The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-09-13 00:00:00

-Jy it as the moil intolerable oppression, that a proud I,domineering Government, at that time on the Con ; thient, did command us, instead of the Han overian accession, to receive back again the House of *MART. Suppose BONAPARTE were now as power ` ful by sea as be is by land, and were to tell the Eng. Llish potion thins', would restore them to their rights, *ad partieukitly that of se free Representation 'hi Parliament; whiff '~enlist, he might, perhaps, day, was now fraudulently revisited from them by a set of i upstarts and usurpers, commonly called Borcmgh owners. Would not such an interference be far more I just than that of the coalesced Powers in behalf of ' the Holmium ? inasmuch as it professes to restore the people to their just rights ; Whereas the other pro. posed to substitute lawless power in the place of the people's right; bat notwithstanding the force of this argument, the English nation, I presume, would not i accept such an offer. They would prefer the mill nuance of corruption to the restoration of the right. fel Constitution through the interference of Borti. PARTE. For myself, at least., I must declare, that highly as I should consider such a blessing, I shoug be loath to receive it tali auxilio. From hence we may discover how detestable a thing it is to interfere, in the domestic concerns of independent nations., From a consciousness of what would be our own, feelings on such an occasion, we may be able to form', an estimate of those of others. If we would not be', indebted to the French for the restoration of the most precious right belonging to the people, how can wn expect that they would receive from sus the' restore. tine of the BOURBONS, whose authority they always considered as an usurpation upon the rights of the people in France? Besides, the French nation knows well enough that this zeal for the BOURBONS* was all a sham, a mere pretence to get a footing in the country, which the Allies would afterwards hare divided amongst themselves. They, had an eye to the dismemberment of France : they hoped to set up , an usurpation of their own in that country; whilit Mr. Prue flattered himself that he would defeat reform ; or, hi other words, prolong the tisurpaliOn l of the Borough.mongers at home. I wish those who rant and rail against 13ortaratere as an simper end an upstart would consider that we have upstarts and usurpers at home in abundance. I wish they would sp.are_a little of their indignation for those who shine in splendour b) bartering away the rights of the pee. ple. That the invasion of France was not just, will, I think, sufficieutly appear from witethas been said, "that it was not wise and penile has, I think, been sufficiently proied by , experience. It has- nearly ruined the commerce of this country ; has over whelmed it with debt ; and what is the greatest mis fokine of all, has cost England a vast number of very valuable lives, for which nothing can compensate. As td out Continental allies they have, for the most part, lost their own dominions in the attempt to seize upon those of France. I will not say that the chance of war has made the aggressors the losers, because I do snot believe it was chance, but the natural operation of cause and effect. lii the insulting demand to restore the ElOunitoNs, in the threats of exermination in cue of refusal, and in the piratical project of dis .onemberment; I perceive a yery powerful cause acting on the minds of men highly elated with the recent acquisition of liberty, and naturally generating there that spirit of enthusiasm which has always been found 'to reader mankind invincible: that the French ter ritory should be augmented, instead of being parti tioned out among the assailants, is in my opinion, -a consequeuce regularly flowing from so' powerful a Cause, and I beg leave to ask why a repetition:of the : same action should not produce the same effect.-.-- Are the French more patient of insult i Has victory made them more tame and enduring than they were when the former attack was made upon their inde. 1 pendence? We know from our own feelings, that an attack of this nature is of all the injuries that can be done by one nation to another the most unpardon- ' able. We have seen the delirium it produced in France, and, in my, opinion, if our t .Ministers wish to revive jacobinism in that country, this would be the effectual way of doing it. But it will be well to ask what sort of a Government it is that we wish to effect in France by the power of the sword. Would we have a Bourbon Priuce with a Constitatiou as Loeis XVI. was, and might have continued, if he , and his good friends had pleased ; or would we have a BOURBON with no restraint but his will, as was the case before the Revolution. In the one in stance we should . shed British blood to re-establish what British blood (that worthless commodity !) was shed to pull down, and, in the other, we should shed erected a guillotine, ! to" give strength and con sistency to such a 'oveenmint. Wherever they went it would have been guerre aux phaleaux, and paix aux chaumieree (war to castles and i eace to cottages). On this principle repoied the Iretc.;...b of the Jacobins, and who can say that it would not have verified the motto, Greet* Estado. •Boivaemere, on' the ether hand, has not; affl p thid TO - Sned - the old Governments,' t hough I re constantly forming fresh confederacies tivenalhlikte him ; he wishes, on the contrary, to conciliate them; and has often bought their alliance with a renunciation of his con quests; but these sacrifices have been made in vain; ainilvare created, as indeed it is natural to suppose, some discontent in his own nation ; so that if any accident were to happen to their present Chief, it is most probable that the French people would return to some portion of their 00 Jecobinical spirit, and the war become of a more revolutionary nature ; more decisively hostile against Sovereigns, and more conciliating towards the oppressed part of their subjects. This is agreeable to an opinion held both in France and elsewhere, that 'the present is not a contest between men, but between princi ples, which will never end till the one has entirely subdued the other. - It is ridiculous to suppose that the French will ever ,voluntarily cense , t-la return - within their ancient limits. Two-thads of their armies are foreigners, drawn from countries united, or influenced by meant of their conquests. They feel too sensibly these advantages .to put them into the handy of their 'enemies, and depend in . fotUre on their ewn national resources.---If BONAPARTE himself, were to propose such. a mea sure, he would be considered as a traitor to France. 'l'o, conclude these `remarks, already I too voluminous, the invcsion of France, for the purpose of restoring the BOURBONS, would be a fresh insult to the independence of that nation, and consequently would only add, fuel to .a flame which has already spread tho much de.solatien over , the earth. The peace and hap l piness Of tnankied• ityq4O, 4 1Fittained in a different Wifilifire - euitivatipn a Jost and moderate sentiments, and phiticularly by an 1 aversion to infringe in others that independence we frat. 4 so highly among ourselves. There will he 'no want of respect in the poople towards their Sove reigns, when these Sovereigns areloged to conduct themselves with moderation and jrAip; and vene rate, as they ought to do, the ri ghts of the people, from whence, indeed, they derive their own. I re !main, &c. : Budd; :Ilia "shire,* • Sept. 9, ISIS. . TIMOTRY T RUEMAN. . . Ant , rtra rather an interruption to the performance, than an accompaniment fo the dialogtrs. Oa cross-examine. Lion, witness stated, that he had no hope of receiv ing a share of the penalties, he having bargained to the conttiey; but a consideration had been paid him for his time and trouble. Mr., Raymend sent witness to the theatre to...an:use himself, as he cou!d be better : siiirretlArte:l44. ether 9eritbefre4 the price of ad: mission was given to him it the Lyceum Treasury, but he Could not exactly say by order of Mr. Arnold.: i Mr. Chambers, a performer at the Pantheon, who had been summoned to give evidence, demurred at being sworn; .when Mr. Guttmeir insisted on the book being handed to him, and that the Magistrates were bound to compel him ,to give evidence, in sk i • fault of which he would be liable to be committed for contempt of Court. The Magistrates said they did not feel bound to compel the witness to be sworn in a case of misdemeanour, and much less should they think of committing him for contempt. If he were to Ware the Court, they should not even issue a process to bring him back. Mr. Chambers was ad wised by Counsel to depart, and he took the hint and departed. • Mr. Mash, first clerk at the Lord Chamberlain's Office, stated, that he received instructions from his - Lordship to .deliver a notification at the Pantheon Theatre, that the performances could not be allovred to go on. Witness saw Mr. Curdy on the subject, who' informed him in reply, that he felt himself authorised in continuing the performance under lila I•Justices' jieence, and he should go on. The Da• fendant had applied for a licence, which was refused.- I On cross-examination, witness stated there was pas thing betwixt •the Ljceum and the Chamberlain's office, further than that the Lyceum had a licence, and was considered under the protection of the Lord ° Chamberlain. Witness had applied at the Lyceum ' for the enforcement of the Lord Chamberlain's order, becauie the people there mere better judges of identiti 10 : theatrical performances than most • others,.. I MialiVir c OntendecT,.theie was no evidence to show thatOreCultdy was the proprietor, or that Ike performances were for lucre and gain. The dialogue % he contended, was accompanied by music, and was within the authority of the Justices' licence, and not prohibited by law; and, therefore, that the L.rd Chamberlain had no authority to interfere with the performances. Mr. ADOLPIIVS followed on the same side. Af er tome obsertatlons upon Mr. Lonsdale's hired ex r tions,_' and' Ms presumptuous memory, in averring that The Cabinet, as performed at the Pantheon on the 26th July,. was precisely 'the same piece as is performed at the regular theatres, in every word, song, &c. though . no authentic copy of the Cabinet had ever been published, and disputing his science and taste in musical tones, though he was the poet of the Lyceum. Mr. Adolphus pursued nearly thls same coarseef argument as had been adopted by Mr. Alley. He contended, that whatever opinion might exist, with regard to the case before them, no ade quate proof had 'been adduced, to make out the all'- ', gations laid in the informations. This question, in. deed, was simply this, whether the Lord Chamber.' lain, a hardened and determined breaker of the law (and he spoke those words advisedly)should triumph, or whether he should be defeated by the law. lie would boldly affirm s that the Lord Chamberlain had no right to license the Lyceum Theatre ; and remember ing that, he really thought that persons who lived in a hoes() of glass should not be the first to begin throwing stones. high names had been foisted in to 'give an imposing air and authority . to the business, bat for himself he believed that no ether Object was contempltited than that Mr. Arnold shntild be the only proprietor, and Mr. Raymond the only stage mansger during a certain period of the year, The perform, tutees at.the Pantheon, he contended,. were strictly musical, and they were certainly. better, and the place itself more elegant, than the wretched booth which had been opened in the Strand. There seemed to be something vindictive on the face of the proceed ings ; nine informations were laid, to take the very bed from under.the Defendant, and to cast him in at jail, by the exaction of penalties consequent upon them, if they should be established. A series of handl decrees were sought, and the Lord Chamberlain did not blush to avow himself the prosecutor, by his agent there. Ltkltily, however, the paw of the case was not to he tried before the present tribunal, much as-he respected it; end until the highest law court in the realm' had decided otherwise; he should • continue to think the Defendant bad acted rightly', denied - . . . . . -•• ' • . _ • .. _ ~ . . . . _ _._..... _. ... __ --.--- ..-,•_. ..... _______. -- -- .___. .. . •.---. - .. FRANCE. ritstional notions. And tbiljillible of Renewer too I connection!; in ,skort) he woe, .and is, the friend demitnds ht the !mistier an early 1 lei tl ti in the lileduCed, no doubt, by theaataiceertaeltCaunciilora-- of - Monarchy, whils t the h e w n ' were Its m ord circle *where the features are alotie to be Vocoettitted t : 'STATESMAN. . 'mart house whose right to tis. Throne b derived en- tai enemies. Why have the French kneed vie. Mr. RAN in passages, was Hoek and playful ; but tiie the consent of the people. Was not such tttrious? Not because they Were led 107 DOSAIDASTdo hi was ton harried, too bustling at times, and would e have appeared In ..• from _r • eertainly do Wetter If he did lest A Mr. GATTIS • . 1-moisurehighly indecent with respect to the rights - but because no nation, 'natter simnel' elitemstances, °s° .f excitin OOßAkfthat Mose ? Did it not seem to say that the right of , wits ever cntiresoreel : , j4ejt be initia,. however, that elide his appearance in the Jeur. Ile spoke the dia- Franthe ro ot o f them consinnem a id e p t h evway o f B ONA . legit intelligibly, and acted withaut grimace, whfgh c.e i .• in order t* ,;4.1t eritattee by which some Princes illy claim to a' . to the Throne. The '.whole nation as a flock of sheep, was superior to the' PARTIC, has 'been - very. dill Ont 4.frem what they "gives it flite prombe of his joti4ment as an actor. omnanied with a no- ,irlot derived from the consent of the people?, If Would have bop* undo,. the.af44..,the. Jacobins.--- i • - •- ',..- - 1( .' 4 . . ur Readers, t h at a t. Jinn doctrine should be admitted; thou t1)41 house of . The old Governmentisonimeemd a war of extern& . PANTHEON THEATite 'lllettifiT 9 standing nearer In succeagion than the house nation against the. Jaciibine, and d the -tTecehins in re- "'+"' - . se sentiments in the . 1 publicity out of a , 'of Haltom, would have a better righttethe Throne. , turn vowed to,extermittate_tbi t n, .It sreswell fur , On Saturday last, at Marlhoroogh.etteet Clffiee, i lnit it also be noted, that the Law of England brands : these Governments that the rile of I)i:wake:re su., ne less than.-nine. informations for penalties were ability of the writer, I - With c r imi na lity the very principle that was he r e perseded that of the .Jacebins ; they . . .ought to feel heeled against Mr. Candy, Proprietor of the Pas- s- republic of letterst l'acted upon ; for it declares it to be felony for any' gratitude to him for it. They ought to think their these Theatre, avowedly at the suit of the Lend the smallest particle i , man to question the power of the people of England, stars that BONAPARTZ was ambitious of holding a Chamberlain. The. first information was fur a re. of The Cabinet on the oath of in P arliament assembled, to disanul tluvsuccession by : p lace among there. ' Would the . acobins- have re- presenta tion i - July:' ither instance; at the .Mark Lcaesdale, the informer on the former ores: Inheritance , or to make such changes as they please , turned, as he did, Vienna and Berlin to Weir ancient _,, , , , esteem for a teen's ri to t h eir government, so that, in fact, our Ministers possessors ?No they would haVe demolished those Bina, atm wno . rs deli Hated the. I. Poet, stated, sots—confis.. that he was present at the representation of the Opera Tary talents, is one. have, in the war against the French Revolutionists, . capitals—depose d: the old Gower' inions another. The . acte d upon principles which it would have been high . cated all the property of the rielf.,...e.us off the heads of The Cabinet, on thel6lll efjuly. He took with . lends upon their jus. treason for them to have set up in England. l of all the Nobles, ,and set u p s u c h .s kind of rabble him a book of the opera, and the dialogue, Bte.swas h the talent or private T h e.grand rule o f ri g ht . is to ' do t o others as we . Government as would have fraternized with their the same as at the Winter Theatres4ut the chord et' thn. If I conceive' would be done by ; assuredly we • considered own. In every town 'they tdok they wield have a piano -forte was etruck at iti,terials, witirh was ..-1 ._ • _. _.L --A ..'..... rather nn intorruntion to the niarformantua_ than an \1 1 . - , 1 ~. ( 1 1. f 14 ( PI DRURY-LANE THOM. This Theatre opened on Satriklay for the season, with the " Sch99l.for &andel ts _thus uniting a compliment not ill deserved, with a performance not surpassed on the modern stage. . .The house is still beautiful ; the proscenium has been entirely new painted, mid the rest of the Theatre retouched and embellished wherever dust or smoke had left a tarnish. The only alteration is in the substitu ,tion.of two chandeliers for L.ach of the proscenium lamps, the light of which, it is alleged, Was found too strong for the vision of some of the spectators ; but the architect, who has already shown so much . knowledge of effect, ought net to have given way to this tasteless innovation.--The charac teristic merit of his work was, that' it led the view from all parts of the house by the shortest line upon the stage, and while it gave perfect range for collateral display, allowed no diminution of the cen tral effect. No eye could. have been involundwily pained by the glare of the urns. The performance was seen unimpeded. TheifiterMsi that now buries the boxes may prate the value. or their light : but if it were useless, or even partially inconvenient, their : beauty, their quivering and starry brilliancy, their chaste and classic elegance, might have saved them. They were as perfect in their style of novelty and ;"oreament as the columns beside them ' which, at least, ;'kto unbecoming submission to Vandalism should al ' low the architect to remove. The urns remain, and, we will hope, remain to be restored to their original` office: but if not PO, they should be withdrawn al.: together, and relieve the scene of what can hence forth. be only considered as amass of tarnished bronze, and ill-grouped monsters. The corridors of the boxes, the walls of which were toe damp last year to receive the destined decoration, are nc\w embellished by pannels in salmon colour, with dark nlouldings and. honeysuckle ornaments, exhibiting an elegance , • , ancu Li, pun (town, All in MO %AVIV' • W C; DIVUUKI 511Vti -- ---. • . .. --. . . the essence of our Constitution in very we • have never seen before bestowed upon t h ose Mr. Clettacv &nick l thaUthe questinn had any few words' : •it to support RoYal usurpation against the rights of the i 'The law is the law of the people • ; because, as Saint; people!! Nothing can be more puerile than to 1 avenues in any Theatre. Thextaircases and circular thing to do with .the Lord (;Member sin's licence. It Anew-rine tells us, it is not law if it should be set' call the aggraudisement of France the consequence t room, &c. are fresh coloured - ; and the saloon, the had been distinctly. proved that the performances 1 room connected with . a -Theatre !ter . con- were such as were peishibitedity law, and which tho up without their consent. And it is t o d e f en d this l of the ambition of BONAPARTE. It is the consequence' handsomest law, &c. that Kings are ordained, and we see that ;of the attack on F ren ch independence; kis the con- strutted for the accommodation of the public, is ,en- JasticessAloenceitd.mat . at. 1 . tirely new painted; and produced *very grand amt. The Dlihndant west , . in the petielty of 501. their power is delegat by the people for this express ed sequence of that ardent spirit which that unjust at- govern, that is, `tad, inspired in the mind of the French nation.— - The play, in all the principal *tit, was perfohned and in'the'seme penal** light other informations, Purpose, and they canno t • lawfully Here was the primary aggression,—the fatal source with taste. Mrs. Guurfa in Lad.q Tetszle,,wtts easy ,; it haying been refused to 114 kite others stand over till govern, by any other power. Did it become a na. of all the evils that have been felt in the present war. lin her carriage, and she :!elivered the dialogue with , after the appeal at the . tiou, professing such just and noble principles of The tendency of fldwaaanreajimbition has not been I spirit and in the tone of polished society. Mr. _ I policy, to make a war of extermination on a neigh. red of tineFetit to aggravate, but,- on the cantraryoo mitigate that 1 Etta:row was also extremely happy in Joeeph•Sar- Sem . Amid_._ Guatds marched 'Mt bourieg State for having established a Government .eatseine violence. His ambition inclined him to . face, and the great scene between them two was exe- Morning itt seven *Pelee% f r oths perennin.itreet a ir . on popular consent ? that .is to say,• a lawful . Go. • Monarchy; and he damped the ardent spirit of .ented with the aest,ef perfect Comedy. There is recite, in two divisions, oue on ilia Farnamo, and also Jacobinism to raise up a. throne for himself, and his no character more difficult to delineate with truth other on the Guildford road s ZPorsuarsath, sada, actunsent,•instead of an unlawful one for.such was famil. i. . He wishatito resemble other Crowned than that of Charles. The portrait of en cagy, nn- the comities& of C4l. Czx vr, to embark fee • the old French oos er umentoiccoliLug to 0114/11 Con. head s, to form alliances with them, and matrimonial ethbecrassed l ' open ) And tilled Mait. ails tulcoo Spain.' - ~5,•;•,• ....4 ~,..: ;.. • • ~ I ;ir - _ •_ . • . .... -• . . . • • o pritem.4._ • _ THE INVASION OF • 1 1 0 THE EDITOR OF THE Sll, —More letters than one your Paper for the avowed purpose N ation the. project of invading r estore the house of Bounuom to . last of these letters has been accomua lice, in which you inform your though you do not approve tin letter, yet you .have given them regard for the personal tespectal and his successful labours in 60 —Far be it from me to detract tl from your commendation, in eitl same time I must remark, that personal good qualities, or Mem thing; and an esteem for his opi, merit of all public measures depen, tice and expediency, not upon virtues of him who proposes them. If I conceive that any project publicly offered to the considera tion of the nation at large is either unjust or impoli tic, it my duty to oppose it, though R should be Advanced by my own brother ; and if, on the con trary, ;my expedient beneficial to the state should proceed from my greatest enemy, ,I ought to over look our private difference on suck an occasion.— These are my sentiments respecting public measures, and consequently I shall form my opinion on this project of Ilonrbon Restoration from its own intrin sic merits, without any regard to the origin whence it comes; . I have often Wand when travelling, that I was better able to judge of a country when I bad passed it and looked back upon it, than when I was in the. middle of it. I will now do the same, and turn back Icy eyes to this measure, as it appeared twenty years ago. Tie principal fi.are in the retrospect is the Duke of BRUNSWICK entering Champaigne, at the head of the Allied Army, with tire aild sword, and threatening the people with nothing less than exter mination, if they did not immediately restore the then Representative of the House of Bounnex to all the despotic power that had been enjoyed by. his ancestors : was this conduct in the Allies against the French jolt ? Was it politic ? If it was neither con sistent with justice and good policy then, why should it be so nos? These are the questions I shall attempt to answer. To the first question. I answer, that the attempt to restore LOUIS to absolute power was not just, for several reasons, and particularly because such a power in him was not a right, hut an usurpation. If a man loses a flock of sheep, he may pursue them, assert his right in them, pass it to his heirs, for they are his property ; but which way did the Bowman* -acquire a property in the French •people? It was said t,- be derived from inheritance;—but who begin ? Was not he an usurper ? The French people . were originally free ; as free as the English ever were. How did they lose that freedom? It fell a sacrifice to the fraud and force of their Kings. Well, then, here is usurpation beyond the possibility of question. "What sass BAILEY'S Dictionary, what JoHNsON'S? They tell us, that an usurper is one who possesses himself by fraud, or force, of the right, or property, of another. This is what the Kings of France did towards their people; and, therefore, they were usurpers. Louis XVI. himself was an usurper, till the time of the Constitution, when he received from his people a legitimate authority ; but this he would not submit to govern by,— h e broke his oath, and forfeited his lawful right: and let it be remembered, that it was to supersede this lawful Kingship, and make him again just such an usurper as he had been, that the Allies entered France with fire and sword, and set the Jacobins an example of butchery and cruelty which they followed but too successfully. Saint AUGUSTINE, discoursing on the principles of public justice, lays it down► as a maxim, that the only lawful government is by consent of the people; and there are passages in the Bible confirming this, doct►ine. Reason, as well as authority, must cou.l 'since us, that it teas a most unjust and cruel thing to' resort to war, and bloodshed, and desolation, for the purpose of forcing the French people to submit, again to lawless power, after having regained their original liberty. It was its us a much greater offence than in other Governments, because the principles of Saint ACGUSTINE are those of the English Con. stitution ; we, in England, acknowledge no power as lawful that does not proceed from the people; and yet our servile jackals of Ministers joined in many a coalition to force upon France a lawless and unlimited power, against the consent of the people. FOIITESCUE says, that a Kiug of Eng land " is ordained for the defence of the law of his subjects, and of their bodies and goods, whereunto he receiveth power of his People, so that he cannot govern his people by any other power." Ilere is essence of • Cons''