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prelude to some snob meant., as the Pautotit?
pow proposes, and as the strong current of public
oolon was *moll to, set in this direction, it was
juocions in the PatilDIRT to assume the guid.
roof i power which it would be perhaps imp's.
obit for hint to reWilt. No doubt therefore can be
r,trrtsined that the recommendation of the Plbe-
Iteget will be speedily carried into eff.:.ct, and that
to for as the recognition of the Cotter' i....tes coo
term*,
.the Republics of Colombia. Perii, Chili,
flueom Ayres. and Mexico. will asoinie a-rook and
Auxins amongst the independent Sovereignties of
Eh/ world.
the Patstotrt, in his Menage to Cowes%
vOrrtokr. to justi(y his proposal by a refereece Hs
the date of the several Spsnish Ametieso Previoceo,
owl he gives an in,elesting description of their coo-
ditian respectively, which is no doubt substantially
correct. The Pigott:oiler feels that a formal re-
'cognition of their independence would not he eon-
oldest with thi proem of neutrality between the
Coloniei st;rl the Mother Country, hitherto pro-
fessed by the United: Slav, mikes the revelution
were so far coospletedin •the Colonies as to laws
ire oasis of the complete establishment of the moo.
Infirmary Governments. This mooning extends%
the fullest manner to Buenos Ayres. and Colombia,
and perhaps to Chili, but it doe. not seem even by
:Zig of the Pewit D c.nt himself to be equally.
e to Peru, to which the revolution " was
eassisiled." as the Passtrawe says, " by the assist.
Mali if Chili and Buenos Ayres." nor to Mexico,
where is revolution has been but very recently effect-
ed, mid where, we believe ts this moment, oe
gevetinneet has been established upon fixed end eer.
tore Out-titles. It may, indeed, be very true,es the
PeartninT says, that for three years Spain he est

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Mat te the continent of South America a single
180talitt of trooPs; but we know even from these
Ist-thew York Papers that a war is still waged in
Pere, and that a force, boil) naval and military,
still opetstesin the Western Hemisphere under the
fitg of the Spanish Monarchy. Seeing, therefore,
the pretest readiness of the Executive Authority
of the Eloise to recognise Governments while
have either but newly come into existence, or are
• still. stratoiling to sequin an independence, we
! 11111, bell inquire hoer it happened that the United
'dhotis did tot in the year 1816 acknowledge the
Gem/unto' of Buenos Ayres, in 1818 the Go.
serneseut of Chili, or iu 1819 the Government of
Ceitunius ? According to their own principles
the recogrulioo of Persi and Mexico is premature,
.iod the Goillibeeset of Spain has, us oar opinion,
cause to comsilein of this proceeding on the part of
the United kook,. The wrote not noly precludes
Spent from evety hors of regaining
_guy. footing
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tee, strongly to deprive her of' the equitothteuitilik
which her pretensions might yet have enforced. al
t/ttering the enjoyment of large commercial advice
11101 in her fature intercourse with her revolted
Colonies, sod of purchasing thew friendship and
favours by' the act of recognising their ioder!).
deco., and of thereby 'salting them to the risk .of
natiossi. The proposed measure is to be enmity..
used with on spiitirauce to the Government of Spain
of the friendly disposition of the United States,
which it ie promoted," rays the Message, "I jil!
he, as is al& irer *a, satisfactory." Spain, me
think, will WI it as a proof of friendship,
and perhaps it• ism well for the United States
that the cession of the Florida. had bees cobs
primed previous to the occurrence of such an eyelet ;
for undoubtedly the Cabinet of Madrid would
new voluntarily bare stripped the Crown of
of so 'gloat& an sppendage if it bed seen 114 ,1
Cabinet of Washiugton actively eogaged iowrest.
• ing from its lint feeble grans the only cenditims,
winch (void bare enabled it to termicate the melon.
ctwly cooflict with a eetwbfance of dignity or the,
chance of a conciliatory arrangement.
Mr. Monoof admits, that's of the views of thy
Spanish Government on this subject no particular
*automatic° has recently been received"—" nor any
anthemic information of the disposition of other:
Powers respecting it. A sincere desire," he pro.
feeds to say, " his been cherished to act in cement,
with them in the proposed recognition, of which
terera/ were some time past duly apprised, bat it
w4s understood that they were not prepared for it,"
Tins emit of preparation Mr. Momaos acenents
for to his own sNtisfnction, by supposiog that " the
amfaxese sporo lietween those Powers and them Pro.
vowels mst;es movement an Writ of less in-

trust acid /4mile-trier-it to them then to ut" ithe
United States]. But surely 111 r. MONROE 4111110
so fir deceive inuiself as to fancy that the extent of
the Adriatic Ocean is eifficient to prevent the Go-
',meteors of England or of France from feeling a
deep ar.f anxious interest in the affairs of the West-
ern World, or that it was mere indifference alone
which prevented the several Governments of Europe,
to which the intenticros of the United States were
communicsied, from concurring in the proposed
rrcognitioo I When there several Powers agreed
mutually sod iodividually to pursue a principle
neutrality in the conflict between Spain and lire
Colonies, it was usderstoed that this irrintiple was
in be meiotanied until the Anal clout of the contest.
Undoubtedly it could never be intended that every
whet Power must necessarily richly the recognition
of the revolutionary Governments until it 'night
Please Spoils at any period indefinitely de•tinit to
norleim her pretensions of Sowereirty ; but this