The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-09 00:00:00

To THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

Slft,—lf any thing would put beyond a doubt th,
incapacity of Ministers it would be our present in,
active state,at a time when war is in a manner begur
and that the war should have uo ostensihle ohjoet ;
least,that there should he so many loop-holes by w hiss
our enemy may defeat its purpose. Surely; if wear
SO unjust as to lay waste a peaceable country, al,
murder its inhabitants, merely because they liana,
to be a little more enlightened than we could wide,
in preferring a wise Prince of their o enoice t.
foolish one of our recorunfendatinit. me need
ashamed to make the latter the obj.,t:t of the
We should, at least, in that caw, have some hold of
one party in France, and its principle would u..t h
one jot more unjust than it is. The Itoydists
will attach thernselres"to NArot.soN, and
when they rf flee!, will see in our jesuitical Nl•iiiireu,
nothing loss than a wanton and illegal iuterferetice
in what belongs solely to .thetweives. It is SUCK
negative virtue as this, Sir, which has so long stamp.
in characters of shame, our Ministers and
Allies, and is daily giving our enemies so malty pa,
opportunities of exposing us to the derision of all, k
well as of profiting by our weakness. IA me not
from this, however, be supposed to preach the calm
of the Bouttnexs ; I look upon the war to be unjust,
whether we fight under the lion or the lily. I only
wish to espuse the incapability and h)pocriiy of
those, who, With that family in their hearts,hare no!
the manliness to avow it.

Now, Sir, among the strange events of the pre.
sent day, it appears that the Cap of Liberty has al.
ready been placed on the bust of Naroezos, a man
who has himself been a greater King-maker than any
mortal from the commencement of time ! It is,
deed, far from improbable, in the event of the Allies
approaching ommee more the French capital (extremele
problematical no doubt), that he will offer to France
the Republican form of Government-,--not from any
wish to deceive his enemies, but for the happiness of
that country, which I believe nearer his heart than
we are taught to believe. As Ministers assure us
the return of the Remmers is no longer to be the
sine quo non of peace—that France is to be it liberiv
(wonderful indulgence) to choose any man, orsetof
men, with the exclusion of Nareecee—this may at
all events be calculated on, especially as he is now
surrounded in his councils by able mad staunch lovers
of liberty. It would also be consistent with his late
disinterested policy, and the wisdom orbit toad.
melds since his restoration, as it would be the most
cruel revenge he could take against men who, in
grateful return for his former model-Mien (many of
whom are indebted to him for, their' thrones, even
their plit!cal existen:e), • view seek with so
much ingenuity his destraction. In the epeeulatiens
in which we may fairly indulge, Sir, perhaps at no
very distant period we may find as many republics iu
Europe ef Hs creation, as we formerly did sovereign.
ties; for Ilsorty, like every other public improve:
ment, is slow in its pro cress, as remarked by a ant.
m.ible COr tsponient of yours, esp‘eially -ivies it
takes so wide a range ; but. it I. lof i&meare is
atat.uor44o 0. Not in Preece ale, C. la! vato:at
Other it is probable it is a plants tlll
.only slumbered,--that tt has never been Quip .
There isits old adage, Sir, which *tracts es, of
64 two evils to choose the. least." -Now be of
a piece with-the foresight of our Minilieri, amd. no
trifling proof of their ineonsisteucy, if they should
drive the French nation, not wily into the spirit,
but the actual form of a Republic, which their great
itliotype, the warlike Pin, and these, his falafel
wets and pupils, took so mech. pains to per.
.ssade their credulous country was incompatible with
ItOmfety t Beside', what an opening do we not
.gtee to those who, ..with the sacred name of liberty
len tneir 110 s, might kindle anew that dreadful revs.
lotionary torch which formerly paralized Europe,
shook monarchies to, their very centre, and made
' every lover of a rational freedom, start at its very
name. These, Sir, appear to me some of the
excellent fruits we may expect to gather from
a successful termination of the contest. Either
Ministers deceive both France and ourselves when
! they say they have no wish to intrude the
Bouttaoss on that ill-fated country, or we
are now, probably, going to renew the war, b
I give a form of Government, to Overt which We ex•
pended so long our best blood and treasure at its
consmcnccment I—How often did the " [leaves-born
Minister" use his best eloquence to dissuade 'mho*
entering into any 'Freely with revolutionary Frances
on the ground of its insecurity—the same plea se
now urge spinal NairoLuott.? And how often
did that propheic Statesman, Mt. Fist, vainly endea-
vour to convince his opponents of the error of that
policy which would make one sort of Governmeet
more secure to us than- another?—lt Is also in the
memory of all, that Our*** interference in let
internal concersve. bathed hireererrogent *peter.•
signs afterwayis, motility cuntrthuted toliamt colossal
nielitary power, and to the advancement cf as
Chieftain, with whom we now feel our inability to
contend. We were formerly led to believe test no
Governmentein France could be trusted which had
tot undergone tiro/ necemory‘ Ammo sf• pvehettioo—
Aich could not Iring cridcnce of its tkratility;
yet, now, a secure peace is to be with stay, it maw
ters.mint when, nor with wheel, except BONAPAnti
a man who was then scarcely heats! of ! How
our Ministers reconcile such contradietory—such in-
consistent polity. Where is their &redone! ftlelil
to their great master, as they call trim, of ohms
they are so rely proud (for. what, I conks, I never
could discover), if they sn soon forget his isvaltteble
instructions. and the principles of thoschool in v.:h4:11
they were educuteti.
Such, however, Sir, is the retrograde ri
the present times like the drunken Aria •••
we are eternally “fiekiing our battles over awl
again," we cannot tell %4 by or wherefore ;
might be some excuse for his folly, but there is PP°
for ours, for he was blinded, and we rush
structiomm with our eytw open. We reject ,I.CA2.'"'!l
at the head of a limited monarchy, and France ni• ;-
in her ancient bounds (consequently tiaaited is t,
power to iejlre us), het people djsirous of peace
and a Treaty already in our pnekets, OK 4
dui of toil and trouble, for the, very tee"'
'flogs chance, at present before us, of secoti
I. that nation time bleesinge; and to ourselves
ettrity of a republic; an authority, is Fri 'Onicr'