The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-22 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1853.

The time will speedily arrive, if, indeed, it has
hot already arrived, when the accuracy of the
Vigorous and energetic declarations put forward
by Lord JOHN RUSSELL must be stringently tested
--when the pledges, freely and voluntarily given
to the municipality of Greenock, and through
them to the community at large, must be fully
and fairly redeemed. Already a Dispatch from
Count NESSELRODE (a copy of which will be
found in yesterday's impression) has been re-
ceived, which fully justifies the opinions we have
long entertained of the arrogant consistency of the
CZAR, and of his determination not to relinquish,
save on coercion, a single particle of the vantage
ground he has achieved, until he has humiliated
the pride, and destroyed the power, of his
intended victim. Without the slightest pre-
text for aggression that could, for a mo-
ment, deceive any disinterested person of
ordinary intelligence, or, indeed, any but the
wilfully blind, he invaded the territories of an
independent Power, assuming full authority and
forbidding the Hospodars to pay the tribute to,
or satisfy the just demands of, their lawful SovE-
141°N. Re continued in occupation, strength-
ening his position daily, while, by false and un-
founded statements of his moderation, he in-
duced the representatives of the Western Nations
to abstain, from the decided and energetic course
of action that would have brought the matter to
a summary conclusion, and awakened the Aim-
CRAV to a very unpleasant sense of his true situa-
tion. Much valuable time was wasted in diplo-
natic humbug—while the aggreasor was
achieving
his unjustifiable objects by the delay, as completely
as by the most decisive victories. RisFabian policy
which was connived at—if not directly sanctioned
England—destroyed the financial
by France and
resources, while it excited an insurrectionary
spirit amongst the Turkish population very in-
jurioua to the stability of the Ottoman empire—.
while we stood with folded arms counselling sub-
mission to tlre injured, and calculating the amount
of compensation 0) that should be given to the
Atolent invader to induce him to retrace his foot-
tteps,--could it for a moment have been supposed
that a warlike people, peculiarly jealous of their
horiour, and whose religious feelings
were engaged
in the affair, would have awaited patiently the
result of these fine-drawn and long-protracted
s— ne-
gotiationthat they would remain quiescent
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under the intolerable injuries they were daily
sustaining, with a hostile army in possession of
some of their fairest provinces? NICHOLAS played
a deep and well considered game ; but the
Coalition, under the guidance of the " excellent
ABERDEEN," so speedily threw up their cards, that
there was no pleasure or credit to be gained by
defeating them. If a Russian had been the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (we cannot now
call it Great Britain), he could not have more effici-
ently promoted the views of his master than did
the present Premier, and if the Turkish army has
not already cut the Gordian knot, and insisted on
being led against the enemy, in order to expel the
unjustifiable invaders from their country, it is
hot to the conduct of the English or French Go.
vernments that their unexpected quiescence can be
ascribed.

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