The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-25 00:00:00

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SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, Ift3.

BOURBON WAR.

The newi of yesterday seed's to decide this point.
The public will now see, who has been right and whe
wrong, from the commencement of this question. FroUt
the very outset, tee predicted WAR. What was the Old
Times, the Chronicle, the Herald, the late Tramper, the
the great Globe itself, the twinkling Star; what were
all these silent; had they no intelligence? Were they
blind as buzzards; or,are they engaged in stock jobbing?
Be this as it may, we were right and they were wrong,
from the very outset. IVe were not biased by stock
jobbing propensities. We took the, facts that the case
famished; and having no particular interest at stake,
reasoned fairly on those facts, and came to the conclosioa
that there would be war. We ridiculed the idea of Mr.
Caysixe's shield. When our friend, Old Chromes,
talked of France not daring to go to war in despite of
the advice and remonstrances of our Government ; when
Chronny talked of the "power of the whole British Rue-
" pire;" we said, dear Chronny, the" British Empire"
has so power; the "British Empire" dares not go to
war, Chronny; the French knew that; the French
know our situation as well as we know it ; the French
know that we cannot go to war without blowing up our
Debt; they know that the Debt cannot be blown tap
without blowing up Hatton and Old Sarum; they keew
that to blow them up would break poor Mr. CAN.
MING'S heart ; in short, dear Clammy; we dare
not make ear desoatches smell of pireder S
therefore, the French will not be etoppe4 en
their marelsfor one single mutual by the advice or the
remotutrantres of our gerovranwato—We --ewil—opostesho
pablic, and, especiaily,the. traders is Spanish loads
to remember that this teas one lapguage to our Mead,
Chronny. And what Is nave come to light ? Why; the
literal verification of these opinions : for, what 'Willa
French papers now tell us They tell 'is this;
thatthe Holy Ally•blen have withdrawn their arntitsia-
dors from Spain, and nee about to send aratessaddis to
the Rebel Regensey. But this is not the thing *bleb
we have now particularly in view. These French papers
tell us, that our tiovernment TWICE OFFERED; ITS
MEDIA lION: first, by the DeRE of IVEmiNcrox,
and second, by Sir WM. A. COURT ; and thati Fr.ince
REk'USED tO ACCEPT OF THE MEDIATION
—This is what has not happened to England,
we believe, for upwards of four hundred years ! What!
have your mediation refused, in a case like this, and not
go to war !—However, the bare fact is enough to excite
the indignation of every Englishman who has any
portion of feeling or understanding. This is Chronny*,
shield Yes, Mr. CANNINO held it out; but the
Bourbons dashed it away with the back of their
hand ! This is only the beginning of sorrows,
however. This is only the beginning of what this
nation has to endure, for the folly and the baseness
of Orange Bore* and the White Cockade. We remem-
ber the baseness that reigned when CASTLEREAGH was
received with clapping of bands in that Assembly
which passed Sid:notate:: pow er•of-imprisonment•act,
which sanctioned Sidmouth's circular, which would not
inquire into the Manchester affair and into the Oldham
Inquest, which passed Six Agit% which passed the kiame
Transportation Act; we remember the baseness that
reigned in the nation at the date when-Casmanimou
was received by clapping of hands by that Assembly;
we rem-tuber the applause heaped upon Old Bhurtma
because he was the first to rifle the .Itfitscems of PARIS,
we remember. aye, and the whole world realembots, the
death of bIARSUAL NET and the captive of HUDSON
Lowe; and this same world now beholds ktwiee prof
fered mediation of England rejected wMb acoro.4 the
men of tlie.teirio cockade !• We (orient
hundred years, such .an indignity has not been offered
to this country. Mark the folly, too, of the proffer t
When you are about so offer your mediation, in a case
like this, you ought to be sore that it will be accepted of-
at once, and with thanks; or you ought to be prepared
for war. This has been a maxim in diplomatic affairs for
centuries. Advice, in a case like this, must be command;
or it ought not to be given at all.--To a pretty state is
ringland faller, since that day when a.bleitiber of the
Noose of Commons iaid," a single cannon ought not to
" be fired rein Eyrc.pe, without the permission of Eng.
lend." Vot.ralits cites this speech, not as a speci-
men of arrogance, but as a proof of the high spirit and
great power of the English Nation. We have always
predicted that this Debt would make. this nation the
lowest aid most despicable cpon 11:e face of the earth
This Debt has been cuntr:irted for the sake of Hatton
and Old Sarum ; and to the wretched Borough System,
vre shali owe calamities ten thousand times treater than
now oppress the CoUntry.