New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-21
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planations.
The imperial usurper, the lO0m tenens of the
French throne, was, at the last accounts, at o.
borne. the guest of the Queen of England, and had
already impressed upon her matronly cheek,
through the hirsutei mpedimentsof the mustache,
the ceremonial salute. He csne and with him
came the espionage which always surrounds ty.
rant Whether he only desired 10 lend probability
in the minds of the British pubic to his Mazzini
ard Ledru. Ron tanord, or whether with the in
stincye cowardce of Claudius, he felt that there
was no safety for him anywhere, unless some
shadow of his mercenary guard fingered around
him, Louis Napoleon brought ever with bin to
the Isle of Wight the representatives of his French
police of the wretched beings who betray the un-
thinking and earrulous into high treasOn-Of those
who, upon the Bouleyards and in the cojt, play the
pant of eavesdrOppers, and note the whispers of
unhappy men, hereafter, at the leisure of the sham
monarch, to be consigned to Cayenne, or to the
tenderer merces of the guiliOtne. These prs-
tOrian delegates lDger under the windows of con-
stitutiODal Britissi monarch, or, joining with a
police force from the London which hurled Charles
|. from bis throne for mebdacity end cheating and
swindng, perambuate the slarf, lying in wait for
republican assassins. The terrible SPY system of
Europe has Been fairly inaugurated upon British
SOIL and it only remains for Bonaparte to send over
another Barrilon. Then indeed will be restored
tie palmy days of the last Stuarts and the financial
officers Of England may draw again upon the fnan-
cial officers of France, as they did in the days Of
the Merry Monarch.
1t is understood that Louis has gone to Osborne
TO demand the e1traditiOn of French refugees from
England, and settlement of the question of the
Danubian Principalites. EmperOrs have not
often been their own ambassadors, and there is
certain audacity in this proceeding, not, indeed,
without precedent in the Bonaparte annals, which
may excite our wonder If not our respect. Of
the Moldavian and Wallachian questions we do not
propose 10 speak, but of the insuierabe arrogance
which can hint to British Ministry the necessity
or prOprety of banishiDg from British soil polit-
zeal e1iles-what shall We say How will the
great and free constituencies Of England relish the
proposition How will the proposal to subject
Great Britain TO the surveillance which the large
European Monarches have exercised over smaller
States, be received in the sea-grt island 1t is
safe to cay that during one hundred aud fifty years
past at least France could not have made such a
proposal without provoking storm Of derisive in
dignation throughout the English dominiOns.
The principle upon which the English rule has
been founded is plain enough. While it does
or does not recognize the de facto govern
nents Of other nations, it has, in theory at least,
held TO the right of revolution Of which it has been
On several occasions so illustrious an exemplar.
Great Britain has, indeed, from political causes,
sometimes been as false to this principle a. upon
other occasions she has been true. She was false
TO il throughout the early stages of the French
Revolution, as she was true to it throughout the
Spanish, Portuguese and German opposition to the
Napoeon;c usurpatoDs But Whatever might be
the phases of the continental storm, she invariably
asserted the sanctity of her own soil, and declared
it to be the refuge of the oppressed, the exile, the
refugee. whether republican or royaist. Proud Of
her ability to protect her own honor, and to save
her own dOnniOns from becoming the theater OF
conspiracies worthy Of consideration she has well
y
, t;raun;cide. She has never had reason to regret
the adoption of the rule nor will her people be
ready to sbandon it at the beck Of charIatan who
has won throne by massacre, as he is preserving
il by subteIfuge. TIE continuance of the Anglo.
French alliance il fast becomng-nay, has already
become-a question Of morals. As such, the En-.
ssh Ministry must regard it, Or prepare to yield
their places to men of greater worth and per.
spicacity.
I.uay be said that we oyeresimate the virtue
ard integrity Of the English PEOPLE. 1t may be
said that the England of the present time is not the
England of better days-of the days of Elizabeth,
of Crom WELL of the third William, and of the third
George. 1t may be declared that wealth has sapped
the national strength and proved fatal to the nation.
a. integrity This is just the point which wal.
to see decided. That Epgishman has grown strange
y bird who fails to recognize at glance the emp.
tness ard the rOttenness Of the present Government
Of France. That Englishman should have lived in
the dsys of Oates, or Of Jefreys, who is moved to
Indignation, or las bis credulity in the least played
uyoc, by tie lies Of Grill. That.Epgishman must
be strangely indifferent to the social institutions Of
bis country who can behold his Queen, the true
wife Of her husband and the true mother of her chill
dren, associatirg with an sduterer who, throughout
bis lie, so unfortunately prolonged. has in his prac
tee laughed at sexual purity. Let her present him
70 1t. busbsad and say Here is one VITO left his