VOL. III.-No. IX. Page PRINCIPLE OF INTERVENTION as tested by EXPERIENCE and LAW INTERVENTION as applied in SOUTH AMERICA and the OTTO- RUSSIA in the ITALIAN PENINSULA RUSSIA in the SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA RUSSIA in the GRECIAN PENINSULA ENGLAND in the WESTERN HEMISPHERE Mr. Alexander McLeod on his Detention and Trial The Red Indians on the loss of Canada by Britain CAF also at length aroused to tardy but just Abhorrence, by an Act of unexpected Fanaticism. We are to commence warlike Intervention in South America, in concert with France and the Brazils. At Home, Irish Repeal is conjoined to British Chartism and Anti-Corn-Law Agitation, in the Person of a convicted Conspirator. Philosophic Germany opens Subscriptions for Irish Repeal. From India there is Intelligence of fresh Assaults, and there is the Discovery in the Troops of the Native Princes, of a Determination, a Method, and an Animosity, for which we have been prepared by no previous Example. We have now completed the Catalogue. Every Government of Europe and of Asia and of America, every People, upon distinct Grounds, is thus brought to be engaged in positive Hostility, or aroused to Feelings of Hatred against the British Name; and Englishmen have no Thought except that of returning, in so far as they discover it, Hate for Hate. Let not the Danger around, or the Apathy within, bring Despair. It is Energy and Resolution they ought to inspire. The Evil is our own Work,-it therefore belongs to any one of us to undo it: one Member of the Government, or one influential public Man, has but to understand what is understood by every Attaché of the Russian Embassy, and England may yet reverse the Hatred of the World, and spare to herself and others Tortures, Misery, and Ruin. But these Matters are of no Value to a British Senate. Their Care is directed and their Labours expended upon other Objects; and the Existence of a Ministry is not compromised by Acts that compromise the Laws, and endanger the Existence of the State. Nine Days of Debate can be given to exasperate the Animosities of Ireland; and the Ministry's Existence is brought to depend upon half-a-dozen Voices respecting a Police Regulation for a Factory. When the Frenzy of Faction shall have been expended, and the Folly of ephemeral Doctrines shall have faded away, who will believe such Things! These Changes come gradually, and no one perceives that he is himself a Part and a Cause of them, because the Habit is come of reflecting upon what has to be done, instead of considering what ought to be done. If Men, with Abundance of Materials, Means, and Instruments, with much Labour and Assiduity, succeeded only in bringing a Machine that once worked powerfully to a dead lock, they would go back to their Books, they would test their Calculations; they would not go on forcing the Parts violently against each other, nor breaking Edges to make the Machine run smooth; they would consider how it stood when it worked well, and mark the successive Changes and Decline. And so of the Machinery of Government. He who wishes to stand fast will take his stand on the old Ways of the Constitution. How much more he who sees the Necessity to restore! But to |