The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-01 00:00:00

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ThE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

SIIIIRIDAIN APRIL I, MC

It h truly divitrarteolog to the Patriot I. witness
tie m in which the Represeotstivee of a once
great nation employ their time end their words le
the British Seamy. While our Office is inendated
culh bewsitiogs of the wont of employeseet
in several of the inenefacturieg districts, and of the
*strews wretchedness of families who are unwilllog
II to throw themselves ou the parish for relief, we see
I wet the least tendency in these whew duty it chiefly
to enter upon enquiries so pointedly secessary.—r
A week, a fortnight, are employed in esposleg
and defending the conduct of • political intriguer,
how far he can segment his perliameetary inflame*
fee limit, pre/laden ; hot so time an be found for
smithies late the distressed state of the nation. It
could appear as if our jerernsi were a &menials is
else, as well as is same, by the innumerable
sempialets which are forwarded to it from sU
smatters. We see !rely distressed by this pre.
eminence, knowing bow lecapahle we are of effect.
log any amendment in bloat is so mach above as.—
The public press of &gland is undoubtedly bosom*
weworthy of its former reputation. It is gives op to
fettering the we lo Feuer, sod hardest's' their
beans against every approach of public misery. if
these show no meth sympathy for private thee for
pantie saferieg, thee Indeed are they corrupt to the
tory ease, sod as Lord K*nts would say, the sooner
they die off and ate re-placed by aeother order of
see the better.

It sever looks well whorl a noose of Corroos Is
more employed skeet Breech of Privilege thee
Breeds. i• tM Coostitetion.

We have ohm spokes with greet satisfaction of the
peogrma that liberty is making In Gernisny.
last Casettes been the other side of the Rhino corn.
municate a pest deal upon this enlivening subject.
Clubs are held in different towns, for the purpose of
discussing politics, and are frequeMed by many of
the fames who have lately distinguished themselves
io the hid. Let us hope that we may ere long see
engraves ou the weapons of these renowned warriors
tile words " Liberty, Patria," as on these of the
attes of the Gains of Switserlaad.

4. .. ....y.,...44.114thA et le;:htPeaser 5 fra.illsis
' ..$ !At.- coca presentee tpe Report nfithe'
item es thi...Sesuinole 0p.,: IS is teryllsiw
and pios4lie intsenfof condemning CM i•acoe
conduct as au infractiou of the Constitution, •• es
/drown pint the eeverrlosty of the autos: this 1
snwpigissy being rested I. the groat body of the
People. The Constitetion is the stifles expressions
of their will," sap the limpets. " sad obese the
controol of all the Public Fenctioneries combined.--
And. when that lestrentent bee been violated, the
People alone have power to greet the indemnity for
its infraction; all that can be said in f of the
Officer who transceods his constitutiosal powers,
smelt be taken, not in joint:sties of the act, but in
seltigstion of the enormity of the offence committed."

These are sentiments ;f free men nobly and men-
tally expressed. In another part the report Seely
combats the segementa adduced in jostifiestiow of
Gen. JACILIOn :—" The weakness of the Spartith,
eatberifies is urged in justification of this ostrag.
spinner Coostitetion ; and is the weakness of au in.
dependent potter, to divinge their neutral rights or
to furnish pretences for a powerfel neighbour to
weaken them farther by hostile aggressions ? And is
it thus we are to be feroisbed by an American
Darer with a justification for the dismember.
meat of Poland, the capture of the Dteith fleet
by Grest•Britein, and the sobjegation of Europe
by Beeeparte? Avid shall the United States be
called epee to White the eases*, or silently u-
nsling, and thereby subscribe to doctrines, and ap-
prove VlHPOnfee, that are is direct opposition I. tba
repeated and invariable declarations of the Govern-
ment, gives to this nation end the world, through
the °Gebel medium of Presidential Newsy+i sod the
correspondent's of all her Public Ministers, and wen
!desert by ell her politic laws, se the subject of
amoral rights? Will it not be said, that tea bare
changed ear stational policy ? Shall we not be ad.
dressed in the following language, by the undoes of
&trope?
" `The time was, whew the United Stele' wettish*
weak—she bad no Navy, she bad no Army. In
these dais she was a strong advocate for neutral
rights, sluices that free ships should make free
Roods ; that the neutral flag of the Republic should
protect all soiling wader it, ever protesting ageiast sad
complete's( of the violation of her neutral rights by
the fielligeratts of Europe. Bet these times have
passed away, the nation has tried her strength
In battle end fogad herself quite equal to the
straggle ; she hes bed thew to strengthen her
army end increase her navy; her former weakness
forgotten, her former precepts abandoned, and feel-
ers; power sad forgetting right, she walks ever a
prostrate Constitution, to conquer mod subdue a mi-
serable and feeble, though Petrel colony, whose
very weakness (pleaded in muse for the aggression)
should ha e rather constituted so appeal to a glee-
roes Pee Is for protectioe.'
44 fa th•s anfavoarable light the Committee ban too
mach re-son to fear, will the civilized world view
this transaction, and if sanctioned by the nation' they
regret 'n my there will be too much reason given
thus to consider it."

The Park Paper. of Sendey bell arrived at a its
halt last night. They are extremely anioteresting.
The Journal de la Vendee asserts, that • perfect
tranquillity proven, In that Japsrte►eot, and repots
with great ladignation, t►e aspersions which have
been disseminated against the loyalty and peaceable
disposition of Its inhabitants. The state of Corsica
Is spoken of as being much ameliorated, sod yet we
are assored by the same authority that charitable in-
stitutions aboend sod ore daily increasiag. Neither
of the Chambers assembled on Saturday. The fol.
lowing are eztracts:—
" Pants, MARCH At the (limner to hogivets to
the Persian Ambassador on Tondo'', et the
of tbeCoaat d'Escxas, Maitre d'11• tel to his Majesty,
there are to be 110 covers. The foe, Marshals,
Mejora•Gewenl of the Guard, and the Prince de
TALLSTIAIIIIO, iovitrd.
" M. Vrazzose has submitted to the Goverameet a
pies fo► a new organization of telegraph., by means
of which 3,000 dispatches per day•may be trausmit.
ted to 500 correspondents I. different parts of
Fiance, and the answers received.
" The Cosmos, of GeTILAND Mogen of Sweden)
Is et present residing at Maraellles.

" Ten Mayors in that Department of Gerd bees
•
Mee maprneil.d. _ _

" eve per t;ents.—Saturday 6b r. 50 c.
" STOCKHOLM. MIMI' 9.--elliiileity is rafted
to know in what minuet the discussions will he .r•
tonged between our Go►ernment and those of Hestia
and Prussia, respecting the ligeldstion of the Nor.
wegisis debt. Nothing transpires with ►egard to
them segoriations. but it is apprehended they ate
not mesh ad►anced.

" CADIZ, MARCH 9.—The 111041110111 Nl' Lima,
consisting of a ship at OA deo of 74 guns, and a
frigate of 44, with WOO Naas, Is to be argatisited
by two ships of the line kola the grand. arms.
emit destined for Buenos Ayres. The hitter it is
*specter will convey 16,000 ass, sad dist It will
sail eery shortly. _ _

" FaAlliroßT MARcil 1141.—Tbe oppotillell of,
HOMO to the military orrangemertte agreed upon by
the Diet, causes an unespoctei delay. The Ministers
of Austria sod Prussia, at Camel, hare endeavoured
in vain to indite* the Elector to withdraw his oppo.
'Moo : the latter has declared that he will sot depart
from his system. The Promise Minister, as already
stated, has withdrawn from Cassel ; sad the Hestia.
Minister to Prussia has been recalled from Balta.—
lt is supposed that the Diet will ultimately make
their Deese., onswithstanding the opposition of Uesse;
bat curiosity is smiled to know what will be the re.
salt."

The disposal of by rejection of M. BARTWELXIIT'II
proposal fur mitering the Election Law of Fiance,
has traogeillited the public mind of that country : but
we had no notion that in so short a period, se norm
and general a fermentation bed been excited, by the
circumstance; we are folly convinced, that had mea-
sures taken an opposite course, a counter-resroletion
would here been attempted. limpidly for France
tiro Law of Election has triumphed, a •ejorit7 of
58 voices severed to the French People the enjoy.
merit of one of their Brst rights. This happy deci-
sion bas breoght dew, together and rendered stronge►
the tkil between LW Electors and thek constituents.

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Shall the partial rage at leeth
F. From ttat,hura Jenks wrest lb. tighten*. pen ?

SIR,--h appears to me, that the obsolete doctrine
of dieing right, so eaurh at one lime detected in this
country, is likely to be revived with imprneemnots;
and I thick I am jastiCtd in this opioiew, front
ob-
sergatioos made es a toe occasion, by public men,
which was to this 'Erect —that Princes should not be
regulated by the common rules of other men. We
oast presume by this that some divine privilege at-
taches to them, some mysterloos something that Bo
realms can recnocile, some kind of right *sly ender-
stood by their flatterers—a right to do smog 'Mi-
not blame; this opinion at one time might pass, bet
it tools hese bees at the time

Stets Peeereetbaw nef•ed her iron rod,
hod eelt'd the Fria .1 glace the payer of mit.

Bet shall sects opiOlairs taketoots, the coonmenet.
emit of t►e 19th centery,after the greatest eve open
earth have been eildeavostrieg to improve the human
mind. 1 say ne—they cannot. Oer Legialators
any give to them the Natbra's money, sod distress
,that Nation by insweassne testrine, to pay thew
grants; bat it newt take* the pee*, hoes ►hat Pee.
pie of loudly complaints( easiest the git.ra owl
twelve's; the one for abasing the PO-pk'acong.leoc•,
the other for s►o■iug a mask►d contempt for p.hlic
epistle•. But the Common not Is sow as a kin.l of
defence—bei they are embarrassed, they are in dif-
ficulties. It is reasonable to ask how have they be.
come so. Not by the badness of their business, for
I am sere it has he.. a theitine mss of late years ;
sad poor' enforteeate JOHN BULL should not be
culled upon to mike up losses uttered I. the absence
of moral conduct, et io places we closet sake he.
pourable mention of. ,

trust the friends of dignity end rank will bo
CRIBilllllll in their remarks concerning privileges, s here
Isere only goveni the land, and no man ought skit
impealty to nettle, his will to the injury of others,
whatever its fitk nay be.
Thi Revolatins in France less a grand lesson to
the divine right gentry ; but It appears to be totally
forgotten by them, although written in such bloody
I eharacters.

I shield be glad to hest them sty, with florae IV.
or France, who olsoertred, he hoped to see the day
wheal every peassat In his coootry enald •Iford
to haves fowl epos his table on a &Pinky. This
Preece tie still spoken of with admirstino ; bet
every Prim:, has net a StILLY lor a Coonsellor.l
Bet some remise may be made for exalted rank,
they hey* mach to give, and this their flatterers well
know ion well to venter, so differing in opinion
with them ; they edmlssistre the pekoe of the heave.
mind with match ifigeowity end mooing, thus they
seldom get sincere and good advice, es an sethor of
'ability well obsernev.—" Fisch is the condition of
the greet they scarcely ever know the reel forward
workings of the seal of the people sheet them ; they
live in the midst of • stage play, where every aloe that
approaches them is a peraoneted actor ; the Lord
himself is the wily reel character, performing his
part In good earnest, while the rest ere employed is
la mummery, and high in their loyalty at the gross
deletion they are practiving epos him."
Seek deceptions are the reason eh, atone of Ilia
highest rank have so severely soldered when rhenges
have takew piece is countries they have govornegi,
the parasites being always the first to betty, and de.
erre shoat, who have gives them bread. The pages
of history prove this Stepped cootradiction ; sod this
alley ought to ho acqosieted with ; thee instead of re-
ceiving ouoveaeos grants from a virtuous and
suffering People, they would endeavour to lire
within their legal bat litter.l establishment—par.
ticularty when it Is considered that those grants arise
from a lasation esseqsalled in the history of ostlers
—prodeciste a revenue from the will of the People,
' which no despotic Sovereign timid collect is ashore
equally rich, salon be wished to boom a wood
TA a~UIN.
Matta Alin. PLTRON IUL

When a grant of 10,0001.• year is to be given to
• Venice for doing Mat width eight to be performed
on
the score of dusty and filial effective, the* are
Englisheresquelided whh the epithets of a " great,
generous, sod loyal People;" bet no sooner would
they prove themselves truly great by stending up for
the Coostitetiow, and removing the scandalous theses
which have Wye limped sport it, than they are stig-
metised as a demurral People, 'niftiest e ith Jac*.
Moises, and spinet oboes designs nothing but a see
permits. of the liebees Cuero: Act ea• seems the Gs-
',moment ! ! ! —Ala•, Joni/ Butt !
The King of l'osvuo At is af raid to leave the °mils,
apprehending that on his removal the spirit of inset-
rettion might spread and acquire strength. It *mild
meet as if King's in every part of the world were
More afraid of their sobjers than of their enemies.—
The fears of many of these Crowned !Inds, no doubt,
gmeirehs with the injuries they have indicted.
Yesterday evening two Dutch Mails 'mired,
bringing Papers to 27th inst.
BRDISILS, hfAIGU 44.--Tho Ministers at Paris
have bees obliged, on "cermet of the increaring bold-
ness of the Pamphleteers, to call some et them be-
fore the Tribunals. We learn aims, that an anony-
mous libel has been met to M. ROMs, President of
the Chamber of Depoilev, for the purpose of Wog
dstributed to th Members, in which an attempt is
made to justify the murder of Lows XVI. and to
hold it up es an 'temple. The Author if not yet
known, and it cannot therefore be decided to what
clan of people each sentiments can be attributed.

BICMAN, M ARCH 111.--Ti. British Ambassador,
Mr. Koss, It gooe from ibis city to Hamner.

Leiters hate bees received frour the Monareb. of
In gent, dated 16th Februa►y. off St. Kitt'., :toting
that she bad capture! • s:swinish brig, laden with
wise, brandy, &c. velvet at 50,000 dollar:, which
she had fallen in with on the 11,11, then in possesalon
of a pirate, and sent her for Ass Cayes. The pirate
erected her escape. The Monarch is one of the/Alps
that sailed from the Dower in the latter rad of De-
cember, with troops and military stores for the la.
se►SMls in South America.