The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-08 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

BOURBON WAR.
This war is, some say, actually begun! The stock-
jobbing press, which affects to be friends with the Spa
:dards, consoles itself with the reflection, that we shall
have to pay no subsidies in this war! This is a curlew%
source of comfort. The stock-jobbing press says, that
the people of France will have cause to remember the cost
of this invasion! • How sore we are here ! Yes; cause
to remember the cost of it ; but, why should they not
get a little in Debt as well as we? We say, that our
" Debt is capital ! Why should they not augment their
capital? JUDGE BATLEY said, that a national debt Was
a blessing. And yet oar stock-jobbing press represents
the cost of the invasion of Spain as an evil to the people
of France! What a fine nation we are! How much
more populous we are than any other! How surpiising
our nature, which makes that be a blessing to us, which
is a curse to other nations: The Morning Chronicle
of to day, says, that, the " Northern Barbarians" will
advance to the French frontier, if the French army in-
vade Spain ; and it adds, that this has created a " great
Isensation in the French capital."—For what? Why
should it : While our English troops were sent to carry
war in Spain, GERMAN TROOPS WERE BROUGHT
AND STATIONED IN ENGLAND. Aye,and districts of
this famous .•classic ground of liberty''were under the com-
mand of German Generals, who commanded, observe, the
English troops sod even the Militia, in those districts!
This they did for years and years; and ae dare say, that
some of our readers recollect the occasion when some of
these German Troops were brought to superintend the
flogging of English Local Militia-men in the town of
Ely in England !—Therefore, Stock-jobbers, though
you, in all likelihood, tell a lie, when you say, that the
Northern Barbarians are about to line the frontiers of
France, while the French Soldiers are invading Spain ;
though this be, in all human probability, a lie ; still, let
it be true; and then why should it produce" a sen-
sation at Paris," seeing that the above-mentioned
Germans produced no sensation in London ? To be sure,
we are a privileged people ; but, really, it is too much to
presume, that the French people will be thrown into a
ferment of rage by the mere appearance of Germans on
their frontier, when it is notorious, that we had them in
our country for years and years; and that our Govern-
ment was all the while, and still is, " the envy of mu-
" rounding nations and admiration of the world." If our
Stock jobbing press be wise, it will say no more about
this bringing of Germans to the frontiers of France.

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DU B.

Paris papers to the 6th instant have been received
which announce the arrival of the Duke d'Angoulente
on the 30th nit. at the Head Quarters at Bayonne, where
he immediately published the following " Order of the
Day" to " the Army of the Pyrenees :"
" Soldiers !—1 arrive among you! I have been sa-
tisfied with the good dispositions which animate you, and
with your constancy in supporting the fatigues of a long
march during the inclemency of V e season. It will be
by the splendour of every military virtue, that you will
soon manifest your devotion to the King and to your
country. Fidelity, honour, discipline, these will always
be the device of the white Hag, under which you e
going to fight.
(Signed) " Louts ANTOINE.
" Head-quarters, ttavonne, March 30, 12523."
" By order of his Royal Highness the Commander in
Chief of the Army. (Countersigned)
" The Alajor-General Count lICILLEIHINO'T."
It I,4confidently stated that the French army was to'
make its first movement on the 7th (yesterday), and that
the corps commanded by the Duke of Reggio (Ondinot)
would cross the Bidassoa on the 10th inst. This, it will
be observed, is a new day ; but from some accounts it is
doubtful whether there bas arrived a sufficient train of
waggons to convey the baggage of an invading army.—
The only allusion to the conspiracy is in the following
paragraph of the Drapeun Blanc of Saturday :—" A
letter from St. Jean de Luz says there has been arrested
in that town an inhabitant of Bayonne, who followed
the business of a lemonade-seller in the place de Gram-'
mold. This man was, it is said, in correspondence with
the Aide-dc-Camp of General Guilleminot." " Letters
from the frontiers of France under date of March 31,
say, that there have been recently arrested on the coasts
near Calais, several retired officers, who attempted to get
clandestinely to England." General Guilleminot, it is
obvious, cannot be the object of the least suspicion; as
the Order of the Day of the Royal Duke is counter-
signed with his name, and not with that of Marshal Vic-
tor. The latter, it is reported, is not in office either at
Bayonne, or Paris; and Pigeon, who was thought to be
only a temporary substitute, is considered as bona fide
War Minister. Tie rumours in the French papers of an
intention to demand a further levy of turn, appear to
have been well founded. On Saturday, Count Pigeon
proposed to the Chamber of Deputies a prqict of law for
enabling the Government to call out, in the present year,
the contingent of the annual conscription, which would
otherwise not be available until 1624 The number is
not stated; but is supposed to be 40,000 men, the ordi-
nary levy of each year. The Minister say., in suplvort
of his application, that " it is intlispensal.ly necessary to
create, at the commencement of a campaign, reserves
proprtioned to the operations uhicli are about to be
undertaken." The Augsburg Gazette states, that the
quarter of Constantinople called Peru, inhabited by the
Christian Ambassadors and the Frank', had been burned,
and, it would soon, by design. The number of houses
,destroyed is loosely stated at from 12,000 to '20,000,
among them the palace of Lord Strangford. This jour-
nal, however, is not an authority that should be impli-
citly relied on. The l'aris Papers of Satutdsy announce
that Lord Fitzroy Somerset had arrived there from Ma-
drid, and that he would set off immediately for London.
FRENCH FUNDS, SATURDAY.--FiVe i.er cents. 7SI.
65c., the last money price; and at-half-past three, for the
end of the month, 761. 55c.—Bank Stock, 1,460. —Nea-
politan 5 per Cents, 671.

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Berman papers have arrived this morning, but thy
bring no political news of importance. An article
from Switzerland states that Count Talleyrand, the
FrenchiNlinister there, had been recalled. The Frankfort
Journal contains 'a shocking account of a party of e n
thusiasts in the Canton of Zurich, one of whom, a young
female visionary, pretended that Bonaparte had appeared
to her, and had inspired her with a resolution to die, to
save some thousands of souls. It is added that. this