THE PORTFOLIO. DIPLOMATIC REVIEW. (New Series.) "I will try all things, and by every way; nor shall desist in endea- VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JAMES MAYNARD, PANTON STREET, HAYMARKET: SOLD BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT. 4 H 28.36.10 Deposited in Business HARVARD THIS Periodical will be devoted to matters of Government and Justice. It is undertaken by men who deplore the heedlessness of their fellow-citizens in respect to the nation's acts and their own duties, separating the Commonwealth into parts, calling one internal, one foreign, one domestic, and one colonial. The endeavour, through the means of this publication, will be to show that the Laws of England still suffice to rectify the evils of the State, and to prevent its further decay. CONTENTS OF VOL. III. No. IX. Page INTERNAL and EXTERNAL POSITION of ENGLAND, March, 1844 FRENCH ALLIANCE and COMMERCIAL TREATIES MOTIVES of PUBLIC MEN in FRANCE RUSSIA in the ITALIAN PENINSULA RUSSIA in the SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA ENGLAND in the WESTERN HEMISPHERE Mr. Alexander McLeod on his Detention and Trial The Red Indians on the loss of Canada by Britain RECALL of the GOVERNOR-GENERAL of INDIA. ANNEXATION of the TEXAS, a Case of War between England and the Settlement of Texas-its Revolution and Independence, 441-Mexico and England, 448-Diplomatic Relations and Treaties between England and Mexico and Texas, 453-Means used by the United States' Government to obtain the Treaty from Texas, 475-War between the United States and Mexico, 479-Dr. Channing in 1834, and Mr. Urquhart in 1838, on the Annexation of Texas ENGLAND IN MARCH, 1844. "A nation suffers in internal liberty only after it has been guilty of injustice against its neighbours."-AKENSIDE. THE last Month has revealed Symptoms more alarming, and Results more dangerous for Great Britain, than have ever been presented in the Course of our previous History. While the Enmity in the United States* increases, and the Estrangement of France,t instead of disappearing, is augmenting, the Prussian Government and the Papal Power,§ who but recently were either independent of, or strenuously opposed to, the Policy and the Designs of the Russian Cabinet, have been brought into Concurrence with it. The Italian Peninsula is drawn more and more within the Sphere of the two Species of Convulsions that agitate the Peninsula of Greece and that of Spain, uniting the Ascerbity of doctrinal Difference to the Virulence of foreign Intrigue and Russian Agency. Austria, gradually estranged, has within the last Month been engaged against us, and the Ottoman Empire, the Pivot upon which all Interests and Affairs of Europe turn, whose sole Confidence was in us, whose Hatreds and Antipathies were all for Russia, is * See Article in this number, " England in the Western Hemisphere," + See Article, "French Alliance." See" Prussia and the Poles." § See "Russia in the Italian Peninsula." See "Intervention." |