The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-09-06
ANNEXATlON-FRENC IN AFRICA-ENG G.
LAND IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE

LAND IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE
GLOBE.
We have very recently stated in two former arti
cles the policy of Great Britain in reference 10 the
nexation Of district after district state after state
to her own dominions. On this subject her history
for the last hundred years furnishes precept upon
precep,-line upon ne--no always in the scriptu-
raj sense. Example is contagious. What their
neighbors 10 a large scale, other men will be very
apt TO think they NAV do moder lie or restricted
scale. The brochure indicates that the French Go,
eminent believes that there should be considerable
limitations to Britannia, rule the seas" The
French national feeling runs ahead Of the French
Government in this view. proportional power on
the seas, implies division Of possessions upon the
land. The one is impracticable without the oihe
each is necessary mutual support Holland, after
becoming for time first rate naval power and real
izng an immense moneyed capital, (Which latter she
still retalns,l sunk INTO nsgnifcance al pow
er, because she had not land enough to maintain her
maritime greatness Neither England nor Fra ce
IN this predicament The British Isles have ter
rtory adequate to support nearly twice their present
population in more comfort han they now exist, and
France could add two-thrds to her present numbers
with similar results.
While England pursues systema icay the policy
OF notwithstanding AT one lime the reign of the
Great Mogul--at anoth' of the Niyam-and sue
'ssivey subjeciing rajahs, ",mirs and khans in
lng array'-unt the vast empire of lndos,an Is
nearly all her own-France naturally looks to Az
RIGA, so much nearer her shores TO furnish her
with colonie aud commerce. In fact The pre-occu.
patton Of Great britain has reduced her if she wishes
for colonies at all, TO Hobson's choice 1t happens
however, that the steed is which will suit the RI
der admirably, although it stands the door
There is not sufficient in the world for all the
great civilized powers to have exact equivalents
The difficulty of partioning nations, descending in
TO the awful degradation Of extreme corruption
with all its destructive incidents, arises frequently
from the circumstances OF their physical position
They may have ceased to be formldable-may pre-
sent easy conquest TO the combined operations Of
more wealthy, better organized, and less corrupted
nations-but the apportonment of the property when
once obtained is an nsuperabe moral obstacle -
The Prince de Ligne has communicated the seve-
raj points of view in which the emperor JOSEPH Ca
tharne, and himself, speculoted during their excur-
sion to he Crimea, les paupres dabLs de lures.
The Prince for re-esablishng k belle aniiquite 4
the empress for raising up Lycurgussrs. The only
difficulty with joseph, (who for the future
than the past, for the positive than for cAimeras,
was que diabis de fare de COnsianiinophnt But as
the Review just quoted well remarks, Russia is
sufficiently powerful by herself 10 force an answer
10 that formidable question"
France is under skins to solve the difficulties sug
gcsted by diplomacy in relation to various points of
interest-and territories Of small extentas Eng
land has solved them the far Orient with respect
t, the Mogul, zams Rajahs Emr, and Khan.
She does it by going for annerahon. She draws
around the powers which offend her there the c Gle
of Poplius. She very reasonably concludes that il
n vast deal OF annexation in the remote East has
been very good for Great Britain much smaller
quantity Of it will prove highly beneficial to her in
the West Hence, is her Consul maltre,ted? Al.
gers falls. DO the Moors Of the neighborinp conn.
try abhor the ycinage Of the Infdel. and ATTEMPT to
ext theml They fall before her artillery and all
the dread combination Of her military skill, as the
Greek empire did Of yore before he sttaghan of the
Ouomaps. Does the emperor Of Morocco partake
the hostility Of his fellow MUSE mans and deem the
Inhdels barbsrous, intrusive race, worthy Of more
than all the blows OF Abdel khader and therefore en-
thought Al once he finds onn, ration menac No hum
both by land and sea, and bis principal seaport Is bonn
barded and the tri-color waves in triumph over il
Thus in similar style and manner to The progress Of
British annsrahon in the East Indies, and elsewhere
has French ann,ration begun and uH proceed And
are we to be buid for pacific GHneraiion when these
two great Powers adopted the principle long since
and are efecting so much Of 1t now When the,
have Effected, and are still e1ccng II mostly by the
sword'
These ques ions interviewer with our own pro-
edngs, and have, IN their present spect strong
biari upon them In Algeria, Morocco, and A.
hiti, France perceivss, o. thinks she perceive.
mesns Of immense augmentation Of her home re-
sources, and Of the malnt nance Of an quality q
poser aud influence With Great Britain Hence her
determination to move, 10 grasp and t. hold fast -
II Great Britain suffer. her TO go on she will in I,
few years have her hands full of work near h,ne
without in,ermedoling with our views IN relation To
Texas II she attacks her now or after the lapse oC
some time, she will have her hands full in like man
nsr.
There Is no device, them 10 srrest the nrovrs.. NJ
French annsraion in Africa, but to influence by ,er
'On the poor devils the Turks, See FIipb,,r,b
Review, January, lS3O-article " Ottoman Empire %
tB sutifuI antiquity.
10 adjust the disbol cal difSeultv nr...,,.I r.