The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-13 00:00:00

where men have been well educated and where intelli-
gence is deemed a proof of mental superiority.
The most imPortant feature in the message is Mr.
President JACKSON'S menace of hostilities against France.
We have extracted all the passages which have direct re-
ference to that subject, and we earnestly call the attention
of our readers to them. The reasons for this threatened
war are instructive in the highest Segree, inasmuch as
they clearly develope the American character, the nature
of American diplomacy, and the moral position in which
Louts PHILIPPE, and what is facetiously called " rege-
berated France," stand at this moment. We hare be-
fore now adverted to the question at issue, but a few more
words of explanation will perhaps be expected here.
After the peace in 1815 ;the United States preferred
'certain claims upon the French government. It was al-
leged that the citizens of the transatlantic republic had
been robbed by the citizens of the French republic, and
by the subjects and slaves of the Emperor BONAPARTE.
It was alleged that ships of the United States had been
seized, confiscated, and sold; that goods covered by the
American flag'hatl been seized and burnt, in the ports
.of
France and elsewhere, and that serious damage and un-
deserved wrong had been done to the merchants, trad-
ers, speculators, and shipowners of New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, and other towns.
The American government, even when the United
States were at war with England, and when they were
tile active and dastardly allies of the imperial tyrant, ne-
ver preferred a claim for these pretended losses upon
BONAPARTE. They had not the honesty. or rather the
'-courage to do this. They were engaged in pillaging the
tuerchantnien of England at a period when this country
was contending almost single-handed against the united
powers of Europe. They endeavoured to wound and'
cripple us at a crisis of supposed weakness; and they
continued to rob and pillage until they found the course
of European events turning in our favour—until they
found we had beaten our other enemies and were about
to direct our united power against themselves. Then
they cried surrender-,-then they became what is called-'
reasonable—tlceli they implored our mercy, and gladly
and thankfully: submitted to the terms of peace which
England in herbeneficence dictated.
We say the United States did not prefer their alleged
. claims against BoNApiere. No. They waited until the
Bourbons, were restored—BONAPARTE transported—and
the convulsions- of the continent had subsided into re-
pose. They then presented their bill of costs, and for
Losses sustained, to the restored dynasty ; but the minis-
ters of Louis XVIII. 'had the good sense not to recog-
nise tt. All attempts at negotiation failed. The over-
tures of the United . States were not listened to. In
short their alleged claims were peremptorily rejected.
Little more was heard of these pretended claims—we
.say pretended, fur we believe they are founded in fiction
and fraud altogether—till after Louis, the King of the
Barricades, had been raised to the throne by virtue of
the paving-stones, of Paris, raised and flung by a set of
villains, many of whom Louis
_PHILIPPE has had the
trouble of sending to gaol or the galleys. Then, how-
ever, JONATHAN renewed his petition for redress. Mr:
JACKSON tells us that it was in 1831 that the claims of
iris " fellow citizens" were first seriously listened to by
the.new French government. But the President is not ,
pleased to Worm us why they were then listened to. Be'
it our care to supply the desideratum. -
France was at that juncture in a state of fearful con-
vulsion. Her public credit was destroyed—her bankers,
merchants, manufacturers, and shopkeepers were in a
state of bankruptcy—most of them in a state -of
beggary. That old fool LAFITTE had, to use a
Greek teren, turned up. He was going about the
streets of Paris, hat in heed; ;e<elti n g alms. The revo-
lution, which he had mainly promoted, was made' the
instrument, under. the neerring justice of HEAVEN, of
prostrating him to the earth, and making him the un-
pitied victim of his own imbecile but profligate machina-
tions.' It-hid done for that worthless empiric what revo-
lution in England would do for GROTE, LLOYD, GURNEY,
I'ATTISON,
.and other fustian patriots of London—bank-
forsoothl—who by their own showing,- rich though
• trey be, -are as shalieworts-Leeerm,- and as igstorant-as
the three-legged stools.in their dingy back parlours.
But we are digressing, and we beg pardon. We '
could not, however, allow the opportunity to slip to
point out the similarity of the position once occupied by
a Parisian reformer, and now-aimed at and contended
for by certain London bankers. • They would, if they
could; hurl 'us io perdition ; but, like the lady in
the play, they wilt have to walk first, and, perhaps, the
sooner the better. The Bank of England never received
such a blow as it has received, in allowing its chief di-
rector to proclaim himself a leveller and a .destructive.
Let the stockholders' look to their property! It is not
referemie to the person of Mr. PATTISON that we
'deem it our duty to sound the alarm against the Bank. '
We`have an additional provocative in the person of one
also calling himself a bank-director, who
has flung larnself into the arms of the destructives of
Liverpool. We, therefore, say, in cool blood, gentle-
men stockholders, lOokto your property, and while you
ponder on coming events;, ray reflect on the fate of
LAFITTE!

But to our subject. General Jimtso:•; on behalf of the
citizens of the United States, renewetf-hi.s claims upon
\ the French government in 114:31. Be and, his agents
succeeded in inducing Lou? PHLLwpE to entertain the
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allegations; and they at length persuith.4 the nmiriking
'--,,tp admit the asserted justice.of pretensions fo..lfied in ek,,,
1.1%,, !,n. They were adroit in their diplotnit-t-they
were Pktkevering in their remonstrances--4hey
-s ~‘e.l:e
-successful.,. their designs. The King of the' Bar.,
ricades, beset~ all sides with difficulties, and being
himself a specula . 'n the assigned claims of the
Athericans, entered int eaty, by which he bound his
-government to make colnpen 'on to the United States
of N
twenty-five millions of francs, o , :
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other words—for
French money is so suunding—of absoltt.....pNE MILLION
POUNDS STERLING ! This treaty was co4ftelted, ac-
cepted, and ratified. •N, .

. .
- Now, let. us review the circumstances under whiChlt
was concocted and completed. The King of the French
'was, at the juncture in question, in a most unenviable
condition. He could not calculate for a single day upon
the duration of his dynasty. lie could hardly be said to
be de facto in possession of the crown. His rights de-
pended upori a thread, upon -a breath, upon the most
fragile tie that can be imagined. He• was,by the Most
powerful :courts in Europe, deemed an usurper. By
come of the friendly courts he was only considered as the
locum tenens of HENRY V. He had not been recog-
nised—he wasfeared by the very men who raised him—he
wal execrated by the great mass of the people of France—
he was repudiated by Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Hol-
land. At that particular crisis, when the sea of politics was
rough—when the bark he sailed in was feeble and
crazy—when a breeze would have foundered
like a drowning man, was ready to swim upon a hand-
spike, and catch at a gloating cork or bundle of hay. We
Rio not condemn him. His was in a sad predicament; but
it was that predicament which General JACKSON and the
unsunned patriots of .America took advantage of.
But we take the case to be thus. Lours PIIILOPE was
in the condition of a drunken man, a farmer, a grazier,
or whatever.else you please to name, at a fair or market.
He had drank at the fount of ambition what a German
boor, if he were permitted, would drink at the open
sluice of the great tun of Heidelberg. He was intoxi-
cated with fortune, and yet desperate from seeing the
precarious tenure of that fortune. Like GILBERT
GLOSSIN, the dislionest attorney in SCOTT'S novel of
Guy Mannering, lie was anxious to obtain some popu-:
larity at any cost, and purchase security at any price.
This pitiable condition of LOUIS PHILIPPE unfolds thck
tale, and renders the application complete.
We therefore contend, by virtue of these premises,
that the diplomatists of New York, accredited by the
President of the United States, vulgarly called the land
of freedom, assailed Lcuts PHILIPPE as a swindler would
'lst man at a fair or market labouring under the effects of
the potations derived from some patriotic manufacturer
of ale or gin. Many such cases have occurred at Bow-
street. Tile association for protecting bankers know
what we menu. A person labouring under this hind of