ABSTRACT
The Polish rising of November 1830 and the Polish military successes of the first half of 1831 had evoked a Radical enthusiasm which was all the greater because the Russian Tsardom was peculiarly identified with the “Holy Alliance” policies that had been the Radical bugbear since 1815. A common hope, in fact, was that a Radicalised England allied to a France, from which the cozening Louis Philippe would have been driven, might soon be able to proceed to “the rescue of Poland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, and Belgium.” In fact the Ultra-Radical readiness for a war with Russia on behalf of Polish and European liberties generally was a dangerous temptation to Whig and Tory Statesmen growing nervous of the complete derangement which would befall their “Balance of Power” if the threatened Russian absorption of the Turkish Empire should be accomplished.
