The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-08-26 00:00:00

1111.1.1N111
A4:4*-S

• -
•o

1 .

'Rum STOCKS
Bank 219 •
S per Cent. Red. Kit
S per Cent. Conk
4 per Cent'. 7211
per Cent. Nney-Sie
Lenit. Ann. 14 9:14

"4. • 'Due

141410.111449fte •• • r
•• t. A G:•
••:• • .1

DAY AT OAK O'CLOCK.
India lgrods t
Exchequer tilito 210.
Ditto par l d Y p
()militia 66:p
Consols for Met. 571
Lottery Tickets

THE STATESMAN.

‘1•614/DO
TUITittDAT, • AUGUST 261 ISO.

To our politicians, whether on the Royal Ex-
thange, at LLOYD'S, or elsewhere, it will appear
surprising that no confirmation of the renewal of the
' Armistice is arrived in London, either :theough the
French Papers received last night, or those other
, few channels through which we communicate with
the Continent. In the first place, it lust be ac-
knowledged (and it is with pain and hymiliation we
say 4), that the conduct of the British Ministry, for
long time back, has let down the highitharacter of
the British name. Formerly, not a iihisper relat-
ing to-the political affairs of Europe could be con-
veyed from the mouth of a Foreign Minister at a
Foreign Court that was not made known immediately,
through oar Ambassador, to the Court of_St. James's ;
now a.studied reserve seems to actuate every one of
the party ►ikely to assist in the approaching Con.
greys. We are treated as if we were meddlers and
inarplots in continental affairs; and oar Ambassadors

abroad are not only not mentioned by, name in any of
the proceedings at the chief Courts, with whom it is
desirable we should be in intimate alliance, but their
official presence among the other diplomatists, or
their apprehended arrival is very seldom alluded to.
44 A British Ambassador is expected in a short time,"
or some such phrase, is the only intimation we have,
that those personages are in our pay, although,
perhaps, they have been on the spot whence such
round-about unmeaning announcement is made, for
a month or two. If such men as the first Earl of
aIIAM, or CIIAILLES Fox, were alive, and at the
bead hr the English Goiernment, either of them

would order such Ambassador home immediately,
signifying that, the next they sent to the same Court
should be better received, and more eagerly distin-

gui:l►ed from other strangers who might resort to such
Court. But the proud times we speak of are gone
by, alai it is melancholy to reflect on the change,
for nothing can be more certainly concluded on,
than that the estimation a country is held in by
foreigners, corresponds exactly with the deference
paid by them to its Envoys and Ambassadors.
To return to the impertant subject of the so
much-talked of CONGRESi, our opinion (being

liever taken up on light ground) remains unaltered,
viz. that it will absolutely take place. We are
sensible that the belief of all those nho implicitly

confide in Ministers, and consider them as omnipo-
tent in all they undertake, is on the other side.—
These certainly wish for a renewal of hostilities in

the North, and strive for it, as the vulgar saying is,
to )th and nail. We are persuaded, however, that not-
withstanding the great, the unusually great, CONTIN-
GENT bill of expence of that political corps, denomi-
nated by the Earl of CIIESTERFILLD pricitcdged spies,
yet can they obtain no satisfactory assurance of the
British influence bringing about that desideratum of
the present Cabinet. To view the activity of our main
enemy,in drawing corps after corps to the seat of treaty
or conflict ; his callieg his friendly and tributary Kings
and Commanders to swell his Imperial Staff of Offi-
cers, an idea might be twitertained that he saw the
unavoidable approach to a conflict. Not so. 130-
21APAIITE is one of those beings who has been as
well practised in mind, as in body. He is a Ge-
neral of that mg who prepares for the worst that
can happen. If he fails in his present attempt, be is
never without resources of mind, which have always
repaired his physical deficiencies. It is this quality
which we dread in an inveterate enemy, and which
makes us regret and lament that we do not make the
smallest attempt to find it in some part. of the
United Kingdom, so as to be able to cope with,'
and finally to thwart him in his_ taltimate, projects
against our 'stiff enviable and once flourishing rout'.
try. These ultimate projects undoubtedly embrace
nothing less tban the subjugating our Isle to the
sway of France. NAPOLEON'S design, in this regard,
cannot be less than was that of Louts XIV., XV.,
and XVI., nor than would be the aim of the
XVIIIth Louts, were he set upon the throne of the
Bouneosts,—should he outlive the ordinary period
of gratitude to those who might lend him a hand to
ascend that throne. All the former Potentates, one,
after the other, strove to gain the maritime as-
cendancy of the Channel, which might, in process
of time, have exposed our arsenals to their annoy.
ance, and in the end to utter destruction;
which would at once have laid us under the
Consulate of a Bouanoc, as will be the case'
under a new dynasty, if the HEAD of our empire
does not take very good care of the body.—
This idea being first thrown out by us, may enrage
some of those who, par preferance, call themselves
the " King's friends ;" and it may, in a measure;
offend those squeamish ears, who have been unac,
cnstoined to hear wholesome, though rugged truths.
iregardful of-the character
'than uncandid reasonen.

it
the " King's friends ;" and
i ,f)
offend those squeamish ears
,1 customed to hear wholesom
We are, however, more disr
t cf being thought unpolished
. .