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' ; ' . -i : ;! 1 . ' k :: .v." -i ,Vf. V- ; . (Volume iV. C. SATURDAY. MAHCl .8, 1823. 1 (JS'umlier '459, Pl-JNTED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY i'asteur & Watson, t?3fIR AKSVM HALF PATABLC I!T ADVANCE, POLITICAL. rrom Blackwood's Magazine, for Dec. 1S22. THE CONGRESS. erent hand. We are Tories, and as such we arn firm haters of Jacobin ferocity of the Hunts and Cobbetts, and their abbetors in all classes of Society. But hatino- the sanguinary madness of Radi ralism. w nor less hate though we much less fear, arbi ; trary power. The Whig of 1683 had de- generated into the Jacobin of IS22. The Tory, of 1822 has adopted I he principles of the freeman of 1688, and is at this hour the most effective guard upon the posssible. as The European system has. since the jf of the French war, assumed a new I excesses of power, because he is the most rhi'racter, The grand pensee of Henry ; rational, consistent, and sincere friend to - - i.i.t ' lWf must il nt ;r Trl I. .. . 1 ' or trance coaiempiaieu ine aronra- i;- ....... n hc uiuiuhu momneei- lM of national quarrels by a council of somrii-'H- at the generosity ol lien- r, $ nature was 'not proof against the hab- ol hi country ; and his grand coalition .1 to have France at its head. Yet the ;Jod sense and piety of extinguishing the edicts of empire were obvious, and a pjltituJe of the best and wisest men bad jculcated the advantage of restraining ra cial injustice, by an appeal to some great inuhictvonic seat of judgment. The jpfculation was never reduced to practice. tea the benevolent looked upon it but as' one of those theories of human happiness a which the whole delight must be limited 13 speculation. The nineteenth century shewn its practicability. But thewis joa as not of roan' invention nor the ray of man'! disco very. The French war, .3 its triumph and its catastrophe, was the richer, under tae controul of that mighty rid benificent intelligence, which, at all :!tirate good ofVociety, 1 seems to have in 7 -1 ' ings, propagate no calumnious follvi or make no reyolutionary pilgrimages through j ed himself h'BnVon the jails and highways of Lngland ; if he popular sovreien of Enelai oe nejiner isira Ureyf bending his aristo cratic brow to the majesty of the rabble, while the nostrils of his pride are wrinkled in disdain of their rudeness; if he be I n Lard Holland, burlesquing the Constitu tion by the ridicule of his defences ; if he disdain the professional clamours of the Broughams, and the boyish mischievous ness of the Lamb ton, and similar retainers of the cause of absurdity and ev il, he ex ercises ah honourable vigilance on the con duct of ministers, and would be among ihe first to array himself In firm-resistance to an attack on the liberties and honours ol England. . It may have been remarked. that among the public men whose conduct we found ourselves inclined to discuss, tin- late Marquis ot Londonderry was the indi .tii . ..... viuuai whom we at least delighted to hon- our. .. We are perlectly sensib e of his cood 'qualities,, his amenity as a leader of the and Portugal which might have been wise ly flung into the sea; J" out it is now gratifying to us to speak ot ine prospective coira. Air. Cannin has eminent advantaesJn his accession to the public service. Among the first we regard his eloquence, . the next is his dis engagement from foreign partial ties. No man will be a favourite with the nation, or a benehcial servant of the empire, who sub mits himself to a foreign policy, or foreign predilections. The Englishman must have Lnglish minister. The most popular speech of the most popular predecessor of his Majesty, was that in which he declar- " The most popular sovereign of Lngland before the CruDswijks, was Cromwell, the man who declared that with foreigners no ambassa dor was equal to a ship of the line. The most poputar minister that Englanr ever saw ihe man to whom she cave herhearl and hand with unrestrained confidence was Chatham, the avowed despiser of fo reign professions, the awe of the whole tribe of slippered diplomacy abroad, and the contemptuous and resolute claimant of ev ery right of England and humanLnature. Chatham is the great model for a British Minister bloody and torturin j barbarism of Turks avarice and revenue. For the first time version on all alien pts-to' revive the sLu..' ses of the old eovernraent-hev look wi'tfr. . during centuries we have seen a slave traded aversion ori the projects of Jacobin iVmr -; 11 Christian prisoners. Women of honours thinly discussed under the name of Consti' exposed in the human shhmbles of an AsS- lotion. They woold abolish the' Incjuisi- : atic butcher; men of wealth and character tion,' the Monks, the more oppessiye a flung into a horrid captivity, or slain; the , niongthe noble and commercial privileges servants of the altar racked and murdered establish a free representative legislature and the horrors of the wildest ages perpelji a fr; press, independent judges; ja the trated by the Turk, with an open declarant foundation for the growing good cauae of tion, that these things have been done iA a religious toleration, and baDtize Sua in in . , . t , . c , 7 hatred of Christianity. Is England, which to the toleration of Liberty. The English ...U . . . ' 1 - if !.. ' L.J . .1 4 , vuuiu yui a siuu ui uoce 10 mis woinsn exew rst and 'made more palpable the design. hs , personal tearlessness. But of all the t i absurd to: plac the French war in the, f orelfin Secretaries within our memory, he kha of those conflicts,' by which nation "ou JMC.r . msa r,, been struaplincr aiainst nation from the ! P" '"re.gii purases, inviai as the evl Lrst of ages. Its external violence and its ; lence is, excesses, civil pjner, ana its suDver; its disruption. of foreign I ubversion bf the domestic j English compl takes a place among the pioofs OlarauiS looked with niorp than - - ------- lacency upon the habits of Lrone, have no. common features with the ; wangeis. iJut the heavier proot of the !-.- v- - 1 I rharP'H is. thai in thP roUia tor .;tr;K.. tnue 01 war it was uor u army in nos- . . ?; -... tiiin, bu: a people; not a'jieblile resisting 01 uroP- gained notbing for the jsileopmuient, but a people challeng- , -.jfluence , the honour, or the dominion of he over- cmiuw me iouv 01 a too ex- , tensive dominion, the crime of a lust of and the fearful retributive hazard But it must not be What Mr. Canning will do, it must be idle 10 conjecture; what he ought to do, it would perhaps, be presumptuous to de cide. But what the people of England de- sire to see done, is of easy knowledge ; and it is by the publicuill that a minister must shape his course, if be will do honour to himself, or service to the nation. Pop ularity is essential to his power of doing the greatest good 4 A submission to the hon ourable will of the people Js the best auxil iary for his wisdom. The; freedom of En cution, to shrink from the common dutv of! humanitv, and suffer it go on ? Her offi cial notes are nothing mockery, worse than mockery. The Turk will feel them! ah excuse for her shame in suffering these atrocities, and a pledge that all her hostili ty will be on paper. lie taunts her ambas sador; he repels her feeble remonstrance; he scoffs at her tardv humanity; answers note by note ; and, before the seal is cold, sets lortn again on ms work of massacre. What treaty can bind a nation to an acqui escence in those horrors, that would not sanction an individual in n conspiracy to see murder done, and see that none impe ded its being done? A few Greek revol- j ters landed at Scio; they were received : with natural congratulation,, but obtained no assistance, or none of moment. The Turk let slip his dogs cf war among the people, and a great and flourishing com munity of the Christian world was made a smoking desert. Its population was mas sacred, or dragged away to indignities worse than death, and the butcher was our ally ! In ' Cyprus, there has been no alledged ground of devastation. The Turk found it guilty of peace, and wealth, and, more than all, of Christianity. Cyprus, one of glish discussion, the infinite variety of the finest islands of the Archipelago, has, mind, interest, and experience, which arej by the latest accounts, been utterly sacked; n - conflict with the world. I he over Kr,j of th natinnnl worshib'. the monar Vht.tli nrlviWes of everV constituted bo- . Power W ..hvprdnn rffnrnnprtv within the M usurped dominion. ffam. the assault upon all exterior author- forgotten that at the close .f a war in which I i-. it- i a I. -t c . We had taken thf IpaH in r!untrr rut rvrs i - - - - - - y v v. alike allied, neutral, inimical: the fu ious and sanguinary.ambition, by which he ends of the earth were contemplated as jt too remote tor the boundaries of French ... pomiriipn. gave the wara gigantic, strange d overwhelming character, a pnysiogno- .ty of" fiendish pride, unbelief, and. blood, jrribiy pre-eminent. over all the combats li mere human ambition. . Two discoveries resulted from this tre- i!e power can overthrow the united force ft the rest ; and the secondltthat to secure Europe from gradual ruina'combination : t" the leading powers wai'of4 absolute 'ne ressity. For the fitst tiine in history, an :rniy of empires was formed and by the ;hoice of Wellington fur its chiefj, England ras v ;ruallv dedared the head, of this most fi entjol all coalitions It is oeyond our purpose to examine whe ther all that mightTTave done by this great urrrtgenient has been , done whether the il-Jy intancet a compact of a distinct or- per, has been pure in all its purposes; Hiether the rights, of nature have not been ilaied, in the eagerness to restrain the ft'ices of naitional irritability. Dut one Jci is unanswerable, that the great primal ject of the coalition has been, accom- islied ; that France is no more the dis- jrbing spirit of Kurope-; that her Hevolu- j:i, once me least in compensation; that warring for the liberties of the world, we were de prived of the honour and happiness of se curing them when the content was done; and that the diarming of the French Rev olution, undoubtedly a great result, was the sole consequence reaped from a triumph that ought to have been an era of constitu tional freedom through the world It is the peculiar and noble fortune of England, called in to act on any high public matter, places the general decision almost beyond error; and the wisest question that cao be asked in a dubious Cabinet is, :what is the opinion in the streets ? We look upon the general public judgment as next to irtlal lible. In the late war, full of strange and untried circumstances as was. that fearful shaking of established thought and things, it never failed. It predicted the results of every expedition from that of Qui heron Bay to that of Waicheren ; and its predic tion was fatally true. It pronounced upon every commander at once; and defeat or victory followed as sure as the stroke the flash. ". It is remarkable, that the first fa vourite general of the nation was Sir Ar thur VVellesley, and that the national hopes went with him from the moment of his sailing for Portugal It was remarkable, in other instances, how closely the opinion of the country defined, that one gei.eral the island a tomh; the streets full of blood ; a thousands, and ten of thousands of its innocent people flung into a return- minister can nccomplish'cmich of this hy a word. The declaration of his will must be powerful, when it is in unison with the ob vious interest of the nation Let him pro pose his plan to both, and declare that he will side with its acceptor The weight of England's judgment must turn a more une ven balance. But the strength1 of E roles and Mina seems completely equal ; they ' are both, we believe, equally friends of a free constitution, and equally haters of jJa cobinism. Our sincere interposition would save their mutual honour, might quiet their mutual claims, and sheathe the sword in .Spain. But something we must do. Spain, eft to herself, will,. after long havoc be come directly republican-- it is the fashion of the time revolution ia gregarious. ; A republic in Spain will seek its fellow In a republic in Jtaly. With Spain and Italy revolutionized, how long will France re imain tranquil ? How long will Germany. ' I ' I 1 I aireauy neaving, ne repining and murmur ing, pelore it bursts into resistless storm; py hen those things come, what will be the ate of England ? Is there, even now, no kcret transit for revolutionary stream through the heart of her soil r We will pursue this topic no farther Deus avertat. find it rs beyond all denial, that the whole Continent is at this hour in a state of in ternal convulsion; that like the spirits of Pandemonium, there is among, the , more powerful minds of Europe a sense of loss" and de&at, a desperate loss of fierce halt less slavery, among the ruthless passions ?rds a wild and fiery dream ot rebel gran and tauntmgs of the savage infidel. Is ; deur, to be won by torce ol arms. I he England to stand by and see these crimes f tenchman, cast on the ground by the foir befpre God and man committed ? Is she . tune of war, feels his hostility to thrones to be justified by uniolling her parchment .ijHextinguisherf; the German, uho fought treaty, and in-the mhlst of the hourly vio- fpf his countiy under the promise of a Cori- that her happiness, freedom, and wealth, ' would blunder bravely into death, andano- are palpably connected with those ot the great circle of European society. She sits onjhe throne of Europe by a voluntary sovereignty of good. All nation ferl that the mighty Island cannot be the enslaver "cf e continent; England is the great cen tral fortress in which the suffering and the brave of all countries must take the com- ther meet it gallantly in retreat and repul sion ; how a third would lose his presence of mind in the field to recover it on his tri al ; and how another would dress, dine, and sleep away an expedition. The result of the higher operations of diplomacy was foreseen with the same prophetic distinct- i nss. The failure of the successive coali- raon interest ol a comn on salety Tier re- J tions, the fragility of the peace of Ami nown iv their security. They rejoice to see 1 n and the return of JNapoleon from El mf - T ' -it- a t. . ' the battlements of her muh( i the Acropo lis of nations, rise above the stiung holds of the earth, and lie glorious irr its imper ishable trophies and temples ; because they know that her strength and glor are the hope of freedom among mankind. To have made those feelings of the high er minds of the Continent universal, ought to have been the labour of the Foreign Sec retary. J he Marquis of Londonderry oc str.kpn ,toJrt - w Ir-nf cupied himself in superintending the distri- . .... 9 ltitiftfi f t torritnr i nnt (hp acnrnrt it wn; and, that the gallantry which smote ' ' J "-.V : ' ranee has been turned into the vigilance freedom. , Towns and districts were paid by which: its fugitive jacobinism has been i ro.,u HP- prceJ in its vow of foreign ruin. --vf Utwn m Ae heart of Europe were trans U,:e more important consideration is, -ffrred Wlti the unfeeling facility of a Kus r.hat r. nnA ; :f. ...rtv- ia An sian estate, and multitudes of distinguished , . I.. . mm. v. . w. mm m 4 M n m mm m-m I rA m m rm ' minister has been placed in chaW of Y-fr ! Ul 7 'j; ! er eiternal interest. We are not about w,cu fWt - j.v . ,rrna f iwc ,r. us. power to power, like Kussian peasantry. i "mi. ion has been the result of the lene- II m,g.ht b? dlG1 to counte Mreliince on hfs abilities. There rnav aci ""i , i out an cngiisn secretary ougui ve been private interests active, in lii nave seen inose tilings oone wm ui; v.,f,.i,i ; but in the eye of the nation an honesr remonstrance The Metter e has arbeti on the simple conviction :6f cas and Hanlenbergs have sagacity e-, Public fitness.Thepablic voice'de- n?uSh todistinguish between the pleascre. r.V .u. o.. , oi an oinctai note ana uie ueterminauou 01 red at once, that no map was so compel . .... . . : ..r wt to fill Xip the chasm .in the Adminis-! . u- ; r .f . .. : t j. . - -l s.f terntorv it is not our purpose to ob ect. -iun, anu the public connaence.nas, wiui, rr.i " l V -j .1 i-u . l tr , ' -T Thev ma v have been imnrovidentlv libe- firom'esl and most nonourapie usti- v . ' . r , . K feiMf nfin- .Wrfcnrt-lprfli'th raf, ttey have been wise, liutvre leet ueeper V'oiutment: of Mr Canning. I he Minister, has before him the first nfTmrnm-mA t f K I .1 l . J. t tt f DC t O K l I C ll t W If .iiricu ivj allien vuiiii list , ' . . - . . - , , , .. fllmnil tvithrmt Ptranlinn oliulprl that 71 'Qirnortal name for himself and an irre-V j- .. lL.;m . - .a r u:.. nong their leading powers no constitution yet generous influence for his coun-' s i . .& , . . J fe , j- has been given to the people, except in Tii. j .il et. i c o '". France : that no free Dress has been given to death of the late Foreign Secret a rv;. ' , i . . r i.u ,r . i,. . .i. . - ,. j the people, except partially in France; "id of itsell, entitli him to be alluded to . r . r .r , j. n ..-1 i ti i -t i max no eenerai equivalent priviieK7 c tf.r- . i , it. i . been given, if such could be that ihe fa- race to his xeal. His personal faults . .6 F. . . . , Ir. . .k , . i l ; vounte and honourable wisn 01. cngiano, i-hvp m the investigatKHi of his peon- r.u uj u' 'emies, il he had such: his failures as' . - a;. .r..: n,..M c ' -li .1- - eiuaeu in ,lliccruc aim wuh iihoiivuj 'an mc ui a iiiuic aiiuwduir u s- , , , .i ha li.Hinn nnnrnrt n nrf IhAI a I. M flnd vei oxer itieshis death ha' CI .iu r n a veil not ha. were tonics of common conviction But this spirit of disastrous prophesy, fear fully confirmed as it was by thtrJong ca lamity of Europe, was essentially separate from the professional winnings of party. Whiggism was the screech-owl, thing wherever theie was a sick chamber, and trying to scream sickness into death.- There was a nobler and moie imperial v.t nmptimps driven down by the Ull U. mm. - mf atioh of its spirit, feel justified before Hea ven and earth by pointing to the letter? If we have declared to the Turk our reso lution to prohibit a cruelty worthier of the devil than of man, and if he have persisted, all treaty is at an end, -our faith is se cure, and then is the time to vindicate our feelings, our honour, and the privileges of nations virtually committed to the charge of England. I3y our present neutiality we make enemies of all. The Turk hates us for even the trivial sanction which our neu trality gives to the Greek. The Greek hates us for our alliance withthe Turk. The Russian hates us for standing in his iine of march to the Piopontis. The de sire of the British people is, to see neither the Turk trample the Gieek, nor the Rus sian enthroned in Constantinople; but to stiitution, feels his hopes defeated ; the Ital ian, proud of his ancient memories, and flung ten thousand fathom deep from his late ideal independence, feels and gioansj tjie Poe, loaded with the Russian fetter, ' feels and curses his degradation Throug h the whole circuit ol the Continent tl ete is but one preparation, great and terrible, for -a! catastrophe, of which no man cai. cal culate the horrors of the close. - The field ij sown with the seroent teeth of bitterness. ruined ambition and inveterate discord.-w Ajfje we to see it Send up its harveM of the spear? The thrones of the Continent, stand at this hour in a mighty cemetery. It! is in the wjll of God whether the dead shall be added to the dead, and the nations nielt away, or whether 4he trumpet shall sound, the graves be broken up, and all rairrpl in lha fart iWal tt lh!c hrtur th firo- r nW e V ...... - - r- Si i4 jui&ck ui me vuuiiucuiai auvciciiis, ciuc-t - to r.ngiana or tneir suDjects, nave oeen his eye on Heaven; till, at the first gleam of sun-shine, he shook his wet and weary wing, and, eagle-like, again towered to the sun. The Spanish war was the war of the British nation. Whiggism the universal abettor of insurrection, beri? found one in surrection entitled to the honour of its hos tility. A mighty revolt to protect a king, not to murder him, to protect a. nobility, not to rob and massacre them,' to protect a national worship, not to wash the altars in the blood of the priests,- was a revolt repulsive to English jacobinism, and the old rejoicings oyer popular outrage were extinguished in the reprobation of popular virtue The public opinion sneer ed at by the Opposition, was adopted by the Government ; and those noble Lords who j had cheered the insare declaration, that " the troops sent to Spain under Wel lington might better have heen shot in St. Jarae's Park were refuted by triumphs, which were at once those of ministerial en ergy, and public! opinion., j We nowf come to the most important in quiry What is1 ther desire of the English nation in its foreign policy ? : The most in teresting object is Greece. It is beyond all doubt the national rfere,tbat the butch ery of this war, should be stopped at once. There has been much guilt and sacrifice of euiltv life on both sides. Rut there has been a horrid barbarity let loose upon the see the Greek i.iand and main, all that be terror, judgment, and ruin, bore the name, dear and hallowed of Greece, combined into one vigorous and free shape of power. What the detail of their constitution might be, time and gene ral choice should decide; whether they were to be united under a monarchy , a form of government of difficult application to their locally, or to constitute a firmly allied systemof separate governments, sen ding deputies to some peimanent central council for the higlier concerns of all ; a mode of government suited to the noble rec blledtions and the natural circumstances of Greece. The new Grtek representative storm vet kept his plumes expanded, and J eoipjre would at once check the ambition i 1 From the National Gazette Feb. 15.) ; t We ask attention to a political article which we have copied from RIackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, into the first page ofjhis morning's Gazette. The eloquence and elevated style of the composition, give it title to be read, independently of the bold ness and scope of the political views. Its tenor and object are the. more remarkable, as the author of it declares himself to be Tory, and. as tlejoumal from which it is copied, has uniformly inculcated the ex treme doctrines, and. manifested the stron gest prejudices, which are ascribed - genef rally to the present Tory party in Great ese cirriinitanr& in inrJ Deeper and richer hopes might come to liht from this draining of the deluge of .uj . MTT.-r i aa.. - ,i.L.J sprvand hlood. The climate of Greece. !.... i.. j,L '.i!Li. i. . of Russia in the Mediterranean, strengthen Constantinople and Iona, and give a pow- jrifa:n ! with th r ,! ii i I . til. f i wiaiii. iiiu enui anu nonouraoie -uy 10 r.ngiana.. the American Dolitic'mn will wnJrr forth ... iL r..i..m .:tu ..rU:u .i.. l ti nituu u. v. i iij w iiivii tir iiiauairi ut misery and Diooa i ne qumaie m oreece, Ijaasslv drawn as we think, particularly in h mountains ami 'seas, its brilliant skies .1 . : 1 r . . i - .... . ; . nip tumiiicu tal career of that minister The manly, energetic exposition of Hhe ! 1 lir.. ; . . . . - i tent ol the human tody,and with it irnbecility, and inconsistency not to tat Tis ld,e to d"ubt ,niflu- . baseness, of the policy hithefto pursued bV climate upon races of people, when thfc British Cabinet as tespecu the aff .irS unoflendine Islands, which took no part in ! The En , r 1 1 "11 J mostia million of money has been paid for the insurrection, have been scourged by the tutiori to be touched by a irrev- sapplQn iM oS Spm . 1 I and balmy iir, are made cf the finest de- velopem of the m hvw v. -1 me liruisn cabinet as lespecti the affiir every man lens tneir uauy acuon on niro- j tof Greece, is another prominenfand pra se self. ; Greece wants nothing but the im- , ' tKv trQ; nrAnt., . : a a u f , , , . . 1 wvtmj v, wiuuuviiviii r" pulstrof honourable amoition,-the hope of pr0plIelic inspiratiori and ultimate of distinction, the certainty of a free range itly inbility, allowed to I'gbhc opinion, ae-i-' and j reward for her powers,! be the se- es to be a 8 piirlicalaf y.poticed. This Greece of JEetyliu and Pericles. is!a new theory in the quajtcr in whicb it The public destre tosee the Spanish civ- . - ow 8Q earn;slly Lpressed il war extinguished. They lament the hav- a master-hand isfiisplayed in the sketch oc of Spanish life, the rumlof a noble coun- ofjTuikish barbaritres. The line of con try, and the extinction of the finest peas- duct towards Spain which is recommended, antry of the South they hear of the bat- mU be the most suitable to the'British ir ties, in which those unhappy men are left ,eLsti but we doubt whether British med io the dog and vulture, with indignation ian effect as much with the coo and sorrow they fell that now is the mo- iefang parties in Spain, as is here dee nW meut to interpose. The royalists. and e( practicable. Moreover, the alleged e constitutional armies are standing face to qlty between Mina and Eroles is face, like charged thunder-storms ; the Gained to be an illusion. The fonr mediauon of England toould conduct the faay in au probability, by this time, destroy. lightning from both, would palpably be re- eaJ all organized resistance to the C nrtiru. was t mplrty- the Edinbut rh - uDDcar to ns chimencai our o joiced in by both, the war would be at an lio) 0n the theatre where he end, and the peace and freedom of Spain ed The apprehension of 1 mm 1 0k glish people detire to -e a coosti. Dr' sent Spanish system into a Keoubli gnuj w -jiu ...... rfoei DOI
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