Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-06-14

France. did not relish the plan of sitting
liberty and consolidating despotism, put
because the Prussian, for the reasons al
ready assigned, and the British,,on ac-
count of the opposition in Parliament the
force of public opinion and the still en-
barrassing affair of the Queen, could DO
no more than add their good wishes to the
deeds of the rest. The French govern
ment, more at liberty in consequence OF
it's success in the matter OF the election
law, evinced at once an otticlousness IN
lneddling with the relations between Ma
piles and the Northern powers. But the
Emperor Alexander, not yet recovered
from his pique against the Austrian Cab
met, manifested an Indifference as to ITS
scheme of hostilities, until the news ar
rived at Troppau, that a regiment OF his
guards had revolted, i'll consequence OF
having imbibed liberal principles.
This intelligence gave the finishing
stroke to his old system of management,
and from that moment he not only acced-
ed to, but promoted the violent measures
which the Austrian government was pre-
pared to adopt with view to avert all
compromise with the principles of the
new Neapolitan government, or with the
wishes of all the Italians, and to preserve
the studied and even necessary fixedness
of it's arbitrary rule. All that was done
after the month of November in relation
to Naples, in the diplomatic way, was
thus mere formality on the part OF the AL
lies. At Troppau, the inflexibie deter
mination was taken to effect the speedy
anc total overthrow OF the constitutional
system of Naples, and OF every other con-
stitutional system which the sword of the
allies could be made to reach. The real
motive for removing the Congress to Lay
bach, was to direct more easily and ad-
vanta geousIy, the military movements in
Italy, and to establish the most absolute
despotic sway over all her several States.
The armies of Austria may be victori-
Gus but she will triumph only by bayo-
nets-her march is backed by these-not
by reason and justice. The struggle is
revived between liberty even the most
moderate, and despotism indefinite This
evil genius will aim at reducing under its
iron sceptre, first Naples, then Portugal,
then Spain and afterwards France, Bava-
ria and all the other constitutional states
OF Europe, even Eng land herself. But
what old minister or veteran courtier fiat
tiers himselfwith being able to accomplish
such design, taking into consideration
merely, what Spain was without consti-
tuition, and what she has been with one,
before and since her last revolution?
There are no means of which the abso-
lutte governments will not avail themselves
to introduce discord between the inhabi-
tants of the same country, and between
the people and the monarchs in the con-
stitutional states, in order to reduce them
internally to condition of vassalage, and
externally to supreme dictatorship. In
fine, the two Emperors, or rather the EN-
peror of Russia alone, favored by the
prejudice and weakness of Austria, the
Incidence of the King OF Prussia and the
party spirit of the French and English
ministers, is making large strides in the
career of universal domination which
proved fatal to Bonaparte.