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London, England, 1823-07-04 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOUWNALS.

DAILY

.Extruels from the blunting' Papers', July 4

['rim ribees
Twe docutnenti brought by the east rrirtais from.
SWitierland, throw a melancholy and curious
light' upon, eneh other.: One is a positive dis-
avowal from the Swiss GoVernment that any; at-.
tempt has been made or threatened' in'any quarter
against the independente of tlie CrnitOns the
other an official statement of the measures ac-
tually forced by. the Holy Alliance upon the
party which disclaims its influence. Nothing
can be more: melancholy than this;' for it proVes
that the unfortunate Swiss are not merely Hec-
tored into ati unworthy sYstentby foreign tyrants,
but that they are alive to the magnitude of their'
own degradation, and a'shamed' of acknowledging
to' each other, or to Europe, the extremity of
outrage which they have endured. The restraints
and penalties thus dictated by military despots,
and adopted by the once-resolute HelVetians, are
aimed at two classes of offenders—the refugees
from States reduced to foreign'bondage; and the
public press. Such enormous encroachments on•
the rights and feelings of mankind,are not,it is true,
withouta precedent. Buonaparte set the example ;.
and for the crime of setting it, was destroyed by
those who now tread obsequionsly in his footsteps.
But upon us, as Englishmen, it Ia incumbent to
mark the design which such proceedings mani-
festly indicate, and to prepare ourselVeglor their
inevitable issue. Here, too, we have the con-
duct of Buonaparte to guide our fears, and to
shape out a course for our enemies. Buonaparte
made to our present Prime Minister, Lord Liver-
riool, a formal lemand that he would muzzle the
Press of England, just us the Holy Mlles have
at this moment imposed a Censorship upon the
Smiss. Lord Liverpool refused, in words, this
wickedness ; but he prosecuted Mr. Peltier for
saying of Buonaparte nothing'half so severe as
was a few tnOnths afterwards pronounced against
ilrat Usurper in every speech of the same Lord
Liverpool, and of his Colleagues. Now can any
man in his souses doubt that the end of these at,
tacks on the free agency of nations under every
connoting. be an experiMent on that of the British
nation? 'Wherever tire Representative Govern
meta exists, we find that it is' inveterately as-
snuffed either in its principle or its practice.—
Throughout the whole of Italy, in Spain, and
Portugal, the name and groundwork of freedom
are the things attacked. En Wurteniberg, it is
the chief defence of Liberty—the right of warn-
ing men when she is endangered ; and now in'
Switzerland a double war is waged, not against
the liberty of speech alone, but against the
F acted privilege ,of sheltering tire houseless and
protecting the persecuted exile. At last, then,
it will be given up, that the invasion comes close
so our own thresholds. 'rite Minister who does not
act Upon suCh evidence is unworthy to be counted
do not say among the StateSmen of a free
country, but—among her meauest citizens; Ile
can neither understand the present crisis of Eu-
rope, nor the use or meaning of a balance of
power, nor the actual position of the British EM-
pire, nor the general history of mankind: We
have reason .to think that some members of the
existing Cabinet t! the queation in its true co-
lours. The' other free stutes.ot Europe are the
rta,toal 'outworks ,of British liberty..• Let them
be successively (nay, we might call itoimUl-
' taneously) demolished, and where the next
breath will be attempted it I'S not difficult to
guess.'

Tifti'risit elms.]
The French Papers of Tuesday readied our
officep yesterday. They are utterly destitute of
any thing of hnportance. They do' not contain a
single article of the smallest interest. Bru-ssels
Papers to the Ist, which we received also yester-
day, markedly Shaw the system of despotic
terror influencing the minoe states or the Conti-
nenl. itzerhted, once the land of unpretend-
Ing liberty, and a refuge for the persecuted of all
nations, is now turned into a prison-house by the
Intrigues of the bonded tyrants of the noly. Al-
liance, and all foreigners, in factf proscribed the
soil. The decrees of the Helvetice government
against those unhappy visitants will be found in
our columns ; they are evidently levelled against
the French and Italian refugees—principally the
latter, through the menaces of Austria—and will
cut off all hope from the Spaniards too, if Des-
potism should triumph within the Pyrenees.—
The balance of power in Europe is now gone.
Russia and the holy Alliance, like the rod of
Aaron, which swallowed all the others, have de-
voured all the minor powers of Europe; they
have now neither stability nor independence ;
they are at the mercy of Russia, Austria, and
Prussia. Unmitigated and universal depotism is
the object of the three Northern Powers, They
are confederat4 for no other purpose ; and until
that baleful object be accomplished, they will
never cease their menacelt 0-r intrigues.
ter land is now their victim, The French Funds
on Tuesday closed at 88f. t9sc.

[uoartitio nenALD.]
Tuesday's Paris Papers reached us fast night
by express. The Monitcur contains a bulletin,
which details the operations of the two-French
corps, bearing upon Cadiz. Some part had been
anticipated by unofficial intelligence—and on tln
whole it can scarcely be said to, convey any thing
important. Thu vanguard of Gen. I3ordesoult
was on the 2lat at Xeres, two days march from
Cadiz, and, the Spanish General Lopez Banos,
irlio had evacuated Seville, with the design of
joining Villa-Campa, was prevented by a move-
ment of General Bourmont, retreated on Badajos,
after an attack, in whicli he lost, it is said, 350
men. The bulletin, moreover, states that the
Constitutional troops disperse and disband them-
selves in large numbers, whilst the inhabitants,
un the approach of the French, all declare
for the absolute King. But even these of-
ficial documents are not to be trusted.—
They present the grossest inconsistencies—
for instance, it wag stated two days before that
upon the removal of King Ferdinand from Seville,
the troops of Lopes Banos had all abandoned