereign Power, those of
the three Principalities, and the general in
terests of Europe.
60 In order to give to the freedom of the
navigation of the Danube all the develop
ment of which it is susceptible, il would be
expedient that the lower portion of the Dan
ube, from that point where it becomes common
to the two littoral States should be with
drawn from the territorial dominion that ex-
lists i'm virtue of article three of the peace of
Adrianople
AT any rate the free navigation of the
I Danube would not be secured if it were not
placed under the surveillance of syndical
board that should he invested with the neces-
sary powers for the purposes of getting rid OF
the distractions which at present exists at the
mouths of this stream, or which may at f,I-
ture time be formed there
al The revision of the treaty of July IL,
1871, shall have for its object to connect the
existence Of the Ottoman Empire more close
| " with the balance of power in Europe, and
/ 10 put All Gnu W tue picpohuciinCc vi huSSid
in the Black Sea. The measures to be taken
in reference to this end depend too directly
on the contingencies of war for their basis to
be laid down as yet. 1t is sufficient to indi-
cate the principle that is to guide them.
"A. Russia, in renouncing the claim to ex-
tend an official protectorate over the Sultan's
Christian subjects, who belong to the Oriental
y1tus, naturally renounces the revival of any
article of her former treaties, and more par
ticularly of the treaty Of Kutschuk Kainardii,
the erroneous Interpretation of which has
been the main cause of the present war
While they, (the Goyemments) extend each
other their mutual cooperation for the purpose
of obtaining from the initiative of the Otto
man Government the recognition and obSer-
vance of the religious privileges of the various
/ Christian communities without distinction OF
rite, and while they jointly avail themselves
in the generous intentions proclaimed by His
Majesty the Sultan with reference to them
they will take the greatest care to protect the
dignity of His Highness, and the indepen-
dence of his crown from every encroachment