BlackHat's Journal: That he is able to keep awake for the rest of his years,

Or awake thru this quote.

Quote:
[Peace of Kutaya, April, 1833.]
In this extremity the Sultan looked around for help; nor were offers of assistance wanting. The Emperor Nicholas had since the Treaty of Adrianople assumed the part of the magnanimous friend; his belief was that the Ottoman Empire might by judicious management and without further conquest be brought into a state of habitual dependence upon Russia; and before the result of the battle of Konieh was known General Muravieff had arrived at Constantinople bringing the offer of Russian help both by land and sea, and tendering his own personal services in the restoration of peace. Mahmud had to some extent been won over by the Czar's politic forbearance in the execution of the Treaty of Adrianople. His hatred of Mehemet Ali was a consuming passion; and in spite of the general conviction both of his people and of his advisers that no possible concession to a rebellious vassal could be so fatal as the protection of the hereditary enemy of Islam, he was disposed to accept the Russian tender of assistance. As a preliminary, Muravieff was sent to Alexandria with permission to cede Acre to Mehemet Ali, if in return the Viceroy would make over his fleet to the Sultan. These were conditions on which no reasonable man could have expected that Mehemet would make peace; and the intention of the Russian Court probably was that Muravieff's mission should fail. The envoy soon returned to Constantinople announcing that his terms were rejected. Mahmud now requested that Russian ships might be sent to the Bosphorus, and to the dismay of the French and English embassies a Russian squadron appeared before the capital. Admiral Roussin, the French ambassador, addressed a protest to the Sultan and threatened to leave Constantinople. His remonstrances induced Mahmud to consent to some more serious negotiation being opened with Mehemet Ali. A French envoy was authorised to promise the Viceroy the governorship of Tripoli in Syria as well as Acre; his overtures, however, were not more acceptable than those of Muravieff, and Mehemet openly declared that if peace were not concluded on his own terms within six weeks, he should order Ibrahim, who had halted at Kutaya, to continue his march on the Bosphorus. Thoroughly alarmed at this threat, and believing that no Turkish force could keep Ibrahim out of the capital, Mahmud applied to Russia for more ships and also for troops. Again Admiral Roussin urged upon the Sultan that if Syria could be reconquered only by Russian forces it was more than lost to the Porte. His arguments were supported by the Divan, and with such effect that a French diplomatist was sent to Ibrahim with power to negotiate for peace on any terms. Preliminaries were signed at Kutaya under French mediation on the 10th of April, 1833, by which the Sultan made over to his vassal not only the whole of Syria but the province of Adana which lies between Mount Taurus and the Mediterranean. After some delay these Preliminaries were ratified by Mahmud; and Ibrahim, after his dazzling success both in war and in diplomacy, commenced the evacuation of northern Anatolia. --C. A. Fyffe

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The News:
Key Role. What like Keylime? A bun filled with sour green slime?

Evote issue Free Book or buy paper. BBV from Plan9.

M4dG3 adv rant. I thought it was a good slag of the 'one step for Tleilaxu kind' crowd.

If only you had Oil. Byeee!

Public Role Sounds rude. I ordered Poppyseed!

Suu Kyi update. Annan pokes with soft bun shaped cushion.

Walls have two sides. [Cue Cartman singing 'in the ghetto']

Another UN Role. How hard is it to get a damn roll around here! Poppyseed!

Pumping and shipping oil or gas yet? No? byeee!

Not a lot of fun news today. Leak'o'ramma absorbing legs at high speed. Calls for some Cupids...

Texttoon:
Copperplate etching on common ragpaper : Knee high view. In front of the line of legs in the queue for resigning is two Cupids. The first cupid points to a gap in the line. The second looking at a list in his hand is saying "Got bored, did he? Smart lad, he'll be sending someone down to take his place."