The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-05 00:00:00

LONDON:
TCESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1841.

The Times of yesterday noticed the extraor-
dinary fact, that while peace has been mintained
from 1830 to 1841, while arts have flourished,
trade has been extended, and wealth increased,
all the Governments of Europe are plunged in
financial embarrassments, and have increased
their debts. Our Contemporary—beginning with
Russia, and proceeding to Austria, France, Hol-
land, Switzerland, England, Spain, and Portu-
gal, which two last alone have had
a civil war to derange their finances—
shows that all these Governments ha-,-e
successively, in these times of peace and pro-
sperity, been unable to keep down their expen-
diture to their revenue, and all, without excep-
-.tfon, have augmented their debts. These re-
Marks bring under public consideration a general
fact well worthy of engaging the highest facul-
lieSof the mind. They are closely connected,
we think, with the remarks which we offered to
our-readers on last Thursday on the inefficiency
of the Legislature, as exhibited in its results,
and it is impossible for us to pass them by un-
noticed.
Not no. questioni the facts
Contemporary; we demur to the moral he ex-
tracts from them. .The Times sa
unquestioynably not to have
The last ten years ought
increased the debts of nations baudt
not to ha.ve diminished
ibeen at work to
t
them, if some powerful cause h
check the influences of public prosper
Y:i be
no other
and mar the
benefits of peace. That cause we believee t
than the temporary depression of the
conervatre
c e
throughout Europe during this interval; and the burdens
now thrown upon oar contemporaries, to be
down by them to posterity, are the price .vittiell,
must be paid for democratic ascendancy.
waste of the public resources, the unsern,u/ous
creation of innumerable places of profit deisth,d
chiefly for the purposes of corruption, the rise of needy ad•
venturers tu power, the imperious necessity of gratifying
at any cost the passions of the people, and, on the other
hand, the enormous amount of the military establish-
ments required to maintain public order in the presence
of revolutionary excitement, are facts which more than
account for what is now passing around us. They de-
monstrate the great truth, that wherever there is vio-
• Icicle and insecurity the utmost activity cannot insure
the prosperity of nations ; and that national strength
in the hour of need depends less upon a rapid in-
'crease, of the public resources than upon a prudent
sad disinterested use of them. It is the disease
• which manifests itself in the various forms of demo-
_•fatic, revolution that has thrown out these sores ; and
,!
seem disorder, if it be not checked, threatens the
. body •
Peittim•with dissolution. The time is, we trust,
Yeti, at which a reaction in favour o: more sober mid
immure principles • • •
IS gaining ground in other countries
besides our
tenanee
a_ own, deriving from our own its best coun-
tem' synT.ftilVell• The world learns from these ex-
States wealthylib<and wise ; and that the boasted promises
demagogues and rty are only the false names givt n I).y
dupes to presumption and prodigality.
Our view •is totally different. It has been de-
monstrated by NI. DE TOCQUEVILLE, amongst
others, that the tendency of society is every-
where, in Europe as well as in the United States,
to democracy.
In
society, for no clash fnact that is the natural state
of men is created with
w
faculties and poerg to govern and enslave other
h
*'classes. Dominion as- 'always begun in vie-
gence and usurpatioui Which, from the natural
--Squk.klity of mankind
I there . is' a: perpetual
tendency to flake . •
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