New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-19
THE RUSSIAN DEMAND.
BARoN BRUNNow,s INSTRUCTIONS.

BARON BRUNNOW'S INSTRUCTIONS
rtE TREATY OF PARIS NO LONGER REsrEC hp
RUSSIA pIsCI.AIMs ALL DESIGNS AGAINST
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
lpY TELEGRAPH TO THB TRIBUNRl
LONDON. Friday, Nov. Is, 1870
The following is the dispatch from Prince Gor'S'i"-
kofI TO Baron Brunnow, communicated by piui'"'"
to Ear, Granville on the 9th of November reierIeo
20 in the first paragraph of Granville ho'e'
TzARKo-sELo, 2Oh October
R.pov. Tn making the communication 10 tne
pr;pcipal Secretary OF State OF Der Drl'aiiIlic
Majesty presented to you by the orders Oh Ills
Majesty the Emperor, you Will he eood enough u
make its import and object clearly uhuerstoou'
when at the commencement of the year 1866, con-
were talked of for the purpose OF prevent
ING the war then imminent in Germany by the
assembling of Congress, in discussing the basis of
"A with Earl Russell you were able to point out to
him the compensation and the guarantees of which
certain evcntualitics, of nature to modify the
,tals ouO existing in the East would render neces-
xary 20 Russia. This recognized by Earl Russell
with the utmost fairness. He did not deny that
every alteration effected in the text and the spirit of
the treaty of 1885, must lead the revision of that
document. Although these eventualities have not
been realized, Lord Granville will not deny that
that treaty has suffered grave notifications in one
Of its essential parts.
What cannot but impress Russia inl those modih-
catOns il not the factitiOus hostile tendency to-
wards her of which they bear the stamp; it is not
the consequences that may result to great country
from the establishment on her frontier OF small,
quasindependent State; it is, above ALL the facility
with which, barely ten years after its conclusion,
solemn Transaction invested with European guar
snee can be nfringed in its letter and its spirit,
under the eyes of the very Powers which ought to be
It's guardians.
In presence of such precedent, what value can
Russia attach TO the efficacy of this agreement and
10 the guarantee of security that she believed she
had found in the principle of the naturalization of
the Black Sea The equilibrium established In the
East by the treaty of 1856 is therefore destroyed to
the detriment Of Russia The resolution taken by
our august master has other object than toreeSab-
hsh it.
Her Britannia Majesty's Government would never
consent to leave the security of its coasts 10 the
mercy of an agreement which is no longer respected
IT is too just not to recognize that have the same
duties and the same rights. But what especially
desire to establish is that this decision implies no
change in the policy which His Majesty the Emperor
follows in the East.
You have several times already been made to enter
Into explanations with the Cabinet of London upon
the general views which the two Governments hold
upon this important question, and to point out con-
formity of principles and of interests which We have
noted with much satisfaction. We have deduced,
therefore that il is neither from England nor Rus
sia that the dangers come which could threaten
the Ottoman Empire; that the two Cabinets have an
equal desire TO maintain its existence as long as pos
sble by the settlement and Cancellation of the diff
ferences between the Porte and the Christian sub
ects of the Sultan and that in case decisive crisis
should occur notwithstanding these Efforts both are
equally resolved to ask the solution above all, in
general agreement of the great Powers of Europe.
We have not ceased to entertain these views. We
believe that their complete analogy renders serious
misunderstanding possible between Her Britannia
Maiesty's Government and ours We attach the ut
most value to it, the best guarantee for preserving
the peace and the equilibrium of Europe from the
dangers which may result from the complications in
the East
BY order Of His Majesty the Emperor, your Excel
Iency is authorized TO reterate the of this
20 Lord Granville. We sincerely congratulate our
selves if the frankness of these explanations should
contribute to it, by removing all possibility of mis-
understanding between Her Britannia Majesty's
Government and us.
am, &c, GORTsCHAKOfP.