Politics Of The English C...
The Times, 1824-08-16T00:00:00

- -[From the Algemeinze ;ZeISton. -- FiOlt 1T1tE AUDsE, JULV 20. The 'rankfovt Joutriial5 inhts number of the 16th instant, ievert- ed,a1iXas already been stated, to. the previously published article tfeim Alentz, respecting the reasons for the presenee of Count Mun- ster at Johatnisberg, and the presamed trieLmph in the British Ca. biner of the principles established by the recent Congresses on the right of interference, and certainly the very consdientiouis editor may wellbe pardoned for adopting one apocryphal article. Nevertheless, the RTherfed Provincial. Gazette, and after it, the Hara&ui rgl Cor- respondent, have on this subject called him to aceount, and have thought themselves bound to Etand forward as championc of the Englislh Cabinet. The Elberfeld article of the 19th of June is, however, an admonitory example of the il succes whlch must attend. the handling of such important and complicated questions of high policy, when they are investigated under a local point of view.. Let it even be admitted that the right of interference is, as it appears to this Elberfeld statesman to be- *suppose the instances of interference in the affairs of NaPles, Sar- dinia, and Spain, 'ere us arbittary acts of interineddlaymg asbe, in complete ignorance of thc history of the tirnes,has represented them- suppose the English Government not to hBve recognized such inter- ference, and yet to send troops to Portugal, or a naval force to the bay of Lisbon-still the Elberfeld correspondent miglht have recol- lected that the B-itish Cabinet had disclaimed the right of inter- fering in a much more comprehensive sense than his defini- tion presented. That Cabinet bas distinctly reftised to the King of Spain the right of claiming the aid of his allies to tranquillize his American possessions, in the sante form as the King of Portugal at present claiins the assistanlce of England, his ancient ally, to tranquillize Poztugal. Now, since the old lav of nations deniesto no sovereign the right of concluding alliances tbr the maintenance of the integrity of his possessions, and England has expressly refuse:! this right to Spain, surely the Rlberfeld Zeitung ought to be con- vine(i that the right of interterence is by no means understLox in the samne sense in London as at Elberfeld. WIlhat the Cahinet of London regar(ds as irreconcilable with its views of the law of nations and political rights, are not rnerely the so-called acts of arbitrary interference, but also, as the above cited example shows, those in- terpositions which take place in consequence of a direct demand of aid o,e the. part of a legitimate Government. The El- berfeld correspondent also gave a very inconsiderate direc- tion to his polenics against the Abbe Ilennecars, wben he consider- ed the British Cabinetjustified, on the same principles, in refusing to Spain, and in granting to Porttigad, aid solicited by the legitimate Sovereign. The correspondent of the Abbe liennecart is, how- ever, right when lie maintains, that if the succours in sea er land forces sought by the King of Portugal be in any way supplied, a great and salutary change will take place in the views of the Cabi- net of I otndon,which change must, from the wisdom and consistency still belonging to that Governnment, unavoidably lead to the recogni- tion of the right of interference in a stricter sense. POLITrCS OF TETE EiGLISI CABINET.