The National Register.
London, England, 1819-12-26 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

A DLTit ESS

/0 TIM !COWLS OW ITAI,II, THE r•TRSOT sarawarbeihaa.
•11/3 TOE 10•LDII Was CM) aliA./441,4 OS ZILE Wxruontom

tracr•ates. AT CA oiz.
People Yliist you ogee lirwuren. at Ike pro.
slimes of V et., L4lei.l. desist, 10 speak to you uu Ills spirit
of sincerity ..,td at peace. Smitsle republicans them-
selves, thy set re.peet all the souks .ottricit Limy now
address; lot 111 Spain all ranks have, in happier sissies,
illustrated Ike 5i.1,1014A1 glory; and the people of Veto.-
snob el, erisli its reeekleeueits not less, dun the proudest
t'allill II:. Tney are Ilia Ctilltirta sit the etilintial, Vole
of the o.other entintre . and it Is site I Linville,. she
atertial law %NCI fel:l64olllbhip, %%hick gluey would here
suggest to puts *asWll ctnisideritioti..
11 is in itolitcot pnytiral nature, when. the in
Glut ithir.vri? Aroii,,,vr 111.111 41s, parent, it n -
sonless/. inalepetstleut existence ;.and.the physician who
'lentil I str,iloe Ilse (Mkt mver to separate LOAM the ho-
Arilii 0 Os mom lier, wankl not act more 'sadly asai
ptilitici.iis ho sitordie destiee Int colony to fir aa.r re
trial iltri,:leitcy or. the purist state All ham"- illus-
trates the int is a this assesirm ; and, in the prercio
Cale, 110 paraltd call he sratiose ..5 that eintleils and
her American odourless Ile greatest natal power which
e'te world has ever beheld could ma wain Ile Anglo.
American proviher sits suliketiati.
And wle a wand be the result of such a connexion, if
it could he tendered prtrpirltial ? As the family of winch
she children oe% irr become independent of tile parent,
but are istaintamed from a daily decreasing pair'
inheritance. makes no advance in. opuleiler, but socks
below the multiplied talent zond skill ur its neighbours,
in lire colony and mother country, which are fettered by
one political spies', are reciprocally embsirassed and
weakened. Colonies, on the contrary, are, like chi!.
siren, valnahle oply when. they become ittileivoil-
cat. Of these trothashr col/phial system of Britain
affords a memorable proof- The revenue which that
kingdom derives from North American ennunercial
intercourse is woody reales thaw it ever derived from
Nunh American taxation. •

The motives which actnatevi )drain and Spain in these
eukistial wars, similar in one respect, iwie been utterly
different in windier. Both have been excited by national
pride—the fertile source, when welk employed, of many
grand and many maul achievements. Unt iu Britain,
as in Spain wars ere more properly the acts of the
government than of the nation; and Uritaaas being a
cottstitnt' al ittonsmeliy.Spain a despot tbni, the pc °fern-
olent o' the former had, in its colonial strug2le, all
iotelligible,that of the Mancuso irra Object lei view.
Thecounittition.d4overnment naturally emoted, 'ouch!,
by retaining its colonies, to increase the naval. awl milt
tary strength of the nation-, the tiewstic Government,
on the contrary, while it enfeebled and abused its colt).
nits, derived from the very mauve of despotism, interrs•s
at utter variance with those of the ration. Despotism
substitutes individual and selfish, Inc national and gene-
rous interests; and hence it is that the Close tent tit
Spain, not the nation. without CCollollliZilig either tin
treasures or the blood which is vainly wasted in the
American war, looks in that struggle only to the intercom
(if its creatures and dependents, who with money or with
meanness have purchased the lucrative or the honourable