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245.: FRENCH NEWS [92] EXAMINER, 30 MAR., 1834, PP. 200-1 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II [1831]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II, ed. Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, Introduction by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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245.

FRENCH NEWS [92]

EXAMINER, 30 MAR., 1834, PP. 200-1

These news items are headed “London, March 30, 1834.” Mill’s bibliography includes this entry: “The summary of French news in the Examiner of 30th March 1834” (MacMinn, p. 39). In the Somerville College set of the Examiner, however, there is no listing of any article in this number except for No. 244. There is, therefore, some doubt about Mill’s authorship of the extracts below, which appear where his summaries usually are, but deal with matters he usually ignores.

the globe observes—

Some pointed notice is taken in the Constitutionnel of the language and conduct adopted towards the Swiss Cantons for resisting the dictation by the Russian and German governments of the expulsion of the unhappy Poles. The Constitutionnel, naturally enough, cannot understand the grounds upon which such demands can be reasonably made by Russia upon Switzerland. “In the British parliament,” continues the journalist, “Lord Palmerston denied that the government had received a circular said to have been addressed by the Court of St. Petersburg to the different Cabinets, urging them not to grant an asylum to the Polish refugees and afford them succour. If we are well informed, however, Count Pozzo di Borgo has delivered a note to such an effect to the Duke de Broglie, and is urgent for an answer. We hope and believe that the answer of the Minister for Foreign Affairs will be prompt and dignified. Our territory is Free, and France has never been inhospitable. The government certainly should, by means of the regular police, take care that the refugees do not disturb public order, but this great nation will never suffer the unhappy exiles from Poland to be refused succour and support.”1

A Petersburgh Journal calculates the number of fugitives so ruthlessly persecuted, and to whom the Autocrat would deny earth, fire, and water, at 250 or 300 at the utmost, scattered over France, Switzerland and England—this, we need hardly observe, is understating the numbers, but according to the showing of the Russian journalist, so heavy is the vengeance aimed against these few harmless, penniless, resourceless wanderers! It is for the people of civilized countries to sustain these victims of a brutal tyranny.2

SATURDAY NIGHT

There is no news of any interest. The French papers mention a rumour that King Leopold3 has asked the French Government for the assurance of military aid in the event of Dutch aggression.

The French Minister of War has stated that a respectable naval force will be maintained in the Mediterranean till the affairs of the East are settled, as a measure of prudence, not of apprehension of any interruption of peace.4

246.

[1 ]Leading article on French affairs, Globe and Traveller, 28 Mar., 1834, p. 2, translating from “Paris,” Constitutionnel, 26 Mar., p. 1. For the speech of 28 June, 1832, on Poland by Temple (Palmerston), see PD, 3rd ser., Vol. 13, cols. 1131-3. The references are to Carlo Andrea, conte Pozzo di Borgo (1764-1842), Corsican-born Russian diplomat, who became Ambassador to France at the Restoration.

[2 ]The material in this paragraph was taken from the Journal de St. Petersburgh of 11 Mar. by the Globe and Traveller (p. 2) and The Times (p. 2) on 28 Mar. The “Autocrat” was Nicholas I (1796-1855), Czar 1825-55.

[3 ]Leopold I (1790-1865), King of Belgium from 1831, after its separation from the Netherlands.

[4 ]The remark was made not by the Minister of War, Soult, but (on 26 Mar.) by the Minister of Marine, comte de Rigny. See Moniteur, 1834, p. 717.