s feeedings so far however from it she only made this new treaty serve as an easier means to exer cise her bad intentions ; and in the treacherous view of exciting a general overthrow and preparing domestic troubles in the very states of her ally she seduced the subjects of servia and by furnishing them with money and ammunition became their sup ' port and guide " russia asked for permission to send provisions for once jo her troops at teflia the sub lime porte out of regard for her alliance made no hesitation to transmit her the necessary firman which she had scarcely received when she caused a numerous bo dy of troops to be landed at the phasus with artillery and war like stores ; by this means they forced the castle of anakara and by fortifying herself afterwards gave a new proof of her bad in tentions the porte having de manded as she was justified in doing by written remonstrances i repeatedly transmitted to the rus sian minister at constantinople that this proceeding should be de sisted from the latter always gave most evasive answers and never offered proper satisfaction the conduct of the court of russia particularly after the above-men f tioncd alliance h«s been so con trary to the spirit which dictated it that it is by that alone render ed null and void it was agreed upon between both empires that russia should have no other pre eminence over the septinsular re public which acknowledged the suzerainte of the sublime porte than that of guarantee whenever circumstances should make it ne cessary to place troops there the two allies were to do so conjointly and the constitution of the said republic was to be acknowledg ed and curried into execution with the consent of both parties the court of russia notwithstanding this convention placed in these islands as many troops as it plea sed sent there a constitution drawn up at petersburg and ordered it to be carried into execution by those in its service as in a capa city which wholly belonged to it besides which it made these isl ands a refuge for the ottoman subjects of romelia secretly or openly seduced by granting pro tection to all those who repaired thither not content with this t set on foot every intrigue against the individuals in those countries engaged in the service of the porte and more particularly a gainst h e ali paca governor of janina " the sublime porte had pro posed in the present war of eu rope to observe the strictest neu trality towards the belligerent par tics the court of russia oh the contrary respecting no law of neutrality and in the formal inten tion of troubling that of the porte took advantage of the passage which had been granted it for a few men of war only to get a the wilmington gazette published every tuesday by allm ahd hall at three dollars a year payable in advance or four dollars if not paid within a year great number of troops conveyed to the seven islands ; secretly en listed albanians joined them to its own troops and unknown to the porte sent them into italy it dared openly to violate the rights of nations by fomenting an in surrection at mdntenegra by the channel of its mandatories ; by enlisting troops of the ulterior e ven of the o$torijan capital and by soimmtting many other acts contrary to peace in like man ner it distributed protections in the provinces of wallachia and mol davia appropriated to itself num berless subjects under different titles ; it treated those two pro vinces nearly like its own posses sions its consuls took part there in the direction of affairs ; it per secuted with continual complaints and by all kinds of vexations the vaivodes princes appointed by the portey who did not follow its will t on the other hand it openly protected those who showed affec tion ahd inclination tor itself so that the appointment of a vaivode in these two provinces on the part of the porte became an ob ject of derision " although each of these griev ances might have been a just mo tive fora declaration of war still the sublime porte showed an un alterat^s patience not because she keug itcraelf feeble aikt impo tent but because she preferred friendly means solely through hu mane views and to avoid the ef fusion of blood the following is a striking proof of it :— the sublime porte lately deposed the two vaivodes of moldavia and walachia from the exigency of the case — the russian govern ment dissatisfied at not having been apprised of the traitor vai vode or walachia whose perfidy has w<n sufficiently proved upon several occasions became hurtful to the sublime porte ; if she had apprised russia of this measure the news of it would have come to the knowledge of the said vai vodes which would have occa sioned much more embarrassment it was for this reason that russia was not informed of it until after the deposition ** soiae time after the russian ministorstcoastantinople deman ded in ae name of his sovereign that the said vaivode should be reinstated without delay decla ring that in case of refusal he had orders to depart with his whole le gation as he had notified to all his tradesmen and others he fur ther added that his government did not thereby seek a pretext to realize the hostile intentions which might be imputed to it but that the reinstatement of the said vai vodes . was his only aim *, that if the porte would consent to it all difference would be settled be tween die two powers ; that he had express orders to inform his court without delay of the result of this negociation the sublime porte conceived by this official de claration that the court of rus sia sought a pretext decidedly to manifesto •» ttt mtokid foil i ac al»*t us31a *' from the most ancient time it is to the religious observation of the treaties and conventions be tween powers that human socie ties are indebted for the tranquili ty and security they enjoy j and those who dare to derogate from this holy observation scatter trou ble and disorder throughout the universe every equitable sove reign even when he eees himself obtigedto break with another pow er does not decide on such a mea sure until he has examined it with the most scrupulous attention the steps observed in such cases but the court of russia ever preten ding to predominate and oppress the neighbouring powers its en terprises constantly tending to wards the violation of treaties its avidity the treachery with which it infringes the laws of na tions finally its hostile intentions towards the ottoman states are n otorious and manifest it has a 1 way s misunderstood the friendly o ondescention which the sublime l'orte displayed towards it on eve t)r occasion and answered this c jndescention only by demonstra tions full of sourness and malice a mongst other examples the court of russia which in conformity to the treaty of 1188 of the he fht'j crimea employed every ima ginable artifice to attack the inde pendence of that country and spread disorder throughout it and at length even in the midst of peace caused a numerous ar my to march thither and took for cible possession of that extensive province it is known to every nation that georgia was at all tin les under the suzcrcdnte of the ottoman empire — the court of r-nssia introducing itself gradual ly by numerous wiles into the ci inl and political affairs of that country ended at length by taking possession of it without any right " the consuls placed by rus s ia in the turkish towns turned 2 tsidc from their duty the civil of ficers engaged in the service of the porte in the places where ithey resided ; seduced the subjects of the empire and having taken ad vantage of the liberty of naviga tion which was only granted them for commercial purposes embarked these subjects on board their ships and sent them into the countries under the russian dominion independent of these facts the said consuls delivered out protections to the ottoman subjects and those trading under the flags of their vessels in the archipelago in the very states of the ottoman empire and thus audaciously in a base and unwor thy manner rendered themselves masters of several ottoman ves sels and subjects ** hopes were however enter tained that when the ties of friendship should be drawn clo ser by a treaty of alliance between the sublime porte and russia the latter would desist from her pro j declare war against her and thai by forming such a pretension so unjust and so unimportant it showed that its aim was to impute to the sublime porte the hostile intentions which it nourished in its breast the sublime porte con sented although with repugnance to the reinstatement of the said vaivodes to leave the russian government no subject of excuse before the powers of europe the porte thought in fine that the court of russia would at least blush at its conduct before other powers and would renounce its project of making war against the ottoman empire ; by no means two months and an/half after this period without there being any new pretext of misunderstand u and trampling upon the rights of nations at the very moment when every thing announced peace and friendship russian troops ad vanced unawares upon the tur kish territory whilst the neigh boring inhabitants as also the go vernment of bender ; and choc zim thought themselves in full safety under the guarantee of the treaties of friendship the rus sian generals taking advantage of this state of confidence and peace and making use of every kind of artifice seized upon these two fortresses against the laws of na tion generally respected by all powers " the sublime porte was not apprised of it till after the event it demanded explanations upon this head of the russian minister ; the latter made reiterated protes tations that he had written the issue of the affair of the reinstate ment of the vaivodes to this court as also the russian functionaries upon the dniester by virtue of the commission which had been delegated to him for this purpose and that the present march of the russian troops was not a conse quence of the same affair that as for himself he knew of no mo tive of rupture and that his court had communicated to him no in formation upon this subject the sublime porte learning in so unexpected a manner the news of the hostilities committed by the russians the occupation of her fortresses and the invasion of her states ought directly to have sent away the russian min ister from the capital although it was to return violence for vio lence the sublime porte ever guided by the love of humanity desired however to remove the misfortunes of war ; she asked new explanations of the russian minister she fixed to him a term for the entire elucidation of this affair in hopes that the court of russia would proceed in time of peace as in time of war in a man ner becoming a power ; and that at least not to have to blush before other courts it would respect po litical and civil laws near a month had elapsed since the first hostilities of the russians and the russian minis ter gave tb pone no answer ex | ccpting his protesting to have re llth ri x*a«.j wilmington n c tvisuay jtmflr % 18o7 number 543