The National Register.
London, England, 1814-12-18 00:00:00

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from the idea of the matrimonial connection with that
country, or with the circumstances of its being necessary
fur us to obtain another equivalent, besides the million.
and a half sterling, to pay Holland for the Cape of Good
Hope, ceded to us i►► perpetuity.
As to the first of these ideas, it was absurd in the ex-
treme. If the Prince of Orange vas to partake of the
Throne of Britain, so far from such aggrandizement being
necessary, it was rather requisite that he should abandon
all claim to sovereignty on the Continent. The people of
this country would not have brooked the idea of a Sove•
reign having other than one interest, and that interest in
these Islands. On the other hand, the Sove►eigns of the
Continent would have objected on many grounds to the
union of the two countries.
The second idea was not less crude, nor could any pt in-
tiple have been so mischievous as that which, as we have
before observed, admitted for an instant that " we were
b•und to find an equivalent for the Cape." We have in-
tleed found, not only one, but two equivalents, the one
h Belgium, the other in the Bank of England ; in short,
one million and a half of specie is to be extended in the
formation of new defences in Flanders against the aggre4.-
sions of France !

Itence we urged that these principles were absurd,

simply because they were impracticable. For, we con-
tended, that France had it always in her power to bring
)per whole force upon the Flemish frontier, and that an
attempt to carry our plan into effect would " infuse such
a degree of restlessness into the minds of the people of
Vrance as to produce an effectual irruption toA and the
Rhine."

In confirmation of this opinion, we are now told that
It is the political slang of Paris, that the Freiich Govern-
tnent has said nothing on the subject of Flanders, because
they knew that it was in their power to obtain possession
of it at any time. Of the truth of the circumstance, as a
tnilitary fact, tj►ere can be no question, at least if expe-
rience is to be our guide.
So far was written when the flying teports were circu-
lated about Alexander furnishing the proofs that " the
Congress at Vienna was to break up without achieving
any useful purpose.'' The Opposition Papers had bruited
this about the town for sonic days, but a most extraoldi-
bary confirmation of it appeared in the COUrkr of Wed-
nesday. The cause of the disgust that gave rise to his
secession, is stated to be sonic proposition on the subject
of Poland. •

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DEC. 18.

grandmother in oppressing the Poles,seemed to wisl► to at.
tach them to his interest, and make them instrumental to
his designs on Turkey ;" for " aided (v►dct the Register
of the 13th ult.) by the national spirit of Poland, and this
spirit most especially roused by the (so called) Conqueror
of the Conqueror of Europe, being its restorer, -he woull,
we had no doubt, succeed in attaching Poland to Russia
by ties of the most powerful and politic ►►ature," and
after he had " organized Poland (the work for the winter
months), would proceed towards the Danube, in order
to regain the ground he had lost in Wallachia, &c."
Should the report prove well founded, our opinions ►•ill
be fully lerified—that they will be so we hale little que..
don; particularly when we recollect the departure of
Constantine for Warsaw, and Czerni Geor4e for Russia.
It will prove the truth of an assertion made by a Morning
Paper some time since, that Nesselrode had declared there
were six hundred thousand Russians and eight million
of Poles ready to defend the independence of Poland ;
64 Alexander will be found to • have struck the right key,
and to ope►► to himself a road to the completion of t*ose
projects long since determined upon in the Russian Cabi-
net." Register of the 27th of November.

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