The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-08-24 00:00:00

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The Nett' Times, as if with a view to prevent the
pending Coroner's Inquests from pronouncing verdicts
unfavourable to the Military, are still striving to snake
it be believed that a premeditated and preconcerted
obstruction was raised against the progress of the
Royal Funeral. The Military power, they &Hedge,
was neeesswily called in to assist the civil authority
which had been resi,ted ; and " these atrocious viola-
tions of the law most be punished, or Government will
evinces weaktizss no less fatal than contemptible."—
" Offences must need come, hut wee to the man by whom
the offence cometh." With the perfect knowledge
which the Government had of the wishes of the popu-
lation of the metropolis respecting the funeral of their
beloved and lamented W:ECN, was it discreet to thwart
by the vexatious measures they adopted, a feeling
which was as ardent as it was universal ? is it enough
to justify a proceeding which was known to be unpo-
velar, and felt as an indignity, to assert that it tonere
ated from the Royal and that it was right and
proper to be quietly obeyed, because it was a lawful
act of the Royal Prerogative ? Is authority to be ex-
ercised arbitrarily and capriciously because it is au-
thority? Is expediency never to be consulted ;
it
accommodation to existing circumstances never due ;
is the gratification of the natural and generons desires
of the people unbecoming the condescension of a Royal
Government ? Every step that was taken in the ar-
rangements of the loners! seemed urged by the same
spirit of perverseness that had dictated the measures
which occasioned the untimely death. " Why is
there," asks Lady Hoot) in her le:t r to Lord brae-
root., "to be a Guard of Honour to attend the
funeral of the QUEEN, which honour was never given
to her in her life? If sorb is persisted in I foresee
much mischief, and I fear notch bloodshed. The
people have ever been her MAJESTV'S only friends;
sutler them to pay their last tribute of affection to
their beloved and injure) QUEEN, without being
interrupted by the military." .f his was the language
of good sense and kind feeling; but the caution
which her ladyship's foresight very properly suggested
was spurned, and the mishief site foretold took place.
Why such a mode shotti.Lite pursued in the metre.
polis of England as was oh‘ionsly calculated
.to
disappoint the desires and irritate the passions of
the public, cannot fail to cause surprise and con-
cern, and the more especially because at that very
time it was determined anti arranged by the King
himself, for the purpose of encreasing the popularity
and strength alas Government, to make extraordinary
efforts to gratify the humours anti unite the affec-
tions of the inhabitants of the metropolis of Ireland.
In Dublin, when the Kix.: made his public entry, it
was ostentatiously proclaimed, that to avoid offence
and evince the implicit confidence he placed upon the
loyalty of his !rids friemix, his MAJESTY a; peered in
an open carriage, to see and be seen, returning the
cheers of the populace with the ntmost liberality, and
often pointing to the shamrock in his bat as a proof of
Isis cordial participation in their national feelings.
All this was proper and consistent with good policy;
and why was not the like policy obeerved with respect
to his good people of London ? Is it of less import-
ance to preserve the peace and loyalty of one metropo.
his, than to heal the divisions of another which contain
a population not the fifth part of its size ; or does the
interest felt in reclaiming those who have been occa-
sionally turbulent and wayward exceed, as in the
case of the returning prodigal, the satisfaction
shewn to such as are uniformly regular. and duti-
ful ? Be that as it may, the accommodations
made to the people of Dublin, appears to he attended
with the happiest effects. The Morning Poet of this
Jay, affecting to be shocked with daily exhibitions of
party rancour and seditious violence here, thinks it
" gratifying to cast a look beyond . the
_gloomy
circle, and to light upon a land where all is
union, enthusiam and loyalty." Dad the like
spirit of conciliation been evinced towards the
people of London, all cause of irritation would
have been avoided. What evil could have been anti-
cipated had the Funeral procession of the lamented
Queen been proposed to pass through London ; what
disturbance was likely to have attended it. had it
even been unaccompanied with Guards? In the Ise-
guage of an able provincial print, (the NorwicA
Mercury)
What is to he said of a Government, of the cool con-
zitleration of a Cabinet, that cosh, exert so little discs's
tion as to oppose such an ebullition of feeling and in
such a manner ! Of what public importance have been
the multitudinous processions that supported and accom-
panied the Queen during her life ? Of how much less
must have been any that could have been collected for
the purpose of sheaving her respect, (or if better
pleases Ministers) of disturbing the peace of the
metropolis after her death? (lave they either pre
vented the one or the other? Have they not rather shewn
their desire to oppose popular feeling and their impotency
in fulfilling their design? Alas! the same exaggerated and
absurd estimate of the importance of baring the arm of
power has been taken in this u in every.other step of
this ill-fated or ill-conducted proceeding. The same
hopeless attempt to subdue popular feeling by a show of

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military force his been made now ae heretofore, and has
been accompanied frith fatal effects and increased weak-
hess to render its execution more hateful and more con-
temptible. There may, perhaps, be some excuse found
for the exacerbated situation of the Queen's partizans;
but there can be none for that want of discretion, that
want of information, that irresolution, and finally that
inadequacy of means to carry into effect measures which
ought to hare been taken only from the most confirmed
sense of rectitude and propriety, and if taken, unques-
tionably at any hazard, to have been supported by each a
force as must make opposition useless. But the administra•
thin has sunk the Uovernment another degree in the es-
timation of the people. They have shewn themselves
incapable of estimating the moral force of opinion,
and the government too weak to execute its par-,
poses. We, who always discriminate between the
temporary delegation of power to a particular set of
men and the functions permanently vested in the
Uovernment can but lament alike the cause and the
consequences. We sincerely hope, however, it may as-I
sist in producing that change of Counsellors which the
King is now well known so earnestly to desire. llis
Majesty is obviously aiming at an is attaining, and
may very easily preserve a greater share of popularity
than lie has hitherto enjoyed, and we trust this list act
of his unworthy servants, so hostile to his present ob-
jects, will tend to strengthen the Royal conviction of
their incapacity ; for surely it can be regarded only as
the consummation of folly, obstinately bent upon its
own impossible presumptions, in the teeth of practice
and experience. There are other circumstances also
that cast a strong light upon the feelings of at least a
part of the army, when called upon to act against the ci-
tizens, which might not, and we trust will nut, pass un-
known or unregarded by the King. To a Government as
military as ours has lately been made, and as the present
servants of the Grown were not long since disposed to
make it, this is a symptom especially worth noting, and
and we sincerely hope it will not escape the strong per-
ception and stronger sensibility of the head of that Go-
vernment."

[FROM TUB BOARD OF THE NEW ENGLAND COITER•
DOUSE.]
Extract of a letter from Rio Janeiro, April I
shall remain here for some months, but I fear with
considerable risk, owing to the confusion of politics.
After the King left here for Lisbon ; which has caused
a most disagreeable sensation among the people, and I
think will ultimately lead to a civil war. A short time
since the citizens met to appoint deputies to proceed to
Lisbon, and it is usual on these elections that political
discussions run high, and although we were assured
that the military would not interfere it unfortunately
proved the contrary. . hotly of soldiers entered the
building, which is situated on the margin of the Sea
Coast, and numbers were forced out of the windows by
the military and drowned, while others were charged
with the bayonet up and down the room ; those that
could not escape received wounds. A more outrageous
affair than this never happeswd .in a civilized country,
and will not be forgotten by the people.
[EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BLAKELET, FL-NE ?O.]
"General Jackson, with his troops, started yesterday
from his Cantonment at Montpelier, for Pensacola. The
Hornet, with the Commissioners on board, has also ar-
rived at Pensacola.

By the arrival of Paris papers to the 22d instant
we have received intelligence respecting the affairs of
Turkey and of Spain. These papers are again filled
with anticipations of war between the Turks and
Russians. The following is an article they contain
from Augsburg, dated Aug. 15 :
" It is affirmed that the English garrisons of the
lonian Islands and of Malta are going to be consi-
derably reinforced, the British Government being de-
sirous, under present circumstances, to place this part
of its possessions in a respectable state of defence.—
On the other hand it seems that the English Admiral
who commands the British spiadrons in the Mediter-
ranean, at present stationed off Tenedos (Journal Jr
Paris, 20th August). has received from his Govern-
ment secret instructions in case the Dardanelles should
be attacked.
The fleet of the insurgents, which is in the same
seas, and has constantly beaten the Turkish Marines,
lappeats to wait for orders for further proceedings. A
report had been circulated, that it would be reinforced
by a division of Russian vessels : but this has not ye!
been confirmed. At all events it is not doubted that
the Bosphorus will soon become the theatre of im-
portant events, the issue of which will spew the po-
licy of various Poiret: which are negociating at pre-
sent on the Affairs of Turkey.
" We have seen letters written by Russian Officers
of rank in the Russian army of the South. They
speak with some confidence of the co-operation of
Austria, and even of Prussia, in the projects of the
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. They do not dissemble
that war is inevitable, and that it will be necessary to
go to Constantinople itself to put an end to the atro-
' cities of which the Christians are the victims. In
general the Russians, as well as the Turks, see in hos-
tilities, if they should commence, a war of religion,
which will be bloody in the extreme."
The intelligence through these channels respecting
Spain, is again of an unpleasant kind. The fol-
lowing is given (tom a private letter, dated Ma-
drid, Ang. 10 :—" We have enjoyed for some time
tolerable traugnillity ; even our provinces seemed
to he assured of a repose which they had not
enjoyed since the establishment of the Con-
stitutional regime; but it begins again to be trou'oled
by numerous bands, which, under the name of parti-
xans, traverse and desolate them, and spread terror
every where. Even Gallicia, which of all the pro-
vinces had suffered the least, is now the focus from
which are diffused terrible elements of anarchy and
disorder. The Government in vain exerts all it. efforts
to reach the root of the evil. The environs of Madrid
were always rather unsafe; but the evil is now at its
height, and one cannot go a league from the capital
without danger of being robbed, or even assassinated.
. A post chaise was lately attacked by seven armed men,
at Aleonentlas, five leagues from Madrid. They killed
the postilion with a musket shot, and robbed and ill-
treated the travellers. Many persons who have been
robbed think the object is less to take money than to
spread terror; and it is affirmed that the daintier,
which they commit are part of an organised system.
A meechantnian from Rio, arrived at Oporto, has