In conclusion, I may remark that although the present state of Germany, and of Europe generally clearly proves that communism or socialism is nowhere in fashion on the continent (and thanks to General T Cavaignac, is almost extirpated in France); yet, at the same time, the progress of despotism — such as that of Russia — is quite out of the question. A strong reaction against ultra-democratic principles is visible, and their fallacy clearly proved; but a new era of European reasonable liberty is to be established on the basis of a real friendship between England and France. England has no other desire than to behold France great and powerful, and never intended to interfere in her internal affairs. Lamartine testified himself a wise politician as respects England, since he foresaw well the consequence that might spring out of an unjustifiable interference with the threatened Irish insurrection. To quote from my work ' The Poles in the Seventeenth Century," I can but exclaim, " Let then France and England unite heart and hand; let them extinguish every spark of petty rivalry. Not then, would Russia raise her despotic head, but these two nations might exercise a salutary influence over the civilized world. Cherished and adored by the whole human race, they might crush oppression, annihilate tyranny, and restore to their former integrity the nation that has been dismembered, and, for a time, enslaved!"
See Clarke, Beauplan, and Lesur, Description de Ukraine, Malte Brun, Chodzko, Siviecki, Staszyc Count Lewis Plater, Bzonczynski Sarnicki, &c. &c.