They aimed at a protectorate over the Christian subjects of the Porte in Eastern Europe; and the city where reigned the first Christian emperor of the old Roman world was not only sacred in their eyes, and had a religious prestige next to that of Jerusalem, but was looked upon as their future and certain possession,to be obtained, however, only by bitter and sanguinary wars.

Each power separately and individually may use its good offices with the Porte for the protection of the Greeks in Samos and Candia, and indeed, under the agreement as to an amnesty, each would be bound to do so; but no triple agreement will be entered into, the object being to get out of the Treaty of July 6.

She had engaged all the natural allies of the Porte into a combination for rousing the populations of her enemy, and by her diplomacy she gained the power of bringing her fleet into the Mediterranean, for blockading the ports of Turkey; and Navarino opened for her the Black Sea, where she had thirteen men-of-war.

To be sure, she would not have done as much for the cause of humanity, as if she had succeeded in bringing the further indulgence of the sin within the limits of a briefer period, and incomparably less than if she had succeeded in reconciling the Sublime Porte to her glorious and emphatically English doctrines of immediate emancipation.

Le granit remplaça la tente aux murs de toiles, On lia chaque bloc avec des noeuds de fer, Et la ville semblait une ville d'enfer; L'ombre des tours faisait la nuit dans les campagnes; Ils donnèrent aux murs l'épaisseur des montagnes; Sur la porte on grava: `Défense à Dieu d'entrer.

The Czar discovered that the English ambassador had more influence with the Porte than Mentchikof, and became intensely angry.

The Treaty of Berlin indeed provided for reforms, but the Porte through diplomacy and delay frustrated all the efforts of Europe to have them put into effect.

Mehemet Ali was represented to us as being so obstinately determined to retain possession of the Turkish fleet, and the British Government so urgent with France to support the Porte against him, that, if this intelligence was to be depended upon, no time ought to be lost.

But what was to be said at a time when all the statesmen of Europe were attempting to concentrate and condense the resources of the Porte with the view of strengthening themwhat would have been the position of the Porte if it had to commence its new careera career, it is to be hoped, of amelioration and tranquillityby dispatching a large army to Bosnia to deal with those elements of difficulty and danger?

Quand l'ambassadeur fut entré on le fit asseoir près de la porte avec beaucoup d'autres personnes qui attendoient que le maître sortit de sa chambre pour faire porte.

L'un des hommes paraît trente ans; l'autre est encor Plus jeune, et sur son dos il porte en bandoulière La guitare où s'enlace une branche de lierre; Il est grand et blond; l'autre est petit, pâle et brun; Ces hommes, qu'on dirait faits d'ombre et de parfum, Sont beaux, mais le démon dans leur beauté grimace; Avril a de ces fleurs où rampe une limace.

But the only result was to bring to an end the co-operation which had for some years been maintained between the Austrian and Russian governments in the enforcement upon the Porte of the adoption of reforms in Macedonia.