, 1877-05-09
TIE REPLY OF TURKEY TO THE
PROTOCOL.

The Immediate cause of the present war, or,
as The enemies Of Russia would say, the
pretert for it, is TO be found in the naughty re.
ply Of the Porte to the Protocol drawn up and
signed by the Great Powers. 1t seems that
the Protocol itself did not give 50 mach
oGence as certain documents attached to it.
According to the Eimes Correspondent in
Paris, these appended documents were hurried
ly drawn; and expressions were admitted
into them, which might have been allowed in a
newspaper or pamphlet, bat which ought
never to have been introduced into a diploma
tic document. The following extracts from
the letters Of the Paris & Vienna Corlespon,
dent of the Times describe the style and
contents Of the Turkish reply.
PARIS, April IL.
Khalil Pasha, the new Turkish Ambassador
lately arrived here, had a conversation o.day
with the Duo Decazes, which lasted nearly
three hours. Being very unwell, IS l have
already informed you, he speRks very slowly,
and the Turkish Circular, which he was com
miSsicned to explain and discuss, covered 25
pages of manuscript. These two circumstances
amply account for The duration Of the CONVEX
sa'ion between the Minister and the AmbOsSa-
dor. AS TO the Circular, written in the prOlix
style quite characteristic of Ofientals, i may
be divided into five distinct parts-Ihe f'ss
relating to the Bulgarian maszacres, the
second to the conclusion o. peace with Monte
negro, thu third to the surveillance by the
local Agents. the fourth to The despatch Of
an Ambassador to S.. Petersburg while the
fifth is devoted to retrospective combinations.
1t may even DO added hat from his last point
the Circular sets out, and that these recrimi-
nations fill a good third of tbs document.
In this part Of the Circular Turkey bitterly
complains Of her exclusion from the Conference
and from the discussion Of the Protocol, and
she hints that In all this Russia had but one
object-tbat Of striking a blow at her dignity.
AS to the events in Bulgaria, she protests with
equal energy against the expression made use
Of" massacre'-and declares, as You were
informed yesterday. that the events in Bosnia
aud Herzegovina would not have assumed
such gravity if those instructions had not
rami6ed from beyond ths country, and had not
been the result Of foreign instigation. She
protests against the internal surveillance to
which it is meant to subject her, against
tampering with the Treaties of Paris, her indie
pendence, and the integrity Of her power.
Lastly, she declares that she deems it ~uSeless,
under present circumstances. to send an Envoy
to st. Petersburg, specially on the terms ia
which this condition is imposed upon her, and
when the question of disarmament can be
sufficiently treated by telegraph, to which she
declares herself ready to agree, unless, indeed.
Russia consents, 10 return, to send an Envoy
to Oonstantinoplo in order to arrive at q
prompter accord on the questions in dispute.
In short, to employ the expression Of an
eminent dipIomatist I met this evening. it is
a document which must have been as dis
agreeable to write as it is disagreeable to
read.
VIENNA, April 1e.
At noon to-day the Turkish Ambassador
here presented the Circular Note of the Porte,
which has remained in all its rigidity, and
contains, as announced, Q rejection of the Pro.
tocol not less thaR Of all the other points.
Annordin0 Ia Il the Porta not only cannnk