Apollyon and the Reaction of the Slavonians: With a Review of the Political State of Europe Under the Action of the Contending Principles.

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Original Publisher: Partridge and Oakey Subjects: Panslavism Europe Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: All accounts agree in speaking of the energy arid determination manifested by Sir Stratford Canning, throughout the critical negotiations; the disappointment and vexation at their results, on being compelled to carry out the Russianism of his superior. Such firmness ought to be at the Foreign Office. When shall we have such a man there ? When will this battledoor and shuttlecock policy of our Foreign Office, past and present, give way to a policy worthy and characteristic of the Queen of the ocean, and the greatest empire of the world. Is England then so badly informed ? Is she so blind as not to be aware of the pretensions and energy of Russia in those countries ? Will this late and still existing Serbian transaction not open her eyes ? What right has this power to hold the Ian guage she does to Austria and Turkey ? Have England, France, and Europe acknowledged her exclusive right of possession or intervention in those countries? What are our representatives about? Metternich had, it is well known, made an effort; a tardy feeling of the degradation of his country had been aroused in his breast, and he had a right to expect, and more than expect, to obtain active support from England. Is it to be tolerated that Russia shall thus authoritatively interfere and demand the expulsion of the choice of the people and the favoured of Austria ? This is very startling, and would, under ordinary circumstances, have been too bad. Do the people of England knowthat the actual decision of peace or war is in fact with this power, and that we are onl...