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THE STATESMAN.

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LONDON:
TUUD4T, JONI 13, 1816.

Raving received no French Papers since yester-
day, we are left to conjecture on the momentous
events now passing in France. As the Emperor
NAPOLEON was to receive Deputations from thi Le-
gislative Bodies,. his stay is the capital would, in
all probability, be prolonged until Saturday or Son-
day. Ile spirit of devotion.- shown to him by the
Chambers of Parliament and the People of Paris,
cannot bat conduce to make his mind easy as to the
safety of the capital in his absence ; and if be now
takes the bail, it will be with mental and Phieical

energleaat command, not inferior to my proofs of
power and ►igour be bas yet e►inced. We neither
can nor will shot our eyes to truths so palpable as
those wbieb France is now again disclosing, under
the imaginations which the threats of foreign 'ma-
sseuses have created. The lessons of experience are
written ie dreadful chasacters—why is it that
Sotireigns slam cannot read thew ?—We can-
not reek the cradle of our nation's peace and
safely ea the b►ink of an abyss, which threatens
to engulph all Europe, without being ali►e to the
aaniec....wee cannot see as an be rs of national hate,and
the lnentlageishable spark which eaters has given to
bar children► ie all dimes and ie all ages, for their
peneersetion, voluntarily and wantonly fanned into a
cementing II aims, and gi►ing earnest of its condi-
graiing pewee, without fakir* oar warning ♦oice,
and blaming the delusion which would cover danger,
misery, and destruction, with the veil of fßlsehood,

till their 'kliegs were irretrievably lost. The Tar-

peian rook itself, struck by the hand of tyrannic
power, emitted $ spark that destroyed the line-ties of
eke Willi. This spirit the foreign Sovereigns, who,
antler the pretence of deliverance, have trodden don n,
sod booed ia fetters of iron, the countries which
they haw overcome, and are now threatening to
treat Franco u the last of nations—this spirit the
foreign subjugator* have again awakened in France,
by the bare glitter of their hostile steel ; and we fear
Vot to say that the attempt which would be at into im-
potence the human mind throughout that vast and en-
lightened empire, the centre of civilization, must be
as hopeless as it is wicked, and must end in the ri-
vetting of those chains of conquest on the invading

Powers which they have shown so much inclination
to impose on the French people and the rest of the
world. But whilst we blame those imprudent de.
nnociations, and those menacing combinations of the
hostile elements, which, in imagination, have already
devoted France to subjugation or destruction, let us
do justice to the present conduct of the threatening
Powers. They have not yet entered France,
and some there are who, in spite of all they
hear and see, maintain the opinion that the Al.
lies will not attempt to enter that country, at
least until an attack shall be made upon them.
—We hear that the Doke of WELLINGTON has

expressed an inclination not to advance; but this
may be solely owing to his conceiving that he is sell
deficient of the means of insuring success, and the
determination to remain on the defensive may Only
hold until the long expected armies from Russia shaU
add their nomberless cohorts to bis own. These wr
are told cooties, to arrive on the Rhine, and
shall observe incidentally, that it is confirmed that,

the French General BEILTUIZI met his death lookii

at.thom from a window io Bamberg, while on thi

marts to desolate his Bathe country. Whether he
looked is with pleasere, and tbeeght he was dying
for his 11•Notry as he tumbled down, we cannot say,
but **Abe story e. There ate other suppositions,
bemuse, indulged—sub as, that the Russians, I
Merit% of ilserrntea's beieg suspected by the Allies
of not Wog oesr-sinters in kis friendship to them,
did not deem it oessasery to be over civil to him.—
Rat of this abo we bays no EMU of speaking po-
sitively or correctly. We see the King of SAXOIIY,
in a Proclamation, has take, a sad farewell of the
inhabitants of that part of kis territory which he
has been obliged, by the Congress of Vkans, to
give up to Prussia. Had be sot done this, it sp- '
pears, his deliverieg friends would bare taken all !
JOAcuim MUNAT, in his farewell Address, speaks
to-his people in another toes. He re-commends
fidelity and confidence in his owaseres, and tells
them he will retorts to them speedily. Ins fortunes,
however, may net re-vegetate with the violet sea-
son.--Prints litters from Paris state, that bra