Je finis en vous disant qu’il faut démasquer les mensonges de M. Guizot, mais ne pas tenir un langage qui sente la jalousie contre la France. Avouer qu’on a voulu Don Henri, et les progressistes en Espagne, est très-naturel, très-sincère et très-bon. Je crois que c’est la vérité, et qu’un Ministre Anglais peut en convenir. Je vous écris tout ceci pour vous seul. Vous n’imaginez pas tout ce que débitent ici les ministériels. Ils prétendent que je suis en correspondance avec Lord Palmerston, à qui je n’ai jamais écrit de ma vie, et qui ne m’a jamais écrit non plus.
Adieu, mon cher ami; au revoir après la bataille.
In the preceding and in the following letters, allusion is made to an act of political iniquity, on which subject, as it happened in a remote corner of Europe, and at a considerable distance of time, it may not be amiss to refresh the reader’s memory. By the Treaty of Vienna, it was stipulated that Cracow should be for ever a free and independent town, under the protection of the three powers—Russia, Prussia, and Austria. In 1846 an insurrection broke out in the town, and the insurgents set up a Provincial Government. They were promptly defeated, and Cracow again became subject to the three powers. For a time things went on as before, but the ramifications of the Spanish plot had extended a little further than the plotters either intended that they should or imagined that they could. Taking advantage of the shattering by Guizot and his master of the _entente cordiale_ between England and France, the three powers concerned with the protection of Cracow, coolly proclaimed, without consulting their fellow signatories to the Treaty, that, so far as regarded that unfortunate town, the provisions of the Treaty were annulled, and Cracow was forthwith annexed to Austria as an integral part of the empire. Separate protests against this act of spoliation, were, as a matter of course, made by both France and England; but, equally as a matter of course under the circumstances, the protests were separate, and as such had no influence on the action of the three confederates.
Je vous envoie quatre exemplaires du _Moniteur_, car c’est par le _Moniteur_ que je vous prie de faire connaître mon discours. Il est indignement rendu dans les divers journaux. Il n’a ni sens, ni clarté, dans les comptes-rendus inexacts que les journaux en ont donnés. Envoyez donc ces quatre _Moniteurs_, l’un à Lord Palmerston, les autres à qui vous jugerez utile de les faire parvenir.