France In The East

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... order the officer in command to detach three ships of war and two fireships to the Princes Islands, where the envoy, who bears your Majesty's demands, ought to reside until your demands have been granted. Your Majesty's envoy should then inform the Porte that, unless all your demands are granted without an instant's delay, all your subjects will be ordered to quit Turkey at once, and that all your friendly relations with her will cease. This declaration, if firmly made, will terrify the Sultan and his Ministers. They will know that they cannot resist your power, and that, if you blockade the Straits for eight days, there will be a famine in the capital; that the soldiers and the people will rise, and that the Ministers' heads will not be safe on their shoulders. If they do not yield they will be starved, as they never have any store of provisions in the capital. If the result of the measures which I recommend should be a war between France and Turkey, you may become master of all the islands of the Archipelago in a month or six weeks. The inhabitants of the islands long for this auspicious moment, and burn to be emancipated from the Turks, who inflict upon them continual outrages, and take from them a fifth part, not merely of the income which they possess, but of that which the Turks suppose them to possess. I have conferred with the magistrates of the islands, and they have assured me of their concurrence. With twelve guns you may destroy the fortifications of Smyrna, and your troops may then take the town, which is very rich, with ease. If a single shot be fired before Chio, the keys of the citadel will be brought to the commander of your fleet, and a panic will spread throughout Asia Minor. Your Majesty should be careful to select...

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