London, Tuesday, January ...
The Times, 1824-01-06T00:00:00

T-he French Ultra journdsare much perplexed by the mnessagc o? tlePXESrDENT; to 'ougress, end by the fa- vourable.reception whivh (cxcept in-one or two contempti- ble cases) that bold state paper lias, experienced from the EugliEh pross.' 'the editors of the Etoile manifestly shake in their .sPtns, and- writhek*under -tli.Zlash thus.inflicted ofl .the pIots of their . inaiers a<gainst humani fr.eaibn. EoRe,;gdpeM my peth8S !Wi siat .X so o thrown. by Great Britain amid North America untiled, -into -the carp of the common enemy, from the morehlian habl. tqt.disder which sAows itself in- the murmurs and ex- .lmniations of th-Etoile. "Mr. MONROE, wYho is not a -"Eovereign"...C who isthe tempori? 'Piesident of a Re- " public"-" has taken the tone of a powerful Monarch." Yet the opinions wlich lie has. delivered- "thAve not yet "received the sanction of any of the authorities, even of " the country:. where they appeared; and,, in short, are as yet merely the opiniois of a: -privateindividual !" Sulch are a few of the phrases :*bich we .have plac6d in juxta-position from the Etaikie because they bear 'upon one point, and.-prove hotiViutterly disorganized are tb.e wits of these advocates for the CC first principles- of so- " cial order." A direct attempt is herc-madeby the-Etoile, to sever the Chief Magistrate of a powerful-and enlight- ened. nation, from the body of tbe state which he repre-. sents. " Not a Sovereign !" No, but. lie.is the-acknoiv- ledged-the- elected head anid organ of a great sovereign people-one whose elevation cost his counltry neither- a drop of blood nsr a wi(low's tear, nor the beggary or banishment, the persecution or corraption, of a single huinan being among ten millions of men. An eminence thus achieved may well appear at first sight- of ques.- tionable origin to an Ultra; but let him consider his vwords. He calls ?1ivr.MoxnoE a " temporary President," but is the power whbich he exercises a temporary power ? It is, on the contrary, a prerogative which never dies, let who will be its trustee for the moment; and wvhich, as Mr. TllouitoE has on this occasion employed it, las its sanc- tion in the heart of every citizen among those millions. wlho confided it to his hands. WVill the Etoile ven- ture to match the durability of any despotic throne in Europe with: that of the PRrSIDEN.T'S Chair in North America? If so, we tell him that he isJlikely to lose his wager. Or will his patrons risk the fate of-an expedition-, on the chance of the policy annunced by this ">pxivate " individual," Mr.MoNRos, being disclaimed by" r-he other "authorities" of die Republic? -We believe they art not to rash. The eenire commentary of the unfortunate Etoil is an insuil to the first artiele of his own creed-viz. that a Government and the nation for which it speaks must be identified. Then, -for the purpose, we presume, of depreciating the United States, says this Frenchman, " their independerice b"as been acknowledged only 40 years." Av, indeed, and who was the first to acknowledge them? The House of Bourbon. WVbowasthefirstto7naiketbemindependent? Wl)y,theHouse of 13ourbon-whose sides they now so cruelly sting-and whose selfish schemes they efflectually--bffle. 'But if the United States have not been acknowledged for. more than 40 years, we should like to hear how many years it is since certain other Potentates were acknowledged. L t us take, for instance, just half the period,.and ask, if ihe legitimate idols ofthe Etoile werethen acknowledge(lby any people in Ch-istendom as having a place among the Powers of the Pvorld, resciiption is a ticklish themne for a Cnur- tier; so is the question of defacto and dejure sovereignty. *hat the Etoile says -on that point carries no rmeaninig more precise than the following-namely, that Canada should be restored to Fratiee-the Unitefl . States to Eng- land-Spain, Naples, and the Netherlands- to the House of Austria-and South America to the Chilcdren of the Sun. For us, however, *ho look with more reverence on the rights of mankind than on the arrogance and rapacityo-6f Princes, it is a scoirce of hearty congratulation, -that the regular Government of the United States has spoken out unequivocally to the world. lVe should respect such openness, were it' indicative of designis the most un- favourable to the.interests of our owni country. With what satisfac;ion, then, .-must we reeeive the tidings, when they announce the intended prosecution of a po- licy, so directly - British ! From- the simnilarity- of thie position occupied by Great Britain and the United& States, in reference to what was Spanish Amnerica,. it is difficult to calculate -on -any but an indentity of cac stires, and an equal hostility to the machinations of thie Holy Alliance. If the interest of onily one of these free Powers were at stake, that one, we are sure, would not shun th, trial, however arduous; but a common interest is- astill stront,er securityfor aiust course ofactionon the part of both "mother and daughter," since the issue would inzthat case be doubly certain, and theburden of the contest compara- tively light. The United States, be it observed, besides a commercial interest common - to them with Great Brit;iifi, in excluding a Bourbon monopoly from Mexico and South Amcrinq, hav a political interest, not wholly distinct from that of Englaud,.but felt eVen more keenly by a per- fect democracy- than among ourselves that ot preventing the introduction>-of ai simsple despotism into the nleighboulr- hoodl of free institutions- LONDOIN, 7EYDAY1 JNUARY 6, .1824.