The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-08-31 00:00:00

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souse dead weight oo them be left behind. Belgium,
the theatre of everlasting • wars, conquered and re.
columned many times in every century, has always
continued to be the most populous and most flourishing
pert of Europe, even the environs of London not
excepted. The United States of America, invaded
by English and German armies in every quarter; all
their cities and towns alternately taken ; a formidable
division amongst the people themselves; intestine as
well as foreign war assailing theas at one an 3 the
same time ; a Government without credit and with-
, out money, not only carried their point in war, but,
as•soon as peace returned, started at once in a career
of prosperity that astonished the world, and that
completely falsified all the predictions of these, who
bad foretold that feebleness would be themstmequence
of their independence, amongst which foretellers
your Lordship dimpled a distinguished place.
-I hate not yet heard it proposed to boos the seve-
ral manufactories in Franco. The Tines and Courier
Newspaper, rersonwomall the murder of a great num-
ber of people ; epplourithe requisitions logresed upon
the French ; ersold have the country dismembered ;
. but, I have not heard even them point out the burn-
ing of the manufactories, though, perhaps, they
look ups, that as understood amongst " the mea-
sure. necessary to the security of England." Bet,
even this would answer us no profitable purpose.
These manufactories would soon rise up again ' • and,
if:they did not, France would be supplied from
_other countries than this. 7•lf froM this, our pay-
meet most be inter produce. She woad& rise again
quickly in one way or another ; and, nothing that
we tan do against her wilt hate any very sharable
effect as to her prosperity, while every day of war is
adding to those taxes, which are the real cause of
Ilse depression) of which your Lordship complains,
and of which no man living expects aver to see any
.eifoluatinn, except as the consequence of an event,
of which most men turn from the contemplation as
. something too distressing for the mind to endure.—
: Fogdatol, in following the advice of the writers I
%late mentioned above, might still add much to the
_safes kr of her neighbours; she might lacerate and
tear them a good deal, but still the terrible and in-
• curable disease,- which she has contracted during the
War, would cling to her bowels-, and, in the work
.esf•palsying her limbs, would only be assisted by the
prolonging of a state of hostility.
One .would have imagined, that past experience
;.-with regard to. France herself would have prevented]
your Lordship from indulging such fond hopes of
.seeing other nations ruined by devastating armies.—
.The 'first ten years of her revolution drove all the
.great proprietors from 'their houses ; stripped them
of their estates ; reduced all the opulent merchants
' to beggary ; ruined all the manufacturers, and broke
up their concerns ; produced a bankruptcy of the
Government ; laid ithe people under contributions.—
Yet, how did we find France in 1814 ? So full of
prosperity.; so rich ; with so little debt ; with such
improved agriculture and such flourishing manufac-
tures, that we were compelled to pass a law to stop
the importation of bee corn, while she stood in no
need of either oar woollens, linens, or cottons.—
say, it is the recollection of the evidences of pros-
perity, that we then saw, which is now urging on
*orb'se sod foolish writers to call for her destruc-
tion by means of German armies its our pay.
Wl,s t becomes, then, of your Lordship's hope ?
What Ur ornes of the " good ground" of your new
ear, tation ? Even NOW : already, while there is
• a civil oar in France; while half a million of Eng-
lish and German soldiers are there, living at free
quarter ; even from the Departments where some of
those soldiers are, the French are now, at this very
moment, bringing in their butter, poultry, eggs,
fruit, firc. &c. to Portsmouth and Southampton ; and
after paying a duty upon them, selling them at less
"than half the price at which we can afford to sell si.
'mast. articles ? To throw such a country back, to
make it tributary to our agriculture and manufac-
tore's, even for one year, would require the power
of the Deity and the malignity .ascribed to the Devil ;
',and, though there are persons enough, who mani-
festly possess the latter, they are, happily for man-
kind, not in possession of the former.
If, then, there be so little foundation for your
)sope with regard to Europe, on what can you build
that hope on the other side of the Atlantic ? But,
I 'will reserve the discussion of this question as-the
subject of another Letter, it being of too much im-
rtance .to be mixed, in any way, with inferior
tier.

ANOTHER Rotuma Kit.r.en.—Mr. Wilson's gar•
den, at Hampstead, has been so frequently robbed of
valuable fruits, cloths, and other things, that he
found it necessary to keep a watchman thereat nigbt.
'Yesterday morning, at one o'clock,.the .watchman
bearing some noise among the trees, commenced a
strict search, and at length discovered a man sitting
under one of them, in the act of filling a beg with his
'spoil ; the watchman being armed with a firelock and
bayonet, challenged the robber to surrender, and
presented the bayonet to his breast, which the robber
seized .and strove to wrest out of his hands, on which
the watchman made a thrukt at him, and ran him
through the body ; he ran a short way, when he fell,
end shortly afterwards expired. He was a gentle-
man's coachman out of place. The bag contained
•whout half a bushel •f peaches, nectarines, and me.
lons. The body was removed to the Yorkshire Grey
public-house, for the Coroner's Inquest.
DARING RoßeenY,Yesterday, during the time
of business at the Royal Exchange, a fellow of noto-
rious character had the temerity to rob Captain Boy-
dell of his pocket-book, containing property to a
large amount. The theft, however, being discovered,
an alarm was given, and the thief taken into custody.
Ile was taken to the house of Messrs. Hazard, Burn; I
and Co. and searched, when a quantity of gold rings,
`pats, and other articles, together with a number of
duplicates cod an instrument for picking pockets,
were found in his possession. He was conveyed to
the Compter.
Tuesday afternoon, about one o'clock, a young
lao, 10 years of age, was drowned while bathing it
Baokside, it, few yards from the foot of Blackfriars'.
Tw.o men from an adjoining wharf seeing
144- perilous situation, immediately plunged into the
water to rescue him from ri water grave, brit, we are
shicerned to say, withoot effect-, as,he gook to rise
stoonore. The body was not found at a late hour
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