Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-03-23
LATEST FROM FRANCE.

ipo lusNe nave been received.
he Efoile a Ministerial paper, con.
'alps snort paragraph which was con-
sieerea important from belle that il
was authorized by the government. In
abiding TO the comments upon the Pc
siaen' b Message. anu the atlitud. assum-
ed by the United States, the Etolle pre-
tends to sneer, and SAYS IN substsace-
e" France aiseioims all intentions against
The rights Of Soash ssaerica. and i the
United Sfotes IL or her ReetS and pre-.
hare for war, she 7piH .had no enemy to
contend with"
supposed TO express most directly the
sentiments OF NJ. dc Niisle, who is the
repuIed head OF the MINISTRY and VINO,
by the was, as wei Is VI. Cha'e auhrlaud,
has by a recent ordYr 81 the King been
created Knight Commander Of all the
Royal orders, has not published . sln-
gle comment ofany sort ON the Presidents
Message. We have examined our file
carefully (says one of thS Newly rk edi-
tors) from the 29th December Con which
it aaslates from an English paper lhc
principal part of the Mess ge J 10 the 0 h
Of January, and not word does it say in
relation to 1t. From the following para
graph, however, which appears in it on
the S,h, i, i, pretty manifest thai France
will not wantoniy put herself in tie pre-
dieament of violating that policy which
Mr.. Monroe, speak ing in the name, and
ntterng, we ave persuaded, the senli-
men,s OF vast majority of the people Of
the United States, has laid down Tor the
rule of his country.
We reed, in the American journals.
that Eng land has proposed to the United
States TO unite with the IN to repel any az
tempt the Continental Powers mas think
proper to make against the independence
Of the American colonies. We are not
in the secrets of the cabinet, and we
know not how far this Intelligence is
false or true; but we know tina, to make
VT there must pc d, least two alllge-
rent powers. Now, as W Sc, the con
tinent perfectly tranquil, and that no one
dreams of going to war, The United
STATES may, II they wish 1t, afford them
selves the petty pleasure of paying their
tleels, and paradiRg item IN triumph
upon the seas, where they will meet none
but friends. Journal dcS DEFEATS.
From the annexed statement OF the
Constilutionnel. it would seem that the
rumor of Congress at Paris on he sub
lect oil the South American States wa,
revived-but, with humber ideas as to
its supposed purpose:
Paris, ian. 5.
The report seems to gain some CON
sistency, which announces tina; Con-
gress for the regulation OF the affairs o
South America, is shortly to be held
here.--it is said that France and Span
are suffici en,ly disposed to recognize tho
independence of the new republics, on
condition of their paying TO Spain sui
fcient sum, to enable Ferdinand to GET
along without any new loan, and to in
demnify France for the expenses she
was obliged to incur in the Liberation o
Ferdinand. 1t thought the new states !
of America will accept this condition
but will it in tr III be the only one, which
it will be soug ct to impose On them
II is to be decided by the next Cham Der
of Deputies in France, whether the cleo
lions shall be IN one, in five, or seven