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The French papers have just been received : they do
not contain anything of importance. The Constitsi-
tionnet says that the war is not• yet at an end: and—
inasmuch as we perceive the necessity for beginning it
ourselves—we agree with him.

The Courier—who not only boasts to be, but is the
official organ of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S Govern-
ment—undertook yesterday to elucidate and defend the
hypocritical document misnamed " a Treaty of Peace,"
the bare perusal of which Aught to scorch an English-
man's cheek with shame. We wish him joy of his
office, and can only say that we would not undertake so
unnatural a task, not even • for • a seat in the incapable
Cabinet which we might be bribed to whitewash : still
less would we do so, for the paltry distinction of bearing
in the face of. day the badge of a dishonourable servitude.
Nay, more: if we were that organ of Government which
the. Courier is—and the Government had developed, as
this Government has, nothing but principles of impo-
tence abroad, and unconstitutional domination at home—
it might vainly solicit from us to palliate or excuse its
measures. It might offer pensions—it might offer
places—present wealth, and large reversions: we would
turn round upon ,it—as, an honourable Sind bold servant
in private life does sometimes• against a wicked master—
and be the first to raise that cry which should drive it
hetullong from its abused supremacy. For such a THING
a this administration to be endured so long, and to be still
endured—tarnishing the glory, sapping the prosperity,
emasculating the spirit, and paralysing• the power of
the country--selling it to shame among foreign king-
doms, and breaking' it in for feodalities at home—seems
incredible till the cause of the endurance is examined.
That cause is not so 'nisch 'the want of public spirit, as
the absence of it in places where it can be alone
available : we do not 'allude here to the Houses of
Parliament—though there also it is deplorably defi-
cient, and would be available even to redemption—but
we speak of the journals of the country. If the public
press could only • fall into patriot hands—if those who
possess the purity of principle, and the spirit to re-
prove and expose delinquent power, would only unite
to buy out the knavery and interestedness by which it
is now wielded, as a speculation of sordid lucre—bad
Ministers would disappeai with the bad spirits .who sup-
ported them. But so long as a stupendous engine like
the Times is directed on such principles, as for
nearly two years it has not been ashamed to exhibit ;
so long as the yelping Globe barks in its wake
with congenial music—or trims between parties
and positions, with a mind and views as pettifogging as
the Jerry-sneak politicians who encourage it: so long
will oppression and incapacity triumph in this country
over better prevalences, kept in countenance--aye, and
kept in place, too—by the help of these popular satel-
lites, these venal panders and sts.
We ought to apologise fer this digression—not to the
Press, but to our Readeus—from the subject with which
we set out—the commentaries of the Courier upon the
Treaty. Taking, then, as we know him to be, our con-
temporary, as the organ of the Government, it is worth