The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-04
SIR MORIER STIRRED UP.
HIS APPEAL TO COUNT BISMARCK
IN VAIN.

Gen. Bazaine Writes the Ambassador
Letter Denying the Truth of the
Charges-The Iron Chancellor's Son
Refuses to Order the Cologne Ca
zette to Make Retraction.
LONDON, Jan. 4, A. NJ Sir R. d. Mo-
rier, the British ambassador to Russia, has
furnished to the press the correspondence
that has passed between him and Count
Herbert Bismarck in relation to the Cologne
G0zette's charges. On December 10 Sir
r. D. Morier wrote to Count Herbert, say
ing that he had heard in July that
Count Herbert had mentioned to several
persons Maj. Deines report published !
the Cologne Gazette, and that while he did
not suppose that Count Herbert believed
the story, he deemed it expedient to write
to Gen. Bazaine to inquire as to the truth
OF the alleged conversation.
BAZAINE DENIES 1T.
In answer to his letter he received from
Gen. Bazine an emphatic denial. Sir.
Morier, therefore appeals to Count Herbert
as gentleman aud man of honor to cause
to be inserted in the North German
Ga&ette an immediate denial of the foul
and infamous calumny. Sir Morier enclose
his letter to Gen. BaZaine dated July 25
and Gen. Bazaine's reply dated Aug. s.
WHAT THE MARSHAL SAID.
Gen. Bazaine after apologizing for his
delay in answering, which was due to his
absence from Madrid, denies in a most IN
qualified manner the truth of the apocryphal
conversation, asks forgiveness for his bad
writing, which, he says, was due to moral
sufferings, and concludes by referring to
his agreeable recollections of Sir Morier's
kindness to him when in Madrid,
C,OTrNT UERRERT DFCT INES
Count Herbert IN a letter TO Sir Morier,
dated Friedrichsruhe, Dec. %, acknowl-
edges Sir Morier'S letter of Dec. 10, and
| says that he regrets that neither its contents
nor tone enables him to comply with its
| astonishing demands and step out of the
limits imposed on him by his official posi-
tion in regard to statements made by the
German press.
SIR MORIER'S INDIGNATION.
Sir Morier wrote to Count Herbert on
Dec. 81 as follows: "As you decline to dis
associate yourself, either publicly or
privately, from this monstrous calumny,
have no course open but to publish our cor
respondence."
A TREACHERoUs CALUMNIAToR.
He concludes by saying that although
he does not share 1t, yet the belief is
general that the Cologne Gazette contrib
utor derived his information from official
sources, aud this, he says, is an additional
reason for an appeal under his own name to
that publicity which his anc nymous calum-
niator SO treac erouslv avoids. In a post
script he says: II will never again notice
the prints of the Cologne Gazette
or analogous prints" Throughout the let
ters Define is not mentioned by name H
is referred to simply as the military at
tache."
TONE OF THE LONDON PRESS.
The Daily 1eLegroph after expressing
regret that Couut Herbert Bismarck is
unable to give a better answer
to Sir Morier, says: "f there is no
way of repudiating the calumnies
against our ambassadors name, which pre-
tend to be official, a way ought to be found
or made to defend them from the kind OF
journalism repre- ented by the Cologne
Gazette.n
The Daily NetCs says: perhaps Sir R. D.
No. ier's letter displays rather more irrita-
tion than it is good for dipomatist to
show. On the other hand Count Herbert's
reply lacks appreciation Of Sir Moriers
position and extreme provocation. IL is
pity that a rumor so absurd should be al
lowed to bring into dis greeabe promi-
nence the anti-English feeling that appears
to exist IN certain official quarters in Ger
many.
The Times says: We regret the result
Oh OlF MOfleFS appear 10 COuub heFDeFG
Bismarck. The responsibility for a calumny
SO gross ought to be either manfully assumed
or fra ky repulsed. There is no reason to
disbelieve Define in consequence of Gen. Ba-
zaipes testimony, which can be only treated
as worthless. We regret that we are con-
strained to say that the attack appears to
be part of a system of persecution against
all who were most intimately connected
with Emperor Fredcricks system tnat
does not snare even those who
were nearest and dearest to him
We may take the liberty OF pointing out to
Prince Bismarck and his youthful imita-
tors that easy movement Of international
intercourse is not facilitated by the adop-
tion of barrack-room manners apparently
copied from the worst days of Napoleon,
when he was trampling upon Prussia.