The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN RELATIONS.

Extract from a pamphlet, entitled " Admiaistration
the Affsdre of Great Britain, !relied, and their
• IrtlitMolee. at tbecommencement of the year IL
e "Vtingralled explained under the beads ef—Mnaace.
. Itmenftes, Foreign Relati?ee. Colonies.
„, Trade, and Domestic Adadaistration.
• is mould be; supeatiag Mauer already motoring to
enter into thi mesas upon which the system of Ee-
ry,' was settled by the trestyof Vienna. If the settle.
Itigent.if deer period was sot perfect open every point, it
war onquestienably the Islet that could be proceurl.l
,etufer the circumstances then existing, to preserve the
. Ware peace of The Congress of Sovereigns, If
, times* be ao called. grew, le' fact, out of the sinew.
staisessf that pried. • • •
It is a •••-- of the character
killed Powers, and
Congress formed
con f
rim wee p
interests Delon g
the other'Princes,
an amicable con-
, particalar and common
of dismal io L.r.b a t in. no
Pgrls""

sense in.which Sn-
ead to he preimit at
thjecte u palpably
:urope,,aod threaten
excess, these princi-
it be addedriSit
destruction of all
, which characterized
ottl, the avowedly and
assuredly to keep down
,g spirit of Friuli Ja.
saute be "so tiers
Ind. secondly Toma-
s
aicable meditetinnand
If /usu. these principles that his Majesty's minis-
;Cr,' may be presumed to bars regulated their own coo-
• duct in the pert they bore in an affair not yet terminated.
Ths contest between Spain and her subjects was intro-
. dsced in the late Cliegress at Verona. Without the aid
n( any. other facts upon this subject than what events
. lisre rendered sufficiently known, it manifestly appears;
that Frazee eLskied the consent of Europe in, the. first
, • piece. and the commit= aid, if eventually necessary, to
„Awful a 'evolution so directly. affecting the general
• nkjects,of the Congress. The ministers representing the
• ptrsoa of their Sovirreigu, insisted; and assuredly with
, a strong appearance of truth, that this contest fell imme-
diately. within the two objects of Congress. • That the
, Congress, es France understood it. proposed two lime-
. dims cads—the sappresidon lo origin of all revolution-
, ;sr spa, apt .social principles, and the maintenance of
the. general peace of Europe; but that both these
objects were ;like endangered by the present condition
of Spain, That it was a Jacobiuical revolution. That
if a Junbinical revolution bad any instinctive characters
they sere three. A revolution is necessarily such,
when it le effected by a military defectionwhen it re-
, .strains, isil.consequently endangers, the person of the
Kipg and his lousily; and, when it operates in a
. • avatars of irreligion and spoliation of the church.
. that all.. three charoctertatic distinctions were
. manifest upon the faie of the Spanish ffeetilirtloo.
Ti?. Spaniel Revolation had notoriously commenced
with the general defection of the semi, from tho Sov-
ereign. Cothollc Majesty bad no longer an y con.
troul over blii etetimidiess. The Spanish Army was
• 'lodge, the ofierebaud, but of Mina and the
e r r et upon the person of the King' was'
• eqnally notorious. He possesses as little the choice of
; 'hislifinisters ai the command of his army. He is corn-
•• 1 pelted to tips the warrants for the execution, or rifle/
••WrAfiir 'of his most faithful and sealoos adherents. It
fijdi torione-to all Europe that his Catholic Mi9eity is
hot the aolotord bead of his own kiogdom.lThe Spanish
7: • iFtioces were heist ia a state of daily peril and anxiety
foe their lives and butanes. Is it possible that the cx.
. simple tali" rebellion so successful should not affect the
• safety If the French Crown? It had not been without
I etffissity thlis the French Government bad succeeded is
ea repro- sing the. revolutionary spirit in the capital and
provinces. If the Spanish Kevolution should be per-
• o-isted to tromplom aid consolidate itself into some form
• of government fosadod upon the principles of atio:ela,
I the example would .eibledl beyond Frances an t
• Wodid seared), be form enuch in Europe to contend
evilest a system d successful and.yeceguised doookio-
ions. And what, in faits. did France fitidire ? Hai Go-
isilneet required sodas' more than what belonged, sr
setter of paths right, to every independent nation. • • •
" •IThateree might he the general troth of these repre-
sentations en the part of the French (, moot. and
whatever respect might be due to the immediate inter.
este of Finset., it was manifest that her proposed appeal
• to arms would be at once a great present evil, and what
was more to be dreaded, might terminate loon extreme
• and untoeseen issue. • • • One object of Congress
• would seceessarily be interrupted by the proposed ap.
peal Ye *TIRO on the part of France ; it would be a ter.
• em nation, in fact, of the existing general peace of Eu-
rope. Melds, was great, the sneers. uncertain, and
the extent and consequences wholly unleasetto. The
• war would assuredly not end with the occupation of
'Madrid, whilst Cadiz adhered to the party of tbeCortes,
• and former experleoce had proved the almost impreg-
• *able strength of Cacti& The whole power of France
—sad It a period when Preece could unite with herself
a great portion of Europe—had been foiled beforeCadix,
• soil with every respect for the tried courage of -the
Preach is was scarcely questionable whether the
French 61 meat could justify itself, in prudence, for
• a long enduring siege of this fortress. The operations,
therefore, would oath, confined to one eainpaign. With
every wish for the welfare of France ; with every desire
• for the permanent security of her thrtioe, and for her
' consolation In rattle order and tranquillity—it was im-
possible for the ministers of his Britannic Majesty to
••• •-1 held forth any promise of co-operation in such a war.
'l'l Frame embarked in it, it east be, as respected Eng-
.. • hod, upon her owe grouted, and wills all the eventual
.'o* risks of the contest.

f

• • ' Sorb we presume to have been the language of the Eng-
''' Soh Minister, upon the application of France for the eom-
mOtt aid of Europe to a war with Spelt).
4 k:4 IL is impossib*.to _deny the right of France, as an lade-
• pehdeot nation. to enter upon Such a war, if her Govern-,
r••• , • AMP rittesid doss It to be a matter of self-defence, aid if
't-- • thollitanialtGovtenment de fade, should raise such mod!-
. flestioas as nisei may think alone compatible with her
. serhat. OurllTtrilivors, therethte, did not dim/ the exist-
- hope of the right but they'questiodaArditirraust be al-
, • lowed to question, the existence of Such right' ender' the
• • aerial slate of Franie and Spain, and, indeed. of &trope
••• .01aerally.• They esteem the general peace at too high a
...Me to interrupt it from the apprehension . of remote den-
• • ger. They recognise, at the lime time, the aocient princi-
ple the isidepeadence of nations in their own internal
woeueroa : and they deem this principle to be so Intimately
• comtected with the security 'oflhe• general' peace, and the
• peomanent interests of mankind, that they are unwilling to
naafi. any other exception to it than a case of necessity, ex-
treme in all its clreuxatances • • that le to say. unquestion-
auo is in existence, formidable in its magnitude, nail at
OSP certain and extensive in its operation.
4 very few words will explain intelligibly whatever we
have further to add with regard to our foreign relations.
As regards our relations with Ratite, It is impossible

, usgpripipnvws •...• 'meows. -
• • ; Is is a most ancastEtl representation I
of this systesn,-6alieefl that the Atli
, f I, 14011_11111 swops them, have in this Co
rkri./ , conWWacy to control the internal col
0.,„ . '.._ eb or to apt the antlsoritative arbll
. . sis—iplietweers thwarted State, upon hill
ontractlaumwelves., • • •
. • rds gaglanikaml as regards lb
..: - rim Conies' is, la fait; nothing bat sr
, • fascsit-rif eoilitylgimapon their partici
, tri-tpust ; it is a mere council of discui
.4. . {ripe A lipipft and confederacy-Tin
it&att
ct
.. . liarnagress, as pitch, and in the sent
i la
. it* ....
421:ftilittpolnil trantaillitv of Euro
tote -mtrodem, it theliaarigefqui ftlga
.'...
• Wag eir.higre.ppolistion, and„ let it
. systematic regicide, that infaloated dr
, rrlicions faith and establishment, whit
rive frisch revolution. in a word, tb
.. 0+1,40 object of Congress is assured
14ssi suppress the all-destroying apir
.4ofelpiqpir for why olithild not the semi
i i wreil expresses the thin ?* And, it
taW His pesos of Europe by amicable
.disc:wise. • • • •