Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-05-27


| illes.
From the Baltimore Morning Chronicle.
EUROPE.
One nation may make war but il al.
! ways requires two to make peace. 10
what extent the contest between France
! and Spain, may widen itself, we will not
presume even to conjecture but to learn
the true character of this hostility, VIC
must not follow the generals and their ar
! mics, whether in the hour OF victory OF
| defeat. Victory may be preliminary 10
peace. and most decided defeat, prelI.
urinary to more sanguinary and pretract-
ed war. Look at the cabinets of iDdepen-
dent powers generals, and armies, are
only instruments in their hands, tor the
accomplishment OF their OVID purposes.
In short, to compare great things with
small, an army is 10 the statesman, what a
cabinet maker is to the owner of The side-
board, which he has received orders to r.
nIsh This piece Of mechanism may dis
play the most consummate workmanship,
and skill, and it rebounds TO the honor OF
the artist but the owner pays for it. takes
il to bis own mansion which 1t was made
to decorate and adorn. In the present
contest, we cannot have more impartial
evidence. tEan the English Ministry, they
are neutral parties in this quarrel, acted
the useful part of inediators, are acquaint-
ed with facts, and they have direct in
terest in making full, fair aud candid
development of the motives, objects,
views and intentions of the parties belli-
gerent. We have waited therefore with
something more than curiosity, tor the
speech of MIR Canning before the House
Of Commons. We have fortunately been
favored with The speech, and il presents
the question between France and Spain in
its naked and gigantic enormity. 1t APP
last, commended that "other powers had no
Spain-that the improvement OF the new
Spanish system should, according 10 the
laws of nations, be lett 10 Spain itself"-
g. the British ministry add, that they can
not see any reasonable apprehepsions to
France, from the state of affairs in Spain.
The English ministry, faithful TO this
principle, when pressed by confederated
Europe to withdraw their ambassador from
Spain, on the ground of the language "a
dopted by the Spanish government in
their notes OF dismissal 10 these privileged
characters, which we have already pub.
llshed, declare that "they should decline
holding a common language with their
Allies upon the occasion, and repeated
that the arrangement of the internal at-
fairs Of Spain belonged to Spain ITSELF"
The British ministry still IN pursuance
of their neutral line of policy, tender
their mediatorship to the French court |;
but it was declined on The ground that
the question was considered by the allied
powers not merely as French, but Euro
pean.
This declaration made by the French
ministry is important, because it shews
that the French cabinet was so strongly
impressed with the CONVICTION, that France
in the then approaching contest, was so
confident OF receiving assistance from all
the members oil the Holy Alliance, that
she refused to receive separately the me-
diator.hip Of England.
While this attempt on the part OF Eng
land was thus made to prevent matters
IRON approaching 10 their crisis, the Span
ish answer has uniformly been. "that it is
inconsistent With the honor of the Spanish
Government TO admit the Intervention OF
foreigners IN her internal concerns-and
that she can listen to no proposals for re-
! considering her institution while France
menaces her with bostilities +"
/ The French minister thus avows the
motives that induce his royal master 10
! take up arms, and the British minister
| thus replies:
"In answer to despatch from Viscount
de Chateaubriand, in which he re-asser,s
the dangers 70 France and Europe from
the Spanish revolution, and the disposition
OF France to remain at peace If Spain
will modify her constitution according to
! proposal formerly made Mr.. Canning
! replies, that the British Government dis
claims for itself, and denies the right in
other powers, of requiring any changes 10
the institutions of independent states, un-
der the threat of hostilities 10 case OF re-
| iusal."
But the English minister is not satisfied
with barely fetorting the principle by
which the English cabinet was governed
he eDdeavors 10 point out to the French
monarch, what should be the true source
OF his fear.
10 a despatch from Mr.. Canning to Wis
count Marcellus it states-"That the Bri.
tish Government well toresaw the possible
damages to the peace of Europe from The
collision between France and Spain; and
that the same government could not eu