The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-23 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

will justify.
The same Paris Correspondent, who transmits the
Imperial Letter, says" Count PALDIELA, the Bra-
anion Minister, is• gone to Loudon, only to pass a
few days, end to meet with his family. He will re-'
tern at the end of the Month, 'boot:the unto time es
the Doke of WEEEtsozos. Every thing announces,"
he odds, "that the tiegociation between the Coons
Brazil and Spain will terminate happily, which
is•roodered the more probable, as the Duke Dc
Vtitwax*Nuttiz:has received full powers from.his
Court. What has resided the progress of the ne-
gociarion is the adjustment of the double question,
about the restoration of the IA Plata and'of Olivenza.
—The destruction of Mute: and his beads," con-
tinues this writer, 66 has prixleced here a great effett
The Spanish' Ambassador has testified the greatest
joy. No dimhtis entertained, that before the lapse
of a year, all the Spanish Insurgent provinces will
'•hertereterne4 to .their allegiance:" We shall soon
see if such Metering anticipations will be fulfilled.—
They must have very limited ideas of the Itevolotlon
in Sooth America, who can believe this. To per-
sons who hove no better notions on this great and
interesting question, we would recommend the pe-
rusal of the Estract which we this day give from as
American Pamphlet on Southern Affairs.

LO PUN:

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1818..

We have received a variety of American Papers of
some intevest 'end late dates. The New York Paperaof
Arend ult. bring into consideration a subject of goon
importance. Ono of them contains a letter from
Washington, which states, though with some appear•
ance of doubt, that Mr. BAGAT, the British Am.
bessador, had pintested again'st the occupation Of the
Florida. by the United States, in whatsoever manner
the pos4ession may h.. attained. There is great pro-
bability that the espected encroachments of titeNotth
American Government will lead them Intogreat embar-
rassments—Florida may be considered is the key of
many of the Ile dish West India Islands; but if. every
.thing is to be regarded as our concern,we may as well
plunge into the South American contest at_once, and
boldly venturing on " this sea of doubts!' by one act
of British magnanimity 6 6 eud them." This reported
act of the British Minister is not, howevir, credit.
ed, nor are we led by the tenour of the Paassnmes
Message to anticipate any such disagreement between
America and Great Britain. General } :LOTD, corn•
mending iu Camden County, has ordered out SUO
men from the districts contiguoos to St. Mary's ; and
to be placed ostensibly under the orders of General
GAllas. Whether the Indian war, or the seizure of
East Florida, is to find employment for these troops,
we are left to conjecture.

Two Dutch Mails have also arrived. Thp Papers
by this conveyance attribute the Duke of WELLSNO•
TON'S recent arrival in England to caws of the ut-
most importance. Count GOLTZ, late Commissary-
General of the War Department. is to be indemnified
foc the loss of his office by an Embassy, or amicable
lbanishment, to some German Court. The work of
M. SCHEFFEnt for which that Gentleman is now un-
der prosecution at Paris, being calculated to mite
strong feelings of uneasines at the continued presence
of the Army of Occupation iu France, is rigorously
searched for in the northern departments, and every
copy sent off to Paris. An article from the Maine
states, that the inhabitants of Frankfort had de-
manded of the Legislative Body an account of the
arrest of Colonel Von•MasserinActi and M. Faux.
DfSPORTI2. A courier, litely dispatched by the
British Resident at Constantinople, has been mar-
dared near Mosel, and his dispatches' seised. A
nember of agents from the Pacha of EoTes are said
to be now busily employed at every capital from
mirth to south of Europe, in prosecuting, on his be-
4balf, some objects either of a commercial or political
Were.

Paris Papers to the 120th have come to hand. The
Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Con-
cordat assembled on Saturday, when the Duke de
RICHELIEU, M. !AIRE, and PORTA LIS attended the
meetiug. Nothing is stated respecting the result of
this conference. The new powers and wended ad-
vantages to be given to the Priests and the Catholic
Church by this Concordat are beheld with the utmost
abhorrence by a large portion of the French People.
The project is the work of the Duchess of AsGond
LIME'S faction. Even the Port never aMtde such
propositions. The mysterious circumstance of the
murder of M. FUALDE4I and the preparations for the
trial of the persons implicated, constitute the domes-
tic subject which chiefly occupies the attention of the
French People. Madame Manson's tondoct, under
the suspicious that attach to her, is as perplexing as

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ever. ......wm.--
But a poor woman's secret is a trifieto the Political As the Courier had volontered a strong tirade in
mistifications that seem to be carrying on. The Pros- favour of the continurd imprisonment of the EVANSEI,
siatiCouticillor of State, M. JORDAN, is said to have we looked for a corresponding orimment on the li-
fully succeeded iii the negotiation which he was en• beration of these men, and another ealogium on the
joined to open with the Austrian Government. It is' humanity and political virtues of Lord Stowes'',
added, that the purpose of this mission is the firm including the " deep discernment" of the Police
establishment of good order and public tranquillity ; Knight, who arrested the unfortunate prisoners.—
words, of course, which may mean any thing, and But the Courier has all of a sudden become silent on
cover any thing. It is better understood however, this " momentous subject." With the escape of the
that the object of the Prussian Minister was to destined victims he has lost his cue. Ile has there-
engage the concurrence of the Court of Austria in fore gone back to a subject with which his memory
certain measures for the regulation of the German is better aitietainted—to the Parodies. This is to
Press. The task of M. JORDAN was probably not a gratify the same rancorous feelings of spleen
hard one. The possessors of power, are supposed to and disappointment *Melt the persecutors of
have a pretty strong fellow-feeling as to whatever cit.- innocence and freedom seem doomed to experi-
COMStaileff may touch the nature and eatent of their ence. The Public have witnessed the noble subscrip-
authority. It is therefore, •not unlikely that they don of the Duke of BEIWORD and the Marquis of
should profess the same creed upon the dangers to be 'Femmes to Mr. Hone. The sanction of the illus.
apprehended from the free impression of popular seri! trious House of Boma. to the protection of priori-
dements, and may readily come to a perfect understand- pies of freedom, and the cause in which the best
ing upon the system best calculated to keep it down. feelings of Britons, as well as their hereditary at-
It is announced that Austria and Prussia were never tachments, might be espected to be most warmly en-
so closely united as at the present moment, and it gaged, was not likely to be withheld, when the test
is inferred that all dissension in the Germanic Diet of honourable and patriotic sentiments was so widely
will be at an end. Many of the Germans will pro- given. The House of Roma., so identified with
bably be of opinion that this intelligence forebodes no resistance to tyranny, and endeared' to Britain and
good to the cause of public liberty in Germany. to Coastitotional liberty, has on this, as on all other
From Warsaw we art Informed. that the Polish occasion', testified its hereditary love of
.freedom in
treoPas bitiletto maintained by the Russian treasury, the generosity of its character ; and.when men like
are henceforth to be paid by Poland kerma . it 15 the Duke of Morons) and thefslarquis of Taverrocw,
-conjectured that an einem* of about. 40 millions of distiegeished less by their illeetrieu rank, the highest
Iglus will thus be incurred by thutifter kiligclien.— in the rea Insi Abate by the maiwent qualkies with • hich
ITtini is I part of the advantageous avis free system they adorn it, give the sanction of their names to
which the Poles are to enjoy from the establishment any measure, little doubts may be entertained of its
of the power of the great " Liberator of the North" juslice and propriety. The light in which the late pro-
in Poland and in Europe. • " ',Cations have been viewed by the most intelligent as
Its connection with this notice of Russian inea• well as the most interested persons in the kingdom,
sures, we shall direct the attention of our Readers may be seen from this subscription. The Courier
to the document, and certanly ti remarkable one it again, with Matchless impudence, represses great in-,
is, which is communicatedt is privet* letters from Pa- dignation at the subscription of the Duke of Bate-
lie of the date of Suudayawd Monday last. • It was
T.ORD and the Marquis of TAVISTOCIL, as if ,brae`
some time ago stated that she Emperor of Russia had ;noble Personages, or any other discerning part of the
addressed a letter to the Duke of WeLtattorort, community, could experience say other feelings than
proposing to his Grace to mediate between France those of contempt at sect dissumites. The imbecile
and her private creditors among other nations, parti- fallacy of • the arguments, built on the approbation of
colarly those of Preemie, whose demands were the profane writings, is beneath detection. Host
most argent and Widest. This statement is aethen• I himself disavowed the object of ridiculing the ,I
1 Scriptures. Yet the Courier meditate Se take his
ticated by the prodsimien of the Metter of the Rus-
sian Emperor to the Duke,however,
a copy of which we have I stand, for be lets no ether, en this rejected ground.
inserted. His Imperial Majesty, it will be observed, i The writer of thew Pion valtortalion s,
I never recurs to the pages of the Courier for a prac-
recommends that the -utmost indulgence should ,
ill tical est ratl on of the purity of its present decetines.
be shown to France. Thy motive for this m iom- 'lt would " disturb the harmonious proportion." of
meudation is not very apparent. Bet it probably Isis argument, and probably the gravity of some of his
appears that thuogh France-is moth depressed, she is readers, were be to do this. -4, -•-. ••• : ~..- •

of tn. ~1111.4
States, and is understood to be the productiue of ilb
individual in the cusifidesece of the Ateerican,Gotern.
meet. Independently, however, of its claim on see
attention, as a poblicalion proceeding from such *
quarter, and illustrative of the vie AS of Americo, the
knowledee which it displays iss South American at:
fairs, and the able and erasers(' views which it takes
of the contest with :pain, recommend it to the par.
Ititular notice of the English Reader.
With respect to the cause a the South Ameit,
cans, the writer observes, Thee are slow. as we
once were, nobly contemns( egoists. opt •re,sors mist.
waders, in a causessuctified h$ jcstiee, in demote Mire
just than oar:—for where zer had one reason to caw..
plain,theyhatite. thoustiod." In a note new riter (Arose
observes, 66 I carte.' refrsitied from coveting lists the
question of the right of the Colonies to declare thetas
selves independent of Spain. Never was there a
cease more easily supported. On the side of Sinsin
there is nothing but lawless force. • On an ellen*,
gemination *of the English writers against our right
**declare ourselves independent of the British Goo
reestitnent;' i find these things distinctly admitted by
`them as incontrovertible I—That the relative c0n417..
Ben _of the iolooy to the colonising state, is Ind the
same as that of a mere province, partakes more et
that of allies, and having distinct interests from the
Mother Country, may lan fully throw elf its oath°.
rity, which a province under no circomstalites
As the Colonists were not conveyed to distant coun-
tries in order to be made slaves, or to be subjected ti
the peesi,hliess or oppression of "the parent state, If
they thought themselves closed to such treattneet
they might renounce their allegiance, claim insfs:
pendence, and apply to any foreign Commonwealth
for aid." These are the very mords of one of the
ablest and most strenuous advocates for Gieat Bd.
tails. It entered the head of no one at the time to
argue that nothing would justify the revolt of the
Colony.
We believe the right of the Spanish American.,
to establish their independence, is not seriously called-
iss question by persons of any consequence either in
this country or America. The absurd paragraphs
which occasionally appear in home of our Papers, by
way of return for correspondent Enna deeds. can mu*.
lead no one possessed of the least penetration. Th I
only qoestion is AS to their ability to eitahlish their
independence. The doubts which a few people is
this country still entertain on this subject. are chicer
attributable to ass ignorance of the silt' resice between
the state• of the N..w World aid Europe. "
to
contrasting," says the America's writer, 66 the of.
forts of these People to throw oil the Spanish yokes
with our own efforts, and with those of other isatimic
we shall find that on this score there will be so
reason to.despise them. • * * • • There are massy
things in the histdry of our struggle:of which we have
urn much reason to be proud. 71Ve had tnattg
&nub., to encounter amongst ourselves; nut of a
population of two millions Red a half, it was
withllts
greatest difficulty we could raise itsconsideralsh• ar-
mies, while their supplies were always deficient.- -
A contest, which, if we hid united, if the vigorous
had fought, if the rich hall furnished means, if all
had persevered with constancy mill firmness, to act
their parts, would soon have terminated, was pros
meted for seven years, and with the aid of a power.
fel nation. We ought to make some allowance f
the South Americans. The iccidents of our revo-
lutionary war, do not authorise us to speak with
contempt of the efforts of a People, who labour sa.
der a thousand disadvantages, which slid toot neces-
sarily belong to our situation. The contest in !South
America has already lasted 10 years, with a variety
of success, but its general progress has been retarded
in the same manner as ours, by the pro.rt t of re..
conciliation. Before the formation of the Constitoo
tine, by which the Colonies were placed on an equal
footing with Spain, the Patriots were every where
successful, by this they were lulled into datigeroes
security, until they found that, instead of a ratifica-
tion of this instrument, which had been the means el
restoring Ferdinand to his Throne, this ungrateful
Monarch, eoddessly• threw all his disposable troops
into different portions of the Continent, and directed
all his effort-. to reduce them to absolute subjection.
lie paraded a system of cruelty and extermination
unparalleled in the history of the world; the monsters
who perpetrated these atrocities, will be held up in
the darkest page of the bloody • and monkish reign
of Ferdinand. It is not surprising that the Patriots
Ishould have experienced reverses, it is set surprising
',that in the elitist of these scenes •of horrid corsage
they should not have bad time to establish
every where well ordered Goiernments.-:-Bet
we find that they are 'gain regaining the ascendancy,
even where the Spaniards sprarect at first to tarry
every thing liefote. them. • Notwithdanditig the fa-
brications of the enemies; of the Patriots; stubborn
'facts prove to us that they are in the lull Bile of secs
10112. ill the nit Provinces of Granada, Vetressets„
land Guyana, the Royalists have little wore this a
right foothold on the coast and in the cities, obis
'all the interior acknowledges no subjection, bet is.
continually sending out parties of armed mete, which,
like our Militia, cannot be long retained in a bedis
or'may not be. .efficient in fronting a regular disci-
pliant force, yet meat ultimately destroy the enemy
in detail. The contest in this part of South America
Can scarcely- be doubtful ; a cauntry asoreestensio•
than the Old Thirteen States, inhabited by two slits
lions of People, scattered over its vast surface, caned
,be subdued by a few thousand foreign temps. Thetes
lin feet, perish on the sea coast, wittily/it daring lo
penetrate the inferior, while the Spaniards welsh! make
Ins believe, dist because they have taken a few est'
time toasts, the country is therefore subdued. If "a
inconsiderable territory of Holland or 51,11teria..
could resist with sitcom, why may not coutitriell
twenty times their estent,. resist invaders who 04,
cosopelled to traverse an email of three therm
miles ?• The conquest of sveh countries is a re*
madness ; Spain may send armyafter armpit esecetio•
era to be destroyed, while the Goloairs will lvt ever
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