The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-05-16 00:00:00

r ;~ ' s E T E ~.` ~ `, ~~ i I I' :f f ..,.. , )4 v e 4 THE STATESMAN. against America. This news was given as copied from the I ienna Gazett,.. The Vienna Gazette is under the immediate cootroul of the Government there. The font-mouthed abuse of Napoleon and the French peop!P ; but for some proof of our right to interfere against him. Having seen all these things; having seen what we and our Allies have been at in every part of Eu rope; having seen that the people of France is the only people in Europe living under a Government approaching towards a resemblance to their own, they will want very little to assist them in forming a correct opinion as to the real object of the war against France, if such war should now, without provocation on the part of France, be resolved on. 1. epee irs to me, therefore, that the American people will, at least, feel great interes' in this war, much greater than they felt in the last war; and, that as they have just laid down their arms, after a con test in defence of their maritime rights, they will, the moment they hear of this war, prepare again for that defence. America, in all likelihood, will again be the only neutral nation. There will he no Milan and Berlin Decrees to give a pretence for Orders in Council. So that, if we trench upon her rights, her ground of war will be cleared of all confusion.— She will stand upon her indisputable rights. And, if she be left in the full and free enjoyment of her advantages as a neutral Power, she will carry on three-fourths of the commerce of the world. Our cruisers may keep at sea, lint it will be only to wit. Debi the increase of her mercantile marine, and all the proofs of her wouderful prosperity. France will receive all that she wants from foreign countries by American ships. America will supply her with colo nial produce, and with certain articles of manufac ture. The latter will, through the same channel, find an outlet for much of her abundant produce.— These two countries will become much more closely connected than ever, and we should come out of the war shorn of our means, while the means of all sorts of America would be found to be prodigiously in creased. But, my Lord, is it quite certain that the people of America would not feel str , tigly disposed to take part in this war against us ?—They see that France is the only country left with a Government re sembling their ow st. Great as is their distance from Europe, they have felt, that, when left to be dealt with single-handed, their very existence, as an in 'dependent nation, was put in jeopardy. There were many persons in America, who loudly blamed the President, Washington, for not taking part with the , French, even when America had not a single public ship of war. They reasoned thus :—that England was, from the nature of her force, as well as the ; situation of her dominions, the only enemy that America had to fear ; that she had never ceased to demonstrate a hostile mind towards America ; that she saw in America not only a successful example of ; r'emncratic resolution, but a dangerous rival in com merce and maritime power ; that she only waited for a favourable rroment to use all her force to crush this rising rival ; and, therefore, it was less dais genius to declare, at once, for the Republic of Fr•ince, earl make common cause with her, than to I wait the issue or the contest, in which, if FrauCill should fall, America could not long survive without, ; at oat , another long and bloody war upon her own soil. Americans paid great and deserved attention to this ; and, must they not have lamented to see France re duced to such a state? They afterwards saw, that there was no safety for their ships of war or their prizes in the ports of France. They saw, in short, that the Bourbons, holding their power almost at the mercy of England, afforded not the smallest hope of any support against so formidable a power as England. Then it was, that many Americans blamed Mr. Madison, not for resisting the exercise of our alleged right of impressment ; hot, on the contrary, fur not having sooner made war against us in alliance with France. They told him, that he was, at last, in a state to be able to appreciate the wisdom of keeping aloof from France on account of the title of her ruler. They laughed at him for his • scruples to make common cause with an Emperor, while he saw England having Allies in the Turk, the Pope, the Algerines, and the Indians; and they laughed at him the more, when they recollected, that America had won her independence while in an alliance offensive and defensive with a.Bourbon King of France. However, many of the causes which kept America aloof from France are now removed. The prin ciples of 1793 are again adopted in France; the sys tem of reforming by means of conquest is abandoned ; Napoleon will have learnt how to respect the rights and to value the character of America. Experience has taught the Americans what they have to expect under certain circumstances. The latter are in no danger from France ; they never can be in danger from France; and, Frenchtown and Alexandria will remind them what danger they are in from England. It is said, by some persons in America, that, though it might have been wise to seek permanent se curity in 1793, by entering into the war on the side of the Republic of France, it would not be wise now, seeing that America has become so much more able to defend herself than she was in 1793, a proof of which she has given in her recent war against the undivided force of England. On the other hand, it is contended, that, though America be so much more powerful than she was in 1793, England, loaded as she is with debts and taxes, is more formidable than (she would have been in 1793, even if she had then subdued France; for, though the people of England suffer, the Government has more force at its corn mend ; and, what is more for its advantage, the country is brought into that sort of state which makes war almost necessary. If her paupers have increased three-fold,her armed men and her means of destruc tion have increased five-fold. She is become a nation of fighters. She possesses all the means of destroy ing. And, say these reasoners, it is not only sub jugation against which America ought to guard : it is her duty to guard herself also against devastation and plunder. Besides, say they, England has now less powerful motives to the exercise of forbearance towards America. While the latter was without ma. nufactures; while England had almost a monopoly in the suppl)ing of America; the former saw in the prosperity of the latter the means of augmenting her own riches and power. But now the case is differ- This was the reasoning against neutrality in 1793. ; ant ; England sees in America even a manufacturing Bow these reasoners must have tuiumphed in 1814! i rival ; and, what is still more provoking, she sees in When they - saw all ground of dispute between Eng- America a rival in naval power and renown. There land and America removed by the close of the war in I fore, say they, she must and she will desire our de- Europe. When they saw, that iosteatl of thisproduc- I struction ; whether she will attempt it again will de fine in England a disposition to make peace, it wily pend upon her and our means of attack and resist produced redoubled activity in the war. When they ance. read, in the very same English newspapers that told It must be confessed, that our infamous News. them of the abdication of Napoleon, that now, now, papers have given but too much reason to the Ameri now ! was the happy moment for crushing America cans upon this head. For, they have published lists for putting an end to " the existence of the ntis- ; of the American navy and accounts of the American chievous example of democratic rebellion" exhibited . shipping and manufactures; and, having dwelt upon in the American Union. When they heard their !their magnitude and on their rapid increase, they have "'resident and the majority of the Congress deno- ' called upon your Lordship and your colleagues to miretted, in these same papers," rebels and traitors." 1 prosecute the war for the purpose of destroying these When they saw, in the report of a speech of a Lord i evidences of rising power and wealth. They have of the Admiralty, th at Mr. Madis o n was to be de- i contended, that it was just to carry on war against poked, as Napoleon had been deposed. When they ! America to destroy her navy ; to destroy her ship saw the breaking up of the American Union re- ! ping and manufactures; and to obtain, at least, a prey-rated 84 absolutely necessary to the well-govern- . stipulation from her, not to build ships of war beyond ing of other nations. IVheit they saw the fleet called . a certain number and a certain size. They have con upon officially by the Lords of the Admiralty to . tended, that such a war would be just ; that we should finish the American war in such a way as would in. ; have a right to impose such condidions; and that our sure the lasting trangailli& of the civilized world.— ! safety demanded that we should. When they heard the English prints call upon the ! If lam told, that these are the sayings of a set people of New England to separate themselves from ;of foolish writers in Newspapers, my answer is, the Union. When they heard it predicted, in these : that I have seldom seen any of these people promul pointc, that Mr. Madison would be to put to death,: gate any political opinion without its being, in the and that the people would form a connection with I sequel, very clear to me, that it was not in their the parent State. And, when, upon the heels of all i own foolish heads that !he sentiment had been these predictions and threats, they saw an army I hatched. These men are, in fact, nothing of them artually sent otf from France to fight against Ame- I selves; they have no principles, no opinions ; they rira ; when they saw that identical army, which had ; care nothing about the matter. They are the mere been engaged against Napoleon, sent to invade Ame- : tools of those who speak through them, whom they rice by the way of Lake Champlain ; when they : not unfrequently despise, but from whom, and saw the war of fire and plunder carried on upon their' through the means of whom, they live comfortably sea-coast. When those who were for war on the I and sometimes get rich. side of the French Republic, in 1793, saw all these 1 Upon the whole, therefore, my Lord, is it not to things in 1811, how they must have triumphed ! be apprehended, that, if we make war upon France America must feel great confidence in herself from for the avowed purpose of deposing Napoleou, the her past achievements. The skill and bravery of her ; people of America will feel a strong disposition to , seamen and land-troops must give her great confidence. take part with France in that war ?—And, if they But, there is no man who reflects (and the Ameri- ! were so to do, have we not great cause to fear, that ; cans are a reflecting people) who will not perceive, the war would be extremely injurious to us by sea that, with all her valour and all her virtue, America as well as by land 2—The American privateers, has had a very narrow escape; and, that, if all had though without a port to take shelter in on this side ; been quite settled in Europe, she would have had to ; of the Atlantic, did great mischief to our commerce ; carry on a much longer and mere bloody contest.— , even in the Channel. What, then, would they do 1 It cannot but be evident to the American Statesman, I if all the ports of France were open to them and that, if France were to be completely subdued ; if shut against us ?—lf, in short, America were in she were reduced to that state to be obliged to re- •• alliance with France, what English ship unarmed ceive a ruler dictated by us and our Allies; if her could hope to escape capture ?—And, is it to be hands and feet were thus tied for ages; and, if the hoped, that, in such a case, the skill, the discipline, situation of all Europe were such as to leave the and undaunted bravery of the American Navy would whole undivided power of England to be employed not he communicated to that of France ?—Emula. against America, the situation of the latter would tion might do a great deal towards sending forth he, at least, very unpleasant, not to say precarious. fleets able, in a short time, to cope with those of And, if -uch a person considers what were the real England. Really, if we wish to keep these two na. objects of England in 1814, the manner in which lions asunder, it appears to me, that we have no way the war terminated, and what an excellent memory of accomplishing the wish but that of keeping at she has, he must he a bold man indeed if he feel no peace. apprehensions at the total subjugation of France. 1 If America were to join France in the war, we It has not been forgotten in America, that, di. should, doubtless, tell her, that she was acting a redly after the abdication of Napoleon, there op- very base part; that she had received fromus no pro peared an article in our Newspapers, stating, that vocation; that we had not meddled with her; that there was a Sem: Article in the Treaty of Paris, we had expressed our anxious desire to live at peace s• ipulati , g, that none of the parties, Russia, Prussia, with her. But, my Lord, might she not answer ? AtAria, and Fiance, should lntetfere in our war.. Very true; and you have received no provocation amiew LAW INV? L I,IV ENG E. from France; France has not meddled with you ; France has expressed her anxious desire to live at peace with you : and yet, you have gone to war against France: if, therefore, it be base on my part EXECUTORY DEVISES. to make war upon yon, after you have begun war upon France, where is your justification for having, sett Ale taA, ESQ. V. LORD WiIITWORTII eta begun that war ?—Besides, have you no Ally ?—You 6711 ERS. boast of having all Europe on your side. And shall On Saturday this interesting cause came on befor e France have no Ally?—Shall you have twenty Al- his Itorsoutt, at the Rolls, on further direction, lies against the old Ally of America, and shall it be Pursuant to a previous decree, pronounc e d i n co:•. &illation of the last will and tettameet o f t h e is ,_ deemed base in America to become the only Ally of France ?—You say, that yours is a war of precan. tator, George Whitworth, Esq. deeessed, s h o visei to his son and heir, the Right lion. Iso is t . tion : so is mine. You fear that Napoleon may, Whitworth, then Ambassador from Great Britain to one day or other, get to London; and you have been at Washington, at Frenchtown, and at Alex- the Court of St. Petersburgh, all the testator's andria. estates, situate in the counties of Stafford an d S alo for life, with remainder to his first and oth er sons It favourite saying, or it used to be in Ameri iu tail male, and in default of such heir males, to ca, that it was her true policy to keep aloof from European politics and wars. General Washington i Lord Ay beer for life, with remainder to his first and several times expressed this sentiment. But can she other sons, in tail male in like manner ; sa d i n de. do it? If Gen. Washington bad seen the Congress fault of such heirs in tail male, with reinaisiler is like manner to Robert Pousford, Esq. sl i d hi s i ssue House in flames, the other day, and had seen our i. people se busy in packing up goods at Alexandria, i" tail male; and in default of such issue filo le, nits he would, I imagine, have begun to think, that it was remainder to Edmund Plowden, Esq. for fif e not so easy a matter to keep aloof from European iin trust to preserve contingent remainders, with re. wars; and, Vile had lived to be made acquainted winder over in fee to John M'Namara, second son with the famous Captain •Ilenry's exploits, I think of John al`Natua", Esq. of— "gel in Wales, he would have had his doubts as to the possibility of the present Plaintiff, en appealing on behalf of his keeping aloof from European politics. Even we, in son in this suit. England, say, that America should keep at peace, j Sir S. Remisor, supported by Mr. PIIILLINORE, argued the foregoing singular clause of hesitancies, though we ourselves are at war in some part or other of the world ; though there is no war, in which we •in favour of the last remainder man in fee, praying have not a hand. The truth is, that A mer i ca mus t that all the preceding limitation, after the death of take a part in the oars and politics of Europe. Here :Lord Whitworth, without issue male, may h e d e . are Powers in Europe who can reach her, who have !creed.le be only contingent or void, and the ultimate colonies in her neighbourhood, who have an interest, remainder over in fee deemed valid, by p lii ng t h e or think they have an interest, in injuring her.— intervening estates into strict settlement, for th e h e . They combine and co-operate with one another ; and nefit of such remainder in fee. The Learned C oml . ' she must form alliances too ; or, she cannot be many set contended that the words " in like ma nner, ' years an independent nation. ; repeatedly introduced in the clause, hail not va r i e d It was impudently asserted, not long ago, that the effect of the ultimate contingent remainde r over i America had acted a foul part towards us, in the war; in fee, in the event of Lord IVhitworth's de a th w i t h. o and she was called an assasin, who had attacked us out issue male, such novel words having been super _ in the dark. I was pleased to hear, from such a induced unnecessarily, and as surplusage merely in quarter, a sentiment of abhorrence against assassins • the limitations. but, I was displeased to hear such an act attributed i The Counsel of Lords Whitworth and Ayl mer to America ; because no charge was ever more false. made no objection to the proper constructi on t o h e It is notorious, that America used every effort, and Put on the clause in question, they seeing by the pro made every sacrifice short of a surrender of her in. ceedings to have no issue male; bet on the part of dependence, to maintain peace . with England ; and, Mr. Ponsford, Counsel opposed the arrangement; that, so far from attacking us in the dark, she gave us and Mr. Plowden being a mere tenant for life a n d t • notice, for years before-hand, that she would repel trustee, submitted to the judgment of the Court, a s by force our seizure of her seamen, unless we ceased to the proper construction of the limitation cla u se. that pratice. What, then, could be meant by this , Sir S. HOMILLY forcibly replied for the remainder charge of assassin-like? Really, we seem to have man in fee, Mr. M'Namara ; contending that the taken into our heads, like the cock on the dunghill, words " in like manner" made no essential difference that all the world was made for us ; that no nation is in the doctrine of limitations, and prayed a strict to form an alliance, nor even to think of defending settlement. itself by its own arms, if we disapprove of it. When His HONOUR, in a luminous but concise judgment, our interest, real or imaginary, is in question, the in- Pronounced a decree for the strict settlement, end iu terest of no other nation is to be thought of. The favour of the Plaintiff. question with America, according to this presumptu ous whim, nes to be, not whether she suffered in jury ; but merely whether it was conducive to our interest to impress her sailors. If it was useful to us to do this, she was to deserve annihilation if she did not quietly submit to it, and to all its cruel and de. grading consequences. We proceed upon the . same notion with regard to alliances amongst foreign Powers. What ! America make alliances with any Power but us! Dreadful presumption ! Presumption which merits all the weight of our vengeance ! What ! America seek safety, when we think it best to keep her in continual danger! America make an alliance for the purpose of defending herself against us, whose public writers, at least, devoted her Chief Magistrate to the gibbet, and herself to a return under the mild protection of " the parent state!" Nor are there wanting writers in America to hold the same language ; bat they are met by men, who are able to contend against them. There the press is free, really free; and, there truth will prevail. A good specimen of this insolent way of talking was given by Sir John Cox Hippisley, who at a late County Meeting in Somersetshire, said, that the Americans, or at least, their President end the ma jority of the Congress, were the slaves of the late tyrant of France, a proof of which they had given ill their late war against us. So, because America, in defence of herself, went to war with us, while we were at war against Napoleon, she was to be deemed the slave of Napoleon, who had no power to hurt her, and who had never called on her to go to war in his behalf. She was to stop till our war with him was at an end, before she sought to defend her self. It was baseness in her to assert her own rights, at the end of many years of complaints, because we were at war with Napoleon. This insolent language, my Lord, is little mica- ' lated to heal the wounds of America. She will, in spite of all we can say, reflect on her past danger, and she must have lost her usual wisdom in profiting from experience, if she does not now seek the means of security betimes. That, with all her natural re luctance to war, she will be disposed to do this I am certain ; and, it will, I imagine, require but a slight provocation to induce her to act upon that disposi tion. It has been announced to us, that Switzer land has been informed, that there are to be no neu trals in this war against Napoleon. liamburgh, Tuscany, Genoa, and several other States felt the effects of such a principle during the first war against Republican France. Denmark felt those effects during the last war. America will consider of, and judge from the past ; and, your 'Lordship may be assured, that she will not want the means of doing what her permanent safety shall manifestly demand. I have thus, my Lord, stated to you what I think will be the view that the people of America will take of the present scene ; what I think will he their feel. logs ; anti I have pointed out the consequences, which I apprehend from those feelings, if we enter upon the war against France on the ground which is at present set forth. The Americans, I repeat, are prone to pence, as every uncorrupted nation is ; but as it was said the other evening, that it was better to gn to war now with a strong alliance on our side, 'than he compelled to go to war at the end of an ex hausting armed peace without Allies ; as this was deemed triumphant reasoning in England, in behalf of offensive war, you must not be surprised if it be imitated in America, in behalf of a war of defence. COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY IS. Sitting; appointed in Mildlesex and London be fore the Right lion. Eowitto Lord ELLEYBOBOIL:SH, Lord Chief Justice, &c. iu and after Trinity Term, 1815: I am, &c. &c., 11. , tley, May e, 1815. ~ti'll, connrTT. IN TF.P.M. MIUDL! .;:x. 1 TI ursilas - June 1 1 S:01;11411 Thursday . $ :OW:, gay Monday 11 lIIINfI, V Arflit:. TLII3I. Thursday - 15 I Friday - i The Duke of CumnrutAND's regiment (1511 i Ms. sars), embarked at Cork, on Monday last, fur Bel gium. LONDON. June 9 I NERVOUS DEBILITY, STRICTURES. LUES, &e. WHEN Professional Men, eminent for skill nod cc perience, offer their advice, and exert theirabi lities for the cure of a few reigning diseases, they rise smorior to that prejudice which is so jot-tly excited against the adver tisement: of men, ignorant of the first principles, and umeilimated in the practice ..1 physic. Messrs. CURRIE mid Co. reettlar Surgeons. sanctioned by every privilege to pt artier. and by the 'uniform success which their mode of treatment for Vettereal Complaints has hitherto item attended, cant inor s ith Ike same ins-idnity to direct their studies to the cure of every mecies of that baneful pill , i.O, as well as the removal of those oistressix debilities and deficiencies which prevent or embitter the matri monial six c. In the catalogue of human infirmities there me tome more afflicting than those which are the unavoidable ren betillemes of nil indOi! ( ('Ol` .. iii a certain destructive habit. The unhappy sufferer is I- over hi, misfortune', tohnined to seek relief until he is reduced to she:, a st me of merry te. In refuter life oppressive. To such persons it will he a coreoline refec tion to know, that they may now, by a iww and infailiale re medy, lw restored to their former constitutional strength and vi gour. Weak, related, mid dehilitmed habits, proceeding either tram an excess /40,0 . 0 0 1 mot illicit pl. 3-Ur... or from a lone residence ill hot climate', hard drinking, the injuilicioto ioe of mercury, &c. nre speedily ne"tured to health a d s:retigiti. t It mu-a be a self-evident propositiou, that where tt.e awe gate of intellectual capacity is directed to the treatise:it :mil cure of a few peculiar complaint-, (hero must he the gre.der cerili ti ty of success ; met as it proof of this position their me thod of cure is so pat ticularly expeditious, as well as sale. :run 5 , t evidently superior In lbr ( 11111 l non practice, that ie ...ace ":telti cases of inkci ion a perfect reo..rati•ov i. templet -4 iii the short period of three da‘,, and in there of the utmost itoetera es, where oilier practitioners have failed, a proper per... veranee in their la ,ii ~f t tetitment ensure, Si Elie patieui a stir. well grounded, and hinting re-establishmeut. By an early '„'p pile. non, the paiirlit ain emope the dower rend esimeeiiii a (MOOS alletalaiwe tint tire les- experienced pram', seer. hi the MOO Ohs' iWile 14O(1 compliratea ilt.es of vcisereal infection, such via ototructumit in the ht. thro, spnoge e titre...Pos. .. WWI 111111O11(S, (1(11.1:311iferf, r(1111110oS, toothed oraknescglerhaa' , A .4 Strictures, whether recent or of tone tumid,, mut which have • it:Meath.. skill tif oilier pror tit ionres, tire.b v tt eir pees.", tropio erd Tann of trealnieut.eni-etually and perm:meta t v cured.wd hung the patieut sofferias the excrumatiog pain and tilatining two"' rloto ' r which frequently follows the a ppli- 111.11 of the foliar aim tie- 111 the course of YU years extensive practice in this metropolis mutmeons cases of strictures have been nil %re daily under their cate, the total eradication of which is effected by Rae, err 'Ain, n u t expeditious mode of practice, superior ta may outer Net adopted. The %raker:Ls, relaxation, and debility proceed' itie, 40111 I lilt romp! dint, is speedd, removed. n od t he pstieut reaured to sound and vigortm, health. But where the detility Int: fer years existed, a proper perseverance to their restorative remedies, .:tier the stricture has been destroyed, n iridispetrohif requisite to revive the slumbering sp:.rks of Ate. um 1 " 1""2" mate the citiotbtaion. Several Noblemen awl Gentlemen of the first respecedshilf have beim under the care of bleier.. Currie and Go. foe o °, 4 ' anoint of romplaiuts 01 the urethra, strictures, &e. ; and hav ing ree•-ived a radical rind vermateatt cure, request that cer'n llll may be mode to them, as satisfactory evidences of the dereiee so pet gorily of Messrs. Carrie met Co.'s plan liCtreatnict I. 44 r, of them.' G. ntlemen have ba I strictures from IQ to 1.0 ,e.r% 1_"" had Mai n under the rare of Me'-rs. Home, Heavisitles.sad 01 " rt iS: ll. lettlis of equal eminence. %lot attsarpted the cure by the air pticatims of the brew caustic., wahout success. alt , sr". Carrie and CO. ova% h... consulted by either sex* w . 1 ,16 the greatest delicacy, secrecy, and honour , at their ilm e t ' o ' 107, Hatton mirdeit. Patient" in the esuntr% Ire reqm , sted to state the paelkill 3 , / of their ca-e, aye, and general hatit of Hanle, &r. &e. enrhi:9: it remit:once for advice nod inetlicitics. whet( the same w ill lie given or sem to any part of the liugdom. To swore that scree c,ve so essential 10 then undertaking, the postage of knees ge r '•';.,- added to the ticeottut for medicines.-9th June, 10. 41, I I;ditu-gardesi. I CINIDON • Printed ard PahHotted h• D. Larsot•• 9";1 Srains•sin Orricc, 87, Fleri-st-fe No Hit n', ie. 'l4 to rp, is, to • Ita • , e ., D. : ue itit To I Y, r: re. r • eq It: es, C.ll his lug it 1 ing of ie. te he tl. ry G‘ii. 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