Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-05-30
LORD BRoUGnAM,s ATTACK UPON GEN cAss.

LORD BROUGHAM'S ATTACK UPON GEN. CASS.
Gen. Cass has reason TO congratulate himself that
his late glorious services at Pars in arres,ng the in.
sdous schemes Of England for investing herself with
the supreme dominion Of the oceun-an object which
she has pursued through centuries of progressive
grandizement, with eye that has never winked,
and step that has faltered-arc receiving
the highest at,es,ation 10 their efficiency aud import
ance in The unmeesured denuncotons of British pride
and resentment. No wonder that Henry Lord Brough
am and Yaux-who, with oil his extraordinary gifts,
| has sunk into the Thersites of the British Senate,
sawed by no shame by no respect controlled;
! In scandal busy In reproaches bold'-
should glory in reVing, "wth icentous style, SO
shining q mark for malignant vituperation. After
having arraigned Monsieur de TocGuevle, Of the
greatest genuses and most profound political writer's
Of the age, before the British House Of Lords and
upbraded him for the offence of having called in ques
ton the new Brtsh claim Of virtual right Of search
in time of peace, "with marvellous ignorance
norance tue most incredibly profound"--it was quite
natural transition for his Lordshp, in following up
his VOCATION TO turn upon illustrous countryman,
TO whom British power owed far deeper debt of
geance for ambitious schemes thwarted in the very
moment of their xpecled consummaon,) and besow
upon the vigilant and successful American Minister
some of the choicest flowers Of his Lordshps fara-
meniary billngsgate.
1t is, indeed, most edifyng spectacle 10 see this
Henry Lord Brougham and Vaux-who, in his bold
pretensions to universal knowledge, has incurred the
character Of the most presumptuous Sci0st Of his day
ONE of whom distinguished countryman of his
own, and a learned professional brother, keeny
marked, cit was pity he didn't know something Of
law, and then it might be said he knew He of every
ing"-reproaching Of the most able and ac-
plished ministers and jurs's Of whom any
try boast with "havlng no more conception of
the rudments Of international law, than he has
Of the languages spoken in the moon, and ono
capacity of reasoning, than he has of understanding
legal points and legal differences Equally edifyng
is it the inflated lordling Who without official
trust mr. in ig nprn 10
thrusting himself into the concerns of all the cabi
nets in Chrstendom-who, without any delegation Of
authority from either party, at one time puts himself
forward as mediator between England and France, and
at another attempts to play peacelnaker Tor rather
mschief-maker) between America and England-who,
Short the universal busy tody and intermeddtsr Of
the age-magisterialy rebuking Gen Cass for "steP-
ping out of his own province, and mixing himself up
| with French affars-wnh the negotiations between
| France and England-whch he had to do
v th than he had with the treaties between any two
powers ia the peninsula Of india and obtrudng upon
the French Government his ofcious protest against
the treaty between England and France excite war
between the two countries"
Lord Brougham, then, would have had Gen Cass,
the trusted depository of American rights and honor
at foreign court, TO stand by with folded and
sealed lips, while he saw great maritime confedeacy
about to be formed and consummated, which, If not
aimed directly at his country, would necessarily
promise her safety in most vital point and overurn
those principles of maritime freedom and independence
for which she had invariably contended, simply be-
cause the United States mere not, technically. party
upon the record. Strange narrowness Of views this, for
who sets himself up par eminsnee the model Of
statesman and international jurist. The end and aim
of the quintuple treaty, SO far Great Britain was
concerned, and lis necessary effect in practice, would
been subject the whole commercial ocean to the
supreme jurisdiction of the British naval police, not
only regard to those powers who were parties to the
treaty. but as a consequence Of the British doc
trine of the right Of visitation, against all the other
rhine powers Of the world The immense and extend.
ed circumference marked out BY the treaty for the