The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-20 00:00:00

DECEMBER 20, 1833

the
Whigs know this well—but they support LEOPOLD,
because LEOPOLD is the son-in-law of their
,new ally—
who is to fight. all the battles of England in the M•'ditei-
ranean, and who was permitted to hoist his detested tri-
coloured flag -.along-side the union-jack of England in
the late buccaneering cruise against Holland
France is our ally, is she ? So much the worse for us,
--the greater the shame to Eng'♦ ►d. To be on terms of
amity with Yrance we have no objection ; but to be on
the terms which his MajestY!s.ininisters avow, and which
their conduct has evinced, reflcts the deepest disgrace
upon this country. England and France are the avowed
champions of revolution ; and while we are pillaged and
fleeced on all sides ; while our diplomacy is the subject
of universal derision; while we are overreached by one
Power and insulted by another; England and France
only threaten to make reprisals ! The alliance would be
had enough if the two parties were in a state of equality ;
but so far from this Lord PA6IEasToN is a mere puppet
in the hands of old TALLEYRAND,- and England looks up
to France for protection. •" Support Louis PHILIPPE,"
cries Lord HOLLAND, ‘‘ and Louis PHILIPPE will support
You." Upon this principle these shabby people act, and
While they bluster and crow on their own respective
and respectable dunghills, Russia cuts up Poland piece-
tleal, takes possession of European Turkey, puts an ex-
ciseman's lock on the Dardanelles, and turns the English
out of the Black Sea ! •

Oh for: a single month of the clys of Par, and a week
of the times of NELSON I Turned out of the Black Sea,
are we ? Yes, kicked out, the door slapped in our face,
the guns of M.uimEr pointed at Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM
by Russian bombardiers, and the men of an hundred vic-
tories told in the sauciest terms to go about their busi-.
neaa 1 Flesh and blood can hardly stand this, and yet
we fear it must be endared so long as England plays se-
eand fiddle to revolutionary France. Fight ! the people
who compose the cabinets a Paris and. London have no
notion of fighting in downright earnest. They can make
war upon herring-boats, and floating tubs carrying sugar
and butter instea.d.of guns; they can capture canal craft
carrying manure and managed by women; but as to
anything else it is out of the question. They can talk,
and what more would you have ? They can charm the
long ears of emasculated sumphs about reform ; they
can job most gallantly in places and patronage ; they can
blunder most felicitously, making three holes in the ket-
tle for every one they mend; they can open letters and
parcels most courageously, and huckster as adroitly as a
Jew pedlar at Greenwich fair; but as to fighting in the
defence of a country insulted in every sea, bumbled
wherever her time-worn flag waves, they would prefer
Shooting London-bridge any day in the week, " provid-
ed," as Sir JOHN MILLET DOYLE would express it, " the
old bridge were alive for that purpose._ Such it will ever
be while France and England, TALLEYRAND and PAL-
MERSTON, Lord GREY and Marshal SOULT, are united.—
These parties are at present sworn friends; and consider-
ing the present state of the finances, it would not surprise
Us to see Lord ALTHORP
.borrowing money from Louis
PIIILIPPE.