The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-02 00:00:00

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THE JPPROACHING CONGRESS.
The approachidg CGNGICEsS of SOVEREIGNS, or
DEPUTILB of Snvereign% at Ais.la•Chepelle, is a sub.
• jest estremtily worthy of public attention. We real-
ly believe. the removal from France of the ARMY
: Of OCCUPATION will be one of the results; and so tar
we unfeignedly rejoice! The relative peace establish-
ments of the military forces of the several European
rowers, is stated to be one object ; and it is added,
that a REDUCTION in all of them is in contemplation.
We shall be happy if this proves to be correct. We
need not dwell on the Advantages, commercial, moral,
and political, which must arise from both or either
of these measures. Our Readers well know, how
to appreciate and respect them. But other, and
very different objects are stated to be in the view ci/
the Congress. It, is said, in respectable foreign
► Joornals. that a CONFEDERATION of the great Powert
of Europe will he made at this Congress, to preserve
the peace of Europe. This also, we should hail with
pleasure, if the words " Peace of Europe" could nut
bejostly translated into—the QUIET and SECURITY
of DEsPOTI-M its EUROPE; and if they did not, in
fact, design that and nothing else. To impede, and
if possible arrest the MARCH of MENTAL IMPROVE-
MENT. and the consequent desire of FREEDOM, is too
plainly ILO first object and dearest wish of the great
Powers ..1 Europe; and this, they courteously, and
its a court-like style, term " preserving the peace of
Europe." As to tee real peace of Europe, or in other
words, the absence of war among all the Powers that oc-
cupy ;be territory of Europe, the farthest thought they
have, Rod the wish most remote from their heart is—
to make that permanent and interminable. They would
as soon give up the SPORT OF WAR altogether, BS 11
I[ooll si•orisman mould his hounds, or his dog and
• gun. This is not 111. peace of Europe, in theirdic-
tiOnary It is the TRANQUILLITY of DESPOTIQM, cod
not ttn• REPO:E of the PEOPLE, they seek. We cats
credit them, indeed, if they tell us, they do not wish
to go to war with each other at present. They have
two very along motives fur peace among themselves
for a while. They are in the situation of a man who
has rode his hackney or hi. hunter till it cannot keep
its feet, but is every now and then on his knees with
him. That man must give the animal ease, and a
fresh meadr,w to recover health and strength in. And
so must they art with their People, for a time. They
know this, and do not work their slaves entirely to
death, ',though neatly to desperation. But they
have another, and considerieg their natural, their he-
reditary feeling, even a stronger motive. They need
unanimity for the present smug themselves, to con-
cert and carry into effect the means of suppressing
and for ever setting at peace and rest, the sPIRIT of
ENQUIRY and the GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE among
. the PEOPLE. They hare seasons for peace at present,
and we gibe them our assent when they say, they in.
tend it at present. But oar jealousy is the greater,,as
to their movements at this new Congress. It is said,
that the KINGDOM of IlArrovEtt is to be rounded
and aggrandized. Why ? It is to buy over, &bolls/.
the natural Ally of the People's rights, that IlousE
. of HANoren which was placed on the THRONE
of England (when it bad no Throne of its own) to
preserve, and expressly to preserve the PEOPLE'S
BIGHTS ? The People of England should look into
this ! It is, for their sake, to be lamented that the
new Parliament is not sitting, that representations
might be made by the Commons to the Throne, as
to the choice of the person who is to .represent Eng-
land at that Congress. Certainly my Lord Castle-
reagh would not be the choice of an independent
Moose of Commons. The man who, like Lord
Strafford, used the People as a ladder to mount to
the place of his ambition, and then despised and
spurned at them, would not be sent with the Pep-
? Les WILL, to take care of the PEOPLE'S RIG tuts ?
II is a portentous thing, this Lord going to the new
Congress I—But it is further said, there is to be a
new SUPREMACY created in Germany, in place of the
power and dignity of Emperor of Germany, sue.
rots,.en by Napoleon ; and that is to be enjoyed,
for limited periods, in turns, by (ENGLAND, ( Eng-
lund!) AU.TRIA, and FRANCE.—That is, there is
to be laid new foundations for new wars on the
Continent, in which England is to be the I.IN-Ar.t,
and the Continent 1110 FATTrNEII, her 11/7/d.+ with
English blood. end her commerce and industry with
English gold!—Where is the Parliament, to en-
quire into this ? I'ETITIONS should forllwilh, he
sent from every part of the United Kingdom, to
pray for the immediate assernb!ing of the Pat tisment.
We recommend this, most set iously, to the attention
of the country ! _

To-morrow, according to annual custom on
3d of September, the Right 114 s. the Loup NIAYOit,
Sheriffs, Recorder, orl several of the Alilermen,in their
vespeclive carriages, attended by the City Marshals,
Marshalmen, ecc. will go in grand procession from
.the Mansion-house to to proclaim Ruth°.
lomew Fair, and open the lligh Court of Pied Poudre,'
.40 the Hand and Shears, in Cloth Fair, for the trial
of assaults, petty larcenies, and misdemeanors, com-
mitted in and about Smithfield during this three days
continuance of the Fair.
To-morrow the Prisoners who stand committed on
charges of felon), will he removed from the various
jails in the City of Loodoti and County of :Middlesex
to Nengate, preparatory to their taking their trials
at the ensuing Sessions, et Justice 11411, in the Old
Bailey, which will commence on Wednesday neat,
the 9th inst.
The Sessions for the County of Middlesex will
commence at the Sessions-house, iu Clerkenwell-
green, on Monday twit, the 7th inst.
WAGER AGAINST TIM F..—Preci;ely at seven
o'clock, en Monday morning, Jack Marlin, the
baker, alias the pugilist, started from the house of
Mr. Goldsmith, the sign of the Bull, in East Sheen,
to run to the house of Mr. Booth, of the Tailors'
Arms, Clayton-street, Kennington Cross, being a
distance of eight mites and a half, for a wager of 40
to 20 guineas, to perform it in an hour ; and which
he readily accomplished in six minutes within the
given lime.
As Thomas Franks, Esq. of Bristol, was going
along Piccadilly,opposite Devonshire-house, towards'
Ilyde Park corner, accompanied by his Lady, oil
Sunday night, about 11 o'cleck• two villains view
on each side of them, one of whom snatched off Mrs.
F.'s valuable shawl, and the oilier took Mr. F.'s gold
.ustch and appetidages, with which they made
clear cff.