IX THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA. 45 time. Without mercy to the vanity of his suf- chap. fering master, Paskievitch defaced the cherished ' form of the ' material guarantee/ by insisting that the Czar should cease from trying to hold the Principalities entire, and that all his forces should he quickly withdrawn from the Lesser Wallachia. This done, he promised the Czar an invasion of the Ottoman Empire ; but the carrying of the enterprise beyond the valley of the Danube was to be only upon condition that Silistria should fall, and should fall before the 1st of May.* So now the streams of battalions rumoured to Movement be setting in upon the Lower Danube from the the Russian confines of All the Eussias woke up the mind of ^'"''" Europe, and portended a great invasion.
- Jfy knowledge of the counsels tendered to the Emperor hy
Paskievitch is derived from papers in the possession of the lata Lord Raorlan.
