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CONTENTS. CAUSES INVOLVING FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA. CHAPTER I. The Czar annoiincing his willingness to abstain from further aggression, .......... Tiie negotiations apparently ripening towards a settlement ; but rained by the French Emperor and the English Government, Movement at Constantinople, .... The use made of this by the Turkish Ministers, They succeed in alarming the French Ambassador, Composure of Lord Stratford, .... His wise and guarded measures for preserving the peace of the capital, ........ The French Emperor. His means of putting a pressure upon the English Cabinet, ...... Violent urgency of the French Emperor for an advance of the fleets to Constantinoiile, ..... Xeedlessness of the measure, ..... Its tendency to bring on war, .... The English Government yields to the Frencli Emperor, Fleet ordered up to Constantinople, Want of firmness and discretion evinced in the adoption of th measure, ........ Baron Brunuow's remonstrance, .... EfiFect of the measure at St Petersburg, . Count Nesselrode's sorrow, ..... 7 7 8 9 10 10 11 12 12