The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-10-05 00:00:00

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sent, elotwit beta titling the seafffity which they affect to
feel, always alarmed ferthe future, though they as.
mime the air .rhevitez it at their disposal, never re-
present t' themselves, nor describe to us, the
triumph of the good cause, the return of order, the
restoration of the legitimate Sovereign, and what they
eel the rounkr-revulution, but in the most frightful
"Sloora ? Where ere Otos:, acts of vengeance, the
irlee..o.rbiels 94. deo ire from their own policy, and
of whirl, theb;conscieece inspires them with dread ?
Mtt'a Ai* Tt 'Wm& their *gilts ttmi
41. It !trendy tioced the picture, alba so accurately
described to us theileirdis? Acrd %ince we may here re-
mind them•with io precision which they.have provoked,
boot w hieb We Could have wished to spare them--of all.
Poe cal tnntiletie prophecies Milt which they alarmed
.
themselves end Wished to alarm others—where are
t h ose prepare i lens for puyishment Winni,l6llSetheir
own language, ire th one sca folds, those lribliett; which
were in their 44 Snind's eye," init•vehiels (hey every
*here declared n hoot to be erected F How different.
Is the reality 'from those imaginary pictures which
their trembling souls conjured up ! All is-viewed,
end wished tube viewed, as error, as blindness, as
the ascendant of a wretched fatality, the Omits of im-
Orious circumsiances: it is not wished to see crime
my Where ; a goodness trolly paternal, a delicate
in-
aulgesei, 'veto avoids all the forms, the terms, the
hick would suppose its isl%tenee ;
hile pa:dotting; the appearance of pardoning is
iinideir;•every thing is forgotten ; recollections even
pre not indulged ; the past is in some degree Roe&
?Mimi. Aid who are they who would revive it ?
They:iiN the men who ought to lavish all their efforts
o throw it in the bark ground ; the men who might
justly appeal to the paternal intentions of • the
King, against whoever should now accuse them,
hood who would not fail, doubtless, to oppose his
etemency to indiscreet. recollections. This clemency,
• boa z-ver, whicto protects then,- now serves as a
leriptit‘, with which they attuck : instead of accused,
thiefs' (hey iiiight be, they become
,accusers; they
Sike'theirroltos, unarm*. tbe depths of prisons or
ttf but fittl'i hitch. oft that undeniable
tranquillity. wide% MOS avoilndttilem,: if not within
them. They who could only defer. ihtleigeice de.
via ndritiXtlett. I'4l' prepare, they radish pamphlets
bled nientoriats; hi -*rich they even aireet ,to rejett
the Retreat of umnestt as tin affront to their innocrice?,
164 sort of esitritge which they canna entleres'-;--
"Clni of thenil more accustomed to abstract teas:
sorilngi littin practical affairs, pretends to jut..
tify, epos matepisysical, and, perlveps, oven ma.
• Itbetruitical pribeiples, what the conscience of the
*hole Mimeo race must ever condemn:' 'Anther'
leideavours to employ towards the same -Object,
the subtilties of chicane in which he is more versant;
and that sacred science of la* which he has so mach
,dived, and which he has profaned with so much
impudence, according as circumstances or his pas.
'lions dictated. A third, more conversant with the
'to ichs of versatility, snore skilful in managing the
resources with which a long and multiform revolution
may arm the spirit of intrigue, supports arguments
'furnished by the tab of the sophist with all the dea-
terity and• strength of his active genius.• Examples
drawn even from antiquity are pressed into the sap.;
poi( of diilecticks which would neglect nothing ; even
.Rely writ and Cicero are dragged in as accomplices'
of a crime, iu which also the majority of the French
people are represented as participating ; that peo-
ple so distinguished by its love for its Kings, and j
Act whose justice the pretended judges of hint whom
we regret trembled to appeal. Is it, then, meant
to be demonstrated by so many reasonings and induc.
.tions, by so many learned and_ solid pleadings, that
,theliing would sin against equity; if he satisfied I
.hintsylf with forgetting both the most abominable
clime cf the revvlution and its authors, and did not
;treat them themtvit virtuous of Citizens, as the
best of his subjests,--if he did not lead them with
Jae/ and honours, if he did not even summon
roand his persiiii and his throne the men whose saCri-
Jegious sentence rontiocted his brother to trap scaf-
fold! It might have seemed that diring• tb4la. t. 'IS
yews we had exhausted every kind of midaiess
and
absurdity : but *since it has been reserved to vs to
**i(nesi Chew one, It is to be hoped that it at least
*lll not be att6uded with serious; consequences.
11Allstlanti, 'SUPT. 17.—We WY labwiring with
much activity in re-eatablishietthe admieistrations of
this city. The Senate wished to retain some French
'institutions, wilch•appeered to it useful ; of this de-
• solution was the' Chamber of Commerce but. the
eitiseusi whose consent- was necessary, have con.
'theta% each a hatred of every thing cf French
,origiiti thatoit was impossible to obtain their ratificil-
ties.