The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-08 00:00:00

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geiltly labouring to s s on the minds of the Con-
servatives t such is its present estimate cif tilt man
wl.,t,?n, but four short years since, it pursued and
strove to hunt down, with a malignity perfectly
tiendiSh ! 'Was ever apostasy equal to this P We
know of nothing that even comes near it—no political
tergiversation that does-not show snow=vvhitt beside it,
All things considered, however, it is perhaps both
just and fitting that the most trimmim Ana
of fa'etions should he represented by the most tiimmin!.
and Jesuitical of Jou:1103. But mark helve th 4 ;4•AtTf: 1
-rice of character involves also the ,§aeilice of conl;:cn

sense---?..agment—dision—and those otlterauxiii4;-y
farnilttes which Are its surest bulwarks ! Since our Con-
L'inpocttly has apostatized, scarce a day has elapsed,
',nit he has given utterance to some surpassing absur- l
dity, which in his better days he would ha-re--been the i
first to detect, and laugh to scorn. We say nothing
of his calumnious charges
.against the Conservatives,
that they were shamelessly indifferent to their duties
last Session, for "he recanted them the very day after
lie put them forth ; neither will We speak of his
sarcasm on the Whigs for , being " nothing like
the 'Whigs of four years ago," for this is mete
arrogant impertinence, which only recoils on -him-
Self ; and still less will we speak of his abuse
of the haughty patrician Tories-, for their dislike
of such a plebeian as Sir R. PEEL—(plebeian
indeed ! as if a plebeian who has fought his own way
to honest eminence, is not worth all the upstart patri-
cians that ever hid their calves-heads in a coronet !)
. that very Sir R. PEEL whom our Contemporary him-
self sneered at as being " cotton velYet:"that is to
say, of the very worse. species Of would-be patrician
manufacture ;—...‘:'e will .make no tin ntion of any of
these incon7:rstencies. But what is to be said for the
coinnin sense or consistency of our Contemporary's
D.-article this morning, which sets out with the
assumption that the MELBOURNE Government is al-
, ready in the last throes of dissolution ; and closes with
an impassioned call on all good Tories to come for-
ward, and free their King and country from the gigantic
thraldom in which both are held ! Why this energetic
invocation to the Conservatives, if the Whigs are in '
the state that our Contemporary describes ? What occa-
sion is there. to take the field against an' already de-
feated foe—and not only .defeated, but annihilated?
Surely a couple of rusty blunderbusses, fired off' by a
PRAED or a SIBTHORP, would be quite enough
to destroy what little life yet remains in the Cabi-
net ! There can be no earthly occasion to mus-
ter all the Conservative horse, foot, and artillery,
to rout an enemy who is already hors de combat—
at his last. gasp ! Time was, when none would
be quicker to detect, and prompter to expose, a
gross absurdity like this, than our Carlton-Club
Contemporary ; but since he "has fallen into bad
habits, and among bad comT:iny, he has lost all the
shrewdness he once posP:essed ; his intellects have be-
come cankered, and ;re sees things only through a dis-
torted medium; a film has fallen upon his judgment;
and having unshipped the rudder of. principle, which
he once swayed with a firm grasp—none firmer—he
is like some huge vessel, which, deprived of its helm,
drifts to and fronow on this tack, now on that, at
the mercy of the winds and waves.

The Birmingham Political Union, at a meeting cf
the Council held, on the sth instant, came to the reso-
lution that t, a General Meeting of the inhabttants of
Birmingham be hell at the Town Hall, on Monday
the 18th inst." We exhort the Political Unions
throughout the country to be equally on the alert. The
time may arrive when the Reformers will have need of
all their assistance.

The Polish patriots exiled in France have again
taken advantage of the convocation of the Legislative
Chambers to implore as a boon worthy of their undying
gratitude, the restoration of the nationality of their na-
tive country. 'We admire the persevering energy, and
the devoted patriotism of these illustrious outcasts.
That they will continue in the course which they have
so wisely adopted we can have no doubt ; and by con-
tinuing in it they will witness the triumph of justice in
the deliverance of Poland. Their future conduct must
henceforth, from unavoidable circumstances, re-act upon
themselves individually, as whether they go onward or
hold back, the nationality of Poland shall and must be
recognized. This is a truth which the Governments
of Fiance and England 'will shortly proclaim in the
hearing of all Europe.
The fall of Poland was intended by the CZAR as
the precursor of the destruction of the Ottoman
Empire. The pause which followed the merging of
• the title of King of POLAND in that of Autocrat of
all the RUSSIAS, was designed to lull the suspicions
of Western Europe. The policy of Russia has been
uniformly the same since the founding of the Empire
under the Czar PETER. At all times, and under all
circumstances, Russia has been signalized only .for her
treachery, her cruelty, and her perseverance in the
pursuit of conquests, effected by the most barbarous
and faithless means. The policy which she adopted
to subdue the Poles in 1829, was the same which she
had recourse to in effecting the dismemberment of
Poland in the reign of CATIIARINE 11. In her
whole intercourse with foreign States, she has uni-
formly trampled upon the most sacred of international
laws, whenever such violations of good faith offered
the remotest certainty of extending her territory. On
this question we shall cite the authority of one -of • the
first diplomatists, and one of the most cautious states-
men in Europe—Prince de TATABYRAND. Mark
the language in which the PitiNcE, in the following
despatch addressed t-;) NAPOLEON in 1807, when
TALLEYRAND was Foreign Minister, described the
conduct of Russia towards the SULTAN :
Russia has ecared to dissemble. he has thrown off
the mask with which she has hitherto endeavoured to con-
ceal her views. Her trtrops' have entered Moldavia and
Wallachia. They have besieged the fortresses of Choczim
and Bender. The garrisons, Weak in numbers, attacked
unexpectedly, and while confidently trusting to the faith of
treaties., were obliged to yield to superior numbers, and the
two fortresses are now occupied by the Russians.
" Every thing sacred among men has been trampled un-
der foot. Human blood was flowing at the same moment
that the Russian envoy, whose presence alone ought to
have been a sufficient pledge and guarantee for the conti-
nuation of peace, was still at Constantinople, offering assur-.
ances of his sovereign's friendship for his Highness. The
Porte bad no other information that she was attacked and
her provinces invaded, except through General Michelson's
manifesto, which I have the honour of laying before your
Majesty.
What appears as disgusting as it is ridiculous, is, that
at the very moment the Porte received this manifesto, tine
Russian envoy, declaring that he had no instructions from
his court, and did not believe in the war, appeared not to
.acknowledge the proclamations of the generals, and to en-
tertain a doubt of the Russian armies having entered the
Ottoman territory.

" What would be the fate of Europe, if her destiny de-
pended upon the caprice of an incessantly-changing cabinet,
divided by different fiictions, and which, allowing its passions
to have sway, seems either to forget or be ignorant of the
feelings, forms, and duties which keep alive civilization
among men?"

Could any act be perpetrated among nations more
atrocious than that which TALLEYRAND details in
the above extract? Russia, he assures NAPOLEON,
was butchering the Turks, while her Ambassador was:
making protestations of the friendship which the
CZAR entertained for his Highness the SULTAN !
These facts speak for themselves ; especially as we. so
very 'lately witnessed the perpetration of acts ectaally
atrocious, committed by Russia against the Porte,
ortant portion of firm,-
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