The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-30 00:00:00

EXTRACTS FROH FRENCH PAPERS OF
MONDAY.

Paris, Jan. 27.
" Yesterday. before Mass, the King received in a pri-
vate auoience the Marquis de Bonnar, and Limit. Gen.
the Count d'Espagne.
" The Count de Villele, president of the Council of
Ministers, visited yesterday evening at 8 o'clock, the
Duke d'Angouleme, and remained an hour with his
Royal Highness.
" We (JoonNat, ves Unsays) gave on the 24th inst.
the three letters of the Charge des Affeires of Russia,
Prussia, and Austria, to M. San Miguel the minister for
Foreign Affairs of the Spanish Government, as well as
the answers of that Minister. The following is a new
document to add to those official Notes:

Copy of the Letter addressed by the Count de flu!Earl,
the Russian Charge des Affairs, to M. San Miguel,
dated Madrid, Jan.l3.
" Sir—l received the note which your Excellency
transmitted to me, dated the day before yesterday.
" The respect which 1 owe to the forms and princi-
ples admitted and consecrated by all civilized nations,
prevents me not only from replying to that Note, but
even from making its contents known to my Govern-
ment.

I hasten, there, to send it back to your Excellency,
for the eyes of the Emperor, my master, must not he dis-
gusted by the perusal of a production which I abstain
from characterising. and in which his Imperial Majesty
and Europe would look in vain for the slightest evi-
dence of a Government which knows how to respect it
self. I have the honor to be, Sm.
" It is thought that the labours of the Chamber ofDe-
puties will commence on Wednesday. the day after the
Royal Sitting. The first meeting is always destitute of
interest, as it is merely occupied in going through cer-
tain official forms. 'the legal number of Deputies is
430, but it is reduced to 424, by the double nomination
of La Vendee. the double elections of MM. do Mar-
changy and La Ledistex, Peneurun, and by the decease
of MM. d'Esterne, ti.Hardivilliers. and Delabaye Join.
kiln. The first Bureau will, consequently. be composed
of 48 Members, and the eight others will have forty-
seven.

Mr. Clare, who has executed the office of Coroner for
Wilts about fitty years, has signified his intention to
resign it, on account of his advanced ace. Four can-
didates have already declared themselves for the
offire.

Friday se'nnight, two wild swans came up with the
tide as far as St. Vincent's Rocks, near Bristol, but
being fired at as they proceeded down the river, when
one of them was shot opposite the battery, near the ri-
ver's mouth, and sold to Mr. Plumley, Mdryport Street,
—its wings, when extended, measured upwards of
seven feet.

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THURSDAY EYRNIND.'s -JANDARS 30, 1923.

BOURBON WAR. INDEED!!!

Ot.n Lens's speech has arrived ; and he..tells the
French nation that he is going to war with the S,tr•
niards, in order to preserve the Throne of Spain to a
descendant of HENRY the Fourth. The ohl boy tals
about his squadrons, which he shall order to craze
protect his shores from danger. In short, he dec!tres
WAR; war against the people of Spain, at d tear
the House of Royalton. He says distinctly that a
HUNDRED THOUSANP FRENCHMEN are about •n
march against the Spaulacdo. Thus, then, we hare
Bourbon Wee, at lost. Let the Loudogners; aye, nn.l
the countrrjoacre, too, now see what rthey hare lost
by not having read the STATSSMAN. They believed :Le
lying,jobbing Old 'I burs ; the *tepid Giebe and fointly
glimmering Star. They believed, abortion things, the
Morning Chrbniele; they thought, to be ante, kite er.
perienced Old Chronny knew something a Chrontii:.

that has eeea, half a century puss ever bee
head. .They thought that these pepors nest
know better than the STATESMAN. Th..yr would ,net
listen to the plain common sense ; to the us bought state_
tnents ; to the opinions, ultieduenced by interest in the
Stocks; they would not listen to these from ns :—they
,would tides Stock jobber's. and Scotch Philosophers;
and they have been ruined accordiisglg. We do norsay
that we rejoice at their ruin ; but we most coufrai that
we de not feel for them what we should hove felt, lithe;
had hot rejected our advice. Detesting Stock jobbers as
we do, we still thought it our duty to warn per.ons wins
had been dabbling in the Spanish Funds, of the great
risk that they ran. We were ourselves co..vi need that
there would be War. It win be recollected. thee, on the
9th of November, at Reading, when we first noticed'
the subject in a public manner.—We then
said, that we should not be at all surprised to hear of
France invading Spain. After this, we constantly en-
deavoured to convince 'our readers that such would be
the result, while the Morning Chronicle and the ireastly
Old Times, and the thrice stupid Glohc, and the Star of
darkness, with all the whole tribe of weekly sews!
papers, laboured as incessantly and as zealously `to
cause it to be believed that there would be Mo War
between France and Spain.— Nor did they spare the
use of falsehoods to effect this their purpose of decep-

tion. In short, all manner of falsehoods were fabricated
and put forth to keep up the delusion. The memorable
shield of the Morning, Chroniek hal, however.
at last disappeared ; and we are not a little
surprised that that paper, which has generally
-hitherto given proof of something a little like principle..
should have been able, this morning. to communica'n
the speech of Louis to its readers without making
something like a confession of its parsed errors; Without
making something like an acknowledgment to us;
for the light which we tendered it, and from which it
so pertinaciously turned its eyes. Not to make this
acknowledgment candidly is a proof of Wee pride, Si
the very least : to endeavour to .retract from our merit
at the same time, is a proof of want of honesty.—We
have no time, at present, for remarks on the dismal re-
flections which the Chroaiele makes on this speech pf the
King of France. Opportunitiesenough will offer for chain
-this. In the mean while,let our readers observe these/bin/pt.

1. France is about to invade Spain. 2. The ob,ect,
not so much toprevent Revolution in France, as to get
possession of the Spanish Fleet, and of Gibraltar; S.
Our Ministers cannot stir an inch to prevent this, be-
cause, if they go to war, they blow up the National
Debt. 4. They cannot blew up the National Debt ;
nor can they touch it, without extinguishing Gul.'on and
Old San:al.—Here it all centers. For the rotten
Cv-
roug the Debt was contracted ; for the sake of the
rotten boroughs, the Bourbons were restored ; for the
sake of the rotten boroughs Spain, with all her Beets
and arsenals, will not possibly be surrendered into the
hands of France.—We say poseibfli:: for, as to the
rcsull of the War, we are not as yet in a state to offer
any very decided opinion.