The Statesman.
London, England, 1806-07-24 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Ib:pressureot toreir.n late legator, snd other temporary
ter, obliges us to deter till to-Morrow our pi ,rnisedsci
▪ fooesroxiso , -with •CCIJIIATI. tOllllll
• LLI Tie (WIC thi Prim, Colonel to 111114Ata ad of
pet k.atipr and mut bawled Reify,

O'ATESAWAN.

tROPOSITI TLMAX.

LONDON:
THVIRSDAYp JOLT =4.

Tee extensive circulatTon of this Paper in the
col.:,:rs. rendering it necessary to go to press at hal/
tast two in the afternoon every day, we were
to content ourselves with giving a Copy of
Sptecb in our Second Edition of the STATESMAN
scsterdas ; and we therefore feel it our duty now to
insert it again, for the satisfatlion of those Readers,
to v.hons we could not send it by last night's post.
I: torrvs the most interesting part in our Report of
the ;'.irliainctitary Proceedings.
it is not horn any impulse of vanity, or from
the still meaner motive of indulging in an angener_
was itioolph user our rivals now silent and covered
with ecnfusion, that we beg :cave to call Wee/6-
[i= of our Readers its a candid review of otu
communca:;ons on the subjeft of Pacific Overtures,
won the truth of which the Speech, or rather the
Ro, al NI, tl-..livered from the Woolsack yes.
tend* , 1:;!s impressed the sta:np of authenticity.
At a time when most of our cotemporaries, mis.
led by erran.ous oonjecturt, or plausible reports, ,
and some phis' under the worse influence of
stitercsted ,peculations in the funds, were stoo.H
ning us with the echoes of &lion or imps.'
tare—with accounts of Flags of Truce that At:
-
ter arrived, of Foreign Personag's that were
never sent upon a mission to our Court, and of
Dispatches from the French Government that
sever found their way to Mr. Fox's Otte, we
assured the public that no overtures had been InEtte
ED this conotry by France, but in the form of vague,
and what we called taxiimg professions of a wish to
pmt a stop to the calamities of war, without any
sjrcific Proposal whatever.
These insinuations
.always accompanied the re.
lease of any prisoner permitted to return to Eng.
land, till the bad faith of the French Government
in what related to the honourable, though tacit ex-
change of prisoners, provoked some little acrimony
of remonstrance Da our part. Thii is what led to
th: direct correspondence between Mr. Fox and M.
TALLEYRAND, of which we did not delay one
instant to inform the public, in order to guard them
against the Stet4.j.6birs schemes of the enemy, and
the base co-opetation of too many of our own
countrymen in the same fraudful attempts.

We need not repeat the daring assertions at that
time m de use of on -the Stock Exchange, and pub-
lished in several Papers, regardless of their charac.
ter or credit. it will bt remembered that we stood

alone, and animatrd by a just sense of public duty,
and by the tullentroofidence in the accuracy of our',
information, we singly opposed the voice of truth
to t: e united din of falsbood and imposture. Wc
alternately employed the force of ridicule and the
seriousness of argument, to demcnotrate the absur-
iity of the extravagant &lions then in circulation,
respecting Mr. Aoma's going to Paris with,
'AI. lilies* it ; Lord YARMOUTH'S creden.
vats to treat with the French Minister; the
success of the noble Lord's tiegotiation ; the
arjustrient of preltminavies that only waited fur the
signature of I.old HOLLAND; this Statesman's de_'
parture for Pain, ; the unfortunate circumstance of
his getting no farther than the King's Theatre
in di:. Haymarket ; the time afterwards lost ih
jacking up his Lordship's baggage, and put-
ting his travelling coach in proper order ; his
being superseded in the mission by the Earl of
LALUSIDALI, StAt lastly the long continued and
very wars debates m the Cabinet oh the propriety
of 'mat Puy Ambassadors instead of we, as Lord
could not be deemed able to face Tm.-
LtrltAsis, si,j'e-haaded, and must therefore have
the Right 11011UUSADie THOMAS GRIMVILLS for his

orcah! or auxiliary.
Sarh nacre the outrageous insults to common sense,
winch uelusion propagated, and which credulity
sometimes swallowed, in spite of all our warnings.
•I•he must respeciabk of the Daily Papers grew
ashamed of their former Mistakes, and had the can.
+lo..ir to returti their op►nlons of a negotiation,
t.ty that no person bad been authorised
to treat either by the French or English Govern-
A few avoided hazarding any opinion of
Ih:it own on a suhjea of which they entertained
radtiy d-C.):s, l:► short, we do not find that the
Condutlor of any Newly:Ter has attempted, since
the Speech frcin the Woolsack yeartday, to pal.
Late former errors and incons4tenctes, except the
Lid Lash, at the Brigid: Prrn, of whom we must now
64 some little notice.
this poor •'Nlaared Sikl, who stains her leaves
piophc tic nonsense, and thou tatters them to
trc er.deavours now to reconcile her publi-
econ of Yrdiminary Articles of Pace with the