The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-15
From Foreign Papers BY tho America.

The Ne1oS OF the 9th has powerful article
on the late movements of Russia, Austria and
Prussia, from which We take few passages
that VIII be interesting to readers on this side Of
the Atlantic.
The Emperor of Austria as all the world
knows, holds the kingdom of Hungry, not jure
dipino but by the grace of the Car Russian,
not Austrian armies, subdued the people of
Hungary, and re committed them to their hered.
itary jailor of the house Of Hapsburg. The Gar
has just been paying a visit 10 his imperial vas
sal; Of whom he is said to have taken leave
with patronzing promise Of the continuance
of his countenance and support. or course the
promise was qualified by the understanding
| that it was obligstory only so long AS the i'm
| perial vassa so conducted himself as to merit
| the protection of the Gar.
From Vienna the Gar had proceeded to Ber-
| lin to visit another of his modern dependents
The king of Prussia has done something very
| like homage for the territories he hods-and
/ with more OF ostentatious publicity than the
| Emperor 81 Austria. At solemn banquet
| from the time Of Tacitos IT, has been the Ger.
man custom to transact important public bust
| ness once drunk and once sOber-the king of
Prussia pledged his over. lord adding the prayer
"God preserve Tim to that portion of The world
which he has giuen him for an Inheritance, and
to our epoch, 10 trhich he IS Indispensable"
/ The monarch whose ancestor, by assuming
proprio mmtN the kingy lille, commenced that
rebellion against the German emperor, whcl
has ended by eXtingushing both emperor and
empire, about the same time that the parlia-
ments Of England and Scotland transferred the
British crowns from James Ii. to William Ilk,
did not blush to proclaim in public that the
| territories and peoples subject to the Russian
sceptre are the property cf the Gar, and that TO
the kings of Europe he is indispensable" To
see Prussia--the natural leader Of northern and
protestant Germany-hob nobbing with the
Gar, excites very painful feelings,
The triumvrae of the northeast of Europe
do not con6ne their attention to their own do
minions. They assert right to dictate to the
rest of Europe They Assert, in a correspon
dence recently made public, right to dictate to
France its form OF government and to impose
a sovereign on it. They maintain that the
treaties of 1914 and 1915 are still in full yigor;
and that by them Austria, Great Britain, Prus.
STA and Russia, are pledged to maintain the d.
vine hereditary rights of the house of Bourbon
In the first place, they declare that theee
crowns pledged themselves" on the 2O.h Of
November, 1915 to maintain in full yigor the
perpetual exclusion of the Bonaparte family
| from the throne of France :" in tho second place
| they intimate taGt they have con0ived at what
mas happened OF late years ia France, simply on
the understanding that il was transient inter-
| ruption OF . legitimate sway, to which France
| itself would in time put an end and lastly
they proclaim that there already exists French
| dynasty; and so long Bourbon is found, when
ever g Freuch crown is shaken off, to him it ap
pertains.
| The would-be resusctators Of the Holy Ali.
ance forget, or affect to forget, few facts that
are of some Importance. They forget that Mr.
Canning, with the appreciation Of every party in
this country, finally and unequivocaly withdrew
Great Britain from the entangling alliance on.
tracted in 1915, when she called the new world
into existence TO redress the balance of the old"
/ They forget that Rus ia, by destroying the ma
tionality OF Poland, has of it's own act set aside
the treaties of 1915, and dsenabed itself to
insist upon the iulhment of any of their stpu
atons. They forget that the leading sovereigns
| Of the German confederation, by failing to fulfil
| their promises To confer representative const
! tutions on their subjecte-or by resembling such
| constitutions when granted-or treating them
~ dead etters-have equally forfeited all title
to insSt upon the enforcement of these, trs aties
| rhey forget that by the recognition of the EN-
| pre If Brazil and the republics of South Amcri.
fca-by the recognition of Louis Phppe-by
| the creation Of tie kingdoms of Belgium and
| Greece-aHd by acquiescog in the new settle
ments Of the crowns of Spain and Portugal
they h.ve been parties TO the introduction of
| new system of international law throughout the
states of the European civilization, that has re.
| peslvd and superseded the servile doctrines upon
which the treaties Of 1915 were based These
treaties havsSbecome, like the pragmatc sanc.
ton, and the family compact are matters of his
tory-old almsnacs.
| u'ha dnctrinn 80 .
the old doctrine Of the divine RIGHT of kings"
what in England cougcrsalism is to t,ryisn-
has been practically disowned in Enoland.
France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Spain,
Portugal, ard Sardinia Gin the Swiss rer ublics,
and in the new made kingdom Of Greece, il j.
unnecessary to state, 1t never could be admit.
ted.) and throughout the whole Of the American
continents. The doctrine Of Legitimacy -" i, an
exploded and obsolete theory throughout
Christendom, except in Russia, GERMANY, the
Aus rain domihions, Denmark, and the greater
pat Of Italy.
II is too late in the day to renew the abortive
conspiracy Of kings Of 1915. Any ATTEMPT on
the part of the three kings Of Cologne 10 re.
subject the people who have repudiated The
treaties Of Vienna to the pretentions Of the holy
alliance must he made If at all, by force Of arms
by foreign aggression and, with all the AFRO
lulionsry movements Of lSiS, they are not vet
so blinded BY success as 10 dream Of such An
undertaking. They know that the discontents
Of Germany have been siIenced only-not ex
tngushed
They know that the armies Of Austria are
smarting under the reproach that the aid Of
Russia necessary to enable them TO suhdue
the Hunga'ians; that the army of Prussia feels
itself degraded By its kings recognition sf the
suzerainete Of Prussia, and chafe- under Russian
dlctatiou rs aupry as il did under the dictation
Of Napoleon. The people and armie, Of Ger
many compelled their cowardly and reluctant
sovereigns TO rebel against the French emperor
and any attempt on the part Of the present
sovereigns Of Austria and Prussia to fglt the
battles Of the Gar against constitutional En-.
rope would be pretty certain 10 lead to,a similar
result.
4 nR. LAwREEcE AsB WAT TYLER.