The National Register. — London, England, 1815-01-22 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. • s• .fur Sing, Constitution, anti taboo. ' 1 1." PUBLISHED AT NO. 11, NEWCASTLE-STBEET, STRAND. No. 569 . SUNDAY, ' JINURY 22 f 1 I • • out by nature, and which it is the interest of Europe to yield to her." Such are the reasons of M. de Bonala for the Recession to France of Belgium. - "it is impossible," says the editor of the Journal de Paris, " to afford a reasonable reply to such arguments ;" and he adds, " M. de Donald is irresis tible when he combats for the truth." The Moniteur has also been warm in its eulogium on this tract, which ISA mere pamphlet of 79 pages. Hence, there appears every reason to believe that it is sanctioned by the Government, although the editor of The Times says," that the virtuous soul of Louis the Eighteenth would view such an attempt as an attack on Belgium with horror, and would rather re sign his Crown than become a party to such an act of atro city! ►.!" But, differing from the learned editor, we cannot but think it politic to elicit information and obtain grounds of reasoning from our foes, and particularly when they are offered to us in the way that M. de aoaald's seatiseata •. i ♦ f E i etre. We have' unitbesaly dervateated the idea being held osst of the status ante, and simply rested our argument `on its impracticability at' this moment. Hence we coo- ,te9ded, that the mere idea of such a principle would be in jurious. We also endeavoured forcibly to point out Bel gium as the cause and source of a now difference. We called the attention of our readers to the state of that country, its disposition to be under the Gcivernment of France rather than that of Holland ; and endeavoured to demonstrate that as it was always in her power to begin a continental war with eclat by an advance of her posts to the Rhite, and, as it had been , for years in her 'possession. she had every temptation as well as the matt efficient meant so to do;' abd hem*, that the leaiingitil- inPossession or Flanders would be by far the finest means of effectually 'disarming her inasmuch as, Comparutively s ikfita, it de prived-her Goi>ertiment of 'any plea for (See 'National Registior Orthe Bth Voreniber.) But to return tek'de Ronald. " silts that writer. "all the Powers colid retnrn to the statai ante," that is .. • - to say, If ~Ettgland would give up Malta in Ow Illediteranesu —Heligoland in the eirermai Ocean.—St.'Lucie l Tobago.' i n air tlidibs-Cep lOU in thefra ste[`ri • • .% • • L~*.~~~ tc critOry Se j l t ri ' llia ad • I ; • • ""1 t• )1 1 ,rtel. " 4 _ 4 kJ - pt-'l5 • POLITICAL DISWISITION. THE BALANCE OF POWER. The circumstance of a pamphlet having been published at Paris, entitled " Reflexions sur l'interetgeneral l'Eu ropc," which has the discussion of this question for its object, cannot have escaped the attention of our readers. Nor can they be ignorant, that while,the Paris papers class him among those of their authors who have shewn "most address, perseverance, and intelligence," pronounce him to have discussed the luestion of the natural boundaries of France with a " superior talent," and state that his ideas on this subject acquire force. and authority when treated by his eloquent pen. The Times handles him most roughly, and thus, as a matter of course, recurs to its Billingsgate vocabulary, in order.to invalidate the force of his reasoning, adding, with• a tone of authority,. that Louis .the Eighteenth is opposed to this measure of aggrandize ment. Doubt says M. de Ronald, " if all the of Europe, so fortunate in having escaped from the misery and misfortune of a tyranny unexampled in history, could . , agree to return to the status quo ante Reliant, and to place themselves in the situation in which they were found by the Revolution, France would have nothing to demand, al though, even in that case, she wouki have to suffer for a long time, perhaps for ever, from the loss of some of her finest colonies. If Great Britain, Austria, Russia, al ready so strong, if even Prussia should have aggrandized herself, the one by the possession of those positions's° es sential to her commerce with the Levant and the Indies ; the others by depredations on their neighbours,• or, per haps io a short time, at the expence of the Turks, which at one and the same time offer a rich prey and an easy • conquest ; if Spain, the natural ally of Fratire," already exhausted by her heroic resistance, should behold her. wealthy possessions in South America reedy to escape from • her Government ; if the kingdom of the Two Sicilies: ano- ther of the natural allies of France, should remain divided, is it not unjust, is it not imprudent in the advocates • for k• political balance • between the North laid the South to throw all their influence into the scale of theYbriner and refuse to Frani& alone that increase of ro/. V 11 :. Xv. ectLxli. •/". 15. PnicE 9d. ~a~ , 0 , Ell M.r~+