Recent event in the East; Being a reprint of Mr. Urquhart's contributions to the Morning advertiser, during the autumn of 1853 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1854 Excerpt: ... of the Principalities is no settlement, and can be none; and if it were so, you would not obtain it. Your Minister will feed on his own words as heretofore without fattening. Yet, in 1851, the Principalities were evacuated without England's help, and by Turkey's sole act. Would this, then, be a triumph, even if obtained? Russia will evacuate to-morrow--she will make compensation to the Turk--renounce every pretension--surrender every claim and every existing right which she possesses--if you make her doing so the condition of not sending your squadron through the Dardanelles. Par be it from me to advise so base a course. Enter the Dardanelles first, and then make your conditions; but as this is the course that England has to pursue, so is it the course she will not pursue, and the present fluster of opposition will, like every one that has preceded it, serve only to betray the cause, or the interest, by which it was provoked. You never have drawn the sword against Russia; you never will. "I dare any many in this house," said Lord Derby, on one occasion, "to utter the word war." Such is the language of Nicholas to Europe; and thus it is, that the only power that has to dread a war, solves every question in her own favour, by its menace. DENMARK AND RUSSIA. August 16th. The events in the East have at least had the effect of opening the eyes of this country, and of Europe, to the perfidy of the Russian Government in respect to Denmark, whilst the simultaneous operations had established the unity of her action as bearing upon the two great positions of the Dardanelles and the Sound. It appears, however, by the ministerial explanations on Friday night, that the Government of England has not shared in this enlightenment, nor admitted this connection. But in this ...