Russia, too, as the least progressive of European States, has a natural antagonism of thought, if not of interests, to the Power which stands most prominently for individual freedom and liberal institutions.

The same poor excuse may be made for the organs of the Vatican.

But what are we to say of the insensate railing of Germany, a country whose ally we have been for centuries?
In the days of Marlborough, in the darkest hours of Frederick the Great, in the great world struggle of Napoleon, we have been the brothers-in-arms of these people.

So with the Austrians also.

If both these countries were not finally swept from the map by Napoleon, it is largely to British subsidies and British tenacity that they owe it.