Preocupările şi intervenţiile ambasadorului Stratford Canning în raport cu Principatele Române (1848-1858)
Concernes and interventions of ambassador Stratford Canning regarding the Romanian Principalities (1848-1858)

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to enrich the historiographical research concerning the British interests towards the Romanian Principalities between 1848 and 1858. Historians such as Paul Cernovodeanu, Radu Florescu, Beatrice Marinescu and Constantin Ardeleanu presented us with different phases of this interest. Beatrice Marinescu and Radu Florescu approached the subject of Stratford Canning`s preoccupation towards the Principalities in this period of time, but Marinescu did not have access to the ambassador’s correspondence with the British State Secretary, the correspondence being at the Foreign Office Archives, while Florescu focused more on the British Consuls`activity in the Principalities than on the activity of the ambassador. Having access to the papers at the British Archives, this study comes to enrich the view of how the Principalities space was perceived by Great Britain through the work and the diplomatic papers of a British ambassador in the capital of the suzerain power in a time when the Principalities were going through significant events such as the 1848 revolutionary movements and the issue of their unification in 1857.

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