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daty , pot Jess painful than necessary , to repress all roman ^ w ? of ipdignaut feelings pit the subject , for the sake of the one grand object q [ our diplomacy , the maintenance of peace in central Europe . No treaty , no obligation * no encouragement , ever y # t fyeldfertfh to the Poles , bound us to interfere between Mussia and her victim . We deny the heartless quibble . This country was
a party tq the arrangements of the far-famed Congress of Vienna in JL 815 . We have always held ourselves bound by those arrange *^ merits . From respect to them , we have expended our public treasure in liquidating the Rqsso-Dutch loan when the condition of our responsibility , the continued union of Holland and Belglum , had ceased to exist , and been terminated quite indeper ** dently of our interference . No treaty bound k us , nothing but our
adhesion to the spirit of the Vienna settlement , to become , as we virtually did , the paymasters of the Russian campaign against Polislv freedom . The nationality of Poland ,, her Connexion with the Russian crown by a constitution , was determined upon at Vienna * The treaty of the three states , which had partitioned Poland , for carrying that determination into effect was framed at the instigation of England . His spirited interference on that
occasion was one of the few redeeming deeds of Lord Castlereag h * On the Dutch question it is said that the previous ministry had issued * the first and directing protocol , * and that Lord Grey was bound to follow it up . But surely it was not more imperative ta imitate a Wellington blunder than a Gastlereagh virtue ? ' Ro ~
mantic , ' indeed ! Why , all ^ noble sentiment and public spirit ta romantic in some men ' s estimation . Those who make it a duty to suppress romantic feeling are not likely to be troubled wita them . Without undertaking to rid the world of all the monsters that infest it ^ there yet m ust assuredly be public crimes so atro- * cious that free and civilized nations owe it to the human race to
say that they shall not be committed with impunity . We could have said so ; we could , without going to war , have interposed so as to cleans © ourselves of guilty acquiescence in the unparalleled crimes which have been enacted ; and they might , probably , have been prevented . Putting all humanity and justice out of tho
question , f * uch conduct would have better served ' the one grand object pf our diplomacy . ' The stand made by the Polish patriots was probably the preservation , for a time , of the peace of Europe ; The Cossacks are now a step nearer to the Rhine * The flood of blood has washed down one barrier * And it were much to hopei that Loird Durham ' s mission of instruction has converted ; the
Emperor Nicholas into a complacent spectator of European im ^ provernent , should the march of that improvement not be arrested |? y other despots . ; Tp return home , and that without a word on the excited and disappointed expectations of Ireland , the preparations f 6 r- the ensuing elections , have been by no means wisely made . by the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 847, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/55/
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