The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-01 00:00:00

£19,465,263

power we have been so long at enmity with each
other. We have now adopted a new constitution,
and our intention is to govern our territory with
strict justice and humunity, without injuring any-
one. A people that are endowed with such good
feelings ought to inspire sympathy to a great power
like yourself ; it is not becoming, therefore, to its
honour to destroy such an innocent neighbour.
You have shown on many occasions sympathies
towards people who claimed their independence ;
why should you not now show the same towards
us ? We are exerting our utmost in order to rule
our country according to justice and the new
laws which we have framed ; we will treat with
justice our fellow-citizens, and respect the life
and property of those foreigners who come
among us. Is it then the duty of a great power
like you to destroy us, and our small nationa-
lity, or to help us to carry out our nascent re-
forms ? We are resolved to submit our ease to all
the great powers; you are one of them, and we
place our cause in its true light before you ; do us
justice, and not destroy our property and temples ;
do not shed our blood when you have had no provo-
cation. It is a stigma on all great powers to de-
stroy human life when there is no necessity, and it
is at variance with everything that is just and right
to capture helpless women and children, in the
prosecution of the unjust war you have been car-
rying on against us for a very long time. You have
been deluding the world that we are a savage tribe,
and under this pretence you have been waging war
against us; we are human beings like yourselves,
pray do not shed our blood, as we are resolved to
defend our country to the last."

The above memorial has been presented not only
to the Governor of Tiflis, but to the Emperor him-
self, when he came there; still we had no justice,
and the Russian sword has remained unsheathed
against us; in fact, their tyranny was not confined
to capturing our cattle, burning our dwellings
and temples, and other unheard of atrocities, but,
in order to starve us on the mountains, they de-
stroyed all our growing crops in the plain, and
captured our land. In short, they have treated us
in an unbearable and barbarous manner, unprece-
dented in the annals of war. Driven to despair we
resolved to make a last firm stand against our ene-
mies with all the energy we possessed, and the war
was carried on with fresh vigour eight months ago,
causing the sacrifice of 25,000 human lives on both
sides and an immense destruction of property.
While we are on one side repelling our enemies, and
on the other trying to improve the government of
our country, Russia, by brute force. is trying to
conquer us. On the neutral Black Sea she is cap-
turing, whenever she can, every ship carrying any
of our countrymen, so that we have no home on
land, no means of travelling or refuge by sea. Still
we would rather die than submit to the yoke of
Russia. If we were to emigrate, abandoning our
homes, for ages protected by our forefathers, who
shed their blood for them, our poverty would prove
a great obstacle to our doing so; in fact, how could
we take away our own wives and children, and the
widows, orphans, and helpless relations of those
slain in this war ? Such an undertaking would
decimate the emigrants, and blow out for ever our
Circassian name from the face of the earth. In
presence of these insurmountable difficulties we
have resolved unanimously to submit our case to
every great Power, with an intimate conviction
that they would highly disapprove the conduct of
our foe, and stigmatise it as it deserves. Our eyes
are most particularly turned towards your most
gracious Majesty as well as the people of your coun-
try, whose freeedom, love of jnstice, and sympathy
for the oppressed are known even in our unhappy
land. We implore therefore your protection, with
a conviction that you will help us in our trial. To
attain this desirable object we have been sent here
on behalf of the Circassian and Abasian communi-
ties, in order to lay most humbly our case before
your powerful throne, that you may know our sad
condition and interfere to prevent the utter exter-
mination of a nation numbering a million of souls,
and who are the same flesh and blood as the rest of
the world. This is the case we have to submit to
your most gracious Majesty on behalf of the Cir-
cassian and Abasian people, and they have no doubt
your powerful assistance will enable them to attain
the object of their desires—namely,:to protect their
name, homes, and honour, and to rule their coun-
try peaceably and lawfully.

FINNAN HADDOCKS.—Finnan haddio is cele-
brated as a breakfast luxury all over the world, although it
(doesa eet not the
is so delicate in its flavour, and requires such nicety in the
cure, that it cannot be enjoyed in perfection at any great
distance from the sea coast. George IV., who had cer-
tainly, whatever may have been his othherisvibrrtueaaektse,fraasstkotifnadileye,
genius in the matter of relishes for the palate
world owe to him the discovery a the exquisite propriety
of the sequence of port wine after cheese ?), used to have
genuine Finnan haddocks always on
selected at Aberdeen and sent express by coach every day
for his Majesty's use. The fame of this particular fish,
rendered
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interested in the fisheries. This scarcit asked by those
little bit of fraud—via., the manufacture of , too, has led to a
of the codfish) into Finnan haddocks.— li i codlings (young
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