fb)  This  Treaty  is  printed  in  the  Appendix  to  this  volnme.
c)  Vide  ante,  VoL  I.  pp.  113-17,  as  to  the  effect  of  the  Treaty  of  Adrianople  in
1829,  and  of  usage  upon  this  point.
(d)  Preamble.  (e)  Article  vii.
(/)  Art.  Til.  of  the  Treaty  of  Paris,  30  March,  1856.
iv  PHILLIMOKE    ON   INTERNATIONAL    LAW.
at  variance  with  the  fonner  traditions  and  habits  of  Christendom,  maj
endnre,  is  a  speculation  without  the  proTince  of  this  work.  It  is  to  be
remarked,  however,  even  in  this  place,  that  this  condition  is  the  more
complicated  because  the  same  Treaty  which  recognizes  this  qnasi-Chris-
tian  9tatui(^)  of  the  Turkish  Empire,  contains  the  following  most  singu-
lar provision,  which  might  almost  seem  intended  at  once  to  recognize
and  to  prohibit  the  Right  of  Intervention  by  the  Powers  of  Christen-
dom on  behalf  of  their  co-religionists : —

«  His  Imperial  Majesty  the  Sultan  having,  in  his  constant  solicitude
P^  -.  for  the  welfare  of  his  subjects,  issued  a  *firman  which,  while  ame-
>-  -I  liorating  their  condition  without  distinction  of  religion  or  of  race,  re-
cords his  generous  intentions  towards  the  Christian  population  of  his  em-
pire, and  wishing  to  give  a  further  proof  of  his  sentiments  in  that  re-
spect, has  reserved  to  communicate  to  the  Contracting  Parties  the  said
firman,  emanating  spontaneously  from  his  Sovereign  Will.
