The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1854.

The work of NAPOLEON has been undone, but
the work of CASTLEREAGH and his Holy Alliance
is now to undo. We have no sympathy with the
babbling about prescribing prematurely the terms
of peace. We are, indeed, a nation of idiots, if
we commence a most costly, and, as hitherto
managed, it may be a most protracted war, with-
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we can. Now, the very least, in the judgment
of every honest JOHN BULL, who has only looked
at the maps in the print shop windows is—Russia
Turk-
ish" Not only Wallachia and Moldavia cleared of.
the Muscovites, but Bessarabia too, and the
Crimea in Europe, and the borders of the Black
Sea, and Georgia in Asia ; to which must be
added the stolen territories of Persia. A tho-
roughly free Euxine, and Danube, and Asia de-
livered from its worst oppressors are the minimum.
All this, at least, must be done, mow we are doing.
Less than this is to leave the germs of the identi-
cal quarrel in which we are engaged to a future
generation. Turkey can never be independent
while Russia is master of her outworks ; and if
our governors are content with anything short of
this they will most shamefully waste the national
funds, and trifle with the nation's wishes.
But much more than this must now be at-
tempted. Finland is universally demanded for
its ancient possessors. The Northern barrier
against Russian despotism would even then be too
weak ;at present it is preposterously so. Still a
valiant nation like the Swedes, united with the
courageous and free-minded Fins, would be no
inefficient obstacle to Muscovite ambition, and
would, no doubt, hold their own, if attacked, till
other independent nations came to their aid against
• the common pest. Finland is a modern theft ;
one of ALEXANDER'S " material guarantees," never
returned, however, by the barbarous pawnbrokers,
who have not the honesty of tradesmen in their
own line in really civilised communities. Let
that pledge, then, be unconditionally restored
to those to whom it belongs. Then all
Russian Poland, indeed the whole of Poland,
should be restored to itself. England and France
—the one on the Baltic, and the other on the
Rhine—could easily compel the most cowardly
Monarch in Europe to give up his share. As to
Austria, it is by no means improbable that she
would in heart be glad to surrender her part on
gentle compulsion ; she will have to provide a
X•4' sure barrier against a neighbour (in that case a
neighbour no longer) who, after the present war,
and the part Austria may be forced to take, will
become her implacable and dangerous enemy. A
4'4.11" • • kingdom of Poland would be a clear gain to
ni
4,„ Austria. One thing is, indeed, against this;
and that is the STUART or BOURBON-like incurable-
ness of the Hapsburgs. It seems as if dark,
faithless, bloody despotism were inherent in the
blood. Men and women, clever men and fools
of the dynasty, disclose the taint alike. Such a
race may well fear to be shut up with Hungary,
Lombardy, Venice, Croatia, and
all it
aoppressed
nationalities, and left to feel how pettiy:
the
batnir. midst
of nobler, thou
races. Well, Austria must'cho ose
compelled to incur the wrath of the CZAh.:::aillslblee
has already incurred his contempt, and the wrath
of the gi icy monarch" will be as fatal to her as
the righteous aspirations of her subjects. Nay,
it may show itself in giving them Tent. Then
Italy mast be free—France and England can
wish nothing else. Old-school Tories here, and
Orleanists there, may wish to
Bourbonists and
preserve the
ascendancy of tyranny and priest-
craft, but not so the people of the two countries.
Throughout Europe the work of CASTLEnEAGH
and the Holy Alliance must be undone.
There are sundry other peccadilloes of the
Treaty of Vienna, that treaty of tyrants against
peoples, which need to be and must be rectified ;
and it would be a most worthy result of the pre-
sent disturbance if a second Vienna Congress
should assemble to restore the natural national
arrangements which that vile conspiracy dis-
turbed, or the past disturbances of them which it
sanctioned. The CZAR of that day was the cun-
ning prime mover against the interests of England
and France, in these odious cuttings and carvings
of the passive People ; and most righteous will be
Tr the retribution if the next of his race, by his per-
fidy and ambition,ro.rl,„ bring on himself the loss of all
his ill-gotten gains. Austria was equally impli-
cated. Let her share, as her paltry doings of late
_ well deserve, the well-merited consequences. All
_ that has since followed _to Turkey has been ,but