Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-01-29

the United States But apprehend no such result.
Even II the French adyenturers should continue to be
Feoflous NAPOLEON III will seek other vent for his lust
oi enlarged DOMINION lie medtate other conqueets for
e SUCCESS OF winch he counts il upon the alliance
at least upon the neutrality Of the United States His
not going therefore, wilfuy provoke us by assamE
sovereignty or proecoratea at variance with the policy
loudly proclaimed by the United States for the last thirty
years and which he knows he could not hold against us
for the space Of year. The Count would De
imator Of CoRTEz must therefore, in spite Of himself
becoSae soperein the province he has conquered
unless the Mexeans should succeed in repelng him. or
unless should nip his nascent gores in the bud by
purchasing Sonora from Mexico, and compelling the
Count become citizen Of Republic or seek his
fortune farther South, by the conquest of yet another
province from Mexico The Constitutional Of this morn
ing thus alues to the subject before summing up
the intelligence brought by the last steamer
This column which left California to seeIs fortune
in Mexico is acting, be IL well understood its
count from its sole inspiration and upon It's single
sponsibity. Ii is romantic episode, but OF
clusivey private character to which, up this time
least Importance attaches except matter of curio
sy. 1t is purely for the satisfaction Of this curiosity
that borrow from the Courier des Flats Uns all
details with which that paper furnishes to-day The
" column OF Frenchmsn, adds the journal, acting
adventurous but they show themselves mbued
with e spirit of enterprise which is characteristic Of
their nation"
This Journal | remember me, has found phrases much
less academic than romantic episode" sscolumn OF
Frenchmen, and "enerprisng adventurers," by which
to signaze the very similar, and certainly equally
cusabe expeditions which being constantly gotten up
among certain portions of too 'senerprising'
population. Far be it from justify to pal
late the conduct Of the latterAmercan citizens who
gage in these cupabe adventures The French Journals
have found terms too by which to stgmatize
them. only insist that equal justice be rendered to all,
and that be not qualified enterprsng admira
Bile, romantic, chivalrc, or lawlSss, afAu.e~s
and practical according the happen to be of
French or American origin.
The occupation of Samana in the Dominican Republic
by portion Of the French fleet in the West Indies has
been matter of lively interest here during the last week
The Monier is silent upon the subject but the newspa
per La Patr more or less semofcial sheet, thus
plains the fact which has been sadly exaggerated
and msinterpreted in the United States. 1t would
tainy add something the value of this explanation if
it had appeared in the official journal but well under
stand how the official would not anxious show
that this Government has avoided interference with the
weknown American policy touching European acauis-
tons of territory influence side of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. La Patre would have hardly
tured the following explanation of the SANTANA affairs if
it were not true:
English and American papers speak of an occupation
by the French forces of the peninsula SANTANA. This
news is Ike all those Of the sort Ia very profound
mark that fhe French semofcal) which maay foreign
sheets giving After the cessation of the epidemic
Martinique the frigate la Sby which had remained in
the road left its anchorage for the benefit of its
change of air. 1t proceeded upon cruise in the Of
the Antilles and its presence in the waters of Hayt
has given rise TO reports put in circulation by the
papers Of America"
The Journal des Deba abiding to the report had
previously treated quite unworthy Of credit the SUPPOSE
tion that the French Government had seized upon with in
tenton to appropriate the portion the Island Of
St Domingo but regarded as at any less improbable
the idea that NAPOLEON ILL., had accepted the rocorate
Of the Dominican Republic And it calls mind, in this
connexon the fact that ten years ago the Republic offer
cd the protecorate LOUIS PHILPPE, in order
it from hostile invasion by its neghbors Of the end
Before LOUIS PHrPE had positively accepted refused
the perous honor the revolution Of 1913 put end the
negotiations They were afterwards renewed, and the
proposition finally rejected by France under the Re-
public. 1t apprehended that NAPOLEON Ill., so-
ctous increase the influence and especially the prom
nence Of France in the settlement Of the worlds affairs
had reviewed and reversed the decision Of the
Of the Republic But feel sure that NAPOLEON Ill viii
seek other opportunities OF relieving Tire
proach Of humiliation and efacement which he says
has been pressing upon her since the fab Of NAPOLEON
opportunities home, Of acile execution Of
better promise opportunities in which he would be better
seconded by the strong national instincts by the deep
fierce nextnguishable antpathes Of his subjects than
he would be he throw down his glove young
giant Of America Let him kilfuly address himself to
those instincts and evoke those antpathies and will
require the supreme efforts Of all Europe to stay the de-
LUCE which may be made to pour upon II from France.
with the United States would not stir up in France
and array for action those terrible elements which would
constitute the force Of NAroLEos Ill, and make him
almost invincibe If he sagacousy chooses the moment
and the occasion for foreign lie will therefore accept
protectorshp Of the petty West Indian Republic, and
raty conquests Of rowing French adventurous
brgands than soldiers, that would inevitably bring him
into prompt collision with the United States.