The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-02-08 00:00:00

'oat column after coltnin being printetrand dispersed
in London to persuade the people that no such thing
could be rationally expected as a popular movement
of resistance in France. And we doubt not that
I theee attempts will still, in the face of such evidence,
be continued. Servility and effrontery, in their high.
est degree, it will certainly require to do this ; hot
the constant habit of subduing the understanding,
and bending the conduct to the will of power, ne-
cessarily produces the utmost contempt for the
sense and judgment of the public, and where this
eiists, nothing is too absurd and preposterous
to be offered to the public faith. The order in
question is not more atrocious than it has proved in-
effectual. Rigour and impotence are its combiued
characteristics. That it has been without any power
to deter the people of France from resistance, is evi-
dent from the transactions of the t9th and 30th, and
who can doubt, that its entire tendency was to arouse
-them to the most vigorous and enthusiastic opposi-
tion. What has there ever been in the military con-
duct of BONAPARTZ, or any other of the French Ge-
nerals, to surpass, in enormity, this sanguinary de.
tree? What would have been the effect of such an order
. had it been issued and acted upon by France in the
Peninsula ? The effect most have been to produce a
war of extermination ! What must be the effect of
the present order, ft attempted to be executed ? A
war of extermination ! And if the Allies should
enter upon such a kind of warfare on the soil of
France, their destruction would be the necessary
consequence. The people of France we may be
certain, from the mere evidence of this document,
are determined to support their Government; the
threat contained in it can only have added vigour

and energy to their 3opport ; it is a threat, besides,
by the performance of which the Allies would
themselves suffer the most.—lt is urged by
the war faction, that this assistance afforded by
the French people to the present Government,
might have been prevented by an early decla-

ration in favour of the Bemoans. After they
find that all the exulting declarations, of the wire-
'listing temper of the French people, are falsified and
rendered ridiculous by every day's events,—it is con-
venient enough for them to attempt this sort of es-
cape. Any declaration in favour of the BOURBONS
would, we doubt not, 'have imparted still greater
energy to the animosity of the French towards
their invaders. The subterfuge, however, such as it is,
consists in the rational and modest opinion, that the
Soveyeigns and their confidential advisers,
twit* all the advantages of proximity in situation,
Isere less competent judges of what was likely to
contribute to their success, than the enlightened ad-
110O0aill of war in the service of the London Press.
, •
NUtScotia Gazettes to the 6th of January, ar-
tired tt i nierning. They contain no intelligence of
inspertanee. We extract the following article from
the Paper of the 29th of D..cember :
`t A better from an Officer of the United States
Mists Congress,' dated Portsmouth, Dec. IS, states
the arrival of that vessel at Portsmouth, after an un-
successful cruise, in which only four captures were
leade.".

Govorrnweitt yesterday received letters from Lord
Wanmeterow, dated the 2tst ult. up to which pe-
lOil no want of importance had occurred. They
were brooght by Major CATHCART. His Lordship
remajned In nearly the same position as announced
in his former dispatches.
Mr. Rost, jun. is gone to be our Minister to the
Court of Bavaria.
Two Lieutenants of the Navy, who had been im-
prisoned in Franeefor several years, have made their
escape, and presented themselves at the Admiralty
yesterday.
We learn by private-letters from nolland, that
the intense severity of the weather put an end to all
field operations, and that the British troops were
going into cantonments. It is also said, that by
advices from the Caowe- PRINCE) it was understood
that he could not advance with his army, so as to
be in communication with the Allies before the 15th
of this month.
There was a report in the City yesterday of a
beery firing having been heard on the French coast.
There was probably no more ground for this than for
the opposite report of a Deputation having been sent
from Paris to the Prince of SCHWA ETZENBERC2S
army, to invite the Boy 'MONS to hoist their standard
in France. In the present critical state of things,
and with Omnium at its present price, the public
will be daily stunned with rumours of every kind,•
us there is room for very profitable fluctuation, not
only in the price of Stocks, but of commodities of
different kinds.
Linters from Amsterdam state, that licences will
be granted on application, permitting a direct trade,
in Dutch vessels, from the Colonies in the East and
Vl'est Indies to Holland-, and that such vessels, on
coming to England, will have protection given to
them by British convoy.
The encouragement offered by Government to any
active young men, shipwrights, who may be willing
to go to Canada, is, that they shall each receive ten
shillings per diem, with two shillings subsistence, and
(..ie shilling for lodgings, daily • and, those who shall
conduct themselves properly, ;ill be entitled to a ser-
ved upon their return.
The resignation of Sir JAMES MANSFIELD will, it
is said, immediately take Seat, as the regular .cer-
tificate of his ill-health has been laid before Govern-
ment. He will be succeeded by Sir V. Gains; and
Sir Wx. GARSIOW is to be the new Chief Baron.—
The present Solicitor-General, Mr. Serjeant Sls 06
HERD, will succeed to the oMce of Attorney-Ge-
neral, and Mr. Sergeant BEST is to be appointed So-
licitor-General. Mr. Justice CITAXERE, it Is said,
retires from the Bench neat month.
Capt. fleoniE passed St. Helena about the 10th of
p cee caber; and saw ten ships lying in the roads.