ABSTRACT
If Russia was heading for Constantinople, Great Britain had either ignored the tendency, or at least had taken no active steps to thwart the designs of Russia. Palmerston's triumph was complete: the Treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi was torn into shreds; Turkey was rescued from the hostility of Mehemet Ali, and from the exclusive friendship of Russia. The allies had made the fulfilment of the Sultan Mahmud's promises, not to his regret, impossible. The Tsar almost as much alarmed as the Sultan himself by Ibrahim's spectacular success in Asia Minor, reiterated, with added empressement, his offer of assistance to Turkey. England and France alarmed lest Russia should permanently establish herself at Constantinople, brought pressure to bear upon the Sultan to buy off Mehemet Ali, even at the heavy price demanded by latter. France, completely isolated by Palmerston's diplomacy, at last agreed to adhere to the general settlement embodied in a Treaty of London, signed by all the Powers on July 13, 1841.
