The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-03 00:00:00

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and these talents have led to the means of gaining
a property, which has placed him independent of all.
parties. The times are favourable to such an appli-
cation of his abilities as might reuder him useful to
his country,was he virtuously disposed,ind he is pos-
-1 Nosed.of a firmness which qualifies him for the at.
tempt ; but the want of principle renders him a den.
gerous instrument in the hands of power, and we
mu>t condemn the impertinence of holding up
to us a man for admiration, and as entitled to
our confidence, who, at the very moment he was 1
in violent hostility 'to the Minister of the day,
accusing him of conducting his Sovereign and
his country to ruin, went over to that Minister
and became an instrument in his hands for promoting
that ruin which- tie had previously endeavoured to
avert ! There it no occasion to reason further upon
this subject to prove to the nation, should it want
I proof, that no credit is due to the professions of
public men, acting in the spirit of party, and to
serve the views of party.
We have lately been amused with the speeches of
Mr. CANNING, at the Liverpool Election, a consi-
derable part of which are said to havelnen manufac-
tured at the office of the Courier, as a congenial po-
licy is well known to have long existed between
Messrs. CANNING and STewse,T, the latter of whom
having found it convenient to turn his coat, May
prove a very useful associate to that time-serving po-
litician.

The present degraded and ruinous state of the
country is however such, that Mr. BROUGHAM and
I Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY can have but little to regret by
their exclusion from the House of Commons ; and so
Icing as the Minister of the day can secure a corrupt
majority in favour of the most destructive and ill-
judged measures that can be devised, we should not
be sorry to see the leading Members in Opposition
follow the example of the late. Mr. Fox, and retire
from an Assembly where their presence andexertions
can be of no avail. There may be a difference of
opinion upon this subject, as upon most others ; but
we feel persuaded, that had Mr. BROUGHAM and Sir
SAMUEL ROMILLY been returned to Pailiament,
they could have rendered no essential service to their
country, while the present system is pursued, but
which it is probable cannot be of long duration.
ITo draw a true picture of the present state of this
country, would not be very agreeable to those who
have been the principal cause of all our misery and
misfortunes ; but the day is not far distant when the
I truth must come out, and the eyes of a deluded
and oppressed people may be opened, when too
late to see their danger, and remedy the 'rd.—
!In the raw time it may not be amiss put
a question to those prostituted writers who are
paid for deceiving the public by propagating false-
hoods, merely with a view to gratify the feelings and
ambition of their masters. R.ipt,ose, for instance,
that our great and good Ally, the Emperor of Russia.,
should be compelled to make peace with NAPOLEON,
upon such terms as he may think proper to dictate,
and the present aspect of his affairs renders such an
event by no means improbable, what would be-
' come of our gallant army in Spain, after all our ex-
ertions, and immense waste of men and treasure ?
Will the most infatuated politician, or the most venal
and impudent writer in the country pretend to say,
that we should be able to retain a footing in Spain and
I Portugal at the end of six months ? If such a state
of affairs should take place, and who is bold enough
to say it will not, it is unnecessary to point out to
those possessing candour and discernment, the cri-
tical and dangerous state of the nation ? And unless
circumstances should occur that we have no reason to
expect, a day of reckoning must arrive, which may
plunge this devoted country into a state of the most
destructive convulsion. To avert so great a calamity
Is the duty of every true friend to his country; but
so long as the reins of Government are in the hands
of those men who have brought us into this situation,
I there is little hope of redress; and unless the nation
at large carry their voice to the TunoNE, and obtain 1
an immediate change of men and measures, they may
prepare to meet the FATE which awaits them. A little 1
time may determine the fate of Russia; and if ALexitw-
, HER should be compelled to join NAeos.zon in the
great Continental system, which is now become the
object of all the Allied Powers against England,
what prospect have we in prosecuting the war,'unless
it be to hasten the period of our destruction.

An article, under the hold of " Paris," dated the
26th of October, asserts, that the French have taken
Kalouga. It it is in the following terms :--j4 The
last intelligence from Moscow informs us, that it
was after a brilliant combat with the cavalry, in
which the Russians were overthrown, that our troops
took possession of Kalonga."
By accounts from the French coast we learn, that
since the explosion of the plot at Paris, extraordi.
nary measures of vigilance have been resorted to by
the Police with respect to correspondence. The do.
parture of the posts, it is said, has been suspended,
and all letters have been detained and exarained.—.-
Every letter which has sine reached the coast front
Paris was received open. Through the same cha*.
nel we are informAl, that sixty-five licences, which
BONAPARTE had lately signed and forwarded by
Courier along with important dispatches for Paris,
have fallen into the bauds of the CoSseeks, who
made the bearer prisoner, at a short distance from
Moscow.
Sir G. Nuozer, who is at present Commander-in.
*Chief in Bengal) is) we understand, to be Governor
of Madras, ;n the room of Sir G. BARLow, of •the
necessity of whose remoinklislt of the, propriety of
the discontinuance and corifietiiiii of whose system,
all parties are at IN* conviacal

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