Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-27
The Four Points.

We learn by the latest news from Europe,
that Russia has accepted the proposals of ne
gotiation which were sent to her by the allies,
through the Austrian minister and also the
Interpretation put upon those proposals by the
governments of France and Britain. The ba
sis of those proposals is the famous ''four
points which have been so often referred to,
and which we publish as they were set forth
in the despatch of NJ. Drouyu de plays,
dated at Paris, July %, 1854, and addressed
to the French Minister at Vienna.
The three Powers are equally of opinion
that the relations of the Sublime Porte with
the Imperial Court of Russia, could not be re-
established upon solid and durable bases
LIST. Unless the protectorate hitherto exer.
cised by the Imperial Court OF Russia over
the Municipalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and
Servla, cease henceforth and unless the priv
IleSes accorded by the Sultans to these de-
pendent Provinces of their Empire, be placed
under the collective guarantee of the Powers
by virtue of an arrangement to be concluded
with the Sublime Porte, the dispositions of
which should regulate at the same time, all
questions of detail.
I'd. Unless tbs navigation of the Danube
to its mouth, be delivered from all embarrass.
ment and subjected to the application of the
principles recognized (consacres) by the act of
the Congress of Vienna.
I'd. Unless the treaty of 18th of July, 1871,
be revised in concert by all the contracting
parties, with a view to secure the European
equilibrium.
4th. Unless Russia ceases to claim the
right of exercising an official protectorate over
the subjects of the Sublime Porte, no matter
to what religious rite they may belong, and
unless France. Austria, and Great Britain,
Prussia, and Russia, lend their mutual CO.
operation to obtniL from the initiative of the
Ottoman government of the formal recogni-
ton ia Conservation and observance of the
religious privileges of the various christian
communities, and to carry into effect, for the
common benefit of their co-religionists, tile
generous intentions manifested by his Majesty
the Sultan, taking care that there result there
from no violation Of the dignity and indepen-
Deuce of his crown.
The undersigned (the French Ambas sador0
is moreover authorized to declare that the
government of his Majesty the Emperor of
the French, while reserving the right to make
known IN proper time, the particular condi-
tons which 1t may require for the conclusion
of peace with Russia, and to annex to the en-
'em5te of the guarantee above specified, such
modification as the continuance of hostilitits
may render necessary, is decided at present not
to discuss or to take into consideration any
proposition of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg,
which shall not imply, on its part, full and
entire adhesion to the principles upon which
the government of his Majesty the Emperor
of the French has agreed with the govern.
lnents of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria,
and OF her Majesty the Queen of the Unit.
ed Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
l. is not finally settled that Russia agrees to
these points .; and pending the ultimatum
of the Gar, the soldiers of the allies and the
Cossagnes are to continue pointing their guns
at each others positions, and plunging the
points of their bayonets into each other
bosoms.