Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-09-15


which his house has been as much connected,
whether In peace OF war-that IS TO the extent
to which the law allowed of-as with English
commerce. MIR. Baring's partners, or those
who were his partners, might transport them
selves and their clerks, and their bills OF ex-
change, and sell their counting houses, and be
Of next week to any part of the habitab!e world,
and there carry on trade as hourishins as here,
and create new interests and imbibe fresh sym
pathies, and ieel no more concern tor England
than If they had never seen her--no more than
any partnership of Jews. In that sense mer-
chants have no country. Is it so with that spe'
ries of property which we manage, and whicn
considered as property supports us IN returhs
no stake in the country! Drive London news
paper from Engiand-nay from London Itself
and what becomes Of the whole concerns: IL IS
extinct. Mr. Barring might as well freight a
ship far New York with his borough OF Calling
ton. as we move our establishment to any other
spot upon the globe. No stake in the country!
Deprive England of her internal peace, her order,
riches, intelligence, and prosperity, and see what
class of professions or Of property will expert
ence more signal downfall than the successful
portion of the now existing press; and II such
DE our stake in the public veal has the nation no
stake in ourss What may be the precise case
with some OF our respectable brethren we Know
not, but the receipts at the Treasury can tell
that this single Journal pays per annu" more
than 100000 for stamps. Which oil the smaii
coycOmbs who torment the House OF Commons,
hut who will never more find access there, has
so contributed to the necessities OF his country.
From Bells Weekly Messenger.
Somnch importance has attached to the Dunes
t;c Intelligence of the week. that we have scarcely
room to notice anything which relates to foreign
affairs. The peace Of Europe seems now to depend
upon the conduct of >theFrench Deputies, when
they shall meet upon the esd of this month. All
eyes are directed to their proceedings. That the
republican leaven will be found TO abound III THIS
assembly, we have no manner OF doubt. 1t has
been chosen in season favourable to the opera
ton of the most disturbing passions They seem
all to have been chosen under bonds OF very
arbitrary nature, imposed upon them BY their elect
nrs,under the imposition OF those unco Institutional
pledges which it has been too much the pern'cious
custom for the people Of our own country to exact
at the hastings, and of the meaner sort OF candi-
dates to give. The French Deputies will almost
all enter their Chamber under direct obligations
TO yote,-frst, for the abolition of the PeeraSe;
secondly, for the reduction of the French Civil
List: and thirdly. for the utter destruction and
surrender of all privileges and distinctions in the
civil condition of the people In other words, the
French Deputies will labour hard. and we scarce
ly know how they can do otherwise than succeed
in their efforts, to bring into practical effect. &C
cordng to the life itself, the beau idea Of old
LAFAYETTE; that is, to create monarchy surround
Ell by republican institutions.
A crown purely resting on democratic basis IS
a sort Of anomaly of which we never have hilhet-
to had successful example in the page uf history.
This crown, thus founded upon the public will.
aud supported by its tlcetng appreciation, without
any Observation-Disclosures church-without military
authority, or any Of those external props and but
tresses. such as influence. patronage. and all the
other means Of popular seduction which flow from
large debt or civil lst;-a crown we think, rest
ing upon such basis, is problem which the
science of politics has not hitherto solved
Can It be solveds Is it not dangerous hypo-
thesis?
We cannot dissembe our fears but that the re-
publican character of the new French Chamber
will utterly overthrow the monarchy of France.
1t arrays itself directly against it, if not in pro-
fession, at least in spi"it Indeed, when the church
aud the peerage are withdrawn, are there any borus
of the altar upon which the crown can take hold
when pursued by the vehemence Of popular pas
sion, or baitrd BY the turbulence OF sedition aud
faction? But we are not so much concerned at
the fate Of the French monarchy. The Liberals
have opened the food gates and let in The waters;
aud whether the crazy bark which they nave con-
structed shall be able to stem the tide, or shall
founder, is of little Importance. Our main fear is
that the new Deputies will set Europe in blaze
that they will push on France to war with the
Continent. TbeiS general character is certainly
not only warlike, but ferOciouslv hostile to the
| common institutions of Europe
From The Paris Messenger des hanbres.
1t is the duty of National Government to put
an end to the monstrous discordance that exists
in this country between our manners and our Pc
nal system, the accessive severity of which is BY
no means proportionate to the crimes which it is
intended to repress. and from that circumstance
contribute to secure impunity to the criminals
The commission formed by the Minister of JUS
tce to revise our Penal Laws having concluded
its labors. the Keeper of the Seals has just adj
dressed the project which he has drawn up to all
the Courts in the Kingdom, requiring their obser-
vations and advice on the subject
The project does not contain, as might be de-
sired, il more calm period and less weigh, of