The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-24 00:00:00

,faction without having occasion to resort tos'filief 4,tirpo -We/
ever, because Switzerland is now deficient in that coit4a34l
which she has always displayed in the defence of her rights
and independence, when they were really menaced, but b'
cause Switzerland is just. How much honest men must regret,
therefore, that a little too much national sensibility should have
brought on an inconsiderate opposition to the demand o: the
French Government, if hereafter new intrigues on the part of
the Pretender of Strasburg should—we will not say compromise
seriously the tranquillity and prosperity of France—we a ill not
say excite civil war, for that appears to us impossible, at .d it is
not that which the French Government fears—but merely have
.the effect of seducing some misguided persons, and of inviving
them in senseless plots—of exposing them to the terrible pc-
nalties which the law awards to treason and insurrection.
When Louis Napoleon attempted his enterprise at Strasburg,
which might have been bloody, was he not the gust of Swit-
zerland ? Had he not been honoured with the title of Swiss
citizen ? What regard has he had of the engagement with
; the country which had received and adopted him with so much
generosity? Did he fear to compromise Switzerland ? Does
he feel himself bound by the tics of friendship and amity which
have existed so long between the two countries, end which it
is their mutual interest to maintain ? Has he cared for the
interest of Swiss commerce, which suffers no less than ours
from the internal troubles of France ? What good and true
Swiss citizen—what member of the Diet is there, who can
assure himself that, in voting for Louis Napoleon, he does not
render himself personally responsible for the fatal denouement
of some new conspiracy, and of all its consequences?
French Government, however, will take its measures in all
events. The affair is too serious nut to render it expedient to
provide for every contingency, even a refusal. Orders have been
given to form battalions of war without delay at Lyons, Be-
sac can, and &fort. We cannot repeat too frequently to
Switzerland that our journals deceive her respecting the state
of public opinion and the disposition of the Government. The
opposition Press has treated this affair as it treats all others, in
i:s own narrow and partial point of view, as unmindful,of the
interests of Switzerland as of those of France, and seeking
merely a subject of declamation against the Minister. Public
opinien does no/ admitthat the Pretender• of Strasburg should,
by merely having pa4sed the frontier, have suddenly become
a simple Swiss citizen, and a good bourgeois of Obeistrass,
and an honest and peaceable republican of the canton of Thu-
ringovia. The pamphlet, which has been the subject of a
recent trial in the Chamber of Peers, has so much outraged
public opinion that nobody can be induced to believe in the
pacific dispositions and modest resignation of the amnesty
which they are so fearful rnhyl)e forgotten in Fiance. The
French Government will not recoil. It does not %Nish to
frighten Switzerland nor to humiliate her. It does not desire
to interfere with the inteior affairs, but it has the right and it
is its duty to defend itself when attacked; and the protection
with which Louis Napoleon only covers himself that he may be
free to intrigue in the garrisons of our frontier towns is an at-
tack. We again ask all sensible and honest men of Switzer..
land what interest can the French Government have in humi-
liating their country? Is not Switzerland the rampart of
France ? Is it not important to ourselves that all Europe
should know that the Swiss people are ever' ready to cause
their honour and independence to be respected ? Is it pos-
sible, without positive insanity, that France should enter-
tain the idea or the wish to humiliate a brave, loyal,
and faithful nation? Are we not neighbours? Are we not
allies ? Are not all our interests mingled by our daily in-
tercourse? Where else should we seek for new alliances and
friends if we were wantonly to break the oldest, the most na-
tural, and the most certain ? France has not (to speak pro-
perly) a glorious remembrance which is not in common with
Switzerland. Our blood has been shed on the same fields of bat-
tle ; and yet it is suggested that the French Government
has formed the project of debasing Switzerland—that is to
say, of annihilating it. Switzerland will indeed be hu-
miliated when she acknowledges that which is obvious
to all the world, that Louis Napoleon never seriously
believed himself a citizen and subject of Switzerland.
What France demands from Switzerland is what she would
demand, under similar circumstances, from every State
whose frontier adjoins her's; she would demand it from
Bavaria, from Prussia, from Wurtemburg, or from the
Duchy of Baden. That which France demands of Swit-
zerland, she would grant to Switzerland should our fron-
tiers serve as an advanced post to those intriguers whose
plots should threaten or trouble the repose, the liberty, or the
Constitution of Switzerland. The right is reciprocal ; France
does not say to Switzerland, " Expel Louis Napoleon because
I wish it, and because I am the stronger ; expel him be-
cause I have an army of 500,000 men—my bayonets are
my arguments." France appeals to a principle acknow-
ledged by all civilized nations, and to which they submit, be-
cause they have an equal and mutual interest in causing it to
respected by each other. Great or smalls strong or weak, it
is the guarantee of their safety. To-day France claims the
application of it ; to-morrow a kingdom, a republic, a simple
independent town may require of France to grant the benefit
of the same principle, and France will accede to it without
thinking herself humbled. The right of hospitality" is a
venerable and great right. France has often exercised it.
Swuz,rland exercises it with a generosity which does her
honour. But this right, like all others, has a limit. It must
not become a source of danger and ruin to its neighbours.
We acknowledge without hesitation that a war between
France and Switzerland would be a misfortune, not for Swit-
zerland alone. There might be, however, a greater misfor-
tune for France—a misfortune to which she will never submit
—and that is, to demand justice and to fail in obtaining it.

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND IN THE

EAST.

PosEN, Are. 28.—However hermetically Russia may seal
its frontiers, it cannot hinder us feom obtaining here occa-
sionally from the interior, more particular accounts of its rela-
tions, and gaining insight into its policy. The politique pa-
cifique, as it is styled, which Count Stroganoff gave as a toast
in London, looks almost like irony, because it becomes more
and more evident that Russia and England have for some time
carried on war with each other.
The English secretly assist the rebellious Circassians so ef-
fectually that they are always able to continue the contest,
fn g since
means
to have
carry subdued
on regularth e
which is the more sensibly felt by the Russians, as they would
lo
warfare,mount butwho
ainee7;ho no arev‘ s destituteee
o
them-
selves impeded in their enterprizes beyond the Caucasus by
an ever-watchful, though by no means powerful, enemy
in their rear. On the other hand, Russia is assem-
bling considerable fo-ces in the south of the empire, the
twofold object of which is no longer a secret, for while one
part holds itself in readiness to go to Asia Minor to support
the Turks, large bodies of troops further to the east are to
march to the south, which (though the news given in English
journals of their arrival at Teheran is probably premature,
only Russian artillery,nen having yet been sent to that place)
takes a direction which opens to them the way to the most
vulnerable point of the British powsr. It is besides, not im-
probable that the Russians may prefer the commercial route
by way of Rhiva, with which they are acquainted, to that
through Iran, for the former is shorter, less dangerous, and
more natural for the projects of Russia. England is well
aware of her weakness in India, and knows that the posses-
sion of this gigantic limb by the dwarf European body can
be but transitory, for as soon as the maxim divide et impera
ceases to bear its ',chit, that is, as soon as the nations of
India become sensible of their tree interests, and conse-
quently considering the distance of the mother country,
and the great population of flindoetan, the empire of the Eng-
lish in Southern Asia is at an end. On the other hand, Russia
knows its vocation, and that the regeneration of Asia can
only proceed from her. Thence the reciprocal jealousy of
the two nations, and especially England's anxiously watching
every step that Russia takes or may take ; it sees with alarm-
ing apprehension the Russian colossus advance slowly indeed,
but surely, to put an end to its unnatural supremacy in India.
The rest of Europe looks on this conflict with composure, and
even with secret joy, for on the one side the sympathy of the
Continent for England is no where great and sincere, and, on
the other hand, it must be satisfactory to Russia diverted from
the west to the east. If under existing circumstances the
tranquillity of Europe is not interrupted, the sole reaso
probably is, that Russia does not see occasion to act offen-
sively, but, prepared and wishing for the combat, waits till
some other hand first takes the sword to cut the Gordian knot
of the policy of the East.
Lord Palmerston evidently awaits the first cannon-shot, for
though not very clear-sighted, he yet perceives the unavoid-
ableness of this combat, which he probably only seeks to
put off; because he is aware of his own incapacity to guide
the helm of England in a time of crisis. The Bri-
tish political edifice is too artificially put together tobe kept in
proper order except by artificial means, the morality of vslaiclz,
under these circumstances, must not be too scrupulously
thought of. Great Britain may thank its weak Minis-
ters that since the fall of Napoleon it has gradually declined
in its political importance. Had they continued in the course
of their great predecessors, proud England would have re-
mained sole sovereign of the seas, and would have no reason
to fear in the long run any nation upon earth. It is true that
its political consequence must not be too strait laced (as was
seen before Copenhagen), but they must soon, without direct
occasion, take the first step, and destroy at the onset every
foreign naval power. The most favourable moment is now per-
haps past, for France, Russia, and North America rossess fleets
which may be, indeed, defeated, but cannot be annihilated.
Eng'and, too, ought long since to have recognised the Pasha
of Egypt as an independent Sovereign, in order to gain a pow-
erful and able ally in the East, whose well-trained armies might
be opposed to the projects of Russia. From the continental
Powers Russia has at present nothing to fear, for its policy is
of
similar in its main outlines to that of the great ,Pl,)tirinwers l v on
Eastern Europe, and Louis Philippe is not seated so
The
Euxino
his throne as to venture a war and its chances.
and the Baltic may be in a certain sense
ssn that the
closed, and it is
posslle that it was net merely for
his
suamusement
and guaran.
Emperor Nicholas made a voyage to Stockholm
teed the succession to Prince Oscar.
between Turkey (elready so dependent The misunderstanding
on Russia) and its too
powerful vassal, the Pasha of Eevpt, must soon come to an
iesue. The status quo cannot possibly continue. The neces-
sity
Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon has
probably hitherto e
of reducing the Drus,etesdi
the
Pasha from proclaiming his
:
• re'et
independence. As soon as Mehemet Ali draws the sword the
Sultan must of necessity
throw himself into the arms of Rus•
sin, upon ethich England will imme dl,te y separate itself from
the Porte, recognize _
the independerce of Egypt, and hasten
to support the Pasha with its power.—Extra Supplement to
the Allyenieine Zeitung of Sept. 18.

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