Europe At The Opening Of The Session Of 1847: The Spanish Marriages And The Confiscation Of Cracow (1847)

C O N T E N T S . LETTER I. Lord Aberdee ia alld M. Guizots arrangement.-Lord Palmer stons return to ofice.-The French Goverrlrnent refers to him.-No reply.-Second reference.-Evaded.-hint ac tion at an end.-Treaty of Ut, recht extinct.-Management of the Press. h LETTER 11. THE S EPARATE PROTIIST . . . - . . 17 Fate of Cracov known to Lord Palmerston before-hand.-He affects surprise.-Refuses to protest with France.-11 s Protest no Protest.-Austria-Prussia-Turkey. LETTER III. THEPROTEST . . . - . 38 Protest, a legal term.-That. against the Treaty of Unkiar Ske-1essi.-Secret history.-Perversion of the term.-Disuse of t8he reality.-Prior Acts of Lord P tlmerston.-Poland-Persia, c. LETTER IV. CONFISCATIOOFN C sncom IN THE BRITIS I H A RLIAME 5 N 7 T Rights of Cracow.-Parliament demands a Consul there.-Evaded.-Debates on Cracow, from 183-2 to l840.-3Iallage lnent of thc House.-July the season for Treaties. i 1. COSI ESTS. LETTER V. LORD P ALMERST A O NI G I FRAYC . E . . . . ., . R1 Policy of England prior to 1830.-Lord Pal nerston c onstrained ostensibly to adopt it.-On four occasions, bursts out vio lently against Russia thereby succeeds in preventing France from taking an independent course. LETTER W I . THE PART OF FRANCE . . ., . . . . ., 92 Alliance of Lord Palrnerston with the French Opposition.--., Effect on France of his words respecting Cracow, during last Session.- couragement given to violate the Treaty nP Vienna on the PO and the Rhine.-Fortification of Hunin gen prevented by the French Cabinet. LETTER VII. CONSEQUEN F C OR E S P OLAN A D ND THE EAST . . . . 113 Poland not dead.-The confiscation of Cracow means of associa ting her with tbe designs of Russia.-What service LordPalrnerston has rendered to Russia. LETTER VIIT. T O E PEN ING OF THE SESSIO . N . . . . 132 Official Correspondence confirms the previo S s ta tements.-The Debate justsee the Prognostications.-Analysis of the Debate in both Houses. LETTER I. FRANCE ENTRAPPED INTO THE SPANISH MARRIAGES. S, -Frailcc fo r the second time finds herself aIone in the world. In the autumn of 1840 her isolation served to eilectuate the first partition of Turkey-now it brings the find extinction of Poland. France was supposed then to meriacc the world, when she herself trembled now, to have successfully carried into execution a deep design, when she has been surprised into the steps she has taken, and confounded with the consequences that have followed. fiat the Spanish marriages were no original design, either of Frances able Minister, or her dexterous King, is a pro position diffidt perhaps of belief, but less difficult surely to admit than the alternative, which is, that the rulers of France are capabIe of acts which appear rather those of maniacs than of statesmen. The stakes mere set, and the bait was placed for them, and they mere both stalkcd and trapped into the snare. In bitterness and pique they made the matcll in the particular manner that was requisite to raise the outcry, and to cloilc their soreness and shamc they have pretended a design and chimed a triumph. In judging of any particular act, we must take into ac count, in nations, as in individuals, previously ascertained character, and, by so much the more, capacity...