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
arrogant policy which was commenced by the
haughty, and, as it may now be termed, the pre-
datory mission entrusted to Prince MENSCHIKOFF.
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-
dulous admirer of Lord ABERDEEN can permit him-
self to be further deluded into the supposition
that 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 Hof 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 of
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
violated treaties, when that violation was
luanifestly on the side of Russia, by reason of the
passage of the Pruth and the occupation of the
Principalities—the Emperor NICHOLAS has dis-
closed the falsehood of his character so glaringly
as to preclude even the most infatuated of his
supporters from h
his last proceedings
having the effrontery to afford
the of their a questionable advantage
pproba it'
on.
Having cajoled the Pour Powers long
enough to serve his
purpose --having de-
b
lud ed them into a el, ief iuhis
pacific inten-
tions, while deliberately seizi• the strongn
places in Moldo-Wallachia
all
having gulled
Western statesmanship into a credence in his
integrity at the very time when he was ad-
vancing with a great army on the road to-
wards Constantinople having deceived the
Viennese diplomatists while in the midst of
his preparations for a gigantic act of sro.
liation (unparalleled in the history of Chris-
tendom)—the AUTOCRAT at length recognises that
further deception is alike impossible and unneces-
sar.Y. He throws aside the mask he draws the
s'atord, and he flings away the scabbard. His
Manifesto of October amounts to that—it signifies
nothing more nor less—it amrounces the insolence,
and the daring, and the lawlossness of
his policy,
by coolly charging Turkey v,rith a violation of