Recent Event in the East: Being a Reprint of Mr. Urquhart's Contributions to the Morning Advertiser, During the Autumn of 1853 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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At a meeting at Belfast on the 29th of December, Mr. Ross of Bladensburg spoke as follows -

"Having known Mr. Urquhart from the commencement of his career, - having followed him, co-operated with him, listened to his anticipations, and day by day watched and traced their accomplishment, I can assert that England is not without a man perfectly qualified to play against Russia that game of empire in which we are at present engaged. It is no struggle of power against power - the events of the world are not decided by relative strength and weakness, they are decided in the same manner as a game of chess, and he who would predict the moves of the ablest player must be himself able to play the game. The Times had recently a remarkable article, in which it placed the world on one side and Mr. Urquhart on the other. Such is exactly the position - he had stood alone in his judgments against the world, and events had justified him - he has been, so to say, the historian of Europe before the facts. The present events in the East had been confidently asserted by him as about to happen, and exactly in the manner in which they have happened. I can answer for the prediction having been emphatically made in the summer of 1851, that Russia was under the necessity of breaking down Turkey if she would not perish herself - that the means she would adopt would be the crossing of the Pruth, while, at the same time, using the powers of Europe to prevent the Turks from crossing the Danube - that this would take place in the autumn, affording her the opportunity of establishing herself there during the winter, and so convulsing Turkey and Europe in the spring."

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