The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-10-21
FOREIGN NEWS.

The news received by the Acadia at Boston,
and the President at New York, present the at
fairs of Europe and the East in an interesting
point of view, though great uncertainty still rests
upon the result The attack upon Bcyrout, and
its destruction after nine days bombardment,
throws back France upon her declaration that II
the treaty were executed, war must ensue.
Great excitement is said to prevail in Paris
The news from China represents the advanced
division of the English fleet as having reached
the Chinese sea- Here they went to work and
battered dewn all the forts at Bocca Iigrls, ana
up the river to Canton. A force was then landed
and sent up to Canton to destroy that place
This is not, however, regarded as authentic
1t rests upon the authority Of a private letter
from Bombay, received in Liverpool, and COM
municated to the London Standard. Some light
is thrown upon the views of the French Govern
ment, in reference to the Eastern question, in
the following memorandum:
MEMORANDUM DELIVERED BY NJ. GUIZoT TO LORD
PAIMERsToN, ON 24TH JULY.
France, in the affair of the East, has Away
been DESTROYS of acting in accord with Grea
Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia Hert
conduct has'been influenced only by the interes t
of peace. She has never judged the proposals
made to her in any other point of view than
that of the general interests, for no power
more disinterested in the Eastern question thans
she Is. Judging in this manner, she has consi-
dered as ill-coneeived all the proposals the OBJ
Jet Of which was to tear from Mehcmet Ali by
force Of arms those portions OF the Turkish emf
pire of which he Is in occupation. France does
not conceive this will be for the goot OF the
Sultan, because it would tend to give him that
which he could neither govern nor keep. She
dses not think ii good either for Turkey in ge
neral, or for the maintenance of the balance
power in Europe in particular, because it woul :
weaken, without giving any advantage to thf
Sovereign, vassal who may give powerful asd
sistance in the common defence of the empiree
Nevertheless, this is question Of system, on
which there may be many divergng opinions
But France has particularly declared herself
against any project thesadoption of which nigh
bring on the employment of force, because sh
could not distinctly see the means which tn
Ave powers could dispose. t
These means appeared to her to be either inc
sufficient or more injurious than the state oe
things intended to be rsHedied. What she has
thought this subject, she still thinks, and hast
reason to believe this opinion is not exclusively
hers. Under later circumstances no positive pro-
position has been addressed to her upon which
she could explain herself. The determination
communicated to her by England, no doubt n
the name of the four powers, cannot, therefore,
be imputed to refusals which she never had an
opportunity of making. But farther, withou
insisting ON the question to which it might give
rise, France again declares that she considers as
inconsderate and not very prudent, conduct
which shall consist in coming to resolutions,
without the means of carrying them into execu-
ton, or with means of execution insufficient or
denSeruHs. The instruction Of some of the
s',,rto is dn,thf rfttnI ty
which it has been thought might be seized for
finding means of execution, which had not be-
fore been presented Is this a allowable
or above all so useful, that the Turkish empire
ought to act upon it against the Viceroy! 1t
is desired to re-estabish some little degree Of
der and obedience in all parts of the empire, and
yet instructions are fomented! New disor ders
are added to that general disorder, which all the
powers already deplore contrary to the inter
ests of peace. viii they succeed in subjecti n
these people to the Porte, after exciting them t
rise against the viceroye
These questions have certainly not been re. z
solved. But If this insurrection is reprcsscd, i
the Yiceroy becomes again the assured possessoro
of Syria, Ii he thereby becomes more irritated,
more difficult to persuade, and be answers tor
the summons by positive refusal, what are the
means Of the four powers?-Certainly after hav-
ing employed whole year in seeking for them,
they cannot have discovered them recently, and
new danger will have been created, Sc
rious than before. The Eiceroy excited by the
means employed against him 1.-The yiceroy, whom
France has contributed to restrain, may pass the
Taurus and again threaten Constaniinopie.--
What will the four powers do in this case? In
what manner will thsy enter the empire in or
der to give succor to the Sultan2 France con-
ceivcs that thereby there is prepared for the in
dependence of the Ottoman Empire, and the gem
eral peace, danger much more serious than
that with which they were threatened from the