text: " Could any man rationally believe of a governor-general left at large by his council that under the terrors of a phantom invasion such as this visionary as a dream and distant as heaven is distant he could seriously have organized an armament which merely by its money costs would be likely to shake the foundations of the empire which he administered? Yet if Lord Auckland _had_ moved upon the impulse of a panic so delirious under what colour of reason could he have been impeached by the English press of which the prevailing section first excited and to this day nurses intermittingly that miserable Russian superstition?[1] The Polish craze adopted by the press of England and France and strengthened by the conviction that in Russia lay the great antagonist balance to the disorganizing instincts of Western Europe had made the Czar an object of hatred to the Liberal leaders