Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-10 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 10, 1859

Mains, and for regaining those she has • lost ?
Iv, tile Dukes are to be restored, is Austria to be
44°Nved to' restore them ; since nothing but
force can do it ? How long is VICTOR
2131ANTIEL to coquet with the revolted provinces,
'ad to rest on the ambiguous replies which the
;(111aleting circumstances of the moment have
alked Upon him ? Above all, what is to be done
leuout the POPE, or what is he to do about him-
: and the States that have withdrawn their
4„eglauee These are the questions that are
4: Perplexing European diplomacy, and, as-it
kurils, will by sheer necessity force on a Congress.
the parties involved in the recent war are
extremis
; and if it be the general will not to
4ew it, we are very likely to see them soon
g Over Europe hat in hand, begging some-
th 3' for the love of good fellowship to extricate
eit.

If it
old were a matter of feeling, England for one
e,: not hesitate as to what would be the most
course to adopt. If this strange con-
eetih2l
Ii of elements,—despotism on the side of
wi'th ; despotism in its true colours,
ecei 41'Parent rebellion ; rights of prescription
sintheisiastieal claims, and liberty " pure and
itir:b;e” likely to come off the worst in the
a. der—if these varying interests have come to
treee '
adlOch, and the only chance of setting them
znise Without external help, is fresh bloodshed and
it seems ungracious, it seems inhuman,
417 Power to withhold its mediation or its

together

•
4%1114 nations cannot give themselves up without
the isve to the generosity of the friend, or even
ketratecl'llolonitarian. Our position in Europe is
Pli every day more delicate and more com-
ke. The Continent wishes to throw us off,
toQiel)ntf when they have a chance of making a
can 118. Though we are free to admit, nothing
of theel them more than to find us, independent
thins-111' and reluctant to meddle, when they

our
their 0 concurrence might give a colour to
Vien .1111 4esigns. It is thus they used us at
na in 0
I'ls. We had saved them from de-

,we had refused to accept the proffered
e °f the first NAPOLEON, the aim of which
takas
inpthe s
ullugation of Europe; and we forbore
•

Rues vengeance on the sneaking duplicity of
th 81a
ancithe Other Powers, who had not withheld
kaelt: truraPerY alliances, when the great marauder
hole them a
like proposal. Throughout the
ltee:;"i_e Perin(' that we could at all succeed in
4.g
them true to their engagements and their
ne'lr--or rather their real interests,—we fed

Zten With the sinews of war,
an irresistible moral influence.
47 faithlessly we were treated, whenever our
,0 magnanimous allies lighted upon a momentary
44 Pportunitv, and how our firmness and constancy
1:e cl them from the snare, into which they were
4°411 times in danger of falling. Having thus
been the victims of a course of double-dealing
t'ind finesse throughout the European complica-
:lB, We came triumphant out of thorn all, only
be made the catspaw of despotism when the .
period of settlement supervened. The treaties
°f Vienna involved us in still further comphea-
ii'ns, Which, if not so dangerous to our interests,

and endoweL them

We know

Were far more disastrous to our honour; until

GEORGE CANNING, the greatest of modern states-
ken and the most honourable of public men, first
broke the chains which had been so skilfully forged,
And commenced our liberation from the policy to
which Lord CASTLEREAGH had so mistakenly

tom.mitted us. We see the result. 'We are
accused on all sides, and threatened on all sides.
It Is true, despotism no longer shakes us by the
e; but yet neither does liberty smile upon us.
e are, perforce, driven to an isolation to which,
14 the first instance, the motive was certainly not
141 r safety or our interests, but our honour and
41/04 name. But having been compelled to this
43Ifttion, our only resource is to turn it to our
°l°ll interests, and to take care that our solitary
Nihon be not endangered.
It becomes, therefore, a grave question for our
11:blie men, whether our entrance into a Congress
the present juncture would not tend to com-
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al'°l2lise our national security, without Affording
chance
of doing justice to those lofty 'purposes
Which lie near the heart of the nation ? 'We are
12° 80 pusillanimous as to believe, that Liberty
expelled us from her noble band, or ,yet dis-
ks:lB °or service. But the most effectual way to
47 ourselves ready to do .her bidding, is to
12:4 the crafty entanglements to which her
7e friends would lure us, to our own d'estruc-
'Qo or disgrace.