The state of America is a...
The Times, 1824-01-09T00:00:00

The state of America is thiorn in the flesh to -FER- DiNAND, the French Goverzment, and the Holy Alliance. They have neither philosophy to leave the aitient colonists unmolested, nor power to subhdue them; nor discretion -to keep their own impotence 'and uneasiness out of sight. -Unercb iz ---: _. L Trnisteril.: niawspqaers from:' which we cannot infer the enormous-value attached to the old Spanish poss -6-sb the Bouwiois,sndt1ie desperate obstinacy with which they -cherish the resolution to recover thern by.fprce, r friud, faWi ticisra, or m6oiiy.- The fact is, as we. ave xlteady descrilied it, thabtwitliout Amneric, deotism-cannoi atasid in Spain; 1for witiout America' the wealth of the church -innist be applied to the wants of the (iovernmnnt; and with their riches and eonsequent power, th' Court principles of the clergy, the great movers of thc multitude, will vanish. The Journal desDebhats take4 oc- casionj from anarticle in -the BrusseikJournal, to circulate some of the 'daj-dieains'of the BouBnoN Ministers, on the subjec't of the' free states of Ameria. With nio small parade it cbmbats the notion advanced by; the.Flemisli editori that-.. Russian- expedition is to be Atted out im- mediately, to assist: Jing FsansNsiNxD inI his proposed conquest. Now- a, denial, even the post gnleuti#, by any functionary or partisan of the French Govenmment, that a specofic measure, however. -foolish or criainal, was intended"'i46uld have'but little weight with us;,seeinigdihw distincdy,how formally, how indigipa dy, King '.Dpis .declared foniithis own roval hps'to France- and'Europe,Ain- opeh.P amianent, thatit was.asscinda!oulbf apy-oune to chargq. Yat - witvhtlie (eigi..of inVadiugtlthPoninsqla, This, be jireinembered, w5aslom two or.three months be fore the iivasidii took place. I ther.foie,-we didlelieve the Flenrish int'eMigence (puf-forth in 'a.-manner and thrbugh a cgniieliotatogethler'iinworthy of considerationjj that Russniain".-equip' a'apamrent for the renewal -of Fik4Dxti?Y,,S -tyranny~,over South America, it is ence toour'own reason,-aud npt-to French authority. .*e believeithWRusn i willm t mi . tlie-ttempt, hecaisc she I dares-noti-ake.ft, She`must reckoWon having herr expe- ditioB captuved, her ports afiovee thenrQrl' sealed-pu, -her conmerretuinejl her pruce rottel,hnkr nd -her immense empiteparnilyscedin ternobihety anrupt, ~'hdh,1~iiirepse ctn#e~pimovements most essentid-to life.. But tde J02irnal des, Debats furniihe6; an argument aglhst attacking Am6irca by afnls, wvhichi goe&,4oprove th oihe rresets-enertmne& q;itei.s extraavagani as any wvhihA it -migljt ha,ve .been thei pur- pose.of A Russianfleet and-army to realize V--We are told thact this mlitary. pioject .presents'the gbnirdat 4trender- ing useless" t5iize measuredpacuf1e ion whihell doubt- " lessbe tenp1e4. ` hat .are they. 'It may!Ve gu ed at leastifrom the contixt. The French edifor affirnis, that the insurrcctuoni of Spa- nish America was first directed against .JOSEPiA HBOiIA- PARTE, anfd.afterwards against the Cortes, and it is there- fore distinctly inferred thattiheresWiatidt 4f FnanixANL's Government. may have a tendelley to reconcile to hm the dhiefs oPtieMamong the proVinces; Now, addirttiatg that the Arst inafrrection of Sodth Amie'rca 'coincided ilt point- of time with the .intrusion of JosirH into the Moaibh, ,what haF happened since? Wit4 wiQt hive the Ameri- can republics b"en- fighting ail this ti efrom 1814' to 1823Z Has it' not beenivwith FSRaNn?-the healing; picificatipg, alU-captiv4ting FERDINA2;D! ' Thete: was acrualjy)if we'recollect. right, iiothing' whicha- could bear th'e namiG of ivil war or insu*rection in 80uthr Axie- .ica until in.rmy:was sent, from Spain, after th'firstes- toratiou of this-amiable t1Ynce, fr'om. whose sec6nd testo.' ration,it1pears, Zby:1etwriterTs of-xtte House of-ZoUiSoN, such.wonders in tilh wray of peacemaking iir-io be ex- petcd . " TItb Spm-niapda of AulSerica z ot" e:ie I teld,. {Tike te An .niertcaiisr , haid-IWI," we " '4epeaege, os - hut,'illn usa creatid- the A tio.ia ea9aut,n, iaas ixplamr to-id ll.Igbit 'A $r1PIrn ~r,v'e ,I?ea4s, wah terr. ii4nitex -an'd .4re3tire, haseso .maturedand confirmed the iindepevidni sEi~itbf;thi: -goiRh diwerzcans, that no-.power of the oore. sadcsi4 infiels,. or their adwLsra. trn heneeforth- u- tlemtine.or crush iat.7Vhy, indeed, should the Americans !0g0their,liberty ? Why shouid they give tqothir5thM ,f which theyhoye theimselves beEun totastethe enjot We-uretreolX.ha the &rgy'ev 5vly wha. ;.a "novelties in iviland religiouws legislatioti,'b ith ldue reverence for the clergy, we have-not often seenbthem very adverse4to innovations by-whielh they hoped to profit. JThe American clergy have beer large gainers by the indepei- denee of the colonies: they havensecired-to -themselves that monopoly of wealth and patronage,fromevery part of wbicb they were before excluded by the eccle3iastics sent out in shoals from Spain.; and now. they are to be whistled back by this O1UfHE'us of the Peninsula to their former state of poverty and degkadations! We are constrained to warn aur French feighbours that the plot is a silly-one, and must end in disappointmen-t. f tie tCiefshave been dividld- if the successiveAdministratiova of Mexiecohave beenshort, still Spain has been regarded as the eommnu enemy- of all; and no rapidity or extremity-of ehange has produeed or advanced a Spanishp2rty. The chanee is, that-each new efFort to distort the liberties of America, will be but a new stage in its progress towards final and perfect consolidation. It gioves us to see this frantic appetite for barren and odious despotism seizing upon the nmin& of statesmen.other- wise intelligent, and drawing them away frbm-the whole- some cultivation of those resources-which constitute the permanent welfare of nations, and the real force anA grea- ness of Princes. A decree whicl we publish from the Mfexican Govern- men tis recommended to the notice of M. DI CHATEAU- saitAxD and his friends, as no 'unseasonable or obscure commentiry on the wisdom of th'eir proposed attmpts, Up- on tEe liberties of Spanish America, through the medium of any partiality felt by her inhabitants for the sway of FERDINAND the Beloved.