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2 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPT4MBER 11, 1853—TRIPLY SHEET. joint mediation of the Pope and the republic of Venice, | Savoy. that had been deapotled of all possessions | of this adjustment, stond aloof from the treaty, | den toall the subjects of his most Christian Watest: qracted country, beeome ry / “tasd- Present by Buncio and amb ssador, Soortly a.terwards, | and libertion. tally driven from tneir homes, given | which found its , guch ap it had, | Helland came under the same influence, und accepted the | mMissiblo, unless obviowsty on the side Ab. Bc %© 1665, the Emperor of Germany offered Dis mediation | over to a} first, im the invitation of the and, secondly, in the |*Festitutlon of ber colomies, except the Cape” Goud Hope | when the act of intervention takes its cburagter from the Detwoen Sweden aid Poland. but the old bi-torian re- | they turned iu seif ¢e'cnce, they bed be@n ‘alain by tho | desire to preserve the integrity of the Torkish empire #8 | 84d Guiana, on condition of the entire abolition of the | eause im which it ig made, But 1 murt not be forgotion cords that the Swedes suspected bim of secking to in- | blocdy Piemontese, that rolled mother with infant down | ersential to the beiance of power and the peace of Ku- | slave tr.de In the restored “col mies nnd al-o every. | that, im the ouce of 4 civil wer, any med! of, indeed orease rathar than to arruge ponding ditical'ies, which it was reported that French troops took |) rope; to which reasons may algo be added the desioto | where else beneath her — fii Spin we the | Ary proposition which does not enjom subrntasian to the great Po $27; was contvmed by his appearance shorty xtc. vards in | part i this dismol trensaction, ‘The Protector heard the | stop the effusion of blood. most indocde; but this proud monarchy, under oral uuthority, is in its natere adverse to that aathe- | final recognition wag prety ond til May, 182%. Then the Polish But Swedey, though often de ligereat | Story, and hig pity fished into anger. He declined to Fven before the Eastern qrestions were pettiod, o'ver | eusplov® =the African slave trad) tiret tho sepurate exis- | ame the instance of ium, which declared itself ine in those di tos ec” always r) 1072, | sian the treaty until Franeo united with btm in securing | complicatioss bad commenced ta Wes'ern Furo} Bel. | into being. at last yielded. By {Lo treaiy of Mad tence of (he Othor purty, aed seoures for 4 temporary | dependent ia Getober, £339, a d was promptly recognized when war broke forth between Fraves Fugland | justice to these humble soTerers, whom be cated the | gium, restless from the Froush Revolutions of 1820, rose | 224 Of Seplembar. 1817, extorted by Creat Britwu, i | ty ¥ gud opportunity, if por evec. Con- | by the great Powers, whe intervened fori! ly for thie o% ong side and the Detch provinc on the | Lord's people, For tter relief be contributed out of | against the House of Orange and elainied her intepea: etipulate! the mmediate abolition of the todo north of | ress, therefore, was right in decla mgt) foreign Powers | Purerée The fast instenoe ss fexae, which deelmped ite other, we dnd he refering & t which | bis Own purse “0, and authorised @ gene- | Civil war ensued: bat the gro PPWers promptly . | the Pquator, and alsg, after 1820, its abolition ewery- | that #by reoewed eft Diet one mm ou. ‘8 Hil be | Idependence dm December, 1835. aad de‘eaiet the was "promptly accepted by _E Fal collection thronghout England, which reached | vened, even to the extent of arresting a Dutch army on | Whore, in considecvation of £490,000, the price of fee. | Togarded as ne wniri Mexican army under Santa Asma, making him prisoner, rejected a similar proiior which the Elector of Branden | 0 & twrge sum: but, besides giving money, bo | ite march, Begins og with an armistioe, there was a | dom, to be paid by tbe other contracting party. 10 vin- iho-e her case of unuemed intervention which I | i 1836, The power of Mexico avemed to be overtirown, 0 4 burg, ancestor of the ss of Prussia, bad the hardi- | Set avart a day of hamilistion and prayer for them. | long and fino spun negotiation, which, aasumir dication of this ttorvertion, Wilborterce doelered in | cannot It is where a ration inteccedes or it Andrew Jackson, who was shen President of the hood'to make while marching at the head of bis forces to | Nor wag thisall, 1 should be glad," wrote his Sccre- | ¢»'se alternately of ® preilic medintion and of an ar Parliament that “'he gract to Spain woult be more tian | toterpeses 1p iavor of human rights, er fo seeure the | United States, in his Message & Necember 21, 187%, join the Patch. Tho English potes on th sion, write | try, Thurtoe, ‘to have ® most particular account of that | intervention, ended et bist in tho established separa- | Peodid to Groat Briain io commeraal advantages by tue | Overtorow Of Same cnermous wrong, ae where Ceom- | bid down the pute of caution and jastics om ten inwhat ac the tine was called “sficiontly bad | basineas, and to know what has become of thoes poor | tion of Belztum from Holland, and ite recognition 4s WOR Of * great contineogio British industry" —al of dit, with nobte intereess: for the se» | uch an eceasion, as tolows:—#'The ack wredgemeut of ded V'rob Freneh, but in most int tore," declared that the | people, for whom our vory souls here do bleet ” Buta | an independent uation. To you ask hy Great Brits ‘ch Was tmpossibvle if the@lave trade was alowed to | © Jact# of the Alpine valleys, whorn Grest | @ new Stato ‘is independent, and entaled to @ eloctoral profler, tuoagh under tho peasant name of mo- | Mightior pen than that of any plodding secretary waa | intervened on this osior? Lord Jey Rugeell in “ho | coutinue under the &panish flag Britain and Krance doctored their symp ethy with the | Place in the family 6f nations, is at all timer diation—par le deus nom & we -diaton—Was in reality ag | enlisted in this pious intervention. Tt was John Milton, | course of debate at a subsequent day, declared th t 4) At the Congress of Aix ta Chapell 1818, and of | G eohs woling for wendeves. and where Gre t | °R act of greit delicacy ond resporsthility; But more rsolt | especiatly so when , unarmed | glowing with th i aia contiouet her sysiom of | britain alone, by an rh State hes forciSty se d iteelt ing dipiomacy, vet arbitration, and that, instead of a modiatt id'gumtion which his sonnet on tho | special motive was “the est. blishment af a free consti’a | Verona, w 1522, Gre: and disinterested, |t was a mediation armed, and pledged | masssere ih Py uh made immortal in tho heart of | tion”? Seaawh Ie the peninsu'a of Spada and Portycal | jcervention against slavery. Her primacy in Gas cise | aeninat slavery eve y wire throngh at tac word. from another, of which tc had formet an intezral part, to the enem! land man, who wrote the magnificent despatches, in which,| waa torn by civil war. The regents of these two kil | reengnize) by Karopean Powerr, it wae th mmo ‘Ihe whele lesen en this bead may bs summed up | aed which ati cluima dominion over m& A premature Such are some of the earlier instances. allot which | the Englieh nation of that day after declaring itself’! dome resvectively appeulod to Great Britain and Franco mark of ontinental pobliciets that she ‘made the cease | briefly, Al ime-vontion ia the iptericad aterrs of an. | Teeognition under these circanst ices, if mot looker? anon nor (8 But there are modern instances. | “linked together with distant. brethren, noton'y by | for vid, especially in the exnulsion of the pretondor [ea | ber own," Geo of Lhem portrays hee vividly * tsiO | Other pation w contra: on. und canbe Justidable cause of war, is always liabic to be rocnrdet v t» (ue triple aliineo between Great Hritail the same tyre of hema: ty, bat by joint commanion of | Carlos trom Spain, and the pretender Dom Mignel trom | Waring incessant war against tho principle of the sh ve | vindicated oniy by 0 7. Tf you inter | 88 8 proof of an anfriondty apirit? And bre nclo let uy d, whied, at the close of tho last the sume religion”? Laturally and gloriously insisted that | Portugal, For this porposo the quadruple alliance of | tale, and by this crusade. undertkea im the nome of | yene by war, thea m tocessity of aelf. | provosing that our country stiontd “to99 ul sti! the ly iateryoued, by medi “whatever had been decreed to their disturbance on | there Powers woe formed in 18%. The moral support de- | bumanity, making herself the deciarea protectross a the | de o2c@ Yi you intervene by medtitios or 1ntereneston, | Aes was decided “beyond crvil or dis) Dorin wi ch ¢ resisted, to Deum Account of the refermed rel gion should be abrogated, | iivedroi tis troaty is suid ty have beea impartant; | African race.’ These are the words of 4 Frewel autuority N INLSL You be able to BpeUk i beuali of evilizetion | be DeXt year—whon the contest had practigily cowed which had sided Russia avaiust S' —to remain | @0d that ar end be prt to thelr opprossions.”” Bat | but Great Britain was comnelied to provide troops. Tais | According to bim, it is nothing lee than “an iocossant | enda gered o¢ human n-tore insnited. Pat thre isang | and only tho claim remnined—this vew Power was nc- a 9 Baltok one. | War" and 2 “crusade,” which she bas waged and the pesi- | Power whiew is bound to chis humane policy aoobsolutely | Knowledged by tho United States, who weretoliowe? to x poace between Austria and the Vorte, and | Of Savoy, the Protector appealed to Louis XIV and | tual governmen: tgPited at Hee PeBER uncties Vion which sho bias achieved ts that of Proteetress a the | a® Enziand:, expoctally iy there noue with {eo xed | 1840 by Great Briiain, France and Tolsium. ‘Tees whe 792, 10 constrain Rass‘a into an abandonment of | also to his Cardinal Minister, to the Statea General of | wore settied the war still fingered in the sister | Affican rnce.’’ [a thischaracter she hax not becn con | beyond tho pessbrity of retreat or chanze in itsoppo- | PExed to tho United States in 1945, byt at vhis ting hs upon the Turkish Ympire, by the peace of | Holland; to the Prote 1 Ceotons of Switzerland; to the | kinedom, when fy 1847 the Queen appealed to Great eat with imposing hor magmanimous sysicta upon the | sition to slivery, whatever gshane it moy asenme— | Mexico had not joined in the coveral ree gnition. On this oceasion the Empress of Russia, Cathar. | King of Deumerk; to Gustavus Adoiplus, and even to | Britain, the aro’ it patron of Portrgal, to mediite be- | civilized world, but she bas carried it nmors the tribes | whethor it be tho animating principly 7 1 nation— PRIN PERS APPLICARTE TO RK OCNTION, ine, peromptorily ‘refused the mediation of Prussia, and | the Protestant Unitart riaco of remote Transylvania; | (ween herself and ber ineargoat aublects, and the tek | and chiefs of Africa, who by this omoiyresent tnterven- | the forced labor’? of a multitude—or even the sec vice of Such are the historic Instances. whi Hinstrate inter- for the restof the war; then, in 1, todictato | Rob content with this call upon the Prince | intervention, bo: the me {iating a/liance made its approaches through Den- | nd always by the pen of Mikon—rallying thezeSprinces | was accented, in the desired hope of composing (ue | Hich, wero summoned to renounce & barbsrous | 4 80 lary domestic. vention by recognition, As in other casesot interyous mark, by whose good ofl.eos the empress was finally in- | and Powers ia jolst tnevsaty and intervention and “if | didiculties in 9 just aud permanent manner “with all due | aed criminal custom. Ny a Parssmeatary report, it ae INTERVENTION DY RYCORNITION. Hop tho resognition may be armed or unarmed, with an duced to vousent to the treaty. While thas engaged ina | need be to gome ciher speedy course. that such a.nomor- | regard to the dienity of the Crewn on the one han: ond | pears that in 1850, there wore twonty fur trewbics in ‘Thore is 4 species of foreign intervention which stands | Intermediate case, where the recognition may Beem to ba work of professed mediation, Pogland, in a note to the | 088 multitude of onr ienccent brethren may not t'sera- | tho constitiiti nal fibariies of the nation on other’? | force between Great Hritan and foreign civilized Vowers | by Lselfand has its awn itiustentions, Therefore [speak | UMarmed when in reality i¢ 48 armed, aa whon Franca French ambassador, declined & proposition w ect as medie | bly porish for want of scecor and assistance.” ‘The re | ‘The insurgents did noe submit unth after military demon. | for the suppression of the slave trade, and aiso forty two | Of it by itself, tia whore a foroun Power mdertalkes to | Simply nnounced its recognition of the independonce ator between France and the allied Powers, | that } Bent of Savoy, who was tho dauchter of Lionry IV., | strations. But peace liberty were tho two watch | Similar treaties betwoen Grest Brilain and native chic | Mexpowledge the independence of a colony or province | (he 'dl'ed States, and at the came time prepared to roain- world embracing war to proc ed. 1 t Evgland bas not | Professed to be atfeciet by this English charity, and an- | words here. of Africa, which Las renounced is original allegiance, ard st may | tain it by war, only reused to act as mediator but bus 9) -o refused tosub. | Bounced for her Prote: it subjects “a free pardon, and ‘Then oceurred the Furopean uprising of 1843. Fravee Bot this intervention was vet only by treaties; #t waa | be compendiously estied intervention by recornition. Re- Arnea recognition is simply recognition by coercion. mit to a mediation, This was during last war with tho | alco such privileges and praces ea cannot but © the | was once more a republic: but Eurene, wiser prown, did | 180 by correspondence and circulars, And here I ap. cogniiion alono is strietiv appiievblesto the act of tho | It is abellieerent act constituting war, and it can bo vin« United States when Russia. at that time the ally of&E Lord Protector a sufifeient evidence of the great res:ect | not interfere in her affvies, oven fo much as to write a | proach a part of the subject which iiustratcs the viveci'y | Original goverment, revouneing all claim of allo. | dicated on'y as war. No nation will undertake tt, unless proflered her mediation Derween the two beliigere: borne both to bis person and mediation’? Rut thero was | letter. But the esse was difforent with Hungary, whore | Of this antervention, Ail British ministers aud o Blavce mod at lust seknow edging the indepencenes | ready to assume all the responsibilities of war, us in tho which was promptly accepted by the Unitell States still delay. Meanwhile Cromwell began to inquire where | victorious armies, radiant with liberty regained, expelied | Were 20 many pickets on constant guard tn he outposts | 6h has been In disiive, But it ix an act of | recent cases of Greece and Helgiwm not tef mention the rejection at tho time by P=iand, causing tho proton; Enelisb troops might debark in the Prince’s territories and | the Aurtrian Power only to be arrestad by the arma in. | where (aey resided, They were held to every service by | btervention only whore & foreszn governniont steps Lisp of the United States by’ Franco, But an at- K tion of hostilities, was Cousidered by Sir James M Maza- p,ansious to complete the yet uniintshed treaty with | tervention of the Russian-Czar, who yfoided to the doub'a | whic’ the cause could be promoted, even to transiating | belwoon the two parties, Of course eriginal co- unter the gurse of recognition, to coerce tho dis- toh lors jnstifabio, as fa me tiaior is a comimon friend, | England, jomed in requiring an immediate pacification fn | pressure pf an favitation from Austria aud a ‘car that | And printing doouments against the slavetrade, especrsily | vernmeot is go far master of its position that it may ment or pirtition of a cou:.try ts in its nature of- who counsels Both pariies with & elvbt proportioned to | the valleys and the rostorstion of these porseonted peo- | successful insurrection micht extend into Poli Tt | ia countries where anbappily It was stil! pureved, There | select its own time ta making this recognition, Put the foneive beyond ordinary war; expecially when the ountry be of in his totegrity snd their respect for his | Ple to their ancient tibertios. It was dono Such is the | was left tor ance at tho eame time in an ther | Was tho Pope's bull of 1853, which Lord Paimorston did | qucetion 03 at whet tine and under who! circumstan- | to be sacrificed is a rerubiic and the plotters again-t it are ower, bul bo 1s not un arbitrator to whose decision they | krandest intervention of English history, inspired by | country, with a strenge inconsistency, to play the | MOt Hesttate t> tranamit for this purpose to us agenis iu | Ces can this reeoguition by imade by aforcign Power. Ie | crowned beads Proceetng from tho ejouRness of sibmit their difterene § where award is dining on | Milton, enforced by Cromwell and sustained by Louis | part which Pussia ha oplayed iv Hungary.’ Rome, which | Cuba, Prezi!,and even in Turkey, somo of whom wero | is obvious (hat a recoehition propor at one time and un- | brutal power, sueh an attempt ix an insult to mankind, thom.’ The peace of Ghent was concluded at Inst Under | X!V., with his Car inal Minister by his side, while foreign | had risen aguinat ths temporal power of the Pope, | Unsuccesstul in thelr ofvets to obtain publication, | der special circumstance wonld not be pr: per at another | Hf armed recocnition at auy Ume can find apology, it will asin mediation, But Englund bas not abyays been | nations watched the scene, gad proclaimed the repnblic, was occtyied by a Freach | although, curiously enough, it war published in Turkey, | aud undor aifferout circumaianees. Mr. Canuine said with | be only where it ia sinowely made for the protection of Andrew Jackson menaced letters of Tat Ubis great instance, constituting an inseparable | army, which expelled the republican magistrates, and, Such a zeal could not stop at the abolition of the trofi reference bo ¥ ‘h Ainerica, Uhut “if he pizeed bimselt anrighis. Itwould be hard tocondemn that tater- st France, on necount of a failure to pay a | Part of the giory of (he Protector, is not the last occasion | though fifieen years havo already passed since that un. | Accordingly Groat Britain, by act of Poriiament in 18%4, | Upoa anythin, it was uron the subject of timo," and he fon which saved Greece to freedom. Som stipulated in a recent tre.ty with the United States, | 08 which England intervened in behalf of the livorues of | Lappy act, the occupation still continues, Vrom this | cnfranchised all tho slaves in hor own possessionn, and | added that there were twoways of proceeding, ove weat Unarmed recognition ts where a foreign Power ac- nce of a at gow- 1 ides of coercion, yet it King Witham 1V. pro iered tis m Powers; bat haputly the whole ranged ' It aspours itlsy that, bofore Harton between tie two | Protestants, ‘Troubles began in France with the revoca- | military intervention Great Hritain stood aloof tion was ul tion of the edict of Nantes: but these broke forth in tho | despatch, dated at Tendon, January 28, 1849, Tord Pal. | The intervention was now openly declared to be againet | though soon rebeltion of the Camisards, emarting unter the reve. | merston bes made a permanent record to the honor of ery ibeli. But it assumed its most positivecharucter | the other was by acourse eo strictly ¢ tn a | thus again secured to herself tho primacy 0 4 lofty ciuse, | recklessly and with a hurriedseourse to theob eet, which, | Knowledges in some pacific form tho indepe: cd, might be almost as goon opt. and | colony or province agsingt the o'nin of its ori ded that ny | ernment. Alshourh exeliding the poo o. Klund were tendered to the two part cation. Sheltered by the mountains of the Cevennes, | his country. His words are as followa:— Hor Majesty's: 1 @ Lord Palmerstou was Foreign Secrotary, aud | say | ¥ was violated avd no offence given to other Pow | Cannot be vniform'y justified, Dat PouiLer woo willing to accept them, and war took its | aud nerved by their good cause, with the do- | governmeiit would upon every account, and not only upon | this sincerely to his great honor. ‘Througtout bis long | Ors These are wo.ds of man-hip, eed they NO RRCOGNTTION WILERE TH CONTEST 18 STILE PENDING. COUKSe, Suc. Sor tnstances Of interference in the exter | Vice “Liberty” of Conscience’? on thoir standards, | abstract principle, but with reference to the general inte. | life, among ail the various concerns in which he h prevent the practicn! ton which moet scour in every And here we ure brought to that, question of “time,’? of natons, and since iiternational law fs to be | they made head against two guecessive Marshals | rests of Enrops. and from the value which they attach to | acted, thers ts noi! ing which wilt be remembered here. | ¢ 8+ of gnition, What condition of the controversy | 09 which Mr. Canning £0 pointediy piqued himself, story, they furnish a guide woich we ox. | Of France, and perplexed the old age of Louis | th maintenance df peace, sincerely denrecate ony attempe | after with such gratitude, By his diplomacy ber Maes. | will justify tuis intor, on? and to which Previd nt Jnckson reerred, when ho r e.teot, expect ty im view of the actual policy of | XIV., whose arms were airenily onfect‘ed by forcien war. | torettle the differences’ between the Vope and his eub- | ty’s government constituted itoctl into 2 vast abolition And here again the whore matter can be best explained | sorges'cd that “a premature recognition’? might bogland and France. At last, through the mediation of England, the great | jects by tbe military interference of foroten Powers.” | society, with the whole werld for its fie'd. It was inno | by hetoric insiarces The enrifest case is that of Swit- | be “tonked upon as justifiable cause of war.” INCMRVENTION IN INTERNAT. AYFAIRS monarch made terms with his Protestant rebels, and tho | Rut he gave further point to the whole position of Great | respect behind the famous World's Convention against | zerland, which ted the way, as long ago as 1507 - | Nothing is more olear thn that recognition may be But the instances of foreign intervention in tho internal | civil war was onded. Britain, in contraat with Frazco, when he said:—“Arined | Slavery, belt at London in June, 1840, with Thoms | ing Mlrom the House of Hapsburg, whove orjgin favor d at one time whi'o it must be rejceted at another. ror tho | waa ina Swiss canton. But Austria did not ackow!ledgo | So far of it‘nsauines to ascertain riebts lustead of tacts, or ailairs Of a nation are more pertinout to the present occ: Intervention, more often armed than unarted, stowed | intervention to aasis in ‘bad govern Clarkson, the pioneer abolitionist, as Psgsidon sion, are uumerous ad not always ‘harmonious, itseli in tho middle of the Inst century. All decency was wou =e un: atianto " ork tiwa _ belted strongest declarations of this cnesouiee, were adopted | the independence of tho repubi until the peace of West. | to anticipate the result of a contest, it is wroncful No especialy i we compare the new with the old. Inthe | S¢t asite when Frederick of Prussia, Catharine of Kussia, | of the Lord Palmerston of that day. But | expressly by Lord Palmerston as “the sentiments of her | phalia, more than three centuries and a haif after the | pation can undertake to sit in jodgment on tho rights of curler times such intervention was regarded w.th repug- | ud Marla Theresa of Austria invaded and portitioned | how much morg mnjuctifiable must he assistance to foand | Majesty’s government,” and @rtumunicated official'y 10 | struggle began under William Teil. Meanwhile the can- | Prother nation without tts consent Therefora. it o nnot nance. But the principle then declared has been sapped on | Poland, under the pretext of suppressing anarchy. Tere | a be governmeut, as te now proposed. Tho British Min. | all Lrittsb functionaries in foreign lands, The Conven. | tons hed lived throuyh the vicissitudes of war, foreign | Guclare that ’e juve a cokmy or vrovince is eniitled to in. tho no side by the conspir.cies of tyronny, sevking the | We iutervention with a vengeance and on the side of | ister insisted t!.at the difteronces should be accommodated | tiou declaced the utter injustice of slavery in ail iis | and domogtic, aud had formes treaties with other Powers, | dep -ndonce: ut fr m the neeearity oft 0 And that ion of Liberal institutions, and on the other side | #tbtirary power. But such is human inconsistency, | by ‘the dinlomatic interpesition of friendly Powers,’ | forms, and the evil it infl cted upon its miserable victime, | including the Pope. Bosore swiss tue) eadeuce was ac | internation! intercourse may not fall, it may ascertain eoerous sympathy, breaking forth in sripport of Hive. | thore was almort at the samo timo another interven: | which be declared a much better mode of sottloment | snd the necessity of employing every means, moral, pr- | koowledged the Dutch confiict besan wer Willlam of | tho fac's, c»refully nnd wisely, and, on the nctual evi- al msitutions. According to the oid preced nts, most of | Won in the opposite direction. It was tho armed 1 than an anthoritative impositir’ of terms by foreign | cific and religious, for its complete atolition, an object | Orange. Smarting under inwlerable grievances and with | dence, it may deciaro that de facto the colony or pro- which will be found tm the gossiping book of ‘Wicquo. | Yention of France, followed by that of Spain and Holland, | arms. In harmony with thig potiev Great Britain during | most dear to the members of the Convention, and for the | & price set upon the bead of their iLivateions Stadholder, | Vince appears to be in porsession of independence, which fort, trom wheace they tuve been copied by Mr, Wild. | in behalf of American independence. But Snain bezan | this samo year united with France in proffering mediation | consummation of which they aro especially casembled. the pited Provinces of (he Netheriands ia 1572 renounce | Meins, first. that the oriinal government is dis- aan, even foreign intercession was prohibited Not even | itervention hero by an offer of mo‘iation. with a truce, | between the insurgent Siciians and tho King of Nuples, | Theso words became the words of the British goverment, | the tyrannical sovereigaty of Puilip II., and declared thom | possestod beyond tho possibility of recovery; and fa the name of charity could one raler speak toanother on | Which was accepted by Trance ou condition that | the notorious Bomba, in the hope of heiping the cause of | and, in circular totters, wero sent over tho world. selves independent. In the history of freedom this isan | 8%condly, that the new government hax achiev. the domestic affairs o: his government, Poter, King of | Meanwhile the United Stites slould be independent | good government and liberal prinetples. Not dishoart. Gb it was not enough to declare the true privciples. | important epoc’. They wero Vrotestants, battling for | ed that reasonable stability with Oxed limits which Arrazon, re‘ased to receive an embassy from Aiphonzo, | in fact. Then came, in 178%, the armed intcrveniion | ened by rebuff, these two governments im 1856 united in | They must be enforced Spain and Portagal huog | rights devied, andQuoon Elizabeth of England,who was the | civos assurance of a solid Power, All of this is simply King of Castile, entroating morcy for rebels. Charles | Of Prussia, to sustain sn illtberal faction in Holland, | a friendly remonstrance to the sane tyrannical sovereign | back. Tho Scoretary of the Anti Slavery . Society was | bead o* Protestabtiam. acknowledged their indeyerience, | fact and nothing moro But just in provortion as « for. IX., of France, a detestable monarch, ia roply to am. | Which was followed afterwards by the co:nnact between | against the hareh sysiom of political arrests which be | cent “to endvavcr to create in these countries a | snd shortly afterwards gave to tt tnilitary aid. The con- | ¢ien ration anticipates tho fact, or imagines the fact; or bassadors of the Froveataut princes of Germany, pleading | Great Britato, Prussia aud Holland, known as the Triple | maintained. and agninst his cruelty to good citizens | public {coling in favor of tho abolition of slavery.” | test continued, srstained on tho side of Spair by tho ge. | Substitutes its own passions for tbo fact, it transcends tho tor his Protestant sub ects, insolentiy said that he requir. | Alliance, which began the business of its copartnership | thrust without any trial into the worst of prisons. | And the British Minister at Lisbon was dosired by Ler | bius of Parma and Spinola, and on the sive of the Infant | well defined bounds of toternational Jaw | Without tho ed no tutors to Loach him how to rule, And yet this samo | bY an armed intervention to recoucile the insurgent pro- | ‘The advica was indiynantty rejected, and the | Palmerston “to afford all the assistance and protection in | republic by tho youthful talent of Maurice, fon of the | fict of independence positive v) dOxed, there ia nothing Sovercign did not hesitate to ask the Duke of Savoy to | Vitces of Belgium to tho German Fmperor and their an. | two governments that grvo it at onco withdrew | hiv power for promoting the object of his journey.’ | great Stadholder, nor aid foreign Powers stand aloof, in | bate claim. Now nothing can be clearer than that while receive certain subjects “into his benign favor and | Client constitution, As Franco bagan to be shaken by do- | their mintsters from Naples. The sympathy of | British ovicis's in foreign countries romotimes back- | 1594 Scotland, which was Protestant also, under Jamos | the torriblo litigation is stil! pending aud the trial by bat. to restore and reestablish them in their con. | Mestic troubles, mediation In her affairs was cecasionally | Rusaia was on the wrong sido, and Prince Gortschakoff, | slided. This was corrected by another circular adireased | VI., alterwards the first James of Englund, treated with | tle, to which appeal has been made, is vet undecided, the tes.” In this appeal there was a | Proposed. Among tho papers of Burke isa draft of a | while admitting that+-as a consequence of friendly fore- | to «ll the (oor quarters of the givbe, eotting forth “that | the insurgent provinces az successors of the Houses of | Sct of independence cannot exist. There is ouly & paper doublo inconsistency; for it was not only an inter- | memorial written in 1791, ia the uamo of tho government. | thought. one government might give advice to | it wou'd bo uniting that any officor olding an appoint | Burgundy ond Austria, and in 1596 Franco alao entered | independence, which though reddenod,with blood, is ne feronce in the affairs of anether prince, but it wag in | fering what be calls ‘this healing mediation.” Then | another,” declared ina circular that “to endeavor by | ment under the British government should, cither directly | into alliance with them. But the cizms of Spain | better than a paper empire or @ paper blockade, nnd any beuaill of Protestants, only afew mouths be ore the mag. | Came the vast coalition for armed intervention In Franco | threats or a mennciig demonstration, to obtain from the | or indivect!y, Loid or be interested in sinve property" | ecemed undying; for it was not until the peace of Weat- | 1 retended recog ition of it, is a wrongful intervention, sacro of S!. Vartholomew. Henry JII., the successor of | t@ put down the republic. But ovea this dreary cloua | King of Naples concessions in the internal aflaira of his | The pari.amentery papers, which attest tho antversality | phalia, nearly eivhty yours after the revolt, aud neuriy | thconsis et with a ‘ust neutrality, since the obvious ef. testable monarch also, iu reply to the | Wa fcr a moment brightened by a British attemnt in | government, is a violent usurpation of bis authority, | 0° +L! instruction, siow the completeness with which it | feventy years after the declaration of independence, | fect must be to encourage the insurgent party. Such has Protestant ambassadors, anounced that ho was a sove. | l'arliament, through successive debates, to iostitute | ard an open declaration of the strong over the werk. war oxceuted, The Consul at Rio Janeiro, in staveholding | that (his Power consented to the recognition o° | been she declared judgment of country / nd. its prac- Teign prineo, and orderod them to leave bis dominions, | %2 intercession for Ta“ayet‘e, immured in the | This was practically answered by Lori Clarendon. vpeek- | Yeazil, had among his domestics three negro slaves— ‘coo | Dutch independence. Nor docs this example stand | tice, even under cireumstmces tempting in another diree- Aouls X11}. was of @ milder nature, and yet when the Eng | dungeons of European despotism, “It ia reported,” | ing for Greit Britain at the Congrces of Vari, when,ad- | & grocin and the other @ waiter and a woman he was | alone eyen at that early day Portrgal, ia 1040, », and srch also was the ceo'ared judgment and prac. lish ambassador, the Karl of Carlisie, presumed to speak | 84d no of the orators, “that A.corica has solicited | miiting the princip'e that no rover: iertbas the right to | o7ced io hire as a nurse to his childrea’—-but he dis. | also broke away frm Spain and dectaret herself | tice of Grent Britain with reference to Sp inish America. in ‘aver © tho Huguenots, he deciared that no interfe. | the liberation of her uvfortunate adopted fellow eitizen. | intorvene in tho intorpal affairs of other vations, bo de- | {charged them at onco§utder tho anti-siavery disciplise | independent, under the Duke of Brazauza as King. A Tho conclneion, then, is clear In ofder to justi'y a re- ronco betweeu the ing of France and his subjects could | Let British magnanimity bo cailed in aid of American | claved that there wore cases where an exception to this | the British Foreign Office: and Lord Palmers | yoor had scarcely passed when Charles [of England | erenition it must appear beyond doubt that de facto the be approved. ‘The Cardinal Richelica, who governcd | B*atitude and exhibit to mankind a noble proof that | rule become: equally a right and a duty; that peace must ja a formal despatch. negotiated a treaty witn the now soverei The contest | contest is finished, and that ds facto the new government France so long, learning tuat an attempt was made to | Wherever the principles of geauine liberty provail they | not bo broken, but that therc was no peacs In Cub: had airea'y ceased, but uot the c'aim; for it was only | is eatablithed secure within fixed limits, Tose aro con~ procare the intercession of tho Pope, stopped it by a mes- | Dever fail to inspire sentiments of peverosity, feelings of | withiut jn<Uec, and that, there” re, the Con. | Feception there, was not a single resident olficor holdiug | after tweuly six years that Spain made this other recog. | Mitions precedent, which eannot be avoided without an sage to his Holiness, that the King would be humanity and a detests (ion of oppression. gress must Ict the King of Naples kaow its desire | under its Rritieh crown ‘who was entirely free from tho | nition. open offence to a friendly lower, and an open violation of pleased by any such interference The Pope him. Meanwhile Francs, ag unst which all Europe intervened, | for an amelioration of his system of governinent, | charge of countenancing slavery.’ But only afew days Traveraing the Atlantic ocean tn space and more than a | that totermational law which ts the guardian of the peace self, on another recorded occasion, admitted that it | Played ber part of intervention, and the scone was Swit: | and mest demand of him an amnesty for political often. | ®{terwarde it was officially reported that there was ‘not | century in time I come to the next historic ir of the world, It wl! be for us shortly to inquire if thero would bs a pernicious precedent to allow a suvject | Zefiand, In the uabappy disputes between the aristo. | ders suffering without a trial, This language was bold | 4 single British officer ‘residing there who had not re- | which is so interesting to us all, while as a preco‘en: it | be not another condition precedent, which civilization im to Legotiate terms of accommodation through a forcign | soeratic an! democratic partios, by which this republic | bevond the practice of diplomacy; but the iatervention | Hinquisbed or was not at least preparing to relinquish the | dominates the whole question, ihe long discurd be. | this ago wil! require prince, On still another occasim, when the King of | had been distracted, French mediation had already be. | whicl it proposed was on the side of humanity. odious practice.” this was quick work, Thus was the | tween the colonies and the moiber country broke forth | Do you ask now if foreign Powers cou acknowledge our France, forgetting hiv own rule, interposed in behalf of the | Come chronic, beginning in 1738, when it found a partial But I must draw this part of the discussion to a close, | practice according to the rule Every person holding an | in blocd on the 19°) April, 1776. Independence was do. | Slevemonger embryo ns an inderendent nationy There ie Bai ber ui tamity, Inn cent X, declared, that as be bad no | Apology in the invicction of ceveral of the cantons and of | althouh the long list of Instances ix not yet exhausted. | O'Lce under the British government was constrained to | clired on ths th July, 1776, Battles ensnod: Trenton, | Madness in the thought, A recognition; nccompanied by desire 10 inverie-e iu the attairs of France, he trusted that | the government of Geneva; occurring again in 1768, | Even while | speak, we hear of intervention by Fugiand | eet his face against siavery, and the way was by having | Princeton, Brandywine, Saratoga, followed by tho winter | the breaking of the blockade, would be war—impious siy would not interfere in his. Queen Christma | 824 again in 178%. The mountain republic, breathing | and France in the divil war betwaen the Emperor of China | nothing to do with it, even in employing or hiring the | of Valley Forge. The contest was yet undecided, when, | Wrr—avainst the U- ited States, where slavemougers oly hinting a disposition to proffer her | He air of freodom, was naturally moved by tuo | and his subects; aud algo in that other war between the | Siive of on Ger. nothing, directiyior iadirectly. on the 6th February. 1778, France entered into a | would be the allies andelsvery tho ins:iration. Of all warm v@ Peitloment of tho unhappy divisions | ConvWsions of tho French Revolution, Civil war | Kiperor of Russia on tho one aide. and the Poles, whom he but Lord Palmerston, acting in the name of the Drit sh | treaty of amity spd commerce with the Uvited States, | {> history none more accursed—cone more sure wo draw fegent that she might | edsved and grew im bisternoss, At last, when | cinims as subj ‘on the other side. bot with this die. | government, did at svop with changing Lritich offic als | containing, amone other things, a recognition of their | down upon its authors the judgment alike of God and Fravee herself was composed under the powerful ara of | renco, that. in Chinu (hese Powers have titeu the part of | Wuto practical abolitionists whenever they wore in | independetce, with mutual stipulations between tfo | man. But the thought of reongnition—under existing cir- minigiers at Stockholm declared that the overture tis the first Consul, wo find bim turning to ¢ mr the } the existing governmevt. whic in Poland they beve ii foreign countries, He sought to entist other European | two jos Lo protect the commerce of the other, by can. | eumetances—while the contert ts still pending—aven beea prope'y re ected. wore the slates General of | troubles of Switzerland. Hie was a military ruler, and | tervened against the existing government. [n tho face governinents in the same policy, and to this end re- | v the ocean, ‘against all attac forco and vio- | without any breaking of the blockade or attempted co- Holland less sensitive, They even went so far as tore | #iay- acted under the fnstinots of military power. By | positive declarations of weutralily the British and Frene quested them ‘orbid all their functionaries, residing | Ic and this treaty on the 15th of March was conma | ercron, isa entanic absurdity, hardly Jese immons than fuse auc to the “panieh amlassidor, secking tocon. | ar addrers, dated at the palace of St. Clond, Bonaparte | Admirals have united their forces with (he Chine in slavehoiding communities, to be interested ta slave | picated to the British government by the Freach Ambas. | the other. Of course, it would unbtushingly aseome thas, gratalute them on the settionont of a domestic question, | aeevared that, already for threo years the owies had been | but, thus far, in Foland, althongh there bas been | Property or tn any holding or biring of slaves. Denmark | sador at London, with © dip'omatic note in which the | 1 fact, the slavemongers Lad already su ceeded in estad- and, whea the Frene ambassador undertook to peal for | Slayiax cach other, aad that, if ‘left to themaotves, they | no ‘declaration of reutrality, the intervention bas | for a moment hesitated, from an unwiliivgness to debar | United States are described aa “in full possssien ebing an independent nation with an untroubted govern- the Ronn Catholics, the staies by formal resolution de {| Would concinue to slay each other for three years more | been unarmed. In both there instances we witness | Its officers in slive countr}s from actin according to sndonce pronounced by the act of dih Jely ment, and a Kecnre coniormation of territory—when in iiuct a8 inconsistent with the peace and | Wlhouk coming to any understanding; that, at first, ne | the same tendency, directo! it may be by the interosts | the laws where they residet, whea the minister at once | and tho British government is warned that the King of | {act, nothing t@ establisbed-—nothing Is untroubled—noth- » the repoblie, ali of whieh was commant. | Bal revived not to interfere ia their affairs, but that he | or prejudices of the time. cad so far as it has yet pro. | cited in support of his request the example of Lelgium, | Frazce, ‘in order to protect eMectively tho legitimate | ing ts secure—not even a stoele boundary line: and :hore Nn by Oght deputies who added by word of | B08 charged his mind, and announced hitnself as tho | ceeded, it is nt feast in Poland on the side of liberal instis | olla: a Belen, Navien gad Portugal, allot whieh wi rere of Lis sub‘ects aud to eustain the honor of bie | i¥ no clement of independence except the avdactons at- 'y, bad yielded to this Uritish’ intervention; aud 2 good 0 ‘ of Frace. wos wld by the Queen give her-clf no trouble on thesubject. and one of her aw wh er the revolution seemed to wantin plain. | Mediator of thelr difficulties, proclaiming, covfently, | t . Pat for bomaa sister the French | € } tempt: when, 1p feet, the conflict is stil waged on namer- poh, tuat lus mediation would bo efficacious as became the | Emperor is now intervening in Mexico with armies and | Veomars ranged hersett In the list. Nor wes this ind» 5 our battle fields, and these protende’s to indenendenco jgisnd without similar examples, Louis XT, | gFeat people la whose name he spoke — Mevuties from the | navies, to build a throne for an Austrian arch Inke, fatizable propaganda confined in its operations to the | the malnt nance of the independenes «f the United States, | have been driven from State to Stute—driven away cantovs, tcether with all tie elief citizens, were WKITICH INTERVENTION AGAINST STAVERY. Christian Powers With a sacred petinacity it reached | had signed on the game day, but this | from tho Miswissnpi, which parts then—driven bi tinned intervention by Gr into distant Mobammedan regions, where slavery was | was not communicated. nor is there any evidence that | {rem the sea which surrounds themm—ond shut ap ic outrolting power, and it | imbedded not only ta the bot in the | it was known to the British govoroment at the | the interior or in Diockided ports, so that ooly by eserved it’ for the close of sccil syetem, ant the very life of the | time The communication of the other was enough; | stealth ean they communteate with the outward world. called pon the government to act | fur it was In itseif an oren recognition of the new Fowor, | Any reoogoition of such a pretension, existing only as a er the marriage vi his sister Henrietin Mari sented that the English ambassador | S8@moned to Paris, in order to declare the Bat there is ove toog ce for the Freach Protestante; but when the | Moan ¢f restoring the tvion, sceuring peace | Britain which speaks now with aseador in Ebglaud roquested the repeat of a | #4 — reconciling all parties Of curse, thiz | is on this acceunt tha! [have Inw az ews Roman Catholics Charies expressed hig sur. | W28 armed mediation: bus Switzerland was weak aud [what L hace to say on this head. Though uot withont and \ prise that the king oF Francs should presume to inter | Prauce wes strong, white tho de Cobject was union, | original shades of dark, it has for more thon half « cen: | it, No impediment stcod in the way; no | with a preta.se of protection Lo its commerce on the ocean, | pretension, scouted and denied by a whole jo with meddle in boglish itfaire, Even as lato ag 1745, w peree and reconciliation, I know not ic ali thts was ac- | tury been a shining exunpl> to the civilized world 1 | prejudice, national or gious. To the Schah of | while the war was yet invincible armies andnavies embattiod against it, we tt le of Culloden, the futch ambasred: vomplisbo! but the civil war was etiled, and the ooneti | reter to that intervention against slavery which from its | Tersia, ruling a vast, outlying slave empire, Lord Pal- | As such it must be re dasanarme! recoguition,con | be a flaming mockery*of truth. It would assert indoper- € W.8 tuuced to acdress the Peitish gover tution was tablished by what is entitled in first adoption has been so constant and brilliant os to | mer-ton announced the desire of tho Rrittsh governmont | stituting in tteell a belligerent act—aggrava'ed aad ex. | dence asa fact when notoriously it was not a fact. It t of Charles Ydward, tho Pretender, to the effect | 2¢t of Mediation. et the earher inter 1 (or slavery, whea, | “to see the condition of slavery aboliched im every part ed by tho cireamstances under which it was made— | weuld be an enormous le. Naiuraliy a Vower thus guilty that 1f take he should pot be treated ag a’rebel, it is re Frou that period down to the presont moment interven. | tor instance, n, at the of the world,” “that it conceived muck. good micht he Jom, in the neture of a menace, by which it was | would expect to support the lie by arms, corded. Vand thas late ion was ceoatly resented by the | ih nthe internal aifairs of othor nations bas been a ped to extort the detestab'e aceoinptished even in Mehammoday evniries by steady nied—the eanderting preparctions by which it | MPOSSTULNY OF ANY RECOGN TION OF KIDTT. SLAVEMONGRRE British governmer Leh, Bot coutent with an apology | | ng practice—now cautiously aad peaceab! slaves lo Spanish wet the rate of 4.500 yerrly (or | P race and hy wever omitiig to take advantage of receded—and the corsair® ty ernise avalost British WITT SLAVERY AS A CORNET STON, from tho untortanate official, re juired that he sh nid be | Cleuave.y and forcidty. Somotines it was the spice of thirty 5 and thon avain at the peace of | faverabie opportunities,” and “that tho Schah woul! be | commerce. which fer some time had been allowed to | Ratl do not content myself with a single objection te rebuked by his ow mont also. Aud this ig | PRIS G men; sometimes it was in thelr tavor. Aix ia Chapelle higgied for a yet longer savetion to this | doing a thing extremely acceptable to the British govern- | swarm under the An an fag from Frooch ports It | this ontrageous consummation, Thore ts anotuer of a dif- British testimnny with Ato iutervention in a_etyit | times Fugiand and Franee stood aloof; sometimes thor | ixuobie intervention; nay, it alaost makes us forget the | ment and nation if he would issve a decree making it | was so accepte by the British coverament. ‘Tho Htritish | ferent nature, Ansuming.{.for tho moment, (what I am eted to believe can never happen, that the new siave Power hs become independent in faat, while the national flog hns sank away exhausted in the contest, there is an objection which, In an age of Christian light, thank Godt ‘The Congrees of Vieuna, which undertook (o | kindred mtervention, at once most sordid and eriminal, | penal for a Persian te purchase slaves.” ‘To the Sultan of | minister was marily withdrawa from Par imap of Europe, organized a universal and por | by which this Power counteracted all eliorts for the pro. | Turkey, whose mother was a slave, whore wives were all | French vesso's in British barbors were seed, nonarebichal fa- | hibition of the slave trade, even in ite ‘onies, and | slaves, and whose very counsollors, generals «da March 17 a mesenee from the and Carolina, | were originally sloves, he made a s Which was in the nature of a decla hen tt t ok the mildest form of intercession | 10k P fa prine settle ih fac these repalses, all these nations at | Petit jatervention ting dynas diferent (ims have preeticed tutcrveation in ev stitutions and ex This compact was | tinue hetped to fasten slavery npon Virgin ty of form Sometimes by intercession or « renewed at the Congress of Aix ia Chopelie. in 1818, | Tho abobtim of the slave trade by act of Variiament in | Sought to win the dependent a tar Frases, tn this declaration thors cannot be overcome—urtess the great Powers which, by oilees* coly—sometinies by meduttion, and often’ by | With the explanatory declaration that the five great | i807 wast Dal (or A change oF hinior that only in this way could be hope tor that good wait any thing but the treaty of amity and com | solemn covenants, have branded slavery, shall foryet prms, Even theo instances attest tho intermeddiing | Lewers would nover axume fortadiction over ques Bat curiously. it was the whites who gained the | which WAs #9 escemial (o his governmest: “that | merce, cillcially communieted by th: Preach Ainbassa- | theit vows, while Rogland. the declared protectress of the spirit, for wh torvcation was thus repulsed it | Hons concerning the rights aud jatorests of another Vow. | first fruits of ice bY @ tricmphant imferveation | the contiaued suport of Great Britain will for | dor, which was denozneod by bis Macsty as an‘ unpro. | Atriem race, and France. the declared chompln of wes at least att med, or, ¢xcept at its requestand without mytting such Power | for the suppre of Christian stavery tn tho Parbary oy to mo be om ‘bect o tmporten voked and unjust megrersion Ou the honor of hie crown | “ideas,” both break away from the irresistible logic of t this support cannot be given sof his kingdoms, contrary to | their history and turn their tact once. Put this Concession was | States, The old hero of A upon the past. Vain 10 ° Sidney and the essential inter But there are two precedents belonging to the earlier | © tke part in the con pericd woich deserve to st nd apart, not only for their | Obviously aaverze to any liberal movement. Meanwhile | released from bie long impr soniment in France, ntiments nd oj; inions of the mao low of natio iurious to the rights of every | is honor; vain is human confidence, if these nations at a Rstoric importance, bat for their applicability to our | the Holy Alliance was formed epectally to wateb agd con- | sont to organize as holy joagne’” for this intervention : shall be tayorable to the Ta sn Power in .) Only thres days later, on the | moment of high duty ean thas ienobly fail, “Renown tines, Tho first was the ehort ot tuat powerful minister, | tol tho revolutionary tondencics of the age: but this nhject was divcuseed at the Cougreas of Viewua: and I 2ist of March, the Commisaicners of the United States | and grace is dead.” Like the other objection, this ia of who, duct g te minority of Louis XIV., swayed Franc combination Fogland, to her honor, declined to euter the agents of Spain and Portogal, anxiocs for the pumtali nest anything ise to put | were received by the King of France, ia solemn andience, | fact also; for tt is founded on the character of the slave- Cardin] Mo arin—to doatitate a mediation between Ki The other Powers were suffcient'y active. Anatria, Rue wt of their piratical neighoors org an end to the practic Inaking slaver.”' Fach at that | with atl the wet oor y avec rded by the Court of | monger pretension claiming recoguition, alt of which ts a Charice {, avd bes Varhament. The civil war hid al- | Sit and Prussia did not besite the Congress of Lay. | Great Pritain bad abolished for ttsel! th time was the voice of the British people. Since Cromwo't | Versailles opresenia ives of sovereign f fact. Ferhape it may be said that it ta qnestion of ready Leow waged for years; good mea on each side had | Yaeb. in 1840, to Institute an armed intervention for the | siaves, thorefore it must seo that whit pleaded for the Vaudois no norler voico had gone forth War od between Freoce and Great Britain on tb policy; bot tt is of a policy which ought to be boyoud fulon, talkiand fighting for the King asd Hampdoa ston of liberal principles in Naples; atd agaia two | enslaved in the Barvary siates, The argune The World's Convention against slavery saw itself trans- | and ee, ia which Holland and qnestion, if the fact be established. Sometuing more febting for the Pariament, and otner costliest blood slater, at the Congress of Verona, those sime Pow- | Ingical tuan buwane, But Great Pritain un ag*inst Creat Rritain. Wib eveh fs pecesaary than that the new Power shalt provisional article sirned at | be de facie Independent. it must be de facto 1782, acknowledged the United | fit to bo Independent, and, from the oatare gor vaited, eat Britain Parts 90th November, .@, inetituied auether armed ins } work. With afiect complete at all pots, consisting of matic Botes. The Convention, ernest for univer five line of battic ships, five heavy (igotee, four bomb | emancipation, declared that “the (riendly interposition y : Puce | ers, toyethor with E igo | terveution to supprese liberal principles in hid been sued on the fleids of Worcestor hil, Newbury, Marston Moor and N; i the ambitions Cardwal, wishing to serve the King, cc, | wittunately ted (othe Invasion of that. kit vessel and five gunbrigs, Lord Fxinowh approached | Gecat Britain conid be employe for no Robler purpose,’ | States +: to be f.eo, soverci,n aud indepoudeat,” and de- | the case every pation will judge of this fitness © rding to Clorend f, promied “to press the Pariiement | Overihrow of its constitution. France was the belligerent | Aigicrs, whero he wagisitied by ac or: ble Dutch | and, as i to crown its work, im an address to L/rd f'al- | glare the boundaries there: agafoct, In indertaking to acknowledge anew Power, 80 imyertously ' wuhee & war acanst them if | Agent, and would not t nod aside, although the Duke | fleet, anxious to take part in this ryentiv. “If | merston humbly ond earnestly iploced bie lordship ‘to | The success of colonial independence was contagione, | you prociaim fie fitness for weleome and asscelation in tho thoy refased to yield what was reaconabls.” For this | OF Weiliugton at Verona cod Mr. Canning at home, sought | (orce must be resorted to,’ said tho Admiral in bis | use his high authority for conuccting the overthrow of | and the contest for it presonted another historic instanee | family of nations. Can England put forta such 9 procis- important service he selected the famous Pomponne do | to.arrest hor armies by the mediation of Great Britain, | geveral orders,‘ we bare the con-olatin of kugw- | savery with the coasolidation o! perce, 2 all these } More discusted and constit A precedent, if poraible, | mation in favor of the whipvers of women aud sellers of Bolievre, o a famtly teied lu public dutios—hunselt Pre, | Which mediation was directly sought by Spain and d! | ing that we fight in the sacred canse of ha | words Were at once adopted In foreign despatches | moro iuterceting ‘till, Thi wae when the Spanish colo- | children? Cau Franco permit Loats Napoleon to put forta aident of the Parliiment of Parts and a peor of Fri rectly refuset by Vrance. The Bi government, in nity, and cannot fail of success,’ A single | a8 expressing the sentimevts of her Majesty's gov. in America, following the northern example, broke | such a proclamation’ from the mother ¢ wotry and declared themerlves And here, on the threshold of this inquiry, tho tr independent. The comtest began as early as 1210; but it | state of the question mast not be forgotten. It is m was long contioued and extended ever an immoose re. | whethor olf aud existing relations shall be continued with jon— rom New Mexico aad California im the North to | a Power which permits slavery, bat whether relations ‘ape Horn in the South—wabed by two vast ocerns— ha force in such @ cause, | erument. Better watchwords there cou'd not be, nor slavemonger were } avy more worthy of the Rritish name. There can be no 4 to siga a treaty, nlidation of peace withont the overthrow of slavery. hich in ita | Ibis sas true now as when rst utterod p Therefore is hor oan & uous in personal qualities, as ia place, whose beau- | &@mirable lotters, confpored with wnsurpassed skill and | day was enough with tifWt head preserve’ by the graver of Nantueil is flag | C-MsULuting & noble page ational law, disclaimed | The formidable castles of the @ trious in art. and wheee dying charity tives still in the | for itself and donlod to ott era the right toy buttered to pieces, and he was compe! great hospital of the Hote Dieu at Paris. On bis arrival | Changes in the tater netitttiobs Of independent Stites, | ¢ ufirmed under a salute of twenty-on At London the graceful ambass dor presented himeeit to | With the menace of boetile attack in case of refusal: and | first article stipulated «Ihe abolition of Chr stian slavery | Great Britain stil! bound to her original f hall be began with « pew Power, whieh not meroly per- Ghat Lng Porlameot whicn kvew #0 well how ta guard | tt bravely deciared to the imperial wad royal interven. | forever.” Glor ad bene dicot intervent Not in- | abandon the caure of which she was the traversoa by mighty rivers and divided by loity moun. | tmlta slavery, bat builds its whoie intolerable pretenaion Foghab rights. very overiure wae at once reeeted, b: Uonists that, “so long as the s'rugyles and disturbances | fersr Uo that renowned instance of antiquity, where the | tevtres# without the betrayal of pence, as w taics—fruitiol in silver—copped with snow and shooting | upon this barbarism, ‘ No new slave Sta 19.8 wateh- formal proceedings, irom which Tecopy these word e:— | 0 Spain should be confined within the circle of ber own | Corthagenians were required toabolish tue practice of ea- | tray! of tikerty. . ‘ with woleanie fre. At Just the United States, eatieled | word with which we are alrealy familivr; but even “We do declare’ that we ourselves have been | territory, they could vot be adinitted by tue fi tish por. | evificing their own children; a treaty which has been But even now while T speak this same conspicuous | that the ancient power of Spain had practically ceased to | this cry does wot reveal the full eo to carefai ‘all Occasions to nse these un. | ernment Lo atiord any plea tor foreign iuterierence;” and 1d the noblest of history, becanse it was stipubited in | fidelity bo a sacred c: is announced by the recent arri- | exist, beyond a reasovab'o chance restoration, and | this ney revolt against civilization; for even if bappy troabls, yet we haves sot, melhor can, | 1a sil Another note it repeated that ‘a menace of direct ‘or of luwan nature, fhe Admiral, who bad tus | vals frow Europe. ‘The ship canal acr:ss the Isthmus of | that ‘the contest was ondedt. acknowledged the Indedend- | disposed to admit « new slave State, there must be, t : ve other provinces, Bat this act | among men who have got yet lost all sense of decency: pion to the | triumphed, was hailed as an ewoncipator. Iie received a | Suez, first attempted by the early Pharaohs, and at last | ence of Mexico and ao wereche | new rank in the pec'age, and a new Liazonry on his coat- | aidertaken by French infuence under the auspices :f the | was approached on'y after frequent debate in Congress, | 8a undying resistance to the udmirsion of a now sin continue! in his family, | Pacha of Eeypt, is most zeatously opposed by Great Bri- | where Henry Clay took an eminent part, aud after | Power, baving such an unquestioned origin and suc het, where | unquestioned purpose as that which now flaunts in piraey bw | blood before the civilized world, seeking reoagni\ion admit of any mediation or intorposing betwixt the King | &fd imminent danger could alone, ino ign Prince er State: and we desi.e th.t | general rule, justify foreign tuterference."” Tu + | words of Me, Canning: but even Lord Castlereagh, in an | of-arms. The ravk is, of cour: A hh | carlicr note, had assorted the same imitation, which ata | and on their suield, in perpeiua! memory of this great | tain, for the declared reason that jn its construction | most careful consideration in the cai oy day had the unqualitied support of Lord Grey and | transvetion, is still borne a Christin slave holding aloft | ‘forced labor’ kx employe, which this Power cannot if | John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of Sta‘e, shed upon the and us by aby f his Majesty, the Frenth King, will rest satis#6d with th ovr resolution and ar * m the committee wh den, aneurps aed drow this reply was J ot learns ' jug and abiliiy in the whole »pte luistory o€ the bug. | also of Ford Aberdeon, Juatly interpreted they leave no | the creas | and dropping Le broken fetters, But | conscience sanction. Not even to complete this vast im. | question all tho light of bis unsurpassed kuowledge, de- | for ite criminal ou uwera. Here is nothing for nice casnis- lich bar, on every book of whore | rary ‘was we tion | aprogy tor armed intervention except 1 & case of dicect | the persoaal salisivetions of the Admiral were more | pr vement,’ bringing the fast and the Weet near to | rived from long practice, as well as from laborious study | Doty 16 a8 plain as the moral law or the multiplica. xo that Harry Vane | acd taminent danger, when a nation, like a » thrown upon the great right of self de’ treat Aritain bore testimouy by what she by what she refreed to do, Even while resieting | the hands of Divine Providenes vor bringing to reason a | fore it cannot be employ * Rofore everything, Libe-ty,” and whoin Milton, in 060 oF his most iaspired wouvets, ad crosses, a8 dividual, | than paok or heraldry. In bis despatch to the gov. | gether, for which mankind has waited throughout base of juternational law, The judgment on this occasion | ton table. 7 ernment, describing (he baitle and written at the time, he | centuries, will great Britain departfrom the rele which | must be regarded ag an authority. President Monroe in Look for & moment at the unprecedented character of @id.ae | saya—<'fo have beon one of the bnmbie-t instraments in | she had 80 gloriously declared. Slavery is wrong, there- | q special message, on the Sth of March, 1822—twoive | this pretension. A i’resitent bad been elocted by the Tho canal must stop if it | years after tue war began—callod the attention of Con- aS the auiama of 1860, who was known ‘ bo agains ‘ane young in years, but in cage enim MM Guan Crome bene: benauracernaa the armel intervention of (he geeat conspiracy, ber gow: | ferovious government ard destroying forever the insufier | cannot be built withoat “forced labor."” Zreas to the state of the contest whieh be gail “had now the extension of slavery. This was all, Ho bad olin af When gaw ne not sms repelied eromont intorvened sometimes by mediation aad £0 able and worrid spate. o Christian slavery, ean never GENERAL URINCHTES APPLICABLE TO INTERVENTION. reached such a stage and been attendet with sucu not yet entered upon the porformance of bis duties. Lat The fleree Lwtrot and tas afr Firly in the contest between Spain | cease to bea conce of delight and Learteit comfort tw | And here I the historie instances which illustrate | cigive success on the part of the provlaces, Liat it merite | the slave mongers saw that slavory at homo mumt suifor “Vho answer Of ech ea May Well be aj rocedent tos and her colow she constaed, on the invitauon of | every individual happy ah to be employed im tt.” the right and practice of (oreign intervention, The whole | (he most profound consideration whether thelr right to | ‘nder this popular jodrment against its extension, and es oomy ahold Koginnd, tak of Magasin, presume to wead © republic in ite war with rlavery But the seme heart of oak, which was fo strenuous to répel the intervention of Frabes, in the great question berween King and Pariiament, ‘woe ot lew strenuous even 19 intervention, when it Could Perve the rivhis of England of the prtaciples of religions liberty. Such was FKogland when ruled by the great Protector, «aled va hi own day “ chief of men.” No pation re power.ul ve to be exempt from that irresistible intercession, whore be. | neath the garb Of peace thera was a gleam of arms | From France, even under ihe rule of Macarin, he claimed roapeot for the Protestant narac, which he insisted uyon | Fre | | » the reected volicy abaesador to stay the Spain, to uct as & reconciliation; but saan’ — dec which she had invite’, From 18) lator. in. the hope of effecting a Hut | have said too much With regard to an instance, | Fubject will be seer in these instances, teaching clearly | tho rank of judependont nations, with ali the advastagos | they rebelled. Under this Inspiration State after St the ediation | which, though beautiful aud important, may be regarded what to avoid and what to follow. In this way the law of | incident to It, in thelr interoourse with the United States, | pretended to withdraw from tue Union and tw econ. to ‘S23 Great | only as a parentvesis in the grander and more extensive | nations, like bistory, gives its best lessons. it for the | tg not complete.’ After setting forth the de fac'o condi net a new confederacy, whose “corner st. n Britain constantly repeated her offer, ‘vy the case of | jatervention against African Flavery, which was already | €ake Of plainness, I pow gather up eome of the comcli- | tion of things, he proceeded: ‘Thus it is manifest thatall | was slavery. A constitution was adopted, which Portugal she went further, Under the counsels of Me. destined at last to embrace the whole human | #1008. there provinces are nut only In the fullenjoymentortheir | declared in these words—"No law denying cr Canning, whose apecch on’ the occarion was of the most | family. erioree triumphed tu Parlia- Foreign intervention is armed or unarmed, although | indepentence, but, considering the state of the | impairing the right of nines in negro slaves momorabie character, she tnteryowed by landing troops | ment, Great Britain intervened with Nopoieon, in 180, | komotimos the two are oot easily distinguishable, An | war and other circumstanoes, that there ig not the | shall be passed,’ and ‘in all territory, actual or acquired, & Lisbon, bot this lutervention was vindicate! by the | to induce him to join in the abolition of the slave | unarmed intervention may have in it the menace of pect oi their being deprived of it.” In | the as negro slavery, as it Bow exists in tbr ob! gations of treaty. Next came the greater instance of | trade. but he flatly refused. What France would | or it may be war in disguiee, If thie is the case it mast ir itton the President ceclared that it | Confederate States, shall be recognized and by Greece, whon the Ubristion Power? of Rarope intervened | net then yield was oxtorted from Tor fagal io | b> treated accordingly was dono ‘under @ thorourh conviction that it is in strict ee ee ato cnds Ge tn tk. ‘not start, to arrest a protracted struggle ant to save thie classic | 1810; from Sweden ehortly afterwards, ond” from | . Armed Intervention Is war and nothing lese. Of course | accord with the Inw of natious;” aud further, that "it ig | Those are the authentic words of the text. You will flo love (rom Turkish tyranny, Here the first step was a | Denmark i 1814, Ao ‘ineffectual! attempt was | it can be vindicated only as war, and it must be resisted | not contemplated to change thereby, in the slightost pressing invitation from the Greeks to the tritich aad | made to enlist Spain, even by the tom) tation of pecuniary | a» war. Relicving, as I do most profound!y, that war oxn | manner, ourAriedd y relations with ‘of the parties.” a governments fer their mediation with the Outo- | subsidies, and also to enlist the restored monareh of | never be a game, but must al be a crime when it | In accordance with ils recommendation Congrors ay. 16 Vorte, These Powers, together with Susela, prof | france, Louts XVITL, even 4 the ofr ofa sum of money | ceases to be a duty—a crime to bo shunved if nots | thorized the rome nm. Two years later the same thing fered the much desired Intervention, which the Greeks at | outright or the cession of « West tndic Tsiand. in comside- | duty 0 be performed swiitly atid surely, and that ana. | was done by Great Britein, after much debate, di ic oe accepted and the lurks rejected. Rattle bad already | ration of the desired abelition. Hat vratitade toa ben tom, Hike an ind: 5 itted to take the No case of international uty bas raged fiercely, accompanied by barbarous marecre. | factor prevailed, Wiese Powers conld oot hava resisted, | sword except in just eof defence—I find the same limita. juenoe, an ampler 4 Witho: t delay the alilot forces were directet to compel | but it was conferred by Lord Castioreagh, in the House of | tion in armed intervention, which beeomes uninet The | | om great’ and glorious, From Spaio, on whose od empire the sun at that time nover coused siiue, he insisted that no Engiiehovan shou'd be we to inquisition, Reading to Lia coanei a de fro Admiral Blake, announcing Laat be had obtarwed jue civil war was first artovted by temporary arrangement | ¥ muter the mediation Of Creat Heitai | the Boncbon monereh, ant what tha Fmperor nad ooge | eipeorely unarmed it may be regarded xs obtrasive, but ' Spanish th throughout the whole continent ialiy ended by Anarmed modi oom in | fiatiy refuerd, Was HOW Ff sioom uly dooe by him, | not hostile, Tt may assame the form of mediation, or | dnoed 108 single castle in Mexico, an island om ‘or elaborate and irritating diseusetous, | doubtless in the hope of OM g Sekt sentiment, | the proffer of ood soiDees, ot the invitation of both par- | of Chile a small army in Upper Peru, white \ ee HO Spanish soldber bait get foot tor Tourveet 1 Lice from the Viceroy of Mainga, Cromwell sala “ | the coeeation of hostilitio, which was necomptighed by | Commons, that there war afwtiust of the Beil ov. | stow jast in proportion as it departs from just self . Canning and upheld by bim in Perliament; bat h ped W make the name of Englishmen as greatas ever | the desirvetion of the Turkish fect at Navarino | ernment “even atnon: the beter classes of page ho fence, Under thie head is aaturatiy inetnded oti that in the discussion,’ euc- Coat of Roman bad been.” In this same lofty mood he | aud the occupation of the Morea by rene | thought that its zoo! in thi bebol was prompted by a | jutorventiow which is moved by a tyrannical or conld be no to turned to propose his mediation between Protretent | teoape, Ab fast, onder the continnad “mediation | desire to injere the Preoch colonies and commeres, rather | tatermeddiing spirit, because intervention, contest was go. Sweicn and Protestant Nremen, “ehiedy bewailing that j of these Powers, the independence of Gresce was ra. | than hy benevolence. Hot the Hritich Minister woe more | whatever may bo jis professions, 1: essentially hoatiie: ich was cautiously but «1 being bo.b Bis (rionds they Khould so despiterully combat | cogaiaed by the Otloman forte, and another tree state, | saccesaiil with Port, i, which waa induced, by peca- | when Reestt, Preassia ord Acetria pertitioned Potand; by Lord Landsdowne nobly vin+ one against anethor;” “offering bis assistoace fon eum. | conseurated to freclom, took its place in the family nf | miary equitulente, to exconte s sipplemontary: treaty In | ween tie Hely Alliance intormeddled every where, and ing the whole subject, Med ious AcCCOMMOdatION ON oth sides” oxhortin vations, Pat mediation in Tarkib aifire dif not atop | Jomiary, 1815. This wae followed by the declaration of | menaced Gren America, or when Russia intervened to | py that great publicist Sir Jamos Muckintosh, rn ye3 thom by ne menus to reluse any honest eoncilions here. The example of Ureece was followed by Keypt, | thet ess of Vier na, on motion! Lord Castlereagh, Feb- | crush the independenes of Hongary or France to crush | clined to recognition, but admitted that It could not take recomciiiation Here was intervention betwem nation | whe ¢ proviveiil chioi Mebomet AN, rebotlot, and bya ge’ | pages |, 18LS, denouncing the Airicvn lave trade “ae in. | the Roman republic. AW such intervention ts flioge!, t@ | pinoo eo long as the contest continued; and (hat there ‘fend nation; But It was €o0a (ol) by an futervendion | ulus for war succeeded to diaporracsing the O toman lorie euty he prinesy! humanity and © viverea! i PL al scandalous. Ite vindication cau he found | must Be “auch a contest as exhibits somo equal al aifairs Of a distant country, which of all | notenly of Pgypt, DAL OF other poesessions ateo. Thix | viens.’ Meanwhile Napoleon returned from Fiva. | only in the effrontcry that might makes right, foree, 80 that if the combatants were left to of Cromweil is the most touching and sub ime, | | what the Piritteb inte On failed toarcamolteh with | Unarmed tntervesti n te of a different character, If | the tang would be in some degree doubtful. ade was at Whitehall or, t Kutoyah th ciquatere Of & treaty, when news tiucxpectedy | ad Fratce, a cae om =& Restuded “valley Of the Air 1840, when, ete age mountain torrents which are the | which threatened (o invelve Europe, a tres | Hie houdted days of power were sigaalized by an ord). | vee, or, tp the case of civii war, at tho invitation of the & company of pions Pro | elodad at Loodon between Great Britain, Rusia, Avsrin | pance abolishing the elave trade in Feance and her col. | orginal authority. With sach invitation ints interven. a this a contest,” said Mack’ 4 or conturies gathered there | and Pruaeis, by which the Pacha was com, died to re. | nice, Louie XVIT, onee agoin roatore’ by Hrittey arms, | toa is proper and bonerabie. With ut suoh tmvitation it lity? Is it sufficient to render the wire when ont fathers | Hoqaiel . his conquests, while he wat secured in | pod with the “hadow Of Waterloo vpou teanea, couktwd ) te of cowbifol character, Tul if known © be | gach aowuntry doubtful? Done it deserve the name . t stoke aud Lave,” were now sufiering | the government of agp AS 8 Perpetaal ps | do ese them ratify this imperial ordimmnce by'a contrary to (he Aesires of both partion, or to | comtost””’ It was not wat!l 1825 that Great Britain wes tor ibe perscouttoa from Welk soyei@go, Emanuel of saligied with toe terms rrueg Watt WAS Wao We Lomeeforts Craver (Orbit | te deeiren of the origial Aatunrity (a mq diy | far amtunled aa by acknowigdge this ludepeadqnge, of the Porte, Praace,

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