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No. 31.—VoL. I.

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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 Loris
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 of
that fleet. The venerabtx 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: and 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; tin' visit is not Satis-
factory ; WAl.Ersa A is summoned
abruptly to I'auis ; 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 ; our
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 even added
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 ionic
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 of
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 "antiquate
imbc-
cility " and " foreign conspirators.
But of all the absurdities now afloat the
greatest is that which would persuade the
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

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may be relied on. Since the month of August
last the Emperor of flesst‘ ha; witholrawn
frotn English SOClWnit'l in t he Dank of Eng-
land and the city of Loet•lon. not a few
hundred thousand leotniol.i. but a stun execed-
ing six millionA noel a holf stool lug. • ihirimo., the
mune period M. Kla4aLtilli, his %vitt/-
dr:MI &OM the It ink of Franco a rather
larger sum. A c.onsiaiorahle porsioa of there
thirteen millions sterling and upwor,h, have
been transmitted to Holland, where the Em-
peror potooemses w tretentre auperinw hss amount
to both the Mania drawn frnin Linldnin and
Paris. Nor are these by any nn alas all the
personal resources of his Majesty ; and it
tiliould be understood that these lire not trea-
sures of the State or nation. but of the man
iota th i 1114)Wirell. 'Clio Emperor eau carry
otl two toiutp•tigits on a ;;seat scale without
increasing the taxes of his sobjeets What
other monarch in Europe or in Asia can say
the same? With a regularly-increasing re•
venue, also, the whole national debt of all
the ftliaNi43 not nearly amount to double
one year's interest ou that of the United
Kingdom. We aometintes think that these
crumpling-up " storie* of the resourees of
Russia and its Prints are purposely circu-
lated by Ilassiaii agents to deceive the " Cock-
neys of Loudon uud Mascadins of Paris."

RONIAN AGGRESSION AND ITS

DEFEN ltS.
A MINIsTrItIAL organ, tite MOrniati Chronicle of
Thursday last, was at the pains of elaborating
nu insult to the Protestant feeling of the coun-
try will shoek malty, end astonish some,
but which no one will believe it ventured on
unless it presumed it Was well advised. We
wid not transcribe a specimen of the coutitine
lions phrases which are the substanee of its
leading article; sutliee it to say that Protes-
tuntimin in all its forms, and especially where
itesocisteil for its own protection, was made
the oldert of un attack as direct and compre-
hensive as enmity could dictate
or audacity
embellish: The artiele to which we refer will
be tunnel in its fifth page, and we invite our
Protestiuit frieufl3 to read it at teotivoly, as an
eVitiollee of the iiiiillllH. Minas the
*Weil they will he called upon ere long to
cope. So fr, indeed, as they have been over-
eontident it may serve to teach them prudence,
or, if they are 'hesitating. it imty afford them
courage; forth.. imputat ions of the 11oemir/pare
impartially founded itpim t hat whieli is both
their strength and their weakness. Among
the signs of rel'elit opinion none hay.' been
more remarkable than the 14pontaiieolis and
independent etiOrts to throw up a barrier
against Humanism, and yet, these elf.arts sire
sneered at for their want of combined aim,
while the eommon impulse from which they
sprung is held ofiioneemint, anal the peril they
eontemplate4l is Hooka stiltieet f rrexnitattion. It.
would seem that the chronic/0, in its elation at
the temporary aseendaney of its friends, to
whom the very name of Protestantism is
0111011 S. has littered sill inopportune vaunt. lie-
HIV not the less impressed with
the necessily of eoauillg to an miderst,miling
in its behalf. if they are not as yet a greol npoll
all the °Noels aif elotteerteil aetimi ; and the
exhibitions which sire now taking place
througin slit Elin pt. ace not caleulated to
deaden their sells.' of this lieVeSSitY.

\Ve have 11.1 opportunity at this moment to
enlarge 1111111 l pllrtlelllllll4. fill. the pretetimb tits of
lionti►lh Rllll►itioll are
in hi) ninny quarters that we lack
space to estinmte them. In linden. for in-
s~ta►nec they have taken the fibrin of anathemas
and excommunientions of the 44%11 floWel*, ami
the Prinee who relied Upon► priestly supl►ort
le BOW ansaileil with the weapons of IvNot•Exv
or HII.I►t•:HIIAVLI. 'Phis opeetnele i. a proof
that. Home ham not forgotten her aneient
terrors. if she laic learnt to combine them with
new arts of HMI that her polies'
remains the• mains. though her expedients vary
►with the !mad requirements and vicissitudes
of her position.
We will not affeet to eoineide with those
who believe that her influenee hits been in-