The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-08-21 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

LONDON: •
OAT USDA',, A tidt/ST t 1) 1813.

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'llia bask we have to perform is of a doubly ar-
duoult nature; for as well as laying before the Pub.
iic the true state of our multitudinous affairs in every
censer of the world with which we have intercourse,
711, hsve also to counteract the base, the sinister de•
signs of those of our cotemporaries who have an
Interest in captivating the understandings of their
readers and leading them Wray. They are in gene-
ral es expert as they are knavish—but as whatever

Is kept up by falsehood and delusion requires an on.
remitted ettootiee to prevent the development of
the iniquity, so now and then the verbiage
with which the columns of the

slavish prints are necessarily filled, betrays, itself,
and leaves an impression on thomind of the discern•
ing reader, as lithe writer tool lipids pen by turns
in a fit of intosicating promise, and by others when
sober mason predbmihated. Instances of this nature

frequently occur in the Courier, Post, ind
Ot the latter to wit`:--k few days ago this.dictato-

slat paipt (which of itself has half undone the coun-
try that has so encooraged k) lamented that there
mould be no move laurels lot ciiir Commander in
Stain to gath,v„ for that his enemy could never again
bring such a force to oppose him, as would entitle him
to an encomium should he beat him!! Now, in this
very day's publication, the sapient logician, speak-

At*, or rather prophetically deploring, how much
butte mny be yet to do in the Peninsula, and more
,645erially if MidWert should be riiniss in seconding
the eff, rts of the Noble Marquis, he says, 66 Will

belmesniug XATOLEON), do men think, who may
be.sahl to have almost created an army in the place
of that which was stmihituted in Russia, be deficient
in supply ing 'tie less sustained under SOULT, at the
other extremity of Furope?" He goes on then
to say, " And yet 'isreith this person, who is at
last no mt,re than a man like ourselves, we
most either most disgracefully relinquish the con.

test, and acknowledge that we are a mean,
incompetent, ieferior race of creatures, or we

sliest resolve to face him as he faces us." Now,
it the community in which we live, can be enter.
tained, or think themselves informed by this zig.zag,
turn about rant, under the garb of ratiocination,
we can only say it deserves to be deceived.
Si vu's ripely+ decipl. deripiatur."

But r ow, as Willi- writer was coming to his senses,
he discreetly allows that the enemy may throw more
laurels in the way of our great Leader and brave
array. And in what period has all this change
been effected ? Why, in Nor days only ! Alas, our
Quidnuncs are too short-sighted to see through this
newspaper trick, which beats all our stage-trick out
and ou►. But to be serious :—We have mentioned
more than once, that our enemies are working, like
mkt stipvirights at times, double tides, converting
conscript, and volunteers into warriors. The chief
towns in the departments of the Gera, Garonne, and
Pyrenees, are full of them, from which we have bet

toe much reason to apprehend the moment is fast

oaching, when the people of England will be
..P:too well convinced, from undeniable proofs, of
the laatiequary of conception and means in their pre-
sent alinibterq to carry on a War of the magnitude of
.r
thy in which we are unhappily engaged: a war
which other and better men alight have wisely and

honourably put a, end or trace to, at least; and
wetted ti'l fairer and fitter opportunity to assert,
andLf4ree the acknowledgment of those maritime
pri9eitgles, without which we cannot remain what
we kite. ,It is on this fallible, this wicked condi:let
in nor presumptuous rulers, that the hostility we
att• forced into is made to resemble the third and last
Punic War A war, whichwip egkertilme longer,
cap of wet be ended but by the total extinction of
oe.eof the Btlligereuts. Here is a picture fora Briton
to loehold!! Let every one deserving that appella-
tion think on it.

Paris Papers to the 17th instant hare arrived ; but
they do not affirm what we have no doubt Is the
fact—the renewal of the Armistice. The Congress
must take place, for NseoLrou and the Emperor
of Al/nAIIA are resolved upon it, sod how can the
reluctant Powers prevent it ? We say reluctant,
because we know that of the two evils, vie. of treat-
ing and 'fighting, they are unable to sal which Is the
lewd. FRANCIS, however, has shown himself a pro.
fontichmtitician : he has had good advisers.; the so-
gutty and coolness of a BIRNSTORTIP have ani-
mated his Majesty's Couneile; but with an influ-
ence and power which theft' prototype did not
possess in the contracted Court of Copenhagen. It
can 'no longer be concealed, now that N.trotson and
his father-in-law have maintained a good understand-
ing throughout the -whole histories upon the North..
ern ,tapir. The texture of this ground-work is so
intimately and strongly woven, that nothing can
undo k. Neither the rupture of the Armistice, nor
the twilthing up of the incipient Congress, can pierce