The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1854.

Soh !—the CZAR has virtually called Peccavi
His Imperial Russian MAJESTY has virtually made
his first meek advance towards a reconciliation
Elsewhere proof of this will be found in our im-
pression of this evening, in that elaborate docu-
ment taken from a recent number of the Journal
de St. Petersbourg, couched in the mildest
terms (for Russia)—the " memorandum," as it
is called, addressed by the Autocratic Govern-
ment to its diplomatic agents abroad—a " me-
morandum" to be communicated by each of them
in virtue of instructions annexed to it, to the
Government to which he is accredited—contrasting
amazingly with the insolent communications
made time and again to the Sublime Porte, with
the haughty missives despatched to the Allies of
Turkey, and with the flagitious proclamations or
manifestos by which the Emperor NICHOLAS has
endeavoured not unsuccessfully to rouse the fana-
ticism and inflame the evil passions of the Mus-
covite population. Read this memorandum care-
fully through—and-answer if it is not an astonish-
ingly temperate sequel to every other document
upon the same subject that has hitherto emanated
from the Russian Government. Moderate in
tone, temperate in language, calm, and sedate,
and unimpassioned (for Russia) it betrays
very conspicuously the anxiety of the Czar, to
bring about, if possible at this eleventh hour and
three-quarters, a tardy and, for him, an exceed-
ingly convenient pacification. But—it comes too
late. It comes too late—because France and
England cannot possibly withdraw their enormous
forces, both sea forces and land forces, without
having first fleshed their swords together to the an-
cient battle cries of "St. DENIS" and " St. GEORGE,"
in testimony of the fullness of their international
friendship, in vindication of Turkish independence,
ii the joint names of Honour, of Right, and of
Justice, in opposition to the barbarism of Russia,
and in support of the holy cause of the general
civilisation of Christendom. It is not to be ex-
pected, for example, that Sir CHARLES NAPIER. can
Possibly return to England with the Baltic Fleet now
Bailing and steaming rapidly northwards without
having first had a brush with the " Rooshians"
for the satisfaction of his gallant jack tars, and in
fulfilment of the confident and loudly-expressed
"Peetations of his fellow-countrymen. It is not
tobe expected that Lord RAGLAN will return to
England, or that Marshal ST. ARNAUD will return
to France, Without having first won the novel
glory of a joint victory
for France and England.
Neither is it by any means to be expected that
Admirals HAIIELIN
DUNDAS will withdraw
the combined fleets from .the neighbourhood of
the Black Sea, without having by some brilliant and
daring achievement—either say the bombardment
of Odessa, or the seizure of the Crimea, or both
—effaced the terrible memory of Sinope, and
thereby avenged Turkey ;,nd their own outraged
reputations.
It is not to be expectedexpected_ and let
us even go so far as to add w plainly
bluntly add—it is not to be desired. sooner or
later the struggle must come—the struggle, that
is to say, between the forces of Barbarism and
the forces of Civivisation. Better now under the
most auspicious circumstances, than later on,
when the situation might, on the contrary, be
most ,wripropitious and discouraging. Where-
fore, in spite of this ingenious and ela-
borate " memorandum" from the Journal
de St. Petersbourg—England and France may
still say, " GOD defend the Right," and
still res confidently in the hope of witness-
'flow very speedily, the establishment,.
1,0,k0e of arms, of a permanent peace for entire
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