THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1821 TO 1833 BY W.ALISON PHILLIPS 1897

RUSSIA DECLARES WAR ON TURKEY 277
Turkey on her own account. The
working out of the
Treaty of London ' by peaceful means ' she was quite
willing to leave to the other members of the Triple
Alliance. The ruin of the Ottoman sea-power at
Navarino had given her the
the Black Sea;
the dying
could be fed into new life
form a diversion in the south;
undisputed mastery of
flame of the Greek revolt
by Russian subsidies, and
while Russia, unhampered
by allies, established herself in the Balkan peninsula.
In the Mediterranean, where military operations
would have been costly and difficult,
Russia readily
consented to be bound by the terms of the Treaty of
London. In return, France willingly, and England
not without considerable misgiving, were prepared to
let her have a free hand elsewhere.
The reply then
of Russia to the Haiti-sheriff, was the declaration of
her intention to occupy the Danubian principalities.
Metternich's nightmare had come true,
and the end
of all the sentimental interference in the affairs of
Greece was to be the aggrandisement of Russia in the
east of Europe.
The Austrian statesman, indeed, still made desperate
efforts to avert the catastrophe. He enlarged
at Con-
to the Porte, through his representative
stantinople, on the suicidal folly of its attitude, and
besought it to modify
its tone. The Grand Vizier