The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-27 00:00:00

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' si hie procedure of the Coalition with regard to the
E: %stern question. People could not understand
wh ty the Autocrat was permitted to perpetrate the
un ?aralleled piece of savagery which will render
the name of Sincpe remarkable in the page of his-
tori r, witlout any retaliation having been inflicted
ou him. They will comprehend it now. They
will also 'understand how it happened that our
fleet in. the East, after having been a few days in
the heck Sea, returned to Beicos, and there cora-
fo rtabli: remained *in profound repose for four
lin 'Atha. -It was for fear that Nicholas should in
whichfa ct, t too, an 3 wa; 7, by some accident or other, receive some
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sem. ling out our armies to the East, and keeping
an
place e n-
back th, a officers even after the men had arrived.
It is all out of a tender consideration for the Czar
—all for fear lest he might be "harmed," or, if not
absolutely injured, be "humbled." He must be
neitl. ter . Come what may to our "fame," be must
not sof fer. Perish the " fame" of Great Britain a
thowai id times over, rather than that the Auto-
crat sht )uld be "harmed" or "humbled."
After, the articles in yesterday's Times, we shall
feel snarl )rised if one solitary individual, of average
intelligence, shall be found in this country, who will
not ado! rt the opinion we have expressed throughout
that the great object of the Coalition is to save Rus-
sia, not Turkey. No actual aid, up till this hour, has
been reri dered by this country to the Ottoman empire,
but we • have interposed to prevent the Turks from
fighting their own battles. Through our Ambas-
dor at C onstantinople, Omer Pacha was prevented,
towards the end of last autumn, from following
up the Irilliaut successes he achieved on the banks
of the 13 ,anube, by attacking Bucharest and expel-
ling the Russians from Moldavia and 'Wallachia -
for it is the opinion of the most experienced mill-
tarp nia a, that the Turkish Commander-in-Chief
could, a I that time, have destroyed, or driven back
to their own frontiers, every Muscovite soldier in
the Prir tcipalities. But that would have been, in
the viei v of the Coalition, too great a punishment
of the 'Czar. It would hare mortified him too
much.

And it has been ever since. We would not
destroy a single ship of the Czar's in the Black
Sea, no: r allow the Turkish squadron to do it.
We have, in fact, while rendering no assistance
whateve r to the Ottomans, acted as an incubus on
their ONVII efforts in every way. The result has
been, .at the Turks have become exceedingly
weakens d and discouraged. Their enthusiasm is
fast dyi ag away, while their material resources
are neat •ly exhausted. In a word, this country
—for F rauce is entirely guided by England—
is most surely, and manifestly from design,
preparir tg Turkey for a speedy and easy dismem-
bermeni :,. We are doing the work of Russia. We
are, in. reality, the ally of the Czar, not of the
Sultan. We have no objection to see the Turks
massacr ed in thousands, as at Sinope, by savage
Cossack s ; but we take the most scrupulous care
that no "harm" shall befall the Czar. We will be
tender in the extreme even of his feelings. Not
only wi it we not diminish his power, but we will not
be the :means of causing him the slightest sense of
humiliation. What more could lie desire ? What
stronger inducement could he have to persist in his
lawle3s aggression ? If he triumph, he will, of
course, have everything his own way. If he be
vanquished, he will neither suffer harm, nor be
subjected to humiliation. Thrice happy Czar.
Surely even he will, at last, feel some emotion of
gratitude to his "friend of forty years' standing,"
and to the Coalition generally, who, whatever they
may be in theory, are no less, collectively, his
friends in practice.

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