The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-15 00:00:00

[NEW TOT rt.;

The last arrivals from St. Petersburgh have
brought a document which will be found in an-
other
part of our Paper, and which is well
worthy of notice, as a clear anti temperate expo.,
sition of the policy of the Allied Sovereigns.—
The time has at length arrived when that policy
may be candidly examined, and when English.
men can no longer be deterred from recognising
the truth, by a loud but senseless clamour against
" Legitimates" —" Despots" —" The Unholy
Alliance"—and so forth.—lf it could be proved,
that all the ." Legitimate" Sovereigns are
oppressers of their people—that there exists
n league of " Despots" on the Continent
—sit " unholy alliance" to crush liberty to
degrade, and to demoralize mankind, then we
should act, as we did when the Continent tretn.
bled at the nod of one man, and when those who
now charge us with advocating the cause of Des-
potism reproached us for our, uncompromising
hostility teivard the fiercest anti most poWerful of
Despots. But we deny that the legitimate Sove-
reigns of Europe are actuated by sentiments in.
compatible with rational liberty. There may be
more or less of arbitrary power in their respective
Governments; bat there is no one impree mated, as
ses the Govertunentrof Buencteurte, with it spirit
'Ou rely and `sin t iiiiintir4riire is nn one so
sttentially tyrannical, so coldly cruel, so wan.
tonly and deliberately, oppressive, as the Go-
vernment of the Cortes. We Speak. not of CV,-
ternal forma, or of vague profeSsions, but of real
inroads on the comfort, the happiness, the inde-
pendence the property, the very lives or indivi-
, duals. Covernments securing to the people
much present enjoyment, and .opening to them
the prospect of more future freedom, had
happily been established all over Europe;
. they were united in a common bond of union,
I and had settled down into a state of Itellera)
t tranquillity, when the restless spirit of :Taco.
Wilkie, too leniently ceerced in 1814 and 1815,
. imgan once more to raise its head. The. COTTIMO9
Oliject, of the Legitimate Sovereigns Was peace,—
. I hey therefore were averse from any unneceq.
I sary interference with the internal concerns of
! any particular State ; since that must necessarily,
1 lead to a disturbance of the peace. But a ne.
~ i
• cessary interference s a lawful ; ier,e. r i' di,eTICP; Sp.'
of that necessity it was natural for the. Conti-
nental Powers to judge slinewhatdifferently from
Great Britain. They !Ad actually suffered more
from the effect oflacobintsm : theY. were more

exposed to its' moral contagion in fact the I
danger to them from a revolutionary movement
in any neighbouring State was incalculably
greater thart it could possibly be in England.
When, therefore, Messrs. Lafayette, Chauvelin,
and other veterans of the French Revolution, be-
gan to proclaim anew their disorganising doctrines
from the Tribune; when,. as effect follows cause,
this was followed by the horrible assassination of
the Duke de Berri, by the secret societies of the
Chevaliers de la "Aerie, and by the insurrections
of General Berton and others, the state of France
naturally produced alarm to all the neighbouring
Sovereigns—
Nam tua res agitur, paries cam prosimus ardet.

rBRITISII PRESS.]
Alexander had resolved that liberty, if he
could effect it, should be extinct in Europe. He
feared gathering discontent in France, and rising
liberty in the Peninsula ; against both, all his
arts and menaces were directed. Montmorency.
at Verona was, in reality only the puppet of the
Corsican Di Borgo, Alexander's Ambassador ;
and, when he pressed the interrogatories as to the
situation of Spain, in place of speaking the lan-
guage of the. French COinet, he was, in reality,
only the mouth-piece of the ambitious Russian.
" What," asks the Russian Manifesto, " was
France in 1822 ? A volcano over which one walk-
ed with trembling. What was to be feared from
France ? That some accumulation of infernal in-
'gredients would cause the volcano to burst,
and that the all-consuming lava would issue
in a torrent like that of 1790. The ine-
vitable consequence would have been, new
wars, the duration and issue of which it was kayose
Bible to foresee. Nay, the Peninsula might have
joined, revolutionary France; and "thus the east
of Europe would have been engaged in a contest
with the West, which would probably have made.
Germany the theatre of desolation and lilooshed."
Amid all this inflation of language and a cloud of
words, the real feelings of Russia are easily seen
through. The Autocrat knew the Bourbons were
most unpopular in France, and that general dis-
content prevailed throughout that kingdom. He
feared that liberty, which had arisen in Spain and
Portugal, might pass the. Pyrenees, find France
again shake off the family which foreign
bayonets had imposed upon her, and become
energetic and free. Germany, already agi-
tated and disturbed, might rise, and with her
youth and land wehr in arms, demand the repre-
Ventative•rights and the Liberty she had so long
looked in vain for. Italy too might try the con.
Met against the barbarous Bohemian once more,
and Sicilian Vespers deluge her cities with ultra-
montnne blood, Greece WaS in arms, animated
by the same holy flame, against the Mussulman ;
and if all succeeded,-what would become of the
Holy Alliance, or where was the power and in-
fluence of liatssia ? No free nation would admit
c idterference of the ambitious Cossack.