6 THE DUTV OF SOVEREIGNS. 



earnest, or not ? And shall not England, the land of the greatly and 

 proudly /?'^c — the nurse of manufactures — the cradle of commerce— the 

 mother of arts and sciences — the empress-queen of the ocean — shall not 

 England be permitted to — Strike the Blow ? 



Alas ! mv country. How are the mighty fallen ! Your political cox- 

 combs cry "peace," but there is no peace. Oh, my country ! How 

 long shall we be doubly doomed to await the doubtful result of Lord 

 Durham's ministerial prostration before the lingering animal remi- 

 niscence of the Czar's late Empress Mother, Catherine ? How long 

 of political time will that otherwise sagacious and high-bosom cd Saxon 

 nobleman waste, in attempting to fling his peerless toga over the iron- 

 plumage of the Russian Eagle ? Is Lord Durham acquainted with the 

 language of the eves ? Can his Lordship look into the eyes of humanity, 

 as well as inhumanity ? Has he not looked into the bright and beautiful 

 eyes of bridal loveliness? Has- he not — long ago — looked into 

 the eyes of Imperial, but villanous manhood ? Now, if his Lordship 

 have not done so already, let him look " sternly," into the eyes of the 

 Eagle of the north. And if ice are not prophetically deceived, he will see 

 the words— Turkey! India!! England!!! The whole world (?) !!!! 

 engraven on the tablet of his heart. 



As Englishmen, having some just pretensions to true patriotism — we 

 conjure Lord Durham not to make this discovery a state secret. Lord 

 Palmerston must not felicitate his vanity, by a constant contemplation 

 of the splendour of his gaudy, yet worthless coronet — but spring away 

 from his couch of political sloth, and put on tlie Roman, once for all — 



Humani nihil alienum. 



Would to heaven we could persuade ourselves that our Foreign Secre- 

 tary had a mind calculated to grapple with the sun — that glorious day- 

 god of wisdom, and universal benevolence — and deem his nearest rela- 

 tion to be the beatific and patriotic Creator of the wide and teeming 

 ■universe — but we canr.ot. Ed. 



