Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-04-03
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MARTINsBURG, April 3, 1928.
THE HOLY ALLIANCE.

OF the holy Alliance, is il not an in
disputabie fact that the members resort
to their cannon, when they are much
more unpopular than they have ever
been. LOUIS, while sitting oil his own
tomb, instead OF the throne of his an.
cestors, declares war against Spain for
the preservation of his dynasty. lie
does this at the very moment when all
discontinued and disaffected Frenchmen
are turning their eyes to the young
Bonaparte, as the legal proprietor OF the
crown. The Emperor Of Germany en-.
tiers France as d frieRd; but is there no
thing to fear from such friendship; thas
he may advocate The preteutious ii his
own grand son to the croWn Of France.
and take advantage OF tie turbulence
excited 10y his own arriyal.-H3s not
Louis much more to tcar from the FIN
peror OF Germany, than he can possibly
have from the spaniards? II Maria
Louisa should appear in Paris with the
son OF Napoleon In her train, at the
head of a powerful army, would Louis
have no cause to tremble at the appear.
ance of such guest. Would it be an
astonishing or incredible thing, if A.
lexander should be party in such a
plot, to put an end to the Bourbon dv-
nasty altogether, as the only mode that
could be adopted to quiet the dlsai1ec
ted French, and preserve the monarchy
in FranceP Maria Louisa was present
at the Congress of Verona, and is thee
any thing incredible, that such Alliance
between Russia and Germany might
have been formed at that place. Does
ang one who has witnessed the sort Of
frenzy that has peryaded the debates in.
the French Legislature for a long tune
past, believe that the son of the exied
Emperor is doomed to lead the life of an
harmless and inofensive private man? In
the midst of all these ominous appeal
ances. Louis admits German troops into
France, to the palpabe and manifest
danger Of his dynasty. He complains
of the turbulent and disaffected of his
own subjects. at the very moment that he
is making a turnpike way for the young
Napoleon, 10 TIE throne of France. -
This change would pacify all the friends
OF Bonaparte-they would rejoice in
revolution, by which such an event
might be brought about, and they look
upon the young Napoleon as the right
full inheritor of the crown. Now, let the
question be put to any statesman to
determine, whether the equity Louis is
in more danger from Ferdinand, than he
IS from the son Of the ex-emperor;
whether Germanyis not far more for
mldsble enemy than STANDARDIZATION a
discontented Frenchman would not
triumphantly hail the arrival of Francis.
Indeed. that Louis should ever have
dreamed of foreign war for the preserva-
ton OF his crown, seems little short Of
downright madness. His obvious policy
was peace-to have been mild aud mer-
cltul, to have suffered things to have
settled Down into quiet and repcse-by
that gentle and imperceptibIe descent,
which justice and clemency will do--to
have cultivated the arts of peace, leaving
his successor to the crown, to draw
tighter the reigns of the monarchy.-He
should have remembered, and have shud~
dered the remembrance OF the vast en-
pendlture, and by what strong confedera-
ted foreign assistance this change was
brought abont--it was his obvious policy
to obiiviate the memory Of the past -
But the introduction Of foreign armies
into France for the third time, 70 ,re.
serve the crown on the head OF Louis.
will bring fresh to the minds Of French
men, the remembrance Of all their gIo-
ries, and all their defeats; the for.aec
they place to the account of Napoleon,
and the latter, to that of Louis. fa1s <,r
unjust, such has been the popular feel
ing from the day that Napoleon was
driven from the throne. and the only
way in which tie Bourbon Dynasty
could have been preserved, was to have
extinguished such Impressions. In oD-
position to such obvious policy, LOUIS is
kindling upon his tomb the torch of civil
wer, for the consumption Of his own
dynasty. VI rR. CArOa