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HcmUotv SATVRDA Y, NOVEMBER 19. Fotm; 6r five years ago it was the fashion (I certain class of our countrymen, to lament the decline of Etiglaiid to the condi- tion of a second rate power; and to assert, in jiistiifcatioii of their sorrows, that the poli- tical arrangements of this kingdom were re- garded by our continental neighbours with (ontcmpt, orat best, with ÎndHferencc. Whe- ther these doleful speculations were grounded i 0 on reason at the time, is a question difficult, I>erhap?> tolje answered; The leading conti- nental States have, no doubt, exerted equal carnestne6a nd ingeuaity todpregs them- selves and time, commerce, &ad the uncon- querable indastry of the English character, operating freely under our free Constitution, and in a season of peace, have done as much, perhaps to exalt our power; but from what- ever cause it arises the fact stands beyond all dispute, that the policy of England is no longer an object of second-rate interest to the powers of the Continent; but that it absolutely engrosses all their care. Nothing indeed can be more flattering to our national vanity than to observe the space which the proceedings of England occupy in all the Foreign Journals. No matter how humble or how remote may be the object of any step taken by the Eng- lish Government, it is sure to provoke the envy and apprehension of the members of the Holy Alliance, and to call forth some expression of resentment from their organs. Thus in thelastbatch of French Journals re- ceived, we lindthe Quotidienne raving at the reception given by our Ministers to iM. Hiir-, tado, and the Etoile, no less indignant at the British Machiavelism by which the Belgian Covcruiueut has been compelled to liberalise its commercial system in the East. As we have said, this degree of at- tetilion bestowed Itponu by our Continen- tal neighbours is highly flattering, and it i. peasant to reflect, that though the anxiety which the Holy Allt&Hce and its slaves feel all out, (iiir proceedings is not the most friendly, it is perfectly innocuous. They mllst begin to rmitntc, instead of hating 0 and aburiiitg us, before they can hope to ri- /v'iU ei ther our power or our national wca 1th.

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