The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-04-25 00:00:00

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tweeting the superiority of those two systems4Nege.
lilies, the• Rights of Kitses and the {lights of M3e,
or, in other words, Aristocracy and i)ensecraceehee
lasted more than teice the time employed est the '
siege of Troy, and has sent ;hot., then two mil•
lions of persons into auetlier state of esisttce.
There are men who have; oppiauded this chiseireee '
war, even from the very first ; aunt still more what
applaud its conclusion, which is •in the true style of
knight errantry. The triumph of ancient monarchy
over the upstart rights pretended to be derived from
the people, is all that the victors desire thatepae
riority being acknowledged, theirlionour is ettesrekeli
and their wrath extinguished; and they now :enee
dially unite with the French people in the estetiffirli.
ment of that very edifice which first moved tlrieir
indignation ; they assist in giving Fratice a Coostia
twine similar to that of l 789, which was so hateful,
to then %hen under the character of a rival; but
being now introduced under their own pettronoge,,
and with an acknowledged inferiority to the
parable excellence of their own political system, is
well enough.
It is swum], however, that scruples_ should wive
in some men's minds respecting the sioteetity of tlii*!.."
patronage and friendship which the Plies now pro.:
fess towards French liberty ; andel. confess, Mr.
i EDITOR, that I too have had.my motnetste or douttt :
but, .Sir, I have assured myself by keileciing on.thga,
deference which C ought tio put to Or word and in- •
nour of a Prince. I have called to mind the maxim,
of tiiit French Meg, who• said, tkist.if faith and
I troth were banished frorall,the, world besides, they •
ought to be found in the fireulks of
.Princcs." t.
4 haze coßsidered the magnaninsous conflict of the Al.*
4 lies towards Boxepearee How sincerely desirous/
they were of making peace with him, the failure of
which every body knows was entirely owing to hie,
own fault. In short, the case is as clear as the sets
at noon-day, that the man might, if 'he had pleased, ;
have had peace and a large kingdom, but he would .
I not. And this being -se generally understood by.
;all men, it would he quite superfluous for Parlia-
ment to make any enquiry at alt into the negocia-
tions. We are all sell satisfied that the Allies have
treated the monster BONAPAR/E far better than he
! deserved, having behaved to him with truth and ha-
; nour, whilst his conduct has always been that of a
false acid perfidious villain. how anxious was his
t kind-hearted father-in-law to settle him on a throne
that might have descended to his own grandson ; and
how mad must the malt have been to refuse all this ?
After all these Princes had come so far from their
own countries, purposely to make peace with Bosse-
PARTE at Paris, how obstinate must he have been to
refuse it, and give them all that trouble for nothing ?
, Our PRINCE REGENT too, must have suffered no smelt
vexation to see his generous intentions frustrated by
the untractable,fury of this Corsican brute. Did
not the Prince say with his own sweet lipo, in, the
Parliament-house, where nothing can be supposed to
be said but is the hurl', and particularly from the
Throne, that no demand would be made upon
the late Government of France, incompatible with
its dignity? And to to be sure tie such demand
was ever made ; nevertheless peace could not be
had ; and it was, as we all well know, the sole '
fault of BONAPARTE. In vain the magnanimous
Allies, ever true to their word (far be it from me,T
Mr. Entree, to- dispute the honour of so matey_
Princes, shining so bright in one united blaze, as I
. may call it), did, as you well know, make a solemn
Declaration at Frankfort, and even specify the very
terms of peace ; with one consenting voice the very
articles that were to form the basis of this much-dee
sired peace, were laid down and sent to BONAPARTE;
just, Sir, in the same manner as the articles that are
to form the Mitre free government of France, have
been stipulated and set down in black and while.
Heaven forefend that it should prove to as little per.
pose!—All this, Sir, we know wasdone—but done
in vain; and all the blame attaches to the false per-
fidious Corsican. So true is it, Mr. Enema, that
in all transactions of life, public or private, much
' depends on the character and disposition of the men
with whom we trnnsact any business, as I observed
at the commencement of this letter. When we have
to do with a rogue, a villain, like BONAPARTr.,
nothing is secure, eeca though it be put dotee in
black and white: hut, above all, Sir, we ought to ba
particularly mistrustful, when, in any transaction
with such persons, we find ambiguous terms used, and
what they call loop-holes left in the most important
articles, then we may say nub confidence of the
' perfidious traitor, that he *sill certainly deceive us.
This is a caution that really I know not how to find
language sufficiently strong to impress upon the mind
of the Reader. If I were able to say to him all I
would say, what a sickness,what a nausea would I ex-
cite it. his honest mind at the treachery and deceit of
, mankind, particularly in matters of politics ?
But I will turn from the offensive subject to
speak. of that virtuous and profound Statesman,
my Lord CASTLIRCAOU. Never, perhaps, did a matt
exist, in any age or any country, better qualified for
the great mission on whirls he has been sent, than his
Lordship ; what, then, must be his mortification at
its bad success? How must he grieve at not having been
able to make peace with BONAPARTE? How must he la,
ment that the infatuation of that man has prevented him
_ from exercising towards him all the kind end generous
intentions of our PRINCE REDEINT,SO nobly expressed
in Parliament, and so highly commended in both
Houses ? Surely this must have given our great tie-
gociator no small portion of chagrin ! After having
obtained such just eclat in conciliating Ireland, no

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