Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-04-29
FOREIGN NEW S.
ruRopE AND SOUTH AMERICA.

cate some additional intelligence received D.
the last arrivals from London at that port
which is extremely important. II is impor
tant insssuch as il puts nearly, ifrot altoge
Their to rest, the only question likely, at thi
moment, 10 rekinde the flames of war; !
shews that France, at least, will not interfere
byforce Of arms with the now happy career
the independent states of South America anC
Mexico; that England and France, following
the example Of the UNITED STATES, Will moi
claim any exclusive commercial advantages
as the price of recognising the sovereignty
oftbose states, and that England, in the event
Of hostile interference on the part OF any pow
err in support of Spanish authority over the
late colonies, will Immediately cause her recog
,i,;ou osthe new states. This declaration, on
,he part Of Mr.. Canning, gives considerable
.oun,enance to the rumour some time since IN
circulation, namely, that on the South Amer'-
can question, there was friendly and cordial
understanding between our cabinet at wash
ineton and the British government There is
.t;,l bossibiItv though we think remote
one. that Spain, if guided by the councils OF
England and France, in this respect, may yet
obtain from the new governments, the term OF
aec,,Enrb, Eg4ored nation, but if she hesitates
much longer, if she does not Immediately
s,rike, and recognise their independence, even
her Lo1e offavor must vanish. AS to the idea
of the Prince de Pohgnac, that the people Of
Mexico and South America can be induced to
saddle and grind themselves down by Monar-
chia or Arstocratical institutions, it is just as
absurd as his notion that people who have
established such constitution and govern
ment as that of Colombia, with congress
and c HE'S that ould do honor 10 any nation
are Scarcely civilized We only know ma
tons as we do know men, Individually, by
their works, and the old nations Of that world
will give proofs Of wisdom and of civilization
also when they begin to take example by the
newi Red. Ccz.
The following is the substance Of the intel
lgence to which, we have alluded;
The London Courier ofthe 5th March
contains the communication made to
Parliament of The negotiation OF Eng
land with France and Spain, on the sub.
iect of acknowledging the independence
of the South American provinces.
In answer to statements made by Mr..
Canning at Tue conference, held in Oct
1898. (Which are well known the Prince
de Polignac, in behalf of France, de-
cleared.
aThat his Government believed it to
be utterly hopeless to reduce Spanish
America to the state of its former rela-
tion to Spain.
3That France disclaimed, onherpart,
any intention or desire to avail herself
of the present state Of the colonies, or
of the present situation OF France to-
wards Spain, to appropriate to herself
any part of the Spanish possessions IN
America or to obtain for herself any ex-
elusive advantages,
sAnd that, like England, she would will
lingly see the Mother country in posses
sion of superior commercial advanta-
ges, by amicable arrangements; and
would be contented like her, to rank, at
ter the mother couatry, among the most
favoured nations.
Lastly, that she adjourned, in any
case, any design of acting against the
colonies by force of arms"
After this avowal, and some remarks on the
proposition of England, TO acknowledge the In
dependence of the American provinces, illusions
to the state ofthem,
The Prince de Polgnac added
"That, ia the interest Of humanity
and especially in that ofthe Spanish co.
lonies, it would be worthy of the Euro
pean Governments to concert together
the means of calming, in those distant
and scarcely civilized regions, passions
blinded by party spirit; and endeavour
TO bring back to principle OF union in
government, whether monarchical or ar
istocratical, people among whom absurd
and dangerous theories were now kee-
ping up agitation and disunion."
Mr. Canning, without entering into discussion
upon these abstract principles, coutentcd him
Solf with saying,
"That however desirable the establish
ment Of a monarchical form of govern
ment in any of those provinces might be,
on the one had, or whatever might be
the difficulties in the way of it, on the
other hand. his Government could not