Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-08-10
A GLANCE AT EUROPEAN DIrLoMAcY.
PROM rHE LONDON MORNING. cHRoN1cIE.

The extravaganza of the Russian or high Ultra
party In France, would hardly be credited in this
country. Would il be believed that NJ Pozzo di
Borgo, its oracle in Pars,sn u .,nemoir addressed
10 his Court in 1917, on the Importance of repla
South America under the dominion of Spain, actu-
ally allowed his zeal against liberty to carry him so
lar as gravely To propose the subiuga the u
nited States of Anne, ica.-"Foumdct," he said son
the sovereignty of the People, the Republic of the
United States of America was a fire, of which the
daily Europe threatened the latter with
coniagraton that this State ASYLUM for all in
novators, gave them the means of disseminating at
distance by their writings, and by the authority
of their example,, poison of which the comnuuica
ton could not he questioned, it was well known
that the French revolution had had its origin in the
United States; that already troublesome effects were
felt in Europe from the presence of the Freuch re-
fugces i'm America, and more particularly in France
| that the administration of that kingdom was o.
bliged To- bend before the revolutionary spirit and,
that prompt repression of dcmocratcal principles
could alone prevent the Eruption of evil alrca
81 grave in its source" After variety of consi-
deratiois of the same sort, the Russian Ambass;,-
dor proceeded to observe, "That the conquest OF
| the United States of America was an easy enter
prizc-that their submission to mode of govern
mcnt more in harmony with that of the other civil
lied States of the world, would be attended with lit
tie Inconvenience III comparison of the danger from
allowing to subsst, much longer, the form of the
tual government; tina, the degree of power TO which
| the Americans had risen, made them objects of fear
to the European monarchial governments, but that
at the same time the of their riches having aug
mented that of luxury and corruption, there was
reason to think that the principal citizens of the u
nited States Gould not be pleased to- see a change
which would place them at the head of the govern
ment of their county, that the arisocratica spirit
was more particularly perccptihle in the towns the
Influence OF the rich citizehs might easily bring
bout the desired change; that il would in vain be
objected .ha: the U. States had just off victo-
rious out OF tile struggle they maintained with
Great Britain; that this owing patti
cular causes the absence of which would overcome
opposition and resistance, and that two of these
causes could not fail to strike every obscrvcr-tha
in the first place, the richest citizens saw with fear
the moment approach in which tire English party
would replace the power of England; that in ca Sc
they would consider themselves as stript of their
power, and subjected to the tyranny of the British
aristocracy, whose representatives would impose on
them yoke as humating; that. in con-
sequence, seeing they could gain nothing by this
change, they made every effort to overcome every
difficulty, in which .hey would not perhaps have
succeeded but for the impotic conduct of the En-
lish who set fire to- Washinstnn and that it is, per-
haps, to this second cause that the failure of the
enterprise, and consequently the consolidation of
tho Republic, is in great measure to DC attributed "