The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-16 00:00:00

Inc FRENCH REVOLUTION.

At this interesting end wonderful oceirrence in
the moral world has, by the advocates for the too-
tinusnee of stows, been made the bug-bear I.
frighten women and children, and to push even
grown-lip men from their stool', we, who ere en.-
mien ro the present deception by which nations are
governed are desirous of 1s) log open the eaglet,
progress, and close of that last event, to the WI,
and understandings of our Readers, that thermal
judge whether the fiord which hes angina/ma*
',suited from it, has compensated for the ills-which,
attended it through its different stages.
The French Revolution appeared to the geoerality
of mankind to have suddettly bent forth. That
was, however, very far from the cue, The cause of
it loss of long standing, for it was in the despotism
and partiality of the Government, and in the suffer.
lags sod &wit of the People. The representations
of the political deformity of each Goverments were
ably piloted by warless philosophers end bistorlaas,
mid, mom others, by VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU. sod
RATNAL. These latter writers may be said to have
snw.d the seed of liberty he France, the harvest of
which might have beets peaceably reaped but fur the
jealous and malignant iaterfereeco of surrounding
'Neighbours.

The more iselmediale cause of the French Revo.
Won was certainly the ?Mum state of the ft-
stances, an effect which owner fails to follow •
Atpotiugs homiest rule in every Comessiest;
for since every enbiessid man is emigrant, prow
In love end petite justice, there meat ha 0,
temptation or gratification of some kind to Wee,
him to consent to ccintsive a$ or assist in the oppres.
lion of another. Tbe tyrant, the despot meet pay
she creatures Fe his made suck, end that pay seat
he made op out or the pockets of these who an
practised upon by the Despot Prince Of Poteetsto sod
lis advisers. In proportion es the memo of •
Government depart froth thereto of right and justice,
so much the more tines It reqeire to be latest out of
the pockets of she People, to pity the Hegel the Sc.
quiescence of the men at the bead of If It requires.
greeter motive to indoce a man to commit murder,
than merely to rob him. This shows the almost et-
ter impossibility of a State ever recovering itself hoe
• bankrupt finance, without undergoing • welts
tion ; because, were it not for the gratifiestioo of
the self-interestedness in those who (monogamist:4

such unjust realises, they would base so sap.
potters et all. It is the common, invariable satire
of Oat to rise in pension. It woold rot do merely
for the King or Prince to reward Mr satellites Web
tides only ; they most hove wealth else arisilt4 from
ON profit of places or pensions to soppotfllatp, or
they 'mold prose es empty to thou as kandose to
the People. To call sects eespsoioas of

Bakst, Earle, as Hidalgos, 'sold task&

Peeple, if a pert of the meel of every other mu mis.‘"
not taboo away, lo give the favourites a seperdeityi,
The long and espeusire wars bed else cestribuled
greatly to throw France lose-her lij•ncial dinghy.:
For dosing the, tam bat( eeetery and were, that is,
since the borrowing end feeding system had Mee
discovered, it was so abject spry Mahler of
both France seri Fogged% to throe their respective
coentries late hostility. Ii is • proceeding 'bids
never fails to give sack Meister+ power. leteseee,
•nd wealth, and enables the. to mulch their de-
pendents sod supporters le grieve wept. From the
causes enumerated, it was elseges to every man see-
versant in eccesets, that a Rgeletien wu sp.
proaimating. Its ',groins were visible even to the
common beholder, from the 'hocking depravity of the
higher ranks of the People; and above all, .he the
w►etched, hopeless, and
.desperate emoditiee of the
lower orders. The approaddagetespteese of it sap
be said to be hailed by the soodereteved tite-geed,
who might be thought placed in the midway betweee
those ranks.

[To he conliaued]

THE REGENT'S CANAL.

Tide grand endertsking, an sdvantageoull Inwards
furthering the commercial interest of Oa. City of
Lawton and its environs, respecting the: facility of
an intend coriveysort from the Thames, crossing
the Commercial-road through IsHeaton (where •palt
of the chariotl of the New River has been turned le
accommodate ire progress), continuing its lire
through part of the Ilampstesd-road to the Reseal's
Park to its union with she Grand Junction Cetaal,le
advancing with sock rapidity towards a conclusion,
that in less than a twelvemonth, it is said, it will be
xcifectly navigable and complete for all the per.
poses of trade. Nem/roes bridges bate been erect-
ed over its long lieu of connexion. The /yowl,
which Is finished, is viewed as an object of mock et-
tio•ily. It is three quarters of a mile in length,
commencing at the large hill condeioss to White
Condoit.houle. The tunnel is of an ovsl form of
arch-work, and composed of bricks. No lamps are
necessary, as sufficient dsy-light is seen throve' it to.
enable the bargemen to make their way without diffi-
culty ; bat it is too narrow for thous, of their oars,
end the bargemen, in consequence, most lay on their
backs, and with moving their feet open the top of
tee tunnel, make their pussy to the end, which is
practicable and easy. That the bargemen may not
feel any inconvenience or delay, occasinoed by waist
cr water, a large engine, or piece of mechanism, de.
nominated a forder, is to hb• erected on the Theme*,
calculated to furnish a se [Nicol supply at the shortest
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