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 BETWEEN THE CZAR .AND THE SULTAN. 75 CHAPTER V. It happened that at a time* when the Emperor chap. of Russia was wrought to anger by the triumph ; of the Latin over the Greek Church, there were J5S5£ troubles in one of the provinces bordering upon the Austrian territory, and Omar Pasha, at the head of a Turkish i'orce, was operating against the Christians in Montenegro. The continuance of this strife on her frontier was no doubt alarm- ins and vexatious to Austria ; but with the Emperor Nicholas the tidings of a conflict going on between a Moslem soldiery and a Christian people of the Creek faith could not fail to kindle his religious zeal, and cause him to thirst for vengeance against the enemies of his Church. Of course the existence of this feeling on the part ot the Czar was well understood at Vienna, and it was probably in order to anticipate his wishes, and to remove his motives for interference, that the Austrian Cabinet determined to address a peremp- tory summons to the Porte, calling upon the Sul-
 * The winter of 1852-3.