The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-06

The Chevalicr wlkon Once sIore-Hls Anne.
Iican Anglo-Frcnch Diplomacy and Its
Consequences.
We publish this morning, o communication
from the Chevalier Wikoff, touching the STRIFE
and it's Consequences" This gives us an OPP
portunity too inviting to be passed over, for o
more particular insiCe exposition of the CON
pick and comprehensive diplomacy of the Che
Waller, on both sides Of the British channel, in
that e~ventful interval in European affairs be-
tween the year 1919 and the coup d'ftat of De-
cember, 1851. This exposition is due to the
London Times, to Lord Palmerston, to Louis
Napoleon, to Miss Gamble to the Emperor Of
Russia, to Wikoff, aud all concerned.
We are aware that the Chevalier is writing
the history, in oil its details and m%inuti@, Off
cial and confidential conversations, dispatches
protocols. and newspaper arrangements inclu-
sive, in connection with his diplomatic func.
tions under Lord Pslmerston and Louis Napo-
leon-we are aware, too, that in this present
exposition We may be anticipating the Cheva-
lier's book; but the demands of private and
public justice are paramount. Wikof will ad-
init it, and the London Times will appreciate
the rropriety of a speedy correction of its mis-
directed accusations and inuendoes in the pre-
misses. With this apology, we proceed to our
specifications and explanations.
A great crisis produces great men, and q
deep and broad political revolution invariably
brings up some master spirit to the surface,
a,vu-AkanA ~ lnla H. I.ux.- A. -
order of things. Such are the landmarks of
history. The revolutionary and reactionary
movements Ringing upon the expulsion of
Louis Philippe furnish one Of these examples,
scarcely less conspicuous than the Man of
Destiny" uprising from the chaos Of the Reign
OF Terror, changing confusion into order, and
the elements of anarchy and dissolution into
soliaity and strength. Louis Napoleon is the
man. His enfrfe, from comparative social OBJ
security in London, into the councils of France,
brings us ris. d pis with our hero, the Cheyalier
Wikoff; for it was under the fret Presidency OF
Louis Napoleon that Wikoff entered upon his
mysterious but momentous and diversiied
diplomatic engagements.
II was at this crisis that Wikofr attracted the
attention Of the French republican govern
mcnt in certain newspaper articles in the Paris
press, explanatory of the constitution aud the
institutions Of the United States. He had
visited and sympathized with Louis Napoleon
at Ham, and had thus secured, at least
for q season, o patron at court. II was
in the summer Of 1850, we believe,
that he was brought into contact with the
British embassy.at Paris; aud it was here that his
political disclosures OF the aggressive tenden-
cics OF the French republic against England
resulted in his diplomatic engagement with the
Foreign 0Glce under Lord Palmerston. His in
formation was important and alarming, fore
sbadowing, as 1t did, the invasion of England
by q feet of steamers, under cover OF night,
and the final settlement, In q brief campaign,
Of the unadjusted accounts between the rival
Powers, from Waterloo back TO Agincourt.
In April, 1851, Wikof informs us in his
"Courtship," be went over to London, ON the
double mission Of q visit 10 Miss Gamble and
a call at the Foreign Office for his quarters
salary. And here we strike into the pith Of
the matter. He hints that he carried over at
this time some important diplomatic papers.
What were they? One Of them was a produc.
ton Of Gen. Cbangarnier, compromising the
proid Of an invasion of England. He pro.