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i 8 ORIGIN OF THE WAR OF 1853 chap, events to give a vast extension to Lis views v against the Sultan ; and that, even against Ids will, and without being prepared for the crisis, he might find himself called upon to deal with the ruins of the Ottoman Empire in the midst of confusion and massacre.