106 SUMMARY OF FOREIGN EVENTS. 



military one. Solignac, with a strategic eye, sees all the difficulties of an 

 advance upon Lisbon with the slender means at his disposal, and will not 

 risk a well-earned military reputation by a campaign " a la Ghengis Khan" 

 The original error of Don Pedro's plan of campaign, the making Oporto the 

 point of disembarkation, is now glaringly evident. But even should the good 

 cause ultimately triumph, Don Pedro's entry into Lisbon, for the informa- 

 tion of Portuguese bond-holders, will be, to use an expression of Prince 

 Talleyrand's, " le commencement de la fin." Captain Napier has suc- 

 ceeded Sartorius in the command of the squadron, and there is some talk of a 

 dash upon Lisbon by sea : " nous verrons." 



In Germany popular compromises and military occupations are the order 

 of the day. The free city of Frankfort appears likely to be blessed for some 

 time to come with the presence of an Austrian garrison. The Bosnians, too, 

 have revolted, and the Austrian government immediately offered its assist- 

 ance to Prince Milosh. Well, indeed, may it be said that God gave the 

 regions of the air to the German. No one has more exalted ideas of the 

 ulterior destinies of man than he ; he is intimately convinced of the pro- 

 gressive march of the human race, that truth, liberty, and justice will sooner 

 or later be the inheritance of all men ; but to attain this noble consumma- 

 tion by putting his own hand to the work, is what he never thinks of. The 

 German may be said to dream away his existence enveloped in volumes of 

 tobacco-smoke, and imagines that it would be derogatory to his character as 

 a citizen of the world to trouble his metaphysical head with the affairs of his 

 own fatherland. To be free Germany must be centralised ; and how that is 

 to be accomplished, we leave the Germans themselves to discover. 



Heroic Poland still bleeds through every pore. Four Polish officers of 

 the late national army have been shot at Warsaw. Goaded to desperation, 

 they had joined the bands of their countrymen who, issuing from their 

 forests, still carry on a pontoon warfare against the Russians. Prince 

 Paskievitch lately intimated to two Polish ladies of rank, that if they were 

 discovered writing to their children in Siberia, they should be publicly 

 whipped. What country will henceforth shelter the ill-fated Poles ? They 

 are hunted down like beasts of prey ; their presence in the south of France, 

 say the continental despots, has revolutionized the neighbouring states ; they 

 must consequently be removed. But on the other hand, they must not either 

 remain in the north, since they produced the emeute at Frankfort, and would 

 have revolutionized all Germany had not their march been arrested in 

 Switzerland. 



What must then be done with them ? Must they be thrown into the sea, or 

 delivered over " en masse" to the Czar Nicholas, to be sent into Siberia ? 

 The Polish refugees afforded an admirable pretext for interfering in the affairs 

 of Switzerland. The German diet has already written a menacing letter to 

 the Swiss diet on the subjec. Soon it will be said that they are in cor- 

 respondence with the revolutionists of Neufchatel, and Prussia will instantly 

 take fire, while the late insurrection at Chamberry will afford Austria an op- 

 portunity of gaining possession of what she has so long coveted the Pied- 

 montese fortresses. From the Bosphorus to the Rhine, nothing is heard of 

 but occupations and the regime of bayonets to keep down the hydra of revolu- 

 tion and rapine, as the march of liberalism is designated by the military 

 despots and their minions. 



More martyrs in the cause of freedom have perished in Piedmont, the 

 beral movement has vibrated at Naples, and the political surface of the- 

 iltalian peninsula is saturated with volcanic matter, but deceived and abari 

 doned by the doctrinaire ministry of France, her own energies and resources 

 are insufficient to shake off the Austrian incubus that oppresses her. 



Greece under her new king has merely exchanged the regime of the Rus- 

 sian knout for that of the Austrian baton. The government has usurped all 



