The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-03 00:00:00

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made by the Plenipotentiaries of Northern and Western
Europe in 1815, those two great divisions have since
then perpetually regarded each other's movements
with jealousy and suspicion. As in a compact body
of water, wherever there is a depression on
one side there is a correspondent elevation
on the other, and the reverse; so in the
political movements of Northern and Western Europe
there has been a continual oscillation. In those
movements, arbitrary and constitutional Governments
have incessantly striven to counteract the proceedings
of each other, though hitherto under the mask of
friendship, and the delusive guise of apparent
compensation. Never until the year 1846 had either
side perpetrated crimes so naked and enormous since
the termination of the Napoleonian wan. And the
cause of this open rupture is attributable to what ?
To what ?—The question is plain; the answer is still
plainer. The evils of this malign dissipation
of the peace of thirty-one years' duration is
solely, and wholly, and entirely attributable to
the French Government. Clothe these occurrences
with all that is specious in diplomacy, with all that
is wily in Ministerial casuistry, with all that is in-
genious in argument and dazzling in eloquence—
that is the one con-.Ausion which can alone be arrived
at. To the guile, the selfishness, the avarice, and the
ambition of the French Government, the rupture of
this protracted peace is exclusively attributable.
And the lures which tempted that Government on to
the commission of this great legislative sin—what
were those lures ? Let us have a truce to all
the trumpery delicacies of speech in reference
to this odious breach of all that is ho-
nourably and really courageous. The French
Government has blown to the winds of
heaven the bonds of amity, the restrictions of justice,
and the spirit of that illustrious charter which in
1830 was sealed with the blood of her heroic citizens.
Let us then blow to the winds the paltry forms of
conventional politesse, and speak a language that can
be understood by all. Speaking that plain language—
the language of truth—we aver that the lures which
tempted the French Government on to the perpetra-
tion of this arch-sin against the constitutional liber-
ties of a free people, and against the peace of the en-
tire world, were these :
I.—THE VANITY OF CAJOLING THEIR ALLIES.
II: THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE POWER OF THE
ORLEANS DYNASTY.
lII.—THE OTENING OF ♦N ENORMOUS MARKET
TO FRENCH MANUFACTURES ACROSS THE
PYRENEES.

W.—THE CONSEQUENT EXTENSION OF THE VIRTUAL
DOMINIONS OF LOUIS PHILIPPE.
V.—THE EFFECTING 01' A MORAL REVENGE FOR
THE DISASTERS OF 1814 AND 1815, AND THE
FINAL CATASTROPHE OF WATERLOO.
VL—AND, FOREMOST AMONG THE MISCELLANEOUS
ADVANTAGES WHICH MIGHT POSSIBLY RE-
SULT FROM THE SPANISH ALLIANCE, THE
OCCUPATION OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS, AS
AMONG THE APPANAGES OF THE FRENCH
CROWN.
Talk as they may across the channel in extenua-
ion of the conduct parsued by the Cabinet of the
Tuileries, those are among the principal incitements
to the transaction. And it is entirely upon this
insane venture on the part of 'he French Government
that have resulted the rupture of the entente cordiale,
the discersion of even all the appearances of cor-
diality, and the invasion of the Cracovian Republic.
One among the Liberal nations of Western Europe
has, therefore, for the gratification of its unholy lusts
aided in the development of the cause of Northern
Europe—a cause which is directly oppDsed to free-
dom and civilisation. To the French Government,
then, these things are alone owing; but will the con-
sequences be.* disastrous as might have been at first
anticipated ? Our reliance upon the omnipotence
of the spirit of Liberty, and our conviction that civi-
lization has exceeded the bounds of barbarian con-
quest, assure us that they cannot ultimately prove
disastrous in diminishing the one and obliterating
the other. .From the shameless proceedings of the
French Goiernment may come a temporary shock to
the power of the people. Northern despotism and
eastern ignorance may at first be aroused to efforts
injurious to the,great and sublime cause of civilised
nations ; but ultimately- the reaction will produce
more than a merely brilliant compensation. Already
has that reaction incited the King of PRUSSIA to pay a
homage to the intelligence of his subjects in a manner

unparalleled in ancient or modern history. And that
reaction is being marvellously aided by the liberalis-
ing innovations of Pope Pius IX., innovations which

must tend not merely to the subsersion of Austrian

tyranny in her Italian possessions, but to the enlighten-
tient and regeneration of the more southern terri-
tories. Despotism can no longer embrace an entire

continent : its magical sceptre, like the wand of
PROSPERO, is broken.

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