The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-18 00:00:00

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character can be; but lot us ask in return, for what
d;d we oppose the aggrandisement of BONAPARTE,
and why did we attempt to prevent that ? \Vhat has
Prussia done, that her unprincipled schemes of ap
grandisement should not be opposed ?—What
has Russia effected beyond taking advantage
of the desolation created by the elements among the
ranks of her invaders, and other fortuitous circum..
stances, to overthrow the. Throne of NAPOLEON ?-.-
1).-,:!s deliverance, in the language of these Sove-
reigns, mean nothing more than the delivering over
of various nations from one master to another, with
ao reference whatever to the wishes, conditions, or
happiness of the people ? It seems their barbarous
ideas lead them to think that this is national deliver-
ance • and relief 'from oppression. Their struggle
with NAPOLEON has only taught them to redouble their
exertions to olitain territory, and fortify their own
power against one another' by robbery and des-
postim.

A conduct like this on the part of these who made
such professions of respect for national right and
popular freedom will undoubtedly bring such politics
as we eFp,)use a little more into fashion. Indeed,
the way in which these liberators have delivered
].Jule, and are pursuing their schemes of 5e1f-
.,;,./titti,etreat, has delivered us from a reproach_ in
ti • es of some people which we have reason to think
ne :tad fallen under, through our zeal in favour of that
Constitutional liberty and right which are so often
immolated at the shrine of despotic power. But
the eyes of men are beginning to be opened. All
Feropo Las :ein how egregiously it has been deceived
by the junto of despots, who, free from the domi-
tt of him IA Ile threatened to overthrow them, are
new i,suing their equally tyrannical decrees ; all
Europa has seen with pain the violation of the sa-
cred principles of humanity and the Law of Nations
%illicit were so solemnly proclaimed and acknow-
lAged last year in the face of the universe. Man.
kind are always the willing dupes of those who come
in the name of liberty. Even those who •came from
the regions of the most lawless tyranny, ignorance,
an I the most slavish superstition, because they had I
bet.be enough to catch the cry of human rights with..
ant knowing what they meant, were hailed as deli-
%eters of European nations. The Soverei,rns „pho
led them fel: the cant of independence themselves,
and they persuaded their subjects that it was for
int'.etyendence that they were contending. By

1:0,11 fruit shall we judge them. See now if Rus-
si.► or Prussia, *o amply provided for by the
Treats', will be fobbed-off with a few

li:etoritrrl flourishes about the deliverance of Europe.
!ire if any of these Royal Liberators will now go
I sck, like CINCINNATUi to his plough, or MAXI-
?III I tN to his cabbage garden. Ye slavish votaries
of arbitrary slower, cell ye the arbitrary Govern-
nicer rs t:eh Prussia has establisbed in Saxony, which
prohibits the Addresses of the Saxons to lire Con-
gress,
stops the circulation of Jeri trials that will not
!peak the language of traitors, and puts the bayonet
to the breasts of Public Functionaries who remain at-
tached
to their Sovereign, who, it was known by
ell, was himself dereived,—call you this popular de-
liverattee? Is the substitution, in despite of grati-
tude, reason, and justice, of an arbitrary Govern-
meet, iii place of an elective one in Poland, a relief
from oppression arid a proof of respect for po-
pular rights? Is the forcible incorporation of
Norway with Seedeit and the butchery of its
inhabitants, the homage which Sovereigns, exalted by
the revolutions that a devoted people have worked
in their favour, pay in the hour of grateful recollec-
tion and safety to liberty and national rightl Is the
establishment of the Incieisition, of the Order of
the Jesuits, of the Monastic Orders, that attempt to
hallow rice and indolence, of the unconstitutional re-
straints on the Press in France, and of a frightful
tyranny in Spain that threatens to eclipse .11 the
rising principles of popular freedom, which had even
been favoured by Ordinances issued by BON %CARTE,
and which had been more r tensive:y carried into
effect under the Gorerrimc nt of the Cortes—is the
re-esteleishmetit, sic repeat, of these, gratify iag evi-
dence that Europe is elelivered ? Is n great despotism
more tolerable than a little one ? Will tireadvocatesand
supporters of human liberty and right, too liable in all
States to persecution, be more secure in an extensive
kingdom, from the tyrannic power of whose ruler
they may never be able to escape, than in smaller
States, from which, if unable to withstand '' the
title tyrant of (heir fields," they may remove in a
dry'; time, and still enjoy and support the rights of
citizenship? Is the tyranny of an old dynasty pre-
f.ea'ole to that of a new one ? Where are the pledges
of the coming of the goltlej age ? We will not again
sk what have the deliveeers done, lest it may he
s iswered, that time has not yet favoured their de-
but from what we have already seen, let us
~.zard another enquiry, what are they likely to do?
Hive they given us reason to expect that 'they will
establish througlidut Europe Trial by Jury, Religious
Talerr i on ,and the Liberty of the Press? Will they ab-
),serte by one united consent'l hose feudal tenures and
neepolies,which cause the half of Europe to lie uncut-
tsated, whilst the half of its population are starving,
r seeking lands in America ? Is it likely they will, of
I.a it own free choice, associate with themselves in
their Government independent representatives of
their people, thereby throwing wholesome restraints
ofe their own otherwise ungovernable passions, and
hlentify big themselves with their subjects, feeling
► ith them one common interest, and rendering the
641,' and happiness of the Governors and the go. j

verned mat;ial and recipiocal ? We really see no sign
of this—the Monarchs from whom such golden days
were expected are but of mortal mould, with nothing
of angelic self-denial about them—the dream is fast
passing away that thought them harbingers of ihs
promised Sol LO II —their promises and JOANNA
Souvneorr's wilt go together--the Priestess is dead,
and nothing i seen of the alleged approach of the
promised hlillenium.'
From these circumstances it will be seen the pub.
tic opinion is undergoing a salutary change. Far be
it from us to rejoice that the public expectation has
not been fulfilled. No gratifying triumph iv afford-
ed—no treasure is revealed in the page that too
truly discloses the fallacy of public hope. and (he ex-
tent of our disappointment: But we mast be per-
mitted to say, with an egotism that we could wish to
avoid, that we ton well knew the expectations
which were founded upon the intoxication of ones-
petted success, would recede without being gratified,
and leave the heart that had indulged them in no
very enviable situation. But truth is wholesome
however disagreeable, end sooner or later will come
out. We should have forfeited oar own esteem,
and that of the most estimable supporters of our
Paper, had we for a moment abandoned the guar-
dianship of those liberties which we have under-
taken to defend threngli evil report and good report,
and joined the venal trumpeters of despotic power,
whom now these very hirelings are reviling and pre-
pared to revile with their characteristic malignity.
Our tone has been unvaried in adversity and prospe-
rity, and our pen devoted to our country and the
cause of general liberty. Such as it has been,
shall it continee. The conduct of our enemies,
and the enemies of human right, will furnish
a support of which they are unconscious. Once more,
land finally, we say, without exultation, the great
Powers, among the rest of the wonders which they
are destined to perform, seem determined, without
meaning it we believe, to do us the honour of bring-
ing our politics again into fashion.

Orders were on Monday issued from the Office of
the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for
the immedate disembodying of several regiments of
Militia.

Yesterday, a Chapter of the Order of the Blth
was held at two o'clock, at the Prince's Chamber,
Westminster. The object of the meeting was merely
a communication to the Chapter of the measures
whir!, had been adopted for the degradation of Lord
COCHRANE, and the expulsion of his Banner and
Achievements from King Henry the Seventh's
Chapel ; the Chapter adjourned soon after three
o'c!nck.

At a respectable Meeting of Bankers, Merchants,
and KiMcipnl Inhabitants of Ifutt, on Monday, a
Petition against thecositiowai of the Income Tax
was agreed upon, to be presentrd to Pirliament
the Members for that town, who were to be instruct-
ed to support the same.
An order has, we hear, been issued by the Court of
France to admit the English in undress. The cause
ascribed for this inroad upon established etiquette, is
reported to be the appearance of a certain great per.
soilage before his Majesty Lours XVIIi. in a frock
and boots, from which it is inferred that this is the
Court costume of St. James's or Carlton-llouse.

Private letters from several parts of Ireland give
deplorable accounts of the distressed- condition of
the farmers, in consequence of the extreme depres-
sion of the prices of all articles of agricultural pro-
duce. The reduction of the rents is no longer a
point in question.—The proprietors of the land are
well contented if the tenants remain in their holdings,
to await the chance of more favourable circumstances,
without giving way to the desperation which drives
many of them to break up their establishments alto-
getl►er, to sell their stock clandestinely for whatever
prices it will bring, and to run off with the money
and such movables as they can carry.
' Rouen.—We are enabled to correct the statement,
given in our Paper of Monday, and copied into
other Papers, of the tumulfat Rouen on Christmas
Eve. It turn, out to be as we suspected. The Mete
of an English trading vessel, and some of his vulgar
companions, in a state of inebriety, attended the
Cathedral during the solemn celebration of Mass,
and indulged in the most offensive and profane
mockery of their religious rite, at width some
of the people, as might be expected, were scanda-
lized, and insisted on their withdrawing. An emi-
grant, of the name of LE COQ, who had been in Eng-
land a long time, became clamorous for a ring, and
fair play, as he called it, that they might fight it
out. In this scuffle Lc Coo himself, very jostle,
received a little chastisement from his outraged
countrymen. We state this on the authority of
two Gentlemen of rank who arrived in town
yesterday from Rouen, and who inform us, that the
character of Eugland has suffered much from the very
improper conduct of some low and prollgate persons
who have made their way to the Continent, and have
been guilty of impositions and excesses of every kind.
The Gentlemen add, that so far from there being
any indisposition manifested towards the English in
Rouen, nothing can surpass the attention and
politeness which are shown to all those who conduct
themselves with decorum. Indeed in no part of
France is there more lively sentiment of regard for
England than in Normandy, the character and
habits of the people assimilating more to the Eng-
lish than those of any other part of France. It is
truly mortifying in hear of the low and vulgar ridi-
cule which our illiterate and prejudiced travellers
throw on every thing which, by being new to them,
they affect to despise ; and it may easily be con-
ceived, that their insolence and ill-manners must, at
times, excite disgust. It is only, however, when
they scoff at the most solemn ceremonies of religion,
that they have provoked the indignation, even of the
populace.

Monday night died IL TiloaxTow: Esq. M.P. for
the Borough of Southwark.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEAL, JAN. IY. —Pat back the Maria, Key, from
Cork toLondon, with loss of anchor and cable, and
the pile of her windlass upset ; also, several other
vessels, particulars not known.=-Passed by several
Cciliersfrom Sunderland, bound to the Westward.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Arrived the Moister,
Wiseman, from the River, and joined convoy under
his Majesty's. ship Cornwallis, for the Cape and Isle
of France.—Game down from the River the Reco-
very, for St. Michael's; Eli:abah, for Waterford ;
and two Colliers .for the Northward.—Sailed his
Majesty's ship- Gillen, on a -cruize.The Corn-
'
'Willis and Rover will sail in the morning.—Ills Ma.
itztity's ship Warrior, for the West Indies, remains.
I"Lirmourtt, JAN. 10.—Come in the Zephyr and
Urient gun-brig, from a' cruise, and the Mislctoe
schooner, front tlietEastward ; Dasher, lOne, from
Loudon for &MO! Ayret.'
IlAawzor, JA/f. 17.—Sailed the Bcaufey packet
for Holland, -and Albion packet for Gottenburgh,
Wilt with Mails and passengers. ,
EA LNOOTIti 15.—Salted his Majesty's ship
Andromeda, on a maize; Marg. Joharineri Jansen,
for • Rio Janeiro ; and his Majesty's ship flavock,
with the following vessels for Cork and Ref ntuda :
Henry, Providence, Dcedalus, Platoff, Jupiter,
Sinclair, "'area, and the OrOnoco.

The Hope, Thornton, from Mogadore to London,
was taken the beginning of November, by an Ame-
rican privateer, andsent for America.

FIRMS.
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lrAsenigllt, about eleven o'clock, a lire broke
ont in the house of Messrs. Allen and Pa, wholesale
timmists and druggists, Aldersgate•street, which oc-
casioned great damage, and reduced the whole front
of the building.
A fire also broke out this morning, between five
and six o'clock, in the premises of Mr. Biggs,
straw bonnet-maker, St. Paul's Church-yard. In a
short time the whole of Mr. Big,r,s's premises n ere
completely destroyed ; and the (lames communicating
le Atr. Gaimes's writing.desk warehouse, nearly the
whole of that Gentleman's property was, also in-
volved in the ruin. The workshops of Mr. Rol-
land, optician in the loftier part of the adjoining
houses, were in imminent danger from the ascent of
the lames, but by the timely and active exertions of
'his workmen, and the aid of the firemen, the further
progress of the devouring element was arrested.