Star.
London, England, 1823-03-10 00:00:00

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We know of ncthing that can now be wanting to
convey to the Ministers of France the unanimous
sense which the British People and Government en-
tertain of the injustice and impolicy of their threat-
ened aggression on Spain. That it has had the effect
of making them pause in their career is manifest;'
'nor, until they absolutely throw away the scabbard,
can it be said that all hope has vanished of the peace
of Europe being yet preserved.
Everything that caa be done by mediation and
remonstrance, to avert the evils of war, we do be-
lieve has been done by Great Thitain. It would
seem, however, that there are some people of opinion
that more than this is required at our hands—that
should France not do as we wish or command, we
too must take up arms against her. The language
of our remonstrance, said Mr. DENMAN, the other
night, should have been " that the very moment a
French Army crossed the Pyrenees, or fired a shot
on the bank of the Bidassoa, France would be con-
sidered as in a state of positivehostility with England !"
We are not aware that any other advocate of the
Spanish cause has gone so far as this ; nor do we
think that inany men besides. Mr. DENMAN could
have fallen into the absurdity of first complaining
that France wishes to dictate to Spain, and then la-
menting that England had not been guilty of the
very same sort of dictation, 'only in a lesser degree,
towards France. We take it, however, to be the
clear aim of but too many of the speeches which have
been delivered in Parliament and elsewhere, on the
subject, to rouse such a feeling in the English People
as may actually make a declaration of war against
ance the consequence of the failure of our mediation
in behalf of Spain.
Now, though we wish from our hearts every suc-
cess to the cause of Spanish independence, and should
hope, that if the Spaniards are compelled to defend
it by force of arms, the prayer so fervently uttered by
Lord WILLIAM BaNTINCK will be the universal prayer
of the British People-04 May GOD uphold and lead
to Victory r yet we must be allowed, at the same
time, most earnestly to deprecate this getting up of
an idea, that we are called upon to carry our sym-
pathy for Spain to the perilous extent of making war
for her sake (not our own) against France.

We should think that the first point to be ascer-
tained, in a question of this nature, is, whether the
party who is threatened with an unjust attack be
really in want of our assistance to repel it? If Spain is
able, by a proper exertion of her own resources, to
maintain her independence, it is too much to expect
from her friends that they too shall take the field for
the sake merely of bringing the struggle to a speedier
termination, or of giving her French invaders a
sounder drubbing than they may otherwise get. We
will even go farther, and assert, without fear of le-
futation, that if Spaiu is at all able to maintain her
own cause with her owniislood and treasure, it will
be for her lasting benefit that she should db to.
—There never yet was a people equal to the full en-
joyment of liberty, who did not force their own way
to it through a thousand difficulties, hardships, and
dangers ; nor is it in the nature of men but to prize
the more what has cost them -mita). —As has been
well observed by a political :iiiiier77:" For a nation
to love liberty, it is enough .that she.knswrit---to be
free, it is enough that she will id" Now; as to the
ability of Spain to defend herself :dust France, we
believe that there pievaili ontlit 44st-informed
men but one opinion. Whatever apprehensions may
exist with respect to the issue of the approaching con-
test, it is not for Spain- that they are entertained,—
If the Spaniards are unanimous, Otrevien neatly so,
in the defence of their country, it is not in all the.
might of France to subdue it; norly.the conquest of
one acre, to alter the balance of poweilin
What BOt4APACTE failed in achieving 'tithe plenitude'
of his vower,• it would be idle to imagine can be ac-
compßicct the &Anemia in the restored juveni-
lity of theirs.
The Secretary of the Spanish Legation, Senor Co:

LON, sid hinsielf, at the.dinner on Friday last, that
only so fight lAsithiand
gold to may the eipe4ses v 0!? war." He yea