The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-29 00:00:00

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On the affairs of Spain, which must necessarily
remain in some obscurity for a short time to come,
we gave in yesterday's STATZSMAN an extract born
the Journal de Parer, which took greatly from
their formidable nature. Another paper of the
same date contains the following:—
" The last letters from Mae.rid (these of the 13th)
state, that at the moment when the post was leaving,
the greatest alarm prevailed among the people, and Con-
siderable consternation at Court. The garderatrerp
were traversing the capital with draws swords, to dia-
pers. the populace who assembled in the public plates.
It Is said that almost the whole of the array was dis-
affected ; that all the Generals had been removed, and
that any who offered were accepted in their stead. •
" This morning, at Paris, it was announced, that the
French Government had received atheist conarasnies-
tions, and it is believed that the Spanish Court has made
proposals to the Cabinet at the Thuilleries, for papaya
succours of men and money. It is rumoured that his
Catholic Majesty requires the aid of 25,000 men."

This request, it is supposed, hi• Most Christain
Majesty could not for a 11110191111 t entertain.

The anxious eye of the British Patriot !oohs to
the.. different plasm is the world br 'rents and
actions which may encourage the friends of FIetE-
DON in the bops. of seeing it re-established, mod;
by a happy contagion, affect his own country: Ihr
however humiliating it is to declare the fact, he
cannot, after what has happened in Britain of lats,
expect soon to see its votaries in full possession*
it here again, but by some actual calamity, which
must of course lessen the cause of exultation. We
have long looked to New Spain, with confide Pee
and interest, to see the rights of man asserted es al
vindicated, with full and happy effect. The soo-
nest, after s straggle with arms, which the Norm
Americans at length enjoyed, afford a just ground
be a confident assurance that, by a parity of c
dust, the South Americans cannot fail to obtain.
similar inn*: they are gradually. bat progressives,
approaching the happy goal. We could wish that
a new example of the immortality of the spirit of
liberty were exhibited nearer home. On the
Peninsula, and on the Continent, then, have we
looked some time for instances of men in the mass
vindicating the too-long existing wrongs imposed
upon them by a few chosen out from among
We are not, to be sure, acquainted, frost deez
day, nor likely to be so, of what passes in
Spain . but we witnessed too unequivestr
during the short time the CORTEZ were he
vity, of what energy of mind the modern Spaniard
ie pawned, '
his eelt

cion, nay conviction, that he mast be inimical to
liberty. Mirabeau said of the priesthood, that
with their feet on the earth, and their hands raised
towards Heaven, they aimed to move both to their
own will and gratification. But we were about to
speak of the German—the thoughtful German—the
man, above all other in Europe, who has escaped
the charge offrivolity or absurdity. We have hoped
to witness a constitution produced here, and there
are none that would have set a more bright and
beneficial example or model to the people of every
civilized society in tae world. As. however, he is dis-
posed to erecttbeedidce slowly, let us hope it will
be with durable, that is,with well seasoned materials.
No people was ever so independent as the ancient
Germans. Without fixed establishments, conti-
, nnally engaged in some expedition, for aocniring
tame or wealth, they were enamoured of liberty,
and, ever continuing in arms, they were but little
restrained by laws ; their Princes had no great au-
thority over them, and even that authority wits but
little respected. Yet, when once they had secured
•their conqueits, these Princes, in order to extending
land securing their power. laboured to inspire them
with the love of tranquil employments ; to acquaint
them with the sweet fruits of industry ; to engage
them to cultivate the arts of peace, and devote
themselves to a contemplative life. There has
been no nation less charged with vices than the
German ; they appear to possess the chief virtues
of the ancient Romans, without being tainted with
some of their opposite qualities. What constitu-
tion then, for the government of man in society,
may we not look for from the heads and hands of
seen a people: and how reasonable a thing is it
to expect one, at no great distance of time, 11-am
them, when we are informed that the Austrian,
and especially the Prussian, prisons are filling
with philosophical and political writers of those
Mates. May their gaols run over with inch inha-
bitants ! It is good for mankind that such men
should endure temporary evils and persecutions for
the sake of immortal honour and posthumous re-
aped, a reward which, we hope, and doubt not,
will be their portion. S. P.

Qs the celebration of Mr. For's birth-day, at
tb* Royal Hotel, Edinburgh, Lord ERSKINE made
a very striking and Judicious remark, as to the
cause of many persons of consideration not attend•
iaMsaoe, that " in the
the Meetings
isisignificant, and bad

have paid away 14
wO, ' " that there
way \ ',ding , perpetuating
pongeel principles, than by bleeding them with •
meashein of illustrious nee, who have maintained theft,
daring their lives; above all, when, like Mr. Fox, they
have smintained them amidst great difficulties, awl
valor seerupt contbisadoes of power to overpower or
pulls them." His Lordship very pathetically
idfailiNpria the calamitous and exhausting war, " lim
kai (ss* be) as Mr. Fox thought, without necessity sir
betifie—eporsevered in, after many opportunities beft. MR
this ft was gone by, for safe permameat piidevOif
emike jr,, stet after a kind of miracle in our favors its
„Miseabasbit sif Waterloo, in a state M Earope far less fit
oar prosperity, Asa probably would have
' lisi lea ealidition if we had left Preece, in the begin-
e[ * Resolution, to 'sheen herself by.=
Of Aesperate sad imallictimg factions, at
ilioe hawed, sad softly, to have given her a frisiillll
Ilakiewiroes assistance, to *oll6ll,lam her freedom aid
4 ter her from the mieerlis Which oppressed her."—
He foopfigly did the Noble theses femme of the Doke
.ftifgittemityt (who was to have presided epos the toe-
!iii
*dm MI ter iodisposidom which might be truly the
ilf iti, We Are sorry, though faigood inset*,
Mich the Whims of late is both France poi
• WO twvtaiti great political occasions)—we "Mk
haw Iseliagly we experienced the bitter fralliW
11 ei,oirtrary to what the great S4e:aal4 Pi.,
sidiabdiel. uMe ars (said, this Noble CIS ' a
the Minty 4 the Briwel Nees) etergerityr oifir a
leellehle *pad all magi' in the history oldie efel
Midis ii dabe of early a *mend oilliire
. ' is lima Seetkiiseertml. nadir dlipl,
•of table etenjasetere**ll Matra
i&
M eiMporateAbe evils against Which we bid a
WI flick his left the States of Emror is condl
fidtfalldee OwitsiitY, already begleolsg Sti rival. ,
Oa elsasrirlr sad masufactoree—coadlsimi
diem by our Wastand *rim, ,firs
the loaded impiety
.of 'NOW 1., 6
'a
4~4 tit between OM tat-tathersii aid, e
iLVIII this Niimusrt."—llut If thenki ova pass s
iniediliSil iddiasi iv the comply which we ,di-
aiblier. is is the tamper id which be spoke
:sil *Morse of opialeia sod views of the Radio&
sal di Irti Ile said, . we must mot be angry .
Ow lliallk howl. lo• ere think that many of them have
litigant thi tray to he delivered firm is abases *blab
wa ia sommommtesplaia of. If they are plionnisliggpi ,
1 with tb• 1111416 it Giasilialo, tailed to **id Oft.
Fbh it ailidnoe Ao show by oar conduct thug Motet
[An miemplimaettleti or mistaken. Le as be *AM '
, Mk prittelpialk hail ectiag kosestly, me emit hi di .
j preisil. It is Ise tie benefit of the public, that thilled
; a gfest bodies of public men should be publicly ..
1 ii.:rae aft pet piece of biography, by ',bid'
had a happy efect on the eslimpaity. It
es •--" I was hote in the Old city of Ildikhargh
lily One Asp before, se
.I Wife*. this turf seat Mut
tree bait at the other oimensity of The island, • and 1
yam 'strays dionilit it eon cif the most forritar .
esailliticsi of sty kistiodest *grid life; shit I ore
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mvery teamed, to doobt or bin woo right* ier,on the occasion, as, for ineases,
ielf. thsperetitien alone has maintained the ,wet and prejeibee,
et es Cent ef NNW to thirdly , would appear iesignill
lint o,llll', not ispeseible that the veil *bleb bes %Ow *mw o when it abovid hays
eag eissitged tise. Iridium evehawlfollrfits triliwM4 kablemaa well observed,
Gomm* view, and which requir' only to ho so better way of eonieeratiag soil per