In perusing these documents, there is something that startles us even more than their contents—viz., their form. All these letters are confidential, private, secret, most secret; but in spite of secrecy, privacy, and confidence, the English statesmen converse among each other about Russia and her rulers in a tone of awful reserve, abject servility, and cynical submission, which would strike us even in the public despatches of Russian statesmen..