The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-03 00:00:00

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self on his good fortune at having deceived the *pa-
Muds ; but lo ! When the papeleoes came to be ax•
amino, they were found to Dories almost entirely of
clay, having Golfe thin covering ur sugar.
Charles Pinkney Esq. (son of the late Wm. Piakoey.
Riti. of Baltimore), Secretary to tht • Legation of the
United Stati4 i■ Russia, has relished the seat of tiovern-
inept, with despatches tram our Minister, Henry Mid-
dleton, Esq. at St. Priersburgli. They are supposed to
relate to the arbitrament of the Emperor Alexander,
onecortiiag the compensation fox Waves (carried away
by the British during the late war) under the provisions
of the treaty of Ghent. There may also be some com-
munication from the Russian Cabinet with respect to
the illegal blockade attempt in the Northern Pacific
Ocean, n hick' has been resisted by our Government.—
,(Washington Gazette)
The Salem paper, in giving en acCount of a fire At
HainiPon, notices the followiug instance of intrepidity
in a female. The fire was discovered about four o clock
in the morning. The hour. was already enveloped in
dames. Part of it was occupied by Mrs. Margarit
Luininus, a widow with five children, the eldest on a
sick bed. Mrs. L. with great fortitude. after having
conveyed her sick daughter to a building near by, and
extricated her other children from the dames, returned,
anal, at the risk of her life, directed bi the cries of a
child, proceeded into one of the chambers and brought
out a child of Captain Dodge from the midst of the
flames. The whole of the two families, consisting of
Ciptain D.dge, his oar, and two children, Mrs: Lum-
mus and five children, escaped naked and destitute.
The building was consumed with all Its contests.
STATE OF IRELAND.

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We resatue the continuation of the observations Will
were given in our paper of the 29th instant, relative
the ministerial movement which has just lartipTicei—
r, We have rendered a distinguished homage to
the noble sentiments and personal qualities of the Mi-
*Wee irho his voluntarily retired from the Dep•rtment
Of Foreign Affairs; %this retirement, we know, is not a
disgrect...lkis a natoridconseqnence of the representative
system. Under this form of tiovernment, a perfect ho-
mogeneity is one of necessary condition•of the sq-
preme administration; and when, in a question of big%
Policy, the conscience, or the reason, of any Ministers
does not permit them to c incite in the aentimen:s which
the majority of their colleagues, or the intervention oft
Royal authority, canes to prevail, than conscience gm;
reason, tombioed with boner, imposes on the dissitieetal
tbe.obligation of retiring and this step, far from dimi-
nishing, in the slightest degree, their claims to the esteem
of the Monareb and to public consideration, on the con-
trary, giees them a farther claim to the respect which
accompanies the honest man who is steadfast in his reso-
lutions, and incapable of sacrificing, to the seduction
of power, opinions which lie regards as duties.
But farther; the merit of sacrifices of this nature
heightens In proportion to the slightness of the shades of
difference between opinions: it will easily be conceived
that an inflexible opposition necessitates a political saps.
ration ; lit*, *lien there is en accordance in principles
and the difference regards only such or such a mode,
such or such a period, more-or less favourable to their
application. the motive of retirement can only be im-
puted to an uncompromising delicacy, rather than to
scruples which one would be induced to accuse of stern-
ness. This consideration increases the just regrets
which all Royalists have manifested at the resignation
of N. de Doke de Montmorency.
The Journals to which we reply, have consequently
been misinformed, when they ted that there had
been no essential division between the Members of the
Ministry, and that M. de Montmorency had been over-
come by the efforts of a victorious party; an assertion
at least imprudent!—What! If, as it was ajilted to in-
sinuate, the Ministry had been divided between two
opinions, directly opposed to each other, can it be be-
lieved that M. de hlentmorency would alone have given
the signal and example of retreat? If the interests- of
the Throne, if the dignity:of France, had been enliven-
mised, by refusing 'to adhere forth With to measures
which he might think useful, would not such iierions
inconveniences have attracted some attention: and if
they had even been glanced at as possible, by any, of his
honourable colleagues, who can doubt that they would
not have followed the example which was set to them,
and that their resignation would have been the cons°.
,quence of a conviction that they had unreservedly coin-
cided with M. de Montmorency?
All that is permitted to conclude from the retirement
of this Minister is, that on an important point of dis-
cussion, his manner of viewing it was not completely in
accord with the result of the Council, and that, as we
said at the time, by a sentiment, the v-ry exaggeration
of which is a virtue worthy of the highest praise, he has
yielded to his personal feelings, without ceasing to be
united in heart, views, and principles, with those from
whom he separated himself. He forthwith, and volun-
tarily, tendered a resignation, the offer of which has ex-
cited only a painful surpiise, and which has only been
received with the most intense regret.
Was it, therefore, indispendble. in order to render
homage to an honourable step on the part of a Member
of the Ministry, to evince injustice with regard to the
ethers ?
We will only add one more remark. Even they to
whom the retirement of M. de Montinorency, has fur-
nished a text for the most violent declamations, now all
agree in recognising, in the illustrious man who has
succeeded him, a nobleman of character equal to the su-
periority of his genius. When, therefore, a statesman
such as N. the Viscount de Chateaubriand, unites his
talents and his political principles to those of the late
Colleagues of M. de Montmorency, doubtless, he is sore
of finding in them Royalists and Frenchmen, and ac-
cordingly we must, unless we fall into an absurd con-
tradiction, in admitting this double title of the new min-
ister, grant it also to the old ones.
This will also be an answer to the objections raised by
the same journals against the letter of M. the President
of the Council to the King's Ambassador at Madrid.—
The ion has been hazarded, that by this letter the
Minister has placed himself in opposition to the views
manifested at Verona by the Sovereigns, The eye of
prejudice can alone have misconceived, on this point,
the character which there preponderates. There is not
a paragraph in that dispatch, in which is not expressed
the most direct adhesion to the views and determinations
concerted by the august Allies of the King. The Presi-
dent of the Council, organ of the intentions of his Ma-
jesty, has faithfully transmitted them to the Ambassa-
dor of France. Let them re-peruse, let them weigh, all
the expressions of this document,and there will only b
found in it the language of foresight, firmness, and the
assurance of a de ided concurrence in the most energy
tic measures, " if the essential interests of France con
tinue to be compromised, and if she despair of an acne
lioration," on which may be established the continua
tion of the relations between the two kingdoms. When
the Notes of Russia, Prussia, and Aust:ia shall be
known, we shall then see whether they surpass in energy
the French Note, nhi.ther they explain themselves with
more precision, and whether they demand from Spain
any thing that appears more intelligib:e and more posi-
tive.

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