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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 19.

.
IT is strange that the Amercans, young and rude
as they are in the ways of political life, should have
been much more successful in their diplomatic deal-
ings with the old countries of Europe than with the
raw and untutored ones of their own continent.
Spain France, and England, have been successively
chous;cl out of sums of money and slices of territory
by the mingled boldness and adroitness of American
diplomacy, by a mixture of bluster and conciliation,
by making the popular feeling and ultra free form of
government an excuse for the arrogance of the execu-
tive, and above all by making ample use of the general
conviction, how little of glory or advantage would be
acquired in going to war with a vast agricultural
state, defended by militia, instead of an army, and
privateers, or vessels akin to them, in lieu of a navy.
Frequent and repeated successes in their mode of
minatory diplomacy, emboldened the Americans, and
created a strong taste for war amongst the people,
and amongst the statesmen of the party, who affected
most closely to represent the feelings of the people.
No cure is to be found for a mama of this kind,
except the experience of war I that i., of war without
its gains and glories, and with its expenses, its pres-
sure of taxation, its interruption of trade, embarrass-
ment of credit—in short, with every concomitant
that can be disgusting to a trading and industrious
people.
The full experience of these results of war, brought
home to the American people, is alone a fact of
the greatest importance and advantage. Eighteen
months ago the war party in the United States was
all-powerful. The very whigs were obliged to bow
down to it, and cry for the " whole of the Oregon"
with the lustiest democrat. Mr. Pout was chosen
President merely from his known intimacy with Gen.
JACKSON, and the furious CASS was not unlikely to
succeed him. One campaign has not crushed the
Mexicans, but has completely routed in Congress and in
the public opinion of Americans, all those who
originated the war. And the great oratorical efforts
of all eminent men are now made to shake off any
share of that responsibility. WEBSTER, in order to
deter his countrymen from their combativeness, re-
presented the frightful prospect of a civil war carried
on between the conqueror of Mexico and the conque-
ror of Canada for a future Presidency. Neither of
these personages have yet made their appearance, and
fifteen millions sterling have been spent in the con-
quest of Monterey.
Had Mexican engineers succeeded in fixing a petard
or exploding a shell in the midst of the American
Congress, they could not have created greater con-
fusion and distraction, than the mere ris inertia with
which Mexico has carried on the war. The spectacle
of a great country like the United States, and its
representative assembly, in the face of a great war,
provoked by themselves, sitting down to discuss, as
the mode of carrying it on, the raising of two or three
millions of dollars to bribe the hostile general
and army to betray their country spectacle '
so mean, so puerile, so corrupt, could not well be con-
ceived. And as the Senate higgled at the passing of
the vote, Mr. POLK has got ashamed, and covered
his paltry policy with a glorious show of raising
regiments. It is difficult to say which is more impo-
tent and contemptible—the policy of Pour, the debates
of Congress, or the tactics of General TAYLOR.
Bad and ridiculous as they may be, Mr. CALHOUN
US contrived to move an amendment, still mere
ridiculous, being the cutting off of all the Northern
provinces of Mexico, by a chain of posts across the
Continent, and, at the same time, acting on the de-
fensive. What the Mexicans have to do, but to sit
down and laugh at Mr. CALROUN'S chain of poets, we
do not see. \net the United States are to gain by
driving this dotted line across the Continent, and
expending millions of dollars to keep it up, is incon-
ceivable. They cannot be ready to colonize any
portion of this territory this half century, and why
they should prematurely dispute it with the Comanchee
Indians, is not explained.
Against these visionary and absurd schemes of Mr.
Cautousr, his enemies have brought a demurrer as
visionary. Mr. CALHOUN begs to occupy the breadth
of a continent, which his grandchildren will still see a
hunting ground. The W • accuse him of wishing
to people it with slaves. The dispute might as well
be carried on about a table-land in the moon. The
debate and struggle in congress on this subject are
worthy of Gulliver, and are singularly disgraceful to
the character for good sense hitherto enjoyed by a
practical people.
Whilst American legislature and executive are
wasting time and energy on these vain debates, and
whilst Mr. Pout, very like NAPOLEON at Moscow, is
using every effort and application to induce the
enemy, whom he has invaded and insulted, and whom
he pretends to have conquered, to grant him a peace,
the Mexicans themselves seem to have recourse to
practical effects and measures often thought of, but
never ventured before. The republican government
and chiefs of Mexico have brought forth a plan for
seizing church property, and employing it in the de-
fence of the country. And SANTA ANNA boldly sup-
ports the scheme. To those who know Mexico, and
who know that its great revolution was an
abortion, because it left the clergy in posses-
sion of all its privileges, monopoly, and wealth,
the very broaching of such a proposal has its
importance. It may indeed be difficult to act upon
it, or at first to effect sales of church property. But
the idea ono. put before the public will be accom-
plished in some way or other. If land cannot be sold,
its proceeds can be sequestrated. And Mexico, like
Spain, will be delivered from the incubus of its church.
It would be singular, if the result of thisvrar should
turn oat so directly the renew of everything that was