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London, England, 1823-02-06 00:00:00

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TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

WITILICT3 FROM :NM DAILY MORNING PAPER
Rbritel64 6, 1823.

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LTUE TIMES.)
1, The public will cotiteiie, and enjoy with us,
pe.effect which must be produced by the King's
'`Speech, and by the subsequent debate on the
dotard old Counsellors of France. 44. What
.;! (will they exclaim) lc the English Government
" not aNOW that subjects hold: their 'liberties
64 from runaway tyrants, restored to their
" thronesl"----j4.No,'? We reply cc when we had
" a tyrant that..ran,away, our first care was to
" prohibit litxreturnon pain of death ; dur next,
• " to form a free Constitution during his absence,
1• • •
to the. tantinistrationof which we called ano:
" titer, the man of our choice,one much more
4,4 worthy. than the ides Pot who had fled."—
.'iltese are the principles of Englishmen, en graven
on their hearts, derived front their constitution,
and more particularly from that most glorious
incident in their history, •the Revolution of 1688.
And when a Iranitlity.• French Ring, a Papist,
•
wanted to force back', upon us the runaway
tyrant, with his absnlute power and divine
right, his Jesuits, and: ittquisition, we resektely
,
made warmpon the.,Vrenchtnan,defeated him in
an hundred intgageWteis, almost drove him from
his thrOne, (vide "• ilalingbroke's Letters on.llii-
tory,") and had the French people of dint day
'possessed thin' sense Of.liberty which we hope is
possessed by the French people of the present
.day, not •ene but both the tyrants would
Trobahly- have ended their lives in disgraceful
poverty, hanging about the profligate Court of
Rome.. Such,..we repeat it, are the principles
of Etilishmen.; 'and such bus been their mode of
'principles have also received
other practical illustrations in our. time. For,
first,' When , the Governments of
France.at(eroptedoti- The. beginning'of the late
revolution, toimpo§e' their views, and prescribe
tonstitutioni,to the •sObjectli of other states, we
resisted theni with all our might ; and next, when
a militaryTyyant, emerging front dint:revelation,
and posses:Ong mnretnretita thanthe
,w hole race of
Bourbons pot together, Violated-the independence
of Spain, by endeavouring te.i.inpoSe a King and
Constitution too, We 'Met, hii.troops on the very
Soil of the reninsula,johted the gallant Spaniards
in repulsing them, and, finally, by their aid,
eirected.the liberation of all, Europe. To what
eonnr.bi; Alletj„. can 'the present
,occupant of the
Throne of France 'have. Psi pi!4?(. •he read
hilt late Speech to the LegislatiVe Chambers
• ~ pre,
• the same-. meaner as
,his detestable
predecessor, a constit...ttiOn And constitntional
principles to the people of. Spain, and professing
that he Was at the point ef dispatching an army
of one hundred .thousand men, ,with vrince lull
at their head, to force those principles upon the
Spanish people ?--:-the Spanish people, who never
meddled, with him or his affairs, ex.cept, indeed,
that by their' valour and sufferings they have
'really brought him hack and placed him on that
'throne from hifprotnulgates the tyrannical,
sanguinary decree, against them?

[N,EW T st vs ,
ft was naturally ,to be expected that the pub-
lication of the King's Speech,. and the declara-
tions made 11 hiseklajtafry'sllittisters of the po-
licy villich,oo,Pcv.critmelskhad resolved to pur-
sue, would pre i,luce greet agitation in the money
market.*The hopes and fears of the partins
terested had po,incoosiderable influence on the
jtidgMent's fii)r.tir4 fespecting our political pros-
pects; oat the ;prices of Stock, English and Fo-
reign, finctuatled•very much in the early part of
yesterday.' Reflection, however, finally con-
winced the majority that the firm and command-
ing neutral ground, taken by Ministers, while it
sacrificed not.a particle of they national honour,
put none of thi national. interests to hazard. In
modern times,. a Government like that tlf Great.
Britain has always to conternplatu and to gUard
against the possibility of dangers of the too,:t op-
posite kind's, and from the most opposite :-oetces.
On the one hand, there may be danger il at seine
ene Mighty State or combination of Stteei way
overturn the balance of power in Curer—lt-ay
cripple our trade=weekett our resource!. --cle,h
our Allies—proscribe the free principles of (nu.
COnstitution-,--and finally overwhelm us by hos-
tile force. Om the:other hand, them may be
danger 'that a revolutionary faction, producing
anarchy and disorder in one part of the Conti-
nent, may.extend its intrigues until all the Con-
tinentyl Monarrhies are swept into its vortex—
that itA successes may embolden and its co-ope-
ration sepport the .disaffected routing ourselves,
who are bent upon democratizing the. Ilouse of
Commens—spizing the property of the Church—
annihilating the, influence or 'tank and wealth—
tbking away the power of the Crown, and effect-
ing a Revolution, which would leave us without
religion, morals, true liberty, and finally without
political existence.

[MOUNINO CIL
T.116.110.10.1mity N hick the House of Commons
(lisp layrd ,ott Toedity night wits again exhibited
IBat nigla on bripgitig up the Address. Sir Robert
Wilson took occasion to' state seine striking In.
stances of faiseho94.l and bad faith on the part of
the wretched beings who now 'wield the resources
of France., We Alo trot believe that the,history
Olt the World furnishes in an Pqual space so much
fraud and mendackty.as has been displayed since
tlur Otlibiisbmentwur: the Spanish Constitution by
the French Ultras. Ilowevey they have out.
heroded Herod ; there has been such an nnneces-
/sitry, expenditure of crime ; their extrava-
gance has exceeded so far what British under
standings Rr Britiih hearts can sympathise itil)
that they remain without any hold of the papilla-
tier!, of this coutu.—Thank beauty we have not
yet attained to such, ti pitch etes.kavagauce in

this country as to lament the change from Pa-1
ganism to Christianity; as a distinguished Ultra
did in a letter in one of the organs of the Party,
Which was translated at the thuo into most of thr
London Papers. Paganism and'pure Despotism
are a step beyond what our boldest 'Tories can
yet make n p heir, minds to. Christianity, though
a revolutionary religiary, and long in disfavour at
Courts, has still its adherents here ; and though
some of them do not always take the most judi.
dolts method of serving the cause of that religion,
and have borrowed a leaf or two out of the Code
of the Inquisition, none, we should think, are
altogether enamoured of that Tribunal.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Debate in both Houses, reported in our
Paper of yesterday, is one of the most important
and gratifying that has taken place for a consi-
derable period. It turned almost wholly upon
the proceedings' of the Continental Sovereigns,'
and the equally 'infatuated 'and atrocious war
which the Government of France has denouncefl
against the Spanish nation: If we did not believe
the 'present Government of France incapable of
being arrested by any thing like sound reflection
in its career of wickedness and imbecility; we
should conclude, that even after the late tirade
of the King of France, and-his open decla-
ration of attack, the. warning voice of this de-
bate might still produce a pause—a lucid in-
terval, the result of which might be the conti-
nuance of peace. Had the Itoyal Speech
gone forth without this commentary, its effect
would be trifling. -But going forth with this
clear, forcible, comprehensive, and authoritative
elucidation, it exhibits, in a light that cannot be
mistaken, the real policy of the British Cabinet,
and the real opinion of the nation. Throughout
the United Kingdom its effect's must be power-
ful—in the re-action of the opinions and sympa-
thies of the people of every class, back upon
themselves. On the Continent the Speech will,
for the most part, be circulated, naked and
shorn of its train, and its effect will be compa-
ratively light—so strongly is its interest ofthe
Confederated Powers to keep the knowledge of
English public feeling, and even policy, from the
nations. But it can hardly' fail to have some
effect upon their councils, daring and presump-
tuous as they are.

PRESS :3
In the short discussion which took place in
the House of Commons on Tuesday night, Mr.
Peel made a feeble effort to say. something in
favour of the Holy Allies. He would except
their personal characters from the abhorrence
which all the world agrees in pouring forth upon
their public conduct. He would also excuse the
invasion and occupation of Naples. That a
Minister, ignorant, illiberal, and impolith enough
to utter in the British Senate sentiments so per-
verse and unmanly, dared not to cot one glance
of disapprobation at Spain, or one look of encou-
ragement at France, is,a-eircumstance well worthy
of consideration, We believe. the Home Secretary
to he the only IVlernber of the Cabinet capahle I
of the grovelling sycophancy whiCh he exhibited;
nod in him we find tot one trait of mind, temper,
or endowment, to Inspire us with regret for his
un-English -humility of feeling. His sneers at
Napoleon were not a representation, but a bur.
lesque of the fable of the Dead Lion and the
Ass. We advocate none of the great and re-
splendent Emperor's measures) but history, im-
partial and faithful, will style. him 44 Great
and resplendent," when the puny name of
Peel will be unknown and unregarded as
when it was borne by his grandfather. It is only
the petty captiousness of a perierse mind and
ungenerous -7, heart which could compare the
measures of Napoleon against the detestable
Bourbons of Spain, violent and unjustifiable as
they were, to the unparalleled atrocity designed
by the Holy. Alliance against the lofty minded
and self.freed Spanish nation. Mr. Peel compels
us to ,call to mind how much this nation has
benefited by the death of a Noble Marquis, who
never refused any thing to the continental enemies
of liberty. Now may all the world see to whom
an English Alien Bill (that monstrous but indeli-
ble blot upon our name and history) was conceded.