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It may, however, he supposed that the jealousy
of the other European powers would throw
obstacles in the way of any arrangement with
Norway which would open all the world to the
fleets of Russia. We Englishmen are supposed
by most of our continental neighbours to be
especially tainted with such jealousy, but in this, as
in so many other matters, they greatly
misunderstand us. If Russian statesmen would “turn over
a new leaf,” would obey the tenth commandment,
and treat their eastern and southern neighbours
with some approach to honesty; if they would
disband at once and for ever the infernal machinery
by which they manufacture Bulgarian atrocities,
Servian insurrections, and other international
abominations, we Englishmen would be the first
in the world to welcome every step they could
possibly make in the development of the vast
resources of the magnificent empire of the Czars.
It cannot be to our interests that commercial
Russia should be shut out from the sea. We are
profoundly concerned in her legitimate prosperity,
inasmuch as she offers us eighty millions of
customers, whose transactions must of necessity be
measured by the magnitude of their own resources.
We all understand this, being “a nation of
shopkeepers;” but we keep consciences as well as
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