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& 4 Forei 0 i Policy **
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Foreigners say , and not without some reason , that England has no principle in her policy . And when we look at our national relations with other states , it is evident that they are marked , to a large extent , by the characteristics of our Statute Book . They are all in detail . We have a multitude of particular treaties , as
we have a multitude of particular enactments , but little of pervading spirit and purpose is to be distinctly traced . Once we ^ ere at the head of Protestant Europe , as opposed to Catholic Europe ; but these distinctions have long since worn out , and cease to be lines of political demarcation . Pitt made us an appendage to absolute governments as opposed to revolutionary
nations / Many of the embarrassing consequences of this unnatural and imperfect alliance are yet entailed upon us . And they are mixed up with the sympathy of the present Administration for the juste milieu policy of Louis Philippe , which is fast losing its title to that appellation and merging into absolutism . The interference with the Swiss Cantons was his first overt act
against the liberties of other nations ; and although Spain may , we trust , be considered as permanently let alone , the new appointments bode little good . Our Foreign Secretary will therefore have to walk alone : and his notion of policy seems to extend little beyond the interchange of notes and the multiplication qf protocols .
A recent writer on Foreign Policy contends that it should have no moral principle ; that we are the natural enemies of all nations wlnph have facilities for becoming naval or commercial ; ^ nd the natural friends of states wh i ch have no such facilities for b ^ cQining , our rivals ; and that to allow the despotism or freedom of their institutions to have any influence is most
unstatesmanlike . Tins opinion is directly the reverse of our own . We take all sound foreign policy to be based upon Moral Principle . All free states are natural friends . They have a living bond of alliance worth a thousand parchment treaties . They stand or fall together . The desire of the absolute governments to put them down can only be limited by their power . And the insular position of England , the great cause of her security , marks her out for their universal protectress , the rock of their safety , the pillar cjf their strength .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/7/
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