The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-11-16 00:00:00

FICANCE.

PA RIB. NOVEidliga•
[From the constitotionort]
The moderation, the jurtter 01 oar edvreutiett
were known; the events of Spain bare 01400
their prudence: They bare • hundred tigiegle-
cused the Constitutionalists of exciting by litelheat
perfidious mesas the fire of foreign war, because
they had no hopes of fumes but is the chances 'of
trotthle aria direord that orwalf follow. Ardent de-
fenders of refigion, they grew iedigaent at the mere
thonght that the sword ts•6ht be drown to succour
Christian people ! and their fshis-devotion beitig
hut the mask of their hatred of liberty. they turned
Turks in the East, the better tp d tnd io France
rbe-esiute of the *Reims regime-.

A war tewhieh we shoats have remained strange',
a distant war struck them with terror. They thought
tiny taw all Prance in flews ; and now a war on
our own frontiers, a war which they pretend to
carry oil alone, does not give them the least fear.
This contradiction, although great, is no more thou
natural. In Greece it was proposed to fonnd the
independence of a people; in Spain it is intended
In destroy it. The national interests are as nothing
with this party ; hurl it not twenty times proclaiMed
the fact ? It is the spirit of the oge that it welshes
to put down, it is the progress of intelliigeutt that
it wishes to arrest by cannon shot.
The interest of the Government, which Mee also
he that of France, prescribes that it should protect
commerce and agriculture. But •n oligarchy has
no country—it will lint permit liberty to exist any
where. lit making war upon Spain it is privilege
that it pmscribes. because it knows that cipiality in
the eye of the law, amongst our neighbours, may
he dangerous among ourselves to that which it is
agreed to call social ouperiorsty.

We are cr.nvim•rd that war would only rally the
different parties in Spain ; whilst peace would calm
the (~►..ions which are nourished and irritated only
by restotance. We !persist in maintaining this: the
opectucle of France, happy in the pooseotsion of her
Constitettional Charier, with all her citizens, equal
in the rye of the law, enjoying all their tied rend
pnlitieal rights ender its protection, eserei•ing with
tranquillity their ;storerooms' or their init./try,
would operate more conquests in Spain than ali
menacing arinieo. The example of our tnatUtutions
would lie snore persuasive tliati the elogoeste of
our baronet•.

We have Unfortunately had hut too good Means
to appreciate the immense louts produced for
some days past. by the rumour, of war which
were so suddenly propagated. These lone., which
cannot be estimated at less than two hundred
millions of Nor. would, however, have heels pr►-
vented by anotticle ilf a few tines in the Nosh-
fear. Dui if the simple announcement of war
has in so sheet a period produced evils of each
magni►ttde, 'what will they be whew their effects
are fully developed, and shall he fe't in all the
bratiehrm of the public prosperity. which stand all
in ti.ed of the mayor df capital which will be cou-
centrated slid withdrawn from circulation through
the fears thus created ? Commerce, industry, agri-
culture itself, can they do without the aid of cap -
tad ? What can they toothier, bow can they en•.
Liner to exist with Yet energy. if the grand ant, y
which sustains their hfe become more or less pa. 4.
lysr rf ?
The prosperity srhieli France has enjoyed for same
years past w•as entirely the, work of peace. It we:
I care which, by reinvinthope, had multiplied el-
forte, and renewed that mutation which ensure•
their eticcess. Peace is ilw natural state of inda.-
trious nations, as war was formeely the industry of
feudality.
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Th. c ettosoinfl or the state of peace still haws eon.
simile-sees much more •criouS than those we 09.7
feel, and than all tt•o•e even esltteh resoltatl iittru
farmer wars, when the nation ass net•wet icadhat
state, of increase which mutt determine the.ehelrer
to which she will ereatually attain. It Yysist only
in the national and in the foreign funds tiss4,the
shock will make itself be felt :it will he ea-