The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-14 00:00:00

NO. 13.--THE COUNT DE JARNAC TO M. GUIZOT.

London, August 22, 1844.
Monsieur le Ministre,—The news of the attack on
Tangiers and of the departure of the squadron for Mo-
gadore has produced in Loudon a sensation which is all
the more deep, since, according to the previous news,
people had counted on a pacific termination of our
differences with Morocco. I regret to find once more
upon this question and upon our demonstration before
Tunis most unjust prejudices existing, mingled with sin-
cere uneasiness as to the possibility of the duration of
the good feeling between the two Courts. I continually
hear discussed around me in public the inevitable nature
of this war, especially injurious, they affirm, to the great
commercial interests of England in Morocco. The most
ambitious views, and the most hostile to Great Britain,
are openly attributed to France. The example of the
fate of Algiers and of the destruction of all the commer-
cial connections of England with the Regency is con-
stantly brought forward. It is constantly said, more-
over, that the peace of the whole world is now at the
mercy of every incident of a war, which will place in in-
evitable conflict the greatest interests of Prance and
England.
I have reason to fear that the evil impressions of the
English public have penetrated only too far into the
Council ; and I have every reason to believe, also, that
maritime
alreadytime
magi.s
but for the personal confidence inspired by the King's
Government, and the public declarations of your Excel-
lency,owed itselfhe
t ob
British
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n
strop woud
eat have
festations. However that may be, I have always sup-
ported openly, and never ceased to maintain all its
lg
rests of France, a war which the most flagrant provoest-
integrity, our right to carry on, according to the inte-
tions have rendered necessary. I do not find even in
the Chief Secretary of State himself any desire to. eon-
testu ch the
a re
the legitimate nature of our complaints against
politicalengaged andin theseeo
m-
Morocco, or the moderation of our demands ; but he
reminds me
Great how
Britain much Yal ntr'netres
affairs. ;Th especially,e independence of Tangiers
placed
as it is at the gates of Gibraltar, and necessary for the
veerreyi
provisioning of that fortress, appears to him an indis-
pensable condition for England. It ought to be added,
em rane
at the same time, that the rem b ge of the events of
Algiers weighs very heavily upon this hlw o s question,
and contributes to shake, every moment, the confidence
of the men who find themselves •
once more responsible
for the consequences which this war may entail upon the
interests of their country.
"In 1830, also," they say, " the complaints of the
French Government were founded upon justice ; the
most plausible motives were put forward for a breach
with the Regency. Explanations and promises, which
were at that time considered sufficient, had re-assured
the foreign Powers with regard to the interested and
ambitious views of France. And yet, in spite of the
apparent sincerity of the Government at that'tiine, the
entire territorities of the Regency have since, by the
force of events, been successively annexed to France.
Who is now to guarantee these same Powers against
similar result ? War has its necessities, and politics
their exigencies. The diswrobation of the most legiti-
mate of foreign Courts, will be called up against them
by popular passions. And yet it must be evident to
whoever studies the interests and duties of the different
Governments, that no European Poe er can reclaim at
once, and at its very gates, the security of peace and
the benefits of conquest ; and that, if so many unex-
pected circumstances have been able to change the natu-
ral consequences of the definitive occupation of Algiers
by France, no new increase of its territory can bo
made
but at the price of its pre,ent connexion with its allies,'
In answer to these considerations, which ..re cons ta.ntly
brought forward, I have confined myself to I.+. ruie.ding
them, that all mistrust of the kind would be incomy
with the spirit that presides over the policy of

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