Year: 1870

LONDON. Nov. 18TH Tribune Special l.
The following is the despatch of Prince Gorts-
schakof to Baron Brunnow, communicated by
Baron Brunnow to Earl Granville, on the 9th of
November, and referred to in the second para
graph of Earl Granville's dispatch;


TzARKoEsELLo. Oct. Goth.


BARON In making the communication to the
principal Secretary of State Of Her Britanic
Majesty presented to you by the ORDERS of His
Majesty the Emperor, you will be good enough
to make its import aud object clearly understood
When. at the commencement of the year 1866. a
conference was talked of for the purpose af pre-
venting the war then imminent in Germany, by
the assembling of congress for discussing the
basis of it with Earl Russell, you were able to
pointout certain eventuaties of nature calcu-
ted to modify the statue q'to existing in the east,
would be rendered necessary to Russia. This
was recognized by him with the utmost fairness.
he did not deny that every alteration affected in
the east and the spirit of the treaty of 1856,
must lead to the revision of that document. Al
though these'eventuallties have not been realized,
Earl Granville will not deny that the treaty has
suffered grave notifications in one Of its essen
tal parts That which cannot but impress Rus
sa in those notifications, is not the flsti'ious
and hostile tendancy towards her of which they
bear the stamp--it is not the consequences that
may result to great country from the establish
ment on her frontier of small independent
State 1t is above all the facility with which, ten
years after its conclusion, solemn transaction,
invested with an European guarantee, can be in
fringed in its letter and spirit, under the eyes of
the very power which ought to be its guardian.
In the presence of such precedent, what value
can Russia attach to the efficacy of this agree
ment and to the guarantee of the security that
she believed she bad found in the principle Of the
naturalization Of the Black Sea. The equilibri-
um established in the East, therefore, is destroy
ed to the detrment of Russia, aud the resolution
taken by our August Master is to re-establish it.
Her Britannia Majesty's Government would
never consent to leave the security Of its coasts
to the mercy of an agreement which is no longer
respected, and it is too just not to recognize that
we have the same duties and the same rights.





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 Cab
met Of London, upon the general views the two
Governments hold upon this important question,
and to point out a conformity of principles and
of interests, which We have noted with much
satisfaction.


We have decided, therefore, that it is neither
from England or from Russia that danger can
come which could threaten the Ottoman Empire
that the two Cabinets have an equal desire to
maintain its existence as long as possible by the
conciliation Of the differences between the Porte
and the Christian subjects Of the Sultan and that
in case decisive crisis should occur notwithstand-
ing these efforts both are equally resolved to ask
the solution above all in general agreement of
the powers Of Europe. We have not ceased to
entertain these views We believe that their
complete analogy renders a serious imisunder-
standing impossible between Her Britannia Ma
iestys Government and ours. We attach the
utmost value to it as the best guarantee for pre-
serving the peace and the equilibrium of Europe,
from the dangers which may result from coqpi-
cations in the East.


By order of His Majesty the Emperor, Your
ExeelIency is authorized to reiterate the assur-
lnce Of this to Lord Granville. We shall sincerely
ourselves it the frankness Of these
explanations should contribute to it, by removing
all possibility CT misunderstanding between her
Majesty's Government aud ours am etc,


GoRTscHAKoFF.