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 BETWEEN THE CZAR AND THE SULTAN. 151 '■ close upon the Prutli. When the Emperor re- en A p. ' members the position of the 4th and the 5th ; ' corps d'armee, and the forwardness of his naval ' preparations, he conceives he has a right to ex- • pect that you should instantly be able to take ' the ascendant over a man who, with all his ' hellish ability, is after all nothing more than the ' representative of a country absorbed in the pur- ' suit of gain. The Emperor cannot and will not ' endure that his Representative, supported by the ' forces of the Empire, should remain secondary • to the English Ambassador. Again the Emperor ' commands me to say you must strike terror. ' Use a fierce insulting tone. If the Turks remain • calm, it will be because Stratford Canning sup- ' ports them. Therefore demand private audiences ' of the Sultan, and press upon his fears. If your ' last demands, whatever they may be, are reject- ' ed, quit Constantinople immediately with your ' whole suit, and carry away with you the whole ' staff of our Legation.' On the day after receiving his despatches, Trince Mcntscw- Mentschikoff had a long interview with Kitaat mandfora ° protectorate Pasha, and strove to wrench from him the assent of the Greek ' Church in of the Turkish Government to the terms already Turkey. submitted to the Porte as the project for a secret treaty. And although it happened that in the course of the negotiations on this subject Paissia submitted to accept many changes in the form or the wording of the engagement which she required, it may be said with accuracy that, from the first to the last, she always required the Porte to give