The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-04 00:00:00

two great Monarchies, Austria and Prussia,
which, to all practical purposes, had been
destroyed during the war ;" and the se-
verance
of minor States, to the violation
of every feeling of freedom on their parts,
was merely to give these kingdoms, " good
flanks and rears" for their military positions.
Here was the spirit of the treaty from the mouth
of him who knew it best. He joined the Con-
gress on the part of England in order to establish
metes and bounds; to assist, with other esti-
mable Cabinet artists, in restoring and improving
the broken mosaic of the European settlement.
What was he to German freedom, or German
freedom to him ? The allusion to it was intro-
duced into the treaty because it happened to be
an incident in the great settlement ; and although
England was made a witness to it, and sane-
tioned it, she could have had no right to have
demanded its insertion, or to set herself up as
its peculiar guardian ; nor do we conceive it to
be at all expedient that England should be
anxious for this strained interpretation, in order
that she should embroil herself in what most
probably would be a desperate war. We need
not fear for Germany ;—her prudence, her in-
telligence, and her determination, will triumph
eventually, even if she have no other auxiliary
than that progressive power of mind which
neither ukase, protocol, nor proclamation, can
repress or arrest. As far then as regards the
interests of Germany, or our interference at pre-
sent in her behalf, do we consider it a matter of
indifference enough not to be even worth
the mentioning how our Noble Secretary
for Foreign Affairs comported himself in
his late communication with the Diet or
its Lords—whether he prayed or protested—
whether he was as "a feather" or " a rod."
Not so as regards our general intercourse with
the Ministers or agents of the now rampant des-
pots of the Continent. It is of great importance
that the British Cabinet should not be conta-
minated with the obsequiousness of our Holy
Alliance Statesman, or allow the sentiments of
indignation and abhorrence with which this free
and powerful nation views the unmerited oppres-
sion of a whole people to be disguised or ren-
dered misunderstood, more especially as, from
our having been parties to the Treaty of Vienna,
an opportunity should have been afforded us to
remonstrate against its gross infraction, even in
articles wherein we were not directly interested.
Nor need we confine our reprobation of the
conduct of Austria and Prussia to remonstrance
alone, however indignant and dignified. We
can make it most surely and severely felt through
the whole course of our foreign policy, by meet-
ing them in all our transactions, wherein they
areimmediately or remotely concerned, with a
most determined resistance to their favourite
principles. We need not war with them
on their own soil, but we can vanquish them on
the Scheldt—on the Tagus—in Greece—and,
above all, by supporting France in the mainte-
nance of her hard-won liberty. In this course
England may act without rashness, with a spirit
worthy of herself, and, most probably, for the
best as regards the happiness and ultimate free-
dom of the German Confederation.—Morning
Herald.

Though warm friends to the House of Hano-
ver, we doubt exceedingly whether this country
has gained any thing by the connection—that is,
we imagine Great Britain would have been bet-
ter off had she espoused the House without the'
country. Past history encourages this idea, and
present experience confirms it. As has been
recently observed by a contemporary, the only
absurd speech ever attributed to Mr. Fox was
his having said that " Hanover was as dear to
us as Hampshire,"—a proposition which could
only have entered his mind either during the
heat of debate, or at a moment when he found
it necessary to flatter the reigning monarch, re-
gardless, as all flatterers are, of truth. Without
enumerating the difficulties in which the sove-
reignty of Hanover has embroiled us, which
those who consult the history of the last century
can find no difficulty in discovering, it is suffi-
cient for our present purpose that we point our
readers' attention to the existing anomaly—viz.
that of seeing, at one and the same moment, the
King of England advocating and conferring on
his people the highest privileges of freemen,
while, as Sovereign of his electoral dominions,
he is made to join in a crusade against liberty,
which is likely, in the result, to enrage a whole
people, and lead to intestine commotions, the
fearful consequences of which no person living
can foresee. This is a state of things from
which Great Britain can derive no advantages,
and we are sorry to add, her patriotic Monarch
no fame ; and may lead to a dilemma of all others
the most to be deprecated—that of our being
called upon to take part in a contest which the peo-
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of England reigning in the hearts of his people ;
not that principles of liberty at home should be
tarnished by acts of despotism abroad. And,
after all, what can such acts end in ? Are there
any set of Statesmen, either English or German,
so blind and headstrong as not to read in the
signs of the times the utter impossibility of
bringing mankind back to the state to which
these ordinances would reduce them ? The loss
of absolute power, the privilege of commanding
all but the elements, may be very galling to those
who know nothing of freedom but in the name ;
but the time is come when a new era is dawning
upon Europe, and when the rod of iron must
yield to the sceptre of a more enlightened
species of dominion. Such being the case, and
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A novel written by the daughter of an Eng-
lish Duke will, it is said, be published in a few days. It
is to be entitled " Self-Guidance." The noble authoress,
we are informed, has laid the scene of her story in England,
during the present day, and has embodied in her pages
the life of a young hay, placed by circumstances in situa-
ations of no ordinary trial. Hence the title.

ST. HELIER'S (Jersey), July 30. -- Extract
of a letter : Last evening a slight shock of earthquake
was experienced in this island, more especially in the
sontb-eastern quarter I allude to the parishes of Saint
Martin, Gronville, St. Clement's, and in the town of Saint
Helier's. At about half past 8 o'clock, :a noise resembling
distant thunder, or, perhaps, more resembling theatrical
thunder, was heard, and a rocking motion was felt in most
of the houses ; chins and glass were affected by a tremu-
lous ringing, sufficient to cause serious apprehensions. I
have not given you the information without troubling
myself to discover every circumstance that might suffici-
ently explain it, but I can gather but one opinion, viz.
a shock of earthquake, similar to one which was experi-
enced here about fifty years ago.