The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-07-31 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

A Gottenborgb Mail arrived kte list night, with
accounts to the 'l2d instant, informing us that the
Court of Stockholm, had been apprised by Major

511VRDAT, "UV! 31, 013.

litter°, Aiii.do.Carep to the Crown Prince of
swensit, that his Royal flightless was about to have

se interview with the King of PRUSSIA sad the Ern-
.peror of Russia. The eatvacts of any iieportance
we halo given.
Onr yesterday's Paper confirmed an we bad pre-
thittely told our Readers, respecting the most lm-
porteut event which has occurred &Aug this long
prAtvecteri ware We mean wkh maid to the Ar.
inist4e, and its prolongation. We hero now to in.
heathen' farther of what very much concerns the
interest and the honour of the country, and that is
the quality of the Ambassador, or Ambassadors, we

:Roy employ in the ardoons task of advocating the
tense of Great Britain in the coming Congress. By
the quaky of the Ambassador, we do not mean his

distinction from title, otherwise we might send thither
one or two of our idle young Dakes, who are so much
more expert in-driving a bareuche against time, ra-
ther than a bargain against the enemy. No; we mean

quill.% or competency in managing his country's af.
• tai in an intricate negotiation. Our Minister sent
to Paris at the end of the American war, had no
title (he was then plain Mr. EDEN), yet was he so
well versed in the trading concerns of Great Britain,
that he negnciated one of the most beneficial Com-
mercial Treaties with France that ever was entered
into. We are told, however, by some, that this
complicated task will be left to Lord C inicAtur and

Mr. THORNTON ; the former admired most for the
adjustment of a light infantry hat, and the lat-
ter for the gentlemanly, manner of taking oils his
own. good It.avena ! and are the great and mighty
concerns of the British empire to be trusted to such
inesperieliced characters, whatever may be their
zeal ! ! Others have assigned the difficult task of ad-
vocating nur rights in the contentious council, to the
Earl of ABERDEEN ; and that as !Ministers were ap-
prised some time hack of the certainty that a Con-
gress would take place, they dispatched his Lordship
on his errand, and add, that he is half way to
Prague. Of the truth, or groondleuness of this
report, we confess ourselves ignorant : if true, we
are is sorry as we are surprised. The ftpststion of this
pang peer t•landsfair is private life ;and if the mission
referred to the engaging a wife for one of our Princes,
or e consort for either of dawunowarried Princesses,
we should think the choke proper and teeming.—
in this enterprise dealer banner and the great
trade of the coontry an to be fought far : the one to
_ha preserved and the other to be recovered; and by
whom Why, by atripplisim in the field of political
warfare. our it be otherwise ? it may 10.4 ed.
Will other higher Waded men serve ender second it
third rate Statesmen f Perhaps net. This maybe a
reason why they employ young politicians in their
unpromising work. Tyros in the school of di-
pioraary, %base plastic dispositions will induce them
to obey orders of every kind; anti, under that
species of arrangement, their whale 'unworn are
more securely defended, by secrecy, frOm strictures
and investigation. Then, are such *the men his

Royal Ilighness the PRINCE REGENT ought to retain
as Ministers in the present iniricate.condition of the
country ? Can better, can any gooci auspices arise
out of such rulers? NO.
•' Tx tinnvts Nino, non fit merourins."
1 ngliched—You cannot make a silken pan, out of a sow's
1111 r.

There are those, however, those who are interest-
ed in those proseedings as much as ourselves, but
who are also consulted in them and advise gke
sendink no Minister at all to the Congress, an,.
dor the assurance that his voice. would be stifled
by the influence of a contrary , ietecest.—

ALIOCANIDER More, however, whO pleised his PM-.
ployers with what he did in :weclen, 'sag to be the
bearer of a laconic question to one of the*c.hief par-
ties composing the distracting assembly at prove.—
Like Caro, we are lust in conjecture ; and a little
time ago, like him also, we might have eaclaimed—
" And is this world made for C csalt !" The work,
however, is not yet ended. If we had an efficient
telicci,try, and half a dozen able Plenipotentiaries
at our disposal, to employ as the doctors say, pro
re nata (as occasion might require), we might rest
easy at the final result.

EXTRACT or A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER 01
RARE.

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" Dated hi Comp. rear Parnpelann. JIM, 23.

" The Government account of the battle of the.
21st, will, no doubt, be before the ' public "ere this,
reaches you. It was as brilliant, but as de‘petatp,
.an affair as was ever known ;—'nellher Teleasi nor ]
Salamanca could be comptred to it. 1 ilyieliAiereiti
11011 loss *as about 5000 men-killed-and etieigieilf-silia4
at ital. The whole... * .

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