The Sun.
London, England, 1816-02-20 00:00:00

fore Paris :mil continerell peace ; übich the wltofe
Vrenth nation Al tleronah an electric feeling, seemed
Vs:44 to throw themselves into the arms of the
'victors, (sad of lbeir restored Monarch, exulting
art their liberation from the tyrant by whoto they
'ad been so lone oppressed. an illiberal policy
bad been 'adopted towards Bnonnparte-: 'tire
war had Then continited. to seize and remove his
person, ao the war, as it would have done, had-
beentrie a rivil conteq:be had no doubt Ministers
And winild' have been charged with
attempting to cloud, tfiat 'horizon which appeared
I.4en so glowing and so beantital. It ought to be
the character of a great confeder4cy of powers to
acct au enlarge(' views. In their career they had
only acted on such; In a confederacy, which
might hr considered ail the represtntathe force of
nurope, since it pnt foul) at once one c>l*
Th?n, scarcely any view of self-interest, artsbiticet.,
or spoliation, could be, intrnilticeil that wOl4 41)0t.
01111 its own correctiye, It was il,corifetterigir:
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in closing the,war 1f414, they-itad readily re-
tir,4l from VranCe, not' only without taking any
thing for themselves, but leaving her a greater ex-
tent of territory than she possessed before the Re-
volntion.. lie should continue to rejoice at sin h
itemduet, even though it bad given rise to the stilt-
sequent war, because- it bad instsireil the, world
with a moral confidence in the moderation. and,
justice of the great Enropean Powers, 4ny otlor
course would, besides, have only served to pro-
tract an intestine war. after the second
contest, it would have been childisbncia in
the confederacy to have indulged the Inn,
rality.oltheir feelings to the sarneexteitt. In ex-
amining the question; he was desirons to meet
wia:lt he rather supposed would be stated by an
Hon. awl Learn, d Gentleman whom be slid not
Now see in his place (Mr. flintier was mrderstood)
n a ApetiCB of plea and hare the eourse adopted
by Go`rernment, '' that we hail. no right to inter-
fere with the internal concerns and government
of France." IThere were two, minles ortieWing
that question : The, first, whether, On ge:ncial
prineiples, such an interference could pot be sus-
tained ; the second related to the pecoliik situa-
clan in which the Brit'isb .Govcrurnheitood,

whether that did- not debar it trotn,the tight of_
interfering. believed. that it would b.: press,
ell by that lion., Gentlemen, that we had aban,
aimed tire principle on which We "shoniti act, in,
meddling With. the Government of ' France, mid
trdOpted a-course of
.nnwise policy and error. , fie
irt;;11-t defend the conduct of Government 'by ask-
in whether" independent sf'itote inta,,not the
right of mixing in the policy of anot4,v,r, n;ttion,,
rrodbuiltling its security upon the peeoliar fnlttire
ot. its formation ; but be should .:6t-st consider ,
%Olf bad fallen from an llbn. anti Lcarne4fien.
Tiennin on a former night, and which, he had
founded on a passage in a letter of Lord Clancarly,
o•BllPPtnitinof indifference on the . part
.of
GovSrnment• to the person who sboula.
reign in Frank% • If the Hononrahle and T.:canted
gentleman had road that sentence in connection
svitit the next to it, he would havecertahily fonnd,
that the object of the war was not to atnitgse any
particular fm or of government upon France .7,1,
bit if we ohlected to liaonaparte, on the, gcOund:,
ot oar own security, did it resnit front that, ,
that we 11-twill3 be as indifferent to the.te-.
o:oration. of no amiable and unfortunate
Nereign, as tot the. elevation of Male other
Asiventurer, who. might ‘row out of, the
Aktenty ? He denied that any meaning ,of that'
kind could he wrested out. o( out...political
ftptsions. lie referred the Rouse .tto. our, D'v,lan.
rution of May, on . ratifying the Treaty of the.
With of •Mareh,• in which, although we had stafed,
that we should not consider the impoliing of any,
pl,cticular Government iii oto Prailte tl.idopoi non, ,
at •n, condition of peace, yet we distinctly ex,
premtedhow.desirous we. r shonld be ,to
.sett
_the'
Bourhems. restored, This was not a ;um k.of
difference, but shewed, that although ou,the eer-
tan. emilusion of. iluonaparte we might haye
knowledgcd some other ittdisitinal, yet, we bad
wenn Mid decided preferertee itj beltult of the hilt;,;
of. France. That was the only avowed pqt .
In.view in all our documents, and it was thereto'
incredible that Lord Clanearty, writing on the
I2th of May, in explanation of the ,Dsclaratinn,
isfUle4 on.the2lllt of April, hi ratifying the Tremy
of.the-2.5th of March, shonid have wiiitea any
tiring in a 'different sense ; as beside' his own
judgment•and abilities-, that Nobleman .was net,
without his instructions. lie therefore ii:slied the
House to eitinitte the. DocuMents, commencing
with the Declaration of, the Allies Of the' 13th of
Atireb, the Treaty of the 2511 of the sante month,
and, our explanatory. Declaration of the .24411
April, and it would be-found that to diouvew the
...restoration of the liouthons had never been our
object. As an abstract question, lie was ready to
acknowleilge that. nothing Was more improper than
to interfere in the internal arrangements of
.other-
nations, •or to- be captious 'about their modes of
Ciorerntnent.: But would any Gentleman
-any Stott!' has. telt:itself, so tied up as nutsto bare
the 110 .of interfering 'in the conduct of foreign,
nations,-. when any, one of theM'iattceked the se-.;
curity and establishments of thereof ? CeriainlY. •
not,-for this principle was as fullyrecogitisiti as any
other.greatdeading point of policy. -There was, 09.
situation Which more deeply the peace,
and:Sectirity of States, than that in ,which they
were plated When there was any ilasstion,nbout, the
right ot snecession to 'thr.Throne, and when it
civil contest arole 'as to whitljel. the,, soprctlie
posier shonld remain in one family,. -or-he, trttns,...
fetTed: to another, If we• were to try the ques-
tion, by the, former practice ot •Lurope.,,he appre-
hended we should riot bear srp many loose: opt-
gi,,4o:,ahout 140 right of every people tr change.
these .form of Government, a theory that 144
arisen,out taf Itie corrupted. and JiteObinioed.
ctplcy et afloat by og,horrible French Revoln.
Pion'.. If we kinked !melt at the prof* of. this
rotintry, uual referred to the hest atithorities, sire
should nod tlaait the principle in question wastaid,
down, and, est4blithed by the theinselvgs,,
—Wear, hear l)-,--iiti,mettnt the Whigs of earlierr.
threes, from svhtose principles 'those
.of modern
d'.
im had certainly swerved no chaff 'degree
if we wanted a precedent for interfering in the
Government 'Of a foreign nation, respecting thy
stqoport and 'upholding of its legitimate dynasty,
*re in our own country about a century