Statu quo

"The system supported by the French Cabinet was to leave everything in statu quo in the Levant, neither disturbing the Russians in their influence at Constantinople, nor Ibrahim in his Syrian conquests. […]—after the treaties of Adrianople, Unkiar-Skelessi, and Kutaya, and the dismemberment of the half of the empire by Mehemet Ali and yourselves, who protect him,—after all this, to speak of the statu quo, is, allow me to say, as ridiculous as to speak of the existence of Polish nationality. What! are you about to arm for the statu quo of the Turkish empire, which is essential, you say, to the security of Europe, when that statu quo is the dismemberment, the annihilation, the agony, of the empire which you pretend to support?"