The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

OMIT,

THE LEAP ROYAL OF LEAP YEAR.

(From Fraxer's Magazine for March.)

In this leap month of this leap year, the Queen,
Using her sex's privilege, chose
A husband for herself. In tints of rose
All things were coloured for the bridal scene ;
And many a jest—some rather warm, I ween—
On many a jocular lip that day arose
Which saw the virgin hours approach their close
Of England's royal maiden. And between
Eight and nine hundred thousand people stood
Huzzaing 'mid the tyranny of the rain,
Which came upon us in a precious flood,
To greet with due applause the princely twain.
Hooted, meanwhile, was Melbourne, our grand Tamberlane
And likewise was Earl Uxbridge, the lord-chamberlain.

And all the women said, with voices sweet,
" Oh, what a nice young man is that Prince Albert!
He looks as straight and taper as a halbert ;
Almost as slim, not quite so tall; you'd meet
Few better-looking chaps in Regent-street,
Smoking cigars, and talking Upland Dutch;
With greased moustaches, of such pretty touch,
On Friday evenings, when the Jews make neat
For Sabbath. And he sings a pretty song,
And writes a pretty opera, and can play
So pretty on the flute, that through High Holborn
You might employ yourself the whole day long,
Ere any other Sharman poy' you'd say
Was fit as he to rhyme-grind for 11. Colburn."
And, therefore, it is very right that he,
From all those bold and martial qualities,
Composing quavers, muddling melodies,
High-German chanting, and the proud degree,
In rumbling Latin by the 'versity
Of Rhenane Bonn* conferred, at once should seize
The baton of Field-Marshal, with small ease
Won by our soldiers when this LL.D.
Lay in his father's loins. And just as right
That he, the true field-marshal, he the gem
Of all our host, whom England's diadem
Must own its saviour, should meet paltry slight ;
But he contemptuous on that score may look,
When London's million voices hail the Duke.

M. O'D.

* See the diploma of J. U. D. conferred upon Prince Al-
bert by the University of Bonn. It is in very big and very
odd-looking Latin words, and no doubt the doctors know
what they are about, and no small blame to them.—Vl°
Kal. Mart. Bis. The Blssextile Day, Feb. 25, the Grey
Mare, Regent-street.

SPAIN AND ENGLAND.
(From the Staffordshire Gazette.)
The debate last week on the Marquis of London-
derry's motion, for the production of the papers of the
Bergara Convention, shows how deeply the honour of
England has been compromised by a British ministry
in this most treacherous of all treaties that have ever
been recorded in the annals of this or any other coun-
try. Indeed, so thoroughly un-English is the feeling
of bribing a servant to betray his master, that we are
sure there is not a right-minded Englishman, be he
whig, radical, or tory, that will not mourn for the de-
gradation of his country through this humiliating
treaty. It appears that in June aad July last two
British officers, Lord John Hay, and Colonel Wylde,
were employed by Lord Palmerston, in conjunction
with Espartero, the Christino General, in concocting
this foulest of treacheries, and that Nlarotto, the Car-
list General, after his second communication with them
on the subject, issued a second proclamation to those
faithful soldiers, whom he had at the very time agreed
to betray into the hands of their enemies. In this pro-
clamation Marotto says, " In vain do villains spread
reports of negotiations with the enemy; never will any
men whose principles are recorded as ours are, stoop
to negotiation. ' The Kin °. and our Religion' is our
motto, and, in defending them, we must triumph or
die in our arms." In less than two months after the
issuing of this proclamation, and after barbarously
murdering a number of the most distinguished Carlist
officers, whose devoted loyalty to their prince stood in
the way of his projected treachery, this arch traitor
delivers up twenty-two battalions, placed by the confi-
dence of his royal master under his command, into
the hands of Espartero. We are not surprised at
Lord Melbourne's attempt to .justify, on the score of
expediency, Machiavelian principles of a government
which does not scruple to avow that the end justifies
the means ; but we certainly did not expect to see an
Earl of Clarendon so far forget what was due to
the name and memory of his great progenitor—
to whose service& and sufferings in the cause of
betrayed royalty his lordship is indebted for the
coronet he wears—as to stand up in his seat as the
abettor of so signal an act of treachery," as the Con-
vention of Bergara is aptly termed by no small autho-
rity—(the Earl of Aberdeen,) and to call it " a great
and noble measure of pacification." It appears from
what may be collected from the debate, that the British
Government had at length become fully aware of their
indiscretion in entering into the Quadruple Treaty,
having been so soon left by the French to bear the
whole brunt and burthen in the Quixotic attempt to
force the Spanish nation to abandon their lawful king.
After inducing by this attempt, 10.000 of our country-
men to enlist into the unfortunate legion, and then
suffering the survivors of them to be mulcted of their
pay—after supplying arms and military stores to the
amount of £616,638, not one farthing of which has
been, or probably ever will be, repaid ;—after locking
up and endangering our ships of war, during six years
on the dangerous coasts of Spain, when our merchants
were crying out for protection against French aggres-
sion in every quarter of the globe ;—the very men who
had so recklessly plunged the country into a contest
without the shadow of a cause, found themselves unable
to put an end to it without resorting to a step, which,
though harmless as to their own characters, has un-
happily brought indelible disgrace upon the British
name.
In this step, however, as in all others not founded
upon right principles or common prudence, the Ber-
gara Treaty has utterly failed in its anticipated results,
for Cabrera and the Carlists, roused to indignation by
the treachery of Marotto, are extending the war
through the very heart of the Peninsula, and with a
vigour stimulated into fury by a sense of the atrocious
injury done to their betrayed Monarch. The object of
the Quadruple Treaty being, aecording to Lords Mel-
bourne and Clarendon, to obtain the pacification of the
Peninsula, and the object being apparently as far dis-
tant as ever, our navy and our money will be still
wanted for the visionary scheme, and all that will re-
main to the British Nation for its gratuitous inter-
ference with the internal affairs of Spain, will be the
general execration of the Spanish people, and the lower-
ing of its own character in the eyes of the world.

" Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming-hither ;
Ripeness is all."
It cannot be gainsaid but that the present ministers
have been the greatest gluttons in receiving punishment,
and in enduring degradation, history hath ever spoken
of, or living men been witnesses of; nay, to such an
infatuated degree have they carried selfish humiliation.
that the ordinary principles of rational calculation have
been baffled, and it would seem that nothing less than
a haitallon of the Guards brought in to fire upon them,
as was the case of the celebrated whig elephant in Exeter
'Change, will annihilate the tenacity of administrative
existence; when the human heart becomes obtuse to
the ordinary feelings of honour; when the conventional
rules that govern public men are held in contempt, and
a certain degree of power and authority is possessed by
the contemnors, sufficient to uphold them in their out-
rages upon public principle, and public decency, for a
certain period of time, a little reflection will make ma-
nifest, that our first symptoms of astonishment were
premature, our disappointment uncalled for, and our
expectations of speedy conservative triumphs precipi-
tate, and the question of, " When will you die?"' imme-
diately. becomes one of amusement,_ rather than of vexa-
tion. It is most true that thejust expectations of many
more than mere superficial observers, and surface-
politicians have been disappointed; but they have been
only postponed, and not relinquished, and for good
cause, viz., that these disappointments have been pro-
duced by the extraordinary interposition of a power
rarely exerted from mere personal predilections, and at
the peril of sacrificing the most important loyalty of,
the land, whether it be regarded in respect o.
f person,
or property, or morals; we trust that it will not be
very long ere this power will perceive the precipice
over which the insidious fascination of Papistical trai-
torism, and of perfidious Protestant liberalism, or in
other words, of modern " political socialism," has sus-
pended it, and that the vast and awful voice of stern
constitutional loyalty may be at last heard, propheti-
cally exclaiming
" Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen."
Our immediate object is to put our Conservative readers
on their guard, and to impress upon them the necessity
of increasing vigilance, that they may not imagine, be-
cause the shield of the three lions passant guardant, has
been unexpectedly degraded by being interposed be-
tween destruction and the present Ministers, that
richly merited overthrow can be much longer delayed
—let them therefore be not found asleep at their posts,
stupidly believing the roar of the lion d'or will terrify
loyalty any longer, or be able to protect the traitors to'
Protestantism beyond a very brief period we speak
this advisedly, and we earnestly summon every true
Conservative to be prepared to combat in the electoral
ranks at an early day—earlier than perhaps our late
disappointment may willingly induce us to believe, and
the retardation of our hopes by royalty and parliamen-
tary privilege, tyranny would prudently suggest—but
we say unto you, be on your guard, prepare for your
posts,' for be assured a dissolution is not far off, and
that Lord Melbourne cannot sustain his disgraceful
position longer without one ; nay more ; if not be-
neath credibility, that he is most anxious to retire at
once without one; that he has informed her Majesty of
the true state of affairs, and that she has exacted a
most reluctant assent from the Premier to appeal to
the country against Peel, before she will accept his re-
signation, and it is very probable the corn-laws or the
ballot will be found to be the chosen battle-field, we
say then, " To your Tents °lsrael!" for whether our
information or our belief be correct or not, our advice
to be on your guard" cannot be otherwise than
sound. "'rime is the old Justice that examines all
such offenders, (ministerial) and let Time try."

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