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THE AGGRESSIVE POLICY, EAST AND WEST. An...
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REBELLION AND TREASON. If statesmen do b...
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Miuhuno Dudoviuit , Who I.S More General...
death-bed thought of and endeavoured to serve them . He was the friend of the unfortunate . "
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Police annals record some of the strangest events of social life , and reveal a great deal more than is pleasant of the hidden doings of , society . One of these singular events came to light yesterday at Bow-street : — Lord "Viscount Frankfort De Montmorency , commonly called Lord Frankfort , of 14 , Buckingham-street , Strand , appeared before Mr . Henry upon a summons , charging him with having " unlawfully composed , printed , and published a foul , malicious , and defamatory libel of and concerning Lord Henry Lennox . " The offence consisted in addressing indecent letters to Lord Henry Lennox , of which a specimen was read in court . They purported to be written by Mr . Macbeath , a solicitor in Vigo-street , whose name Lord Frankfort had used .
c Mr . Macbeath presents his duty to the peeresses and thc daughters of the nobility and gentry , and informs them that he continues to arrange assignations with the most perfect impunity and safety . Having been trained by Mr . Harris , he now acts directly under President and Director-General of assignations , Phipps . " Mr . M . begs to call tho attention of the ladies to his long-established mode of transacting business . He himself waits upon them at dusk , sending up his card in a tissue enrelope ; always seeing the parties himself , and arranging personally with them for the reception of the Lothario of the evening , at one o ' clock at night ; when he is enabled by his peculiar system to keep the husband insensibly asleep , while the parties are amorously engaged i-i the _eirawing-room .
" P . S . —He guarantees to married women half their husband ' s fortune , or more , if they are found out ; and will put him in the Ecclesiastical Courts , which are an appendage of his establishment . To spinsters he promises husbands , whom he puts in mad-houses , and gets all the fortune for the wives . His predecessor broke one baronet ' s neck , for his wife ' s sake ; and having got rid of another , is now endeavouring to destroy his will . Those ladies who will turn up with the parties sent may be satisfied they will be ' looked at ; ' but those who refuse to do so will not be looked at at all . "
To the foregoing the following names were annexed : — " Lord Henry Lennox , Portland place . " Mr . W . Harris , Sutton-lodge , Hackney , and 12 , Moorgate-street , city . _¦» " Mr . Macbeath , 3 , Vigo-street , Regent-street . " Mr . Barnard Macdonough . " Mr . John Foster , 20 , Park-road , Stockwell . " Mr . James Hunter , 14 , Buckingham-street , and Limestreet , city . " Mr . Jackson , John-street , Adelphi , and 37 , Jermynstreet . " Documents similar to this had been sent to the Reverend Mi-. Mackenzie , vicar of St Martin _' s-in-the-Fields , and Lord Henry Gordon , who both appeared in court to testify t ( the fact .
Lord Henry Lennox . —I know nothing of any of thc publications , or of tho parties named in them . I have been goaded on to appear in a court b y the nuisance inflicted on others , and for thc protection of the public ; otherwise I should have taken no notice of so contemptible a production . The letters wero traced to Lord Frankfort by Inspector Field and Sergeant Thornton , who seized them and arrested the servant in whose custod y they were , as she was about to eleposit them in the post-office at _Cbaring-cross . 'The letters had been systematically sent to a number of gentlemen anel ladies , and it was felt that the nuisance ought to be put down . John Gray , formerly a policeman , deposed that nt interviews he bail hael with Lord Frankfort , conversations hud arisen about the arrest of ( he servant and the detention of the letters , of which flic following is a specimen : —
"On tho 27 th of July I saw Lord Frankfort again , at ten o ' clock in the morning . Ho paid , 'Do you know Sergeant Harrington ? ' 1 suiel , 'No—there is Sergeant Thornton . ' Ho said , 'Ah , that ' s tho name . I wish you to se-e _; them , anil request them to como hero and make an offer of compromise , for they have elone wrong . They are not to offer too largo a sum , for if I think it too much I shall take off half . If they g « d , into the hands of a low lawyer they will have to pay a good _ele-nl , for , supposing the letters contained treason , there was nothing m tho publication that ceuild hurt , me , as 1 havo hael advice upem tbo subject . What , sort of a tempered man is Fiolel ?' J saiel ho was mild in tho execution of his duty . Be
saiel , 'I shoulel not , like to hurt them . ' That _eneh-el tbe conversation on the 27 th . 1 saw him again on the 28 th at bis own house . I told bis Lordshi p that I coulel neit see Field , us ho hael gone to Goodwood races , and Thornton was also out of town . JIo said , ' Thoy are in a — mews , send some ono te > them . . Don't make it appear i \ n if you came from inc . They have committed a highway robbery on my personal property , as well as a trespass . If thoy have' acted on a warrant issued by the Secretary of Slide , or Sir It . Mnyne , Ihey are both hasty . I shall bring it beforo _f ' _ni-Jiniiiont , nnd tho Derby Government will ho thrown out , unel Sir . Richard _Mayiio will lose bis placet , for thoy both elemy them , anel tho men will bo loft , to their own resources , for 1 can get , a verdict against them . "
Lenel I rank fort .- J hero is not a word of truth in this mini ' s statement . I have nothing to liielc . I simply tolel him _t-hiil the poor woman wan going lo put it into the hands of a lawyer . Mr . Machcu ' th was examined at bis own request , and ho dcuicel that , lm hael over given authority for tho use of his name . As tbo letters woro printed circulars , evidence of tlni handwriting em tho envelopes was taken , Mr . . Macbeath believing that it , was that of his lordship . Tho case was adjourned feir further evidence . Lord Frankfort was ordered to enter into his own recognisances in 600 / . to appear on Tuesday next .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so -unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . Arnold .
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THE AGGRESSIVE POLICY , EAST AND WEST . Annexation is decreed in Burmah by the march of events . Suck is the dictum in India . England cannot help herself . As it has beeh in the Punjab , in Scinde , so it will be ia Burmah . The native chiefs will assail us , the native people will accept us ; and how can we help deigning to conquer the princes , ' or to reciprocate the acceptance of the people ? It is a difficult question .
The Government of Burmah perpetrated several aggressions on English subjects , sufficient to compel resentment and retribution , and British ships enter the Rangoon . The Government resists just enough to force the avenging squadron forward , so that step by step it establishes British power in the Rangoon . The people , who at first fled before the British fire , return within the British lines , claiming protection against their own rulers . But it does not end there : the
Burmese Government , waiving an active resistance in the Rangoon , transfers the counterattack to the British frontier of Assam ; thus pledging us by a new bond to continue the war unto conquest over that Government . When all is done , it will be difficult to hand back the poor people to the custody of their native rulers , especially as the retention of the province would probably pay us for the war . On these grounds , with great probability , Indian politicians are calculating upon annexation .
One of the most remarkable traits in English politics just at present is the inability of our statesmen or of the public to conceive the idea , clear and comprehensive , of the very policy which the state may be practically pursuing . It is common for all parties to talk of the continuance of peace , and the impolicy of territorial enlargement , just as if this country were not continua'ly at war , and continually enlarging her territor _} 1- . This shutting of Ihe eyes to our own deeds , does not prevent us from accomplishing those deeds ,
but only from accomplishing them well . We annex , but wc undergo more costly wars than wc should , if we were to determine , beforehand , a steady course of conquest and consolidation in India . We do pursue such a course , unsteadily ; for we find that upon it depends the retention ot the empire ; and no influential party has yet resolved to begin the dismemberment of the empire . The Indian races are only waiting for a stumble on our part to fall upon the British knot of
invaders , and to restore a host , of petty native empires . Tho deferment of that revolt depends entirely on thc maintenance of an active and conauering position ; but the position would be all le stronger , if our policy were more distinctly aggressive , and more intelfigibly positive . Jt is , in a less manifest degree , the same in Europe—all over the world . English influence is waning in Europe , because the power of England to vindicate lier own resolves has not
recentl y been displayed , and is supposed to have been enfeebled . The essential principle of English inilucnco in Europo is constitutional government . Willi certain exceptions ' , we have against us , as in India , the chieis , with us the people ; aud a more active policy on the part of _England , fo vindicate her own essential principles , would evidently range on our side , to maintain our
policy against every hostile power , the peoples of many great states . The fact is so obvious , lhat foreign statesmen can only draw from our passive position one of two conclusions—either that England is conscious of diminished power , or that her court has made great way iu substituting royal lor national influence , and is able to dictate a -policy favourable to the advance ol kingl y inlluenco even within our own frontiers . In either case , England can no longer bo re-
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spected as she has been ; and it will cost ha much to re-establish her repute . ' So likewise in the West , the continued _attempt to maintain a passive policy exposes us to th same twofold risk . It destroys the belief in ou power , and it rouses against us the most power * ful influence on the Transatlantic Continent . Our great rival there—if , indeed , we can claim to be so much as a rival to the Federal Republic . not only exercises , but avows a policy of aggression and conquest . The actual territory of the Republic is continually enlarged at the expense nof
only of Indian tribes , but of neighbouring states To the South lies a great state , in which no inconsiderable party is continually invitin g the Anglo-Saxon Bepublic as an appropriator . To the South-east lies that archipelago of which Cuba and Porto Rico form parts alread y destined by no inconsiderable party within the Republic to annexation . To the North lie those colonies for which our Government has repeatedly conceded much under threat of revolt . To England belongs a part of . the West Indian archipelago , on which the United States have already set their mark ; and in those English islands of late years
we have obtruded a weak policy , meant to he phi . lanthropic , but practically obstructive of philanthropy : it destroyed the prosperity of the colonies by a compulsion upon the settlers to obey our principles , though we could not help them to make the obedience prosperous . We have enforced emancipation and free trade in the West Indies ; we have confessed our inability to permit supplies of labour , or to sustain our dependencies under their trial . We disappoint British subjects ; we vex our allies with ob-¦ 4 ~ _n-.-. _rll-r , _r . o _T _^ _r-lirtrr _XT-llT / dl Tt . - ** / IAn f _T * _Orl 7 y > _f -in _i-1-. _s . _Tl ' nr . _i _. . .. _*^ iu _JJaDU
VJ . U . e . 1 _l-l- * ££ _<* p _^^^ _- _^ J _a _11 _^ _" _\^ v > _vaavxm . _vau _vu _^ , j we teach both dependents and foreigners to think us feeble in will and act . Is that the way to maintain British influence ? It is reported that our Government is forming an alliance with some others of Europe to maintain against the United States the miserable wreck of the Spanish-American empire ; it is certain , that in the settlement of the fishery question , —if that has been settled on the basis described by the ministerial newspaper , — "Downing-street has made a right concession , but in a way to create the most unfavourable impression . By the action of Downing-street , England is made to appear in America
at onco obstructive in pretensions , and weak in conduct — irritating and contemptible . The position is exactly the reverse of the one which would be advantageous to this country , which should be formidable in resolve and in act , and conciliatory in language and in spirit . A distinct aggressive policy on onr part would warrant us in permitting the same to our kindred rival , the American Republic ; and moving side hy side , the two would be irresistible . As wo have so ofton said , they might dictate to the powers of the world , and divide the earth between them . It would indeed be so if wo accepted the suggestions of our own deeds .
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REBELLION AND TREASON . If statesmen do but read history with attention , they are fain , to confess that the very things which aro the strongest motives to rebellion , are also tho strongest motives by which men may ho governed . A nation of firm strong will is easilyruled , if the rulers study how to rule it through itself . The men who extorted Magna Charta from King John had such strong convictions and feelings , tbat a genuine and spontaneous _» PP _^ nl to those feelings must have been effectual- Iho United Stal . cn of America preferred tho British constitution to the name of Kinff George the
Third ; sind sticking to the code by right of which the king reigned , they forced him to abdicate Jus fairest possessions across tho Atlantic . Statesmen read these passages and others of the same sort ; but instead of drawing tho moral , they fail , in modern fashion , to comparing the _statistic of the British and colonial navies , or somo other pedantic rubbish of that sort . r The 'I rish are n people of strong _^ ,, ' _^' keenly alive to injury , mortified by nogl «<; _- » anxious to avenge humiliation . They have
correlative sensibilities—an almost _exaggerate sense of benefit , exultation under ?» vouraim _» notice , anxiety to reciprocate attention . J ' Ireland been " freely helped in _luu- _troupes , instead of being tardily anil grudgingly _"" _f _^ with prompt presentment of Eng land s J , _, bill" for payment as soon as it is due-- " » ¦ Sovereign had made Ireland for a timo hor row-
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21081852/page/12/
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