256. ALEXANDER OF RUSSIA, Character of.—[continued].
I owe an acknowledgment
to your Imperial Majesty for the great
satisfaction I have received from your letter
of Aug. 20th, 1895, and embrace the opportunity
it affords of giving expression to the sincere
respect and veneration I entertain for your
character. It will be among the latest and most
soothing comforts of my life, to have seen advanced
to the government of so extensive a
portion of the earth, and at so early a period
of his life, a sovereign whose ruling passion
is the advancement of the happiness and
prosperity of his people; and not of his own
people only, but who can extend his eye and
his good will to a distant and infant nation,
unoffending in its course, unambitious in its
views.—
To the Emperor of Russia. Washington ed. v, 7.
Ford ed., viii, 430.
(W.
April. 1806)
