TREATIES WITH RUSSIA. 
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sive Sultans has as constantly infringed, displacing one pos¬ 
sessor for another, by all possible means of tyranny and op¬ 
pression. In the course of time, when successful war on the 
part of Russia, empowered that empire to dictate its terms of 
peace with the Porte, in generous compassion to the state of 
these two provinces, she exacted certain conditions in their 
favour from the Grand Seignior; and amongst others a positive 
engagement that no hospodar should be called from either, 
(except for proved treason,) under the specified seven years.* 
* Copy of certain articles co?icerning the Principalities of Valachia and Moldavia , 
in the Treaty , signed at Kaijiargik, July 10. 1775, between Russia and the 
Porte. 
The court of Russia restores to the Sublime Porte the whole province of Bessarabia, 
with its fortified places, viz. Akkerman, Thillia, Ismail, Bender, and the other 
towns and villages within that province; as well as the principalities of Valachia 
and Moldavia, with the fortresses, capitals, towns, and villages belonging to them. 
The Sublime Porte, in taking possession of them, solemnly engages to observe 
the following conditions, without the least deviation: 
1st, To acknowledge and maintain the constitutions of the two principalities, the 
established customs, rank, dignities, property, and churches of the two nations, 
without any exception whatever: to give them • total amnesty and pardon confor¬ 
mably to the 1st article of the general treaty: to leave unmolested all such persons 
as have not remained faithful to the Ottoman interest; to admit them to their former 
ranks, and to restore to them any property and possessions they had previous to 
the war. 
2d, To oppose no sort of difficulty, to the free exercise of the Christian religion 
in the said principalities, nor to the repair or construction of churches and other 
buildings. 
3d, To restore to the Monasteries in the neighbourhood of Ibrail, Ilotim, and 
Bender, all the property belonging to them, and which had, contrary to justice, 
been taken from them. 
4th, To acknowledge and bear all due regard to the ecclesiastical order. 
5th, To permit those families and individuals who have any desire of retiring 
to Russia, or elsewhere, to depart freely with their moveable property, and to allow 
them a year’s time previous to such departure, that they may settle their affairs in 
the country. 
6th, To renounce entirely the payment of old accounts, for whatever relates to 
former contributions. 
7th, To claim no tribute from the inhabitants of the said province and principa- 
