seul dans le monde." The empire of the Turks, without 

 finances or established military force, cannot oppose itself 

 to the dictates of the European powers. The Ottomans 

 must give way in the fiefd ; they have in truth but one chance 

 of victory left, and that is in the temerity of enemies who 

 would drive them to despair. Though the strength of their 

 proud empire is broken, their spirits are not degenerate, 

 nor have they lost their fiery courage and contempt of 

 death. Mahmoud is one who will hold with a firm grasp 

 the last fragment of his shattered dominion, and, if pressed 

 to extremities, he will animate his nation by the example 

 of energy well applied. 



Since Turkey, under its present system, cannot be 

 restored from its political debility, we are glad that a deci- 

 sive, though somewhat tardy interference has stopped the 

 further progress of carnage and desolation ; and that a new 

 power is to be erected in the east of Europe. When we 

 consider, too, the strong party which the Russian govern- 

 ment has fostered in Greece for more than thirty years, we 

 cannot but admire the dexterity which has restored that 

 country to political independence, and dissociated it from 

 the Imperial courts by conferring on it a constitutional form 

 of government. 



When the Emperor Joseph proposed a partition of 

 Turkey to Catherine of Russia, that princess met all his 

 plans with the question, " What shall we do with Constan- 

 tinople?" This difficulty still remains, and so long as 

 the two imperial courts view each other with jealousy and 

 mistrust, they will each feel averse from a project which 

 involves the possibility of placing that great city in the 

 hands of its rival. If the partition of Turkey by the two 

 imperial courts be attended by such difficulties, the sacrifice 

 of that country to the ambitious views of one of them is still 

 less likely; nor could Austria and Prussia continue any 

 longer neutral if Russia ventured to overstep the stipula- 

 tions of the treaty of London. We are not therefore 

 alarmed at the apparently dangerous confidence reposed In 

 Russia, since we feel convinced that the interests of the co- 

 limitary powers and the general principles of European 

 policy form a stronger security against the violations of 



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