THE EASTERN QUESTION
... I . 0 An eminent French statesman is said to havel assigned as a reason why Russia would reject. the Y latest proposal to negotiate, that the Czar is sub- xrjected to the religious pressure of the Muscovite Y. party, which accepts the Testament of Peter the ie Great as a prophetic guide ;. and this is, probably; it in part true. History reminds the Emperor that. te he is not absolute; his ...