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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

trhILY EXTRACTS :FROM THE MORNING PAPERS,

APRIL 25, .1826,

[THE TIMES.]
We gave within these few days the substance of a
dispatch from the Government of the United states of
North America to that of Russia, soliciting, the inter-
vention of the latter to bring about a termination of
the contest between Spain and her quondam posses-
sum' sin America, on the two-fold basis of recognizing
the new continental sovereignties, and retaining the
insular dominions of Cuba and Porto Rico. We now
preeent the reply of Count Nesselrode, who, in the
nave ,of the Emperor Alexander, employs much
civil and complaisant language towards the republic,
but flatly refuses to interfere at all for the purpose
recommended by the North American Minister.
Count Nesselrode declares for his Imperial Ma-
„Piny, that justice, the law of nations, and the general
interest in having the " indisputable" titles of Sove-
reignty respected, " could not allow the determine-
" tiona of the mother country in this important case
" to be prejudged or anticipated," and that Spain has
never signified any wish with regard- to her revolted
colonies, except simultaneously, to all the allied
Powers of Europe. Hence it may be inferred, if profes-
sians go for any thing, that until Spain shall think fit
to acknowledge the independence of these American
"itates, they will not be recognized by. Russia, Inas-
latch as, let them be de facto as free, as powerful; as
pri dominant over Spain, by sea and land as they
may, her title to rule over them is " indisputable," so
long as Ferdinand, or his successors, shall, refuse to
own for a fact that condition of things which is no-
torious to all the rest of the world. We have dis-
cussed too frequently, and enforced too empha*
tically, the real common-sense view of this ques-
tion, involving the rights and duties of foreign
states, with regard to the acknowledgment of new
powers created. by the actual overthrow of ancient
supremaciee, to trouble our readers with a repetition
of that simple and unanswerable argument which rea-
son suggests upon the subject, and which has been so
well established by the history and usage of mankind ;
but we may remark on the high price thus paid for a
form, which those must laugh at who insist upon it,
when Russia and her Continental Allies bind them-
selves to be enthralled in so large a portion of their
foreign policy as embraces more than half the western
hemisphere, until creatures like Ferdinand and his
Monks may be graciously pleased to deliver them from
the self-imposed bondage. Count. Nesselrode is earnest
with the United States to assist in repelling any attack
npon the Spanish sovereignty, in relation to the islands
of Cuba and Porto Rico. Ilia is a maliciOus turn
in the Imperial Minister,

His Majesty, it appears, has kindrypresented
towards the relief of the suffering manufacturers of
Macclesfield', and' another 1,000/. to those of Black-
burn. The first remark that' we shall make upon these
beAavolent acts is, that it a severe reflection upon
.his Majesty's Government, that the most
kent, acute, and industrial* ease .of his subjects,
should be driven to such a resource as this—should
be .rechiced the.. last miserable expedient of the
;vicious and profligate for support: To live by begging
—to exist upon charity !' This general has only
..,been the lot of the idle and' the sottish in any country.
And .let the sottish and' the: idle, for any

thing we care; be exposed: to the caprice a
wealth, and the uncertainty and waywardness a
human pity ; but to see. English manufacturers,
ready and able as they are to maintain them-
selves. and their families by their several ingenious
crafts, dependent upon fluids so insecure—upon a
bounty so degrading to those. who must either accept
it or starve,—ts, indeed; most heart-rending. How-
ever, his Majesty is not to blame for the sufferings of
his people. The manner in which his life is spent,
fallen as it is " into the sere and yellow leaf," exempts
hirri from the cares of Government ; his attention,
therefore; to lei-series of which he ie not the direct or
positive causer, is the. more. commendable and exem-
plary. But the Macclesfield and Blackburn work-
men are. at present the'
.only objects of the Royal
bounty : are the other workmen throughout the king-
dom to die unheeded ? for the manufacturing distress
extends every where. We do not press, however, the
ciiliirni; of all—we only mention them ; for it may
be doubtful whether the. King has much to give
away. Mr. Peel, in his letter which we. publish
to-day, says, that " his Majesty, out of the very
" limited funds at his disposal, has directed 1,000/. to
" be added to the subscription for the distressed at
" Macclesfield," Is it not, then, most remarkable
that whilst the King can only give2,ooo/. to the my-
riads of suffai•ing manufacturers now in the kingdom,
his Ministers could- have given .5,0004 a- ear to one
man, or tel one oslice, and that man and office con-
nected with the trade of the kiugdOm ? For our own
parts, such is the respect we bear to the Monarchy,
that we should, not object, to see-the King the sole &sc
penser of the public bounty, as: well as of judicial par-
dons ; and if Ministers would but have retrenched, we
should have. been content that the whole of their
- Steidle; aliould have been distributed to the suffering
people by the Royal hands. We observe further, in
Mr. Peel's letter, that the writer says, that he "is
" commanded by his Majesty to express the deep re-
gret with whiCh hatheard of the sufferings and.prie
vationa of tbe uneMployed poor in. the neighbour,.
" hood of Macelesfield: How: has the tale reached
the Royal ear in the deep recesses and " retired rides"
of Windsor-path ? Have the sufferers made their.
melancholy ease, known by petition or address ? If so,
why is not the document published? Others might
copy. ikwittli like success, for the sufferings of the' ma-
nufacturers extend now throughout the whole realm ;
and all have an equal claim to relief from some quarter
.—C4M, Royal bounty or legislative provision.