Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-06-07

In his rocapitulation the author argues
that the king must not leave Brazil. and
even had he been at Lisbon when the IN
surrection broke out, the best course Tor
him to hare adopted, would have been to
embark for his trans Atlantic -domlnlons
THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER.
Translated for the National Gazette,
from the Madrid 3. Gozstte q the Coo
ernptent''
A certain author has defined politics to
be the art Of learning to deceive IN order
not to be decided. At present, it might,
perhaps, be better described as the art Of
making yourself the strongest IN order
to Cypress tho weak, Without sticking at
the means. At least the history OF our
day warrants this last Interpretation for
no attentive observer who reflects upon
events, will believe, that the war under
taken in Italy, which may involve all Eu-
rope, proceeds from the spirit of justice
and the desire of peace.
When the Spanish Revolution took
place, considerable alarm seized the
Emperor of Russia either from apprehen
sion of its general consequences, or be-
cause it did not appear suitable in regard
to the particular ascendency which he
had possessed and exercised in the PENN
! sula. Until then, Alexander had endeav-
CURED to pass for Liberal; with this
character he obtained influence every
where; in Poland he was absolute under
the veil of nominal constitution. But
as soon as he saw the fullest and purest
civil liberty established in the Spanish
constitution, and by it the imperfect or
counterfeit representative system set in
their true light, the Emperor perceived
the futility ofpursuing his artificial course
in this respect. Presenting that Austria
had the same sentiments he proposed to
the Emperor Francis, conference, in
which the affairs of Spain should be taken
into consideration.
Austria who did not think the danger
so imminent, and whCsc prime minister
appeared to be personally at variance with
the Emperor Of Russia, declined the in
itation, making at the same time de-
claration similar to that which England
has lately made.
The Prussian Cabinet then and since
Showed that the Allies could count upon
its concurrence in any plan tending to
consolidate the system of absolute rule,
provided they would bear in mind, that
public opinion had some force in Prussia,
that the king was committed with his peo-
pie on the subject of constitutional regi-
me and that although his army was nu-
merous, he could not move a man for
want of money.
France and England were also invited
at the same period by Russia but they
refused to enter upon the affairs of Spain.
the former, perhaps, because she was en-
crossed with the more important ques-
ton at home of the change in the law of
elections-the latter on account Of the
embarrassments in which her Ministry
were involved by the return of the Queen.
This aspect of things was wholly alter
ed, however, as to Prussia, by the intelli-
gence of the revolution in Portugal The
Austrian Cabinet having first received it,
was struck with disn4ay, and resolved to
take up anew the proposal of the Rus.
sian. A camp was formed at Pest and
the Russian Emperor invited to hold a
conference. Being piqued at the late
backwardness Of Austria, he not only re-
fused but manifested no disposition to
come to an understanding. But the af-
front which he received, while the nego-
tiation was pending from the Diet o. Po-
land, in their vote by which the only pro-
ject of a law submitted to their approval,
was rejected-prompted him to become
party to the conference at Troppau.
Doubtless he became more and more con-
WINGED of the expediency of renouncing
those liberal principles, the profession Of
which proved from day to day more un-
profitable.
AS the situation of Prussia and Eng
land had not changed in the meanwhile,
those two powers, held the same language
in that Congress as before not because the
ministers of both, as well as those OF
France, did not relish the plan of sitting
liberty and consolidating despotism, but
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 goodwishes to the
deeds of the rest. The French govern
ment, more at liberty, in consequence of
its success in the matter of the election
law, evinced at once an oficiousness in med
ding with the relations between Naples
and the northern powers. But the En-