A Marseilles article, quo...
A Marseilles article, quoted in one of the F7ankfort papers, throws out some hints respecting the nature of Ge- neral GUILLEMISOT'S instructions on undertaking his mis- sion to Constantinople. I twould appear on this authority, that the new Ambassador is accomnpanied, net only by political, but by military engineers; and that among certain Asiatic missions which are to be thrown out as feelers from the main body of the Embassy, one is to take the direction of Teheran, and to push the French interests at the Coart of Persia. What those interests may be, we pretend not to describe; though we trust that the Mlinisters of ftis country are more specifically informed on the stbject. It is known that France, as well as Russia, entertains a deep, though ve are far from saying an unlawful jealousy, of the influ- ence exercised by the British empire over the East. This jealousy of British power is perhaps the only point in wvhich, apart from the immediate purposes of the Holy Alliance, any sympathy can be found between the two great rivals of Continental Europe. But France can have no de- signs in that quarter, except as an auxiliary to the sehemes of Russia. 'there are no territories, as it would seem, to be acquired by France on the side of the Persian Gulf. There is no temptation to obtain a footing for French troops on the soil of Persia, or to facilitate, through the friendship of the SCHAH, the march of an army of that naLion towards the Indus. But the work of France may be done as effec- tually by aiding the schemes of Russian aggtandizement in Asia, engagng 'the British Government there, and distract- ing its attention from other quarters, where France again may play principal, and Russia second. It may, indeed, be taken for granted. that the Court of the Tuileries is anxious, eithef to- einforce dlrecttl the intrigues of Russia against England, in so far as concerns the polities of the King of PE BSIA, or, in the shape of an anicus cariw, to gain the eat of his Majesty to the counsels of France, and thus determine the pretensions of the rivals, as may best square with the interests of her own ambilion. There is nothing illegitimnate in this,-nothing censurable in point of morals, noraffordingjust cause of enmity or irritation on the part of Great Britain towards the French Government. France has the tame right to try her influence over Persia that EnglandI herself possesses-the same right to prefer Rus- sian politics to British, as to make an opposite choice. lVe are anxious only to -put Mlinisters on their guard, that no advantage may be lost to this country through negligence or ignorance; that France and Russia, there and elsewhere, may, as Mr. PLUNKETT recommends with respect to the Catholic Associatioe, be vigilantly w atched; and above all, that men of repute and of ability may be employed to coun- teract at the Persian Court those machinations which men of the very highest talent have been long directing against the Eastern interests of Great Britain.