The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-17 00:00:00

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We give some farther extracts front this interesting'
, work. We call it interesting, ID despite et, iii,
judgment. or rather the low and implacable mega:
of the Times. That Journal (which certainly is don"
ing, in its old age) has this day a coarse attack upon
MP O'MEARA, and upon the great man that was the
sob,ect of his hook. We do nor wonder at that.—
O'lleatta has insered io his book a passage from
NAPOLEON'S mouth. relative to some venal Ea glialt
J I, which is supposed to be the Times—sap-
rased so, by itself; and O'Meana has, besides, coop
Abated the unpardonable offence (unpardonable
with the Tinges) of sympathising, and teaching the
'Dation to sympathise with the injured PRISONER or
Sr. IiCESNA. Our limits do not permit us this day
to dissect the article to which we allude. But to-
morrow (or the first day we can find opportunity) we
will offer some remarks upon this mean and malig•
want proilection.—To retain, however, to the work
hefoce us—Napoleon had been speaking of the Bri-
tish connection with China, and observing that If he
were an Englishman, be should esteem the min who
advised a war with China to be the greatest enemy to
England,in existence. "You,' said be, .. would is
the end be beaten, and perhaps a revolution in India
would follow."
•• In the course of a few years; added be, " Russia
wil have Conitantinople. the greatest :part of Turkey
and all Greece. This I hold to be as certain as if it had
already taken place. Almost all the cajoling and flatter-
ing which Alexander
w prat ' Wined. me was to gain
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my consent are thin, . I would not consent,
foreseeing that the equiti , of Europe. would be de-
stroyed. In the natural eof things, in a few years
Turkey must fall to Russia. The greatest_ part of her
population are Greeks, who you may say are Russians.
The potters it would injure, and who could oppose it,
are England, France, Prussia, and Austria. Now as to
Austria, it will he very easy for Ramis to engage her
assistance by giving her Servia, and other providers bor-
&zing upon the Austrian dominions, reaching near to
Constantinople. The only hypothesis that France and
England may ever he allied with sincerity will be in or-
der to prevent this. But even this alliance would sot
avail. France. England, and Prussia .onited cannot
present it. Ramie and Austria can at anyiime 'deceit.
Once mistre,s of Constantinople. Russia gets all the
commerce of the Mediterranean, becomes a great navel
power, and God knows what may happen. She quar-
✓els with you, marches off to India an array 6f seventy
thousand good soldiers, which to Russia Is nothing, snit
a hundred thousand canaille, COSSACS and others, and
England loses India. Above all the other powers. Iblit-
sia is the most to be feared, especially by you. Het adis
diers are braver than the Austrians, and be has tie
means of rsisidg as many as she p 1 .In braveic,
the French and English soldiers are the only ones to fie
Compared to them. All this I foresaw. I see into btu-
rity farther than ethers, and I wanted to establish a bar-
rier against Shoe barbarians by re-establishing the king-
dom of Poland and putting Poniatobski at the head of
it as king ; hut your imbeciles of ministers, would riot
consent. 4 hundred years hence, I shall be praised
(enc.-nee), and Europe, especially England, will lament
that I did not succeed. When they see the finest coun-
tries in Europe overrun and a prey to thole northern
barbarians. they will say, ' Napoleon was right.' The
Russians are beginning already with yen; I see that
they have prohibited the introduction of your merchea-
, dize. England 18104. Even Prussia prohibits
goods. What a change for England! . Under the -
. Chatham. von forbade the most powerful sovereignits -
tope. the Emperor of Germany, to navigate the Email.
or to establish an extensive commerce at Ostend. thb '
was barbarous and unjust, but still von bad the power Ii
prevent it because it was against tote interests of Rev
WI Now Prussia shuts her ports against you. Whet
• failing off! In my opinion the only thing which
tate England will be abstaining front medal* in '
tioental affairs, and by withdrawing her army from 1
continent. Then you may insist upon whatever is maw
sary to your interests, without fear of reprisals
wade upon
your army. You are superior in inalithre
Ivry( to all the world united ; and while you manioc
yours,:( I. that arm, you will always be powerful, and
be dreaded. rot hare the great advantage of declaring
war when you like, and of carrying it on a distance from
your home. By means of your fleets you can menace an
attack upon the coasts of those powers who disagree
with you, and interrupt their commerce without their
being able materially to retaliate. By your present
mode of proceeding, you forfeit all those advantages.
Your most powerful arm is given up, and you semi an
army to the confirmed where you are inferior to Bavaria
in that species of forms. You put me in mind of Francis
the First, who had a formidable and beautiful artilleryet
the battle of Pavia. List heolared his cayal ry before timid i
tins masked the battery which, could it have fired,would
have insured him the victory. He was beaten, lost every
thing, and made prisoner. So it is with you. Yon for-
sake your ships, which may he compared to Frandes
batteries, and ;brow forty thousand men oft the coati.
rent, which Prase's, or any other power who chooses to
prohibit your tnanufactures, will fall upon and cat to,
pieces, Wpm menace or make reprisals.
" So silly a treaty as that made by your ministers tee
their own country,l'• continued the Emperor, " was sM
vet known before. You give op every thing, and gain
nothing. All the other powers gained acquisitions of
country and millions of souls, bat you give np colonies.,
For example, you give up the isle of Bourbon to the
French. A more impolitic act you could not have mew
mined. You ought to endeavour to make the Freseh
forger the way to India, and all Indian policy. instead 0
pl icing them half way there. Why did you give up 1
diva? Why Snrinatn, or Nlartinique, or the other)
French colonies? To avoid doing so you had nothing
more to say than that you would retain them for the five
yea s the allied powers were to remain in France. Why
nut demand Hamburg for Hanover. Then y. -. would
have an entrepot CO yonr manufactures. In treaties, an
ambassador ought to take advantage of every thing for
the benefit of his own country "I

LAW I.VTELL,ItiIi.VGE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jeer 16.