The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1853.

The Russian AUTOCRAT has crowned, by his in-
solent Manifesto published towards the close of
October in the Journal de St. Petersburg, that
werogant policy which was commenced by the
haughty, and, as it may now be termed, the pre-
datory mission entrusted to Prince MENSCRIKOFF.
There can no longer be any doubt whatever of
that. It cannot for a single instant longer be
supposed that any one can really be deceived into
the belief that the CZAR is actuated by other
motives than those of lawless depredation. We
don't, fancy that even the most sanguine
and cre-
dutous admirer of Lord ABERDEEN can permit him-
sel.l to be further deluded into the supposition
tinat a really pacific feeling animates the Govern-
ment of St. Petersburg. Indeed, such cannot for
one moment longer be regarded as possible, at a
juncture when everybody can recognise at a glance
from which quarter the wind blows—a quarter
indicated by the sudden creaking round this very
morning of the political vane of London, Eng-
land's notorious and brazen weathercock. It
will be perceived from the Times :of to-
day that the wind has abruptly chopped
round. from North to East, and the breath
that blew coldly upon Turkey on Saturday,
blows yet more coldly upon Russia on Monday.
A straw thrown up, we all know, is sufficient to

indicate the direction of the faintest current o:

air. Assuredly, therefore, it cannot be difficult
to detect the course taken by a hurricane power-
ful enough to blow round in a twinkling a vane
that had pointed so long to one invariable point of
the diplomatic compass, rusted there by the com-
bined influence of prejudice and predilection.
Briefly—occurrences have at last absolutely neces-
sitated this tergiversation. An unconditional
support of the CZAR has come at length to be
impracticable—and this simply because his most
notorious acts, ultimately bely his most reitera-
ted asseverations. Accusing Turkey of having
'l6o lated treaties, when that violation was
I)l4.l3ifestly on the side of Russia, by reason of the
rra'ssage of the Pruth and the occupation of the
P • •
anciPalities—the Emperor NicaoriAs has dis-
closed the
falsehood of his character so glaringly
as to preclude
supporters from even
ha
the most infatuated of his
the effrontery to afford
his, last proceedings
thehaving
questionable advantage
of their approbation.
Having cajoled the Four Powers long
enough to serve his u
113.2.0gehi having de-
belief
luded them into a ')
s pacific inten-
tions, while deliberately se. •
ng all the strong
places in Moldo-Wallachia. hayino.
bulled
Western statesmanship into a credence
in his
integrity at the very time when he was
to-ad-
vancing with a great army on the road
wards Constantinople —having deceived the
Viennese diplomatists while in the midst of
his preparations for a gigantic act of spo-
liation (unparalleled in the history of Chris-
tendom)—the AUTOCRAT at length recog,nises that
further deception is alike impossible and unneces-
sary'. He throws aside the mask : he draws the
sword, and he flings away the scabbard. His
3;lanifesto of October amounts to that--it signifies
nothing more nor less—it announces the insolence,
and the daring, and the lawlessness of his policy,
by coolly charging Turkey with a violation 'of