Thomas's Massachusetts spy, or, Worcester gazette. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1811-1821, 1821-05-02
AUSTRIAN MANIFESTO.

AUSTRIAN MANIFESTO.
From the Baltimore Morning Chronicle.1
We publish to-day the Austrian Manifesto !:
and it may be generally remarked, that the
State papers, from this quarter, are drawn up.
with vigour, force and eloquence, unrivalled
by all the European monarchs. But there is
evident anxiety and alarm displayed amongst
the Allied powers. They talk of the Carbo-
mari and Of few partizans and mal-contents,
as having accomplished the Neapolitan rev.
olution. Yet, against this force, so iDconsid-
cradle, they state that the EmperotIr of Rus
STA is ready to take the field with all his forces.
whenever his Interference becomes necessary.
This is a tremendous power to array against
few daring vagabonds, as these allies would
fain represent those who have Frustrated the
Government of Maple. The Allies go on to
complain that plans subveIsive of the old and
settled order Of things in Europe are daily
gaining strength and notoriety, with which it
is eontended that no government can exist.
" Higc iIlGe lyckryanae.r What are these
plans, these projects, these deep and danger
Gus designs, so alarming TO crowned heads
They are nothing more nor less than the pro.
gress of republican sentiments throughout
sentiments, it must candidiy be confessed,
utterly hostile to the doctrine that g Kings
inherit divine right to govern wrong -
These things are no novelties to the ears of
Americans. We are. almost one century in adj
vance of such courtly nonsense. During our
revolutionary war, every man who fought for
the security of his friends and altar was denom-
mated rebel-every exertion made in our
defence was rebellious. Our wives, our hus-
bands, and our smiling infants, were all reb-
els in the estimation of the subjects of our
u = ~ IL
indeed the term rebel was in our revolution
thus happily hit off, at the time, by an Amer
lean poet
"The rebel wales, the rebel dales
With rebel hills surrounded,
The rebel woods, the rebel flood
With rebel echoes sounded"
No, it is not Spain-no, it is not Sicily and
Naples-that now excite these connections a.
mongst the allied monarchs, or accelerate
their appeal to arms. 1t is something more
deep, more tenacious and more formidable
1t is, that these monarchs observe, in the diff
fusion of such principles, the shaking of their
own thrones-the dissolution of their own
dynasties-and they now exclaim against the
Carbonari, against the treason, exactly on
the same principles as the invading subjects
rebels during our revolutionary war. 1t is
American rebellion, or, in other words, the
resumption OF natural right; the right of the
people to reform, to re-cast, .e-fashion and re-
mould their own government. This is the
American rebellion in which the Sovereigns Of
Europe discover, and at no distant day, the
downfall of their own dynasties. But what
doctrine do these gentle monarchical SWANS
urge in opposition to all this? They maintain
the right of one Independent Sovereign, at
his own will and pleasure, to over-run the
dominions Of another Independent Sovereign;
to dictate laws and to form constitutions for
this independent people. Such are, without
any periphrasis, the opinions advanced in the
Austrian Manifesto, which is now to be pro-
mulgated at the point of the bayonet. We
can but believe that this Manifesto, at this
time avowed and promulgated, is more dam
gerous to the Allied Sovereigns, than either
the Spanish, Portuguese, or the Neapolitan
revolutions. II is in the face of enlightened
Europe, boldly and broadly to assert claim
claim in defiance of reason and of common
sense, which never can be admitted for a mo-
ment, unless we are prepared to plunge
amidst the darkness of the middle ages a.
gam. There is no deception on this point,
and there can be none. The allied powers
have, undoubtedly, the same right to declare
that America is governed by faction, who
have imposed upon them Constitution differ
ent from the English, and to require, as an
ultimatum, immediate return to the govern
ment of our lawful Sovereign; and in case Of
Noncompliance, to enforce this obedience at
the point Of the bayonet. Yet these American
rebels have their ministers abroad openly &C
knowledged as such in the Courts Of these very
monarchs themselves. Our alliance has been
courted by these very Kings who now threaten
the extinguishment of the Neapolitan Yevolu-
ton, and we now have with most of them,
entered into treaties of amity and commerce.
Here is at least one example acknowledged
by the allied powers themselves, that gov
eminent may be reformed by the Intervention
OF the people, capable Of maintaining with
other independent powers the customary re-
iations OF amity and peace. We are, there
fore, perfectly serious in this declaration, that
we look upon the Austrian manifesto, and the
principles contained in that paper, as by far
more alarming to the repose of Europe, and
endangering the quietude of the reigning dy~
nasties, than either the Spanish, the Portu-
tuguese, or the Neapolitan revolutions.
From Lisbon.
The Edward, Capt IIussey, arrived at New
York, brings accounts from Lisbon, to the
18th of March A Ja.fnr ~ tbat d,ta cows