The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-19 00:00:00

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The consideration of these topics naturally red
Bests a question as to the propriety of the Ihl
WELLINGTON issuing such a Proclamation as we s,
addressed to the Freuch people its his name; and thi
question will sugirst another, whether the 0
‘V ELLINGTON could have actually issued such a Pre
tlamation, so directly at variance vs ith the declaration
of his Court, and so calculated to fan thrt.easne er le
sistance in France to the cause which he eqputLe,.
This preachiN, boasting, and abusieo Proclatuol.c.
is without date ; and as it comes thrnagh she ,r
dium of the French Papers, with some sharp remai:,
I appended, we wonder our Treasury brethren ha,
not been pronouncing it a fabrication. Genuine,
Istated, we do not believe it to be. It is moro like
lone of Louis's denunciations of woes and
merits in favour of himself and family, or a
brication of the French press for the purpose
lof ridicule. In this Proclamation the Duke e
‘V ELLINGTON is made to say, " The Allied
Sovereigns replaced him (Lou!; X VIII.) on the
throne of his ancestors, rciga
andparl iocltsaicers
itl nctshipe
of the family of Bounno.v, until •
the French people. They now take op arms to rc-
! store and confirm that dynasty (we know they do,
though they are ashamed to confess it so openly as
this)—to support the cause of Sings—to consoli-
! date the Gorernment—tO secure the repote-or inst.
kind (a curious way of securing it), and to give an
I imposing example of Sorereign authority to all na-
llion:. They will not lay down their arms mil they
shall have destroyed, past the possibility of returu,
the source of all the evils with which pus are
! menaced, until a general peace be signed, and
the tranquillity of all Europe be -secured......—
This they have sworn in the face of the universe."—
They have sworn to restore the Bouneoss, end
• give an i:nposing example of Sovereign authority to
all nations, by punishing the FrenCh for expelling.
them, and daring to say they have a right to choose
their own King. This is declared to be the express
object of the great crusade; and a British General
says he is sent from his nation to carry this object
into effect ! But the magnanimous Allies neither
combated solely for this noble object, nor the still
Golder one of giving nations the liberty of
lexercising a choice in the adoption of their Rulers;
and the very liberal arrangements of the Con.
gees, of Vienna have proved this to be the fact.--
Justice and liberty, and magnanimity, end all as
admire in idea, are uniformly good and beautiful till
they come to be put into practice, and then the splen.
did theory admits not of realization. Statesmen shrug
op their shoulders, and Pament that, unless' it be
"punishing justice," they are unhappily inapplirahls
to the presoot state of thing; ! Poland, Saxony,
G'-
nos, and the fine idea of breaking the fetters which
bind millions of human beings to the earth, and de.
grade the image of GOO to the level of the brute
creation, come across us here, and with the mitirg
up of Lord CATLEREAOU'II: gingeroreta King.ist
the place of the great military genius oho now
governs, and knows how to govern France, ae
see what the Congress of Vienna have been cans
tending for. And with • such Proclamations befere
oar eyes as are issoieg from the head-quarters of the
Allies now in arms, we see what, at least, are the
professed objects for which they are about to plunge
the world again into war*
We shall be told thet because the Congress has
shown that it will hold no correspondence %iris lio-
NApAntc, it must be all false that has been .a:d
about Austria having entered into uegocistions nith
him, and resolved on being neutral. It may be se;
but it is no less certain that couriers, " &great many
couriers," have for sometime been passing betweea
the Imperial Courts of Vittoria and Paris, and it was
only iu the Brussels Papers received ye,terday that
we read orders from head-quarters for stoppinz thin.
-AoStrins particularly in a distresved and rxhau tad
state. She has gained nothing by the war, and am-
not, as acknewledgod in the above article; from,
Vienna, continue it long. She is merely acquiescent,
and may be evpccted to become one of the " *ie.
tutors of Treaties" as soon as Fre lice can protect her
in her violation. She may welt say, " protect me
from my friends."

PLYMOUTH, MAY 17.—Came it, the Whiting
schooner, frotn Bermuda, with several transports.
Dt: tr., MAY 18.— Arrived his 14hjesty's ships
Aotritc, Spartan, Leoniaus, and Caroline, from
Portsmouth, with detachments of the 53t1 regiment;
and his Majesty's ship Tartarus, foam Ostend.—
Sailed the City of London tact Indiaman, for loclis.
PORT•MOUTH, MAY IB.—The whole of the trans.
ports at the Motlierbank, from Bermuda, Sic. are
released from qtrtrantine, except the Fanny and
Pcsfg.ll--Saiird big MPjesty's ship Bermuda, with
the George, Sir W. Heothcote, and Bridges irvis.
ports, with troops on hoard, for Ostend ; hi, NlA-
jesty's ships Desiree, Belle Pordc, and Dottrel!, tom
the Downs ; and his Majesty's ships Phabe sod
Bacchus, for Plymouth.
FALMOUTH, MAY 16.—Sailed the Duke of Kcnt
packet, for Lisbon ; Prince Ernest packet, for ditto;
Queensberry. and Frecling packets, for Coronas;
Princess Charlotte packet, for Gibraltar and Ma'ta ;
Ranger packet, for New-York ; Osborne pi:ck•!!•
for Jamaica ; and Diana packet, for the Brazils—ail
with Mails.

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