ABSTRACT
It was about the political state of France that the King and ministers of England were troubled at the close of the year 1829. By that time, indeed, their relations of sympathy with the government of France were becoming the cause of more reasonable anxiety than even feelings of mutual hostility could have been. At the time when Mr. Canning sent British troops to Portugal to repel aggressions from Spain, which were supported by France, there were three parties in France by whom England was very differently regarded. The French King and his government justified England, in word, as well as by the act of recalling their own ambassadors from Madrid, on occasion of Ferdinand’s interference with Portugal. But they had their cause of quarrel with Mr. Canning. The King and his ministers might as reasonably and hopefully have proposed to put a padlock on the tongue of every Frenchman.
