MR GLADSTONE AND CAPTAIN burnaby.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 266, 16 November 1878, Page 5

MR GLADSTONE AND CAPTAIN burnaby.

The following correspondenca between Mr Gladstone and Captain Burnaby has bofin published : — " 73, Harley-street, July 26. "Sir,— ln the Daily Telegraph of July 24, I find a report of a speech delivered by you at Birmingham, in which, araong other matters, you state as follows : "1. You call the Rttention of your hearers to the 'endeariog expressions so affectionately applied to Russia' by me. "2, You refer to me thus : •So much, gentlemen, for Mr Gladstone's Holy Russia.' "3. You say that I have ' expressed a wish to drive the Turks bag and bnggage out of Europe.' "Omitting any mantion of other statements, similar in character, which would call for a more detailed exposure, I request the favour of your informing me what is the foundation on which you rest the allegations I have cited. "If they have been imputed to you in error, I have Jo ask pirilon for this letter. — I have the honour to be, sir, your faithful servant, (Signed) "W. E. Gladstone. " Captain Burnaby."

" Cavalry Barracks, Wiudsor, July 30 "Dear Sir, — Your letter was wrongly directed to Birmingham; it only reached me yesterday, otherwise in due courtesy I should have answered you before. At the same time it is ouly fair to say that, to the beat of ray belief, you have not as yet replied to the challengo conveyed to you in page 285 of the second volume of my work 'On Horseback through A6ia Minor.' It may have escaped your memory that about a year ago you evinced a certain amount of incredulity as to the atrocities perpetrated by tha Russian officers aud soldiers during the late Raßßo-Tuikish war. I referred you to the Crimean war, and challenged you to ask the Government to place on the table of the House of Commons the report sent home by Lord Raglan from the Cunaea, containing the names of the English officers and soldiers who had been massacred in cold blood as they lay helpless on the battla field. I did this wiih the object of demonstrating to you that what ihe Russian officers and soldiers had formerly done to our own wounded they might repeat in another war. "But now to your letter and to your firet question, asking me the foundation on which I called the attention of my hearers to the 'endearing expressions so affectionately applied to Russia by you.' I refer you to page 58 of your pamphlet, ' The Bulgariau Horrors.' You there write : 'I say the time has come for us to emulate Russia by sharing in her good deeds, and to reserve our opposition until she shall visibly endeavour to turn them to evil account.' In the Times neatvpaper, September 11, 1876, you are reported to have said : ' For my part, I believe it is the pulso of humanity that is now thrilling almost uuiversally in her (Russia's) people.' Too brackate uro ray own. In tho eoine isaua you say : 'We look upon France with respect for her military powers,

and we aay if she fought well against us sho will fight equally well with as, and I for one, for the purposes of justice, am ready as an individual to give the right hand of friendship lo Rtnsis, when her objects are just and righteous; to say "In the name of Ged, go on and prosper !' " I believe that is pretty nearly the state of the case so far as I am able ti describe it. "Aeain in the Times of November 24, 1877, I find that, in al.'ading to Russia, you remarked, 'I believe in the honour of the Emperor, and in the strong humanity of the people.' "In the Times of December 9, 1876, I real that you observed : ' As to the Emperor of Russia, I look upon him as a gentleman and a sovereign who has distinguished his reign by some cf the noblest acts in the annals of civilization. If I speak of the Russian people! believe their hearts to be just as susceptible of generous emotions as those of any other people, and I believe they have during the present year been signally and generously swpyid by those emotions.' *' In the Nineteenth Century Magazine for August, 1877, you wrote ; ' I am jealous enough of Russia to grudge to her the uoparelleled position which has been eeoured to her by our own ignoble conduct,' In the same magazine you allude to the knightly mission she, i.e., Russia, has taken in hand. ■ " Now sir, as to your aecood question, 'You refer to me thus. "So much, gentlemen, for Mr Gladstone's Holy Russia."' " I cannot find that you have made use of the remark * Holy Russia,' and am very glad to think that by your call in? my attention to it you may perhaps, have changed your mind with reference to those good deads of Russia in which you would have had ub share. " Lastly, as to your having expressed a wish to drive the Turks bag and baggage out of Europe,' I am very glad to have the opportunity of correcting that part of my speech in Birmingham which refers to this matter. The paragraph in my address, aa corrected, as follows : " ' When we take these things into account, and think of Russia aa a power whose good deeds we ought to share, according to Mr Gladstone, or as the protector of the unprotected, according to Mr Lowe, it appears to me that when Mr G'adstone, the author of "The Bulgarian Horrors," wrote in that pamphlet " Lat the Turks now carry awny their abuses in she only possible mauner, namelp, by earring off theraselvep, their Ziptiehs and their Mudirs, their Bimbaahsand theirZurbaches their Ktimakans and their Pashas. One and ail, bag and biggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned," he was really thinking how to make Lord Beaconsfield clear out from the Government and replacing him in office. Heoce, gentlemen, iha people in England have been deceived, and our foreign policy paralysed and this at a moment wben a united England could have prevented the war from taking plac*. It is a sad thing to think of the livea of half a million of our fellow-creatures and our foreign policy sacrificed, and to what ? To Meßsra Gladstone, Lowe, and Blight's love for office and to a party cry 1" " I trust that you will be satisfied with the correct'ons that I have made. With many apologies for having inadvertently used the word Europe instead of Bulgaria — although I must say that two years ago it appeared to me (hat you iiai almost forgotten the rest of Europe in your regard for the { Bulfja-iana. — I have the honour to be, dear sir, your faithful sesvant. "Feed Bdbnaby. "P. S — As in the interests of the | public it is necessary to correct those expressions made use of by me at Birmingham, I shall publish your letter «n I my reply. Have you seen the Globe of to-day ? la it you will find some ofHaiul correspondence as to the treatment of the Mahometans and Jews by your friends the Russians and Bulgarians. " The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone."