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BETWEEN THE CZAR AND THE SULTAN. 211 ly to convey this feeling to the Prussian Cabinet, chap. • • XIII together with the expression of the disappoint- ment he has felt at the sudden adoption of this measure while there still existed the hope of an arrangement at Constantinople. Count Buol expressed his entire satisfaction with the lan- guage your Lordship had held to Count Col- loredo, agreeing as he does with the policy you recommend, and with the necessity which would arise, in case the invasion of the Principalities took place, of concerting measures among the Powers parties to the treaties of 1841, with the view of obtaining from the Piussian Cabinet the most distinct declarations as to the objects of that movement, and the term which would be fixed for its duration.' * On the other hand, the Governments of France in France and England, with less cause for anxiety about land.' countries so remote as the provinces of the Lower Danube, were angrily impatient of the Czar's intrusion. Prussia, hitherto supposed to be hardly capable in Prussia, of differing with the Emperor Nicholas, did not fear to express her disapproval in decisive terms ; and the Cabinet of Berlin instructed the Kinj£s_ Envoy at Constantinople to ' unite cordially' with the representatives of Austria, France, and Eng- land, •f In short, the attitude of Europe towards the Attitude . of Europe Russian Emperor was exactly that which a lover generally. of peace and of order might desire to witness ;

  • Eastern Papers,' part i. p. 356. + Ibid. p. 855