The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE„PIAkLIC .TOI3ItNA.LS.

It is amusing as well as gratifying to observe viith
what freedom the French Journals now discuss the
military operations of their countrymen, and the
~ ' plans of their Commander at Algiers. Hail this
been one of Bonaparte's expeditions, they would
have no more dared to say any thing respecting it
but what he had dictated, than to face the fire of tho
troops to which the place had been surrendered.—
, But being a triumph purely il'rench, and springing
from a Bourbon, it is obvious that it gives pain, add
is offensive to the old Jacobins, the obsequious or
trembling slaves of a Corsican. The .Waiiona/, ii
paper set up lately, actually regrets that the pins
has been surrendered with so little bloodshed", anti
\Mild attribute the final success to the itfterpositim
sif the foreign Consuls, and their tepreientations to
the Dey, or to the barbarian's apprehension of in-
ternal revolt. So meth for the patriotism anti
loyalty of French ,Xescubins. But now, Algiers hy.
ing taken, what is to be done with it le We '3llotild
say, " What the conquerors please," tut in so
saying, we apprehend that we di&r from the British
Government in opiniess, The Duke of Wellington
:nay probably view with suspicion such an amen-,
lizement of a rivial nation as the Requisition of te
°, large settlement on the African coast; arid if it can
be shown to affect materially the balance, or, tts
we ealled it yesterday, the distribution of power iui
Entope, his Grace would be right to resist the per.
i nutrient assignment of Algiers to aance. But ill
' . France gain that country as ets appendage, shall we
•, itud the rest of Europe gain nothing by its civtlisa-,
I ion and improvement'? We answer, yes, almost)
4, as much as Frame by the sovereignty of it. Had,
the conquest, indeed, been made by a PoWer that
possessed no other ports in the Mediterranean, the
ease would have been widely different; but of what)
le, great use are the ports of Algiers to the fleets of
France, who hat already a line of coast abounding)
with havens of every description on the same Hen,,
extending from the third to nearly the tighth degr6
' of start longitude, from the eastern Pyrenees to the
/., Maritime Alps of Savoy P The accession of the,
. ports of Algiers would but serve to divide and sever
the naval armaments of France. On the `Other hand
the improvement of Algiers would unquestionably-
tend to increase our commettel the wants of a bar-
,, haterus race would be Multiplied, and the desire
rt.. a European inventions communicated to their
neighbours. The nations of Attica to the north
' of the Great Desert must of necessity men their at-
tention to agriculture instead of piracy, and we should
.t; be aide to import from thence many commodities
t 4 which we are now obliged to seek from beyond the
t Atlantic. It is an illiberal policy, as we think, m pies
l
' vent the civilisation of a barbarous people, and to
insist upon their being cast back into their previous
state of grossness, lest the new possessors of 0101
~,
/. country should experience an increase of power.
~'l,, Besides, France upbraids us with the misfrovern-
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ment and oppression of India; we should be curious
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r.Ol to know how she would govern Algiers. We give
the übove merely as our own view of the snivel.
and at present on imperfect information. If France
has pledged herself to the Powers of Europe not to
l.'*: retain or coirmize Algiers in case she conquered it,
she will, no doubt, fulfil her engagement. If she be
~1j free and unfettered by any such obligation, it is still
~,.atneloubtedly competent to any of those Powers to
protest, in the only effectual way amongst great nos
~ lions, against her retaining the acquisition. But we
doubt the policy of such a measure. The injury tto
11, outer States is of so problematical a nature, that i• ;rj
cannot he worth the while to make it the subject of
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war.--Times.
, • The political ' schism between the southern and
e„: the northern provinces of Coloather, or, in othet
' words, the sepsretion of Car:kittens and the dis.
[diets on the sea-coast from New Granada and tliti
interior, of which the English public has been long
tcj3, apprisek appears to us more serious, and likely to
11 be more lasting, than was at first imagined. This,
, opinion we are led to form from a carefal lespeetimi
of the greet mass of decrees, manifestos, and ()thee
, expressions of public opinion, published at Camecas
7',4 since the declaretion of its independence, copies at
el which now lie before us. We were certainly nor
r less surprised at the: number of, these documents
~4. than at the resolute determination which they
evinced to renounce the Colombian federation, and
~.; the Iniatility which they expressed to the per-
•,,,.1 son of Bolivar. Even , the titles of the
pi publications to which, we allude would nearly
'', • fill a rnlumn of our paper. It would ie.
~ retest very few of our readers to learn the
~,.' contents of these political manifestoes or persinnil
c. *quilts. ' In nearly all of them we find the gravest
1) 7 charges brought against the character, or the mmit,
deep rooted suspicions expressed or the intentiotat
at %liver. He is accused of ambition, selfishness;,
fii• of hypocrisy, and of despotism, liven his personal,
1.7.1: courage is called in question, end it is hinted that
irt in case of a contest with the Go7ernment of Cad
1 races', he will be found with the reserve fifty
levtimes in the rear of the fighting troops. ,Not,
VI I satisfied with the powers. of President, and the glory
.
r_i of Liberator, be is said to: have :aspired to the title'
T, of Emperor and King, or Inca. Into any examine.
Ation of the truth or falehood of these and similar
, , h
ic srges we .rannot now enter. We only mention
4.1 them as proofs of the inveterate antipathy enter-
tained by the inhabitants on the coast to the Go-
i:1 vernment of the interior, and as grounds' for believe
',fe/ ing that the " rent has reached the foundation" o.
the Colombian union.-7lmer. •
if 'i It is confidently said by the Ministerial papers that
11,1 GoVernment will be, strengthened by the result of
the ensuing elections. Why it should be so we
-,•-• cannot tell, seeing that Government was daily losing
greirnd in the Session now expiring, and, at lest,
had nearly come to a stand-still. It would, perhaps,o.A
~. lie difficult to point out any preceding Session, since
I, England first had a Parliament, in which both
'
4 lionses sat so many hours, 'and in which so little
ti
-,,i public business was done. In fact, the historian
will have nothing more to record than a series o.
, abortive measures as the result of the sitting of the
fgreat Council of the Nation from the beginning of
Febrnary to the middle of July.,
~ Even with, re-
,,e *peat to that most pressing and essential busines.
Uof State—the Supplies- Government . was so
7..4 checked and embarrassed, that, bad it not been for
. 0 The melancholy event which wive them art excuse
(i, for proposing a vote of credit, it seems exceed-
ii
ingly doubtful that the Administration could,have
,l outlived the . Session, A new reign is always
a season of promise and hope. The commenced
went of the present reign has opportunely happened
to enable the existing Administration to take roes-
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r, guruvote to protract its existence. The of credit
1 gives a new impetus to the wheels of Government,
F,
i :., which had nearly stopped, and allows Ministers lei.
il',l sure from the fatigues of the Parliamentary care.
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paign, to endeavour to repair their shattered re.
E' sources by secret'matimuvres and political tactics,
f: Such expedients may prolong the existence of their
power for.a time, but the diflicultiee of the empire
are still accumulating, and nothing can save the
"• country but the honest arts of political wisdom and
~ public virtue. We cere not what the ' names of
.„„ Ministers are—we look but to their fictions. We
`'. judge them not by whet they profess, but by what
;., they perform, How magnificent were the promises
4f which they gave to the public at the commencement
of the present 'Seseion in the Speech from the
t Throne I _now have the anticipations which they
't::- excited been disappointed I They pledged themselves
to retrenehnient and.economyt—they made a show
• of sieving the public tnenty .in !small things, but
`) they were, as reekless and prefeseeee any of their
predecessors in great matters. They pledged them-
selves to is thorough refovrn of the edmini,,triition (if
justice;--they havesione nothintref the sort. lTi ey
..,. thrievierspiadtde
riiedt Pr
nirg eitessd Wsee:tittlillinstriterelalurellw, hbl I
iclittilnietYrelaieseeeB
left the fountains of justice:as turbid and as irepere
r - Ali if they never pretended to cleanse them. They
l', protuised great reduction of taxes; yet every jets-
L. rest in the country still groans beneath the weight oft
t, intolerable tendon. We care 1101 what changes may
take picric in any departments a the present Admi.