The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-02 00:00:00

THE HOLY ALLIANCE CONGRESS.

(From the Afessager des Chmnbres.)
The Congress of Toplitz, of Schwedt, and of
Munchengratz, has terminated : nothing has yet
transpired of the proceedings, but the result is
waited for with some anxiety. The only resolutions
which could have been formed, calculated to excite
any alarm, would have been relative to warlike pro-
ceedings, and expediency is now opposed to all mi-
litary movements.

All, therefore, that could occupy so solemn an as-
sembly must have been the combinations of the
genius of absolutism against the liberality of the
age; and these, no doubt, formed a sufficiently
extensive field for the exercise of the sagaci,y of
the three Sovereigns and the diplomatists accom-
panying them.

But the results, in this point of view, of their
conferences were not of a nature to gain an instan-
taneous publicity ; arid it is well known how pleas-
ing is dissimulation in certain quarters when revela-
tion would only brine to light measures of injustice
and oppression. We must not, therefore, be sur-
prised if a long silence should succeed to the closing
of the ambulatory Congress.
We may observe that these measures are of two
sorts—the one relative to the reigning system, the
other altogether subordinate to events.
The former may have been definitively adopted
—the one in practice, the other in principle. Thus
more severe regulations relative to the press may
have been decreed, such as limiting the circulation
of French journals on the other side of the Rhine
arid the Alps. It may have been determined to
prohibit the publication of the debates in the Cham-
bers and Tribunals of the little German States.
New plans of enlistment may also have been re-
solved on. The bases having been once fixed of the
different points, and instructions given to the se-
condary Governments how to act, all may be done
without noise, and to the full satisfaction of these
great ordainers.
So much for the measures actually decreed, As
to those which may have been only agreed upon in
principle—and these are not less important, for in
this class may be enumerated the Austrian Protec-
torate project for an Italian confederation, the ag-
grandizement of Prussia, and the division of the
spoils of the Sultan—tire means for all these trans-
actions may have been determined upon, without
any time being fixed for their execution.
The second class of resolutions mentioned above,
as necessarily dependent upon events, could only
have been adopted conditionally, and resting upon
all the modifications incident to circumstances.
Suppose, for instance, that the high contracting
Powers were to meet for the purpose of addressing
France and England in a dictatorial tone; it would
appear to them sufficient merely to employ menace
without other demonstration, if at that moment
Don Miguel should be conqueror in Portugal, Don
Carlos about, on the event of his brother's death,
to seize the crown of Spain, whilst the follies of the
Carlists agitated France, and a Tory Ministry over-
threw the Reform party in England.
Let the supposition, for argument sake, be re-
versed, and allow that the menace came at a time
when the cons!itutional cause had triumphed in
Lisbon, when the young heir to Ferdinand's throne
was acknowledged without difficulty, and the good
understanding between the administrations of France
and England still existed; it is perfectly evident, in this second hypothesis, that a mere dictatorial tone
would not suffice, and that it would be nece,sary
for the confederated Powers, if they remained firm
to their resolution, to support each other with all
the power they possessed.
Iu resuming this question it may be admitted,
without fear of being far frcm the truth, that the
Congress, of which the last act was performed at
Munehengratz, has done nothing more (so far as
immediate measures are concerned) than determine
upon measures of discipline and internal police fur
all the countries under its influence; and that as to
plan relating to external matters, they have only
adopted principles for some, and marked out a line
of policy for others„ altogether dependent upon
events.

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