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/ TREAT war is at hand appears to be the almost X universal impression in this country . Russia has just transmitted to her representative at Vienna , for communication to the representatives of the other Powers , two Notes , either one of which , separately , may be regarded , at once , as an ultimatum on the part of Russia , and a rejection of every attempt at accommodation . These Notes from Count Nesselrode annul all
that has been done during the protracted negotiations , and stultify every . party to those negotiations , always excepting that one consistent State , which has never swerved from its moderate and decided course—Turkey . One of these despatches refers to the substance of the modifications proposed by Turkey , in the Vienna Note , and the other refers to the Note itself adopted by the Pour Powers . The two subjects are essentially distinct , and , although published subsequently , we may take the one upon the Turkish modifications first . The Note of Redschid Pascha , setting forth the Turkish objections to the Vienna Note , took particular exception to the words which represented the Empevor of Russia as watching over the orthodox Greek Christians , and the Sultan as confirming the immunities secured by the solicitude of the Emperors . It is admitted universally , even by the most Russian journals in London , by the Ministerial papers both of London and Paris , and % the semi-official journal of Berlin , the Zeit , that the note of Redschid Pascha was drawn w'th consummate ability , and that the position taken by the Porte was almost unexceptionable . I he Porte said that to admit that phraseology woul d be to recognise the Czar as the Dictu t <> r , the Sultan as his Registrar . The Emperor of Russia now says that he will not give ll P the ori ginal text , because to omit the words would be to confess that he had no ground of complaint against the Sultan ; and that they do u add anything to the- ' force of the treaty of Jvi unardji—tlie Emperor insisting upon a new recognition of his protectorate , exactly as Prince Mcuseh ikoif liiniHelf demanded it . The
overwecng tendency of this demand is aggravated by the »» solencc of the language , which speaks of " the dl-disposed , intention" of the Ministers of the A ° vte , and the " condescension" of the Emperor . In the other Note the same spirit of arrogance lH turned against the Four Powers , perhaps with O 1 » e remarkable exception . In this despatch ,
Count Nesselrode expresses the dissatisfaction of the Sultan with the Vienna Note , which he had reluctantly accepted as an act of condescension . He declares that he did not ask or desire the good offices of the Four Powers . He speaks of them as the allies of Turkey , specially interested in the honour of the Sultan ; he holds them accountable for not having rendered their Note a final
proposition ; and avows that if Turkey be permitted to make exceptions—which it was rather his privilege to do than the Sultan ' s—he reverts to his original freedom , and shall continue his quarrel with Turkey alone , setting aside the Four Powers . We have here but described the naked purport of the Note , not straining its intent , although not literally following its language .
There is dishonesty as well as insolence in this preposterous statement . Count Nesselrode puts before the Allied Powers a dilemma , which shows how he understands a " question of words . " If the modifications were unimportant , why should Turkey insist upon them ? if important , Russia could not assent to them . But inasmuch as the modifications involved the negative of that original proposition by Prince Menschikoff , which was declared to be inadmissible , some such
emendations of the text were of course inevitable , and Turkey might turn against Russia its own dilemma . It is , however , plain , that although Count Nesselrode is spurred to the irksome duty of sharpening his diplomatic casuistry upon this ugly subject , Russia does not wait upon reason , nor care even to maintain appearances . Under the decorous robe of Count Nesselrode appears distinctly the rude bludgeon of the bully , who is intent only
upon wreaking that brute force , in which he supposes himself to possess a transcendent advantage . The two despatches of Russia , taken together , mean that Russia yields nothing ; that she perseveres in her originul purpose of extorting a spiritual vassalage from Turkey ; she sets aside the Four Powers , and will execute her will in their despite . The announcement of this course has had a various effect upon the Four Powers . With regard to Prussia ' s intention we are not yet informed . Austria has withdrawn , and has no doubt , as we had constantly predicted , played throughout into the hands of Russia . Count Nesselrode distinctly states that the Emperor of Russia assented to the general bearing of the Note which was sent to him by telegraph from Vienna , before the Note itaelf was despatched , and ho admits that he had a right to suppose that Turkey had had cognizance of ita terras , which , thanks to the Conference , she had not . Ho inxta
Austria on the back as the' Emperor ' s friend , whose good offices he had accepted ; and dismisses the other Powers—that is France and Englandas the " allies and protectors" of Turkey . Turkey appears to be ready . It is well known that her armies are impatient to begin , and her most immediate danger appears to consist in holding them back . A manifesto to his people , in which the Sultan explains the actual posture of affairs , and declares his intention of maintaining his rights — a manifesto which he originally suppressed , in deference to the Four Powers—has been published in his Gazette . The complaints of Austria against the course taken by France and England , imply that M . Drouyn de Lhuys , who has taken so leading a part in the conference , was too firm for Russia ' s ally . In England , the response to the insolent despatches of the Russian Emperor is unanimous . There is , we believe , scarcely a journal that does not declare further submission to be impossible . The Morning Post announces the attitude of the affair to be suddenly and totally changed , that journal being understood to represent the views move especially of that active Minister whom the public would be glad at the present moment to see in the Foreign Office . Lord John Russell has spoken for himself ; he has declared in the speech delivered within the last few days at Grcenock , that the sacred duty of Englishmen is to maintain the weak against the strong , to vindicate the independence of States , and to secure for nations those liberties of which others would deprive them . The people of Greenock responded to that declaration with cheers , which implied how glad they were to welcome it from official lips . Lord John , in fact , recognised their appreciation of his sentiments ; he said in his speech that he spoke their sentiments as well as his own . The meeting at Sheffield is , we believe , but the first of a series—in fact , we have reason to know that impatient spirits in other towns have only been held back by the icar ot not meeting with that unanimous response which is now bursting forth in diffcm . fr parts ot the country : as at Stafford , where « meeting is to be held in the Shire-hall on Monday evening next . England feels herself insulted , and is at last awakening to something of her old spirit . Spain is undergoing a Ministerial crisis—a matter about as important as n Portuguese revolution . We say " Spain , " although the Palace clique at Madrid have little right to speak in the name of their country . General Lersundi was selected us the late Premier , because there was an idoa thu
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 24, 1853, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24091853/page/1/
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