"So that my blood should not mingle in the Courts of Kirgs."

Austria. "Peace!"

NAPOLEON I.

"Hear the crier."

Austria.-"What the devil art thou?"

"One that will play the devil, Sir, with you
an 'a may catch your hide and you alone."

SHAKESPEARE, King John.

"To continue the work commenced by him whose heir I am."

INTEGER.

NAPOLEON III.

LONDON:

EDWARD STANFORD, 6, CHARING CROSS.
1856.

223. e. 6.

[NOTES.]

ANY AND EVERY MOVEMENT OF THE POWERS, however tentative and cautious-whether peace, war, concession, non-concession, conciliation, non-conciliation, propagandism, or non-propagandism-must tend to precipitate or to aggravate the crisis. The result of this war is the disunion of the Dynasties, the isolation of Austria, and the paralysis of Germany. War has brought the Peoples and Russia face to face; and "peace" has swept off from between them all probability of intervention or compromise. If RUSSIA triumph, Poland and Germany must be consumed, French independence destroyed, and Europe enslaved. If THE PEOPLES triumph, then Hungary, Italy, and Poland-the allies of Sardinia-will be solidised with France; and all will get their own from Germany, and against the helpers of Germany. Meanwhile, securities will be taken against the Peoples. In concordats; in holy alliances, more holy; and in vents, if needs be, for a "vain liberalism."-Russia, Germany, and Rome, encamped over one hundred and fifty millions of souls!

That is the cross of policy prepared for Europe.

THE FOUR POINTS.

"A Province for France.
A Crown for Poland,

or

A Cross for England,

and

The Crescent for Russia."

FRANCE.—If Pansclavism be accomplished, aggression will become a condition of French existence.

POLAND. Without Poland, war is dangerous and PEACE FATAL, for, "to crouch as Poles before those very nations whom you may command as Sclavonians," may at last come indeed to be regarded as bootless, suicidal, parricidal and mad.

ENGLAND. We come now to a point whence two roads diverge. To affirm Poland and freedom, or Austria and despotism. If Poland be Russian, then Russia is Europe; and England and France must retire, or slink like hounds chastised and mumble their ire at home!-the mangy Lion of Britain, and the barn-door Eagle of Gaul.

RUSSIA. The Point where the rights of man in Hungary and Italy and Poland, can best be served through the agency of Russia, that is the point where PANSCLAVISM becomes a principle and a power more than mortal.— Thereafter PRINCIPLE sides with Russia. "The SCLAVONIC EMPIRE will then extend from the shores of the Baltic to Cataro on the Adriatic. From Archangel to Adrianople. From the borders of Italy, the banks of the Oder, and those of the Upper Elbe, TO THE PACIFIC."

America and Russia watch the balances OF THE WORLD against England.

For opinions from German and other standpoints as to the force and effects of the Pansclavonic element, see Appendix A. For Russian designs against Austria, should the latter venture to oppose her projects on Constantinople, sce p. 272. As to Moldo-Wallachian unity, &c., and Greece, see Appendix F.

THE

CROSS OF

OF POLICY;

OR,

THE FORCES AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPE.

A WARNING, A TREATISE, A SATIRE, A CONDEMNATION, A PROPHECY, AND A DEFIANCE.

RE-CONSTRUCTION OF THE MAP OF EUROPE.

SECRET DIPLOMACY versus THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

WHAT COMES AFTER THE FIGHTING?

TREATIES-PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.

The national elements have been prepared, each in its separate laboratory. After the labour of a thousand years the elements are ready, and now the world is their fusing pot.

"Behold the world Phoenix, in fire-consummation and fire creation: wide are her fanning wings; loud is her death-melody, of battle-thunders and falling towns; skyward lashes the funeral flame, enveloping all things: it is the Death-Birth of a world !"

And times also of natural undoing when empires decay and crumble, and systems soulless rot and reek beneath the heavens; and sphinx-like trances also, of centuries, in which the earth looks dumb and blank against the sky. And ever and anon there comes some mighty sweeping charge as of kingdoms tilting against kingdoms, and empires crashing over empires, by which a new dispensation is made possible, and after which there is a calm-and a preparation—and a progress.