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France from the alliance of England, and to carry
her over to the side of Russia, or to persuade her that
she is acting in subservience to the interests of a foreign
and unfriendly power. The first would; at the point to
which matters have gone, be fatal to her dignity and her
honour • the second would prevent her acting with energy
and unanimity in the proSecution of the war. Either
might well subserve the interests of the Fusion, but both
would be eminently disastrous to the welfare of France.
It might serve the objects of declining factions to dis-
honour the Government of France by isolating and
weakening the policy of ihe country, or to neutralize
her resistance to Russia, in order to facilitate the
triumph of that mighty patron to whom the re-
united Bourbons look for support. The essence of such
efforts is to raise a faction at the expense of the country,
and to postpone the interests of the first empire of the
continent to the paltry intrigues of two repudiated
dynasties.

'The question of the East is, we are informed, a ques-
tion of preponderance between England and Russia in
the Councilsnf Turkey. The embassy of Prince Mens-
chikoff had, it seems, no other object than to re-establish
the interest of Russia against that of England. Because
England protected Tnrkey in 1840 against Mehemet Ali,
by which she gained nothing whatever, she must be actu-
ated by the most sordid motives in her present support. of
Turkey agains t Russia. This is the Fusionist account of the
present quarrel with Russia. We appeal to the manhood,
the honesty, the truth of the nations and Governments of
Europe, whether it be the just one ! Is it to support
the preponderance of England that France, Prussia,
and Austria have joined with her in recommending
terms of agreement to Russia, in which England claims
no right, no power, no privilege, which is not equally
conceded to each of the great Powers ? We know what
preponderance Russia has aimed at in Turkey. By treaty
after treaty she has stripped her enemy of her provinces,
her privileges, her rights of free navigation and of in-
ternal government, until at last nothing remains but
the provinces she is about to invade, and the capital
she already prepares to storm. This is, indeed,
ambition and preponderance ; but what privilege has
England demanded ? What advantage does she now
demand at the expense of Turkey ? Where are the
provinces she has ravished from her, or the concessions
she has enforced ? In concert with Russia and France,
England established the kingdom of Greece, but with-
out seeking or obtaining anything by the change. The
Fusionists tell us that an union of the Five Powers is
impossible ; that England and Russia can never act to-
gether. England desires this union, which has suc-
ceeded so well on so many other occasions, but Russia
refuses to allow any one but herself to judge of her
claims. Is this the proof of England's desire for pre-
dominance ?

The Fusionist organ desires for France a position
tion at the head of the neutral powers of Europe, leav-
ing to Russia free liberty to violate the rights of nations,
and to England the glory and danger of maintaining
them alone. The seizure of Moldavia and Wallachia is,
it is said, nothing to Franee, which seeks no predomi-
nance, and is only a blow to the gimping spirit of Eng-
land. Why, then, should France trouble herself to repel
an invasion which is really only levelled at our greedi-
ness and lust of empire ?
We cannot descend to notice at such a time the long
catalogue of invidious reminiscences which the organ of
the Fusion has deemed it for the present interest of its
party to disinter from the annals of France and England
—unfortunately only too fruitful in such unhappy topics.
Whatever they have been, France and England, at
any rate, are now friends, united in one noble cause—
the champions of a common, civilisation—the enemies
of barbarism and aggression. It would be disgraceful
for England to seek, under the pretence of vindicating
the national law of airope and curbing the outbreaks
of brutal violence, for any private or personal advantage.
The Fusionists are determined to find such a motive,
though they are perpetually varying in their estimate
of what it may be. At first it was for the sake of our
Indian Empire, then for our trade in the Levant, and
now for the vague and shadowy object of preponderance
in the East. We emphatically deny that England is
actuated by any of these aims. It is to resist the
preponderance of Russia, not to establish her own, that
she is now on the threshold of a war from which her
every feeling recoils and every interest revolts ; and,
instead of trusting to obtain anything for herself in the
coming confusion, she has been careful, before. draw-
ing. Jhe sword, clearly to record the terms on which
she will be always ready to sheathe it. But, if that
griping selfishness which the Fusionists impute to
England be unworthy of her motives and degrading
to her character, what shall we say of the part
which the organs of a dynasty which claims France as
its natural heritage mark out for the land which it aspires
to rule ? To abdicate its historic position among Euro-
I pean nations—to leave the care of asserting public law
and redressing the balance of power to other hands—to
stand tamely by and see the battle on which the liberties
and civilization of Europe may depend fought out with-
out daring to strike a blow for the right —to affect the
office of a mediator, when, on the one side, there has
been nothing but injustice received, and on the other
nothing but injustice inflicted,—this is the destiny which
the sons of their ancient Kings propose to the gallant
and high-spirited people of France. What interest may
be served by such policy we will not stop to inquire ;
but assuredly that interest is not the interest of France,
nor that policy the policy of a great country. 'We are
happy to believe that these degrading propositions are
rejected by the good sense and magnanimity of the French
nation with a scorn fully equal to our own.