The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-30 00:00:00

TIIE FiTATES f.iN.

in deowitreatiodato
ea:tiller:7l'd
Lieutenant Locket had returned
,to Bussorah, after public frol% that gross and iaspudent system of impo-
of and the ruins of Babylon ; Ise had Bidets, which, notwithstanding daily detecticn, cond.
several volt/Mile Arabi: and Persian Ma-
Titus it still
noes'. to be daily practiscd tt;tll ssr,s.ss.
nuscripts. The operations of Scindia's detaelimpots
parts of Hindustan had been attend- continues to be believed thst the affairs of Russia are
"uteusual success, which had coutribu:ed prosperons condition, aml that the destrucdon and
sha, erscuation of Moscow was sn unconition effort of zeal '
the ' dominions acid extend
vowel- of that Chieftain. From Rangoon ad, and patriotism in the support of National Indepene-
vice had been received of the Nuectss of the ltoyal eacc; but what is far worse than this unfounded be-
Army against the insurgents of Arracan, who lief, little or no acceen: is taken of the calamities
had sled to the Eastern llillt. Reperts from Chkts.
and sufferings of that, or of any other people, so as
gang state, that straggling parties of Burmalts had
the machinery of their Government, in alliance with
committed depredations on this side the Nafa. The
main Burnish force consisted of abonl 7000 men; its ours, are preserved ; although the itthebitants mey
consequence, a detachment of the 12th Native In. have no share in their resolves, nor any interest in
fantry, from Barrackpor&, pissed Luckipore, on its
their preservation. My long residence in Russia,
route to Chittagong. The ship Hating was lauding Sir enables
for Europe.. The ship Surrey had been sent to MA- me to estimate the real condition of that
country at this tnement, which is but too truly de,
dras with rice; the Dorer Castle was In dock, hay.
itig grounded in the !fiver; the Marquis Wellesky scribed by Dr. CLARKE in his Travels. No man
remained; and the Walthamgory and Lady Castle- who has lived only in England can possibly conceive
reagh were gone to Prince of Wales Island ; the w hat wretched, degraded beings the ...lass of the popti.
Warren Hastings and Lord L'astlereagh's dodoes
tion was Chien. Ssreral extra ships were expected
to load for Europa." lation is throughout the whole extent of that vast ens-
pire—a people who neither have nor can have any in-
terest whatsoever in the support of the Emperor's au-
thority, nor of that of the Nobles,whose more imme,
diate slaves they are, as much indeed as the cattle in
their stalls. What interest can such a people possi,
bly have to resist the conquest of the French, or of
any other civilised nation. Their only possible sup
fering is in the resistance to conquest ; thy conquest
itself, when completed, could not but be a gain to
them. The Government of France, for its own
sake, putting all morals, or humanity, or justice,
out of the question, could not bet advance their
condition ; yet the mass of the people of Moscow,
the abject slaves of their superiors, are supposed to
have SPONTANEOUSLY and unanimously tied to the
deserts, with their miserable families, at the open-
ing of their tremendous winter, to preserve (0
monstrous delusion!) their NATIONAL INDEPEND-
ENCE.

TO CORRESPON DENTS.

We have received a very singular letter from a PATRIOT, at
!Mandy Park, which shall be particularly noticed To-mor-
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THE STATESMAN.

A FREE reorLe indeed, or a people having still
the FEELINGS Or FREEMEN, though they nay have
lost the most essential benefits of a Free .Govern-
ment, WILL, or OUGHT, to resist a hostile invasion,
on the sacred principles of FREEDOM ALONE, side.
pendently of any evils to be encountered, or adran.
tages to be lost by foreign conquest ; but THE Hug- 1
'TANS can have no such feelings; and are exposed to
the extremity of human suffering, merely because:
the Emperor ALEXANDER NOM' chuses to mist the',
European system of BONAPARTE, after basing sub.
scribed to its pristine ascendancy, by what I shall con-
tent myself with only lamenting as a mistaken policy, I
but which was branded by all the suppwrters of the il
present Administration, with every epithet of con-
tempt
and execration. HERE, Sag, THE smear. sr.- i
GINS. We live in times in which it may be fit to re- '
flect upon the degrees of suffering which a moral and I
enlightened people (who have the power in their own
hands) ought to endure. Not for the preservation of I
their country, nor of a free constitution of Govern-
meet, but for the support of corraption or arbitrary
power. Were England invaded at this moment,
much as her people may have suffered from mis-go- 1
vernmettt, I know and feel, with pride and exults. I
title, that every nerve would be strained, and every
breast be bared in her defence; but if the time
should ever arrive, when, from the obstinate conti-
nuance of exhausting wars, and the system of taxa-
tion necessary for their support, Government should
have attracted to itself so great a part of the pro•
perty of the country, as that THEY ONLY could live
in ease and comfort who were fed by Government
out of this spoil of the people, and if from the un-
equal constitution of Parliament the People felt that
they had no legitimate means of correcting these in-
tolerable evils, it is my firm opinion, that if England
were under suety circumstances invaded the people of
London would not, upon a mandate from the Trea-
sury (like that of the Tartar Governor of Moscow),
set fire to that great and opulent city, only that the
mere machinery of such a Government, as I have an-
ticipated (but which I pray God may never be
realized), might be kept up in other parts of the
kingdom, until the whole island was eaten up as
with a cancer ; and all this, perhaps, not to prevent
France from occupying our country (which at no
time,' nor under any possible circumstances, will
Britons ever submit to, nor I believe Frenchmen
ever attempt), but to enforce some condition of
peace, in the terms of which no man in England
might have any interest whatsoever, but which had,
become a eine qua,
nnoh in diploinacy, from the obsti-
' oacy and folly of setne of the weakest men in the
world, whom it might have become systematic to
prefer, as Ministers to the most eminent persons,
in the most perilous times. To avert such a possible
condition of our country, which would most as-
suredly subvert our Monarchy, and entail upon the
country the greatest calamities, ought to he the sole
aim of every political writer, and of every public
mall engaged in the administration of our Govern-
ment in this alarming crisis.
Had the Ministers of this country been responsible
to a Free Parliament, chosen
.(not by universal sal-
frage) but by the mass of property and intelligence
in this Island, the world could never have possibly
been in its present unexampled state of disorder and
ruin. lam not prepared to impute the system which
I has hetat so long pursued, to vickedness in its au-
thors ; it is sufficient fur my purpose, that it has been
man(festly erroneous ; and I desire nothing more
for the deliverance of our affairs, that' that .THE
PEOPLE might be enabled, according to the spirit. of
the Constitution, iiis in judgmenrupon the present
pOature of our atrairi. •
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