The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-05-06 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

FIRANKTOUT, AJ'kl& 25.—The Emperor set
ve,terday at et& o'clock in the evening.
.Mayence, and arrived here a little before
o'clock. Ills Majesty only stopped the time
sary to change horses. He took the road of 111
The ifimediate suite of the FAnperor only cont
of five carriages. His Serene Highness the Prince of
Neufchatel, the Duke of Vicenza, and the Duke of
rrioul, accompanied bis• Majesty. The passage of
the persons belonging to his Majesty's suite lasted an
the night. •
Their Serene Highnesses the Grand Duke and
Duchess of Baden arrived here to-day.
It.yriseuv, APRIL 2l.—Count Marcolini, Cabinet
Minister Count Sinft Pilsach, Minister of State,
Major-General De Langenne, and I.ieut..Gen.
De
Gersdorf, as well as many persons in the suite of their
Majesties the King and Queen of Saxony, seLtost4im.
eveningtefore yesterday.
A considerable transport of baggage also &Parted,
which hid n military escort, and took theiroad of
itez, to proceed to Bohemia.

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
TUVILSDAT, MAY 02 1.813.
--New—

Paris Papers to the Ist instant arrived late last
te...ht, but they contain no article worth transcribing,
except that BOIVIPARTE set out from Mayence (Mentz)
on Saturday, the 24th utt. at eight o'clock in the
evening, and arrived at Frankfort at eleven the next
day. He thence took the road of Hanau.
Two Heligoland Mails also arrived yesterdsy even-
ing, With letters from that place to the 3d, and from
Yamborgh to the lit Instant. By these accounts,
the note of warlike preparation in the North is sound-''
ed louder than batons, mad is more distinctly heard
than ever. If we are not greatly mistaken, our Mi-
nisters are in some degree stunned by it; and who can
wonder it should be so ? They must feel like men who, I
actuated more by rashness than real courage, start back i
when the trying moment approaches. Their mouth; I
pieces confess (and that is the same thing as if they con-
fessed
it themselves);that the moment is critical—the,
scene awful—the coming catastrophe tremendous, &e.
that " a long and bloody conflict is to be expected.."
In most'of these particulars we agree with the writers,
as also that the conflict will be bloody, but we do I
not think with them that it will be lung also : and
ter this reason—that the men who have hitherto pro-
longed this unprofitable and unnecessary war, n ill
n,t have influence enough to prevent its termination.
If our gold (that is, the public's gold, and other
specie) had remained in the Bank, and that its Di-
rectors had not been indemnified by Act of Par-
liament, through the prodigal Minister, Mr.
PITT, but been punished for their infraction of
the laws of the realm for sending it in large and
rk&-eated subsidies to foreign mercenary States, the
war had ceased fifteen years and more ago; and
tee had been flourishing by trade; the natural pabu-
lum on which the British islanders feed and fatten. But
no; captures made before declaration of war—tried
by oar own Courts—condemned by the King's Judg-
e proceeds disposed of as the Sovereign
Pleases !:!—are causes and considerations which
might be supposed powerful enough to stir heaven
and earth, to put an end to so dire, so destructive a
system. Can we wonder that every maritime state
on the globe is impregnated with either enmity
or envy towards us ? But we are at war, and
it behoves every man, who loves his country,
or values the property he has in it, to consider
how we can best 'get out of it. But perhaps
all advice and all remonstrance is in vain, till
a little more of the bitter fruit is forced down the
throat of silly JOHN BULL. He had the sweets of
it doing the first years of the Revolutionary Wars
and that circumstance called up the worst qualities
of his disposition (the mercenary ones),which looked
at the immediate gain, without considering that in
the end a great deal might be wanting to balance
the account under the significant item " profit and
loss."

Of the articles of intelligence respecting the prog-
nostics of the approaching renewal of the conflict,
Me find the same reason to complain of the ambi-
guity, inaccuracy, and even falsehood of the news :
but, *hen we consider it is brought from.the Hauge-
Towns, meaning towns i nhabited by merchants,
composed of Jews and Gentiles, we need not won-
der the case is such. The ambiguous part of the Intel-
ligence we complain of itytbet which gives out that the,