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fpi . rto6l, num LONDON, SATURDAY, DECENIBER 3, 1853. PRICE SIXPENCE. No. 31.—VoL. I. Ely V rtss. LoNvoN, sArumur, DEcE.VBEI2 3 1R.53. FORMAL AN!) ABSOLUTE CONcLUSION OF ALL NEGOTIATIONs! WE have authority to state, that the Court of St. Petersburg has addressed a brief and conclusive note to the Govennuents of Eng- land and Franee, announcing that no further negotiations, with respect to the affairs of the East, will be listened to—that the part of Russia is definitively taken—and that that part is " La Guerre." AMID the strange vicissitudes of the life of the Emperor of the FRENCH, none atfi►rd a more startling contrast than the tone and temper in which ho is viewed by the Court, the Govern ment, and the people of this country at the present moment, and the spirit in which his name and conduct were considered by them less than a year back. Less than a year ago the most considerable journal of the country, the " organ " of Lord ABERDEEN, acting under his immediate instructions, produced almost tinily a tierce invective against the ruler or France, in•oscribing him from the pule of civilisation as at brigand, a pirate, a spoliator of the rights and properties of men, am Borgia of the middle ages, a tyrant of Greek history. The object of these diatribes was to stimulate men to his overthrow, and apparently to en courage his assassination. The frank recogni tion of his imperial dignity by Lord NlammEs arav was cavilled at for its precipitation ; and. when the Minister reminded Parliament that Louis NAroLEos had been twice chosen ruler of France by the universal people, his expres sions were stigmatised as unworthy of a British Minister. At this period Lord Alamo- DEM then on the threshold of ofliee, and who made the dangerous management of our foreign affitirs his principal excuse for over throwing at Government which he land volun tarily promised to support, was in the habit of speaking of the Ruler of France to foreign Ministers as "that person," and never hesi tated to disseminate his opinion that L or is NAIOLEON was an individual with whom 110 British Minister was justified in maintaining more than a formal connection. The attempt to regulate our foreign policy by a cordial understanding with "that person " was, ac cording to Lord ABERDEEN, not only a very grave offenee, but a very great blunder. Faithful to these antecedents, when Lord ABERDEEN beettme Alinister, his principal con fidant. Sir .lAMEa liatitAst, opened their policy by a personal attack upon " the Despot Of " France, who hail trampled tun the liberties of " thirty millions of human beings :" while another of his colleagues. Sir CifARLEs Wool), always blundering, ami thinking he was gain ing favour at Court by keenly following the scent, not satisfied with attacking the Em peror of the FitEscii, libelled the whole Freneli people. Anti now the entire Coalition Ministry, with the sage and preseient Lord Ai:WE:EN at their head, are dinging to the purple robe of the French Emperor as their only hope and refuge in the situation of unparalleled diffi culty in which " all their talents " have eon trivetl, ill the course of tell months, to Olive the country. The Nlinisters are vale in hand to (hut )W1'14011"; members of the family of "Borgia" share the royal hospitalities of Windsor; the journals who denounced the Imperial Cain are now bursting with frater nity; and the people of England, who, how evor prejudiced and passionate for the mo ment, are in the long run ever just, have pretty generally come to the conclusion that .oral MAl.MEstletty, after all, Was an able and faithful British Nlinister, who understood the interests of the country. and skilfully regu lated the ciremnstanees of the times. In the meantime that has occurred which it was, perhaps, not Unreasonable to deem in evitable. Having unexpeeteelly gained in ten months an European consideration, which he could hardly have anticipated that a reign of ten years would have given him, with a scutcheon dear, and his libellers become his sycophants, the Emperor of the FitaNcii aspires to something more than a !Bailey of words, and is resolved to consolidate his throne by his active alliance with England. This is the more necessary us there is it Bour bon fusie al. and the " foreign conspirators" who have arranged the fusion triumphantly un nounee that it has taken place with the WOW tion 44 Lord ABERDEEN. We quite acquit Lord ABERDEEN of any participation in this recent emgs Eqitl, and we hope by this time the Ent peror of the . FitENcii is equally persuaded o f that fleet. The venerab t x hands of our saga• clouts Prelnier 111 . 1' full enough of trouble ; lout the ease is awkward ; fie', a year ago, it that Llirti ABERDEEN tows a great advocate of fusion, in order to injure BoN.trARTE ; and the li•reign conspirators " quote passages from his letters in which this course is recom mended. We trust. however, that Comte WALEUKKA has by this tittle made all this right—art least almost so. The triumphant Emperor of the FRENCII, boWCVer, ri•Soki d to art. lie will have peace or war: a n d be will hare either one or the other, with glory to himself and confusion to the Fusionists. Ile makes a peremptory proposition in detail to the English Ambas sador in Paris. Lord Cowt.Ev, ftightened out of his wits, conies over for fintrand-twenty hours iumg. to London; ti n ' visit is not Satis factory ; WAl.Ersa A is summoned abruptly to I'au i s ; something transpires there is at rui 1111 l We there is a misunder standing between the two Courts ; Downing street instantly denies it " his Excellency had long intended to go to Paris, for social " reasons only—merely to dine at Fontaine - Wean—and will rtturii immediately; Lin deed, we believe, has already returned. - This was more than ten days ago, and his Ex cellency has not returned yet. What is wanted in Paris is a distinct reply to a definite pro position. There was a Cabinet 011 this KO - it'll, called suddenly, exactly a week ago ; o ur Ministers sate nearly four hours, even though they were not favoured by the refinements of I. lit.macrosi; or the llltel'rul►UUllh 44 the Duke of Atiovi.i.; but their eonclusion m. 1.1 SO 1111SlitiNfiletOry, that one May ululoMt sal) their foreign 'whey is in as promising a e.. 11 Mimi as their large measure of • tarry Reform.- TIIE EMPEROR 01" RUSSIA AND HIS PECUNIARY RESOURCES. I.:Ani.v in the spring, when the Russian move ments in the East began to attract pnblie attention, and so prove inconvenient lAoll ABERDEEN HMI his friends, it was the fashion of that " safe " statesman to speak with com plete eotitidenee of the result, observin g always that the Emperor Of RussiA Wits a man ufhunotu•,whose word could be never doubted, and whose purpose could never be prejudicial ; in short, " a real 'prince ; " intimating thereby that some other Emperors were tint real princes, were not men of honour, and that their word wAs not to be trusted. As affairs progressed the tone of Lord Am.:Reims began to change. First of all it was circulated by the Treasury runners that the Emperor of Re4P4l4 Watt " mad:" then it. was announced, and by Lord Atirenrcs himself, that the Emperor was " ill, very ill. " Now, as neither of these delicate annotmeements have " settled the Eastern questilm, " it is suddenly discovered that the Emperor is something intn•li worse, at least in England, than either a lunatic or an invalid, and that he is a pauper. Ills Majesty is so hard up that he is obliged to close his account at the Bank of England, and have a remission to St. Petersburg of so paltry a sum as 11010,41011/. of 700,0001. ; ultl gh than half that amount will be wanting, in a very few months, to pay the Russian dividends due in London. Indeed, it is ev e n add e d that the Emperor meditates, under some false pretence or oilier, raising another loan of fire sterling in our market. N,ov, in our opinion there is nothing ioni c silly than unjustly to depreciate and disparage an opponent. We oppose the Russian system ()centime we believe, if successful, it would be dangerous to the independence of Europe, and fatal to the empire of Great Britain. but We oppose that system on a ►litiral grounds, and painealstroundm alone. We are not prepared to demonstrate that the taora/ iniquity of in• vading the Principalities is more heinous that of the invasions of Algiers and Atfghanis • tan, and, instead of believing that the Emperor . of ltussia is mad, we, on the contrary, are o f opinion that he is a most able prince, entirely worthy of his position, and very likely to suc ceed in effecting his purpose, if he be ppi.sed only by such statesmen "antiquat e imbc cility " and " foreign conspirators. But of all the absurdities now afloat the greatest is that which would persuade th e rople of this country that the Emperor of Hrt4/41A in II pauper. There are some facts, rather different from those which are served up by " the organs," but which, uevertbelt