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ОТЧЕТЪ О ТРИДЦАТЬ СЕДЬМОМЪ ПРИСУЖДЕНІИ 
ту first interpréter to ascertain, before the report of our Conference was 
submitted to the Sultan, tbat the Reis-Efendi had perfectly comprehended 
tbe nature of ту proposais and the facts and considérations, on which tbey 
were grounded; and I had taken the précaution of opening the Conference 
itself with an ample explanation of tliose points, on which you had directed 
me in your first set of instructions to anticipate the inquiries of the Porte. 
I inclose for the more complété élucidation of ту proceedings at that time 
copies ofMr. Chabert’s Report of his conversation with the Reis-Efendi, and 
of a mémorandum of the heads of ту Conference, which 1 had previously put 
into bis liands. I add a сору of a written instruction, relating to the affair of 
Ibrahim Pasha, which I gave to Mr. Chabert on the morning of the 1 8th Instant. 
It was witliin two days of ту public audience of the Vizir, that I re- 
ceived an official answer of the Porte, which was no less disdainful in form, 
than conclusive in substance. Embracing, as it did the matter of Ibrahim 
Pasha’s plan for the réduction of the Morea, I confess, that I thought at 
first of shewing ту sense of the proceeding by declining to take ту audience 
at that time. The doubts, however, which I could not but feel as to the 
existence of the précisé plan, imputed to Ibrahim Pasha, concurred with other 
considérations to restraiu me from the adoption of so strong a measure — 
tliough I conceived, that it was incumbent upon me not. to leave the matter 
without another effort to obtain a satisfactory disavowal from the Porte. 
Whatever uncertainty I may hâve feit at first, as to the expediency of giving 
in a note on the subject, it was removed by considering that nothing short 
of a very determined expression of Ilis Majesty’s sentiments would afford a 
chance of shaking the Sultan’s résolution, that another Conference was at 
that time ont of the question, that in a few days the Porte would learn from 
Ibrahim Pasha (what I bave not myself learnt to this hour), that a peremptorv 
demand of disavowal had been adressed directly to him on the part of His 
Majesty’s Government, that the obligation of answering an official Note would 
afford the Porte the opportunity of satisfying ту just expectation without 
compromizing lier dignity and that a written déniai of the supposed project 
would serve as a powerful instrument of Peace in the liands of the duke of 
Wellington. If any additional motives had been wanting, I should hâve 
found them in the importance, of not giving way in the opening of ту 
Embassy to the first appearance of ill-humour on the part of the Sultan, 
and in the effect, which, at ail events, a distinct knowledge of the sentiments 
and détermination of Ilis Majesty’s Government would necessarity hâve in 
deterring the Porte, and by her means in deterring Ibrahim-Pasha himself 
from the execution of any sanguiuary projects, which miglit bave been for- 
med between them. 
