The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-10 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN,

House of Lords on Then* night He then said that
he looked upon the door of peace to be by no means
closed! Well then, did he know nothing of the intended
march of these Germans and Russians? Were the treaties
for this tremendous purpose negociated and signed and ra•
tified, and all without his knowing any thing at all of
the matter? If they were, to what purpose do we ex-
pend 170,0001. a year upon missions abroad ? In the
debates, last year, relative to the enormous expense of
these missions, it was argued that the expense was ne-
cessary, in order to secure the obtaining of important
informations. But, if transactions like these can have
taken place, and have been kept completely hidden from
the knowledge of our Ministry, of what service to us has
been that enormous expense? Tike the thing in the:
other way. Say that our Prime Minister knew of the
intended movements of these Germans and Russians
then how can he say that he looked upon the door o
Peace as not being closed ? Did be expect. that M r
Be° non aai's speech would operate like the drag that M ac.
item wanted the Doctor to furnish, and that it could purge
Catalonia of the soap and candle-eaters,as MACBETH want
ed Scotland to be pitrged of the English ?—Ths truth is,
we are afraid, that dr? Minis ter knew bat too well that
the door of peace was completely closed ; but that, know-
the feeling that existed in the public; knowing the
severe losses into which numerous individuals bad been
deluded by the newspapers into the expectition of peace,
he was desirous of letting the dismal troth come out by
degrees.—'There are some persons, utoretenspicous than
we are; rho imazine, that the French Governmentknow
very weit. how to read the speeches of our Ministers
upon ibis subject ; and that they are taught thus to
read, in a way that we shall not attempt to describe.
One thing we are very certain of; and that is, that
some Member of Parliament ought to get for us, a dis.
tinct explanation upon this head as soon as possible.
What the Ministers may be able to do, is one thing ;
but it is at this time necessary that they should tell us
plainly what it is that they intend to do.—We continue to
, believe that they cannot go to War, if they would ; and
that, in defence of the Spaoiards,they would not go to war
if they could.—We are sure it is to be unreasonable in a
degree bordering ;Ton insanity, to urge them to defend
• Spain, without, at the same time, declaring that we
approve of a reduction of the interest of the Debt.

ORATORS OF THE HUMAN RACE.
The speeches of tlr Brougham and Sir Francis Bur-
dett, particularly that of the latter, have revived in our
minds the tricks played by A NACIMISIS CLOOTZ, at the
beginning of the French Revolution ; that season of
all sorts of wildness and extravagance, and such nil&
nese and extravagance as the mind of man never before
ran into. A great portion of our readers will scarcely
ever have heard of ANACHARSIS, and, therefore, for
their information, we will relate a little of the tricks
that he played. At the time of which we are speaking
the French had driven out the Duke of Brunswick,
were pouring forth their armies against Austria and
Penni& ; had demolished, first, every royal institution,
next, every thing Aristocratical, and, in the course of
their fury, bad denounced eves the wearing of
breeches as something partaking a little too much
of an Aristoneatit propensity. dead' shirt *as
very suspicious; and dirty hands and face and linen
were amongst the things almost requisite in a good
patriot. Every day witnessed the wildest and mad-
dest propositions made by, or to, the National Con-
vention; which was continually applied to by all sorts of
mad projectors, coming to their bar. They had decreed
war against all the ICiags and Potentates of the earth,
and everlasting peace and friendship with all the people
of the world. At this time, there was at PARIS, a tall
raw-boned German, of the name of CLocrrz, who took
the name of Asracliansts,and proclaimed himself" THE
"ORATOR OF THE HUMAN RACE," In this
capacity, what does this crazy fellow do, but assemble
together as many as he could collect of English, Irish,
Scotch, Dutch, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, Portu-
guese, Turks. Algerines, with a great parcel of bearded
Jews, West India blacks and Creoles, together with
some East Indians and one or two American Savages.

wasifor many years, looking about to "find a public.
He is now looking about for somebody out of England.
to take care of, though, according to the opinions of
most people, there are quite enough of persons here
whose "vital interests" are at stake. Let us hope
that when he has taken tiMe to reflect, he u ill thir.lt
it right not to put these interests aside ; and that, ra.
titer than do so, it would be much better to let Mr.
BROUGHAM have all the newspaper praise to himself.—
The violerit cheerings; the altuost shouts of applause,
that the learned gentleman received, appears to have
been a temptation not to be resisted. Short lived, how
ever, is this sort of applause ; and we shall be very
much mistaken if the possessor himself will not very
soon find it an encumbrance. To the best of our recol-
lection, ANACHARSIS CLoorz became an object of ridi-
cule at the end of about a week.—A warning to all
orators of the human race.