Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-06-19

excited some avowel iongings, with res
pect to Mexico its;lf. Their popular
writer's, and even tb American Senate,
begin to speculate upon the compare
tive value of Mexio TO America and to
the Spanish government, and under these
feelings wished d push the frontier
boundary of the United States towards
| Mexico. 1t is thu stated in the Gazette
of the government, and may be therefore
deemed almost official, that there was a
strong indispositzn in the American
Senate to relinquish the territory be-
tween the Sabine and the Rio del Norte,
the line of demarcation originally con-
tended for, league Of which is Justly
deemed of more value to the United
States (and which would include con-
siderable portion of seaboard on the Gulf
of Mexico) than the whole territory west
of the Rocky Mountains, which, for cen
turtles to come, can be of very little i'm
portance to the United States.
The other principal article of foreign
intelligence, is the French project for a
new law to regulate the press. We
think, ourselves, that these intended re-
gulations go little too far, and rather
lead to the servitude of the public press,
than to the due regulation ofits liberty.
But, perhaps the French press may, I'M
der the present state of things, require
this greater degree of legal control.
Parties and passions still run very
strong; andwe understand that some OF
their political pamphlets are written
with most audacious contempt of the
authority of law and government, We
cannot say that we feel much sympathy
for the French writer's; for in no king
dom in Europe is the public press more
scandalous, indecent, and irreligious.
FROM THE LONDON STATESMAN OF MARCH 10.
On .America's rising .greatness.-By
looking over the newspapers of the three
great sea-ports of America, any man
without being a statesman, may discov-
er the gigantic growth of this infant state
in the new world, but if the politician
examines its treaties with the different
powers it is connected with, he cannot
but discover its wise and firm policy.
Nothing can shake it in any one respect.
Even with Great Britain it has so far
gained its point with respect to the great
article of the fisheries, that middle
aged man may live to see the time when
the Americans will inquire of us what
business we have to fish on their shores
and beds. In fact, our state is attenuat-
ing by luxury and extravaganza, theirs
is acquiring additional strength by tenn
perance and economy.
Sir w. Jones Otis thought in the Muse
Recalled says
Beyond the vast Atlantic deep
A dome by viewless Genii had been ras'd;
The walls of adamant, compact and steep,
The portals with sky-tinctured gems en-
blaze
There on lofty throne shall virtue stand;
Toher the youth of Delaware shall kneel,
And when her smiles rain plenty DER the land,
Bow, Iy'ants, bow beneath tn ayenging steel.
The United States--A British writer,
speaking OF the congress at Aix-la-Cha-
pelle, concludes as follows:
One power only, appears to form no
object of the contemplations Of the con-
gress; and yet, perhaps, there is none
whose present attitude and further pros
poets the legitimates should keep more
IN view--we mean the United States Of
America. Whilst European statesmen
are in close cabinet, arranging their po-
litlcal bargains, those of America are
aiming at the glorious objects of nation
al independence and commercial sue
CESS They, alone, rank in Importance
at this moment with the Autocrat of
Russia.--tor, while circumstances pro-
mise hin preponderance in the terrific
rial rule of Europe, the Americans EMU
late the freedom and independence ofthe
seas. Their success is progressive and
anquestionable, and whilst their inter-
ference in the contests which distracttheir
continent becomes more
mild and unobtrusive, they strengthen
apace in their claims to that neutrality
On which their commercial interest will
require to be founded"
SPANISH ROYAL DECREE.
In tba narna of tho Halu 'r;n;t,, &C.