The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-17 00:00:00

liardians. The vengeance or the patriot sword %Lill
reach him still. Though Spain awuke not at the call of

liberty, she will rise in vengeance against the monstrous
misrule of such a Kiog as Ferdinand. Men who are not
able to reason coz!ctilja....an feel stziktelyi. The Newnap
says it is natural th at he should not wish to see repels about his
court. bip IhiJilalight ..kgtscabet- th.t.Rhen, tlse
rebels wish to attend, they will bring their welcome i
their swords. They know that be is not a very formidable
creature. They know that instead of the divinity which
Shakspeare says doe, or ought to " hedge a king," he it
but a miserable compound
.of sottish fear, and trembling
cowardice. They know that his court, when his foreign
guards shall have left his capital, will be as despicab
as himself—a knot of fanatics and bights—who will be
as easily dispersed as they were when [Keg° exclaimed
" Revolution :" led his troops to Madrid, and pat the
King into good keeping, without the necessity of firing a
s'ngle musket.

A Ministerial Print, speaking of the condition of the
country, rays, " there is no strong ebullition of party
feeling, for, or against the country; but theie is a pervad-
log sense of comfort, and a deep settled conviction, that
the country derives as much .solid benefit from a protecting
goveraturot, as it is possible for human institutions to
afford." If this ,erertthe case, the people must be strangely
insensible to the solid benefits they enjsy, not to have a
*strong feeling fur the government which Confers them.—
They wool I be sadly ungrateful for the protection they re-
ceive, to be so silent with rega 11 to its authors. The case.
however, is , wrongly, stated. There is a degree of
quiet which arises out of the utter hopelessness
of obtaining any reform of any existing abuse',
without taping a muds more formidable attituie
than the peeptilie at present prepared to assume. Heaven,
by pleetifot harvests, ban alleviated a part of the misery
that a bad system of Government tends to produce. The
great body of the labouring daises, who never complain
%%bile they can obtain the merest necessaries of animal ex-
istenee—whose patience is snore proverbial than the pati-
ence of a much abused` tong cared animal—are quiet,
because they can obtain the supply of a portion of their
wants, on easier terms than heretofore. 'put they 'ire
grown too wise to'thank Urverntneut for this. They know
it proceeds fr:otwanotber source ; and that the Government
is much more accustomed to scatter • evils than
blessings. The " solid blessings" of the debt, at
the posts of sinecarists, and over-paid placemee.
they owe to the, government. The mess of taxation is
tolerably solid yet ; notwithstanding the pretences of of r
new inn 401116 Patehrquer tot melt it down. *The tythe.
'system if eitotlier birtaieg,of a solid description—with the
standing armies, of pauper% parliament meg, and the
regular auxillarle or protettleg government. But to 411
these benefits, the people• haws a most ongratefol din.
inclination;--and' we are itield"the government cannot
afford to be mach better thanes het'beee, emeneebt hope
that the people will much mend in their opinion of it. If it
will let them alone, they will be quiet. They do not e sped
than system to do them any good.—Thea, bah e question,
0'
makes use of the sentence qntited'Oerbpsilnce a strong
comm, odation of thepayings Beaks:* Trim babbles, like
all other expedients founded on the paper system, most
burst at last:: 1001 not quarrel with any good they may
do to tiso.e who minty boa fortunate enough to dose accomrs
with them; before Hiey 'break i bat that they will
that the parties.. who trust she them, will one dry
find they hate been trusting to a brekaa reed, is
as tiertAwc:ies that all men must die. One or
two have beee broken up already, and no one
•lias beta found.' responsible •Nrr the loss occa-
nieited by the Haukreptcy of the Trustees. There is one
*kik in these intoitntions; which Is in Baty a mortal vice.
They profess to pay mere interest Aan,carr be obtained is
Ilse public fonds. The difference nest be taken from the
capital invested ; and in time this will amount to a greater
slim than can be concealed. When a certain noble dote
was questioned on this point, be said be had not thought of
that ; nor did lie know who waste be accountable for the
itricit. It is time, however, that Our hareems should knew
something upon the subject.

The recent insurrection in Demerara is studiously it.
tribut-d to the usedsodbite, and Mr. Wilberforce; as if it
were necessary toteaciethe Negroes that the lash is a dis-
agreeable instrument; or that the torture of incessant
labour without due reward, were not unpleasant, Two
preachers are said to hare beew apprehended; and the
intelligence" of some Metlatilit'egroes. is held conspie
• n,.
cuously forth as a cause of their revolt. Certainly, if the
slaves are to be treated as.ceitti,iiiii advisable to withhold
from them the intelligeime of sati,• as muck as
possible:—hut Nature is still a tutor that" cannot be
got rid of. The faculties of humanity must be eradicated,
the mind must be extinguished, before the slave-holders
, will be safe from the fears of insurrection. Even the
animal passions of the brute will often rise in colt
against barbarous treatment; and if slaves could be re•
duced to the level of cattle, they would still be datfgeroes,
when provoked beyond endurance. Their moderation, a
the present occasion, has been overlooked. They owl"
dered no whites; but contested themselves with con-a•
ing them. On the other baud, we are told, that after
hundreds of the rebels bad been destroyed in the field, a
military commission had been sitting, which adjudged
its victims to death et sunset on the day of their trial!
and that numbers of miserable creatures were snoT, e
only crime was endeavouring to obtain tI.M personal free
dots of which they ought never to have bees
deprived. This may be necessary for the send,
of the whites, and for. what is called the preservation of
property ; but is this plea of necessity any better founds'',
Sotto the plea of-the bandit, who destroys his Pjotior lest b
should be brought to justice • Theicis Ito right to trade