The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-10 00:00:00

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Lethbridge, and even bli. Hume drought that in the
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preterit eirceiristweees of Moto:Wry, it might net be -.de
to redness the arm, to What it was in 1792. What, then
they have some notion of war, have they! How nicely
the Ministers manage this matter! How. clever, to get
the great thundering army voted while people's miu Is
arc bothered with the question between peace and war !
There mill be no war Sir Thomas; or if there be, you
need not care a straw about "openers ; for all will be
paid honestly in good hard paper-money. Only, the
good of the joke will be, that all the establislnnents will
be voted while we are balancing between peace and oar;,
and then there will be no war, and no good bard paper-
money. I, like a foal as I was, gave the Jews a glimpse
of this good hard papa-money. too soon ; and now they
are crying for peace just as loudly as they Cried for war
before. There was a Mr. Jones who said that the sala-
ries were rather too low than too high, and that we
wanted a large army to keep the colonies that we con-
quered diving the war. This word conquered is a favo-
rite word. "We conquered France," and now the
French are going to conquer Spain ; and the glorious
debt that we conquered will effectually prevent us from
moving-hand or foot in defence of Spain, unless we pre-
serve national faith inviolate by paying the interest of
that debt in good hard amignits. Mr. Denmun intitnated
that he was now going to be absent for some time, and
that he therefore would take that opportunity of expres-
sing his abhorrence of the principle upon which the
French were about to invade Spain. He went so' far as
to nay that he trusted that we ihould be at war the uno•
meat the French crossed the Pyrenneea. The Ministers
said nothing. Mr. Canning, the Courier tells us. was at
home With A " smart attack of the gout"? The Ministers
said nothing upon this warlike subject ; but Hohne Sum-
ner, the well known member for Surrey, who was sitting
upon the same bench with the minister., got up cud dis-
tinctly reprobated all idea of going to war, at the same
time that he paid no very high compliments to the Spa-
niards or their constitution. lie said that "their con-
" stitution was no more like liberty than their bonds
" :erre like property." The ministers beard this from
their own bench without saying one si4gle word; and
for our parts, we do not think that Hohne Sumner
would have said this if he had thought that it would
have been displeasing to the Ministers. Sir W. de
Crespigny - (from the oppo.ition side) agreed with
Hahne Sumner ; and, while the dinner-fight turned oat
to be very pacific ; while no one there even hinted at
war; certainly in the House of Commons nothing hap-
pened that was not decidedly on the side of peace.—lt
is very curious how the war cry has died away. You
would have thought that the Old limes and the
Morning Chronicle were ready,
_three weeks ago, to
fight •up to their knees its blood.--They are
become as gentle as doves ; and each seems to have the
olive branch in its mouth. How right were we, then,
when we said that the noisy speeches and the bullock-
ing Paragraphs would produce no effect! How right
were We, and have been, all the way through. The
truth is, we have had common sense to guide us, and
have not been under the influence of stock-jobbing inter-
ests. The papers which we have named, and, indeed,
all the whole tribe, were in a rage with the French for
haring marred their stock-jobbing projects. They were,
boiling with anger against the Bourbon., beams' the
Bourbons -had caused a disturbance in their tratfick.
While this rage was upon them, they bellowed fur war ;
but when they began to grow cool; anti espnially when
they began to look at the assignata which we proved to
them would be the conarquence of war, then they took
council from their prudence ; th m they changed their
tone; and we are convinced that they Wm.,' i now not be
for war,thongh the French were to take posstosign of the
Isle of Wight. All is completely changed; and we
should not be at all surprised to hear these same papers
'expressirig their wish that the French might hare ear-
cm! These papers have nothing really at heart but
their own stock-job:ing trausactioas, and their trade in
paragraphs and advertisement. ; and the pen' Spaniards
will time, after all, that there are no prints in E ngland, ex-
cept those which are under Olt intluence that will main-
tain the jasticc.of their cause.—To a certainty the dinner
never would have taken place, if the time for ordering it
had been a week later. The dinner was not intended to
rouse the people in behalf of the Spaniards. It was in-
tended to draw forth a ouster on the side of one of the
political caba's ; on the side of the anti-orange cabal;
but that cabal •having been quieted by a reconciliation
somewhat like that between Peach= and Locket, the
dinner certainly would never have been ordered if it had
not been ordered before that reconciliation took place.
Little do the Spaniards know about the real cause of the
dinner. Little do they know how to estimate the motives
of the parties ; and, like all person, in a similar situation,
they will be very dttScult to be undeceived.
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BOURBON WAR.
•11be sgirthge at Paris cirrus to bove.heett fal)crredky'
nothing of any consequence. M. Maotiel is expelled
for the session ; which is quite as well as being irrspri•
soled fur the "..c.siont as Sir Francis Ilatdctr was. They
were both wired by syldiers ; one in the Chamber, and
the other in his own Noose ; so that this" classic /mond
of liberty" a; Sir James filarkintosh, in his sickening
style, cells the co entry where Joseph Swann is irnpri oa-
ed, and where men are. shut up in their houses from
salami to sun-rise, and whence' they can be trans-
ported without trisl by jury in con.equence of a bill
that was first driWn up by the Brest srliig Mr. Grattan,
and intended to be put in force I y the whig min'stry;
yea, this clank ground of liberty," of uhirh Sir
'James pratil, dat the dinner, cast siA`a membrrs of the
minority turned out by members of the m...jurity, just as
e:fectually, and a greet deal more quietly then the same
thin 7, was done in Prance. We, for our part., like this
rrench Chamber ; we like the furious quarrelling that
takes place in it ; it shows the niefarts to be hi earnest;
it shawl the thing not to be a Awn ;it ,how that the I
parties are really diridete: and that it is not s sham di-
vision for the sake of cheating the people. In short,
this Ch.tinb?r of I.),pniies in Frani., s: cm es if they really
were-chosen by a part of the people, at any rare ; and
•npt as if they were a. set of some. stupid and same crafty,
and: alkfalse,treatares crammed inj the Chimber by
,the -cotnwrlnt of the devil knows who. • •Wo like this