The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-06-13
From The New YOrk Courier and Enquirer.


FRANCE AND MEuco.-The Courier des Flats
Unls, in commenting upon the statement in one OF
the London papers, that Mexico had sought the in
terpostion Of England and France to protect her
against the United States, decides very peremptorily
that France will not accede 10 any such request;
and that the utmost she ever will do will be to ap-
peal as friend to the United States, to their mod.
GRAFTON and magnanmity in behalf Of a weaker
neighbor but that IN hostile guse she will certainly
not interfere. The Courier des Eats inns pro-
ceeds thus with liz reasoning before the ar
rival OF the Hlberna, but which the intelligence by
her only foTthes
mot only has FJance no major interest in pre-
venting the entire or partial conquest Of Mexico by
the United States, but she might possibly both n a
political and commercial sense find more interest in
such conquest Mexico just is under the ex-
elusive influence Of England, who her political
y and commercially she would Of her own
colonies. She has monopolized her mines, her mar
kets, her revenues, and she coves those prov
inces which about to fall into the hands Of
the United States Well il is better for France that
California should belong to America than to Eng.
land; II ia better the influence Of the cabinet at
Washington than that Of St. James should prevail
in Mexico; for the first 10 naturally the politi-
cal and maritime friend of France as the second is
her enemy. We have everything to fear from the
omnipotence Of England, and nothing from the pow
or Of the United States. On the contrary, the deyel-
opment Of the latter power in itself an advantage
for us, nasmach as it is peril for eternal adyer-
sary In the hands Of the Americans, the great civ
| ilizers of the New World. the wealth of Mexico
would be augmented ten-fold. That country would
offer to Europe markets en-fold more extensive than
now and those markets would DO under no monop-
oily. French commerce would find advantages in
such restoration Of the mercantile equilibrium Just
in proportion az that Of England would lose by it,
The traffickers and producers Of all nations, now
l
sve regime, would benefit by the freedom and equal
ny every where imp+unsod Hhd psotectedbeneat the
great shadow Of the starry flag"
| The grandeur and business Of these ideas have
struck man who has travelled through Amcrsa
and thus been enabled to and judge for himself.
We refer to M. DuHot de Mofras, attached to the
| French legation in Mexico. In his work entitled
Exploration of the Territory of Oregon, of Cali.
| fornia, and of the Vermion Sea-" published by
order Of Louis Philippe, and under the auspices of
Marshal Sout and M. Guizot, M. de Mofras ex-
presses the opinion that France has everything to
GAIN politically and commercially, by the incorpo-
ration Of Mexico with the United States.
England" says he, "would then soon see the
sort Of political sovereignty which she has managed
to impose upon Mexico, and the commercial mo-
nopoly which she exercises there, both at once an.
hilated She would be weakened precisely in pro.
portion to the strength which the absorption
| Oh power Woulu CoineT upon tne T1enCe
she has already taken pains to exaggerae the results
of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of the United States, by
pretending that it is important for France, as
well as all the other European powers, to proven,
too great an extension Of the democratic element in
America, lest it should sooner or later react from
the New upon the Old World, and thus endanger the
existence of thrones. But France, repeat il mo-
narchical institutions cannot be re-establshed in the
Spanish republics, would derive much greater
benefits from their incorporation with the United
States"
Such judgment, expressed by a man whose
observations were made and published under tn,
auspices of Louis Philippe, Marshal Soult and N
Guizot is eminenty remarkable and encouraging
1t is a proof that the French government desired
with good faith to be enlightened, that it had left
tire freedom Of opinion to the person charged viii
making the exploration-and il is fair to infer from
these facts that the three ilustrous patrons Of M
de Mofras will be able 10 comprehend the true ma
| tonal interest of France in this question.