94 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



The following is an extract from the London letter 

 and the article which accompanied it : 



" Letter: 



"'Are they so blind at Constantinople as not to 

 see that they are making over their dependency to 

 England, who deceives them, frightens them, and 

 consequently despises them. If the Sultan acts 

 according to his own responsibility, England will 

 respect him in consequence, but will never do him 

 any injury. When will the Turks wake up and issue 

 the firman ? They have been asleep long enough.' 



"Article: 



" < Under Lord Palmerston's Ministry threats were 

 addressed, both in London and at Constantinople, 

 to the higher agents and functionaries of Turkey. 

 They were told that if .the Porte showed itself favour- 

 able to this enterprise, it would earn for itself the 

 lasting hostility of England, and that, in addition, it 

 would probably bring about a struggle between 

 France and England by which Turkey would be the 

 sufferer. 



" ' "When Lord Derby succeeded Lord Palmerston in 

 office, the Porte thought to avail itself of the change 

 to grant the firman which the Yiceroy had asked for, 

 and a telegram was sent to Musurus, the Turkish 

 Ambassador in London, requesting him to inform 

 Lord Malmesbury (who was Secretary of State for 

 Foreign Affairs in Lord Derby's Ministry) that the 

 Government of the Sultan, not wishing to take any 



