New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-06-03
ORIGIN or THE ANGLO FRENCH ALLIANCE.

ORIGIN or THE ANGLO FRENCH ALLIANCE.
Kinglake has drawn terribly graphic picture
of the attitude of Louis BOnaparte and his
accomplices after the coup F@tat, with their
hands full of plumber and their mouths full
of humility, seeking alliances all over Europe
which might give them a sort of international
standing. There have been many heated de-
mails of the accuracy of the pOrtraiture, but
nothing said to disprove it. Ard now Mr.
Davidow, a Secretary Of Legation i'll the service
of Russia, well known in Paris and in Wash
ngton, has recently published, i'll st. Petersburg,
most indiscreet but evidently truthful
account of the advances made by Louis
Napoleon to Russia, which Mr. DavidOw re-
ceivcd from the lips of the late Count
Nicholas de Kisseleii, Russian ambassador IN
Paris. 1t confirms in q very striking way the
opinion formed by the English historian OF
the disposition and tendency OF the new En-
peror. which landed him in that imprudent
and fruitless partnership with England in
quarrel in which he had no interest whatever
At time when the temporary alterations OF
so-called Republicans are leading weak-mnded
citizens to look to a personal government as
means of security and permanence. it will be
well to consider the train Of disasters which
were brought upon France by one Emperor's
uneasy struggle for ecognition, and the defeat
which was prepared for Russia by the stohd
and barbarous pride of another.
Mr.. Kisseleff says that he was led by Bona
parties speech at Dion and the review at
Satory to suspect that the Empire would soon
be proclaimed and he asked for instructions
in that event The Petersburg Cabinet re-
piled that this was improbable, and gave no
Instructions The Prince-Presdent made him
self Emperor and the other ambassadors
made haste to recognize him. Mr. kisselefi,
not knowing what else to do, went to bed
with the govt, and refused to see any one.
But while his door was still refused to the
world, an invitation to ball at the Tuileries
was bros ght to the Embassy, and procedure
so unheard of indicated that some important
communication was to be made to him in an
unofficial manner. He was not mistaken. The
Emperor took him aside into the embrasure of
a window, and put at once the scorchlng
ouestion as to his recognition by the Russian
Government. Mr.. Kisselef replied that he
had AS vet received no instructions. The En-
peror then went on in strain OF inconcelvaDle
establishment, saying that the model which
he had chosen for himself to follow was the
Emperor Nicholas, "the true type of a modern
emperor. | confess" he adds, that for
"long time have been filled with admiration
4" aud an involuntary sympathy for your En-
"peror who still refuses my plebeian hand,
which | again tender him, no longer as to
"brother, but as to a model whom | have
chosen" He charged the Envoy to report
this to the Emperor, and to say that England
was pursuing him with projects of alliance,
but he could not go into such an arrangeme tent
without the fear of being haunted by the ghost
of his uncle. Still, an alliance he must have,
and if Russia again repulsed him he must
throw himself with loathing into the arms
of England"
Mr.. Kisseleff left the palace, stupefed by so
preposterous an interview, and found at the
Embassy a courier, who had just arrived with
dispatches from Petersburg ordering him to
present himself to Mr. Drouyn de fliuys, and
TO say that the Car recognized the new En-
perOr as Napoleon H., and not as Napoleon
Ill, and that for the present the Car refused
to style him Brother thinking that for so
new an arrival among the family of
sOvereigns1 "My dear Friend" was quite
cordial enough. The Minister, knowing how
disastrous such a stupid insult would be ut
this crisis, took the responsibility OF sending
the courier back to NesselrOdc to explain fully
TO him the gravity of the situation. But in "A
few days he received cold dispatch, saying
that tbs Car WAS displeased at his DresIullns