Note 187 — Chapter VI · BEGINNING OF THE WAR IN THE EAST.

See Correspondence respecting the Rights and Privileges of the Latin and Greek Churches in Turkey , part ii., pp. 248-258. Writing from Therapia, November 5, 1853, to Lord Clarendon, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, the British Ambassador at Constantinople, says, “I have succeeded in dissuading the Porte from sending a detachment of line-of-battle ships and sailing frigates into the Black Sea at this moment” (ibid., p. 250).