•STiiMftmi-, Wwnmniiiiiin HI rnnOTI Lord Granville, No. 230, July 2, 1838.

the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire ; that a naval operation would be insufficient; that the isolated action of Russia would be a great evil, and could only be prevented by previous concert, and that Prussia should be invited to be a party; that military assistance should be afforded by one Power alone; that Lord Palmerston should propose to the several Ambassadors and Ministers in London, that the Five Powers should offer to the Sultan naval and military assistance ; that England* France, and Russia should afford naval, and Austria military aid; and Prussia, if required, send more officers to organize the Sultan's army..

Count Sebastian! added that these, however, were only his own personal sentiments.

Lord Palmerston concludes his despatch by stating that Her Majesty's Government are of opinion that such a concert of the Five Powers would afford the best chance of preventing Mehemet Ali from declaring his independence, or of preserving the peace of Europe if he did so ; and Lord Granville was instructed to communicate with Count Mole on this point.

"With reference to Count Sebastiani's report of the above conversation with Lord Palmerston, Count Mole told Lord Granville that he wa& of opinion that it would be inexpedient to suggest the employment of Austrian troops ; that the Court of Vienna would never consent to it j and that the mere proposition would give umbrage to Russia. Count Mole was not, however, prepared to propose another course, but was inclined to think that the Consuls of Austria, England, France, and Russia, should separately, rather than jointly, warn Mehemet Ali of the determination of their Courts to support the rights of the Sultan ; though it was a point to be considered whether some expectation should not be held out to the Pasha, that the Four Powers would employ their good offices to obtain for his children the reversion of his present tenure of the territories now governed by him, as the overthrow of the Power of Mehemet Ali was not to be desired, on account of the barrier it offered to the ambition of Russia.

Count Mole at the same time communicated to Lord Granville, despatches from M. Cochelet of the 31st of May, and 5th of June, in which it appeared that, although M. Cochelet had endeavoured to dissuade Mehemet Ali from an early execution of his intention, he had not sought to crush any hopes which the Pasha might have formed of eventually obtaining the good offices of France in favour of his views ; and Count Mole expressed strongly his disapprobation of M. Cochelet having allowed any doubt to exist on that point. In his despatch of the 5th of June, M. Cochelet said that the Pasha meant to delay his declaration until he returned to Alexandria in October from a visit to the gold mines.

The French Charge d'Affaires at Vienna reports that Prince Metternich seems to be of opinion that Mehemet Ali will not carry his threat into execution, and that he only uttered it, in order to see how far the Great Powers of Europe were disposed to interfere in support of the Sultan.

Colonel Campbell was instructed by the Mail of the 7th of July, to \° af' T CfmL)bel1' state to the Pasha that Her Majesty's Government regretted to receive 1838.' U"V ' m s communication, but hoped that he would still on consideration abandon his intention, the attempted execution of which would be destructive to his own fame, and fatal to the interests of his family. Success was impossible, for all the Powers of Europe would side with the Sultan. The British Government for itself declared that, in such a case, Great Britain would support the Sultan in his attempt to obtain redress, and in order to prevent the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire, and the Pasha must not expect that any jealousies among the Powers of Europe would prevent them from affording every necessary assistance to the Sultan for upholding, enforcing, and vindicating his just and Lord Granville, legitimate rights. No. 236, July 6, Lord Granville read to Count Mole Lord Palmerston's despatch 1838.

mmmmm 7 No. 297, who said that he must have some time to reflect upon it, before he could discuss its contents.

Afterwards Count Mole told Lord Granville that on reflection he Lord Granville, saw nothing in Lord Palmerston's No. 297, to induce him to alter his No. 247, July 9, instructions to Count Sebastian!. Count Mole disapproved of the plan 183 ' of applying to Austria to send an army into Asia Minor, to which he conceived Prince Metternich would not consent, and which Count Mole evidently disliked as tending to the occupation by an Austrian army, for an uncertain period of time, of a portion of the Turkish territory. Count Mold was ready to concert measures for preventing Mehemet Ali from taking the step he meditated., and to concur in a simultaneous, or even a joint declaration on the part of the Powers that they would resist the assertion of his independence ; and in reply to an observation made by Lord Granville, that the mere threat of opposition might not deter the Pasha, counting as he did upon disunion being occasioned among the Powers by the advance of a Russian army into Turkey; whereas the knowledge of an arrangement being entered into for the eventual employment of an Austrian army might have that effect; Count Mole said that he relied on the effect of the appearance of the British and French fleets, and was even not adverse to proposing that those fleets should be joined by a Russian squadron.

Upon being informed by Lord Granville of Prince Metternich's opinion as to the expediency of the Great Powers concerting not only the measures to be adopted to deter Mehemet Ali, but also those to be employed in case he should persevere ; and that this concert should be come to in London ; Count Mold remarked, that the Conference, if established, had better be held at Paris, as neutral ground between Russia and England, the two Powers most jealous of each other. Lord Granville supposes that jealousy of Count Sebastiani was at the bottom of this suggestion.

Lord Granville having shown Count Mold the despatch to Colonel Campbell, No. 21, the Count in return read his instructions to Lord Granville M. Cochelet, by which that Agent was directed to remind Mehemet Ali No. 249, July 13, of the interest which France had shown in his welfare and in that of his 1838-family, and to express regret at the step which he was about to take, and which would end in his ruin : that France, in common with all the Great Powers, would oppose his attempt to dismember the Turkish Empire. Count Mole then said to Lord Granville, that he thought the identity of the language held by the Great Powers, must make an impression on Mehemet Ali, especially if backed by the appearance of a British and French fleet off Alexandria; and he therefore objected now to enter into arrangements for affording military aid to the Porte.

The King of the French, on informing Lord Granville that Count Sebastiani had reported that Lord Palmerston was satisfied with the course Lord Granville, which the French Government intended to pursue, added that the in- No. 254, July io\ structions which it was proposed to give to M. Cochelet* would be com-1838, municated to the British Government, but not despatched, until it was known that they were in accordance with its sentiments. The King also was sanguine as to the effect on Mehemet Ali of the declared opposition of the Great Powers; but His Majesty thought Mehemet Ali would be more readily induced to abandon his project, if a hope had been held out to him, that the good offices of France and England would be employed at Constantinople to aid him in obtaining the reversion of his power for his son.

In reply to this despatch, Mr. Aston was told that Count Sebastiani agreed with Lord Palmerston in opinion, that it would be inexpedient for To Mr. Aston, England and France to endeavour to renew the negotiation which was No. l, July uo, carried on some time ago between the Porte and Mehemet Ali, for se- 1838, curing to Ibrahim Pasha the reversion of the Pashalics of Egypt and of Acre; such an arrangement being a purely domestic matter between * It is presumed that the papers communicated by Count Sebastiani on the 19th of July, are the papers referred to. M. Cochelet was to be instructed to present a strong note to Mehemet AH, threatening him with the presence of a French squadron oil' Alexandria.