Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-01-22
THE POLITICS OF ENGLAND.

THE POLITICS OF ENGLAND.
-Hranslased from che Drapeav Blanc,
for the ~ Y. Daily Adusrtissr.
The attitude which England has
sustained during the iate contest be-
tween legitimacy and revelation,
which wasiso Asypify Terminated on
the ist OF October, in favor of the e.
ternai principles Of order and jus.
tice, aud the language she holds
since the triumph Of those principles,
are SO remarkable as to merit parti-
cular notice.
twill be nothing new to our read
ers when we mention that, in pursu-
ing To an extremity the theory and
practice of the constitutional and rep
resontxtive system, the English have
undertaken; in innumerable instances,
to separate the views Of the govern
-ment from those Of the nation. But
although this remark has been often
made, It is Of the greatest Importance
to keepcthe fact distinctly in view on
the present occasion, as we'll in tho
measures Of England as in the va.
rious articles of news and the modes
of reasoning which reach US from
that couatry, in order to distinguish
between those which come from the
people or from the government a
lone, and those in which the govern
ment and the people speak or act to-
xether. This distinction it is not al
ways easy to make for if, since the
administration has been placed in
the hands of the actual ministry its
conduct has been marked with the
ssal of wisdom, there have also been
certain cases in which this ministry
have been obliged to yield to the as
cendancy of public opinion, which
rules it, aud others in which it has
agreed with the feelings Of the peo-
On the first news that a congress
WAS 20 assemble at Verona, a &C.
neral cry vas raised in England a.
eanst all intervention in the interi-
or affairs Of Spain. An intersen-
ton Of the Same kind bad taken
place ON the preceding year. at Ma.
pies and Piedmont bat at that time
the demagogue fury Of the English
radicals was only exhaied by the
Times and the Morning Chronicle.
The mass Of tho nation took bat a
feeble interest in what was passing,
and this was owing to the facts that
the submission Of Naples and. Piek
mont did not completely e~xtinguish
the revolutionary Ere, and that Aus
tria was not, like France. an object
Of jealousy and hatred. The Eng.
lisS government however did not par
ticipate in the apprehensions Of the
people with regard to Spain. Altho'
they secretly desired, as much as the
sovsreigus Of the continent, the tri-
umph Of order and the maintenance
Of m~onarchical institutions, they con-
tested only for forms sake the
proiect Of an armed Intervention,
proclaiaing aloud their neutrality.
(which was all that was derived
from them,) making offers of media
ton, which it was easy to see must
he rejected, and leaving at Madrid
"a their representative the same Sir
william A'Court who had assisted
In the overthrow Of the revOlutiona.
ry government of Naples. and who
was tho object of i~mplacabls hatred
to the English radicals.
It must be allowed, however, that
while desiring the definite triumph
of good principles in the Peninsula,
the English government entertained
the hope that the contest would be
prolonged ; and that France, unable
70 terminate the war alone, would be
obliged to call in the assistance OF
Russia. In this manner the English
ministry would have had the double
advantage of securing its W sta
biIity among the efforts made by the
sovereigns for their own preserva-
ton, and Of laying a foundation for
the maintenance Of their political