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sorae additional light on the temper of tlie Turkish Ministers with respect 
to the demands addressed to tliem by Monsieur de Minziaky. 
I sent my first interpréter to the Porte at an early hour for the pur- 
pose of making a final communication to the Reis-Efendi on the subject of 
the Ibrahim Pasha and his supposed plan for the more effectuai réduction 
and easy administration of the Morea. 
M. Cbabert informs me, that the Reis-Efendi after listening to it with 
fixed attention, replied with considérable agitation, that the answer, verbally 
sent to me, was one, which he had been ordered by his Government to 
deliver, that he had no power to alter it, and that the Porte must rely on 
the friendly disposition of the British Government to consider the difficulties 
of lier situation and to make excuses for it. 
I had directed Mr. Chabert to say to the Reis-Efendy, after allowing 
a sufficient interval for ascertaining, how far he persisted in the decision, 
already announced, that recognising in the state of the question, as between 
our respective Governments two distinct circumstances, eitlier of which 
might. eventually prevent our différence from coming to a painful extremity, 
I still ventured to indulge in those feelings of interest, which agreeably to 
your instructions I could not but entertain for the welfare of tliis Country 
more especially as it was connected at the present juncture with the pré- 
servation of peace in Europe, that I had recently learnt from M. de Min- 
ziaky himself the nature of the step, which lie had taken the day before 
yesterday at the Porte and that although the proceeding had corne upon me 
by surprise and I was still unprepared to view it in all it’s bearings, I con- 
ceived, that I sliould only express the sentiments of His Majesty’s Govern- 
ment in stating to him, that if the Porte could succeed in settling her dis- 
putes with Russia by a direct understanding with that power, Great Britain 
would be among the first to rejoice at the event. 
The Reis-Efendi replied in a tone of sarcastic irony, that the Porte was 
of course on the point of acceding to ail the demands of Russia, and turning 
round to two of his Colleagues in office, who happened to be present: «Is it 
not so, Gentlemen», said lie, «we mean without a moment’s hésitation to do 
every thing, that is required of us!» Reassuming after a moment’s pause 
the air of gravity, which particularly belongs to the Turkish Character, 
lie added, that the Porte had fully executed lier treaties, that she had done 
lier duty and more than her duty in that respect even to the conviction of 
other powers, and that Heaven would maintain her in the path of justice 
and rectitude. 
Having said thus much in terms as obscure, as the tone in which they 
were pronounced was significant, he closed the conversation; and Mr. Chabert 
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