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TO OUR HEADERS . AND SUBSCRIBERS . FOR one more weeVvre are compelled to appear before our readers in a provisional , and therefore an imperfect , condition . The temporary lodging which we have found in our biirnt-out state is still our abode ; and even the composition of our paper is obliged to conform itself in some degree to our provisional ' machinery . Thus the woodcut which has replaced our ordinary heading must for another week remain wood in lieu of the
perennial metal now familiar to our readers . Everything will be set right , however , by the day fox our next number , which will , be arrayed in all the brilliancy of new type . A nd if , in the meantime , our endeavour under so severe and unexpected a difficulty has earned us ati increased confidence—if our trouble has procured for us an increased sympathy from our readers , we shall not regard even a Fire as an unredeemed calamity .
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ACCORDING to tho latest report , the position of the Turkish affair in Constantinople and St . Petersburgh has totally changed ; . the Sultan is for war , sciinetar in hand ; and the Emperor is for friendly negotiations instead of war . Lotus at once express our own belief that these representations are false , in so far as they pretend that there is any real change in tho course of events . ,
The Sultan has taken tho ^ advioo of his Grand Council , a body comprising about ono hundred and twenty persona of tho highest rank in his dominions , assembled on such occasions to give him counsel . ^ They have considered tho actual state oi ^ fai ra—have concerted defensive measure ^ / and have recommended the Sultan $ '< &hjw $ e a , formal declaration of war . TJie report that ho has actually done ho is ajproauinptiv © inference from those
proceedings . "" The Sultan , however , could hardly do otherwise . Ho has for many months tolerated tho presence of an invading force within his own provinces ; in deference to hia Western allies , ho has suspended whut tho Sovereign of every country might have been expected to begin on the instant—active ittoana for expelling the invader . Negotiations have been tried on tho advice of two , and thon of four Powors , ami havo only given Itusaiaii time . Under those circumstances
he could make no representation to his natural advisers against resorting to the ordinary course of resistance ; probably he could not even tell them that his oyvn conviction vvas adverse to ' war ); 4 nd , we ^ n ^ ay / suppose that the resolve" now taken is regarded in Constantinople as the only step ; -fcp ' eri' to the Sultan , according to the unanimous opinion of every party in his capital .
With respect to the probable result of the war , wo do not share in the feeling of those who take a gloomy view . The Turkish army has been strengthened to a considerable force ; it appears to be in tolerable health ; it is noted for its power of attack ; its artillery is strong ; it is on its own ground ; and the Turks
possess the means of crossing that barrier which English writers have recently represented as keeping the two armies asunder—the Danube . Tho Russian army , on the other hand , is great upon paper ; it is known to be enfeebled by disease , and decimated by desertions ; it is strong in brute endurance , but not in attack , It is perishing like rotten sheep .
Politically the situation of Turkoy is far stronger than writers have , recently allowed . It is nonsense to talk of the Greeks as a power in Sclavonian Turkey . Greece proper is torn with factions ; out of that kingdom the Greeks arc a shopkecping class , and nothing more than that . The Sclavonians themselves are too heterogeneous in race , in degrees of civilization , and in opinion , to bo " a State , " though they miirht he a federation . Tho Turks are still
tho one great minority among smaller ones . Let war be commenced in Turkey , and Hungary would be an ally outflanking the invader—the reason , probably , for tho strange disposition of tho Russian army , with its right wing bent back like that of a lame duck . Those facts , and othera that wo all know , may account for tho report from Ohnutx . that tho Emperor , good-natured man ! in moments of unguarded conversation , has been hinting that ho would accept a fresh Note , composed
by Franco and England according to tho senso which those Powers intended to give tho Vienna Note It i « evident that this report dencrves no other name than that of humbug . There is not an authentic document issuing from the government of Nicholas that has not distinctly repudiated everything that this rumour implies ; and tho Notes of Neaselrodo riot only agree with each other , but they agrco with tho Will of Peter tho Great . If indeed JVonwolrodo ' s explanation on tho Turkish modification had 119 vor boon made public
Kusoia might now have backed out , disclaiming- ' her treacheries ; hut that explanation nailed her false colours to the mast . Russia does not mean to yield ; she may mean to cajole , and to gain time if wo will ' &Ilow her . If our ministers are drawn into new negotiations , they would buy a gross of green spectacles on the strength of " the Cosmogony . " There appears to be but one course open to our Government , which would not involve
our being duped as well as dishonoured ; it is , steadily to support Turkey in demanding , before ; any other negotiation or condition whatsoever , the evacuation of the Principalities . In point of fact , Russia never had any right to negotiate while she had a soldier on Turkish ground . She has lost the opportunity allowed to her ; and having attempted to bully other independent ) powers , she must now be made to feel the humiliation that she
sought to inflict . If wo permit Russia to dupe us again , we arc disgraced and paralyzed in the eyes of the world ; if we go forward , wo arc sure to reduce her to our terms . She has tried to make herself the half of Europe , stretching from north to south , from Baltic to Mediterranean ; and as she was already formidable from the extent of her territory wo must meet her attempts at further aggression by stripping her of something that she now holds . As Austria is her accomplice
Austria , moreover , must he treated in the same fashion . England can redress the wron g * which those two Powers havo inflicted upon Europe can reduce them to dimensions of harmlcasncHS . Being able , England , to whom Europe , looks as tho champion of freedom ia bound to accomplish the deliverance . Wo must not only " maintain tho equilibrium oi
Europe as fixed by treaty , " but wo must givo to Europo a better equilibrium—a surer foundation—a , more generous . spirit—a salor hie . And if we take tho opportunity which Russia and Austria havo given us , wo can reduce those great empires to their original limits and at once net froo _ tho enslaved Poland
nations of Italy , Hungary , Bohemia , , Lithuania , Finland , Liroiiii * , besides' relieving many others , Sweden , Norway , the Danish nation , Northern Germany and Turkey of thoir apprehension of a Polish doom . All of those countries would furnish contingents ; all would hail un as thoir saviour ; all would gladly tako our counsel in arranging their constitutions upon our own principles : all would give ua , after their moans , and many of tlwm jm tho richest degveo , tho trado which is
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VOL IV , No . 185 A ~~ : SATURDAY , OCTOBER . 8 , 1853 . [ Pbice Sixpence .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 8, 1853, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2007/page/1/
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