The following very curiou...
The Times, 1824-01-28T00:00:00

The follouwing very curious article is copied from the Lisbon Gazette of the Ist illstanlt; and when it is considered that whatcver enters this journal must either be the official communication, or have the positivesanction of the Go- vernment, the doctrines which it contains wvill be found to possess very considerable interest. UWe are not, of course, answerable for its confused figures, any more than for its wild principles : " After the numerous vicissitudes which had been wvitnessed in Europe since 1789, humanity might have expected to taste some of I tiat repose which it enjoyed, with few interruptions, for a long space of tile before that epoch. Nevertheless, the xevolotidfaay vol- cano, by its first and terrible explosion in France, so completely shook the social edifice, that from time to time we never ceased to feel coneussiensra, mre or less powerful, vwhtc' thteatened its total ruin. Furious and terrible was that which, in 1820, shook the Peninsula from the axis of its monarclical Governments- The desLructive spirit by whlich n sect, the sworn enemy of the throne and the altar, 'Succeededl in obtaining the reins of at Government whicll it usurped, wras, lhowever, tinally extinguished by the loyalty and the powerful aid of a Mlonarch, Louis XVIII., who was, doubtless, destined by Providence to close the abyss of revolutions hoth in his own ansd other cotntries of: Furope .A11l tlie monarchs of this' quarter of the globe are now aware that there is no middle course betweon making terms with the re- volutioDists and preparing the ruin of thirones; and are firrnly convinced that it is only by a cot-dial ution in their principles, and the means of carrying them itto effect, iltat they can extirpate frorn the face of the earth that haiuglhty liberalism which, maintained by the occuilt fire of tecret societies, with great dexterity and on a fixed plan, loses nota moment in misleading the inacautious in makilg theme discontented with their government, and psovolking new disasters. A'll of thein are convinnced of the zecessity of ertir. pafting the evil, 71ot ontly liEurope, but beyond thte Attantic, n'here the Hlydra noufi,riously vomitgforth its sgortal poison in great itreamrs. It sufFered to exist there, it would extend the pestilence to Europe in such a manner, that being torn between the excesses of crael and hostile palties, it woutld be reducedl to the absolute ueces- sity of interminable wvars, and exposed to be the prey one day of some lucky adventurer who u,ight arise to take ad-antage of its misfortuines. This o4ject, thereybre, *ow occutpies, atd interests mlore ptrtieltrly, the Calnnets of Ezrope. In this tsk, some dif- ficulties, however, remain to be overcome. Some timne will be ne- cessary to balance the reciprocal interests of aU nations more or less involved in the afrairs of America. They wil have to miature the umcans best adapted tobring back to reason and duty, people misled hy ftctious persons, who have no other object in view but to be the dictators and adrninistrators of tbose whotm they have deceived by their impostures. The year 1824, just commencing, wviU pre- pare for the annals of the world, new events, which, we trust, will put an end to the scourges with which the rebellious spirit of the re- volutionary sect has aifiicted all nations; and we hope that the pridc of those will be quclled who consult only their own private in-' terest, to the detriment of whatever is legitimate antl rational in the social svstem."