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NO. 386. SUNDAY, MAY 21 1815. 5 irlcr gel.
POLITICAL DISQUIS /ON. b cannot have escaped the recollection of frau of
FORGERIES OF THE CH GOVERNMENT.
our reader.S., that a few years ago, the Goverment
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of Buonaparte fixed upon itself the scorn of the world
[ FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] by the production of a paper purporting to be a re-
The Common Hall and Palace Yard orators, not con- vocation of the Berlin and Milan Decrees, abut a
tent with opposing the supposed designs of Ministers with twelvemonth after the period at which, according to
respect to the commencement of new war, have de- its date it must have beeu put forth. The return of
lighted of late to eulogize the conduct and policy of Napoleon and his partisans to power, has revived tactics
Bum-minute. His abolition of the Slave Trade, and the II consonant with the character which has of late years
wish he hac expressed for peace, they affect to consider belonged to the Government of France, bet rephgnant
as things which do him infinite honour, and not as to every principle of honour and honesty. In the course
inevures resorted to in the honr of danger to avert the of the week which has just closed, a sanzuinary procla,
gathering storm, and to collect the means of giving motion with the name of Welling.on affixed to it, has been
effect at a future (lay to the projects which his ambition published by a French Tsper, hr which the Most flagrant
would .suggest, and his disregard of the lives of his fellow- misrepresentation of the policy of the Allies, is promtd-
creature,, lead him to attempt to carry into effect. They gated in order to induce a belief that it is not to rescue
pretf,,,d to believe his present professions sincere.—Mr. France from the bayonets of a ILliliutry Banditti that the
Wbitlrend thinks it is possible adversity may have worked f Armies of United Europe approach the French soil, but
a change in the man. Major Cartwright has the impudence that the object of their advance is to execute vengeance
to lament that the Allies, instead of advancing into ' all who have not been staunch to ,the Bourbens, and to
France, against him, do not retire to their own countries deny the nation the right of choosing any dynasty to reign
to improve themselves by copying his actions ; and a wise, over them but that of the Bourbons. This document,
learned, and spluttering creature of the name of Walker, though destitute as Mr. Whitbrend cep, of all oppeci-
who had the audacity a few days since to harangue the I ance of authenticity, has nevertheless been seie, d
.union
Westminster rabble from the Palace Yard hustings, had the ' by the Morning. Chronicle as a publication of vast import-
effrontery to speak of him as a person vastly abused by ance—as unmasking designs on the part of tho Goren:J-
ibe English press, and in fact to describe him as a ment of this Country which they dared not befert- to avow.
friend to the liberties of mankind. I This pretended proclamation there is reason to belkve has
We are well content that the taste of praising Buona- been basely fabricated by the French Government; for
parte should be left in such hands; nor can we ever Ministers have declared, in Parliament, that they have not
object to his virtues being blazoned in the face of day, ' the slightest reason to believe it genuine, r; at up to
by those who have sufficient penetration to discover them ; the present moment they have no ground ler suri.osing
but at the present moment it is fit that his government, that the Duke of Wellington had issued any prodat,,ation
Which on the part of some individuals there seems to be at all.
so strong a disposition to hold up to general admiration, I This contemptible fraud is not the only cne which the
should be exposed in its true colours, that the People l last week has brought under our observation. 't be im-
of England the real people, not the ragged riotous I portaut statements made by Lord Ca3tiereag., relatile to
factions that insolently arrogate to themselves that title, the conduct of Joachim i\ lurat, in which his treat aery to
should know with whom it it is proposed the Minister- Buonaparte and the Allies s.- s!rikir4y developed,
of this country should treat. This we say is desirable, as called upoe Btiemparte and his aecempl;cos, v.'he it
is from the character which truly belongs to the present Ihk 1110111 VII t ustarally feel disposed to ceurt
government of France,
,some idea may be formed of th • ueli an ally, to attempt an answer 'to 'his Lordship's
security which Great Britain would derive from any
sp •ceh, !tt the• ceurse of which the whole of the doeu-
rlitiventroe to which it e as a parte.
,e.%sLie.e‘ei! tncnts read by him are treated a 3 fabrications. Theo
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