The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-04 00:00:00

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rfted (for...what' mortal d6diri 'endure to read!) all tli
Llustering, babying, brllowing, roaring Find thuuderini

of the base an 3 !,topid wog: jobbing I.ITM in Ihndon

and be had, too, we dare sty, heard of .the Spanish Mi.
nister's alighting at the house of one of the orough

Rump, and being dragged into town by the force ef a few
hundreds of pots of very bad beer. Well! We tvere toren the
elects of these. - They were professedty intended to pro.
drier great (feet upon the French King. This was openly
avowed. And, in the speech of Monsieur de Cu aTinu-
BRIAND ; in that very able, ..pen and manly speech, we
have a proof of the effect which these thingsdid produce;
that it to say, a retorting upon oar Ministers, in the most
just and most conclusive manner. Leaving those who

relied upon the effect of all this Poise; leaving these very I

simple persons to the enjaym-nt of their dieappointtnent,
we beg leave to make a remark or two upon the great
alteration, which, within these few days, has taken place,
iu the tone of our frivol the Chronicle. Our readerswill

remember how loudly it talked, about three months ago,
of the vast power of the " British Empire ;" how bluff
it wee; how boldly it asserted that• the French would
not dare to set this power at defiance ; and how re-
peatedly, how earnestly, and vet bow humbly, we be-
sought the Chronide to be assured that while we this
mill-stone hanging about our nears, the French would
not care one single straw for ur. Ohr readers will, also,
remember that just a month ago ; just four weeks ago,

the whole of the stock jobi.ing press was in an uproar
of exultstion at the prospect of seeing the King of
France frightened into fits by the speech of Mr.
BROUGHAM, or, seeing a fleet equipped and rent forth to
drub the Holy Alliance into their senses. The cry for
war was perfectly furious. 'fhe Chromide, in particular,
would have it that ships were actually fitting out in the
Dock-yards. Day by day the Chronicle asserted this ;
though day by day it was. con*tadicted by the Courier.

Some prople move by fits and starts; and there is a sort
of politicians who appear ro be nfflieted with what one
might call a mental agne. The hot fit and the cold tit
take them by turn'. Perhaps it is to this cause thAt we

are to aszribe that altered tone in the Chronicle, which we
have noticed above. But we re.slly do suspect that the al-
teration may be pretty fairly ascribed to-the Regist• r hthre
the last, and to certain articles which we have published
within this —Letfortnight us see a little, however,
what this altered tone is. "We do not, however, ado°.

ease Me plunging. of our own emeriti!, inttplear for the
" sake of Me Spaniards or any other nation. We-sym•

" pathi;e with the Spaniards, and pray fervently for
" their success in the grand struggle ots which they are
" about to enter, end trust that in:B.-Waal generosity
" will be liberally exercised in their b..!balf; but in the
" circumetances in which this country is places', nothing
" short of imminent danger to ourselves coald justify
" our embarking in war. Our insular position and our
" power leaves us nothing to apprehend front any State
" or union of States; and where the aecuril of a nation
" is not endangered, we doubt whether its Government
" ought, in any case, to doom present and future
" generations to the load of debt which war now-a-
-" days never fails to create." Here is an altered
tone! Here is a change! Where is the mighty power
of the British Empire now! Where is Mr. liseene.
em's Beet now! The Chronicle has tliscorevak all at
once, that it cuzitt not to be an.: advocate CIS 164 tans.
try being plunged into war, for the Spaniards or any
body else! It has discovered that we ought to sympa-
thise with the Spaniards; that we ought to pray fer-

vently for them (a la John Knox, of course), but that
" in the circumstances in n hich this country is placed ;
" nothing-short of imminent danger to ourselves, could
" justify our embarking in war!" Why, then, reproach
Mr PEEL, fur what he said on the first day of the &a-
sion ? Then corn-s our " insular position ;" our secu-
rity from attack; and, in short, eves y thing to say, that
" strict neutrality" is the proper course; and,that

France may over-run Spain, if she will, without the
smallest danger to us, near or remote: S:range change

of tune ! What can Monsieur de CHATEAVB RIAND want-
more than this? and what can Sir Wm. A'Crunr, or any
body else, wish (or more than this? But whence conies
this wonderful change of tone? Why, the writer ha;
read the last Register but one. Several other papers
besides ; but that one, in (articular ; and that use has
convinced him that to go to war would enah!e :he Land-
lords to pay off the Fundholders in good, honest, hard
paper money: in other words, that it would blow back
the Funding System to its inventor, the devil ;—and,
therefore, the Chronicle is for peace. This is the true
cause of the altered tone of the Chronicle, which is a
thorough-paced Jew paper ; and which would are the
Isle of talon pussersion of by the French ; aye,
and England itself, into the bargain, rather than see.
the infernal sys:em of funding and jobbing destroyed. This
would be the case, too; the country would sink down to
be a 10-:v miserable defenceless thing,if this mill-stone were
suffered to remain. From this very article in the Chroni-
cle, we may hither what passes in the heart of a Jew.
Look at the sentiment look at the base sentiment about
our "insular position," and about our being in no dan-
ger from any union of States! What! Is it an Eng
lishman who says that we are in no danger from making
Spain a province of France, taking into view the pro.
sent state of the power of Russia and of the United
States of America ? Is it an Englishman that utters
the words. For an Englishman to utter them he must
be mad, or must deserve to be hanged up, to the first
tree that you can drag him to. Now is the time to res-
cue Spain for ever from the French ; now is the time to
be closely allied with Spain, who never can be our rival;
whose interest is the same as our own ; who, in case of
war with France and America, tenders us great advan-
tages fur defence agairst and fur attack upon either;
and these we shall now surrender up into the hands of
France; because we have that infernal funding system
which holds us chained down to the earth. The Chro-
nicle views our degradation, and says " Amen !"—This
is the true feeling of the system ; justice, honour, huma-
nity, renown, even safety ; all vanish when compared
with the love of the detestable three per cents. We
believeteamost-sincerely; that, take the fundholders and
poll Wok one by one upon this question : " shall the
" interest' of the Debt be reduced, and the Country pre.
serve its independence ; or shall it-not he reduced,
•' and the Country be deliveredup to, France?" Pa this