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London, England, 1825-04-11 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from The 31oriang Papers, Aprilll, 1825.

•
[THE TIMES.
It is stated in accounts from the United States,
that after the return of Bolivar from Peru, one
of his first acts will be to attend a meeting of De-
puties from all the new American States, who are
to assemble at Panama, to confer on such mea-
sures as may be necessary for the general safety.
To contrast this Congress and the confederation
which may probably result from it, with the
" Holy Alliance," it is to be denominated the
" Most Holy Alliance." The name may be a
needless or an ill-chosen one ; but far different is
the thing which it signifies. The most important
and alarming event that we can well imagine to
those against whom it is to operate must undoubt-
edly be a defensive If ague of the just against the
unjust—of the injured against the aggressors—
of free nations and their Magistrates against a
hand of tyrants, who have none to protect them
but their own dissatisfied and distrusted slaves.
In truth, such an union requires no Congress to
sanction or to attest it. The alliance of all the
free, against all the enemies of freedom, exists
and flourishes at this moment, substantially and
sensibly, over the whole earth, without any for-
mal compact. The " Holy Alliance," as they
wickedly call themselves, gave birth in reality
to this counter alliance, from the hour in which
they declared their sordid and iniquitous design
of keeping down their own unhappy subjects, and
of overthrowing the liberties of nations not law-
fully, amenable to their power. If the re-
volutionary decree of the French Convention
in 1792, was construed by these military go-
vernments into an encouragement of rebellion
every-where, and a hostile defiance to esta-
blished rulers, what was the manifesto of
the 4 4 Holy Alliance" but a declaration of war,
against every people who demanded a govern-
ment of law, as contradistinguished from one of
arbitrary will, and against every government,
moreover, which professed to derivbe its own au-
thority in whole or in part from the people ! Nor
is this matter of reasoning only. The free con-
federacy which was acted upon in one shape by
the new republics when they assisted each other,
and extinguished the Spanish power in Peru,
has not been confined to the Western coast of the
Atlantic. It embraces England, as distinctly
and specifically, as if she had been enrolled by
positive treaty among its members. England
became a member of the league from the mo-
ment in which she declared that no European
Power but Spain, (and Spain had long ceased
to be a Power), that is, in fact, that no po.wer
whatever should molest the American Republics.

This, we repeat, was, to all intents and purposes,
on the part of Great Britain the announcement of
a defensive alliance with the free republics of the
West—an alliance which England had virtually
embraced, though not promulgated, from the in-
stant at which the monarchical principle was
avowed—a principle, the absolute essence of
which was, a direct attack upon the "British Con-
stitution. and en act of deposition against the
House of Brunswick, unless they renounced the
conditions on which they had acceded to the
'Crown. And let not Englishmen, or the Eng-
lish Government, persuade themselves that the
Holy Allies are unconscious of the indefeasible
hostility between the respective maxims on which
their own power and that of the King of England
rests. Let not this country suppose that the
Rulers of the Continent feel the co-existence of
the opposite creeds, or of the Governments
founded on them, to be any thing else than in-
compatible. We have reason to know, that to
the policy of two of these continental Govern-
ments, there is no • master-key, while we aria
writing, but a deep-rooted enmity to Great Bri-
tain, and a determination to undermine and sub-
vert her power and her liberties by every human
means. What, then, ought to be the alterna-
tive ? Surely, to cultivate our proper strength,
the affections of our natural friends abroad, and
of our countrymen at home, whom we have done
too much to alienate. That Engl.:l:d should
encourage the growing union between the
several portions of Spanish America is not
more obvious than that she should make
herself an active and preponderating mem-
her of such a league in all that concerns the
more enlarged relations of their interests and
policy with those of Europe. Weildm,,,, thus the
energies of more than 20 millions of men already
free, this country may command, through the
hearts of the Americans, the sympathies and con •
fidence of all the oppressed in Europe, who
watch the for tunes of their neighbours, and would
need but a signal from the British Government
to emulate their footseps. This it is which con-
stitutes the external defence of England, and,
if she understands her own position, lays the
European despots at her feet—that the first gun
she fires at them in anger, becomes a direct ap-
peal to the passions of their subjects, and with-
out more trouble than a plain expression of
he`r -will to protect the cause of liberty, scatters
the "monarchical principle" to the winds. What-
ever, again, is weak or vulnerable in our condition,
and calculated 'to impair the natural advantages
for in the un-
ofremedy
our which
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bwe'eloocockuepdy with regard to
settled state of Ireland, and in her exposure to
intrigues from without. For this there is, as we
have often affirmed,e: h
the efficacy of others, less broad and
canostensible,ensure
though not perhaps less necessary than
itself—we m
Catholic
ate but
one
admission great
countrymen to the common right of making and
admininistering those laws by which all the
King's subjects are controlled, secured and pro-
tected. What a pass kas it corn- to, when the
foreign newspapers, paid and employed ,by the
known enemies of England, cast in her teeth this
grievous anomaly in her legislation--this h.
grtev l t revolt;
ing non-conformity with all her pretensions to a
respect for justice and for the rights
of men. we
admit that when :I'
rench Ultra newspapers de-
claim upon the Catholic privations, they are
grossly insecere and hypocritical : they have no
wish to see the grievances of the Catholics re-
dressed—they tremble to think that Ireland should