Star.
London, England, 1826-10-23 00:00:00

FRANCE AND SOUTH AMERICA.

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The following article, copied from the Afonikur of Wednesday,
is evidently an official article bu the political aspect of European
affairs :

The Government of the King has recognised the
Empire of Brazil! The banners of Colombia and of
Mexico wave in our harbours, and the commerce of
France has not in vain expressed to the throne her
grievances and her wishes. The restoration of the Mo-
narchy laid open the seas to us ; this day it accom-
plishes What it so beneficently began. Events, over
which France possessed no controul, had reared a bar-
rier around America--that barrier has fallen; a new
field is opened to the genius of the nation—the Royal
solicitude has now left free to its wot kings a whole
world:—None can deny that the august determination,
which assures, to the fl 'g of France welcome and pro-
tection on the shoies on the Weitern Continent, is, in
every respect, cenforinable to our interest and well-
being; public eVatilnde would give to necessity the
measure of the benefit. Toe Government of. the King
was placed in delicate circoMstaneeS; it wascalled on
to practise a policy at once patient and generous—ii
has done so. The rights of every country over its Own
Colonies ; the benefits, now but little known, which
Spain for three cehturries has been conferring on Ame.
rice; the religion, the order, the Arts of Europe, the
civilization, in a word, which she has given in exchange
for destructive treasure ; these there were so many con-
siderations which rendered respectable in the eyes of
I every European Power, the cause of the mother country ;
the bonds which connect us with Spain, the presence of
our soldiers in the heart of her Provinces, demanded
from France a very peculiar degree of circumspection,
even if the ties of kindred which subsist between the'
two thrones, had not imperatively called for the exercise
of it. That Journal, which declares that the relation
of the Rpyal Families are not things which ought to
embarrass the two, nations, betrays but an indifferent I
recollecriaa, or a slender knowledge of the past.—
During the past century; our country has received most
signal advantageifrom the consanguinity between the
two'throies. The triumphs of our navy, the peace we
have .maintaiped, the wars we have c.arried on ;with
glory.—that England, which we have humbled—the
extension of our commerce in the two worlds—the new
sources of weealtti created by our industry, under favour
of protective concessions, in the immense domains of
the Bourbons of Spain—such are, and they are known
to all the' world, the prosperous issues of the family 'I
compact. After enjoying its profits for fifty years, it
was but just we should know how to bear the costs of
a single day. were it only in return for these.piofits.
We do notiselievt that the delay,has produced any
lasting injury ; the time-is yet distant, ere the commer-1
cial religions of .Europe and America shall assume the I
whole of, their importance; Even now we must sow in
expectation of a late harvest ; the attempts of the na-
tions that have preceded us, have been far from pros.
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religion, the similarity of our manners and our lan-
guage, the universal relish of: the people for our litera-
ture, the instruction which they have derived, in some
measure exclusively, from the writings of our great
men, form so many points of union between us. No
one denies that our countrymen have the gift of speed-
ily exciting affection; they will, in this case, shew that
they are equally capable of preserving it.
The time was come, when, by general consent, it was
necessary to adept a decided line of conduct ; all hopes
of such a neutrality as might conciliate the two great
Powers had utterly vanished. Most of the Monarchies
of Europe had indeed anticipated us, and our mer-
chants saw their rivals pressing forward with confi-
dence towards our shores. It was of importance nut to
give to the foreigner leisure to recover from those
shocks which had shaken the commercial world, and
by which France had suffered by far the least, which
will be dying away in Europe when America is at
peace. It was impossible that France should continue
to make without end, in the two extremities of the globe,
those sacrifices which have been multiplying for four
years past in the Peninsula ; the cries of French com-
merce spoke with energy to the heart of the King—and
even the interest of Spain, duly considered, was,-perhaps,
equally pressing. In thus doing a: last what she could
no longer, with safety to herself, delay, France acts
without prejudice to Spain or to the King of Spain.—
She takes au side in the disputes so long maintained
between the Colonies and the mother country; she

leaves undecided those great questions—upon- which
Fortune has already, in part, pronounced her judg-
ment—to Time, to Spain, and to Heaven; she leaves
their complete solution.
The spirit of equality which reigns at Caraccas and at
Vera Cruz, ought no longer to hinder the King from ,
entering into commercial relations with those countries.
The flig of the Confederated States waves in the har-
bours of all the Monarchies of the world. And what
besides is there in that spirit—what is its power—what
will be its duration ? These are secrets of PROVIDENC2—
mysteries, into the depths of which no one may presume
to penetrate. One thing only is certain, estrangement
presents no facilities either of persuasion or command.
To put two-thirds of the new world under a sort of
quarantine, was an undertaking which Europe, though
unanimous and persevering, could have with difficulty
accomplished, which, for France alone, to have at-
tempted, would have been absurd. It is a strange con-
fession, of weakness in the friends of regal government
to believe the contagion of republicanism to be of so
formidable a character. We congratulate the Govern•
ment of the King on their displaying more confidence
in the monarchical principle ; and, indeed, grounding
our belief on the faith of history, we may affirm, that
when States monarchical, and States. popular, are
brought into contact, the power of the former is more
likely to prevail than the specious charms of the latter.
There are epochs ikthe political history of nations
when Republics are Impracticable—in their infancy, and
in their maturity ; it requires the •igour of youth to
bear up under the labour of those violent constitutions.
Au,' let this be carefully attended to—in the history of
the world, there is not a sin3le example of a monarchy
hid), in its old age, has given itself up to republican
storms; and, on the contrary, there is not a single re-