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London, England, 1822-12-06 00:00:00

THE • LONDON JOPRNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM TIIE AMY MORNING PAPERS
Deccnibt'r 6, 1822.

[MORNING POST.]

Although private letters were received yes-
terday, there were no arivals calculated to throw
any light on the manner in which the French
Government intends to use the permission which
it has obtained from the Congress. That it con-
fiders that permissio❑ a matter of great import-
ance, is proved by the magnitude of the reward
bestowed on the negociator by whom it has been
procured. The highest dignity of the Peerage,
the title of Duke, has been conferred upon him,
and lie is treated as a man who has rendered the
most eminent services to his country. And yet
lvhat is the nature of those services, and what is
likely to be their result ? lie has gratified the
wishes of a Faction, which has acquired a momen-
tary supremacy over the Ministers, the King, and
the Constitution, and to whose dictation he owes
the brilliant recompence which he has received.
But in gratifying the wishes of this Faction, this
Regency in effect, though riot in name, how has
he served his King or his country?—By making
the one still more completely a slave, and by ex-
posing the other to little less than the certainty
of a Revolution. The real Government of
France is at this moment no longer monarchical;
it is the Government of a few, and those few
neither the wisest nor the most temperate heads
in the country. The name of King, it is true,
still exists, and the outward form of a Consti-
tution is preserved, but they only serve to dis-
guise the Ultra Oligarchy which towers over
both, lest it should appear too hideous in its
nakedness.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Whatever may be the present wishes or future
intentions of France, certain it is that our Go-
vernment not only formally disapprove of a con-
tinental rupture, but will also do every thing in
their power to avert one, although, up to the
present hour, we do not conceive that the Ca-
binet is decided on the precise plan to be adopted,
or what will be the best manner of negociating
with the French Government, with a view to
success. This point, we are very confident, can-
not be settled till the Duke of Wellington's ar-
rival in this country, which may be looked for
in a day or two ; as there are many minor cir-
cumstances, relating to the spirit and tone of
parties in the Congress, it would be impossible
to explain in a dispatch, or indeed confide
to any ordinary conveyance. The meeting
at Verona has tended to elucidate the real
policy of the Allied Powers, more than any other
event that possibly could have taken place, and j
it is very currently reported that important and
unexpected discoveries have been made, regarding
more than one of them, which affect their sincerity,
and place their good faith towards us in a very
questionable point of view. We are in fact in-
formed that language has been used humiliating
to us as a nation ; such as cannot fail to excite
indignation and resentment in a proper quarter,
if, as We hope and trust is the case, British
pride and British honour are still alive ;
not such an indignation and resentment as would
impel us blindly into a war ; hut of a nature to
rouse us to every exertion to prevent one, and
show the world that we have yet sufficient intlu-
trice left to carry our views into execution. We
do not hesitate to assert that the utmost anxiety
and activity at this moment prevail in every de-
partment of the Government, and that at every
Cabinet Council held, the necessity of making a
bold stand, both in defence of our own character
and the safety of our Allies, daily becomes more
apparent.

[THE TIMES.
It is uncertain whether the war will begin ;
but if begun, when will it end ? We have before
said, that sooner or later, England must take
part in it ; and that in her national character.
British subjects will, at its very commencement,
be busy enough in it for their own personal
advantage, and all the powers of Government
cannot prevent them. But to consider the ques-
tion first in a national point of view. It is now
three years since the Austrians entered the Nea-
politan dominions ; are they ono whit more
likely to retire than on the day- of their en-
trance ? Or, should they retire, would it
not be found that they had. all their work
to do again ? Do the French promise them-
selves greater success than this ? Or do they
mean, " to kill and eat," as Beatrice*
says, all the Spaniards ? Or, having once
overrun and settled the Peninsula according -to
their minds, do they suppose they can go away,
like the King in the New Testament, into a far
country, leaving their servants to manage their
talents in their absence, and to give an account
to them on their return ? Which of these sup-
positions "do they think the most probable ? We
answer, that they can no longer prescribe a con-
stitution to the Spaniards, and keep that consti-
tution in Play, than whilst they are masters of
the country ; and that if they suppose England
would suffer them to hold possession of the Penin-
sula even for so long a time as the Austrians
have now held Naples, they greatly err in
their calculations. We know we are in no
case to go to war at present : the past extra-
vagance of Government has crippled us ; but the
people of this-country have still an energy of their
own, in spite of a succession of 'imbecile Admi-
nistrations, and an ill-administered Constitution.
Ratting out of the question for the present, that
generous sympathy which the English cannot
but fee! for a brave people struggling with their
oppressors,' and supposing interested motives
alone to prevail, individual subjects of England
will not be slow in-taking advantage of the-con-
test between the two nations. Let brit the war
between France and Spain begin, and with it
will be. roused our uncontrollable spirit. of
naval ettte-prise. Our seamen will cover the
ocean on- Spanish' bottoms, and under Spanish
letters of marque. " But the Admiralty !" it may
be said, 46 will not the Admiralty interfere, so long
" as we are at peace with France ?" ,A pretty
Admiralty, indeed,. to stop the career of British I

* Much Ado About Nothing.