The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-13 00:00:00

" lIIS MAJESTY'S VISIT TO TII6 WATERFALL..

"When his Majesty was ready to view the sublime
effects of the cascade, the torrent descended with pro-
digious and unprecedented power."—(Patriot.)
His Majesty must be gifted with more than human
optics then—for we can take our sacrament oath that
he was never nearer the Waterfall than the saloon of
Powerscourt House ; anal we might avouch, under the
sanction of the same obligation, that, if be did see the
sublime effects of the cascade, and the prodigious de-
scent of the torrent, it must have been through the
wall. However, we will not undertake to contradict
The Patriot. A man who can rat a castle (ride supra)
may easily wash it down with a waterfall. Hut we did
not know until now, that Caragantota had the power
of communicating his capabilities even to Kings. We
held it, until we read The Patriot, equally unquestion-
able, that de non uppartntibse, et nun existentibus,
eadeni eat ratio—in English, that, if there were no
waterfall, no waterfall could be seen. Now, we know
that there was nu prodigious and unprecedented de-
scot on Monday—fur why ? the floodgates were
forced a night or two before, and the congregated
waters were dissipated. Still we speak under correc-
tion. If his Majesty saw the Waterfall, we are not
prepared to dispute that the laws of Hydraulics were
reversed, or that several thousand tuns of water marched
up the precipice for the Imre.. This would .11)e, at I
least, as easy as for human vision to see through bet*:
and mortar. . . . .

We are further told, by this Chronicler of wonders,
that his Majesty's visit twilit Rani trf Meath was ne-
cessarily a short 'one. Very short faith, for we hap-
pened to ride in his Majesty's train with the Gentle-.
men of the Conitty of Wicklow. adding, on this occa-
sion, to the sky-blue ribbon of the City .of Dublin, the
oak branch of the Wicklow hills—and a good round
canter we bad of. it, as his Majesty, it is well known,
drives with right Royal rapidity. Wd will not deny
tbit his hfajesty 'did honour Lord Meath With a visit,
for we cannot, like The Patriot, see, things invisible,
ha: we will undertake to. avouch, that cavalcade or
carriage never stopped. His Majesty, thorefore, must
have stepped out •while• his carriage toms were in a
furious trot, and. after paying' the tieressarily short
visit, be must have stepped into the:cairitige without
the notice.of one of his 'Subjects. Noa reale coat-
poacre tiles. If, The Patriot declares the fact, Goat
forbid that we should contretict lslerr.. ,We will only
say, that no one on the road, nor even the Lords
Powersconrt or Roden, who rode in the Royal coach;
were oouscious, for a single moment, of his Majesty's
absence.

The article relative to Bonaparte, which we copied
from The limes on Tuesday, is stated In that paper
this morning,. to have been given by an over-sight in
the form ot a letter fr9su Paris. "It was in fact,"
says The Times of to-day, 44 irtriOrl ik,London, ,altd
addressed to Paris, whithei it was, ,tire heßere, for;
warded. The inadvertency wasiconstnitty4), & origativ
who wai kind enough to copy for us the letter in ques-
tion. The public, however, may he assured that every
thing mentioned. in that ststaiment is perfectly au-
thentic."

.

-