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London, England, 1828-08-15 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

7110111 THR JOURNAL DRS DILBAT/a, AUG. 12.
PARIS, Atm 11.
The more we reflect tin the position of England. as
regard, Europe, or as regards itself, the more we are
-convinced that its preset state of inaction cannot be
loog, and th it s vents will very soon, •whether it wit' or
not, bi mg it back upon the sta-e from which its Minis-
ters have la'te'ly so completely erased it. Setf-denial
is a piiiite viitite, which is not of a very desirable na-
• tore even iu individuals; but the political disifitelested•
ness of d !onion, which has ships and men, when great
question.. are on tne point of being d cided by sea and
lano, would be a very u 'certain element of the, corn- •
binations that ate preparing ; and the Cabinets of Eus
rope will do well not to found theic•calculations oittbis
moonily.
. Whatever humility England may have shown in her
conduct towaids Portugal, it cannot be denied that the
,eeer,t, of ..be Peninsula have muck her to the heart.
There is not a m re pitiable sight than that of DonMignel
saluting with his usurpation the last English soldiers
ander sail from Lisbon fir Plymouth. The Cabinet
of the R,egent shut against Sir Frederik Lamb during
ki,snrlshal residence as Amnassador from his Britannic
gajesty.racc)ansations of joy in theGovensatentGazelte.
.on.the departure of that freemason—the clemagetneat of
so melatlehay a drama consummated amidst cries of
es NO' to the Constitution, to the legitimate King,
and to the English r Str John D cast into a dun-
geon, reclaimed by a diplomatic intervention, refused,
and brought before the Municipal 'Tribune of nine In-
, qui:itors--English subjects arrested at Oporto, their
property confiscated, to pay the expenses of the Usur.
per's campaign, 'and perhaps those of his coronation—
lastly, the embargo laid on vessels which the British
flag no longer protects in the Tagus and the Douro, it
they have on board a single victim of Dan Miguel,
a few piastres, if taken by a faithful 'subject of
Don • Pedro, going into exile. This is, in a few
words, vglnic England has just experienced in Porto.
gal.- And let us remark, that this is only what
may.be called the outer side of the question. We must
see in it, besides, an alliance of vital importance, in the
opinion of all the statesmen who have succeeded each
ether in power in England, hazarded, and perhaps irre-
tieiably lost, by these last dissentions. Now all this.
If only the work of the triumph of a party, and the van-
qui,hed of to-day becoming victors of to•mortow, re-
sore with usury to England the advantages which she
,basso strangely abandoned. So long as her interven-
lion was only useful, by an apparent and cautious con-'
cession tit the principles of the law of nations, she timidly
gave way to the first pretext that presented itself to free
herself from it. Has she waited, to resume it when it
shall become necessary ? Has she wished that gratitude
should increase with the importance of t'e service? Is
it necessary, in order completely to sail-if Europe, or
to deprive it Of all graund for complaint, that the signal
should come from Rio? Is it without any reserved
• design, with .ut object, that the English Ministers,
for tljs mo ith past, have been talking of the august
Chief of the House of Braganza, and or their religious
observance lit the treaties %bleb bini Great Britain t
that 'family ? Is not the actual dethronement of Dni
Pedro of itself a cassis farderis? And if that Prince
should. one day ask of the Duke of Wellington or o.' his
successor only the free entrance of the Tagus for hi.
. daughter, Donna Maria, the legitimate Queen of • Por•
toga', will E tgland, which has engaged by treaties to
maintain the integrity of the territory, still refine her
ships? She has sent them against disarmed refugees,
on the frintiers of G illicia—let them go against the;
scaffold, I Don Miguel, and Europe will wish them a
prosperous voyage.
Ibrahim Pada, at length, offers to evacuate the
Motet. The ravages of the Egyptians have not even
le t the country in it condition to niainiain them. The
twits of Greece, .trictly blockaded by. the Allied squad-
lons, no longer receive the convoys sent by his father.
He asks only for ships and departs for Egypt. , .
Will the eipedition which is preparing in the ports
sf the Mediterranean be prosecuted with less activity in
mnsequence of this news? And will the French flag,
vhich ve have been promised should be displayed, on
the cradle of regenerated Greece, merely. protect the
peaceable return of Ibrahim and his bands to Alexandria?
'We do not believe it ; troops have not been assembled
at a great expense on the coast, nor many transports.
have not been freighted; our old'ships have not been
rut into d ck, and new ones do nnt come out, for the
were purpose of hastening a departure, which was al.
ways thought at least probable without our interven •
ton. A more elevated thought directed the concep.
hop, which has been hailed by -France, and is worthy
of her new destinies. bhe has resolved 10 be fere'