The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-04 00:00:00

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FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1823.

PEOPLE OF FRANCE.
We really think it, and have long thought it, little
*lion of madness in our journals to be incessantly repre-1
senting the French people as discontented, and so much
discontented, too, as to endanger the existence of the
Bourbons. Still, however, these journals persevere ;and
we may ezpect them to assert, that rebellion is on the
point of breaking out in France; we may always expect
this as long as the French Government does not act the
Tart of a traitor or a tyrant towards its own
people! We have all along (beginning with last
August,) said, that the surest means of the Bourbons
gaining the cordial love of the French people, was, show-
ing hostility to England. We said, that the way to re_
store themselves to the hearts of Frenchmen was to go to
war with England, or, at leas', to do something injurious
and humiliating to England. And, this we said, too,
even before the Congress assembled at Verona—Now,
we beg our readers to look attentively at the following
passage, published to-day by the Morning Chronicle,
and t sken by it from a French paper, called the Pilote.
" Extract of a letter from Marseilles. dated 26th March, '
" 1823:—' Aereeably t.) my promise, I hasten to make
known to you what has passed in this town since the scan-
" dalous scene of the 15th Inst. Oa the day following, the
" theatre was closed by order of the Authorities. Cer.
4' fain people were thus extremely disappointed, for they
" had projected the renewal of these disorders. They are not
" men, however, to beeasily discouraged; and accordingly
••• t':ey reserved themselves for the day of the arrival of
"General Driche, which took place on Sunday the 22d inst.
" Whilst the band of the regiment was honouring him with
`• a serenade, crier of—" Down with the Liberaas !—War
"with the Keglieh I—were re-echoed. Public tranquillity
" was not disturbed ; but a coffee-house was closed as a
" measure of precaution. Two other serenades were given
" to the General on Monday and Tuesday, which were only
" interrupted by some cries of " War for ever d"
Now, mind, this is at Marseilles, a great commercial
sea-port, a place which we were told was ready to rise
against the Bourbons, because they were going' to
war! But, this cry of " War with the English :" how
does the Chronicle make Mat out ?—The fact is, and we
state it as a fact that we know as well as we know, or
can know, any fact of the same nature : the fact is, that
the invasion of Spain is, by the people of France, looked
at as a war against England ; and it is to this cause, and
to this cause only, that its great popularity in France is
owing. Of this fact what better proof need be asked
for than that which has thus been furnished by the
Chronicle itself ? How the COUR! tit wilt draw comfort
from this we know not: its friends, the Bourbons, are
popular in France; but, alas! it is only because these
Bourbons are going to capture the "out-works of Eng-
" land aud I reland," which it cost us 150 millions of money
to drive these saute French out of! If the CI:4IRM
can draw comfort from this, it mutt have a proboscis
more cunningly discriminating than that of the bre,
which contrives to get honey ont of ordure.

COUNTRY BANKERS.
There h a rumour afloat, that an application is to be
wade, when Parliament meets, for a re-enactment of the
• legal tender, in order to protect these paper•money people
alter the first of May ! We do oot believe this; that is
to say, we, do not believe, that the Ministers will make
any such application, or that they will give it their
countenance. The thing has now gene too AT ! To
se-enact the legal tender would be to enact
h<t is a settled point; and, while our Ministers can get
alov upon levelish ground, they are not men to take a
kap like this. The ptfifof prices has quieted the land-
lords; it does for to-day ; and, as for to-morrow, that our
Miuisters think kss about than we hope, they, for the sake
ofthelr own souls, think about eternity. To-morrow is,
faith, much too distant an epoch fur them so think
ahout ! Consequences mast be close, indeed, for them to
think about them.

Paris•papers and letters of Tuesday evening have been
received, as well as the Pilate hearing the date of Wed-
nesday Morning. In a preceding column we have ex-
tracted from them a report of the debates in the Chamber
of Deputies, on Monday and Tuesday, on the new Law
of Finadee or general Budget of the year. The most re-
markable fact to be noticed in them is the speech of M.
de Labowrdonnaye, a Royalist member, denouncing M.
de Villele for want of due energy and decision in conduct-
ing the War against Spain. M. de Labourdonnaye is the
chief of the extreme Ultra party, and appears to have been
irritated against the Minister, because it was by the
means of the Ultras that M. de Villele had been
salted to Ate, and he bad therefore promised that
the party " shinld obtain a signal triumph." The
accounts from the Spanish frontier are contradic-
tory. The Gazette de France states, on the authority of
a letter from Bayonne, dated the 25th ult., that Quesada
had entered Spain, and taken Iron. The Pilate, on the
other hand, Wiser% on the credit of a letter from the
same place, dated the 27th, tit at Quesada had been beaten,
and that the Trappist, who had made two attacks upon
Iran was so utterly routed by the Constitutionalists, as to
escape to the frontier with but one attendant. The
bake of Angooltuse returned from Perpignan to Tou-
louse on the 25th, and left the latter place for Bayonne
on the 21th. He ryas still expected at the head quarters
on the 31st. The Qaotldiettise says, that a report from
Marshal Moncey, which has reached Government, con-
tradicts all the statements from the frontiers which have
been recently circulated, and gives the best idea of the
spirit of the soldiers, and the most positive and most fa-
vourable iaformation respecting the situation of the