The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-05-02 00:00:00

over with their cause. The *Skirts of the French
Empire were absolutely of,* consequence. All the
conquests of the Allies must have fallen with their
Greed Army. Lord WELLINEVION might have con-
quered in the South, but he must Wive given up all
his conquests faster than he did Madrid., had the
Grand Army of the Allies proved unsuccessful.—
Most fortunately, Napotiou, the great, the mighty,
the profound Meat:tom; knew neithet his. own
strength, nor)via Otitis Ireekneti.•
Shade ot CoeSsun • Fri t, who bast not 'always
judged Oath ao 'mach *Solidity, receive your dee* ho-
nour on the vanity' of a conquest of Prince!—
The'coatqueet of France, tlittoftterthi lest Of..a mil-
lion of mei, and on the feat and dregs 'of her
strength, could.thes keep at sty the aggregate force'
of united Europe !-Tremble' ye rear' buret/its de'
sang--ye advises* of wars !=Three ttindred 0101•
sand werriorst ioltliert•lrem the nip* are shoat
to be returned to the 'bosom Of' France,
whiclt 'it
about Ilse toisteloth nary, to 'waft. her myriads
to all parts of the habitable globe I--sShamelOss: and
avaricious Min's' bind feet -4'lofeet flinty her* to a
Sense of justiee,lnd yOnemindsio' the artsot peace,
and impress the Minds of your potent neighbours
with real proofs of your sincerity; so shall thele
perior poker 'bode you no ill. There. must be in-
equality—there must be'superiority.
But Messrs. Bunning; end -Co: lay test stress 460
Spain, as thegrare of *Narcoteos's power, and the
resuscitation of the liberties of
.Europe. Argumen.
tudi kite gratis didn't», a mere SUERIDANIAN bttb
Me to impose upon the multitude. The headstrong
and foot-hardy spirit, the all-grasping soul of the 1
fortutte.pampered; the spoiled Naroteoi, lost him
his fleets, lost hiM also Portugal, Torres Vedras,
sod Spain to boot. Without our obtruded and re-
luctantly-accepted assistance, Spain could have done
nothing ; with it, far worse than nothing, had the
French F.metrer kept up steadily the necessary &resit
a thing peefettly,"froM the drat, within hie pottier, I
and which 666 Missi.szk and SOtLT nOtorionay44.4
wised.- He ruffered Moons to escape ; 'he-fed bk.
Cause by driblets, which were' cut orin.
0411 and placing too great'dependancenpon !the'i
iniincillity of the Fiettcis *soldier, and the stymie.:
rity et French. military 'science, ihesirged his armies
to fightieueral battles with numbers ittimenretel-n!-
fervor; and, last, of all, left it to our galled and:
viery.General to march unimpeded icrOis Spain; (I
disperse the retreating remuttnt. of the French ''force. II
Then, again, SOut.T must be put upon impossibilities,l
to outrage nature, to storm and conquer inequality
itself. Instead of all this rank spite against human
genius and human wit; Portugal might have been se-
cured
to the French, and a line acted upon between-.
the Tagus and treble, and —. Let Admiral
Lord„St. Visciter-eapliiti the dreadful sequel
•
Palmists.% Li!, 'moat Pin (oratory and co*-
teat incepted), intriteed with' the 'weak and proffi
gate ',Court of Spin, and deter Mined NaeoLcoe, for
his Own safety, to seize on that coeptry.
tad he '
*Weed it in the House wits also busily and
*seeeeriefuily. intriguing at the Court of St.:Teters- ;
burgh, and then organised the
,preSent ,accidentally 1
suftesstal cailition. 'lt 'was *retry determined by ;
the war faction of thii country, never to make peace, !
evert et the risk of trifling,* perdition' to ourselves
and all •Elropel niatess the 'old order of 'things were
restored in France; end then, for the sake of este-
Wishing the maxim that, a whole tountriought to
be the patrimony of one man' or one family', and of
certain contemptible, and eqOally unprofitable, na-
tional prejudices, Ives the whole human, race to be
cut up, and the sacred bounds of justice and humani-
ty outraged on every convenient occasion' Hines I
our tremendous and bedlamite risks, and our real In-I
neite obligations to the equal insanity of islaxotecti.l
In vain, however, did the baited 'Emperor Miser
peace, almost upon his knees, to the tenth time,
and upon conditiqns owned in our Parliament to be
just and reasonable. No • the Monarch of a people's
choice must not reign—he who, from the immense!
and universal number of real suffrages (shame upon
the enlightend people of France), was one of the most
legitimate Monarchs who ever filled a throne, must
not be a Monarch, says a foreign people, precisely
because chosen by those people over whom he was
destined to reign. But a proscribed and bani Shed
race must be forced upon them ; that 'race, whichl,l
says the present Senate of France, was its shappfiesf
during eight centuries. This opinion of the Senate
speaks volumes, which will be shrewdly read by all
Europe. Go—Vrrus, CANNING, WZGLEsLET, and
Mr. Bintnw—congratulate yourselves with what
appetite you may. You have risked the foundatiOusl
of the earth, for the sake of a bubble,. on principles'
the most erroneous and unjust, and on schemes the
most opposite to human felicity ; for these, our blood.
has been drawn and poured out like water, otir
.substance devoured, and anticipated to the latest,
generation. Had NAPoLtoN been successful, and'
with common prudence he must have commanded
success, another year's war would have been our
last stake ! To him solely, the praise, if aus,y,,is.
due; to him we owe our prekent safety ita4succese;
and neither to ourselvee, nor to TALLIORAND, nor
to his honest, honourable,. steady, and uncorrupted
senatorial associates. _

To Pm, France owed the so speedy establish-
. silent of a Republic, and the military despotism of
BoliArAnTE. For this, was British gold lavished by
oceans, aided by intrigue, by the horrors of a
revolution, and by the utter want of principle hi the
pretended friends of liberty. which convinced unfor-
tunate France, that her first attempt at a Republic
could not succeed. Pirr supposed that he had ma-
tured his BOURBON scheme and counter-revolution.
Titeerisisltrrives. His honest French troop march
to Paris. They are informed by S—, that the
atiemputo in educe the BOURBONS would, accord-
ing to all pro ability, re-introduce the guillotine, of
1
which themselves would be the first victims. They
are counselled not to lose their labour, but to form
a new party, and attain all that is attainable of their
ends; namely, a state in the country, the real of
. religion. and the government by one person. .49,
express is dispatched to Egypt, BONAPARTE bficoms,
a wady convert, arrives in France, and Prrr !mt.
cecds! -
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The weak and misplaced national ent utciuusut..”)
favour of NAPOLEON, 4 rpdually. cooled, ,became
tinct,-Irl, was succeeded by awe and respect to
the hero, xlio carried the military interests of Prance'
, to such a' transcendatit height. His madness and