The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-16 00:00:00

Atcoraing to the Moniteur, no answer has yet
beeen received, or can even for some few days more
),e expected, from the Emperor NICHOLAS, in reply
to the admirable and dignified letter addressed to
his MAJESTY by the Emperor NAPOLEON
According to thu Potr;o., that letter had already
produced in Paris a "prodigious impression
being added by that organ of public opinion in
France, that the country recognises that its senti-
ments have been therein described by its ~40VE
FtEION "in language which reaches the highest.
elevation:" It is true. In those words of eulo-

gium there is no extravagance. Compare the
letter of the Emperor NaroLuoN to the Czar. with
the last proposals emanating from the Sublime
Porte, for the acceptance or refusal of the Rus-
sian Government. It will then be at once per-
ceived that the latter is less resolute in tone, and
less bold in exacting from Russia those conditions
which have come at last to be recognised even by
the Aberdeenites to be the essential preliminaries
to a pacification. Let it be observed especially that
the French EMPEROR is as explicit as possible
in his definition of those , preliminaries. His
7.V.IAJESTY is, above all, particular in insisting
that, prior to the resignation of the command of
the Black Sea by the combined squadrons of
France and Er:gland, the Russian troops shall
have abandoned the Principalities. Having put
this significant query to the AUTOCRAT—" Should
your MAJESTY be as desirous as myself of a
pacific conclusion, what would be more simple
than to declare that an armistice shall now be
signed, that things shall resume their diplomatic
course, that all hostilities shall cease, and that the
belligerent Powers shall retire from the places to
which by the motives of war they have been sum-
moned ?"—NAPOLEON 111. adds, " Thus the
the Russian troops would abandon the Principa-
lities, and our squadrons the Black Sea"—"Ainsi
les troupes russes abandonneraient les Principautes,
a nos escadres la Ater-Noire." Implying, by the
former sentence the stoppage of bloodshed both in
Asia and Europe, on the Danube and in the Cau-
casus—the revival -(possibly) of the two or three
times disrupted Vienna Conference—the with-
drawal of the Muscovite armaments into Bessa-
rabia, and of the combined fleets through the
tosphorus and the Dardanelles—the return of
M. DE BRUNOW to London, of M. DE KISSELEFF
to Paris, of Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR and of General
DE CASTELBAJAC to St. Petersburg. Implying by
the latter sentence the necessity of Moldo-Wallachia
being evacuated by the Russian army before the
combined maritime armaments of France and Eng-
land retire across the Sea of Marmora into the
waters of the Afediterranean. Another passage in
this remarkable letter from the French EMPEROR
to the Russian AUTOCRAT—the passage immedi-
ately following that last quoted—is especially de-
scrying our attention. NAPOLEON 111, therein
observes to the Czaa—cc Your MAJESTY, prefer-
ring to treat directly with Turkey, might appoint
-
au Ambassador, who would negotiate with a Pleni
pntentiary of the 81-LTAN, a convention which
might be submitted to a conference of tile Four I
Powers— [:nark that

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important supplementary condition to thelastTurk--
WI propositions. Those propositions only stipulated
in reference to these suggested negotiations
directly and exclusively between Russian and
Turkish Plenipotentiaries, that they should be con-
ducted in the presence of the Four Powers, that
is to say, to the cognisance of their represents-
; j HveZT: NAPOLEON'S loiter goes further than this
Aelvlrh)v seen—requiring the Convention such
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