THE RUSSO-TURKISH PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AND BRITISH INTERESTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN IS
THE RUSSO-TURKISH PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AND BRITISH INTERESTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN IS

Summary/Abstract: Robert Stewart (1769-1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, as British Foreign Secretary from 1812, he was fundamental to the management of the coalition that defeated Napoleon and was the prime British diplomat at the Congress of Vienna. In 1812 he was involved in the peace negotiations between Turkey and Russia. On 27 March 1812, in his instructions to Sir Robert Liston, he stated that as His Majesty’s Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, his first mission was to maintain the good relations of amity and commerce between His Majesty and the Sublime Ottoman Porte. The second objective of his mission was to assist and accelerate by every means in his power, the pacification between the Turks and the Russians. Castlereagh told Sir Robert Liston to influence the Turk authorities not to permit the presence of the French troops or even French officers inside the Ottoman Dominions.

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