The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-03 00:00:00

J note was of a paciffe.afterseesg,„ We beg oar • balked all calculation. Recently, Rum and Ruse
sera to pay attention to the MBE of ON whole article ; have admitted into their paper, two excellent lettere
J consider again well who and what DAxiet. Smears. , frowi' Mr. Tames ATTwooD, of Birstingbam: which
is ; and, then, we think they wif be it no loss to be able I.letiers prove the falsehood of all that bad been
to guess at the real wishes of our nsinisters, and at thi egroolotea from this pandimonium of etiackery,
part which they have really taken, at the Congress and daring the last eight years so fatal to the farmers.
at Paris, relative to the meditated attack upon Spain.' Theta • Letters do, indeed, prove that this
We have marked souse passages by italic characters ; kohl, and EVANS of Fudge-row, have been either the
the reader has only to look at them, to hes satisfied that mess ignorant men or the greatest Agricultural and
the STATESMAN has been the true guide from the first political imposters that eeee lived upon the face of the
ii ,talk of this 13oerbUn war to the present hour. It taint- earth:' Mr. Cossarr, always ready to-pardon f forgiving
possible to read the following, without seeing that the to'; fault, lost no tittle is noticing the meritorious act,
real author of it'is confident that France will enter performed by Mr. Aix'woon, and in observing that he
Spain at last; isd that he is mortified beyond descrip- looked upon the appearance of these Letters lo the
Lion that she ism pot done it already; and let it be re- Farmers Jourssal,,es a sign of repentance, io theta bor.
membered, that, it is Le Courier which expresses this rible sinneek Rime and Blue (of Firdge Row); in
mortification; see yet the Chronicle (oh, astonishing which act of forgiveness and oblivion, he included a
self delusion !) still effects to believe, that Mr. CAN- stupid fellow of the name of HototTcs, who, It is said,
limo and the Duke of WELLINGTON, hap; been labour- is their editor.—And what is the return that these sin-

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ing with the greatest eacnestneass to dimmed*, Fiance
(rein her project. Nay. this sangaihmt paper; this paper
too ready to bestow praise. This paper, together with
one departed friend the Tramper, have been doing
ac.arcely any thing for these toe months past. .otlittit
than extol our hlioistera for their liberal priocipleinditi
for their Mobs: tAroans their shield over the Peniniala
'Melancholy infateattei; and even reprehensible,
'1 ift
en they had US alit eir elbow, coniiantly we/ t
F •
silOSlO of their danger. and pointing Pot. to Untill.•
airiiiht and sale path. ,• , , • - ~! ..a •r:tt to
• " The Monitear of Sunday contains the efilaiat
meet of the Viseountele Cbaterobrientktairtheadeesesio
the Duke de Montmorency. This is a•emllleient •
Con of what we yesterday urged. that. the retirunwffit
Monhooreacy arose out if personal Dollop, decidedly
honourable to himself. and notfrom any etsientiol &Prim
of opinion between him and has collcag If there lie,,
states:eau in Butope, of whom, More thenuiss.. of inother. ,
should be ready to assert, that he will nit trisckle to rev
lotion, it is M. de Chateeuhriand. We consider it tp
impossible that he. of all men, can have iteeepted o ;vie.'
cep for the parpose of practically arae wrliny tha
filepwri j
Pier of keirintorffh and theme dectrioes.ef rational, thirty,:
which lie has so eloquently expounded In his writingsst;
With respect to the diplomatic vole of M. de Viskele.
to the French Ambassador at Madrid, there seems to be
little diversity of °pintos as to the real state in which It,
leaves the question of war or peace. • The pacific•conimets-'
tutors upon it, both here toad in Paris, 'lett it impossibleti,
cvleact a sentence favourable to their' ekes, beyond tide
perplexing ambiguity of strained inferences t whilst thek
uppouenta see in it not s word to make thous distrust their
past opinions. The Journal des Debate, even, which has
broken silence, and replied to an able sales in the Quail-
dieune of Saturday. does not venture to go beyond/he as-
sertion that M. de Villeless letter is an.experiment, merely
to try whether war can be avoided. tile eitsy to perceive,
too, that there is no tery sangitine expectatioo entertained
• by this journal, that the experiment will be suceesifOL—
Whether it has been wisely bried,—whether it is the best po-
licy under existing circumstances, to employ menace",
which may at once irritate and forewarn those whom It
may he est last necessary to encounter, are points which we•
shall not at present discurs. Our own opinion is, that if
there has been any thing in the past condition of Spain, or
if there be any siting in her actual one, to justify the threat
Of war, there will certainly banothing in ber future one
which will diminish the necessity of war. We "say this,
because the revolutionary fuction..whicla nosy rules in
Spain, can have no sat In cceolll/*., they have pillaged
c Mir feet a A. Oe -.—e,„ pon the spofla-
men of lira, sad n tbe lie ,IN arkilmeraey—
no
• i f lite.trgoedalaMifie. offia-dentilleffinic itiliteeltable.—
't And, indeed. what deonestie pager is there of eteffictint force
and mapitude, to make them recede? We know of none.
Were there a chance that a moderate sad ratifiesl party
might gain the ascendancy in Spain, and so work out that
• redemption for their country which it is the object of the Al-
lied Powers to accomplish, thee it wonlol Ise criminal arro-
gance in those Miles to say, wo wiltdo it ourselves. But
this path of salvation no one can discern. What, then, 'be-
comes of the position in which Prance has placed herself
with respect to Spain? She has told her neighbour, in tan-
. page sufficiently explicit, your proceedings alarm us; they
compromise our own seer; and they endanger our own se-
curity: we cannot condi, ue tolive in this state, not merely
of apprehension, but of expensive precaution ; we call upon
- you, therefore, to relieve us train these grievances, by pru-
dent measures of your own, or we must relieve ourselves by
Those efficacious means which we hate at our disposal.—
'llitui the question stands, as postulated in the letter of M. de
Villein, and it only remains to see which party will take the
basiness upon itself; whether the revolutionists of Spain
will tread back their steps, or whether the Government of
Ponce must at last do in January what it has endeavour-
eelto avoid its December. As we slid yesterday, we cannot
for a lamest suppose a middle course, because M. de Vil-
Me, we are sure. will never consent to cover France, and
the councils of France, with the ridicule qf Europe, which
would Inhumed upon them, should Spain reply, we will sof
recede, and should France add, neither will we go ea.—The
v. Morning Chronicle says, we seem " unwilling to admit ties
nhandoutrieut of the warlike policy by France. It is not a
. question of volition with us. any more than it would be if we
were called upon to assent to any proposition that involved
an obvious and absurd contradiction. We only reason u
facts and circumstances, which lie before our reader as they
do before ourselves ; and every one, who peruses what we
write, is nimble of judging whether our conclusions are
wrong. At present, we certainly find them fortified ou every
side, for who is there that has yet ventured to pronounce
• • the letter of hl. de Villeie apacifsc communication? We beg
' pardon. Thethroteieleitself did,yesterday,say," nothing can
be more pacificsisnthis document?" but we will venture to al-
firni,thesnore deliberate examination of itbytheekronicle,wWl
. not ratify this hasty opinion. The effect, too, which it bee
bad epee; our own funds Is • tolerably siguificant indicatioa
of this real tight in which It is viewed. When the simple feet
of Montieureney's resignation. or rather of his •• dismissal."
as it was called, was made known, the funds went up nearly
one per cent. ; but from the moment the note of M. de Villas
appeared, there was end to pacific speculations, and a gra-
dual decline followed."

fiers make to such gsmerositY ? Why, dory fill no less
this threeltiao tirtheirpaper with whit' they call bio.
graphical aoacdoies.ohili. Conuarr ; thit is to sal, a
Haase oillies.aukot reelompies, each as would have been
vemesitimo' be pabliihed• in no :country upon earth is.
bept reit let' which' the Old Thiresiiiwspaper has bred*
isubltihid: ifeWeder;it is not thCse lies and calumet's,
Pftliare worth noticing :. the thing to be noticed ie. that
akismikeeruble,paperoofser having ha& such a run : after
baying bad suelvettensive.eirmilstion, is now ern the
poilitNif bbingbOtiltrilletlnguished; end has been tom-
peleid to resort o this lee; .resone4l,4his appeal to the
etwp,fthrlsetaed, the malice, sod all the bad passions of
enen.iW, order. to .kke wet, for a white, its. Miserable
eilstehte. • loittnid 'oi anecdotes about the private
4 lite ,1 'lll4K•l'r.f..aisit7 T. this it Uerlr,t' end lrvina.:l
FPO 44 :111/i1.2, , ,• ffre)Vto, rendes, lb* ,wet fa
whom Ahoy, liana iredniik. mons etftioulibitem secoast
if • Si, ditatyhtdildreil" Mtn them beeleirrescripte
rfisitit*thetifiiditieittotel. • They wonhl hive done well
,t6.glAi ibi formoca. edt account of the woe, paid to
istous lee *lv priltiom of the Circulars aod pamphlets
of Webb Holl-I.—Hetteeeer, the wretched paper can do
iti.innie'tniiclOf. ' Alf farmers hive their eyes open at
last, and theit Seals tliedoOm of the" Farmers' Journal."
--4-000 uwark ,we will add for the•information of
Mr.•Taeteas dreamy, who, clever man as he is 4 Atm
flbt appear ,ad! know 'mods about the Zondors ;rem.
'head "' /lisrtiseri:foo reel" impostors pretend that it
conks favour on their,part to admit the Letters of Mr,
THOMAS &ATWOOD ; than .which, purely, greater impu.
dente can scarcely be conceived. There is no paper in
London that would ndt have gratefully received the
communications of Mr. THOMAS ATTOOD. Which, as
Jae ham seen, were, at once republished In the Register.,
though they had been, *Weed, sometrhee disgraced by
first appearing in the '''Parmers'.looroar.:But, if Mi.
ATTIVOOD mutt hare a tarty paper, why not send his'
commooications to the aferraer,Whicis, on the Swab"'
o
and the Moods *he equips of a communication,
vrill circulate him,r a, Hama thdtisand copies, and
cause them to be read in ever; part of the kingdom.
*by shourd he, in the firstiltatre, mike his conaniunica;
don, to a miserable sinking thing that is become odious
to the farmers by its having been the vehicle of the trash
of Webb Hall f• itarl, lft the second place, be insulted by
this Ruerv. and Evade telling the public (as far as they
can tell any public), that it is a favour bestowed by them
when they condescend to publish what he writes? We
quit this fallen vehicle for the present ; before it is quite
gone: before it breathes its last, we will take an oppor-
tunity of giving it another blow: such a mischief-doing
thing ought sot to expire without our giviogit the coup
de grace.
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DEATH OF THE TRAMPER.
Somewhat recovered from that depression of spirits,
nutter which we yesterday announced this melancholy
event to our sympathising readers, we proceed to state
some of those particulars to which we then made a pain-
ful allusion. Our departed neighbour bad, as we thought
it our duty, from time to tinge, to inform our readers,
been a gaod while in a dee:ining state. Some thought
that it was in a consumptiton ; but the vigourousness of
the body continued, while that of the mind seemed gra-
dually to disappear. In short, though we did not like
to speak out, we thought we could perceive evidences of
"mental delusion ;" and,- as we ventured to intimate to
private friends, we were not altogether without appre-
hensions of fatal consequences from causes to which de-
licacy forbids us to make more pointed allusion. This
reserve might be removed by the rumours that have been
afloat about a coroner's inquest; but we can assure
our readers that those rumours are totally ground.
less ; and that the demise has been quite in a na-
tural and regular way, proceeding from that
general decay which physicians tall a breaking
up of the constitution. For some time past, we have not
happened to come in personal contact with our late
friend ; but, happening to live near him, our alarms
have not failed to be excited by perceiving the frequent
ingress and egress (to and from the dwelling) of a cer-
tain man dressed in coal black, and with visage blacker,
if possible, than the habiliments. This personage, whose
sombre countenance appeared to us to he of deeper die
every time successively that he came from the dwelling
of our friend ; this personage of indescribable black,
who is well known about Charing-Cross, and not less
well known as the harbinger of certain death to every
literary patient that receivesof his drugs; the appear•
anee of this personage was, to us, conclusive ; and,
therefore, though we received, from several friends.in•
formation that our neighbour, the 7'rampe , was get-
ting better, we were well assured, within our own
minds, how delusive the intelligence must be, as
long as the sombre personage before-mentioned con-
tinued to visit the patient. As we informed 'our
readers yestesday, the sodden death of the True
Briton (late Lord Rewrote's paper) which had
been recently married to our unfortunate brother the
Tramper, has been said to have been the cause of the
death of the latter; and we by no means pretend that
it had nothing at all to do in the producing of the
fatal catastrophe; but, still, we ascribe the event much
more to the agency of that administering black-faced
angel from Charing Cross, whom we have mentioned
above. May all the gods keep him from our office !
We hear that he has been casting an eye into that of the
"Farmers' Journal;" and we know that he has taken
several very bard looks at the Otil Times. Every one
Viet now reeds the latter says that it has been "spoked
" to ;" that it has seen an apparition; that it has heard
the death Watch: certain it is, at any rate, that it is
gavial;
constantly its prayers to the goddess of Grab-
street. This.fel destroyer of the press bears, like the
fatal sisters of old, an enormous pair of shears in his
hand, and is, besides, known by a prodigious rump,
thopgiet to contain matter which be ejects at pleaqure,
and which has been observed to operate like aqua Canis,
consuMing all that it lights on.

THE STATESMAN.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
ROOS' OF LORDS, JAN. 2.—This day, at two o'clock,
their Lordships met pursuant to adjournment, and after
the usual ceremonies, the Parliament was declared to be
prorogued to Tuesday, the 4th of February, then to sit
fir the despatch of boldness.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. •
• ,
Panotrrs; Mt. 1.-.•Artfvell, the Welh slab n a Maria,
Reins. from Neater, leaky, and must discharge; the
PAward Foster; Alheitt, from Baltimore and Psonth,
bound to Rotterdam : and the Sarah, Jones, 'froiii Mes-
sina. Arrived off the port, the Elizabeth, froth (rib.
'ratter, for London.—Wind S.S.E.
PORTSSIOUTLI, J AN. 2.—No arrivals Or sailingt.—Wind
S %E.
Daar,larr.2. —Ssiled, the Brisk sloop of war, foe'
Sheerness —Wind S.W.
Haatercn, JAW. 2.—Pdt back, the Lord Nelson and.
Princess Charlotte Packeti, not being able.• ti reach'
their destinations, on account of the ice. Arrived; the
Charlotte, May,lefith mails, &c. from Ot(thiubtsrg.--;.
Wind S. by E. ' ' - ' • r, •
Ltvaapoot., JAN. I.—Sailed the James &tiler, Mar`
shall-, for New Yurk ; the Georgia, Varilttir,ltit•Savin:
'bah • abd the Ma, Bliss, fur Philtdelpirte.lLANlzid,
S.S. E.
'•,lPatitoorn, JAW. l'.—Arrived theD6W6Plqui Ozet
WOW-Lisbon, in 9 days; the Fez, Pettit; Vote J On;
NOW-Lisbon,
19th of November.; aniVilitt'Witeill , am,
Paeltet, from New York, sailed the Set' of Dee het t
the Commercial, Talbot, from Trieste! :: the 'll,l=
ger, Peter!, from Gibraltar; and Sir 'llbrivillt '
frout•Meestha.

•
NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
•
PROSIOTIORIRI?. .ni the Hon.,
To vie R4wit OF POST•CAPTOIN.—Captai
Lord H. Tyne, the Hon. P. spencer. Archibald kl• Lean. J.
Thead. James 11. Plumrldge, Curies Nelson, 0. Tyler,
and J. Frankly*.
To TAO RONK OP CONNIANDIBIL—Lieutemants Thomas
BoumMen JARMO Lowry Daniel J. Woodritf, E. L filch,
Alexander Kennedy (8,.) Edmond ht. Harrington. Charles
Hope, Harry R. Moopom, William Moriarly, anditiohard
Chamberlayne.
MID4HIPUZII TO TOE RitNIL OP LIFOripIINT.—MONSFS.
3. Cr. Gregory, Edward Corbett. ,Fllllista Hargood, Paul
W. fitatre. John D'Urbaln. that*** th*Biwitgall, W.
Dickson (B). Russell 11. Manners. George Hood, Robert
11. Baker, 'A. Brown, C. H. Aekerleyi •U. F. Itrownrigte,
John Sberti,_Huala None, William Duke, Alexander J.

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aroma, end 'D..lfoting.
Asswerasi-Suneaons To TOO RAMP OP Suementr.—
Messrs. William Donnelly, James Rae. James M. Madden,
D. B. Conway, John Greeniali, John Wilson (B), Willjun
Roger), David Mislay, Thomas Mitchell, and Alaander
Gilfellen.
Suabsons MAVIS TO Till ROOM OF ASSIITAN'T-ROA-
610N.—Alessrs. William Folds, Thaddeus Porte, T. D.
Esehelby, O. T. Mosey, C. M'Arthur. A. Sinclair, Moran-
der Lane, John Robertson. A. Tweddale, Thomas Bell (C),
e. E. Forman. O. Elmore, Nicholas Magrath, Isaac Web-
ley, W .Belcher, Horatio Rymer, J. S. Wilkes, and David
Gepties,
APPOINTMENTS.
Commodore Sir Edward Owen, upon a particular gerviee.
Csetraiss.—Thoauss /touchier, to the Beaver-Arch.:
M'Lean, to the Blossom—Sir M. Maxwell, to the Britebr
E. L. Rich. to the AmpAsyd--Edward Curzon, to the My—
att. Robert Mends, to the Owen Glendowerr•-11. E. P. Start,
at the Photon—W. H. W. Parry, to the Priyee Regent—G.
P. Rich, to the Ringdove—Julin Theed, db the Tamar—
Thomes Brings, to the Tenor—O. 11. Oulon, to the Tri-
bes*, '". 4- • . r."
LseterssateTs.—C. R. Milboorne, to the Apollo yacht—
Thomas Cowan, to the Bellette sloop—G. P. Eyre, R. L.
Hams, Jobe B. Maxwell, and 'John Reeve, to the Briton
frigale—Robert H. Baker, to the Bastard sloop—David
Welch, to the Dover frigate—J. H. Bond, and 11. B. H.
Matthews, to the Genoa, 74--Rawdon Maclean, John Dan-
gerfield, Joseph O'Brien, Raymond Evans, and James B. 1..
Hay, to the Gloucester—ft. It. Sayer and W. 11. Molyneux,
to the Jupiter—Alexander Shalrp, to the Nimrod—John
Parker, to the Northumberland—Thomas Ball, Pringle
Stokes, Edward S. Clarkson, and John Pole, to the Owen
Glendower—R. C. Curry, to the Niter gun-vessel—'Thomas
Marshall, Horatio Cock, G. J. 11. Johnstone, and Charles
Cotton, to tile Phaeton—Samuel Meredith, George Pierce,
Frank Ramsden, .1. W. Aldridge, C. A. Barlow, and l'harles
Hallowell, Flag-Lieutenant, to the Prince Regent—Hugh
Nurse, William Duke. end Alex. James Grime, to the Py-
ramus—Thomas Best, to the Rangerll. Bolder, and
Charles Madden, to the Ringdove— word Corbett, to the
Surinam—ltenjamin Aplin, to the Swan cutter—William
Hargood, to the Syhille—Arthur Morel!, John J. Sawyer,
John G. Dewar, and E. I. Armstrong, to the Tarter—C.W.
Boyle, lion. W. Anson, G. Brews" end Charles Efiglish,
to the Tribune—R. 11. Manners, to the Tyne--James Puck-
ford, and Alexander Brown, to the Valarous—J. Adams (A)
to the Windsor Castle.
CHAPIAISS.—Rev. R. Whitehead, to the Briton—Rev.
W. R. Payne, to the'Forte—Rev. J. Kirlw, to the Prince
Regent—Rev. I. W. Macgui:e to the Tribune.
SURGEONS.—Messrs. 0. I'. Moxey (assistant) to the
Apollo yacht—William Aikin, to the Argonaut—Nieholas
hlegrath, to the Rellette—William Rogan, to-the Blossom—
John Hately, and George Symers (assistant) to the Briton—
David Finlay to the Dottrel—T. B. Eshelby (assistant) to
the Esk—R. Dickson, to the Falmouth—James Foy, to the
Forte—James Wilson (2), Joho Love (assistant), Peter
Fisher (do.), A. D. Wilson (do.), and James Barnehill (do.),
to the Gloucester—Arch. Hume, and Andrew Tweddale (as-
sistant) to the I lelicon—Thomas Bell (3), and Horatio Ry-
mer, to the Impregnahle—Charles M'Artbur, to the Jupite—
r Whitelaw, William Bell (assistant), and Joseph
Sleet (do.) to the Owen Glendower—David M. Nichol! (as-
sistant) to the Pelter—Thomas Miller, and Wm. Belcher
(assistant) to the Plireton—Thomas Robertson, and James
S. Wilkes (assistant) to the Prince Regent—R. Marshall (2),
Edward West, Robert Lomond, Andrew Sinclair, Jubn
Robertson, and David Geddes. to the Queen Charlotte—
Wm. Simpson, and I. Wesley (assistant) to the Ringdove—
D. B. Conway to the Shamrock—A. Lane (assistant) to the
Sparrowhawk—P. Colman (do.) to the Superb—Peter Reid
(do.) to the Surly—William Ritchie. and John M•Farland
(assistant) to the Tartar—J. H. Hughes, and G. E. Forman
(assistant) to the Tribure.
Pt aszes.—Messrs. E. T. Hooper, to the Bellette sloop—
Thor. Terry,' to the Briton frigate—John Warden, to the
Dover filtrate—Emetic Vidal, to the Gloucester. 74 guns—
William P. Brown, to the Owen Glendower frigate—John
Bowman, to the Phaeton frigate—John M'Arthur (11). to the
Prince Regent, 120 guns—Thumos Allan. to the Ringdove
sloop—Thomas Shanks, to the Sir Francis Drake frigate—
George hillier, to the Tartar frigate—W. B. Cracknell, to
the Thracian sloop—Matthew Anderson to the Tribune
frigate.