The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-04-15 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN:

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LONDON:

SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1815.

The dreadful note of preparation for war is sound-
ed throughout all Europe. It is easy to perceive
whet will be the result of all this hostile preparation ;
but it is not so easy to discover the intended plan of
operation. So much of the elemMitg of contention
as we see collecting in the political horizons of Eu-

rope, cannot, we fear, separate end subsido into
harmless fragments without an explosion. From
Vienna, where no small pert of the mischief which
now threatens the world has been brewed in the'.
baleful caldron of kingly ambition, the world, it
seems, has again to expect its doom—whether the
blessings of peace shall be allowed to re-clothe the
earth with verdure, and close the wounds of bleediug
and long-oppressed humanity ; or the work of general
sia'sgstes and desolation shall again isicarnadine both
ell .1. and sea, because a feeble old man has lost the
shadow of a Crown, the substance of which had
long &.pas total from his repudiated line. France is !
tranquil and satisfied under the change, except
where the lingering hopes of ambition in the scatter-
ed members of the expatriated family, are wounding
nature by ineffectual struggles to excite revolt against
the stsimg upheaved effect of the general will ; nor •
has the sea which has produced this extraordinary
Revolution with so little disorder, yet threatened 'o
overflow its banks, spreading confusion and dismay-I
over surrounding countries. But it is feared it
Fear is no legitimate ground for hostile ag-;
eression----it 'dwells but with the weak. Prepara.
tion for .ts, fence is all that apprehension can justify.
All wars but those of defence are criminal, and
vengeance will visit every wanton shedder of human
blood. The new Government of France—new it is
in act as well as principle—has declared that it means
not to interfere with the concerns of other nations—
let us believe it at hest until we have proof to the.
contrary—Will any be so mad as to lash into fury
those waves, and break down the mounds of those
elements of discord and destruction which had before
overwhelmed- them ? Yet Is—thlrifirlitualliiii
rently still influencing the councils and the conduct
of thoses States who have suffered most from giving
way to its destructive stimulus. It must be with re-
' gret that the friends of peace, however moch, and
from whatever motives, they may detest France and
its present Ruler, whilst they perceive every indica.
lion and hear every assurance on the part of the
French Government that can he given of a disposi-
tion not to disturb the tranquillity of Europe unless
attacked, perceive also at the same time nothing but
the most resolute determination on the part of almost
all the Governments by which -France is Bur-
rounded, to exert themselves to the utmost, and beg.
gar the inhabitants of their respective States, in order
to bring destruction on the present fabric of French
legislation, and the empire generally that supports it.
We thought no Government which professes to act
upon principles of political and moral right, and that
knows the shame, injustice, and danger that must
attach to an unprovoked aggressive conduct,. would
have hesitated a moment in expressing, when public
interests and public satisfaction required it, a disap-
probation of such conduct, and a restitution not to
pursue it. But Lord CASTLEREAGH, who appears
lately to have comprised the whole British Govern-
ment within himself, and certainly comprises, or
thinks he does, no small part of it still within the firs
row compass of his precious person, refused last night
in the [louse of Commons to say that the British
Government would not tact aggressively towards
France. We certainly cannot .suppase. that we shall
be immediately committed to war without tometyng
like assurances of effective support from those we
call our Allies, whether they can give that effectual
support or not ; yet in answer tors question from
PONSONBY, whether the Government St this
country means to take any steps which nay %stalled
aggressive against France, till 'an answer from Vi.
enna be seceived, Lord Casneeexdu replied, 'that
he would not answer the question, nor disclose any
opinion or determination of the Government. These
determinations, we suppose, we shall find out. by
the usual discoveries of Government intention—
fresh loads of taxes, and de Wits of the
must disagreeable of all . inquisitors. Nell—may
our actual suffering he as short as the ,sesense
we are doomed to feel in regard to the inten-
tions of our Allies! They, we see, are all best on
war; and if It be any consolation, as they say it Is,
to have partners in affliction, we appear in .a fair
way to see other nations iroassing, as well 'y. our-
selves, under the burdens of taxation, and lostria,and
anticipation bonds that anticipate nothing but misery,
and redemption conlributions that are nester redeem-
ed, but rather anti to pat the bear of: reslieltation

further off than ever. Prussia, we have before stated,
was, like a desperate gamble!, drawing large bills
upon the future, and her own subjects, with the
hope that by these and the liberally 'disbursed con-
tents of our Excheqeer,' she would be enabled to
preserve the far-spreading slices of territory to which
she has so unceremoniously helped herself, whilst
others were debating on the subject at the Congress
Vienna;of and new Austria finds it expedient,
either from this grasping conduct on the part of her
t►eighbour, at once her Kira and Ally —the cat and
dog friendship of coquettes—to try some plan for
recruiting her finances, and strengthening the sinewsof
resistances it hin herself—by profiting bytlmsew cinder-
iul lessm►s of State policy which this country has so
strikingly exhibited ever since we learned the art of
borrowing from ourselves, and impoverishing the
cou►►try to enrich the State. The Emperor of Aus-
TRIA has issued an Edict, stating, that Le is compelled
by events that have recently happened, to make new
exertions beyond the ordinary means of his States,
and for this purpose he proposes to raise a loan, if
he can get it, of fifty millions of florins, by Ike.
&MIA i till and Anticipation Bonds, offering the salt
mines of G;slticia as securities for the re-payment of
the advance. Ilis MAJESTY professes himself to he
" faithful to the system he has al►cays followed ;"
but, except giving us to understand that late events
have rendered such measures necessary to provide fur
the wants of the State, he leaves the world as much
in the dark as to what line of conduct he means to
pursue as Lord CASTLEREAGH and his Colleagues do
respecting theirs. We should think AUSTRIA has
as much to fear from Prussia and Russia as from
France; and as to the system that the Emperor of
AusTitta has always followed, we know it not to
have been always against his son.in.law.

We derive the information of this token of acti-
vity as well as various other accounts of military
prepatations on ',the part of the Austrian Cabinet,
by the medium of a Dutch Mail, which arrived last
night. The tendency of the intelligence by the
Mail relative to the other Continental • Powers, is
of the same character as that respecting Austria.—
Fifty thousand Prussians were, it is said, to pass
the Rhine, last week, in the neighbourhood of We.
sel ; 15,000 had before "arrived about Maestricht.—
The second Declaration of the Allied Sovereign., of
which we hare already made mention, Is said by the
Dutch Papers to be in the possession of the Duke of
WELLIIrGTON.

Dispatches, we understand of great importance,
were received this forenoon by Government from
the Prince of ORANGE. Mr. HUNTER was the bearer.

The Dutch Papers ire desirous of inducing a be-
lief that the Duke of AsnoutEKE and his Roy-
alists, are still making head against the new Govern-
!reale, ...Yte itamitt-ikittZar-lx-a-Abstwie PrecJamak-
tion frosi MASSEMA,-Prlisell of gattLING, in support of
Louis! Private accounts state. that M ASSEN A ,doubt ful
s hich side to adopt, had beestmade prisoner,and conti.
nued in confittement at Marseilles. This Proclaim.
tion, in ftis wanie, is, we suspect, like some other pf
the BOURBON is4oev, net the most true and genuine:
It is dated as far back as March 15th.

• We must net omit to observe that, Lord CAtifTLJP.•
naaon, is the House of Commons last night, cc-
nowledged the estraordinsit.tetter- addressed:to
him at 'Vienna by M. iniiithrikeitti resPPetluli
Naples, it)" he a genuiae It laid down,
as our guatlers may recollect, a pkin for enabling
Lore CAST L tabIAG violate his compact with
MURAT•With the toast appermst,tlegvaeof blame. Ilia
Lordship would not say whether he had acceded to
the plan, 'and subscribed to the proposal of the
falwe Yintcroan," bat as ?seal, contented himself
with telling the douse, when the proper lime
arrived, he Would giveihe fullest explanations !"

Mr. Mettnnt, the Bank Dliector, had a ►ong con.
givrence with the CMANIMIALOS of the EXcIirQUIR
yesterday) supposed to be on the subject of the new
Limn.

Lord Fiction-I.n was to sail yesterday•morning from
Portsmooth, in the Boyne, 98, to take the naval
command in the Mediterrartean.
It is a fact material to be known to•Olfeers and
• others going to Flanders, that English Bank.neltes
}1 re •st a discount of one-fourth at Ostend ; but
liviilsit-efiser posses eerreotly. •
Govessment 'hes: resolved, widen 'the 'preeent
mimstanees, to tetain possession of the Isle of Hour-
bon, Pondicherry, Ina, and other conquered colo-
nies, still in our hands. •
By particulars which have transpired at Vienna
relative to the late conspiracy in Italy, it appears,
that on the night of the new year all the civil and
military Austrian authorities were to have been mur-
dered. An Italian gens-d'artnes resealed the plot,
and the horrid scene was prevented.. •
Letters of• the lltiv inst., trim: Brussels; state,
that the Duke of Wst.LINGTOK•haI 'sent to Portu-
gal to basted to him some particular Portuguese re-
giments Whitt% had diitinguished themselves under
his Grace's'orders in the Peninsula. •
His Majesty the Emporor of AutretA is esrp d•
to declare' himself, without delay, King of ions-
hardy.
It it said; that before Lord FlAllitowiY••nd
W. Pete left the Continent, the arrangements for
subsidiin were concluded.
The etnbarkatioos for.Ostend are continued with;
unshated.nctiVity. Sit; trooptet the 16th Dragoons
sailed-front :Ramsgate for that doh las lion etaTutndny.
On Wednesday the liratisquadrob of the 10th Hus-
sars left Canterbury tote shipped; the second squa-
dron arrived at Canteabuey on Thursday, to go for-
ward for embarkation yesterday ; and to bi followed
by the (bird misidroot this' day.

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