The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-23 00:00:00

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end few, amid irritate and entity! fie rancorous and band,
wits their rage, that they braved tbe seam of Europe, and even
. D* * newleeted the common Wel of policy which might have prompt-
l' ed the ears of tlis life efaneh as hostage; for it sever entered
' ii.to the heads nr hearts of short sighted men, thbt in less
1 * than eight short years, the life and 'moody of such an hostage
woold have given a prenonderaev to their negociations.• a
" weight in their remonstrances, • equal to an army of two bun-
dyed thousand men, and a feet of fifty allot the line. With
illirtia a captive!. the custody .England, and tae nee of such
s
Ptive i. olvioty, would' any. power in Europe have
Aired to fiie a hostlls cannon. fr permission?'"
- 4 -Afteekleat with overwiteltning d boosted in her
t•. resoorcia. she eight have borne to of Europe on
her poverty, and still have been the terror of the Continent.
Yet, in lux the rsneorons ultra faction, which ruled
. • F. 'nee. spurned with insult the panic end palsied voiced
remonstrance of the &cellists tiorretsinestt, and laughing
an *cern the pampa** beatings in•ber Parliaments, invaded
the territory of uneffending Spain,' What humiliation for
• England! fRe low had she fallen! to ties a pitch of pitia•
• : ~ ••Zble baseness had she sunk! that' she could only dare to
. ..,lisitroastrate, and that in all doe civility, against an aggres-
,..,: 'shoe as odious in its arrogance emit was unjnat and ()omen-
,- . i -aves ie its principle. Away with National Glory ! it is all
vanity-1 for here have we in. ao authenticated history, an
• .- . instance of its passing Meath. In 1930, we can scarcely
. t". seamier how any Government could fall so low as did that
.. if the English in eight flan yeah between 1815 and 1823.
.- a -Bat.the weakness of the English. Government, and tie
.s.a.gespsit of it, strongly typifies the s4nsflale remark of an
. . , taitelhassil perseeneed eve. "The Funding Syste' I, in its
rooms, gives the thierettenent whirl) adopts it, unnatural
• strength ;M its dexay:it palsies with unnatural weakness."
That English history is a ttendons examp'e, how preco-
• einon h the FundingSysititt 4 Its growth, how quirk in its
decay. If the historian, oktly recording the tall of the
Fondle, Syttem, might go-so far as Persia for a line of
Hates.. he would quote it Isere; and let it go in good
set prose. foe be is no poet. 4 I' nursed my she:lowing
lower die long day, and it gloried in i's strength; the
. cruder, came, and i; drooped its lofty head ; the
• -.eight ostusetii, and, lo!—'ils gone"
..., then. in 1823, stood England. after vainly re-
t it
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otaando,aragra :I.:gni:deg isnsia;ineant,haeagrytg:::orsisuncisoeinpaisorwoollsnrai,treohffahlriiinti;pisercrioneicnilitt.iileird!
shad admired by the wartl Constitntion rested, the right. of
the people to mutate and form the Government they lived
under. Here she stood, after so mildly, yet so uselessly,
remonstrating.to her creatures, yes, her ereatnres, when,
,• by squandering a thousand millions of at-rling pounds.
: •apiie had kept on thrones, or had placed nn thrones, here
. • she stood! Abashed at her insults, astonnaled at tier insig-
:,. ..hiti,•anee, aced speechless at the ingratitude of her late mag-
llaininnosis Allies, here she stood, wondering at her want of
• - power and ;slimmer ; and yet, !tech was the effrontery of
~.tribe lawn r-ho sill clang to power and place, and such still
. Ina the intimation ofthis egotistic nation, that the nt'er i is-
ability to avenge this nation's insulted honour, they called
• - 4-fll dignified neutrality.'
'I, . •• In contraplrding the fee and fortune of England, the
blare 11.,•Fi'd dare may mark the steps by which a (barren-
most hams all energy, and dep the spirit of a nation.
I The serest sign of national degeneracy is, wlt-n the I
. , Powers which 1 o retro retain their jealous domination, by
_ aithonaingthe burtisen of defending themselves, and the
. Ilaion's rights, on the shoulder, of posterity.
6•, ••• The confusion of iatelleet, the perfect &lesion in mind
•anhat was engender. I by the funding system, may he cons-
: treed to tb ,a drigkei tg apathy, the result of the faith in
'1 pedestinetion, so ronapicaons in the Mabomedans. Genre
those idle dreams which fill the literary works of the
.English of that p-tied, and which are no longer read, awl
.reatembered bat by name. How a Minister of State of
• • the time conld gravely tell the Senate, that the distresses of
_ __Allitir-514•4444 ';'ere caused by over-production. Hence the
• --peceesuseallstion to• throw poor ladd out of cultivation.
• Menge the snitide of the cold-blooded Castlereagh. It Ems
Pet until 1830, so perfect sae the debt.'" that the nation
discovered that the first maxims of political economy
applied to Government is. O. t it should draw jest so
. much from the pockets of the nation, as may be antficient
for its necessary expenses; that a Government may follow:
bet ought sot to direct the distribution of national capital;
for gasket left in the hands of the nation will always ex-
pand when left to itself ; and that if the Arts in their pro-
. • gems render inequalities, it is for ins'itittions, acting bon'
all cud for all. to correct this their tendency.
" The pal:lying result of the funding system is evempli•
-tied in the puny efforts of the Government of England,,
subsequent to the year 1815; for every thing high aitC
•ihigsitied of the aristocracy had vanished it Ws their estates.;
en I Pow. in 1930, scarcely a family pn•Aes4ing !Mara pro-
perty, rats show a descent from the old stork. The reader
who wishes further information on the English Ilistory
.subsequent to 1825, is referred to my Works on the • Con.
Timis of Russia in Europe ;' as also to ' tiles ouerages,
cur le Guerre Anglaise, aux lades occidental,' el • sar
I' rfsablissensent, des Empires des Noir: an.r hides tied.
dented,' and to the elaborate work of M. l'Avenger, • star le
deft:dance de la Domination des Ailed: 11111. bides:—
Reader, farewell !
" A Pans, Rue SI. Honore. swam 1117,ei demi'
Hotel de earada...ulio. Irr. Jay. Mo."

Yesterday a Court of Dirt:co:Bv was held, at the Fast
11n.goloose, when Captain William Elinha Farrer wan
*worn into the command df the ship Orwell, consigned to
China direct.
MONTIIOB6, OCT. 18.—A sporting and rather novel
Match, upon which very large sums wrre depending, gas
decided a few days since at Anmerton, the 3:•at of James
Crnikshank, Esq., between Capttin Eons, of the I.lth
Light Dragoons, and Mr. Crttikil.atik. Captain
Ross h Irked himself to shoot ten pigeons from a
trap at 21 yards distance, according to the rules of the
pigeon dohs, in a shorter time than Mr. Cruikilosek ran a
mile. Captain Koss was only allowed one gun, and was
obliged to bag every bird after it wan shot, before an other
was pot into the trap. Captain It. killed and bagged the
ten pigeons in the surprisingly short space of live minutes
and *half, mod gained the match by ten seconds, as Mr. C.
took 5 mit Wes aid 411 seconds to run the mile.
Yeaterday afternoon, a'.ont four o'clock, a horse 11111 a
four wheeled carriage v. ere left standing in a street Jr riling
into Temple Lane, whilst the servant in whose care they
were placed, 'sent a short dint tore on an errand. The ant.
Mal, by some means, slipped the bridle off its head, and
instantly spang oft' with a gallon. clashing into the shop
Win low of 3lesers, Egerton and Wise, painters, &c. in Tem-
ple Lane, and broke alm tst every pane, carrying with it
part of the frame njrk, which was also destroyed. The
bonds breast and bead were a good deal lacerated
with the broken glass, bat otherwise it was not touch
injured.
Yesterday morning a most ludicrons scene presented
Itself in Cheapside. A porter, literallydripping from head
to foot, and nearly blinded with some 6lth which flawed
down his face, was seen banging alley a fashionably dressed
gentleman, hom he kept continually abasing. A crowd
soon gathered at the sight of the man's woful plight, and
sasnrd bunting for an explanation; but keeping a re
&redid distorter. 10 compliment to their olfactory nerves •,
wises near the Poultry, the man, stepping forward, insisted
the gimillswias should go so farther, aid they both went
lots sawpsatd $ constable was sent for. It then came out
that di* porter was passing across Paternoster-row, with a
keep at Na head, containing 300 eggs. awl called oat to;
diorralseas ast to run against him, but who, not heeding.;
ieee plea* epos him, and broke the whole cargo, which,
dascsading Is plentiful streams, with here and there a bad
our* loft time pow fellow is the dismal pickle described. On
theowstlimana giving his address, be was allowed to pur-
ittrt ws : and the porter, whine name is Keys, was ac-
t pstl by the jests awd waggeries of :las sob. ,