The Portfolio

THE

Portfolio.

"I will try all things, and by every way; nor shall desist in endeavouring to
save the State. And I beseech you not to desist from the same effort, either
through weariness or want of hope, and in striving to do your duty keep
your eye steadfastly fixed for the future, lest it steal upon you unawares.”-
Brutus to Cicero.

N°. IX.--APRIL 1ST.

CONTENTS.

Page

INTERNAL and EXTERNAL POSITION of ENGLAND, in March
1844

FRENCH ALLIANCE and COMMERCIAL TREATIES

MOTIVES of PUBLIC MEN in FRANCE

PRINCIPLE of INTERVENTION, as tested by EXPERIENCE

and LAW

INTERVENTION as applied in SOUTH AMERICA and the

OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Mr. Alexander McLeod on his Detention and Trial

The Red Indians on the Loss of Canada by Britain

Opening of the Oregon Negotiations

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A SIGN to the GENERATION

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SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO. STATIONERS' HALL COURT.

G. NORMAN, PRINTER, MAIDEN LANE, COVENT GARDEN.

THIS Periodical will be devoted to matters of Government and
Justice. It is undertaken by men who deplore the heedlessness
of their fellow-citizens in respect to the nation's acts and their
own duties, separating the Commonwealth into parts, calling
one internal, one foreign, one domestic, and one colonial.

The endeavour, through the means of this publication, will
be to show that the LAWS of England still suffice to rectify the
evils of the State, and to prevent its further decay.

CONTENTS.-No. I.

Despatch from Prince Lieven to Count Nesselrode.

Connection of Repeal and the Tariff.

The Roman Catholic Church of Ireland supporting the Crimes of England.

Defeat of Russian Diplomacy in Serbia.

Note from the Government of Serbia.

Narrative of Events in Serbia.

Warlike Operations in China.

No. II.

Despatch from Count Pozzo di Borgo, dated Paris, 22nd December, 1826.

Observations on the Diplomacy of Russia.

The Irish Catholic Hierarchy and the Empire.

Scinde and the Consciences of Military Men.

Serbia and Spain.

Extract from the Journal des Débats.

Debate on Serbia in the House of Commons, August 15.

Duty of the Church in respect to War.

No. III.

On the Relations of the Eastern and Western Churches, and of the Courts of

St. Petersburg and the Vatican.

Grievances of the Church of Rome, in Russia and Poland, through Viola-

tions of the Treaty of 1815; of former Treaties between Poland and

Russia; and of the Pledges of the Czar to the Pope-(State Paper.)

On the Study of Diplomacy as a necessary part of the Education of a Citizen.

Effect of the misuse of familiar Words on the Character of Men, and the

Fate of Nations.-No. I.

On the English Constitution.-No. I.

North American Fisheries-No. I.-Nova Scotia.

Renegade Decapitated at Constantinople.

Correspondence:-Ecclesiastical Policy of Russia-Steam-Vessels to the

Baltic, and the Russian Police.

No. IV.

Portfolio:-from the Conversations-Lexicon,-and from the

Augsburgh Gazette.

Third Attempt of Greece to Emancipate Herself.

The Words and Acts of Sir R. Peel, as influencing Irish Agitation and

On the English Constitution.-No. II.

bringing Repeal.

Effect of the misuse of familiar Words on the Character of Men, and the Fate

of Nations.-No. II.

Erastianism of the Church of England.

Progress of the Drama in Serbia.

Normal Anomalies.

The Consciences of Military Men.

Postscript to "Third Attempt of Greece," &c. p. 425.

No. V.

Proposals for a French and Continental Portfolio.

Judgment of the Nestor of British Diplomacy on Lords Auckland and

Mask

Ellenborough.

Military Consciences-an Anecdote of the late Duke of York.

and Anti-Mask, or the two Proclamations of Simla.

The Three Religio-Political Systems of Europe.

The English Constitution-No. III.

On England's Contempt fe per

om the German.

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CORRESPONDENCE:

No. V.-continued.

On the Penal Intervention of Common Judicatories to Punish Murders

and Robbery, commanded by the Government and executed by the

Army and Navy-On the Disorder and Immorality resulting from the

modern Financial System-Mr. T. Attwood's revived Doctrine of

Ministerial Responsibility-The Mouths of the Danube-Literary Pur-

suits in India.

Italy-No. 1.-Austrian and Papal Policy-The Holy Alliance.

Progress of the Drama in Greece and in Serbia.

Connexion of the Italian Movements and the Greek Revolution, and their

Russian Origin.

Pantheion of the Modern Goths.-A Slaavian Myth.

The "Presse" and British Diplomacy.

No. VI.

The Connection of Lord Palmerston with the Portfolio.

Interview of a Deputation from Glasgow with Sir Robert Peel.

Memorial of the Operatives of Glasgow, for the Dismissal of Ministers.

Interview with Sir J. Graham.

Biographic Sketch of Mr. Urquhart.

The Pope and the Sultan.

Tractarianism and Romanism.

On the Extension of the Papal Territory.

The English Constitution-No. IV

The Consciences of Military Men.

Russian Persecution of the Jews.

Auspicious Meeting of the Fifth Independent National Assembly of Greece.

Has Justice to be observed with Savages?

No. VII.

Despatch from Count Nesselrode to Prince Lieven.

Mr. Canning and Russian Ambition.

Circassia and the Caucasus.

Lord Palmerston and the Portfolio:-Extracts from the Morning Chronicle
and the Morning Herald.-Reply of the Morning Chronicle to the Port-
folio. On the Character of a Nation liable tó Betrayal.-Interview of a
Deputation from Newcastle on Tyne with Mr. Edward Ellice, Mr. Charles
Buller, and Sir J. Graham, relative to the Betrayal of England to Russia
by a British Functionary.

Turkish Commercial Treaty.

Diplomatic and Commercial Relations of Greece and Turkey.

Russian Interference with Wallachian Finance and Judicatories.

Object of the Russian Government in removing thews from the Prussian

Frontier.

Persecution of Jews in the East and North

Irish Repeal promoted by Treasons at Home and Abroad.

Idola Discipulorum.-Part I.

No. VIII.

Home Distress produced by Foreign Policy-Reckoning between Lord Pal-
merston and his Country for internal Distress and external Danger.
Senatorial Morality illustrated in the Debate on Scinde.

Debate on the Affghan War-March 1, 1843.

The Plague in its Relations to Despotism and Ambition-(Sir Stratford
Canning and the Circassians.)

Letters from the Black Sea and the Caucasus-The Vixen again.

Let us know our Enemy.

England in the Western Hemisphere-The United States and Canada.
Extract of a Letter (found among Arnold's Papers) from the Provincial
Congress of New York to the Gentlemen Merchants of Quebec-New
York, June 12, 1775.

On the Value to England of her North American Possessions.

On the Destruction of the Caroline.

Idola Discipulorum-Part II.-Socrates and the Sophists-Socrates and his

Disciples.

Pacification of Ireland by a Concordat with Rome.

VOL. III.-No. IX.

CONTENTS.

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INTERNAL and EXTERNAL POSITION OF ENGLAND, March 1844

FRENCH ALLIANCE and COMMERCIAL TREATIES

MOTIVES of PUBLIC MEN in FRANCE

PRINCIPLE OF INTERVENTION as tested by EXPERIENCE and LAW