text:  The originally-alleged provocation the affair of the Derya-Dowlut is not for a moment tenable as warranting such extreme measures:--since not only was the participation of the parties on whom the whole responsibility was thrown at all events extremely venial; but satisfaction had been given and had been admitted to have been given before the subject of the cession of the place was broached:--and the Sultan constantly denied that his alleged consent to the transfer on which the subsequent hostilities were grounded had ever been intended to be so construed