The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-18 00:00:00

COTTON SPINNERS.

We are sorry to observe that the operative
cotton spinners of Glatigow, still continue to hold 11.1eetings for
the annoyance of individual masters ; " yesterday." says the
Glasgow Chronicle of Tuesday, " shortly after two o'clock, ti
crowd of several hundreds, composed chiefly of stout lads anti
women, :tumbled in front of the works belonging to Mr.
Snodgrass, as if by a plan of preconcerted operations. In one
instant they uttered loud shouts and commenced a violent at.
tack on the work, large whinstimes, bricks, and fragments of tile
were thrown with desperate force, and 48 panes of glass were
demolished in an instant. One of the Calton Police seized a
lad in the act of throwing a stone. The mob in this quarter
disappeared with the same promptitude they had assembled."
Yesterday forenoon about 11 o'clock, a considerable number
of spinners, women and children, collected around the gate of
Mr. Dunlop's mill, in expectation that some new halals were
to arrive there to spin. The mob continued about the gate the
greater part of the day. Some men spinners came to work
there about 3 o'clock. 'The crowd hissed and hooted, and cryeel
" Nobs, fly-water," &c. Two of the new hands left the mill
about 4 o'clock, anti on going toward* Mr. Snodgrass's
Ciey were attacked by the mob, who th ew stones and other
missilis at them. One of the new hands. who was thus assault.
ed, tired his pistol in the air. lie had his hat knocked off, and
was severely cut in the head with a stone. The other workers
were dogged home, but received no personal violence. This
morning, about nine o'clock, halt' a dozen spinners were ob-
served lurking about the closs where Connor resides, and on
his appearing at the doss with his wife, one of them cried to
his companions, "come in and we'll break their necks now."—
Another replied, " Whisht, whiaht, not just now, we'll take a
better opportunity." The whole of the new hands came to their
work this morning except the two that had been mobbed last
night. At ten o'clock a snob was again collected at Mr. fun.
lop's gate, chiefly spinners, and piercers evidently set on by
them. They assailed the new hands with shouts, and cries of
" the nobs." A female piercer in the mill was brutally knock.
ed down, and her hands cut by the fall. The cap was also
torts off her head, and her shawl was taken away. She was
rescued by that clever officer, Serjeant Leckie, of the Calton
Police. The mob continued their system of intimidation till
all the workers had got within the gates.

RIOT IN EDINDURGII.—Last night (Monday)
many of the streets in the middle of the city were thrown into
the greatest confusion by a mob of mischievous bays, about
300 in number, headed by a party ef journeymen bakers, who
assembled on the bridges, and therefrom proceeded along Vie
Cowgate, Iligh-street, &c., with the wanton and dastardly in-
tention of insulting all the Irish they could seize upon. Several
r mons were made the victims of their brutality, and many
as they met were collared and questioned as to their country.—
S_Neral windows have been broken, and we fear that ninny of
the poor Irish are hurt. The proceedings continued ;Or near
two hours, without any force being opposed to them. The police
a-erred not able or afraid to encounter them, and a party of
military was at last procured to quell them; a few of the most
outrageous are in custody.-4 Edinburg/. Star.)
A white butterly wa: seen on Sunday last,
sporting on the beautiful domain near JAW worth
Castle. _

A medical gentleman having observed that
children who were taking sulphur under his di.
rections, during the tune the measles were epide.
mic in the place, escaped the contagion, has re.
commended it to the attention of the profession,
a 4 a preservative against measles.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT. A gentleman was
killed, near to the Bricklayers' Arms, Kent.
road, yesterday evening, in consequence of hav-
ing been run over by a horse and chaise. The
horse had taken fright at New-cross, and uas not
stopped till after the mischief was done. A lady
and gentleman, and their daughter, whom they
had been fetching from a boarding-school ut
Eltham, were in the chaise, but happily they
sustained no injury. The deceased was said to
be a clerk in the Bank of England.

SPRING GUNS.-00 Thursday afternoon, about
two o'clock, as Mr. William Kush, of Ipswich,
was on his way to Holbrook, where he lately
lived in a small farm, he stopped near Freston
Wood, to speak to Jacob Frost, the woodman.—
When about leaving him, he inquired if he could
go through a path in the wood, which he had
frequently been in the habit of doing when he re-
sided at Holbrook. Frost told him there was a
spring-gun in the path, but he was sure it was not
loaded, as Mr. Burch had discharged it the day
before, and another person had also told him that
morning it was not charged. Mr. Rush accord-
ingly pursued his way ; but he had not proceed-
ed far before he saw the gun, about a yard
from the path, and stopping to look at it,
he accidentally touched the wire, which laid
across the path, and the gun went off, lodging
part of its contents in his thumb and two of the
angers of his left hand, which were so dreadfully
shattered that amputation was deemed necessary.
The operation was skilfully performed the same
evening, by Mr. Macnamara, of Ipswich. The
keeper of Sir F. Agar, of Brenteleigh h all, was
shot in the same manner one night last
wee c, and
about forty shots heve been since extracted from
his thigh. We also learn that a gentleman who
preserves game in another part of the country has
been slightly wounded by one of his own engines.
(Bury Post.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morni►rg Pipers, Dec. 18.

Darr tsn PRESS.]
From the further accounts of the late dreadful
inundation at St. Petersburgh, received yesterday
through the French and German Papers, it
would appear that that tremendous calamity was
more extensively destructive than the first ad-
vices would have led us to believe. The surviv-
ing' sufferers were not aware of the vast and ter-
rific ruin from which they had escaped. The
wretched inhabitants, of the lower classes, are
now menaced with death by cold and famine.—
The Emperor had been visiting the scenes of de-
solation, and exerting himself to mitigate the
distresses and supply the immediate wants of the
destitute. A subscription has been opened to
which he and all the Imperial Family have con-
tributed liberally. A Rescript has been issued,
directing the appropriation of this money. The'
Emperor orders that relief shall be strictly con-
fined to those whose extreme poverty renders it
absolutely indispensable. The ravages of this
overwhelming and prodigious evil have, however,
by no means been exclusively felt by the poor :
merchants of eminence have been, in the course
of one night, reduced from opulence to beg.
gary. We can imagine no situation so in-
tensely horrible as that of the sufferers must
have been, while the resistless =SS of water was
gradually, but not slowly, rising upon them,
sweeping before it all the obstacles to its pro-
gress, and bearing on its surface the wreck of all
the works of man. Powerless and passive, the
victim of the elements retains the full possession
of his faculties only to see his own inevitable
fate approaching, and to witness the dread de-
struction that previously engulphs his friends and
kindred. During the late catastrophe at St.
Petersburgh, it required only an earthquake to
have combined all the elements in a league against
its unfortunate inhabitants. While the wind was
shaking down the edifices which the waters were
undermining, the Government establishments
in the vicinity of the city, which were removed
by their position beyond the reach of the inun-
dation, were destroyed by lire ! The sufferers
are, by this most untoward accident, deprived
of the immediate relief they might have ob-
tained from those considerable magazines.
Under such a Government as that of Russia,
however, assistance will perhaps be render-
ed more promptly than under a less des-
potic system. The supply must be immediate,
as the price of provisions of the first necessity
had increased in some instances nearly tenfold.
Rye bread was selling at 40 copecs (very nearly
'2O pence) the pound, and salt at 45 copecs.—
The Government had attempted to fix a maxi.
mum for provisions, at the usual prices: we may
be sure that this measure will prove ineffectual;
and unless a large and instant supply be fur-
nished, at the cost of the Imperial Treasury, it
will only tend to aggravate the distress
it is meant to alleviate. Before we close our
observations on this subject, we may be per-
mitted to ask why no subscription has been com-
menced for the general relief of the sufferers by
the late inundations in our own country ? There
is, we know, a subscription in progress for the
sufferers in the Island of Portland ; but there are
thousands of individuals in other parts of England
who have sustained severe losses by the floods.
Why has no appeal been made in their behalf to
benevolence—an appeal, as the proceed-
ings of yesterday show, never made in vain ? It
is not yet too late to begin this work, and we
earnestly recommend it to the attention of those
who can bring it forward with effect.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
All the Foreign Papers which arrived yester.
day, and which comprehend German, Dutch,
Flemish, and French, present a harrowing pic-
ture of the calamity which has visited the seat of
the Russian Empire. The number of human vic-
tims-is immense ; the loss of property, we be-
lieve, unparalleled, considering the cause, and
the damage in buildings, public works, and ship-
ping, almost general. It is computed that
eight thousand persons have at least perished ?
entire streets,. together with all they con-
tained, having been swept away by the' irre-
sistible fury of the inundation. Where villages
stood the day before, there was scarcely a
wreck the next morning, to indicate that they once
were. Some noble instances of zeal and courage
are recorded ; and we have heard, without any
surprise, that the Emperor had exposed his
person, and braved every hardship, whilst the
rage of the elements lasted. He dew from place
to place, though frequently at the risk of his life,
in order, by his presence, to support the fainting
hopes of the vast number of persons, whom a few
hours had made houseless outcasts. IVe readily
believe this account, for Alexander is generous,
humane, noble-minded, in every thing but poli-
tics ; and in this if he could only expand his
views, and follow his own natural impulses, in-
stead of the sophistries or his courtiers, he would
be one of the best and greatest Sovereigus of this
or any other age. To complete his merits
on this mournful occasion, ho has devoted a
large sum (a million of silver roubles) froth
his privy purse, to the relief of the sufferers.'
The loss of property of every kind, is esti-
mated at the enormous sum of one hundred and
fifty million of roubles; and a prospect of famine,
joined to a scourge, fully as frightful in that
climate—scarcity of fuel, adds to the horrors.of
the, picture. It is customary in Russia, and most
'Northern countries, for every family to lay in a
stock of provisions for the winter, of which we
frill., the greater part has been destroyed. In a
few days also the price of bread and other neces-
saries, rose four-fold, and was even sextupled in
some instances. To remedy this hardship,: a
Proclamation was 'published, and posted up in
all the streets of Petershorgh, prohibiting higher
prices than usual ; but, if it were to be inforced,
it would, as every one knows, only aggravate the
evil, by adding fictitious to a real scarcity.
The Government, however, has not neglect-
" those expedients, which would prove

really useful ; and orders were sent to Riga
and other places, to send off provisions
with the utmost possible expedition. As
the sea would be probably closed, it is much to
be feared, even should all the horses and wag-
gons in the country be put in requistion, that the
supplies by this long and slow mode of convey-
ance, would only slightly mitigate the evil.
Whence are the payments too to come, some of
the sufferers having lost every thing, money us
well as goods, and the rest having sustained more
or less injury ? Even the Imperial Treasury,
were all its spare funds to be applied to this hor-
rible emergency, would prove insufficient, as it
probably contains very little beyond what is ap-
propriated to the different branches of the pub-
lic service ; and a loan, if it could be raised im-
mediately, would be the best resource to meet
the difficulty. Let our countrymen contrast this
appalling picture, with the security of their own
situation ; and their hearts must overflow with
gratitude to Providence, for having rendered
such visitations amongst them, more rare than
perhaps any other people.

[MORNING POST.
We received last night, by express, French
Papers to the 16th inst. and the Mode of Thurs-
day. Preparations were making in Paris for the
opening of the Chambers. The Deputies were to
meet on the 20th in the Hall of their Sittings, to
draw lots for the great Deputation which was to
go and receive the King on the day fixed for the
opening of the Session. By a new Royal Ordi-
nance, Charles X. has limited the period of vo-
luntary re-enlistment iu the army to two and four
years. The intelligence from Spain states, that
some vessels armed by the Constitutionalists hail
appeared off the coast of Andalusia, and had
filled the Government with apprehension, as
since the retreat of the French, and in the pre-
sent irritated state of the public mind, it was
thought that if they lauded the result might be
very different (ruin that of the unfortunate capture
of Tariffa. It was generally reported and believed
that they had obtained possession of [vice, one of
the Balearic Islands. If this be true, Ivica must
have been delivered into their hands ; for its
strength was such that it baffled the efforts of the
Cortes to reduce it when they had all the mi-
litary and financial resources of the State at their
disposal. It was said that the greater part of the
troops assembled at Corunna had embarked and
were ready to sail for Havanna, front whence
they were to repair to Vera Cruz, to reinforce
the garrison of the Castle of St. Juan of Ulloa.
Two new frigates had been constructed at Ferrol,
and were to be sent to the South Sea to fa-
voto the operations of the royal armies in Pm.
Should they ever sail, however, it is rather
doubtful from the nature of the events which
have taken place in that quarter, whether
they will find any Royal armies to assist. There
are various accounts in these Papers from Con.
stantinople. They state that the Porte had at
last published an official explanation of the cir-
cumstances which had led to the execution of
the Moldavian Officer, whose death had in-
terrupted the progres's of friendly negociatious
between Turkey and Russia. In this Report he
was represented, not as a political delinquent,
but as the secret associate of a band of Robbers,
and therefore entitled to no protection or pity
from any regular Government. The evacuation
of the Principalities is mentioned, but in a very
doubtful manner, in the letters from Constanti-
nople. It seems, however, to have been at length
carried into effect, for the Eloite says with an
official tone : u We have reason to believe that
the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia are
now evacuated in consequence of fresh remon-
strances made by the Allied Courts at the be-
ginning of the month." Some attempt is also
said to have been made to induce the Porte to
enter into negotiations with European Powers on
the great question of the future fate of Greece.
But it continued to protest against all foreign
interference on the subject, and when Lord
Strangford introduced it in his last interview
with the Reis Effendi, the latter is said to have
immediately changed the conversation.

[MORNING HERALD.)
Wednesday's Paris Papers arrived last night.
The Chamber of Deputies is to hold a Meeting
on the tOth, preparatory to the opening of the
Sessions by the King in person. The accounts
in these papers from Madrid are to the sth inst.
It appears the King of Spain has just conferred
titles and other honours on several Generals and
Officers serving in Peru. The Viceroy Lacerna,
and Canterac and Valdes have been created, the
first Count of the Andes, a gigantic title, and the
two last, Grand Grosses of St. Ferdinand. It
appears a mere trick to tell the Spanish people
that Ferdinand has still a footing in Peru,
The troops destined to reinforce the garri-
son of St. John de Ulloa are stated to have
sailed from Corunna and Ferrol, and two
frigates are stated to he fitting out for South
America at the latter place. Some vessels with
Constitutionalists on board, are said to have
appeared off the coast of Andalusia. Whence
did, or rather whence could these euestitistion.
alists possibly come ? The Turco-Russian nego.
ciations go on with more than Turkish sloth. M.
de Minziacky had not, yet, when the last ac.
counts left Constantinople, presented his creden.
tials, waiting the evacuation of the principalities,
which was deferred. The Turks refuse all con.
cession, acid still, it is said, object to, any foreign
interference between them and the Greeks. The
Russian Emperor, his family, and his Ministers,
are in the meantime occupied in relieving, by
.861)8cl1owns, those who suffered by the late
dreadful inundation, The Austrian Government
pursues a truly ridiculous system, of .publicly
,proscribing individuals from its territories. A list
is given, among whom are M. l)evergier, son of
the French Deputy ; Jules David,son of
the painter, and tutor in the
f
Jerome Buonaparteaaii,
at Rome
Italians
;Calandillliisoof,
Orselli, Cesali, opar Guil-
lord,. French marine Officer ; Zay..Deyauz ;
and lastly,
Frc
of the Greek Refugees in
lt publicatiws Sub.
scription favour
France !"
Limperorof Austria is not a bad
man, and still less is he a wise one. A Professor

of Natural Philosophy being presented, talked of
44 the Constitution of the Atmosphere." 44 Ah !"
said his Majesty, " Constitution, that wicked
word which has done so much mischief of late."
A stock broker is under trial at Paris, for an
offence somewhat similar to Mr. Fauntleroy's.
He is charged with fraudulent bankruptcy, spe-
culations on his own account, against law, and
mis-appropriation of funds confided to him as a
broker. He fled, but was apprehended.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The French Papers up to the 16th, which we
received late last night, contain one article of
intelligence, which, if it be true, is deserving
notice. The Courier Francais says, " that it is
not Majorca, but the Island of Ivica, of which
the Constitutionalists have made themselves mas-
ters." It seems also by the same Paper, that
the Constitutionalists have contrived to fit out
several armed vessels, with which they are cruiz-
ing in the Straits of Gibraltar. Several parties
of Constitutionalists have also shewed themselves
in different provinces. We had previously heard
from Paris—" What was foreseen with respect
to Spain after the retreat of the French army,
begins to be realised in that unfortunate country,
where there is a general fermentation. Bands of
malcontents have already collected in Navarre,
Biscay, Galicia, Old Castille, and Estremadura.
At present their numbers are but small, but they
will serve as rallying points to the Constitution-
alists, who will have no other means to save their
lives or their personal liberty." The mere report
of the French withdrawing their troops, and the
preparations for doing so, have roused the Con-
stitutionalists into activity, and Guerillas are form-
ing in various parts of Spain. From Ivica, whence
Ferdinand will scarcely be able to dislodge them,
they may stir up all Catalonia, and the more per-
sons he proscribes, the greater will be the number
eager for vengeance, and the more readily will a
force be collected to overthrow his Government.
Under such circumstances it is scarcely possible
that any considerable number of French troops
should now be withdrawn from Spain. If the
Spanish refugees can keep up their hopes, and
preserve the vigour of their arms some few
months longer, they may again see_realized in
their own country that guerilla warfare which
was formerly so destructive to a more powerful
foe, and may have an opportunity both of taking
revenge on their oppressors, and of proving their
love of liberty.

in another column we give a paragraph from
the Bury Post, containing the particulars of
more mischief occasioned by the use of those
murderous engines, spring-guns. One individual,
on his way home to Holbrook, pursuing a certain
path, on the assurance that the spring-gun
usually set in it was not loaded, accidentally
trode on the wire, and received the charge in
his left hand, which was so shattered, that am-
putation was necessary. The keeper of Sir`"".Agar, of Brenteleigh Hall, it appears, has been
shot in the thigh in the same manner ; and lastly,
it is reported, that a gentleman who preserves
game has been overtaken by retributive justice,
having fallen into his awn snare, and been
slightly wounded by one of his own engines.
These are the casualties caused by these abomi-
nable contrivances, as reported in our Paper.
At the year's end it would be well to compute
the number of killed and wounded during the
last twelvemonth by spring-guns, in this laud
of justice and humanity, that we may see at one
view the lives that have been lost, and the
limbs that have been mutilated, in the cause of
partridges and pheasants. We despair, however,
of seeing the use of these formidable engines
discontinued so long as human beings are
the only victims to it; but if a cock pheasant,
or a line pointer dog, should chance one day to
come to an untimely end, and to fall by the ran-
dom shot of a spring-gun intended for a poacher,
may so serious a catastrophe, so irreparable a loss,
possibly touch the hearts and open the eyes of
country Gentlemen to the cruelty of this mur-
derous machinery. But till some signal mischief
of this nature occur, we cannot hope to make any
impression on the feelings or understandings of
the 'Squires.—(ibid.)

[NEW TIMES.]
The Prussian Stantszeitung of the 28th of No-
vember, contains a formal reply to the complaints
of several French journals on the arrest of M.
Cousins at Dresden. We do not mean to enter
minutely into the merits of -the question, nor to
give any opinion whether the part acted by the
Prussian Government on this occasion is or is
not founded in right and justice. We only
remark the fact of this formal defence, as a
proof, that even in the most absolute Govern-
ments of the Continent a deference is shewn
to public, opinion, hi the best sense of that word.
The Prussian. Government by this publication
tacitly admits that if the facts had been as
they were represented in certain journals,
the arrest of this Frenchman could not have
been justified. Now we say that this ad-
mission of a general principle is of infinitely
greater consequence than the establishment
of any simple matter of fact. Whether M.
Cousin really was or was not an emissary
of the Revolutionists, sent to stir up the youth
of Germany to insurrection,
is a matter which
may be easily determined on evidence; but
whether the Monarch of one kingdom could,
on any pretence, exercise independent juris.
diction within
the territory of another Sove-
reign, is a question
pregnant with the most se-
rious consequences. Buonaparte seized the book-
seller Palm on a neutral territory and hanged
him ; the same l3uonaparte seized the Duke
d'Enghein on a neutral territory, and
him ; anti the servile hypocrites who nilviouscirlyi
most loudly against the arrest of M•ded the
were as silent as mice ; nay, they lauded shot
murderous despot—he these base
of their
idolatry ! We are indignant. at
forsooth
slaves, now strutting anti talking dig,
tout " the
about " high Tory princiP
leets"—and '‘ the
was the very Go
,langtlege of despotic Governmer,t
Sycophancy !
sycophancy to mere Royalty'
to
why were you not the basest of sycophants ten
o ou no ev
the bloodiest of all tyrants ? 1-1 y

now canonize the memory of the butcher who
massacred in one morning three thousand un-
armed defenceless prisoners ? Is there a de-
gradation of intellect, a prostitution of prin-
ciple like this, upon record, in the annals
of servility ? We are ready to allow, the
profligate baseness of extenuating Buonaparte's
murders is the justification of the arrest of
M. Cousin, if that arrest was really contrary
to the Law of Nations ; and we grant that the of-
ficial article in the Prussian Shuststeitung is not
conclusive proof of the legality of the proceeding.
But before we give any opinion for or against the
measure, we shall desire to see a fuller statement of
the facts than has yet met the public eye. If M.
Cousin was an innocent traveller arrested on the
Saxon territory by a mere arbitrary act of the
Prussian Government, the act was almost as bad
as one of Buonaparte's slightest violations of law
and justice, and we should therefore raise our
voice in its condemnation. But if M. Cousin
was a democratical emissary employed in sowing
the seeds of Revolution among the German
States generally—if those States, by common
agreement, were bound to bring to justice the dis-
turbers of the public peace—and if he was ar-
rested on the Saxon territory with the acquies-
cence of the Saxon Monarch ; then the case as-
sumes a very different complexion ; and nobody
will complain of the event, except those whose
wishes are directed to the success of " privy con-
spiracy and rebellion."

[TIIE TIMES.]
The Marquis Camden has again fulfilled the
periodical engagement which he imposed upou
himself, by paying over to the consolidated fund
0,3441.. being the amount of fees for 1824, which
his Lordship, as Teller of the Exchequer, sur-
rendered of his own free-will to the country.—
Lord Camden, at his entrance into life, was by
no means embarrassed with riches. He has had
a family to provide for, numerous enough to
plead his pardon had he looked with as much
anxiety us many others of the same rank,
to mutters of mere vulgar concern. His
Lordship, however, chose to take a more
generous view of the relation in which he stood
to society ; and by the noble sacrifice which he
has made of that whole tribe of contracted feel-
ings by which rnen in his predicament, and, alas !
of his station, have been too often actuated.
Lord Camden has proved himself not only ge-
nerous but wise. His Lordship has, in our
humble opinion, shown himself no bad econo-
mist by this departure from the ordinary modes
of selfishness. He has made a descrimina-
ting and profitable bargain, as may be fairly
said of every man who gets more than the
value of his money. He has laid out 10,0001.
per annum in a magnificent improvement of
his patrimonial estate—of that inheritance which
no vicissitude of fortune, which nothing but ig-
noble conduct on his own part, could deprive him
of—the name and honour of an illustrious pa-
rent, whose virtues and whose moral dignity he
thus hands down, not merely unimpaired, but
augmented. It is due to Lord Camden, and still
more so to an age which stands in need of high
incentives, that his claim upon this honest grati-
tude
recalled of
this o
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public spirit should not sink into utter forgetful-
ness, either as a recompence or as a lesson.

An opinion prevails at Paris, that the Prince
de Polignac, Ambassador to England, who has
gone to Paris for, the avowed purpose of being
present at the opening of the Chambers, will not
return to London, but will become a Member of
the French Cabinet. The Prince is not, as some
of our cotemporaries have stated, a friend,
either personal or political, of M. Villele ; and
his admission into the Cabinet must be con-
sidered rather an act of the King whose
partiality to the Prince is well known, than of
the Minister, who cannot be supposed to have
any violent regard for the intimate► associate and
ardent admirer of M. Chateauhriand. This al-
teration in the composition of the French Admi-
nistration is not likely to lead to any change of
measures, as the new member has neither the
ambition nor the energy requisite for the over-
throw of such a subtle and practised intriguer as

[From the same Paper of yesterday.]
An Express arrived yesterday from Paris, and
so far as the present hour is concerned,
we may presume to be of a tranquillizing nature. Indeed,
tahtenu presentdess crippledig n
brings accounts which,
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whoPower,eve rmustseeconsiders
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entertained, must, for some time to come at least, be postponed
to the urgent necessity of repairing shattered resources and
creating new means for future exertion. Without, therefore,
laying any stress on the moral motives for pacific conduct,
we may feel some reasonable confidence that a pacific policy
must prevail, while Cabinets can devise no effectual means for
one of aggression or conquest. We should scarcely waste the
time of our readers with such obvious remarks as these If it
were not that we saw among many persons a disposition to
impute the present unwarlike (for such it is, rather than peace..
able) state of Europe to the principles of the Holy Alliance:--
principles which we have always and still maintain to be at
once so unnatural and so unjust, AS to have a constant tendency
to snap asunder, rather than consolidate, that compulsatory
union of heterogeneous parts, which nothing but the via inertia
of poverty has held thus long. together. The holy principle
of legitimacy, together with mistaken calculation that it would
cost nothing, made France invade Spain but would the same
holy principle have allowed, or would it still allow, England to
look on as a quiet spectator, if England felt she had the means
to drive France out of Spain ? The holy principle of legiti-
macy made England—Christian England—take part with the
Infidel Turks against her fellow-Christians, the Greeks: but'
would that holy principle have prevented Russia front march-
ing to Constantinople, if she had felt that she possessed the
means of overpowering the united force of Infide Turkey and of
Christian England ? The holy principle of del gitimacy acts as
a check upon England, deterring her from the recognition of
the South American States; but does the same holy principle
prevent her from holdim, • over the head' of France and Russia
a constant threat of recognition, it they presume to stir
against those States, which it scents their interpretation of
the principles, of the Holy Alliance would lead them to do,
if they had it in their power? Having this given a due
value to that pacific" principle which is alleged to keep
the European States in.harmony, we will state what we be-
lieve front very good authority to be the actual result of
these views. It seems, then, that England and France having
first agreed to the arrangement, Turkey end Russia consent to
adjust their lingering quarrel under the medium of the Austrian
dovernment. The troops of both nations are entirely to eva-
cuate Moldavia and Wallachia, and two independent Christian
Chieftains are to govern those principalities, who are to be chosen
under the joint influence of Turkey and Russia, which powers
engage to refer any question of dispute to Austrian arbitration.
The reeks and Turks are then to be left to themselves (not
nominally, as now, but actually), the Great Powers reserving
to themselves a right of at least diplomatic interference, if, after
a definite interval, (perhaps two years), the war between
Greece and Turkey should be no further advanced than at pre-
sent towards some definitive issue. With respect to Spain, it

is agreed that France shall continue to occupy that country six
months after January next, from which time it will be a quells
non whether she shall be compelled to retain possession, or to
forgo her dearly bought and dearly-continued conquest.
pretty well understood that France would most willingly if she
were able) undo all she has done ! She feels that she has coin-
mitted an egregious error ; that the invasion, which she sup-
posed would be a mere holiday pastime, has cost her not merelY
her national honour, but a great expenditure of life, and—what
is more—of money ; while she sees no feasable, or even proba•
ble means, of recovering the point whence she so indiscreeq
started, Certainly, if it were not for the painful reflection whim
the atrocious motives of the Spanish invasion must excite ill
the breasts of freemen, the situation of France with respect t°
Spain might be enjoyed by a calm spectator, as one of the most
ludicrous dilemmas which bad logic and bad principles had
ever entailed upon a blundering politician. With respect to
the South American States, England has no immediate inten•
tion of recognizing them; but her Ministers imagine, that by
holding the threat of recognition over the other Cabinets of Ea'
rope, she ties their hands, and renders them in some degree •
amenable to her own general policy. This policy may be very
shrewd, but we doubt its soundness; because its integritY 111/*
pears to us to be rather worse than questionable; it olaY.an-
swer. as a partial check upon Europe, but to the Allierea,,n
States themselves, it toast have the appearance of selfish 4,01
dealing, and may perhaps be visited with the ordinal% Tate 4;
cunning, that in attempting too much over-reaches anhl
defeats the very purpose which frankness and sincerity allej
have accomplished. It may be found, that those conune .
treaties or arrangements which England meditates with
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