, 1863-12-23
REVISING THE MAP OF EU-
ROPE.
NJ. G1rnrflin On tho Franco-En.li4h
Alliance

II. Emil de Gizardin, in the Paris Ptcss, de-
votes long article to England, attempting
to prove the worthlcssncss Of the English
alliancc, and suggesting, as the only alliance
worth speaking Of, one between France and
Russia. He gives q long list Of English Often
ses to France, beginning with the settlement
position to tho Mexican expedition Tie
condition, he says, on which France has ever
been admitted to the alliance Of England is
that she shall become her vassa1, and "basely
abandon the defence Of the great principle
ropcan questions. This principle is the right
to the sea Of which Gibraltar has been The
audacfous and criminal violation" The allf-
nDce Of Franco and Russia, On the contrary,
would be the recognition Of that great
Principle, and would secure Its triumph
Semra1d With b. sqs pa,na an oeSs Sa1h %ha n the
petty, local and passing question, and far
easier to settle between Russia md Franco
than BY year, however successful, wagcd BY
France against Russia. Franco united with
Russia, of what weight would England be in
tle scale? None whatever. Austria and
PRUSSIA would be- equally impotent; but tho
union Of France and Russia rdhlly means the
c1npIrc Of the East In the hands Of Russia,
and the empire of the West in the hands Of
France AS to Austria, n. dc Girardln thinks
that that power has nothing to gnin from
England, while she has no interest In discus
sions between France and Russia- Did Eng
land come to her aid to 1venge So1ferfno and
Magenta? Would she send her fleet to the
Adfiatfc to protect Venetia against tho navy
Of Victor Emanuel? Austria hbors under
great dc]usion If she supposcs that an Anstro-
Britnnic alliance would be whit moro solid
or more sincere than the Franco-Briish alIi-
ever be IN ally but only the instrument Of
Great Britain, and that the advantages arc
never reciprocal. No continental power
should base Its policy on deYotedness to Eng
land. That would be as useless as to build
q city on thewares Of the ocean, "of which
England could not, however, be blamed for
It, because it is lcr nature. s'If 1t wero not
her nature, instead Of naming Lord Pa]mers-
ton or Lord Derby Us the successor OF Robert
Peel, Eho should have chosen Richard Golden
10 whom she owes having escaped in lS4S
all the excesses Of the Fronch revolution Of
l7G3woull be nothing" The day the cont1-
ucnt thinks seriously about it, England
knows or feels that it will not Of itself modify
it's territorial condition. Every state not
bounded By the seas will consider Itself as
imperfect as the man 10 whom senso or
lung ia wanting, Russia was 1ota state until
Peter the Great opened to his empire the en-
pire Of the sea through the Baltic and the
Euxine. It is by the freedom Of the seas that
the new map Of Europe viii be formed.
"Let England succeed or fail in defeating tho
congress" concludes II Girardin, the new
map Of Europe Will be traced without war If
France and Kussia are agreed, accompanied
by Italy and Sweden, even though Austria
be blinded by her rancor and prefer walking
behind. Queen Victoria to marching. side by
eide with Victor Emanucl- And what could
Tic coalition Of England and. Austria do
against france, Italy, Russia and Sweden
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