The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-13 00:00:00

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France to Cobden,

The following despatch is an eloquent proof of a
growing identity of views and sentiment between
the French and ourselves. The Minister of Foreign
Affairs interprets the feelings of the French nation
when he pays tribute to the sterling worth of Cob-
den. However great an object it may be to seek to
know ourselves, it is certainly a source of deep satis-
faction and of good augury for the peace of the
world when our neighbours learn to know us and
we also to understand them. The life of an " inter-
national man," such as M. Drouyn de Lhuys so
aptly designates Cobden, has been fitly devoted to
these great results :

"To his Excellency the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne,

Ambassador of France at London.
" Paris, April 8.

"Prince,—A few days since, whilst the First Mi-
nister of her Britannic Majesty bore brilliant testi-
mony in the House of Commons to the memory of
Richard Cobden, a speaker belonging to the Govern-
ment of the Emperor expressed the regrets which
the death of this illustrious man gave rise to in
France, and the Legislative Body identified them-
selves with this homage by an unanimous impulse.

" A manifestation so honourable to the two nations,
and to the person whose loss England deplores, will
not have escaped your attention ; and you will
perhaps have already had occasion to communicate
thereupon with the Ministers of the Queen. I desire
nevertheless, Prince, to place you in a position to
express to them officially the mournful sympathy
and truly national regret which the death, as
lamented as premature, of Richard Cobden has
excited on this side of the Channel.

" That indefatigable promoter of liberty in the
domain of commerce and manufactures was not only
the living proof of what merit, perseverance, and
labour can accomplish ; one of the most complete
examples of those men who, sprung from the most
humble ranks of society, raise themselves to the
highest rank in public estimation by the effect of
their own worth and of their personal services ;
finally, one of the rarest examples of the solid
qualities inherent in the English character. He 'is
above all, in our eyes, the representative of those
sentiments and those cosmopolite principles before
which national frontiers and rivalries disappear ;
whilst essentially of his country, he was still more
of his time ; he knew what mutual relations could
accomplish in our days for the prosperity of peoples.
Cobden, if I may be permitted so to say, was an
international man.

" There are some mental views and aptitudes
which are only given to those who in the outset of
their career have felt the embarrassments and the
difficulties of life, who have had to struggle against
the necessities of a position less than humble.
Richard Cobden had been brought up in this severe
but strengthening school ; he thence derived, as the
best preparation for a knowledge of political eco-
nomy, the gift of sympathy with the sufferings of
the laborious classes in the midst of whom he had
lived ; he the better understood the straitened
circumstances which he had shared; and in feeling
the need of alleviating them, he was naturally led to
seek the means to do so, firstly, in the abolition of
the corn laws in England, then in the suppression or
lowering of the barriers which the various commer-
cial laws had raised between peoples. Certainly
Cobden did not create any of the principles of in-
dustrial and commercial liberty. They had been
professed and propagated before him by eminent
theorists in England and France. But his glory •is
to have followed up the practical application of
them, abroad and at hone, with an ardour and de-
votedness quite unparalleled.
" Exempt from national prejudices as from those
of education and caste, Richard Cobden brought to
the pursuit of reforms which he judged useful
to his country and profitable to humanity a
disinterestedness and a sincerity which one can-
not but honour, whilst at the same time one is
obliged to admit that all his views were not equally
practicable.
For ourselves, we cannot forget the consider-
able part he took in the change of opinions which
prepared, and in the negotiations which led to, the
treaty of commerce at present existing between
France and England. This important act, the
good results of which experience has already con-
secrated, and the liberal provisions of which are from
day to day adopted by other Powers of Europe,
will have for effect not only the development of the
material interests between England and France, but
it will also aid powerfully in strengthening their
friendly relations. This was the double object of
Richard Cobden. He loved and understood France
better than any other person, and regarded as one
of the greatest interests of his country and humanity
the maintenance of peaceful relations between the
two nations, which, according to the expression
recently used by a member of the English Cabinet,
march at the head of the world.

" You will be good enough, Prince, to acquaint
the First Minister and the Principal Secretary of
her Britannic Majesty with the sentiments expressed
in this despatch, and which they will receive I doubt
not with a willingness equal to that which has dic-
tated them.—Receive, &c.,
(Signed) 66 DROUYN DE LIIUYS."