The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-13 00:00:00

, refuge in the bee4e of the French Arribes:;ador.
indige,m,ly ch,c,antifo reparation Th. sergeant was
broLi,ht in con,equenca to [:curt It uslin!. A verdict
Was given, which we ordered to be read at the head of
every regimen:. in the Austrian service. It was to this
affect, that, considering the long and faithful service of
this sergeant, he was not to be drummed oat of the
regiment for not having run the Frenchmen through
the body.—(A laugh.) I mention this to you, my
Lords,
not to excite laughter, but to show you hoe, many cir-
cumstances are to be taken into consideration in view-
ing Vie case. and how tar the point of honour is carried
in the Austrian service. But. giving the fullest extent
to this argument en the part of the Austrian officer, and
taking the Austrian aceouut of this transactiou, and o
contrasting it with the accunt of it given by !Jr
Ma;her, and corroborated by the testimony of several
French and Itshart witnesses of it, it still appears to me
that an inijustifieole act of outrage and injustice has
been commuted on a British subject, for which ample
reparation is justly due; and I say further, that I have
that confidence in the justice and honour of the Tuscan
in the keen sense of honour of the Austrian officers
i
Government and I arse add that I have that confidence
in Tuscany as to induce me to believe that they
not refuses to give now ample reparation in this matter.
I mentioned before to your Lordships that the Austrian
officer offered. if Mr. iVlather would make explanatioue,
an ap dog). Cobsidering the state of gen-
this young
ti-man, I h.,v, no doubt that, if the Austriau officer
heel ape. dily given en apology, he would nut here diem-
reshr d his rr putetion tether for ph> eical or mural COu'
rage, or have iejer,d his eharaceer as a Christian or a
eeettemen or hove acted inconsistently with that code
wht.•h oreeine, I believe, throughou Europe•
The sense Ot honour is the same among nations as
among individuals ; and I hereftire trust, that on that
ground, the Tuscan Geverneuent will not refuse repar"
tion. When I sat- that one nation should behave towards
another as it would with that nation to behave towards.
itself, without making any concession where honour and
good 'with is at sake, I mean to assert that, when A Ds-
tem.( is clearly in the wrong, it ought not to be too proud
to say so; and I may be permitted to make that dee)"
ration in consequence of the position in which L as the
For. ign Minister of this country, have been recently
placed. I have not been enunciating new riCciP e
which we do not apply in our own case.' .Of one thlehI
f
I am justly proud, that I have made an apol9gY ,i_n; hi
name of her Majesty's Government in a case wrlic- te
thought it to be justly due. An unfortunate
circainastance recently
took place, in which, by t"
neglect of hie instructions, a naval officer and civil
..ser-
vant of the State committed an act of insult and Oggreosr
sion towards the United States. My Noble predectt
in office began a friendly communication oe the tubJei-
with the Minister of the United States now residing "nil
Eeeland; but, on the very day after I bad entered
the that( s of my office, I was able to disavow the :pc
of violence which had occurred, and to express our rot
ashamed
that such au act had been committed. 1 itifiejes
ashamed to say that I should have pursued the thi
course if a weak State had complained instead on
powerful one; for it was the only course that was dos.
sieient with the just pride and dignity of this n,oa
5.,.e allusion has been made of Austria being be
sae
Tuscany in this respect; and I cannot deny thatt-te,
has lately been, on the part of the Austrian Girler°`,„
some isege peseta
in cheeking insults and petty r-tee
dens to British subjects on the part of its suborotnee
eee
I certainly trust, however, that this will not centinteo;
and I have some ground for saying so; for one of
rr
fit at steps I was compelled to take on entering my pith
sent office, on learning that an Englishman charged ; to
dispatches to Sir S. Canning had been exPcs tbl
insult, was to demand ample reparation for Boa
breach of the international usage and law
I am happy to say that within the last two ck-io
have received
from the Austrian Governmelae,
answer which, though I do not think it a very goue,„;101
yet at the same time is so far satisfactory that it beer
us that the policeman concerned in the affair had
punished; and further, I may state that the Ausgrites
Government bas repeatedly expressed its regret 8'
occurrence, aid acknowledged the justice of the raped
tion.—(Elear ) For this reason lam • • d belie'
to ee
which I do with great pleasure, that these sad nma'a
cichnts will not again occur; or that, if thet d02,41ii
some extent perhaps they are unavoidable, they
m for""
et in such a manner as to render it unnecessary e to
Minister Minister of one country to write to the Minister or 51-io
ther making claims and demands, which are Pnil3fuest
indite, arid irritating to the Minister of that 400.
country to receive, and which usually lead to recn""cligs
tions which are beteg( ther, in my opinion, below thebtebt
nay of. the Governments of the two countries, to tea
although they may differ entirely with respect boa
(Tint and 'orm of (heir internal administrations,
ad
still the sanectlomon objects in view, and great ,er.)
important interests committed to their cherge.--le^"read
l'he County Courts Further Extension Bill r:.5„51 bet:
a second time (we understood); and the Municipal or
or
porn ion Acts Amendment Bill and the Secretary
Bankrupts-office Abolition Bill respectively Passe
through Committee.
Their Lordships then adjourned.