The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-31 00:00:00

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humiliation and injury ; proved that to invade Spain
was the likeliest of all possible things to annoy England,
to obtain revenge for the acts of 1815 ; proved, in short,
that there was every motive for war on the past of the
French and their holy brethren ; and proved, above all
Wogs, that neither France nor the holy brotherhood
cared one straw about the wishes of England as to this
war, knowing, as they all must, that we never can again
lire a cannon without blowing up the debt. This was
the tone which WE pursued, from the beginning to the
end. At one time we nere told that the French would
not dare set our power at defiance. Our answer was : ss,!
have no power! At another time we were told, that the
Duke of Wellington had pleaded the cause of freedom
successfully at the Congress. And then we iseghe.:!
At another time we we were told that the Duke had get
to Paris, and had convinced the King of France that is
would be injurious to him to go to wee with Spain. We
told our readers this was an impudent humbug. At ar-
other time we were told, that Mr. Cesium* had rh
hi: shield over the Peninsula,and we were regaled a ith a
description of the unbounded joy and gratitude of tie
stock jobber,.. Still we said, " it is allfselsal It is a/1
" deception is is all downright folly or downright
"fraud." Others had, or pretended to have, porilii,
information upon the subject. We ha I none, and pre.:
tended to have none.lkt we had a lane vledge of the state
and condition of the separate countries. Wohad a pretty
rod knowledge of their respective resotrees ; we under.
stood pretty well the state of their means for carryinz
on war. We were pretty good judges of the interests and
the passions which were at work in the several states.
The facts that came to light from time to time gave
us the means of judging of intentions. The result has
proved that we judged correctly; and strictly correcA
we were from the very beginning to the end. This
alliance of the two pair of sheers ; those of tailor
Stewart and barber hludford, never spoke from itself.--
It was bellowsed from the offices at Whitehall. Tinoegh
the means of the Tailor and Barber, we discovered
clearly enough that the pretty gentlemen themselves
did not know very well what was going to take place .!
the Reader trill look back into the columns of the Cos.
+-ler, he will find that paper chopping about like a vessel
that is land locked and amidst varying ninth. We
watched it; and it was one of our guides. From it we
saw, that our own honks at Whitehall did not know
what was going to take place ; and that was, to us, oce
of the surest signs of war; because, the French would
naturally keep our pretty fellows in the dark, as long as
they could, if their intentions were war-like. It
now comes out, that our pretty gentlemen bare been
offering their mediation three times ; and that they Lave
been three times refused ; a thing that has oot happened
to England before for Four Hundred years. Welletbei„
though the whole of these nearly three months of slit
cession, we have been invariably right. Those who
read the SCITKGMAN, awe hollowed what ahoy read.
mast all along have expected to ems take place what Las
now taken place. Early in November we said, that th.
French troops would enter Spain in the month of North;
and is that mouth they will enter Spain. How many
families would have been preserved from rain, Woo
newspaper but the STATZSMAY had existed in London
Not that we care a straw about the matter; for, awl_
jobbers ought to be rained; and especially atm k jab'. r s
that persevere in reading the bloody ald beastly 01:::
Times and such like publications.—We know many
persons oarselves, who sold oat their Spanish bonds in
consequence of what they read in the STATESMAN.—
We do not pique ourselves much upon any services
that we are able for ender to the stock jobbing tribe; bet
upon an occasion like this, bare justice to ourselves calls
as to show that we have been right while all the rest
were wrong.—Now, as to the result of the War that
is about to be begun, we want a little more information.
(and that we shall soon hair) before we speak with any
great degree of confidence. Our wishes are. decidedly
destruction to the Bourbon Army: but wishes are very
different from opinions. We are not so confides: is
these latter as we are in our wishes. We have no Wes
that the French will prevail, if the Spaniards be united;
but we have great fears that they are not; though, we
mast say, that we have no good grounds for supposing
that they are disunited to any great extent.—We think
that the appointment of the Doug D'Atroocnewe is a
very favourable circumstance for the Spaniards; and is
indeed, no weak symptom of the existence of that Mad'
nest which some of our contemporaries assert to be pre.
relent amongst the old fusty noblesse of Francc.—We
have nu great expectation of desertion from the French
armies, as long as they are well paid and well crammed
with plunder. Nevertheless, such a spirit may exist
and it it should, it may be preidnetive of the hippies
conseqwenors.—At any retools)* war• can leaffety fail to
give a blow to Uatton and Old Sarum ; and how it stilt
give that blow our readers will see, if the war tontine",
many months. Oct of this war our pretty gentlemen
will find it very diffiCtilt to keep: sod, *yet, into it they
cannot get; into it heartily they stannot ger, without
the blowing op of that system which preserved Gattcn
sad Old Sarum.—We shall now see what a `figure the
man of the two red lions will cut. If his predecessor
bad not been such a fool as he was, one might have sot.
posed that Le saw what ass coming. Let us hope that
the present hero will stand his ground, at any rate! His
puns and antitheses will not, indeed, be of mach u-e
to him ; but here we have hint fairly tied to the
stake; and, before next June, we shall see what he is
made of.