text:  Yet is it altogether justifiable to suppose that monarchs may not feel the same sympathies the same principles of honour--nay the same abhorrence of a sanguinary republicanism--which a private individual might feel in any other instance of oppression?" "Still Marston I am at a loss to know by what influence a British government could urge a Russian despotism into a contest a thousand miles from its frontier; in which it can gain no accession of territory and but little accession of military fame; and all this while it is itself perfectly secure from all aggression