Palladium Of Virginia And The Pacific Monitor

From the London Morning Chronicle.

The extravagance of the Russian or high Ultra party in France, would hardly be credited in this country. Would it be believed that M. Pozzo di Borgo, its oracle in Paris, in a memoir addressed to his Court in 1817. on the importance of replacing South America under the dominion of Spain, actually allowed his zeal against liberty to carry him so far as gravely to propose the subjugation of the United States of North America, "Founded, he said on the sovereignty of the People, the Republic of the United States of America was a fire, of which the daily contact with Europe threatened the latter with conflagration; that this state, an asylum for all innovators. gave them the means of disseminating at a distance by their writings, and by the authority of their example, a poison of which the communication could not be questioned as it was well known that the French Revolution had had its origin in the United States, that already troublesome effects were felt in Europe from the presence of French Refugees in America, and more particularly in France; that the administration of that kingdom was obliged to bend before the revolutionary spirit; and, that a prompt repression of democratical principles could alone prevent the irruption of an evil already so grave in its source." After a variety of considerations of the same sort; the Russian Ambassador proceeded to observe, " That the conquest of the United States of America was an easy enterprise--that their submission to a mode of government more in harmony with that of the other civilised States of the world, would be attended with little inconvenience in comparison of the danger from allowing to subsist, much longer, the form of the actual government; that the degree of power to which the Americans had risen, made them objects of fear to the European Monarchical Governments, but that at the same time, the sum of their riches having augmented that of luxury and corruption, there was reason to think that the principal citizens of the United States would not be displeased to see a change which would place them at the head of the government of their country, that as the aristocratical spirit was more particularly perceptible in the towns, the influence of the rich citizens might easily bring about the desired change; that it would in vain be objected that the United States had just come off victorious out of the struggle they had maintained with Great Britain; that this success was owing to particular causes, the absence of which would overcome opposition and resistance. and that two of these causes could not fail to strike every observer--that in the first place, the richest citizens saw with fear the moment approach in which the English party would replace the United States under the power of England; that, in that case, they would consider themselves as stripped of their power, and subjected to the tyranny of the British aristocracy, whose representatives would impose on them a yoke as severe as humiliating. that; in consequence; seeing they could gain nothing by this change, they made every effort to overcome every difficulty. in which they would not, perhaps, have succeeded. but for the impolite conduct of the English who set fire to Washington; and; that it is, perhaps, to this second cause, that the failure of the enterprise. and consequently the consolidation of the Republic, is, in a great measure, to be attributed"

Now, though all this must appear to us Americans extremely absurd and extravagant, yet, when we consider that it comes from a man who is understood to influence the cabinets of the Holy Alliance the folly assumes graver aspect, because we know that weak and wicked princes, and even those of a better stamp, are sometimes governed by weak and wicked ministers, and that when wickedness is combined with ability, the danger increases four fold =Fed. Gaz.