The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-03-01 00:00:00

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.liti STATESMAN.

LONDON:
It'inSE)4ll9 MUCH 1, 1814.

The impudence of the war-faction journals now
begins to be pretty generally acknowledged ;, and
', the delusions they have practised, are seen through:
"but skill net *hely writers, those vile enemies to their
chantey, be punished for the mischief; we fear the
irreparable mischief they have done it ? Yes. As
well us that the too credulous people of Britain are
about to be undeceived, they will, they must avenge
themselves of their deceivers. There is no nation on
the face of the globe, which has been half so much
abused by a selfish oligarchy and a prostituted race
or hirelings. Au awful awl memorable example
must be held up to futurity to prevent a handful of
men, enveloped in authority, and combined with in-
fluence, from working upon the feelings of the com-
munity, and sporting with the public fortune,
to setu re place and patxonage to , the one,
and an inordinate profit to the other. We must
have no more baronetages conferred on base-
ness; nor must wealth, without any reference to
the manner it has been acquired, be any longer
made .the .rond to distinctions and hereditary titles
—else we: shall have another poet indignantly ex-
claim—

Hove root some grueling sons of earth
preroative of birth,
As thoueli appropriate to descent,
Were high mid uoble sentiment t
What -enti•ncuts can nalebe,
But those or THU CH and LIBERTY !

The genius of Britain must assume its ancient atti-
tude, such as*heu it made her inhabitants powerful

:Ina happy. tr
There is ..ono, further public intelligence from
France; siu hee Moniteurs and minor Pori, Papers

to the 2.;(1 ult 4 though we have great reason to be-

.-Ifeverlisefeiverament possesses much later iefortna-
.t ifellireetistri heat re .o-f
war andittlakei,
Xis all probability, . the measure resorted to by
'Ministers in firrt)ter adjourning the Parliament, it
connected wTth-some recent important commenies.
,tinti Wide froni our Nelliassador at Chatiilon. On
Orb circumstance, as mucho4llol4lretither, will the
eioguine wisirers for pt*, infer that the happy
desideratum is not far 111 T—indeed there are those
who are strongly.„ impressed, that the preliminary
bases are so. far advanced, as that the whole may,
•ssithout delay, be referred to a Congress. Should
the rept:tits said to have arisen through private letteri
meerived-frem-the-French coast on Saturday, inti-
mating a farther victory obtained by BONAPARTE
over the Allies in the neighbourhood of Troyes,
prove true, it would, in our opinion, but little re-
tard or ea,pedito the labours of the Peace-makers;
thoughiettrids eh diagnitude might alter, in some de-
gree, the r4tilts: of a particular point, though not a
tangle head of tlierreity itself. It is not, therefore,
in this view ;dace, that we expect to witness an ex-
traordinary military exertion of BONAPARTE at this
crisis. Marshal Manstowr is inspired with the same
..arlike veal, if we may judge by the tenour of the
Proclamation he has put forth at Etoges. We,who so
well know the susceptibility of the French people,
awl their promptness to Ira when they are made to
feel, cannot but think that much of the effect ex-
pected by the Duke of RAGUSA mayet produced by
this critically-timed appeal to kis countrymen. The
Times newspaper, of this day, however, stilt urges
the probability of the Miles entering Paris as con-
iraerori. Alas! how difficult it is to give up"the
hope which lingeringly follows the repeatedly sad
high-toned promise and assurance!
The Courier lest night pulled off his white cockade,
Wed threiv aside his cross of St. Louis. He is in
sorrow, deep distress, and covered with all the sable
habilinu:nts of funeral woe. If we ask whet are.
become of his victorious lu Aeons, the march to
Paris, the slaughter of BONAPARTE, and the re-es-
tablishment of the BovenoNs, we have the answer
in the tone of JEREMIAH'S lamentations over the
fallen fortunes of the people of Israel.—After al-.
lading to an ercnt which way happeit to produce a
material change in the amount of the Budget to be
hronght forward by the Ministers, it says, " Our
Readers will easily guess the nature of the event to
which' we allude, and, Heaven knows, with what re-
lt,ctinco we do allude to it ! It is by no means im-
probable (would it were!) that Prellminariee of
1',.,,e0 with BON tars will be signed, or some ge-