The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-12-13
APPROACHING DIVISION OF THE
TURKISH EMPIRE-RUssIA, ENG
LAND, AND FRANCE.


LAND, AND FRANCE.
IL being sdmitted--nor can't be disputed even
on plausible grounds-thst such Is we have re-
presented in our former article is the state and
prospects of the Turkish empire. IL then be-
comes question of the weightiest interest TO
| the European powers, and of considerable gen
eral concern, who are to be the disposers OF its
fate, and the sharers Of It's spois Will Great
| Britain be willing that France should have a
part or II a part, such part as will content
France epen for a tme2 We think she will
not be willing that France should have any part.
We have seen how strongly one of the organs
OF The existing ministry protests against French
possession Of even Algeria or Morocco; Of the
seizure Of Algiers and the war with Morocco
IT said "But every man can see the influence
of both on the freedom Of the Mediterranean
with much more in the same article still more
palpaby begerenl. The other organs OF the
present ministry spoke almost universally In the
| same strain. Far the greater part of the wing
press were quite as wahike The Morning
Chronicle, Lord Palmerston's organ, uttered all
sorts of birer threats. The Quarterly Review
chastsed what it indicated as the bombast and
insoence Of French pretensions with long ar
licle Of fiery prose. But if Great Britain
would not-at least at present-permit any
| occupation by France of the shores of the Medl-
terranean in Morocco, how entirely averse
would she be to any joint or other occupation
of Turkey on the part of France! This is moi
The alliance she would seek or tolerate. All her
parties would exclaim in the words of the writer
in Blackwood-" The maxim of Fox, that the
northern alliances are the true policy of Eng
land, is as sound as ever" The repeated in
| stances of French preponderance in Europe are
too well remembered by Great Britain, and have
caused her struggles too severe and terrible. to
admit of her conserving to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
of France by the addition of any part Of the
decaying Turkish empire. of this empire, Mr.
Burke said, in l770,* Its European posses
sions bring it, in considerable degree, within
happy circumstance at present for the Ouomans.
The noble provinces of Greece /; the Asialic
Turkey and Egypt, together with the numerous
Mediterranean islands; the Signory of the
Black sea, and its adjoining provinces; from
situation, products. and numberless other advan-
tages, might become, in any other hands, and
any other form Of government, the centre of
commerce, riches, and power; and the greatest
empire perhaps in the world. Even division
of the spoil would totally change the face of af-
Ca,
REVOLUTION IN RICHES, POWER, AND COMMERCE,
AS THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA DID," It's natural
advantages of course are still the same-and the
division of the spoil we may rest assured will
never, with England's consent, be made 10 man
ner TO inure to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of France.
But we have seen that il must soon be made
and in the manner of making i, causes of long
series of jealouses between the two powers
will spring up, and probably Of war. Even if
warm such an embttered state of feeling
should not occur-such combustible state Of
things will exist-as to render il extremely i'm
probable that Great Britain will engage in war
with any grea: power elsewhere, by reason OF
apprehension that France would seize the mo-
ment 10 readjust-w har-seen through the me-
dunn of her own optics-she would regard as
the unjust ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF other powers, and
particularly Of England
In such position of European affairs, then,
as that which nop erists, and piH erisf for
many years 10 come, unless war interrupts it
il there were no other potent cause 10 deter
Great Britain from any hostile interference with
our ANNEXATION oY TEXAS, the considerations
we have now presented would operate efiectu-
ally. BY the very nature Of things, and ac-
cordng to the Interchangeable state Of human az
fairs, Englands preponderating agency in them,
great as it is and will be, is confined to the three
eastern continents, and cannot be simultaneous
lyeIerted in both the old and the new world.
BUTT may be objected against the probability
OF such war as we have mentioned, that the
world has grown more pacific in the last thirty
years; and consequently the danger of such a
war as we have deemed probable is ideal. We
admit the fact, that more pacific councils prevail,
and rejoice in 1t. But still the spirit of war is
referred to. The great Christian powers have
no, made war upon each other But there has
been war by Russia on Poland and the Circas
sians-war BY England upon Afghsnislan and
the great empire Of China-war Of the Greek
revolution, long and sanguinsry-war by Rus
STA on Turkey, and the battle of Navarino de-
stroying the Turkish feet by the combined
powers seven years civil war in Spain-war
OF the great powers on Mehcmet Ali
bloody little wars in Mexico and South Ameri-
ca-and wars in the Mahome,an countries of
Asia and Eastern Europe are a regular standing
dinner call--whch have been about a. regular
in the last thirty years as they were before-but
no, so bloody, because the long continuance of
their vile and oppressive systems of government