Yesterday week, just before the Whitsun adjournment, Lord Ellenborough made
a very eloquent speech against the Prussian plunderers in Jutland, in which he quoted concerning the Prussia of to-day the words applied by Fox to the same country in 1806, when she accepted Hanover from Napoleon, that she "combines all that is contemptible in servility with all that is odious in rapacity." "Servile in the presence of Russia," said Lord Ellenborough, "rapacious in the attack on Denmark, Prussia still maintains her bad pre-eminence." He concluded by asking whether the exac- tions in Jutland were to go on after the armistice,. under the pre- tence that they had been imposed before its conclusion. Lord Russell thought the " understanding " was clear the other way ; but the verbal agreement had not been precise. "The agreement is," said Lord Russell, "not to levy contributions of war ; it is not merely that no new contributions were to be levied.' Lord Ellenbo- rough feared that the sin of trickery had been added to the sin of rapa- city in this agreement, as the last heavy contribution was imposed on the very day on which the armistice was agreed to by the Conference. And so it appears to be. The Danish papers complain bitterly
• that the forced levies go on in Jutland. Dagbladet demands the resumption of the blockade as a set-off against this breach of faith; and Mr. Layard on Thursday night indifferently assured the House of Commons that the Government knew nothing about the matter except from the statements in the newspapers.
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