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    J ^ nd we shall speedily find , as the world begins to settle , that liberal institutions are the concomitants of prosperity . We do not despair of seeing Spain amongst the most rapidly-progres&ivs nations of Europe . A few years of quiet freedom will develop her immense , but hitherto abused or neglected , resources . But no extent of territory , no severity of regulation , no artificial and forced combination , will avail to fertilize and enrich the northern

    states . Interests and institutions are linked together by the l&Wfc of national existence ; and instead of the purblind calculations of a sordid selfishness , that defeats its own purposes , England will find , in sympathy with freedom , that principle of foreign policy which will best enlarge her national wealth , while it can alone sustain and dignify her national character .

    The timid and short-sighted councils which have neutralized so much of the effect of our Reform Bill on the publiq opinion and public spirit of England , have had a similar influence upon our foreign politics . The opportunity has been lost for investing our country with a moral supremacy over Europe . To the gaze of all continental liberals , the name of Canning remains

    uneclipsed . The spirit with which he dissevered this country from the Holy Alliance , and the warm frankness of his tone on all European topics , won their hearts , and have left little relish for the cold trimmings of Whiggism . Would that this were the worst , or that we had merely shared with France the contempt due to impotent sympathies and disregarded remonstrances for Poland , crushed by the insolent cruelty of the barbarian

    Despot . Or that we had only trifled with Spain , by that sort of inefficient aid which is perhaps rather a prejudice than an advantage . There is a far deeper blot fixed upon * us by the baffled at * tempt at a counter-revolution in Portugal . The subject has already drifted out of public attention , but it ought to be revived as the meeting of Parliament approaches , and occasion should be found for searching inquiries into all the particulars of

    Ministers in connection with that memorable event . As ground for such inquiry , it is quite enough to know that a British naval armament , together with a French squadron , were moored in the Tagus , in such a position as that Lisbon might have been lauj in ashes , on the eve of a premeditated violation of Royal faith , for the purpose of robbing the Portuguese people of the freedom they

    had conquered , and imposing on them the Oligarchy of a House of Peers . This has been only justified by the pretext of securing the Queen's person from peril ; the Queen shaving- been in no peril whatever , nor likely to incur any , but from the contemplated treason . The strong arm of Britain , which hangs So heavily when patriotism is beaten to the duat , was thus upraised to shelter premeditated treachery against a friendly and allied nation Disgrace and disgust have been thereby attached tq the firitifth

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/8/