‘Mazzini has said a few words of unhappy Poland with which I am in
complete sympathy.
‘To Poland the home of martyrs, to Poland facing death for independence
and setting a grand example to the peoples!
‘Now let us drink to young Russia, who is suffering and struggling as we
are, and like us will be victorious; to the new people which, vanquishing
the Russian Tsardom and winning its freedom, is evidently destined to
play a great part in the future of Europe.
‘And finally to England, the land of freedom and independence, the land
which for its hospitality and sympathy with the persecuted deserves
our fullest gratitude; to England, which gives us the possibility of a
friendly gathering like this....’