The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

arms Ead won

The Carlist vanquishers of Evans and his legion
were themselves vanquished by the treason of Maroto,

1-blooded murders of distinguished chiefs
was a subject of great triumph with the Globe—a jour-
nal that claimed for Lord Palmerston all the honour
and glory of Maroto's treachery and crimes.
Nobody envied Lord Palmerston his position on the
political platform where the Globe had pilloried him to
imperishable disgrace. Even we felt some compassion
for the unhappy secretary thus awkwardly immolated
by a friendly hand. We thought that no British states-
man could have condescended to work with such an
ensanguined tool as Maroto. But the Globe insisted
that the whole merit of the policy, which substituted
murder and treason for open and manly warfare be-
longed to our foreign secretary: He, and he alone,

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was the PACIFICATOR of Spain !
Well, Spain is now in the midst of another revolu-
tion, The usurpers of the Queen's authority have got
possession of the Queen's capital city, and, by the title
of a successful revolt, have taken the cares as well as
the profits of government on themselves. Such are
the fruits of the " quadruple treaty of the West" in
pacifying the kingdom of the Spanish peninsula. Is
not Palmerston then a successful pacificator ?

The quadruple treaty" of the East bids fairly to pro-
duce as much confusion and bloodshed as the " qua-
druple treaty" of the West has already done—probably
a great deal more. It, is a treaty which, as Lord Pal-
merston says, is to afford " a solution of the compli-
cations of the Levant." We see already how it has
begun to simplify those "complications." It operates
by entangling all Europe in the meshes of Eastern
policy. But it has a great resource for cutting away
all difficulties in reserve. It is' the same instrument
that was formerly used to cut the " Gordian knot"—
Me sword.

On the efficacy of the sword in adjusting the liti-
gated claims of the Sultan and Mehemet Ali do the
"pacificators" of the East rely. So greatly do they
rely upon it, that Palmerston sent the Pedroite naval
hero, Commodore. Napier, to Beyrout, to instigate an
insurrection in Syria, while the representatives of the
" high contracting parties" to the quadruple treaty were
waiting the result of the amicable and peaceful offers
made to Mehemet Ali. But we turn with disgust from
proceedings calculated to brand indelible disgrace upon
the name of England.
The consular agents of the four powers prattled in
high strains of pompons rhetoric touching the " solid
guarantee of treaties" by which European policy was
distinguished, while Palmerston's commodore was ac-
tually taking active steps to prove that in as far as the
quadruple treaty solemnly guaranteed peace with the
Viceroy of Egypt until the period allowed for his ac-
ceptance or rejection of certain proposals should have
expired. it was intended to be a mere elaborate piece of
treachery and deception.
A "blockade of Alexandria, commenced before the
expiration of the time allowed by the quadruple treaty
for Mehemet Ali to accept or reject the ULTIMATUM
of the high contracting parties to that treaty," is quite
in character with the proceedings previously adopted
by Napier upon the coast of Syria. This is what the
Globe calls " important news from the East." Very
important, no doubt—but very discretitable also to the
pacificators of the East, who seem to be in most inor-
dinate haste to rush upon hostilities.

This is an age of discovery ; but the greatest of all
the many-great discoveries of the nineteenth century,
is that made by Lord Palmerston, who has discovered
that Russia is the protectress of Turkey