The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-20

-.:..,-, August 70 1892
1890 - an rur SPKIEos. - PERSONS
Ds .A ~ snr;nss can have the Dispa'cn
CON. s 3, ~ them .s for any length OF time 'ney
may desire.
PRUSSIA.
NJ. NOT long since England and Prussia
~.rs regarded ~ natural allies Prussia
v;,hout frontiers, required powerful array;
The fast anchored isle has always regarded
her navy Is her right arm. Each u strons ~
that which the other wants. For hundred
yesrs there has been an intimate alliance 20
tween these countries, over which tne m0'
shadow has been cast by the Eastern war
uo TO the advent Of Louis Napoleon France
wa the erea. bugbear of English statesmen
snd English policy regarded as essen'.al 70
ia defence, the building up OF q strong king
dom on the Northern frontier OF France
which should suggest caution to that aggres
sive power in any meditased assault upon
Great Britain. Lord Chatham estaoiisned
the principle that the independ enoe OF rfu'
nj. "a essential to the balance OF Europe.
More recently. the Importance OF the rra'
alan alliance to England had been greatly IN
creased by that sudden development OF nus
sian power and policy which, in the opinion
Of English statesmen, threatens the aoSoip-
tion Of all Germany In the views OF English
politicians,it becomes more necessary 10 Inter
pose check to the ambition of Ruussla' tnan
10 that of their French neighbor, and frussia'
which had rapidly advanced from depen-
dent electorate..int powerful kingoo"'
was looked upon. as the barrier botn against
the growing despotism of Russia and the az
gressive power of France.
The resent,war. has deprived England OF
this great European breakwater, and LETT ner
with no CHECK, OF either OF
the nations whose aggressive tendencies sne
has 80 long feared The friendship OF Napo-
leon is her only guarantee against the mere
ditary hatred 'and Hambition OF the french
people, and his military power, which tor
more than ten months has endeavored Id
vain to reduce single Russian fortress, her
only barrier against Russian progress. Prus
STA has been alienated by her laundering d.
plomacy, and it will be fortunate for Great
Britain, If, instead of sympathizing friend
she does.notsbecome AN active ally OF the
Emperor Alexander.
Its the fashion now in England to decry
ths strength and influence of Prussia, but tive
wears ago it was held that, to the English
man, whether politician or philosopher. Prus-
STA, of all the countries of Europe, was the
most important, from its position and the
nature of its connexion with Great Britain.
Its military power also, in numbers and ols
\ cipline, is not to be despised. Surrounded
BY wsrlike nations, and with territory un-
defended by the natural frontiers OF noun
tains or rivers, powerful army was OF the
Lust importance to Prussian security. Such
an army she possesses, three hundred thou
sand strong, (which, in the event of war,
would soon be raised to half million,l and
whose magnificent discipline has ever been
the admiration of the military world. Her
martial annals are emblazoned with splendid
victories over Austrians, Russians and
French This latter nation, if it relies upen
the craftsmanship of the counterfeit Napoleon,
need not fatter itself with the dream of an
easy triumph in the event of war with Prus-
sis. The battle of Rosback, in which eigh
teen thousand Prussians, under the great Ere
derrick, encountered and defeated sixty thou
sand French and German Imperialists, with
loss of ten thousand men, at an expense
to the Prussians of but four hundred killed
and wounded, has scarcely a parallel even in
the wonderful career of Napoleon. In this
connexion, capital bon mot was said by
Frederick, in q conversation at table, which
turned on the comparative style of living
among the German Princes The king pro
nounced that of the Prince Hildburg Hau,
sen, the German General at the battle of Ros
back, the most magnificent, "for," said he'
'be keeps thirty thousand runners"
The Eastern alliance and the European
complications to which it is giving rise, are
even more unnatural and inconsistent in
religious than political point of view
England, = Christian country, is not only the
champion of Turkey, an infdel power, against
Christian Russia, but England the acknow-
lodged bulwark of Professionalism, is the close
ally of Roman Catholic France, in a war
arising out of a religious controversy between
the Church of Rome, the old enemy of the
Church of England and the Greek Church,
which has heretofore had the sympathies of
the Church of England in her contests with
the Church of Rome. Nay, more If there
is another nation on the earth which may
dispute with Great Britain the championship
of Professionalism, it is Prussia, but for whose
gigantic exertions in that cause, the whole
European continent would have been Roman
Catholic. So thoroughly is this fact under.
stood in England, that, not many years ago,
one of her ablest writers, though disclaiming
all superstition, remarked that he was strong
ly inclined to account for the rise of Prussia
in the necessity of protection for Protes-
tantism in Northern Germany, conception
which he endeavored to substautiate from
the whole tenor of her annals. Protestant
England marching along with Roman Cath
olic France on one arm, and Infidel Turkey
on the other, the three charging bayonets on
Christian Russia, and looking dagpers A.