The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-22 00:00:00

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f/ostOrs linti. • sax, 'Pet stuemally•to. tionammaomite his
birthday by BA hananial orgies. They therretwoated his
immortal memov,' which was drank, as the jargon of
the (ley wet, to solemn silence; that is ',Moat nine •
deafening. roars, which mere invariably bellowed Antis
when. 'the principles of the immortal William Pita' were •
pledged, . - •
" ' immortal William Pitt':: •yes. thou wilt hriesinortals
,when every thing exotic to the 'spirit ((esprit) of
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tuition, when every thing despotic in principle. end every •
thing bate and fraudulent in practice. is lauded, enforced,
advocated, and acted upon. . • ~. .! . -v... .•
" It cannot be derogatory to the dignity et history, to
advert to the instruments, however innately mean and
despicable, by which men, . damned like William Pitt, to
deathless falne,'• have worked to their ends. Ere, thi. break-
, leg out of the memorable war in 1793, and during.it2
I proms', it . was ,Pitt's object to make . this singulsily,
egotistic and' credulous people (les dlnklais) helium that
Prange was inhabited -by. man mho, bad cam oil 'civilisation
,and mutual lumen benevo!ence, that the Veatch.' nation _
had adopted Atheism, end cut aiund -r all moraldies; that
(enfin en Franeois) in sh-ort a. Frenchman, was either an
Infernal or an infuriated madman, and ought to be con-
Aneied, Starved, 9r, extirpated. And the proof was, that
'under the forms of law, or rather in imitation of England
itself, France had exercised a sort ef, wild justice upon an
insincere Monarch; end then, govied by external injury end
leternsl ' treachery, subsequently carried vengeance too
ar, ip bringing the wife and sister of this unhappy and ill-
, fates! King to similar punishment. Such .is the force of
iiimeli, that a. thousand arts of cruelty and injustice ewer-
eised towards irdividuals, would kave lost their effect
in rousing this calculating, yet credulous people (lei
ains lair?, to, such astonishing exertions in this piotractea
-war Against France, had not the ansaz of cruelty been
'dapped, by the names of 'the King, the Qneen, sod -the
Princess 'Elisabeth, (ear les Anglais sons idoleteers des
Femmes, adds this illustrious autour.) . . .
•: Howevfr this was, lee Aerials, were urged to the war,
dial carried it on languidly at first ; but at length roused
by • the., Acts or the Atte of their Government.
*bleb -staked its own exist,nce • won the result
of the -contest it hid engaged in. the majority of the
nation, atthoogh deprecating the assumption or the right by
England to force i Government u, on the "french Nation,
with the perseverance so characteristic of a proud sad power-
ful people, submitted to the guidance of l'itt.and his colleague.;
not seemed' In love of t'itt and his measures, as in trabroe
fear of France.
" The results are as appalling, as they are degrading tm
French biatory, and indeed to human intellect. Pitt's systems
prevailed so far, as even, ten years after hit death, to be the
cense of the deposition, ride, imprisonment, and death, of
the grealest Monarch France had ever obeyed. Whether as a
conquer, br the consolidator of its isgislatiosi,,Napoleao wilt
never die. But oh pi dt pudoe! Oh, France! say disgraced
country! she submitted to a Eine; who followed in a Utter, this
foreign-hordes, who were paid by English gold. tine stooped
to a King who was poked and•proppee upon her throne by this
bayonets of the stranger ; she kissed the rod. and paid a tri-
, bate far 'a. great moral lesson!' The philosophic hiswiau
'nay say. while-causmenting upon the vanities of national .
glory. look at France in ISIS, and her subsequent subjuga-
tion to the very same Bourbon race. that hart raasaaked,Eu •
rope for foreign enemies to slaughter her lubabitants; what
a lesson to moan pride !
" One grand Means of exciting the *A ms! recur of
dm English, against Prance, we have• said wee ibp in-
cessant rifirts of the Press. The works of litarite; tibital-te
and exploded as they are in our times, had Arent elfect at
the period they were written in. They Indicate great
power of language, and a considerable force Of imagina-
tion, and were addrpsed to the educated portion of the
aristocracy. . They flattered the prejudices and charmed
the' vanity of the class to whom they were addressed_
This man. and his 'family were rewarded by nearly 150
thousand pounds sterling,' of the public money. Au
adventurer, One Rose, who was in his time well knoten by
the familiar appellation of ' old George Rose,' was shother
bet a duller writer, who chaonted to the plodding and
calculating Dullards of the commercial classes, the blessed
eoreforta of Religion,snd the horrors of the gloomy despair
'of A theism ; adding, as a sort of postscript. a statistic table,
•shewing,or intending to shew, that because the reven u e of the
leavening dui, bad, in tbe precedieg century increased fifty
fold'. the welfare of the general. empire had proportion-
ably increased. Tr& Prince of the powers of dulness;
was also rewarded with appointments in sinecure placer.
(held by himself and the successors of his family,) amount-
ing to four hundred thousand pounds of the public money !
'He was moreover the author of that ahsard Tulin prattle
hard-earned savings of the poor, denominst a• , .
Bilcs.'. Hut among the most prostituted writers, t e
hirelingset es.. ._.I'M.
successors. was an individual, a
sort of ratfociaating; mama.", as callous to effrontery as he'
was erratic and absurd in genius, This miserable being.
another adventurer, such as we everyday see, but such as
never meat consideration is the, class of mankind pos-
sessing common sense, conducted for many years, it'Journal
of wide circulation, known in these days -by the name of
"The Times." WhateVer was absurd and pernicious in
•practice, whatever was arbitrary in principle, whatever
was despotic in power, whatever was cruel, rancorous,
bigoted, and malignant in action, had in this particle of
ass-creation, an eulogist, and a palliator. He was the
Herat of despotism, whom' seeing, one in pit : would
nation'recommend to a lunatic asylum; could a justl44.
refrain from spurning him to earth. Yet this:— a alas
instead of being shunned by thnse who knew the thing, as (le
Diableboileux) the Asimodeus, cast loose bye coujiinction of
heterogeneous circumstances in unparalleled ties',' this
0 • + was merely the butt of laughter to his acquaintance,
intid the mark or point. ,t which to throw ofta jeer, • -Wrist
'little instruments can act large wroogs!!!' Yet this in-
stritment, withont being an immediate pensioner of Pitt
and his successors, (for Pitt was, a man of high mind, and
all one of the noble he I deidialein Poets of the period ez-
presses it, ' had hie Ode, ,
••• And as a high lioul'il Minister Of State..ls
Reno Wed for ruining Great :Britain gratis, ,
was • a being' • among' many 'Other ace:centric .attribittee,
singularly endOWed with the oltlictdry lustinet(egfise.
smell) 'wheats Nevi 'maid be groped out. The gatig I .
(for at this'ilibtincie of time, it is not to be.diPcoiere.l, whe-
ther he *vat actolity tit& leaniediately paid by Pitt or. Isiis
stweessors,'yetit is said', he sometimes pined at, the Minis-
terial parties) thus gift;•d, he fla:tere.l the ariiioaritis vul-
gar in intellect, whether of the governing criqjies, wbether
of the commercial, 'manufacturing, laudholdknir, legal or
eeclesiastieil classes, by gorging their inveteratu . and_in-
' vincittle protithiee with all that was' absurd ie.pOlitical
economy, and 411 that was.grateful to love of Aril; and self
interest lit despotism: • ,.
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for the original is allsoletelyintrauriaietals, •

SINGI:LA a CI !ICU xvnt:*-.—A rabbit's II •St • wile lately
-discovered underneath the thatch of an Alit learn; on the
,premises of J. Westcar, Esq. at..4reatoes near Aytestfary,
71Iprat eras veer's, richt feet- afrom the .gr<titna-, Rtiicl
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heiklit the tittle stniaial found means elf reaching; by
Wessling* wall. which .tvitrly
,joined 4.lle4qtrn, isftl
ing from thence to its curious place of reCren..ent, is Le;
t. tad young —(Bucks Chronieic.)

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