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 2 DO ORDERS AND rREPARATIOXS CHAP, of an enemy's plans, that she freely gave to Rus- L. sia. It might seem that for the Emperor of the French, who had shown that he was capable of the darkest secrecy in his own designs, it must have been trying to have to act with a power which propounded her schemes in print. But, happily, he understood England, and knew some- thing of the conditions under which she moves into action. L-rd RnB- Lord Eaglau soon learnt that the native Bul- to our Home gariaus abstained from coming in with their farm Government. i, i i ^ • • n in favour of producc to supply the ready market awaiting them the native f,_,.|^''. '' ,. ,,. Bulgarians, m the English camp, and ascertaining that their backwardness ai'ose from fear of their Turkisli masters, combined, as he thought, with a hope of being freed from the yoke they wore, he addressed our Home Government on the subject in grave, earnest, thoughtful language. Having observed tliat the Kayahs went unarmed, whilst their mas- ters, the Turks, stalked proudly under the burthen of the many bright weapons they carried for cut- ting, stabbing, and shooting their imaginary foes, he warned the Secretary of State that, so long as this inequality should be maintained, the condi- tion of the people, kept down by such a distinc- tion, must needs be very like that of slaves ;* but Duke of Newcastle. Lord Raglan's coiresiiondence on tliis subject ■with the Duke of Newcastle bears so closely upon a question which has Intcly been raised— a ([ucstion of great moment to tho peace of Eurojio — that I ])lace it in the Ap- l>endix. Veiy soon after writing his a])pcal of the 8th of August, in favour of the Lulgarian Rayahs, Lord Eaglan was
 * Pjivate lultur of Lord I!:iglan, 8Lh August 1854, to the