have sent to our Ambassadors However, there is another on the Continent, relative to view to be taken of this matthe attack about to be made ter want of means would have on Naples. It is worthy of prevented a participation in attention, and, it contains mat-the crusade; but, want of ter of congratulation for us, means prevents also these mithe people of this kingdom; nisters, and would any others, because it shews, that, at any from participating in a defence rate, English blood and money of the attac'ed party! The are not to be expended in this British Government ought, not erusade against revolution. One only to have protested against thing is certain, that, if our being an approver of the at A Ministers were disposed to join tack on Naples; it ought, in in this crusade, they have not my opinion, to have protested the means. I have always said against the attack itself. This that they could never go to is what the British Government war again as long as the pre-ought to have done. But, as sent system should last. What-I have said before, and as I ever I may, therefore, be, in have been, for years foretelling, general, disposed to ascribe to the present system in England their justice and their love of is wholly incompatible with any freedom, I cannot allow, that hostile effort or declaration, on we have any decisive proof of our part, let the case be what either, in this document. There it may! I have been saying this 18 a great deal of very good for years; and now we have à justice and very good forbear- pretty good proof of the fact. ance and humanity that have. The following document, like no better foundation than had all those that I have ever seen the continence of Tristram from the same source, is badly Shandy's horse, written. In several parts it is ungrammatical. It is every | CIRCULAR, DISPATCH TO HIS MAJESTYS MISSION'S AT FO REIGN COURTS, LAID BEFORE THE HOUSE OF LORDS, IN where confused and difficult to be comprehended. The phraseology is not English. It seems like some of the feeble, verbose stuff. that we sometimes see Foreign Office, Jan. 19, 1821. translated from the French. Sir, I should not have felt it neLook, reader, at paragraph cessary to have made any communica No: 7, and find, if you can, tion to you, in the present state of the any nominative to "after hat-discussions begun at Troppau and ing," and } " and having." transferred to Laybach, had it not been for a circular communication, which Look at No. 5, and ask yourhas been addressed by the Courts of self, whether consistency and Austria, Prussia, and Russia, to their good faith stand in need of several missions, and which his Majustification. Look at "justified jesty's Government conceive, if not to advise," in paragraph: No. 3. adverted to, might (however unintenLook at the last sentence of tionally) convey, upon the subject all. See what confusion, what nonsense, prevail. Look at the very first sentence. And, then, ask yourself, whether Papers of this kind ought not to come from abler hands. Say, whether it is being very presumptuous, in any man, to think himselfment of certain general principles for able to conduct affairs that can be, with propriety, committed to the hands of the person, whose name is subscribed to this document. therein alluded to, very erroneous impressions of the past, as well as of the present, sentiments of the British Government. 7-74 2 It has become, therefore, necessary to inform you that the King has felt himself obliged to decline becoming a party to the measures in question, 2. These measures embrace two distinct objects:-1st, The establish the regulation of the future political conduct of the allies in the cases therein described:-2dly. The proposed mode of dealing, under these principles, with the existing affairs of Naples. The system of measures proposed under the former head, if to be seci procally acted upon, would be in direct declared to the several Allied Courts repugnance to the fundamental laws of that they should not consider themthis country. But even if this decisive selves as either caned upon, or, jusobjection did not exist, the British [tified, to advise an interference on the Government would, nevertheless, re- part of this country: they fully adgard the principles on which these mea-mitted, however, that other Eurosures rest, to be such as could not be pean States, and especially Austria safely admitted as a system of inter- and the Italian Powers, might feel national law. They are of opinion themselves differently circumstanced; that their adoption would inevitably and they professed that it was not their sanction, and, in the hands of less be-purpose to prejudge the question as it neficent Monarchs, might hereafter lead might affect them, or to interfere with to a much more frequent and extensive the course which such States might interference in the internal transactions think fit to adopt, with a view to their of States, than they are persuaded is own security, provided only that they intended by the august parties from were ready to give every reasonable whom they proceeded, or can be recon- assurance that their views were not cileable either with the general interest, directed to purposes of aggrandiseor with the efficient authority and dignity ment, subversive of the territorial of independent Sovereigns. They do system of Europe, as established by not regard the alliance as entitled, the late treaties. under existing treaties, to assume, in their character as Allies, any such general powers, nor do they conceive that such extraordinary powers could be assumed, in virtue of any fresh diplomatic transaction amongst the Allied Courts, without their either attributing to themselves a supremacy incompatible with the rights of other States, or, if it be acquired through the special accession of such States, without introducing a federative system in Europe, not only unwieldly and ineffectual to its object, but leading to many most serious inconveniencies. 4. Upon these principles the conduct of his Majesty's Government with regard to the Neapolitan question has been, from the first moment, uniformly regulated, and copies of the successive instructions sent to the Bri tish Authorities at Naples for their guidance, have been from time to time transmitted for the information of the Allied Governments. 5. With regard to the expectation which is expressed in the circular above alluded to, of the assent of the Courts of London and Paris to the more general measures proposed for With respect to the particular case their adoption, founded, as it is al-. of Naples, the British Government, leged, upon existing treaties: in jusat the very earliest moment, did not tification of its own consistency and hesitate to express their strong dis-good faith, the British Government, approbation of the mode and circum-in withholding such assent, must prostances under which that Revolution test against any such interpretation was understood to have been effected; being put upon the treaties in question, but they, at the same time, expressly as is therein assumed. R 6. They have never understood these They regard its exercise as an extreaties to impose any such obliga- ception to general principles, of the tions; and they have, on various occa- greatest value and importance, and sions, both in Parliament, and in their as one that only properly grows out intercourse with the Allied Govern- of the circumstances of the special ments, distinctly maintained the nega-case; but they at the same time contive of such a proposition. That they sider, that exceptions of this description have acted with all possible explicit never can, without the utmost danger, ness upon this subject, would at once be so far reduced to rule, as to be appear from reference to the delibera-incorporated into the ordinary diplo tions at Paris in 1815, previous to the conclusion of the Treaty of Alliance, at Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1818, and sub sequently in certain discussions which took place in the course of the last year. macy of States, or into the institutes of the law of nations. 8. As it appears that certain of the Ministers of the three Courts have already communicated this circular dispatch to the Courts to which they are 7. After having removed the mis-accredited, I leave it to your discretion conception to which the passage of the to make a corresponding communica circular in question, if passed over in tion on the part of your Government? silence, might give countenance; and regulating your language in conformity having stated in general terms, with- to the principles laid down in the preout however entering into the argu-sent dispatch. You will take care,how ment, the dissent of his Majesty's ever, in making such communication, to Government from the general principle do justice, in the name of your Governs upon which the circular in question is ment, to the purity of intention, whick founded, it should be clearly under- has no doubt sactuated these august stood that no Government can be Courts in the adoption of the course-of more prepared than the British Go-measures which they are pursuing.vernment is to uphold the right of any The difference of sentiment which pre State or States to interfere where vails between them and the Court of their own immediate security or essen- London on this matter, you may de tial interests are seriously endangered elare, can make no alteration whatever by the internal transactions of another in the cordiality and harmony of the State. But as they regard the as-alliance on any other subject, or abate sumption of such right as only to be their common zeal in giving the most justified by the strongest necessity, complete effect to all their existing and to be limited and regulated engagements. I am, &c. T thereby, they cannot admit that this (Signed) right can receive a general and indiscriminate application. to, all revolutionary movements, without reference to their immediate bearing upon some particular State or States, or be made CASTLEREAGH. ' WHITE OAKS. Several gentlemen, hearing me prospectively the basis of an alliance, mention, last winter, that some American White Oak Acorns had their tap-roots may be a foot long. been received by me, applied to The price is A POUND A HUN me for some. They were sown DRED; and, my son will seil at the time; and now the seedlings no smaller quantity. A letter to are to be had from Mr. KNIGHT, him (post paid) at the Register Exotic Nursery, King's Road, Office, No. 1, Clement's Inn, will Chelsea; or, from Mr. JOHN insure the sending of a hundred COBBETT, No. 1, Clement's Inn, off by the mail, two days after he London. This is the tree that receives the order; because there Mr. BIRKBECK, in his book, calls must be time to take the plants "the Glory of the American Fe- from the ground.-There are "rest;" a title which, after two about 50 sorts of oaks in America, or three other trees, certainly be- I have seen twenty sorts, all longs to this lofty, beautiful, and standing in one wood of not more useful tree.To describe all the than forty acres. Some of these uses of the timber of this tree sorts are good for very little. "I would require more space than is was particularly careful as to the afforded by a whole Register. If sort; in this case, and I pledge it were growing here in quantity myself, that every plant is a true equal to our oak, I should hesi- White-Oak-It may, perhaps, tate before I said, if the question be useful to give a few hints as were put to me, which of them to the management of seedling could be exterminated with the oak plants. Cut off their tapleast injury to the nation.-How-roots at four inches from the top ever, I have not, at present, any (that is the part that was at the time for a description of the pro-surface of the ground); or, in perties of the wood. Mr. KNIGHT other words, leave the tap-root has half the crop; and, as his four inches long. Cut off all the share will not have received any fibres clean; for they never grow injury from his politics, he will, again. Cut the tap-root with in all probability, find the most sloping cut. Cut all with a sharp customers. If however, any knife-Plant out in rows two body choose to apply to my son, feet a part, and put the plants a at his Office, as above, he will very foot a part in the row, This punctually attend to the appli-puts you about a hundred upon cations. The plants are, of course, a rod of ground. Let the only about six inches high, but ground be good and deeply dig |