| “I have, &c., (Signed) “Ponsonby.” |
“The Baron de Stürmer.”
“M. l’Ambassadeur,
“Constantinople, April 21, 1841.
“I received yesterday morning the letter which your Excellency did me the honour to address to me the day before yesterday.
“The Sultan having at length adopted with regard to the Pacha of Egypt resolutions in conformity with the advice and wishes of his august Allies, and those resolutions having yesterday been announced to us officially, our task, it appears to me, is accomplished. The question which you have the goodness to ask me, M. l’Ambassadeur, as to the kind of co-operation which my colleagues of Russia and Prussia and myself expected from you, becomes therefore unnecessary.
“If I have not replied to that same question which was already contained in your letter of the 13th of this month, it is because you had assured me therein that you had done everything which had depended upon you, by communicating to the Porte the acts of the Conference of London and Lord Palmerston’s instructions of the 16th of March, and in acquainting it at the same time with the strong desire of the Allied Powers to see the Egyptian affair terminated ‘at any rate.’ Now, that was precisely what we wished to propose to your Excellency to do, and there remained nothing more for us to ask you.
| “Be pleased, &c., (Signed) “Sturmer.” |
“Viscount Ponsonby.”