The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-23 00:00:00

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prevent in future such events in Germany. And
could•it now be imagined of the German Confede-
racy, thal one of its priritipal Sides should be dis-
membered, because a neighbour took a fancy to part
of them, and that all right should be refused to the
lust inheritors and to the People? Here the Re-
porter concludes as follows:—" it is said that nei-
ther Austria nor Bavaria do acknowledge the right of
succession of the Margraves of. Hochberg, they not
being eligible on account of inferiority of rank;"
more eligible, however, we trust, if even no family
regulations had been made on that subject at the time
of the marriage, 30 years ago, than the descendants
of Esther of %Vitzleben. consort of the Count Palati-
nate, John Charles of Birkenfeld (who died in 1704,
and who was the head of the family of t‘he present
Dukes of Bavaria), and of so many ancestors of reign.
ing Princes of this day, not to mention the mediatised
Princes of equal rank. But how can an article in a
Newspaper judge so decidedly and so boldly, of an
:obsolete controversy of the old German private
right of Princes, which formerly the Aulic Council
used to decide quite in favour of hereditary rights of
equal rank, which our writer questions here? Every
one knows that even the elective capitulations of the
German Emperors precluded from the right of suc-
cession only mes-alliances of notoriety, and even
this only in the case when they were opposed by the
relations, but that no legislation pronounced on this
'any farther, but many other similar cases might be
quoted, if ever Emperor and empire still existed.—
Who can impose a belief, that now, under the ac-
knowledged independence of the German states,
where besides no rights of relationship come in con-
tact, such obsolete nonsense wouid weigh down the
balance, if the question were about the welfare and
security of a sovereign monarchical state, about the
tranquillity of Germany, and eternal right, if the
upholding of the first principle of state were ques-
tioned, that the Prince belongs to the People, and
that the latter have the first claim on his poliri al ex-
istence, on a filial care for the race of its Regents.
to prevent national calamity, and woes of serious de.
scriptions? Amendment is slower in its progress than
error ; for it is easier to assert than iovestigate but
calm investigation, anti the love of right, are proper-
ties that belong to the Germans.

PR/(a? OF STOCKS Tlll'
Bank Stock Vi
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3 per Cent.Consols 77ii
So per Cent. SI
Consols for Ace. 79

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IS HAY Al' ON IS O'CLOCK
4 per Cent 911
5 per Cent PtillYV 1060
India liondx
Long Ann. ti 9.161
Exchequer liiflc 19 40 p

STATESMAN.

French People,. Thus France has had Doodler
from, the fury of the fanatic and ouiperstitiout
and consequently from civil war; and perhaps
greater subjugation. What are we Id tr
Court which countentinces such piojecti hi
the French People think of a King, who, insti
being fit to govern France, cannot govern his
family / The guilty attempt' of the Royalist
raters is more and more 'transpiring, in spit
endeavours to conceal it. Powerful efforts ha
will be made to screen the plotters ; but
►
with the crimsoned picture of NEV. fate ever
its eyes, demands that examples may be
of the authors of this new and undeniable
The offence is one which the King cannot
It was one not merely directed against the
authority or life, but against the only solemn ,
rantee, feeble as it is, of the national liberties.
These wicked men wish to deprive the Frenr
pie of the Monarch's pledge to respect their rigs
properties,—they wished to restore the reign of
stition and a bigoted Church—and they wished
the owners of property purchased during the
lion. Fortunate it will be if all attempts
this horrid revolution shall meet with equal
That much alarm has prevailed since this plot
discovered, and the names and character of thr
known, is evident. The French Papers to thi
which we have received with a variety of pri
vices from Paris, confirm this. On Wednet
five per cents. were at 78; on &stonily tht
761. The precautions, too, taken for his MI
snfety indicate strongly the feeling that prevs.
is reroarka We enough that the safety of his M
',ergot' at St. Cloud is entrusted to the keepim
Notional Guard, who are called upon to
there instead of the regular troops. TI
contioups to transact bUsiness almost ev,
with his Miri•tros at St. Clout!, portico!
D. ke of RICHELIEU and the (;punt DE CAZ
DoNartyu, who, it will be recollected, um
in home of the private letters as being conoet
the recent c..nipiracy, it.now 'stated to It
charged by the King to review the 4th Sw
men', and to have arrived at Clermont-Fet
the 1:h inst.
Tt•e King of Fu NCE, it seems, will no'
the approaching Congress of the Continent
rPigns at Ais-la.Chapelle. His Majesty vit;
presented there by the Duke of RICHEM
whom one of the plincipal Hotels has been '
that city.

The 'recounts privately circulated last nigt,
QUEEN'S health were extremely alarmitig. W
not for what reason the Bulletins are mod(
and unmeaning. The British People have
still a most anxious concern for the health
QUEEN, and we cannot conceive that there',
any impropriety in giving the fullest official
of her 111.uevry's condition. tier hIAJI
more weak and seriously ill the whole of
by the want of repose, than she had been
commencement of her indisposition. Medici'
to have lost its effect, and if some rapid chr
not take place in the course of the week,
that great danger may be apprehended. The
clans are constantly in attendance, and there
whole of yesterday a constant intercourse
'eager' between Kew and Carlton house.

We cannot believe the insinuations that are
out with the view of uscribiug all' misfortr
may at present happen to, or in manui
establishments, to the labourers who
to have voluntarily ceased their emi
for the want of higher wages. We
willing to believe that any reasonable being
voluntarily become an incendiary for such a
Every one possessed of the smallest share of
soning faculty, and desirous of exercising
dustry, knows well that acts of violence,
such atrocities, produce an effect generally,
as individually, the very reverse of any ciTT
vourable to industry and welfare. None
mina's by habit venture on such crimes.
(knee and indtistry of the mass of the I
Public repel the calumnies vented against
The cessation of labour in any portion of
merrily who cannot live without work is at
to be regretted, ■nd to be condemned when
luntary. It occasions a loss to society wi
does not always repair, and engenders habit
are not easily got rid of. But after the acr
have had laid before us of the prosperous
of our commerce, when we are told that nu
facturers were never driving a more profit*
than at present,—an assertion which, hy.thk
must flatly contradict—for speculation and
to find a market, are frequently very far
fitable trade,—we really cannot wonder a,
pest Lions and conduct of the labourers of
ter and Stockport. In the late depression
men were content to work for the bare meat
aistence, and they certainly starved with a mi
mendable grace. They now naturally expect
liberal terms. If there be no reasonable g mod
for this expectation, and the majority of the
community must and ought to submit to the
same privations to which they were subjected in a
less llourishingstate of trade,it is the highest mockery
and falsehood to tell the country of increased and in-
creasing prosperity. The accounts put forth to evince
this *roved slat; of things, if no seam! aoseliora.