Accoring 1" slispatch to the Gazette de Leusanne" the Rus-ian Leyetion at Berne has informed the Presiden of th. Confederation Suisve of ti dep orable impression made by the publicly for tie 4 lief the revolution that an officer of the municipal administra. tion, M. Gustwe Miller, Director of Finances, is xmony the organivers of this manifestation And finally, the Legation complains of the violent iangaage of the Yress in Swirzerland in to the Russian G.veroment and to the To these complaints the "Genevui makes the following forceful reply "Ab, really! The Legation complains of the violent language of the Press. Well! the Legation may prepare new complaints. What, do ne care for, the opinion of cee diplomatic balance.
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But were the balls the Czarist_goverament tent 20 liberally among she working classes also weighed and-proportioned as to calibre and penetration to the tnulta of the clamouring slaves? My Lords, the Or-seacks, how just xnd considerate they were! We should be indifferent spectators? We should uso sugar-coated words What do you take us for? What right have " you to upproxch the federal authorities with euch complaints? Do you imagine for a moment that we are under the ferule of the Government? Do you Lelieve yourselves to be in So. Petersbuig where the censorship over the Press extends to each Mivistry and even to rechamber of the Serse and the Vladimir? Did you imagine seriously that your recriminations would muzzle us? If so, you will have to change your idea We shall not remove a jot or " tittle from those ' violent' articles of which you speak. We shall remain—without being rude—simply veracious. And this will be sufficient to stigmatise a rule of shame that is stain upon modern Europe. To the very and shall the Russian proletariat now in revolt have our sympa per thios and the apport of our pen, Even though the Muscovite forces should succeed in their raid against the martyre of enfranchisement—which God forbid! you would find us more determined still and more desperate in defending and upholding the holy cause of liberty. Gloria victis!
"Your gold with which you are so lavish towards the mercenary Pross in France—we despise it. Your abjurgations,—we scorn them! Your com-Plaints,—wo 'Iaugl) at them! Your threats—they make us emi 'Muster' may order you to do the worst jobs—and you may obey him, if that is your pleasure or your conviction. But to impose anything on us! Hold there! my Loris diplomats. Where do you imagine-yourselves to be? Or to whom speaking To a free Press or to the auxiliary gazettes of your officious journals? It is too amusing—lecidedly so, and worth a good laugh."
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