Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from IslamismVarious
Islamic
Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism
Various
Apostasy -- Islam; Executions (Islamic law)
With reference to my other despatch of this day, inclosing, for
communication to M. Guizot, a copy of an instruction which I have
addressed to Sir Stratford Canning respecting the execution of a
Greek near Brussa who had apostatized from Islamism, I have to state
to your Excellency that, in the event of your making the
communication to M. Guizot in sufficient time to enable him to send
his instructions to the French Minister at Constantinople by the
steam-vessel which leaves Marseilles on the 21st of this month, the
post for which is made up in Paris on the evening of the 18th, I
should wish your Excellency to acquaint Sir Stratford Canning by
that opportunity with what may have passed between you and M.
Guizot.
The despatch will be sent this evening by post through France so as
to go on by the Marseilles steam-vessel of the 21st.
I am, &c.,
(Signed) ABERDEEN.
No. 19.
_The Earl of Aberdeen to Lord Stuart de Rothsay_*.
My Lord, _Foreign Office, January_ 16, 1844.
I inclose for your Excellency's information, a copy of a despatch
from Sir Stratford Canning reporting that a Greek has been executed
near Brussa as an apostate from Islamism; and a copy of an
instruction which I have in consequence addressed to that
Ambassador. Your Excellency will communicate this instruction to
Count Nesselrode for the information of the Russian Government; but
although Her Majesty's Government would doubtless see with pleasure
that the other Powers of Europe should declare their abhorrence of
so revolting a system as that which the Porte has twice acted upon
within the last few months, they do not think it necessary formally
to solicit their co-operation in a matter in which they all may be
supposed to take a common interest, and to be prepared to act
without previous concert with each other.
Your Excellency will therefore merely put Count Nesselrode in
possession of the instructions given to Sir Stratford Canning, and
leave to the Russian Government to determine for itself whether it
shall instruct M. de Titow to the same effect.
I am, &c.,
* A similar despatch was addressed on the 20th January to Sir Robert
Gordon and the Earl of Westmorland.
(Signed) ABERDEEN.
No. 20.
_Lord Cowley to the Earl of Aberdeen_.--(_Received January_ 22.)
My Lord, _Paris, January_ 19, 1844.
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