The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-18 00:00:00

MARCH 18, 1836,

law, than the ice the value of his admitted claim. The
French government, on the other hand, speak, if they
speak at all, through the agency:of Lord PALMERSTON,
who, for any thing we know.to the contrary, may be set-
tling the dispute at the expense of Great Britain.
There is yet one obstacle which remains to be over-
come. The ministry of trance which accepted the me-
diation of England and expressed themselves satisfied
with Mr. President .fAcKsoN's explanations have been
removed from office, and they have been succeeded by a
cabinet three of the members of which are decidedly ad-
verse to the American claims. But supposing they were
otherwise the apology of the president was not.demand-
ed on their account but in conformity with a vote of the
French Chambers. The clause in the appropriation bill
has not been complied with, and we cannot see how the
money can he paid without the sanction of some declara-
tory resolutions: ft is singular enough, too, that in the
•French estimates of the present year no provision what-
ever has been made for the indemnity. The sum has
been voted, as all the world knows, conditionally, but it
iias not. yet appeared in the financial estimates. We sus-
pect, therefore, that the. payment, if Made at all, will be
any thing but prompt, apd nut as the president too san-
guinely calculates upon.

Upon the whole, it has been a most trumpery and ridi-
culous dispute,. worthy only of -two nations, one of which
calculates its money in francs and the other in dollars.
It was only at a juncture_ of great national embarrais-
merit that the Americans forced upon • the King of the
Barricades the recognition of a debt which had been re-
sisted. for 'more_ than.twenty ears., and which every intel-
ligent man in France knew to be a preposterons and un-
just claini. In an evil hour, and almost under constraint,
Lours rkiimPt,F, put his seal to the bond, just as a needy
wretch, with property in expectancy, signs a judgment or
grants a post Obit. Had it been the case of two private
individuals,-theclaim upon such a treaty or bond would
have been'rejected in•-a commission a bankruptcy. It
was,. in short, swindling in a more digniaed form, the
helplesnOs of a natiOn being adroitly taken advantage
Of by a dishOnest creditor. Under all the circumstances,
however, and considering that the wine-growers of grance
• were permitted to introduce the worst and vilest of their
Wines into the United States upon easier terms than be-
fore, it would have been as well if the representatives
of France had paid the money without a amenntr. They
chose another course. They allowed the President of
America, evidently a very petulant person, and in had
odour with Ids Own senate, who placed a veto upon all his
Oarlike projeCts, to insult them by vulgar innendos and
insolent threats, which could not be mistaken, even
though impotent as well as absurd. We hope, however,
to hear no more of this business. We have taken our
fall share in the amusement which it was well calculated
to excite; but pantomimes, however provocative of
laughter, are not in season, any more than oysters, all
the year round. • • • •
In order to show that OleSe vamped up claims of the
Americans upon foreign states are the ridicule of her
more intelligent citizens, we beg leave to borrow an ex-
tract, iron/ one of the best written papers in New York—
we mean the Evening •Nittr of the 24th February :
" Alltxrco.—A rumour is afloat that 9lexico will be called upon
to "pay up" to the tune of two millions, fur alleged spoliations.
The principle must be carried out. " Sauce for the goose is
sauce fur the gander," and Jackson must eater up a cap;as ad
aatisfaciendtaa before he quits the premises. St. Anna had
better ne prepared for the "first instalment," or Texas will be
held in security. We believe the General has nearly squared
accounts with all the European powers—he must now open his
account current with South America.
"We have a small claim against Holland, for 400,000 dollars,
damage done to American property, by firing from the citadel
of Antwerp on the town b) Gen. Chassee. But Van Buren
begs he will leave that,small item for him to settle, if he can
elbow General tlarrison out of the way.
"We believe that there is a small miliqUidated amount
against the Celestial Empire; and ihat Hony-fit-100-Chee, the
Emperor of China, has signified his willingness Co pay, provided
We take it out in bohea.
" From the King of Siam we can get nothing. He said -he
would have paid in pepper, had not the Potomac, under Com:.
Dawnes, given Qeallah fiteloo a peppering to the full amount
of the claim.
"The Pottowattninies, we believe, owe its nothing. Its well
they don't, or we should pursue them beyond the Rocky Munn-
tains,":

Before the.extension of the franchise, under the pro-
visions of the reform hill, certain classes of the people
complained that they were neither truly nor efficiently
represented in the.. Commons' House of Parliament.
Those who complained most clamorousiy were the inha-
bitants of large towns ; hut, not to burden ourselves with
too many examples, we ;41all, select three as illustrative
of many other places. Jet us name, then, Westminster,
Edinburgh, and Glasgow.
We suppose it will be conceded to us that an extension

of the franchise, or even universal snit-rage itself, would
be a very inadequate compensation for the absence of the
representative front his parliamentary duties. For in-
stance, the borough of Liverpool could notlte said to
laife a voice in the House of Commons if its members
'should be either unable or unwilling to attend to their
duties: It will also he conceded that When a man is in
Spain he cannot possibly be in England—when a mem-
ber is in Madrid or Paris, he cannot at the same time be
in London.
This being granted, we beg to ask host is the ancient
and popillous city of Westminster, the Elysium of radi-
cals, the ptunorium of reformers, represented at this ►no-
nment ? Sir FRANCIS BURDETT is in delicate health and
cannot attend to his duties, whichels excusable, consider-
ing his long services ; but. u here is the junior member,
not HonnousE, againSt whom the rotten turnips and
cabbage stalks rose in rebelliop, hitt 'EvArrs, the colonel,
who is opposed to flogging in the army, and is the advo-
cate of universal suffrage, annual parliaments, and vote
by ballot? He is in Spain, tighting with disease, flog-
ging Englishmen into convulsion tits, giving orders for
interment by the road-side, drilling thieves for the work
-plunder,-and- bringing deep- dishonoor on the name
and character of his country. According to,the
Ales of the reform bill, the " city of Memphis" in Ame-
rica is as much represented in the House or Commons as
the.city Of Westminster. —lt is now the city.
Citizen PLACE, the tailor, has no voice in• Parliament.

•
The goose hemorks with is as eloquent in St. Stephen's
as Colonel EvA.Ns: The statue at Charing-cross :takes
as deep an' interest it) parlianintaQ, proCe.eilings, and has
much influence in local politics, as Colonel EVANS.
Reform has left tine patriots of:Lom_acre, and the:cos-
terolongers of the Seven-dials without a head, a giiiele,

or a representative. If thistle what is termed "carrying
out the, nrinCiples of the reform hill," we have nu right
to complain'; bnt'we imtst.„.y it is carrying the repre-
'l'sentativesout of the kingdonvand giving them a held of
action like that of Ltre s@iiinloaster--:abtoad.i If they are
"'content to have an extended franchise, and no represen-
ta
tives, we have nolight.to complain. If the%ass will

Starve lather than eat thistles, that is his affair.
Now for Edinburgh—the city, par excellence, of pride,
Whiggery, indolence, pomp, and beggary. Its patriot-
. ism is a compound of silliness, and a leetle of imposture,
too ludicrous to be treated seriously. It sought repre-
b:kentation, obtained the power to command it; and yet it.
Alas-no representation at all. It selected a mean tool of
the aristocratic Whigs, and a needy pensiOner to boot, as
its arst reformed 'member, who, since he became speaker
to advance the objects-.of the Russra.r. faction—the low
Whig party-4as to a certain extent been deprived of the
-Powers of a representative. fie is not permitted to de-
. Clare his opinion on any public measure in the house, ex-
eept, when the house is in committee—a privilege, we be-
iieve, he has never exercised. He cannot originate any
rileasirre or support any motion. He cannot bring in a
I • bill or present a petition. As die representative of Edin-
%iburgh he is of no more use to the electors than Ildgate
Pimp is to the House of Commons, or the sandhills of
Cheshire are-10 the paStures of Lincoln: Is this too
carrying out the principle of the reform bill, paiticularly
Where large constituencies are concerned?
The other member for Edinburgh is file JOHN CAMP-
BELL, the Attorney-General, whose wife has been jobbed
into the peerage, but who is much mole the represents_
tive, if he be not the simple dupe of his Majesty's mi-
nisters, than he is the representative of the electors of
.Is thet6' a'niortal brathing in that strong