The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

There is but one sentiment in every circle, and in' •
every journal of any influence in this capital, as to the -
Character and tendency of the Autoct at's extraordinary.
harangue to the Municipal Deputation of Warsaw.
In the course of the observations which w • 1 Ma( 111)0I1
it on Saturday, we felt not even a monteneary doubt
as to its authenticity. It has that fierce peculCarity of
lineament, that unmeasured anger, that rapacious
egotism, that insatiable thirst of revenge, which be-
speak at once its genuine Calnmc origin. Warsaw,
the scene of so much Polish gloty, the very name •
of which is historically identified with Polish in- •
dependence, kindled the fiery wrath of its Im-
perial visitor. Forgetting all that his diplomatists
have been saying for the last five or six years •
about his " maenanimity," his " disinterestedness."
his '' clemency," his •" parental solicitude" for
his people, and a thousand other fine qualities, •
which they decked out in flowing phraseology, he
thew off the mask which he no longer vote in the •
presence of Europe, end revealed himself, such as we •
always thought him to be, au unprincipled despot, the :
merciless chief of a barbarian horde, \vim, having •
learned from foreign tutors the manners of civilized
society, has • been performing the pat t of a Royal
Tartzege, until hisepassions have at length outrun his •
hypocrisy. He stands now before the world the suet •
successor of Constantine—than which it was im-
possible to pronounce a name more detested by Pe-
land—by all Europe—until that of Nicholas came
to supercede it, in the execration of mankind. The
copy of this memorable effusion—which has reached
our Government—and of the authenticity of which -
not a shadow of doubt can be entertained,—
differs, in one particular, from that printed by
the !Arrow/ des Debats. In the copy of the
latter we read the following sentence :—" I thus
tell you the truth, in order to throw a true light upon
our relative positions, and that you may know upon
What you have to depend—for I am now seeing and
speaking to you for the first time since the disturb-
ances." The other copy to which we allude adds these
words :—" And fir the first time, too, you are to ob-
serve, as the Emperor qf Russia, no longer the King
(ye Poland." This is as much as to say, in the fan-
g ouaae familiar to Napoleon, " the kingdom of Poland
has ceased to exist.' No such kingdom do I any
longer recognise. Ido not even acknowledge You as
subjects of the Duchy of Warsaw. You are henceforth
the inhabitants of a province of my empire, and of a
province, too, which I shall ever hate, because I ant
convinced you hate mc. Such language as this, from a
Christian Sovereign to a Christian people, is so of-
fensive in every point of view in which it. can be con-
sidered, that we arc almost convinced, with some of our
Contemporaries, that it must have been the result of a
paroxysm of that madness to which it is known the
Imperial family is subject. It was the early develop-
ment of this hereditary taint which induced Alexander
to exclude Constantine from the succession to the
throne. It is possible that a stronger degree of bodily
health postponed the fatal disclosure of a similar malady
in the temperament of Nicholas. Several recent circum-
stances fortify this conclusion. The camp at Kalisch,
for instance, must have been nothing more or less
than the device of a mind wrought up to frenzy
by its morbid fears of the revolutionary spirit of Eu-
rope. That camp was formed at an expense which,
as the event proved, the Russian treasury was ill
able to afford. It was evidently a sudden thought,
intended to be realised in an imposing array of Rus-
sian, Austrian, and Prussian troops, who were to
remain embodied throughout the winter. Under the
impression, that the Autocrat's resolution would be
the law of his allies, he set his legions in motion,
and proclaimed the object of their march, before he
made his arrangements with the two other sove-
reigns. The prudent refusal of Austria to join in
this ridiculous demonstration against public opinion
is well known. Equally well known is the deep re-
luctance with which the King of Prussia yielded to
the folly of the Czar. He knew, as every man of
common sense did, that such an exhibition of mili-
tary power was a mere waste of resources—that it
could produce no tangible result. But the absurd de-
cree had gone forth, and it could not be recalled.
We remember, too, the wildness of manner which
Nicholas is said to have occasionally betrayed in
the field; the gaiety which he assumed at 'rapine
when conversing with his consort, who showed by
her care-worn inoks and tremulous lips the terrors
that were brooding over her mind ; that inexplicable
and hasty visit to Vienna, of wheich even his own em-
bassy was unapprised—above all, these words that
broke from him at Warsaw—and then his rapid jour-
ney to m convent, where, after the delivery of
such passionate menaces, he knelt in the dark
for two hours—his improvised meeting with. Lord
Durham at Kiew--who certainly had no idea of
enjoying that honour until after his arrival at Pe-
tersburg—all these circumstances indicate a state of
mental excitement, which it is fearful to contemplate
in a person who, by the accident of birth, happens .t,o
have confided to his hands the destinies of so large 'a
multitude of our fellow-beings. Let this be as it may,
the Warsaw speech solves several questions which •
have hitherto been veiled in considerable obscurity. It
is quite impoasible that any man in his senses can any
longer doubt the propriety of saving Turkey from the
supremacy. of such a Protector as Nicholas has now
shown himself to be. That. speech will determine the
Sultan to take a fixed and invariable course, such
as• may enable England to extricate him from his
present equivocal and' embarrassing condition. That
speech will be read throughout Prussia and Austria,
and especially throughout Hungary, with feelings akin
to our own. It may be recollected that the Hunga-
rian Diet petitioned their King in favour of the Poles..
Prussia and Austria can no longer act with Russia, •
scenic the contempt which the Autocrat has expressed
for the Treaty of Vienna, and for every European .
Power but his own. They must eec that they can no
longer march by the side of the Tartar, unless they
wish to forfeit their growing civilization and to risk
their tranquillity, Without an object that to them would
be productive of no sort of advantage. The Warsaw
oration has therefore completely isolated Russia. ,
She must henceforth exist in a sphere of her own.
She is cut off from the European family, and has no- ,
thing now to do except to seek for alliances amongia
, the Esquimaux.—Mmoring Chronicle.
Agricultural associations, and meetings in stipport
of them, furnish topics to which we have a more lively
pleasure in drawing public attention than to party
dinners and their usual appendages=—to wit, the critni-
nation of political -adversaries, the widening of breaches
and perpetuating of hostilities between those who
might better serve their country by a hearty co-opera-
tion in the general management of her affairs. Three
great agricultural meetings have taken place within
these few days—one at Aylesbury, where the Marquis -
of Chandos presided--' -one at York, under the name
of the YUrkshire Central-Agricultural Association, of
which the Chairman-was Mr. Caylev, M.P. for the
North Riding, the proceedings of which Nve reported
yesterday—and a third, at Shrewsbury, Lord Dar-
lington in . the chair, with an account of whiche
we this day present our readers. Lord Chandos,
is, we make no doubt, a conscientious and well
meaning Nobleman. But one amongst our reasons.
fur rejoicing at the progressive increase of these
agricultural societies is the frequency of discuesion,••l
amongst agriculturists themselves, winch must result.''
from such institutions, and the consequent opportu-
nity which will thereby be afforded for correcting threa
errors of respectable men, whence the Noble Marquia,l
himself', perhaps, mav not be the last to profit. Lord
Chandos, to do him justice, does not propose any
fresh quackery with the circulating medium, as if the
currency question were at all involved with 'that of •
what his Lordship terms the " distresses of the fat-
met." But the Noble Lord, we conceive to be as far
astray on the other side, when be starts as an
im-
portant question " for the House of Commons," how
that assemble proceed to legislate with a view. to
obtain relief for the farmer. For our omi parts, our
opinion lets always beet' that no substantial relief
can be administered to the fanner from within'the walls"
of Parliaumeimt, and on that point we would gee/miaow')
the Noblii Marquis to Lulu back to it speech defivered
not mummy weeks ago by • Lord Stanley—' '• 14=41
whose interest in die real prosperity of etineetelatieviso
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