The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-08 00:00:00

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tender us happy and safe at home, it is necessary to
bate more war!
' lf, unhappily, we are now to bigin war again, the
. , fates must be not only as great, but much greater,
than they have been before; because, though the ex-
penditure should not he greater on account of the
war. loans must still be made, and taxes must be
raised to pay the interest of them. The loans will
, go on segmenting the debt, and the interest of the
st • % debt must continue to be paid after the war is over,
A. let oho wilt live to see that day. Of course, prices
F s ' ' nib still keep, on an average, rising; the difference
between prices in England and in France will be
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i greater than it:is now; people will be still more dia-
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posed to migrate than at present; and, thus• will war
have augmented the evil instead of removing it.
• The war-faction make quite sure of success against
I' i Napoleon. They do not allow him above time
'1 ' 'month to exist. They say he was brought back by
the army ; that the artny„were so attached to him
that they never could eadure the good King Louis;
that the army bore dowel t 5 te, 30 millions of good I
Frenchmen ; that the wjeole ?Brion was nothiug,end •
the army every Thing. ,Yet, in the nest breath, they i
say that he has no strings; thittthe army, what there .
,is of it, is good for little, salt. that the troops, so
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liking him, are daily deserting to the good
silra:oBr leirtirelent. Strange fellows this slimy, or no
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_ 'ltiklilifdr lift a hand f Kinellirile he was in
France; but,. he kaiing run away out of France,.
they desert from Napoleon to join the King i
On the other hand, the war-faction represent the
I High Allies as being wondrous strong. They have
I 800,000 men marching towards the Rhine. They
have an abundance of cannon, horses, provisions,
&c. They are, too, so beloved by all their people.
All the people in Belgium, in Holland, in the new'
kingdom of Hanover, in Prussia, Saxony, Germany,
1 1 Austria, Italy, Sicily, and Spain are so fond, so
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esceedidgly fond, of their good Sovereigns, and de-
, test Napoleon so much, that the contest cannot be
, either doubtful or long. Now, if this be so, why
are they afraid of Napoleon or his French people?—
. Why need they be alarmed ? If all their people are
• so free and so happy and so fond of their Sovereigns,
! ) and each haters of Napoleon and of the French,
why not leave Napoleon and the French to this ha-
tred? Why not leave them to their misery ? And,
t , . . why are we to be involved in 11 new war for the pur.
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: pose of putting down a second time a man whom no
' people in the world care a straw shoot ?
F However, the fact is, I believe, not whet the ,
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war-faction tells us, in this respect. Their own 1
same faction voweduleternal war'
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ainillSt Mr. Madison, whose name they now never!
I mention. There is no doubt that they were, in this :
latter case, reduced to reason by the battles ou the
' Lakes, on the Ocean, and on the land of America.
It was the ceord which brought them to their senses;
• l' , and, is there not reason to believe, that such will be
i case again ? Let us first hear of one or two great
bottles, Atid then we shall be able to judge of-the re.
lative means of the opposing parties.
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1.1 And, if the waysfaction should be disappoluted;
• , if ear should carry the French anus again into Hot..
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' land and to Vienna; if this Coalition, too, should
be dissolved, and England again left to mak* war or
I. ' l peace single-handed; if this should be the case, what
will then be our situation ? If migrition be an evil '
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I now, what would it he at the end of such a war, !
,t4+ which would have added another houdred millions or
two to the National Debt; and, in proportion, to
our permanent taxes ? If we cannot live in peace
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with France now;, if her abundance and her political
example are new -objects of terror to the war-factiouri
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what will they be then? !
' ; • It is a curious thing to observe, that while, at-this
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.1 time, all the ports of France are open to England,i
and while the Mail comes more frequently than ever
from that country, there is no Mail permitted to go ,
from England to France. Napoleon seems not to
wish to disguise any thing. Ito has no law, no regu- ,
. lation, to prevent us from seeing what he is about.
Any one may write to us a full account of his pro-
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. ceedings. lie aims at no secrecy. lie suffers any 1
one to go, or come. This argues any thing but fear. !
! Ten thousand assassins may enter France, if they 1
i can be found. This does not seem as if he were in
any terror. And yet, there are persons constantly
endeavouring to persuade us, that he lives amidst the
/ most dreadful alarms.
It is with a view of guarding you, my friends of ,
Nottingham, against the falsehoods and misrepresen-
tations of the war-faction that I have offered to you
these remarks. Neither you nor I can prevent war, '
if it he to take place ; but it is in our power to re.l
ject falsehood, to think rightly upon this important ,
I subject, to endeavonr to enlighten others whom we
, r see in error, and thus to deserve no part of that re-
proach which will justly fall upon those who shall
have been instrumental is the utter ruin of our cowl-
, • try. .
You will please to observe, that I am very far
' front thinkieg, that we can live in peace with France,
unless we change our system. With taus to the
amount of sixty millions a-year, while France is in
her present state, we never can live in peace with
1 her and retain our greatness. People, who are able
'I • to remove, never will long continue to walk on foot
, on this side of the water, if they can ride in coaches
• • on the other. Where the rich are, thither will go, ,('
i . those arts which the rich support. lam well aware,
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, of all this; bet, it is not by war that I would mien-
-1 t rour to keep Englishmen at: home. By peace,. by '
economy, by reducing the military establishment, by
11 conciliatory laws, and especially by a constitutional
Reform in the Commons' House of Parliament, I, '
would make Englishmen feel; I would not Sell
them, but .I • would.enake thenttfeel, that there was
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nothing for them to envy, or, to seek after, in,
France, in America, or io spy ether country upon
ea rth.—With that respect to whicblourgood sense and
public spirit entitle you from all •your coentrymets, •
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I remain your friend, . -
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. • Maley. May 2,180. - • • NM.COBBETT.
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- The following Bulletin woe -their*, to the public. ,
yesterday at St. James's :-.5..4• • .. • •
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