Excerpt from Speeches: Delivered at a Dinner Given by the Commercial Community of Glasgow to David Urquhart, on the 23d of May, 1838; With a Map

Short of war she can injure us - weaken our connexion with'our allies - and place the other powers of Europe in a state of opposition to us. Prussia has been, since the Congress Of. Vienna, essentially bound to her by grati tude and interest. France received her first impulse after the peace from a servant and friend of the emperor's, placed at the head of her diplomacy, and has recently been brought into union of intentions, and even to concert of action, by acts of international injustice and hostility against the Ottoman Porte. In the change Of positions Of these two powers towards England may be read the means by which the influence of Great Britain may be diminished, and its prosperity overthrown. (hear.) Whatever state seeks to maintain its independence is the natural ally of England, and whatever state seeks to en croach upon the independence of others is the ally Of Russia. The power that entertains aggressive views can no longer oppose the aggressions of Russia - can no longer combine with England for the maintenance Of peace. (cheers) But England exists through her, commerce: from it does she derive her resources and her wealth, by it are the ties ofamity connected with other states - and the sources Of information opened to her with other lands. To restrict, therefore, commerce between state and state - to sever the commercial ties between England and other lands, are the principal means by which her influence can be overthrown and her power emasculated. Such has been the policy of Russia; and I fear I must say, fortunately, ere it is too late, - the alarming diminution Of our com merce has awakened general attention and created deep anxiety, and has led you, under the impression of the alarm which has been the result, to turn your eyes on one whom you have known to have directed his attention to subjects of a diplomatic and political character for an explanation of the causes Of our commercial decline, and for a discovery of the remedy, if a remedy can still be found, for a state of things which promises, at no remote period, to exclude our influence and our commerce from the continent of Europe. You refer, in your invitation to me, to the diminution of foreign and internal trade-to the exclusion of our commerce from countries Open, from time immemorial, to British industry; and, while I take these propositions for my text, I must claim, with a pa tient hearing, your earnest attention. (cheers) Until.

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