The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-25 00:00:00

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To rns.EDITOR •i rift. STATES.II.IN.

Hatt rd. benr 11nrpet6,
Oct. 19, 1815.

Saa,—lt is only through its finances that the course
*remits in Fr wee can affect this country, for while
they continue prosperous, the influence of the
Crown, end that of the aristocracy, will always be
able to hinder any change in the Government. Pa-
triots may preach, and Patriots may write, but it
will all lie to no purpose, as long as the tases can he
collected, and Ministers cart pay the interest of the
National Debt ; when these thing, cease, a Revolu-
tion will come of itself, without any aid from the
friends of liberty ; and of what nature that Revolu-
lien will he, there can he little doubt. It will he
Jost whet it would have been in the year 1791 ;
it may not go to the snbversion of the Monarchy, but
it wilt go to the utter extermination of all its abuses.
Whether it will be bloody or not, depends on the
degree of opposition it meets with ; but the feeders
cis corruption and its friends may thank Mr. PITT
for a reprieve of one-and twenty years at least, for
had he net engaged the nation in a war, and by that
means turned the French Revolution out of its na-
tural direction, a great change must have taken place,
and considerably altered the Constitution of the
Monarchy, but not greater than that produced by
the Septennial Act, and the restoration of placemen
and pensioners to their seats in Parliament. Although
that which was almost treason in 1791, may be con-
sidered as patriotism in 1816, a difference of circum-
stances cannot alter the nature of things. Mr. PirT;
by all the arguments and all the means that he em-
ployed against Parliamentary Reform, only laboured
the more strenuously to increase its necessity ; and
every million which he and his successors have added
to the National Debt, has taken so much from the
weight of their arguments, and added it to those of
their opponents. In using the word Revolution, as
applied to this country, it cannot have the same ex-
tensive signification as when applied to France. In
that country a radical change in the Government
was effected, from an unlimited to a limited
Monarchy; end we have had what is called a
Revolution, bu' it was only a ch rage in the
/wenn of the Monarch, and a reform of the
Rbit.eg us He. have erept in since that period, ought
tint to be co.v.i !.!re,l as a to!al revolution, but a
change from a bad • of pa:it ic al health to a gorid
one. W. cannot easily end • fern of our ilu.
refitment for the better ; but by altering I i.e • eta.ive
situation of the different branches we may improve
it. By diminishing the influence of the Crown and
of the aristermirv, which have grown to an uncon-
rtitetional size, and increasing that of the people,
has been too much diminished, we may restore
to health end vigour that which is fast approaching
to decrepitude and imbecility. Wi'hout this we
must expect a greater change than any that can be
eftected by a Reform in Parliament ; we must ex-
pect to see removed all the constitutional cheeks
and restraints which have been placed upon the Mo-
narchy by the wi-dom of our ancestors, and des.
helium rear its head in a country which has for ages
beets freed from it—and the worst of despotisms too,
that %rich is exercised under the forms of law. Even
after Itome had lost her liberty, and submitted to the
most odious ty rants, she retained all the forms
and offices of a free government ; she had her
Senate, her Consuls, and her Tribunes, and yet she
groaned under the most oppressive tyranny,- to
which these very Officers lent themselves as the
twilling ngents.-11 France continue free, the rest
of the Continent rtinnot long be enslaved ; and
if France cats shake off the yoke of the Allies,
she may he free even under the BOURBONS ;
but the BOURBONS and the emigrants most be
humbled. IVith en army of 500,000 men at their
barks, they are talking is language which must not
be heard In a country wishing to remain free; bet
when these foreigners are expelled, the insolence of
the nld Aristocracy and the Clergy w'.ll be silenced-
attfl things will then find their true and proper level.
A Monarchy can only be tolerable in any coontrs as
lopg as it is under the controul of the People's Re.
vicsentatives, as long as it is the executive, not the
comniamlieg power. To that state it was reduced
by the Constitution of Spain, and may that C:nsti-
limier) soon be revived, and fifty thousand suffering
patriot's be restored to their liberty.
I remain, &e.
BURDOIL

St\DCRr ND, OCT. 21.—The digputes between
the seamen and ship-owners at this port hare been
mrysted ibis day, soil, it is stated, all vessels will
be allowed to bail to-morrow.—(Coal ar ket. )
\nt,titltstandit.g the almost general failure of the
emit of apples 11,k year, the capienl k now abundant-
ly svp:ied u ith them by intim' ,ations from the Con-
tinent. A few dais ago, a v•ssel, fully freighted
with that useful fruit. arrived in the Riser, and Be-
lord other cargoes are daily expected on the coast of
K.at and S,isses ; (hes sell uncommonly reasonable.

Among the other articles to he sent out to the Es-
E"lietOr NAruit.ov, are two very handsome fowl-
i"g-tnieres, with env-% rooplete, including a double
'et or apparatus, with every etptiPment a sportsman
want.—The grins are on Ilessrs. Fottsysn and
C..'s very. ingenious end useful contrivance of firing
4111Inet flint : they are of the very first workman-
-11"P. and highly fiaiihed, but quite plain and. 003 t,
'ls are Cu-
with two
'mg; the
veined,
finer in the
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tie willow sup:elltwos ornament. The barrell
,t tianly twisted. and -beautifully brrinzPrl. v
• geld byncli inlaid in the ;went brenchii
ICJ Stetkg nt very fine walnut, handsomely
Its Ili',mut any eirtin;;„ eseept a fine cheque'
us) as"''; • silver nrisann thumb-pies:el silver
xsull-gußrd, 4tc.
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