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London, England, 1841-03-13 00:00:00

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
(From the Globe.)
Lord Palmerston properly and distinctly stated last
night, in reply to Sir It. Pee!, that " the intention of
the allied Powers had been to offer Mehemet Ali a
bonctlide hereditary pachalic, not subject to any trou-
blesome or unusual molestation whatsoever." And the
conduct of Lord Ponsonby, as the representative of the
British Governmeat at Constantinople, has been, so far
as is known respecting it, in perfect keeping with the
expressed intention of the Allied Powers. No " harsh
or ungenerous terms"—no" troublesome or unusual mo-
lestations" have been attempted to be thrust upon the
Pacha. From the vary first lie was expressly told, both
by Commodore Napier and Captain Fanshawe, that the
question of hereditary succession in the Pachalic was en-
tirely for the decision of the Sultan—that to him it would
be conceded for life, subject to certain conditions. The
only point on which the Allied Powers insisted was the
evacuation of Syria by his troops ; which, if not im-
mediately acceded to, the expedition would proceed to
Alexandria. Even the surrender of the Turkish fleet was
a matter entirely be•wern Iviehemet and the Sultan. It
iz true that it was intimated that the friendly offices of
the Allied Courts would be employed with the
Soften to induce him to confer upon Mehemet
Ali the Pachalic as an hereditary possession, if
the fleet were immediately surrendered. But it would
he monstrous to suppose that the Allied Powers would
interfere in the way of dictation and compulsion with
an independent Sovereign, such as the Sultan is, and
as such must be recognised by them, as to the
way in which he shoull deal with a refractory and re-
bellious Viceroy, who bad rendered him,e:f formidable
in his rebellion, and whose seizure and occupation of a
province, part of the dominions of his Sovereign, had
become perilous to the peace of Europe, and induced
the European Powers, with the exception of France, to
co-operate for his expulsion from a territory which he
could not hold with safety to themselves. The ap-
provel of the Sultan is necessary to clothe the Pacha
with the requisite power. Ile must proceed to Con-
stantinople to be so invested.
(From the Standard.)
We believe filet there is no second opinion in the
country as to the unfairness of the terms which the
Porte has imposed upon Mehemet Ati, and ell will
be grat.fied to find that the subject has beea t deco
up by Sir Robert Peel and Lord Francis Egerton.
No matter what Mehemet Ali may be—and we be-
lieve it difficult to describe him worse than he is
—but no matter what he may be, faith must be
kept with him, and the British honour must
not be tarnished even in a t•ansactiort with the worst of
men. We say the British honour, because it is idle to
speak of the Porte as any substantive agent in this
affair. It was Great Britain and her Allies who
deed the Pacha ; swept his troops from Syria, and sent
back the Turkish fleet upon their conditions. Now one
of th..se conditions notoriously was, that the heredita y
Pachalic of Egypt should be secured to Mehemet
and his family. Whether this particular condition
was or was net reduced to writing, does not avail a
feather. Good faith does not depend upon written
characters—a promise is the same whether spoken
merely or engrossed 'on parchment ; and there never
was a doubt, nor is there now a doubt, of the pro-
mise of the hereditary Pachalic having been made
by the Brit;sh negotiators. The promise is, in-
deed, admiVed, but it is attempted to evade the
just performance by an arbitrary and most unrea-
sonable interpretation. The Porte claims to se-
lect in succes.ion the several members of the
Paella's family, upon whom from time to time the
office that Mehemet now holds shall be conferred.
Why, this is turning an expected benefit into a real and
a severe injury. The Porte will be always jealous of
the Pacha of Egypt, and the proposed arrangement
would give to the Porte the sure means of rasing up a
rebel to parental authority in the family of the vassal
whom it must ever regard with suspicion and hosti,ity.
Let the Porte have the power to name the heir, and
the sons and brother of the Paella will always be more
desirous to stand well at Constantinople tl,an at
Alexandria. . _

(From the Courier.)
The recent narrow escape from a European war on
the Turco-Egyptian question must necessarily reader
the public mind peculiarly sensitive in respect of any
apparent recurrence of difficulties in the way of its final
adjustment. Indeed adjusted it was assumed to be so
fully for some time past, and the Government in speeches
from the throne and in Parliament, as well as in articles
of the press in their confidence, had so largely taken
credit for their own success and consummate address,
that from time to time of late certain my4eriousindi-
cations of a hitch here, and a lurking obsta le there,
have not been witnessed without some misgivings that
something still remained bLhind t id but significant
of embarrassment. It was not, however, without sur-
prise 'that at length people were entirely
.aroused

from the state of fancied security by the appearance
of the Sultan's hatti-eclieriff, which, professing to re-
gulate the terms on which Mehemet Ali is to hell
the possession of Egypt himself; with the hereditary
reversion of it for his family, subject to the dictation of
the liege lard in the matter of the personality of the heir
male to be promoted from that family, seems in reality
to re open the whole Egyptian imbroglio at the precise
moment when its complete settlement would 11,1:e been
most seasonable, should have been most urgently labour.
ed for, and was most anxiously anticipated. What the
consequences may be with France armed and arming
to the teeth, and with the United States in a position of
quasi declared hostility, we need not now speculete upon.
To our understanding the agreement of the Four
Powers with Mehemet Ali, expressed and implied, was
so explicit in sense as to require no supplementary
explaaatron, arid to adar:t of no eleeratioe. By that
agreerner t„ it was stipuLted in certain i!ipl neatie
phraseology, and with a cer!ain rezervation in favor) -
of the Sultan's right of eubscquent conformation more
of farm than reality, that the here:litery possession of
Egypt should be securei to the Peelle, subject, of
course, to conforrn'ty in this Government with the ge-
neral laws of the Turkish empire ; such, for examp!e,
as the commercial code and treaties premulgated some
time ago. By lieredit try succession, ncehing cool lof
course be understood but the common lease meaning of
the term, as accepted iu ell countries, namely, that tl.e
next heir, son or otherwise, in a direct line, should suc-
ceed on the demise of the actual authority, or, ac-
cording to Asiatic wage, that member of the family
specially designated by the reigningpotentate or Paella,
for in the present case the terms are elinost coever-
tiblr. By the Sultan's &man it appeare, however, that
he elaime the absolute right of nomination and selection
from among the offspring or heirs in the line expectant.
And moreover the power of appointment of all superior
officers of the Paella's land and sea forces, the amount
of which is to be cut down to a given standard. These
are strange disfigurations of the original covenant, to
which it may be presumed the Four guaranteeing or
mediating Powers with whom passed, will scarcely be
I prepared to yield assent.

CHATEAUBRIANI) AND MAR-

SIIAL VICTOR.

(From the Quotidienne.)

M. de Chateauhriand has addressed to us a letter on
the subject of the lamented (le tth of the Duke de
Bellune. We hastentogiveit insertion.
- Assuredly iii. de.- Clinteanbriances name is always
welcome to the press, and in this instance we greet it
with double avidity, for it is for the purpose of leader-
ing homage to one of tie most valiant warriors left to
the empire by the monarchy as a model of honour and
fidelity.
Lc t us add that the appearance of M. de Chateau
briand's name in the press is a signifiearit onion for us.
The symment is propitious for bins to resume his po-
Ltical pen, for murmurs are increasing on the side of
power, and threats are secretly made against writers.
We will tell him our opinion and that of the Ly on this
subject.
The following is his affecting letter :
" Paris, March 3.

" Sir—You have been kind enough to call into no-
tice, with too much eulogiurn, the work, the Congress
of Verona.' It has no other merit than being a collec-
tion of authentic documents ; bnt, as it expresses my
strong opinion against the unworthy Tie sties of Vienna,
and as, at the period it appeared, when the authors of
these Treaties were still in existence, it met with both
the obstacles of power and of wounded vanity, it will
remain at 1 ast as an irrefragable proof that a poet can
tolerably well understand and conduct affairs.
" You have republished, Sir, a letter from Marsha:
Victor, inserted is: this Congress.' If the Duke ce
Bellune been simply a veteran, twice wounded at
the siege of Toulon—distinguished by the attacks of
Saint Elme and Roses—victorious at Ancona, receiving
a sword of honour for having contributed to the battle of
Marengo ; wounded again at Jena—appointed a Mar.
shah of France on the field of battle of Fried-
land—victorious at that defile of Pena-Perros, where
the French army, struck with the beauty of the Guadal-
quivir, presentetharms to Andalousia, commanding the
9th corps in the campaign of Russia—covered with glory
at the passage of Beresina, making 15,000 Austrian psi-
soners at Dresden—wounded again at the affair of Crone
—there coal only be said of the Duke de Bellune, for
all those warlike feats, what is said in praise of that
France of the Empire, no personage of which will speedily
remain. But, at the Restoration, another career
orenel for this intrepid soldier. Ile continued to
pursue the honourable tine of conduct which was so
natural to him. I have seen him ranged, in the most
unassuming manner, 011 the side of the exiled Louis
XVIII., just as he . unostentatiously matelied in
the midst of Bonap.ate's triumphs. lie varied
no more in the second episode of his life than he did
in the first: his care,ir was changed by the fortuity
of event;, without change of mind. If he could
not speak in praise of the Restoration, he never
abandouel it. Minister with myself in the year 183'2,
his disgrace preceded mine. It was at that ferial
that tie wrote to me the letter which you have quoted.
" When Bonaparte's star had been set, and he was
lost in the immensity of the ocean, no mausoleum was
better suited for the ruler of the world than the rock of
St. Helena. Every flag saluted him in passing. Sepa-
rated from his historical scenes, Napoleon contemplated
them in the midst of tempests : to him history was the
St. Denis of winds and seas—to the Bourbons that of
religion and peace. Restored to our shores from na-
tional feeling, but to the detriment of his glory, Bona-
parte has returned to pass a last review, and rally round
him the few companions in aims who had survived him.

" Faithful to France as she is and France as she was,
Marshal Victor will repose, it is said, near the Emperor
—under that dome which the great King has erected
to our worn-out warriors. At this moment I should be
incapable of dwelling further on a loss which the country
will deplore as much as myself. Contrary to the cus-
tom of el 1 men, I shall not be garrulous as my life di-
minishes ; I wish to reconcile it with my words.
" I have the honour to be,
" CHATEAUBRIAND„"

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