These proclamations which are drawn up in the most exalted language of poetry, in which he declares himself to have been called upon by many thousands of his countrymen to undertake the work of their deliverance, describes the insurrection of all the Greek tribes as a revolution which has been long determined upon, which has been preparing for many years by secret patriotic societies, and is now everywhere matured for execution: and it is likewise expressly asserted in them, that the enterprise has to expect the powerful support of a great neighbouring power.

At the same time, Prince Ypsilanti addressed a petition, drawn up in the same style, to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and called upon that august Sovereign not to refuse his powerful support to the Greek nation, and particularly to the two principalities which were exposed to great danger. As soon as the preceding intelligence was received at Laybach, the Emperor Alexander was pleased to declare that he could consider the undertaking of Prince Ypsilanti only as an effort of the unquiet spirit which characterizes the present times, as well as the inexperience and levity of that young man; but at the same his Majesty has resolved as follows:

1st. Prince Ypsilanti is excluded from the Russian service.

2nd. It is notified to him that his Majesty the Emperor entirely disapproves of his enterprise, and that he is never to expect any kind of support in it on the part of Russia.

3rd. Express orders are given to General Count Wittgenstein, commanding in chief the Russian troops on the Pruth and in Bessarabia, to observe the strictest neutrality in the troubles which have broken out in the principalities of Moldavia and Walachia, and under no pretext whatever to take part in them, either directly or indirectly.

4th. These resolutions are communicated to the Russian ambassador at Constantinople, with orders to communicate them to the Porte; and to confirm the frank and open assurances given to it on occasion of the late insurrection in Walachia, Baron von Strogohoff shall expressly declare that the policy of his Majesty is, once and for all, alien to all and every intrigue which may threaten the tranquillity of any country whatever that any participation in such commotions would be in contradiction to the upright principles of his Imperial Majesty; and that the Emperor, in his relations with the Porte, has no object and no wish but the maintenance and punctual execution of the treaties subsisting between the two powers.

Orders have likewise been given by our Court to the imperial Austrian internuncio at Constantinople, to express himself in the same manner, and to signify to the Porte, in the most friendly terms, the sincere desire of his Majesty the Emperor, by the inviolable observance of the treaties, to preserve unshaken the relations of peace and amity now subsisting between Austria and the Sublime Porte.