From the London Examiner.
IMAGINARY CONVERSATION AT WARSAW.
NICHOLAS AND NESSELRODE.
BY WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.
Nicholas.—God fights for us visibly. You look grave, Nesselrode! is it not so? Speak, and plainly.
Nesselrode.—Sire, in my humble opinion, God never fights at all.
Nicholas.—Surely he fought for Israel, when he was invoked by prayer.
Nesselrode.—Sire, I am no theologian; and I fancy I must be a bad geographer, since I never knew of a nation which was not Israel when it had a mind to shed blood and to pray. To fight is an exertion, is violence; the Deity in His omnipotence needs none. He has devils and men always in readiness for fighting; and they are the instruments of their own punishment for their past misdeeds.
Nicholas.—The chariots of God are numbered by thousands in the volumes of the Psalmist.