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LONDON.FRIDAZDECEMBERL

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Tus despatch of a corps of French troops to the port
of the Roman states, under the pretext of giving per-
sonal protection to the Pope, is a bold step—the first
bold one that the French government, since the revo-
lation of February, has ventured. This speaks im-
mensely for the prudence and forbearance of those
governments, tempted and irritated as they have been.
We cannot say, however, that we feel any great de-
gree of admiration or approval for an act which,
however coloured, is a very flagrant instance of inter-
vention. And we protest at once, and most strenu-
ously, against our joining it in any way, or "in our
landing a corps of marines to keep guard over the
Potperson."
French government may pretend that their
purpose is not to interfere in the quarrel about tem-
poral government between the Pope and his subjects.
We defy the French commander to observe any such
neutrality. If he receives the Pope into his camp,
and defends him in issuing props mote decrees
from thence, declaring the Romans traitors, and con-
demning them to the scaffold, as the fashionable
Count BAUMAN! complacently serves Hosauvn,what
1 is this but interference?
The intervention of the French at Clefts, or at
Rome, will be the signal and the moon for the
ozenpation of the Legations by Austria. And the
Legations, we need not say, contain the most indus-
trious, enlightened, and liberal portion of the popu-
lation of the Rosen States, which will thus be
handed over to the fangs of the Austrian generals,
whilst France merely retains influence over the bar-
ren territory of Rome itself. The ministerial Journal
indeedalreaciy announces the march of the left wing"
pying
of the Austrian army into the Legations. Occu
them, it will touch the frontier of Naples, and be
enabled to support the king of that country in his
efforts to suppress the longings of his subjects after a
constitution.
Wo will' not decy that we had rather see the
French at Rome than the Austrians, but when we
recollect that in a fortnight's time the head of the
French government may be a BONAPARTS, we must
deplore seeing the peninsula brought back to the same
anarchic an 4 dependent state which it was in during
the last years of the previous century. We, too, inter-
vened at that epoch in the affairs of Italy. Then, too,
did we send fleets to blockade and threaten
ports. Moreover, we landed marines to pro-
tect royal peesonages, and in protecting them
we could not avoid meddling in the political comb
of thaw countries, nay, staining the honour of on
first naval hero, by making him an accomplice in the
most nefarious executions end acts of political err
gtance.
It may be said that there oan be no fear of our now
interfering on behalf of despotic governments. We
are not quite sure of that. Our interference in Por-