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London, England, 1824-02-03 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
xtracts from the Morning Papers, Feb. 3.

EW TIMEs3.]
approaching Session of Parliament will
-tau under most gratifying auspices, whether we
regard the foreign relations of the country, or its

ternal condition. On the one hand, we may
if_vonfidently anticipate a long and honourable
Peace ; .on the other, we behold around us une-
quivocal mailiS'of a permanent prosperity. But
there is one question, to the Parliamentary dis-

'cussion of which we look forward with anxiety,
less on account of its real difficulties, than of the
spirit of bitterness and animosity with which it
has for some time past been agitated—we need
scarcely add, that we speak of the Vest India
Controversy. In• the debate of the 15th of last
tigy, Mr. Canning, in the name of all his Ma-
iesty%; Ministers, moved the following Resolu-
tions, which were unanimously agreed to by the
:House of Commons :
`• 1. That it is expedient to adopt effectual and decisive Ines-
- stklss for meliorating the condition of the Slave population in
his Majesty's Colonies.
'• 2. That through a determined and persevering, but at the
same tittle judicious and temperate enforcement of such mea-
sures, this House looks forward to progressive improvement in
'the character of the Slave population, such as may prepare them
for a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are
enjoyed by other classes of his Majesty's subjects.
3. That this House is anxious for the accomplishment of
this purpose at the earliest period that shall be compatible with
the well-being of the Slaves themselves, with the safety of the
Colonies, and with a fair and equitable consideration of the in-
terests of private property."
Upon the face of these Resolutions, they are 1
alike honourable to the Government that pro-
posed, and -to the Legislature that sanctioned
them; they unite the cautious moderation of ex-
perience, with a sincere and cordial attachment
to liberty ; and yet they have ever since been
Made the object of clamorous obloquy, not only
in the narrow circles of petty colonial assemblies,
but by a large and influential part of the British
Press. Strongly impressed as we were, from the
beginning, in favour of the Resolutions, we have
nevertheless paid a most dispassionate atten-
tion to all that has been urged on the other
side. We shall hardly be accused of any pro-
pensity to court popular opinion, merely as such;
still less have we ever shewn ourselves insensible

to the dangers attendant-on popular enthusiasm ;
but when, upon the most mature consideration,
we are satisfied that a certain course of policy
must ultimately lead to the incalculable benefit
of our fellow-men and fellow-subjects, we owe it

to the public to state that conviction plainly,
and to follow it out into all its legitimate con-
sequences.

[MORNING POST .1
- After a recess, during which important events
have agitated the face of the world, Parliament
_will this day assemble in the midst of general
prosperity at home, and tranquillizing aspects
abroad. Never, indeed, in-the memory of living
man have its labours commenced under more pro-
pitious circumstances. \Vhat last year was
merely promise, has become reality—what was
Menace, has, ceased to lower. The tempest has
passed in all its fury, hut to burst on other lands.
We have witnessed, yet not felt the-shock, and
though sympathy may have lamented the over-
:throw of a nation's liberties, we have had no
cause to regret that we had not embraced the de-
fence ;)f thoSio who would not defend themselves.
011 the contiary, the wisdom of our policy has
been proved. In opposition to all the Despotic
.Governments of the Continent, we had pro-
clsimed the principle of the perfect independence
of States in tt►eir internal affairs, and within their
natural limits—we had branded all attempts to
interfere in their domestic concerns as acts of '
aggression—and there was no foreign Sovereign
blind enough not to perceive, that if those
Whose rights we supported by public declare-
tions and mediatory offices were but true
,to themselves, and contended for their
.rights
as. men who knew their value, they might ulti-
mately obtaini from us a degree of active assist-
ance proport:onate to that of their bravery and
exertions. There was no Quixotism in this, but
there was lostice ; justice to ourselves, to them,
and to all parties. The event has shown that
justice was also wisdom, and there is not a pa-
triot heart in 'the Peninsula or in any other part
of the world which does not feel that in our
conduct towards Spain we have done all that be-
came a Government and a people friendly to
the independence of nations.

• [MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The observations we laid before our Readers,
a few days ago, respecting the political situation
of the Mexican Provinces when the last advices
tame away, and more particularly the unsettled
told irregular state of the Government established
in the capital,. have been greatly misunderstood
by some, while, even our motives for making
them have been arraigned by others, notwith-
standing they were accompanied by incontrover-
ti'ble which spoke for themselves.
We then asserted, that the Government in the
Mexican capital, which arrogated to itself, and up
to the end of last September, forcibly retained
the supreme power, was declared illegal by the
provinces, and consequently that all its acts which
were not of a purely urgent and temporary kind,
were invalid, and might or might not be con-
firmed by the ensuing Legislature, formed of
delegates duly elected by the provinces. We
came to this conclusion, after an attentive pe-
rusal of a variety of authentic papers and letters
in our possession, and after a due consideration
also of the whole line of conduct pursued by
that Congress, or rather the part of it, which
endeavoured to tyrannise over the provinces,
and, as they themselves hate distinctly stated,
" sought to impose upon them a yoke in-
finitely more unjust and degrading than the one
tiv:y had just shaken off." We were, at the
time, induced to enter upon this subject from a
co2Scientious wish to discharge our duty to the
public. We saw our countrymen called upon to
stake their capital in schemes and projects which
tie considered premature, if not irregular, and,
after the immense losses incurred in foreign loans
and distant operations of a loose and fragile kind,

it would have been almost criminal in us touith-
hold the information'of which we were possessed.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Royal Speeches in opening the Sessions of
Parliament have of late years been remarkable
for their 'lenity. The great object seems to be
to say so little, and that little in terms so vague
and general, that no amendment could be fasten-
ed, and no debate arise upon the Address to the
Throne. The present is somewhat of an anxious
and interesting moment with respect to the fo-
reign policy and relations of the country. The
spirit of conjecture and calculation is on the
alert. There is no likelihood, however,of its be-
ing satisfied or instructed by the Speech from the
Throne this day. A version of the intended
Speech has been already put forward, with the
assumption of being " an accurate outline." The
internal evidence is in favour of its correctness—
for it is exactly of a piece with those that have
preceded it. With the exception of one para-
graph in this version, assuming that it is correct,
there is not a gleam of information to be derived
—unless, indeed, it may be allowed to convey
information of a negative kind. The Speech, it
is said, will open with the usual statement that-I
his Majesty has received friendly assurances
from Foreign Powers. But of what value are'
those assurances ? At the very moment when
the French Government had resolved upon
the invasion, of Spain, his Majesty's Go-
vernment received pacific assurances from
the French Government, and the sentiment
was unequivocally uttered by the lips of the
King of France in opening the French Chambers.
These friendly assurances are then no pledges of
the intentions or policy of these Powers, and are
perfectly compatible with the existence of prepa-
-1 rations for an American expedition in the ports
of France and Spain. But there is a subsequent
paragraph of the anticipated Speech—that to
which we have alluded as alone possessing any
interest—from which it might be inferred
that the sending out a French armament of
40,000 men to Mexico and Peru would be regard.
ed as no violation of these friendly assurances.—
" His Majesty," it is said," will acquaint the Le-
gislature, that Consuls have been sent out to
South America for the purpose of protecting our
trade in that quarter, and watching over our
commercial interests; but, with respect to any
ulterior measures that it may be expedient to
adopt, this country will take its cwn time for
the arrangement of them. The course which
his Majesty's Government has pursued, will be de-
scribed as having been perfectly steady and con-
sistent, observing, throughout, a strict neutrality
between the Mother Country and her Colonies."
If the purpose was merely to protect trade ge.
nerally, and the interests of British merchants
particularly, this might, one would think, have
been done by British Naval Commanders on the
several stations, without sending out frigates
freighted with consular Agents—receiving large
salaries at the public charge. Was there any
want of Consuls at the moment when they were
appointed ? I

[THE TIMES.]
We know not whether it be worth the while
to anticipate the Speech of this day, the real do-
cnment following so quickly the conjectural
statements. Ministers, however, cannot invent
topics, but must. take them as they rise from the
state of the nation, which is open to general ob-
servation. Assurances of the friendly disposition
of foreign Powers, if, as usual lately, they form
one of the subjects, will be the more grateful on
the present occasion, as ‘ve think some of those
foreign Powers would have liked us better if we
had leaned a little more to their side in cer-
tain political questions. In the dispute be-
tween France and Spain, however, we are, it
is said, to be told, that every day's experience
confirms the wisdom of the neutral course pursued
by as. Surely, then, the foreign Powers ought not
to be dissatisfied with us for adopting a system
which experience, we can tell them, sanctions as
the most befitting our station. An amicable ar-
rangement of the dispute between Russia and
Turkey is said to be predicted, of which we are
to assume the merit; as it has been, or ra-
ther is to be, concluded through the interpo-
sition of the British, Ambassador at Constan-
tinople. Ali ! we have often heard before of this
amicable arrangement. We do not wish for such
an arrangement,—we should not think it a sub-
ject of congratulation. We pray for the de-
cided suscess of one party. We hope the
Greeks will triumph over their oppressors. The
Consuls sent out to New Spain will no doubt be
mentioned ; and will it be remarked how foolish
a thing it would be in the old Government of
Spain to talk of offering,. as a boon, a free
trade to those countries, where we have al-
ready a dozen of Consuls established ? The af-
fairs of the West Indies form a subject upon which
we hope the speech will be explicit; letting the
planters and negroes know what they are se-
verally to expect. Uncertainty upon this head
cannot but be attended with the most disastrous
consequences. A decisive policy, even though
erroneous, will, we apprehend, be less preju-
dicial than wavering counsels- made up chiefly
of good. Ireland unhappy Irehtnd! What,
will be said of thee ? That thy wounds are
healing ? Alas ! how many times has this stale.
story been repeated to us and thee ! The
improved and improving condition of England
will, no idoubt,. be dwelt upon.. Whether such
improvement may be assumed as a merit by any
set of men, or devoutly ascribed as a blessing to
Providence, we know not. The human means,
however employed, have been the diminution of
taxes, the reduction of useless places, and moat-.
tention to the demands of the agricultural inte
rest. For the last of these, Ministers are en
titled to their full share of praise: the diminu-
tion of taxes, and. abolition of useless .oilices,
they resisted with all their might, and were de-
feated.

[BRITISH PRESS.}
Saturday's Paris Tapers possess no intelligence
of interest. We give the, leading contents of the
Moniteor and Emile. The latter anticipates
throughout the departments in France an increase
of Royalist Deputies. No possible exertions of

influence, corruption, and menance are spared to
oustvthe liberates, and procure the return of the
partisans of pure monarchy. The Austrian Ob-
server, a paper all through most hostile to the
Greeks, has been at length obliged to acknow-
ledge unlimitedly the disasters of the Turks in
the last campaign. It gives the Finnan, or Haiti
&here, of the Sultan, issued o❑ the 13th Dec. at
Constantinople, appointiil Ghaleb Pacha Grand
Vizier, in place of his unfortunate predecessor,
Ali Pacha ; and the Austrian Paper then states
the fall of the city of Corinth to the Greeks.—
" A fact more afflicting (this Journal adds)
is, that the Christians have made a second
landing in Eubcea, and got armed possession of
Karisto. Their attack on Mitylens (it states)
was equally successful." It then is obliged
to admit the retreat of the Turks from before
Missolonghi, and the revolt of the Albanians,
8,000 of whom seceded at Lutarki, and led to the
fine surprise by the hero, Marco Bozzaris, at
Karponessi. The failure before Missolonghi,
the Vienna Paper adds, has had and will have
fatal consequences for the Porte ; one decisive
effect has been to raise all the Albanians in favour
of the Greeks. Already Colocotroni was marching
on Patras, with near 8000 men, and would turn the
blockade of that important place into a siege.—
When the Austrian Journal makes these admis-
sions, the successes of the gallant Christians must
indeed have been marked and decisive. There
is no heart of any feeling that must not beat high
in joyful anticipation of the ultimate and glorious
result of their unparalleled exertions for liberty,—
there is no mind of any sensibility that must not
anxiously anticipate a successful close to that
struggle, which may extinguish the barbarous
tyranny that for ages has trampled under its feet
th:s delightful portion of Eastern Europe, and
which will give to Greece again a free existence
and an imperishable name.