New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-01

frog in the fable which tried to swell user trust
the Of the OK laugh I5 70 s SeT former M good
fortune; but il should be remembered th% sre as
possess the same power OF Gnese ann and assumed
that because she had enemies she Woulu baJ sny
hut would be well to consider weiheJ y 70 helm ner in
had rT"dnced great GOODNESS and what security had she
that the uuscrupulOus statesman who run ieost
iron the German Empire would ,nos, wrorarcd ofer
peCfu; i, 20 how which would Obge her TO en-
gage in wari He could NOT hep a tCetns ' % the
initiating confession made, ~ 1c, durnS the recent dis
cussion on the revision OF the IISa'y o l G o ~
ht'eu IN sorm TO the wishes Of Russia, as she was
moi IN nositiOn 10 resist those Wishes ny lncio
,o' oTy little difficulty on the part OF Germany IN
Wuu me British Government to go to war If she were
so JisDosed and she would not want ior motives Ger
many wished TO extend her naval power anu Wouiu hS
! Holland and Belgium, the independence OF Wnieh
latter England had guaranteed; wni WHILE NUS Ro
STA wished for Constanun0ple, ana 9iter the
defeat Of Austria and France Engand was
now the sole protector OF Turkey me navy was IoI-
merly the chief means OF defense but England had now
lost all power OF mjuring an enemy by sea- wlle the
Army utterly inadequate Tor otese or detense, As
steam rendered an enemy almost uul4t3us, enc Touy;
unless prepared by Notifications round the island well
Manned be taken at great disadvantage; ana tho9sh
she would send out lroncans anu sWllt cruisers, Ino
enemys feet would remain in port preserved by t0rpe,
does wm,e ms commerce WOMB r zoe ua t 1i
70 neutral bottoms, where under tae treaty OF fWls'
they would be safe. This was the case In the Cr-
mean war; for England and France having foohshy adj
nitted that neutral nag should cover InS enemy
goods the of Russia passed through Prussia,
and being thus enabled TO prol0ng the war Inc enemy
on the other hand would fit out cruisers 20 prey on
the commerce. the right of insurance would rise,
British merchants would prefer neutral bottoms, neI
chant ships would rot in their haTb0rs and sailors would
IL attracted by high wages and safety 10 neutral SHIPS
rho navy too, would seek in vain for the enemy, and
thrs being no prze-money IN prospect sailors would
10 undertake some such scheme that described in the
BATTLE Of Dorking." He maintained that the Declare
He concluded by asking whether the Declaration had
been ratified by Her Majesty in Council expecting,
sold i'm he M
ties pernirions 10 the state; enough a simple
injury or some disadvantage in treaty be not
win Tboe nconyeniepcs that word lead TO the ruin
the nation. Since the formation of every treaty the
contracting parties be vested with sufficient powers
a me mot at All obieatoT as no CONDUCTOR OF nation has
the power to enter into engagements TO do such things
arc capable OF destroying the state for whose safety
the Government is intrused TO him. The nation itself
being necessarily obliged to perform everything for its
preservation and safety cannot enter mo engagements
contrary 10 Its indispensable obligations
Earl Cowper replied behalf of the Government that
the Declaration had never been ratified By Her Majesty
in Council but that they did not that account con
slider themselves at liberty to repudiate IT, Thereupon
the Earl Of Mamesbury End said that he did not
regard The Declaration as document Of sacred ChaIac
yer a. Il F%htG 1eq - W. Win anv
of tie parties To it, II would cease 10 be binding
regarded that heligcrcnt While the late Lord Derby
went 50 far declare that England had cut of her
right hand, AID called il the CapitularGn OF Paris At
the time Lord Derby hcid that al the Powers which
had subscribed TO il. ana had not since disayowcd IT,
were morally bound by IT, II was impossible however,
TO believe that if England were at war with some mari
adhere 10 the Declaration instead OF making use Of those
private ships which she Possessed above AL other coun
tries. If England were at with any great nation,
the force of circumstances alone would obhge her to
! abandon the Declaration of Paris
| Earl Granville remarked that Sir George Lcwiss
! opinion, that if England at with OF the
parties to the Declaration would 80 longer be binding
as between that beligerent and herself. confirmed
rather than weakened the sanctty attributed TO it by
his noble friend Osarl Cowpcr for this exactly
what happened with the most solemn treaties The late
Lord Derby, moreover deemed that the Powers which
! none OF them had done, were bound IN honor 10
T3s ,i ~. me no1ie EAR OpRoslte (Manesburyl
he Declaration, had, exsecretary OF state been
Otion that whenever England found inconvenent 10
hcr'eh she should dispense with IT, AS TO me present
moment he agreed with the nOhieEar forhe dd not see
what Arguments he could have suggested at the rect
Conference for ahrogang the article objected TO by the
noble Earl Denbigh IL was necessarily connected VITA
three Otner propositions, aud since 1856 no objection ned
| there laid down. 1t might, no doubt, do harm to
! an enemy 10 seize his goO&s in neutral bottom
mere harm, and HIN good, by enlisting the feeling
the neutral in favor of the enemy In the late wer
France made little OF her navy, which ne belieled
was very efficient state, but she had the command
of the and but for this declaration she would have
been entitled search the mercantile marine
of England in order 70 discover the enemy goods Now
he believed that would have made English neutrality
perfectly impossible II would have created an irita
ton in England aud, rightly or wrongly, England would
have resented il 10 the greatest degree With her
nous military marine she had the power OF
insutug effective blockade, 10 which the rlgM OF
blockade specially confined without, however. or
gung questions already settled he would simply protest
against the doctrine that England at liberty, though
she herself had been protesting against similar conduct
/ TO say that whenever international declaration by
which she was bound in honor was announcement, she
! could Immediately withdraw from IT, Hear, hearJ
Colchester said he could not but think that the
Earl of Denbegh had done good service 10 the country
in bringing the question again into notice He feared
that at present England could not shake off the
cumbrance of her obgatons but he trusted that in
ternationa treaties more to be modifed-if
other Powers desired to be relieved from any "Of the
treaty obligations binding them" England might
deavOr 10 obtain modification OF an agreement, nuri
he thought to her power and injurious also TO the
highest interests of tne world. ThereupOn the ss Get
dropped.
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