The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY .EV

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1847

On account of the press of matter, we are ob:iged to
omit our usual Parliamentary Summary.

Parliament has emphatically negatived Mr. Humes
motion for the stoppage of payments upon the Russo-
Dutch Loan, but it has refrained from acceding to
that proposition, in a manner which must carry dis-
may to the Northern Triumvirate. Never did the
political depravity of a foreign Government receive
so decided a reprobation, and never was protest pro-
nounced in the British Legislature in language so
peculiarly dignified, or in a way more honourable to
our national character.. We have receives an extra-
ordinary provocation from Austria and Russia by
their faithless infraction of the articles solemnly
signed at Vienna, beyond this we have had held out
to us a golden temptation to compensate ourselves for
that infraction, by withholding certain annual pay-
ments, from the responsibility of disbursing which
we are tolerably well proved to be altogether re-
leased ; but, despite this provocation, and despite this
temptation, we have refused to renounce the perfect
integrity of our present position for the gratification
of an unworthy spleen. Can this deliberate decision
of Parliament against the Northern Powers
be ineffective ? Can a decision enforced
by such dispassionate calmness be treated with in-
difference ? The voice of Europe has loudly pro-
claimed its indignation at the seizure of Cracow—the
House of Commons has echoed that indignation, and
it has imparted to its expressions of abhorrence an
irresistible weight by voluntarily rejecting an oppor-
tunity for retorting upon the infraction of the c)m•
pact of 1815 by an act of faithlessness in regard to
the agreements of 1831. We are satisfied that no
one will regret the manner in which this important
discussion has terminated, seeing that it administers
a more overwhelming blow to the criminal despots
than supposing it had resulted in an objection
to continue the instalments on the Russo-
Dutch Loan. " You have sinned," it cries
to Russia, "you have sinned grievously against
ourselves, against the sanctity of international
treaties, against the sublime and inalienable rights of
man ; you have sacrificed Polish freedom to
the Baal of your own lustful ambition ; you
have treated contumeliously the friendship
of confiding empires ; you have risen in arms
against the holiest principles of Christianity,
against the divinest immunities of the human race,
against the solemn decrees of justice, and in so doing
you have virtually released us from the debt incurred
by the junction of Belgium and Holland. How do
we act in this critical position of our relations ? Do
we repay falsity; by falsity ? Do we answer
the annihilation of Cracovian independence
by the obliteration of our liabilities to your
exchequer ? Do we yield to the allurements of a
pecuniary advantage, and respond to your territorial
dishonesty by our monetary dishonesty ? We do not.
We abide by our absolute engagements, notwith-
standing your crimes have weakened, if they have
not actually broken, the bonds of those engagements.
We raise our voice of warning and of remo:.strance
at the violation of the neutrality of the Polish
citizens of Cracow ; but we continue to liquidate the
yearly debts incurred by our stipulations upon the
Russo-Dutch Loan. We protest before Heaven and
Earth against your gigantic crimes ; and, at the same
time, we preserve the integrity of our own character
unsullied !" That is the language addressed to Russia
by the people of England through the lips of their ,
representatives.

It was eloquently and truthfully remarked by Mr.
SMYTHE, that Russia, Austria, and Prussia had behaved
towards Craco w as SEMIRAMIS behaved towards NIN
" The three Powers suckled Cracow and then de-
bauched it; and they went further than SEMIRAMIS,
for they destroyed it." Through the dark tissue by
which these imperial transactions have been shrouded
throughout, is visible the broad and execrable fact,
that Cracow has, ever since 1815, been insidiously de-
bauched into insurrection by the agents of adjacent
despotism. From the moment when they guaranteed
the perfect and perpetual independence of the Craco-
vian republic, the CZAR and the KAISER leagued to-
gether for its incorporation in their dominions; and
to accomplish this masterpiece of villany they
fomented the:local discontents, and drove within the
walls of the free city the revolted peasantry
of Galicia. Under .the ominous mask of Pro-
tection, therefore, has this great crime been con-
ceived and consummated, and from the congenial lovers
of a similarly odious Protection have alone proceeded
the expressions of its approval. With Lord GEORGE
BENTINCK and his colleagues rests the unenviable
memory of having become the panegyrists of the
destroyers of Poland. Upon the grave of that heroic
nation, as upon the monument of Kosciusxo, there
is inscribed, however, one word—a word beaming
with solace and illumined with hope—one word—
It is, we "RESURGAM !"
would believe, a prophetic contradiction to
the famous " Finis poto'nice; it is we would believe an
assurance that Tyranny,heovwe
its duplicity, can n
however awful may be its
physical strength,
ore however
its triumphant in the endnsummate may be
prove
—can never escape the sword of retribution—can
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