The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-05-03
From the London Times of March 25th
THE ATTEMPT OF THE CZAR TO Sc
CIIRE TILE AID OE TRANCE


The .Moniteur has lost 40 time u confirming
by the aurhorry of the French Government, the
state ment which had been published few days
before by this journal, to the effect that, on the
failure o. the secret and confidential propose Is
addressed by the Emperor Nicholas to the
British Ministry, that sovereign turned his
overtures to France, aid received from Louis
Napoleon a similar refusal. We may add 10
these facts, which are ndistnctly stated by the
organ Of the French Government that these
propositions were not made by the Emperor
Nicholas in person to he French Minister al
this Court, Trey had been to Sir Hamilton
Seymour, but that they were communicated In
conversation by M. de Ksseeff, the Russian
Minister a, Paris, to the Emperor ofthe French,
who received them with the caution which is a
part of his character, AMI rejected them with
that fidelity to the great interest of Europe and
to the alliance of his country, which does him
high honor This circumstance was all that
could be desired to complete the case of the
Emperor Nicholas, and TO give the finishing
stroke to the demonstration of his bad faith. In
his most secret communications with the ENJOYS
OF this country he affected to entertain the
greatest mistrust of France-he assured Sir
Hamilton Seymour that her object was to EN- !.
broil US in the East and to get possession OF
Tunis-he uniformly maintained that the xxi
Places, were the sole cause OF the counter de-
mands addressed by Russia to the sul.an--and
he had offered few months before 10 support
the Sultan wi h his forces by sea ard by land,
against the possibility of FRENCH hostile
expedition. Yet, when he found that England
was not to be corrupted or cajoled, he turned
without the least scruple or delay to that very
Power which he had Just before been treating
not only with contempt, but with clandestlne
hostility.
To suppose that he could win the ear of the
ruler of France at all tor proposals ''not unlike
those which England had just before rejected,
he must have been prepared to make those
sacrifices to the supposed ambition of France
which he may have conceived to be most
calculated to ob,ain her alliance. Egypt and
Canda had been offered to Eng land as the
bribe best adapted to the convenience OF this
country. Perhaps we could name, but We
should like TO know with certainty, what the
temptation was TO which France was exposed
Unless are mistaken, it was not only to the
dsmembermen: Of the Turkish Empire tha
Russia pointed on that occasion; and we suspect
that she included in her schemes the aggran
dizement of France by the incorporation o
8 me portion Of that very kingdom which he hac
| before passed over in contemptuous silence, bu
which has since distingu shed itself as the las
adherent Of Russia policy beyond the Vistula
The King of Prussia, whose conduct has beer
regulated by no higher principle than a senseles
confidence in Russia and an unmanly dread o
France, may yet hys long enough to learn tha
it is to the forbearance Of France that he owe
his safety. To gain her own ends Russia woult
have chaffed away a province Of Prussia a
easily as an island in the Greek Archipelago
and, if an alliance between Russia and Franc
had been established on the common basis of
spoliation Of their neighbors. that second Till
would have been as fatal to the independence
of Germany the first We have not tn
slightest doubt that Russia was prepared, i
such an event, either to sacrifice her Germa
ALI altogt ther, or to compel them to share tn
booty, on terms that would have left the Con
tinent at the mercy Of the two principal con
sprltors.