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11.

It will be seen that the " correct copy" of Earl
RUSSELL'S Despatch differs but slightly from the
version already set forth, but inasmuch as this one
is known to be genuine, no doubt the effect it will
produce upon the mind will be more striking ; and
besides no one can make captious remarks and
insinuate that such and such a thing is exaggerated.
It will be seen that in some passages more modified
expressions are made use of than in the former
publication, but still the tone is the same through-
out—one of indignant remonstrance and disap-
pointed expectations. In this circular we find the
passage in which it is stated that all rights, " old
And new, whether founded on the solemn compact
of Sovereign, ' or on the clear expression of the
popular will, have been set at nought by the Con-
vention of Gastein, and the dominion of force is
the sole power acknowledged and regarded." This
is, in fact, the sum total of the whole affair, and
most correctly designates the conduct of those who
have rendered themselves so odious in the sight of
Europe by their unjust usurpation and unseemly
acts. In this despatch, as in the other, the effect
is rather spoiled by the concluding intimation, that
observations on the subject are not to be addressed
to the Court to which the ambassador is accredited,
but they are " intended to point out what
is the language to hold when an oppor-
tunity shall present itself. It would seem,
however, as if the merest hint or intimation
of reprisals or reproofs were too much for the tem-
per of the Prussian authorities to endure, and ac-
cordingly we hear that great offence has been given
by touching on the awkward subject of the Gastein
Convention, and especially by reference to the
comments passed thereupon by the other great
Powers of Europe. It is stated that the Konigsberg
Zeitung has been seized for reprinting Lord Rus-
SELL'S despatch on the Convention. Such a course
cannot but defeat its own object, and meanwhile it
shows that the shaft has found its mark, and that
those depredators have no worse accusers than their
own consciences. A better proof cannot be afforded
of the scandalous mapner in which the liberties of
the subject and the constitutional privileges of the
country are interfered with in Prussia than the
fact, that power is conceded to the "local police"
to decide whether or not an article seems a dubious
or dangerous one, and if they do, they seize the
journal in question, and wait for the final decision
of the court. The whole workings of the system
are heartless and arbitrary in the extreme, besides
being often positively unjust, for it often happens
that a year or two elapses before a dispute
is decided between the authorities and the
Press. There are endless hindrances when the
matter is at last brought before the Court ;
and as there are the courts of appeal as well as the
lower court that first adjudicates upon the case, it
stands to reason that a long delay often occurs. If
a year passes before it is settled whether the defen-
dants are to be acquitted and have their property
restored, or whether it is to be destroyed, serious
injuries are inflicted upon those whom even those
official persecutors may pronounce to be innocent.
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A state of things such as is thus produced is
totally subversive of all freedom in its truest
sense and fullest signification. It seem,: strange
that a people who had progressed BO far
as the
Prussians should submit to such tyranny and
misrule. There is something very rotten in the
Stite that contains such laws, and something want-
ing in the people who tolerate them. Herr 131 -
MARCK has for ever lost the esteem and respect of
all lovers of freedom ; and it is difficult to decide
whether he has committed himself to a greater ex-
tent in trampling on the rights of the people at
home, or in injuring and despoiling those abroad.
He is one of the old school of despotic states-
men that well-wishers of the human race had
hoped to see exterminated.
Nothing is more to be regretted in this unfor-
tunate episode of the Gastein Convention than
the part which Austria has played. For some
time the " rights of the good and the fears of the
wise" had turned to that power as the only one
which might avert the calamity that threatened
Europe in the confiscation of the rights of nations,
and the undue extension of the Prussian rule. These
expectations have Izost unfortunately not been.
realised min one iota, for the Berlin Govern-