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Measures suggested -- Turkish regeneration -- Decline of Fanaticism -- Equality of civil rights -- The Ottoman Moniteur -- Publicity -- Judicial institutions -- Pressure from without -- Payment of indemnity -- War -- Resistance -- Naval armament -- Protection.
The reader will, I trust, do me the justice to believe that I have not embarked lightly in this discussion. While I remained in Constantinople, and since my return home, I have devoted to it my best attention. It is a question involving the most important interests of the Turkish people, and very serious interests and national feelings on the part of England and France. I am deeply impressed with the responsibility which any writer assumes, who deals with a topic that may find its issue in a partial or general war, of which, from every motive of religion, humanity, and civilization, I entertain the utmost abhorrence. My anxious desire is, if an individual may so speak, that the governments and the enlightened classes of the two most powerful nations in Europe shall direct their thoughts to this momentous subject _in time_, in order not to provoke a war, but to prevent it.