remain independent? That is the question: that is the matter about which I am going to prophesy; and I prophesy in the following words: - The French, as soon as they I have settled affairs in Old Spain; as soon as they have garrisoned the fortresses, and taken proper care of the arsenals, ports and fleets, will gradually make known their intention to recolonise South America. They will first obtain the approbation of the Holy Alliance for doing this. Our Government may remonstrate, may supplicate, and our newspapers will cry out robbery and assassination; but, at last, the Pittite crew will say that * strict neutrality" is the " dignified" course, and the Whig crew will not dare pronounce the dreadful word, War. The French, if they succeed in the -recolonising scheme, will keep part of South America to themselves; and, they will justify their conduct by pointing to our -grabbings of Pondicherry, Isles with shame the man that shall make it; for, so far will the United States be from endeavouring to prevent the recolonising of South America, they will do every thing in their power (short of actually going to war) to promote such recolonization. Cadiz will be the port whence the forces for this undertaking will sail. The enterprise will be called Spanish, though it will notoriously be French. We shall soon begin to hear of envoys from Spain to the colonies with offers of peace and amnesty. Ships and troops will be getting ready at Cadiz, in the meanwhile; and, the fair probability is, that the whole of Spanish America will be recolonised in the course of two years and a half; an event which one shall scarcely regret, when one reflects, that the "liberty," which the "Patriots" have given to the people of South America, is, to have their country and their labour mortgaged to the Jews and Jobbers of London, and to have the advantages of their commerce turned over from Old Spain to the Boroughmongers, to enable these latter to keep their estates by our stupid newspapers, some a little longer than they could big and empty talk about the without this commerce. United States of America starid- That, Gentlemen, is my proing forward to defend their " Sis-phesy. To be more explicit is ter Republics of the South;" impossible. I have hidden my and, it need not surprise us if meaning under no tropes or the man, who, at Liverpool, figures. It is impossible not to uncould condescend to attempt derstand my words; and we have to coax the Americans by the to wait no very long time for the boarding school simile about fulfilment, or the falsification. the mother and the daughter, were to attempt to get the United States to join him to oppose the French in this enterprise; but, if this attempt be made, it will only serve to cover of France and Bourbon, Ceylon, the Cape, Malta, Trinidad, Demerara, and God knows what besides. There will be, Some people will be, or affect to be, shocked at the idea of England remaining a quiet spectator of such an event as this. What is England to do? Go to war? She has no other way of not re A maining a quiet spectator of it. | French propose to call,a Congress, Does she discover any disposition of the Holy Allies, to discuss the to resist? Poor thing! She is affairs of South America; and as tame as any capon; and, what that our pretty gentlemen decline is provoking, she is poor too, sending to the Congress. And, whereas the capon is fat, which is what then? The Congress will a compensation for his tameness. meet without them, and decide Is is said, that we have acknow-without them: that is all! ledged the South American States; pretty change since 1815! The that is to say, that we have sent truth is, it is at Congresses as at envoys and consuls to them, and taverns those who have most that we, therefore, consider them as independent nations. And, what of that? We had an envoy at the government of the CORTES and constitutional King; and he is now our envoy to the absolute the French are loaded with neiKing. Our envoy to the "Republic of Columbia" will easily become an envoy to the French or Spanish Viceroy; or, rather, he will easily take himself off. However, I do not believe, that our Government has acknowledged the Republics. I believe it wishes to do it. I believe, that it is now frightened; that it knows not what to do; that it sees the game that France is going to play; that it trembles at Spain and South America being in the hands of France; that it is ashamed to hold up its head. But, what is it to do? Can it go to war? It knows, that it cannot it feels, that war is instant death to it. Divided, then, between its wishes, its most anxious wishes, to keep the French 'out of South America and its fear of the effects of war; thus divided, the Government knows not what to do; it is full of alarms; and, as to these South American States, it will, most likely, neither acknowledge nor not acknowledge them; but, do some equivocal, some shuffling thing that shall serve to make a story out of for the use of St. Stephen's. The Ministers will not face the French: we may be quite sure of that. It is said, that the money, fare best. Our preity fellows used to carry the heavy purse: now the French carry it. Our sweet fellows have a debt, a dead weight, and a pauper debt: ther; for, as to their public debt (though it ought to be wholly spunged off) it is hardly worth naming when compared to ours. Our DEAD WEIGHT; that is to say, the money that we have to pay annually for pensions and allowances to those who assisted in conquering France" this money, a good thumping sum of which is paid to Hanoverians, their wives and children (living in Hanover!); this money; this DEAD WEIGHT; this single item of the cost of " conquering France," amounts to more, annually, than the whole of the charge for the public debt of France. This being the case; our sweet fellows, being in want of all the money they can get for the purposes aforesaid, have none now to carry about them, when they go to Congresses, or elsewhere. And, therefore, they will do well to remain at home; for, to a certainty, the Congress will do precisely what the French want them to do. We can borrow no more: we can give subsidies and make loans to foreign powers no more: we are at the end of our tether: and we shall now see what it was that made those powers our friends. Our sweet fellows (the sweetest precisely what Mr. CANNING did, fellows in all this world!) will re-the other day, at PLYMOUTH, main at home. They will send where he was at a Dinner with the nobody to the Congress; and will Corporation, who presented him content themselves with making with the freedom of their town, peace-speeches at dinners, to which being quite ready to do as much toad-eaters and place-hunters, in for any other man, likely to have the Corporations, invite them. the power to help them to places They seem to have wholly changed or pensions. The Secretary's their nature. Formerly, it was a health was drunk, and he, during word and a blow, and the blow a speech, long before hatched for jirst. No matter whether for Turk the occasion, let out the pacific or Russian, for cat-skins or for designs of himself and his colsugar-canes. Always Always" full of leagues. The passage, to which fight," with any body and for any I particularly allude, is well worthing. What a change! Every thy of remark; and it shows, thing formerly called for war; amongst other things, how Mr. and those were said to be short- CANNING can crouch to the French, sighted mortals, narrow-souled how he can kiss the rod, laid on dogs, who could not see how upon him by the French papers, closely connected the independ- written, as he well knows, by the ence of Spain was with the inde- French Ministers themselves, or pendence of England! In short, by their order. In the article, the thing was so obvious, that a taken from one of those papers, man must be a traitor, who pre- and inserted in the last Register, tended not to see, that Spain was, he is reviled most outrageously; in fact, the great out-work of Eng- and, the following is the way in land. And now, after spending which he resents the reviling: a hundred and fifty millions stirling (besides its share of Dead Weight) in getting this "out-work of England" out of the hands of the French, we, without pulling a single trigger, suffer the French go and take complete possession of this out-work, and, our Minister for Foreign Affairs (formerly one of the most deadly warriors) tells ns, from his dinner seat amongst the servile wretches at Plymouth, that, to have interfered for the Spaniards would have been Quixotic; romantic in its origin and thankless in its end"! "Gentlemen, it is the part of the weak and pusillanimous to bluster, while they decline the combat; to brag loudly of their courage and their ability, but, at the same time, to be very explicit as to their resolution not to fight. This was to "But while we thus control even our feelings by our duty, let it not be said that we cultivate peace either because we fear, or because we are unprepared for war; on the contrary, if eight months ago the Government did not hesitate to proclaim that the country was prepared for war, if war › should unfortunately be necessary, every montha of peace that has since passed, has but m de us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace, are means of war. [Applause.]-In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate a proof of inability to act, than the state those means. Our present repose is no more of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, Gentle men, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing -instinct with life and motion-how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage--how quickly it would put forth all its beauty, and its bravery-collect its | And, he might have added, that scattered elements of strength, and awaken all sensible men (and especially its dormant thunder. [Loud and continued the French Government) laughed thunders of applause.]-Such, as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might such is England herself, while apparently passive and motionless, she, silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid, that that occasion should urise! After a war your most heartily at the said procla- 66 dier, not a ship, did the English "Minister send." And yet, with all these facts before us, the speech-maker has the assurance to tell his hearers that we were prepared for war, and to speak of such preparation as a thing taken for granted! 66 sustained for nearly a quarter of a century -sometimes single-handed, and with all Europe arranged at times against her, or at her side, England needs a peried of tranquillity, and may enjoy it without fear of misconstruction. Long may we be enabled, Gentlemen, to improve the blessings of our present situation, to cultivate the arts of peace, to give to commerce, now reviving, greater extension and new spheres of employment, and to confirm the prosperity now "If," said he," the Government generally diffused throughout this island. Of the blessings of peace, Gentlemen, I" proclaimed that the country was trust that this borough, with which I have "prepared for war then, every now the honour and happiness of being month since must have made us associated, receive an ample share. I so much the more capable of extrust the time is not far distant when that noble structure of which, as I learn from ertion." Perhaps so; but, this your Recorder, the box with which you is not a matter of course; for, the have honoured me, through his hands, eight months may have been eight formed a part, that gigantic barrier against months of calamity; and, indeed, the fury of the waves that at ron into harbour, will protect commercial marine not they have been; for, never was less considerable in its kind, than the warlike there so much ruin of families marine of which your port has been long in any eight months since Engso distinguished an asylum-and when the land was England, But, this town of Plymouth will participate in the aside, does it follow, that, because commercial prosperity as largely as it has hitherto done in the naval glories of the Government proclaimed, that England." we were prepared for war, that This, be you assured, Gentle-we were so prepared? What an men, was intended for the French impudent spouter! What a stuMinisters much more than for the pid audience! The resources place-hunting crew, by whom the created by peace are the means speaker was surrounded, But, let" of war." Very true; but, have us examine, a little, this piece of you any now creating? Is the bragging cowardice, conveyed in lowering of the interest of money, a sort of sophistical fastian. What and is the Bank taking estates to does he mean, by the Government mortgage; are these proofs of having, eight months ago, "pro- your being at work creating re"claimed that the country was sources? A revolution in property prepared for war"? What is going on, owing to the burdens does the empty man mean by this? of peace. You have an army When was there any such procla- more costly than that of France, mation issued! Oh! he only though she employs a part of hers means, that the Ministers said this, to occupy Spain. You have a in their speeches in parliament! fleet more costly than the fleets of or cowardice of her commanders; and, under circumstances such as those which have existed for eight months past, the nation being at peace is a proof of her inability to go to war, or, of the neglect, or cowardice, or something worse, of the Ministers. all Europe, and that of America The flourishing figure is, then, into the bargain. And yet, you not worth a straw, except for the have the folly to talk about "che-purpose of puzzling fools, and, rishing the resources of peace, amongst fools, to keep cowards in "and thereby accumulating the countenance. Upon the face of "means of war." You borrow the thing, the ship being in a even now, though under a disguise. state of immobility and the nation How, then, are you to accumu- being at peace are no proofs of late? How are you to cherish re- the usefulness of the one and of sources to enable you to go to war? the inability of the other; but, As to the figure of the ship, under the circumstances above what aptness is there in it? The supposed, the immobility of the ship is put into motion whenever ship, is, as we have seen, a proof those who have the means of of her uselessness or of the neglect doing it choose to employ those means. The inactivity of the ship is, generally speaking, no proof at all, that it is devoid of strength, or incapable of being fitted for action; for you, Gentlemen, as well as the Recorder of Plymouth, know very well, how soon a ship, now lying unrigged, may be put The nation is quite able, we into motion. But, this is true are told, to go to war, on an only sometimes. It is not always adequate occasion.” Well, now, true. The inactivity is, sometimes, what will be "an adequate occaa proof of the ship being devoid sion?" She is " silently concen"of strength." While you see trating her power!" Empty stuff! no occasion to use or man the How? Where does her power ship; while you see her in no come from? Is she getting money danger, and see nothing that she together, when she is actually is wanted to do; then, indeed, borrowing still, and when her her inactivity is no proof of her farmers are, in every quarter, being devoid of strength or that tumbling into ruin? Her gaols are she is incapable of being fitted for full of insolvents. Such a wreck action but, if danger approach of fortunes was never before heard her; if a fire-ship be making toof in any country in the world. wards her; if a battery be opening, However, she is concentrating her manifestly intended to play upon power; and, "when the occasion her; if an enemy's ships are in the arises" she is to make use of it. offing, capturing the merchant-" But," says the hero, "GOD men: if any of these circum-"FORBID THAT OCCASION stances exist, and if the ship "SHOULD ARISE." Indeed! remain inactive, is not her "in- See, Gentlemen, how AFRAID activity" then " a. proof" of one he was! He seems to have been frightened, and to have started, at the sound of his own voice. I would not have been in such a devil of a fright for a trifle, Perhaps that wise friend of his, LORD MORLEY, whispered him, that Monsieur 66 of two things: namely, that the |