New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-24
ooo0 EUROPEAN.

count Scbouyaloff was one of the few olpio-
u,atists of this generation answering 10 fancy ~,
rand,s description Of +" a good European. .o
influence was powerfully exerted on inc siGe
~ neaoe when nearly all his Russian coi-
leagues. Prince Gortschakof included were
olamorinc and intri guing for war. AS Russian
Ambassador at the Court OF 81. JANIS wiz
Lord Beaconsield was in power ne uiu uioio
perhaps than any other statesman In Europo "
avert the catastrophe of war between MS own
oountry and England, and to open the way lor
a naoi6c settlement of all questions arising from
tba Ralkan campaign. He occupied thai I'M
nortant most at the moment when the CossacKS
were a few miles outside the gates OF ConStan-
tinople and England was ahame with excite-
ment over the Treaty of San Stefano. Ii nc
had not been one Of tho coolest ana most sa-
eaoious of Ambassadors, one OF the most disSs-
irons of modern wars might have resulted from
the impetuous zeal of Ignatief in the Balkan
and the Cars military advisers in st. PETERS
burg. Possessing his sovereign's commence oy
virtue of arduous and brilliant service III Uae
Ministry of the Interior, he was enaoleu W
offer strenuous resistance to the Hotspurs "no
controlled the State Cornell, and to effect IN the
end. as the leader of small minority, peace
full settlement OF most dangerous npiomauo
controversy. The secret memorandum which
Count schouyaloff and Lord Salisbury signed
and Marvin revealed to an astonished worio
made it possible for the Congress OF berhn 70
assemble and revise the Treaty OF San Ste1ano'
The services which this eminent diplomaast
rendered to Europe in that momentous crislS
when the British ironclads had forced the Oar
danelles and Sepoys were in garrison at malOa
tended to impair his popularity in his own coun-
try. He was largely responsible Tor the heeo-
tiation of a treaty which the military party III
Russia have never ceased to regard as IN I'M
necessary compromise and an irrevocable DUN
der. The course of events since the Berln
Congress has confirmed the apprehensions ex-
messed at that time by Ignatieff, Lobanof and
the victorious generals. Russia has gradually
lost control over Bulgaria, and its preStge IN
the Balkan has steadily declined. The war OF
1877 involved great sacrifices, but ended with
the CONQUEST of European Turkey. Austria s
neutrality had been purchased in advance OF
hostihties BY secret treaty respecting Bosnia
and the herzegovina. Prince Bismarck with
his cynical "Beati possidentes" stood ready 10
sanction Russian treaty of peace dictated WIN
Constantinople at the mercy of the CossacKs
All these advantages of open war and secret
alliance were frittered away at Berlin BY what
the military staff described at the time as " the
diplomacy of surrender" The ground lest then
has never been regained.
While Count Sohouvaloff was held respon-
sible by Panslayists at home for the negotia-
ton of convention which has mquestonably
retarded the Russian march to Constantinople
and the expulsion of the Turks from Europe
he was honored throughout the Continent as a
peacemaker who interviewed in an alarming
crisis and averted war fraught with danger
and ruin for his country and England. His
patriotism was assailed only by reckless critics
who refused to acknowledge the evidence re-
specting the exhaustion of the Cars military
resources at the close Of the Balkan campaign
and the inherent probabilities Of the ultimate
formation of European coalition against Rus
aa, il England had declared war and sprung
to the defence of Constantinople. In reality
Count Schouvaloff served his country when he
enacted his part as good European, and his
death is to be deplored as loss to Christian
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