The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-11-15 00:00:00

T us sTATter,"4"

j3ut the dire misfortune of this war-losing silitem,,
which our vain and ambitious Ministers adopted from
Mr. PITT, and have carried down through Mr. PER-
CEY, .is, that whenever they extend it, they do,
net relatively Consider their own and. the opposite
party's means of prosecuting it. To say ail we
could on this subject, so frnitftil of ill to our endan-
gered and unhappy country, would- be to Wear now
suspicions, perhaps, censures. Every thing we have
said, every thing we are likely to" say, most itsiia to
show our countrymen, that since rash mot: WO
whelmed us in these unexampled, if not inextricable,
difficulties, trite men onty can be relied on for Lakin.
us out of them.

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The chances of war are great, and the changes
often rapid. Six months -ago to have thought Nara,
what is now to be attempted would hake been deduced
chimerical. Another Expedition. to Holland
_is in.
considerable forwardness, the success of whickie
anticipated very sanguinely; as well from the Ofcs.-
cers (Sir J. Plcrots being, the able° and the force
to be employed in it, as from a presumed
dispositioss in the Petal • th!eemtivise to fateur
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the endeavoats• of their ileeie*ss—_—.o..,V .7.4
project the numerous:gsipt .of thelipniii% if./ke.ON
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werp, and in other parts of the Scheldt, no
out of sight. We believe the Russian feet will be
employed on thill occasion. The CROWN PRINCE,
too, in all probability, will be required to aid in the
grand design, by advancing through Coblentsi 'or
over the Rhine somewhere in that•neighbourhooo—,
BONAPARTE is not unaware of what is doing 6y us
and the Allies, and is said to have urged the quicken-
ing of the Conscription in many of the depart %cuts,
1 which, by-the.bye, is unexpectedly proceeded in,
without those signs of repugnance and resistance so
i often foretold.

In observing VITUS' (who really reminds us of I
the Maria *molar at the Loan MAYOR'S show)
again take up the pen mode.* to advise Ate Cabiaet
of Great Britain what it should do, gradual per
gradutra, on the subject of Peace; we intended to
comment, at large, upon his extraordinary compo-
sition and strain of reasoning: but, as in pursuing his
vast strides of argument, it might to some of our
Readers appear, that we were pleading for better
terms tbau our humbled (very humble indeed, ac.
cording to this politician) foe deserves, we declinti
the task. We arts however, surprised that a per.
son living to years of ciscretion, should compare, i
much less assimilate, the wars Greet Britain has moist-
tained, or may maintain, iu Europe, to the wars of
.. • . • ,
India ! Here the liarquis Wer.cass.vir. pesir alit
-oi the canvass, ex pede Herndon. Mach more/be.*
wonder that this profound politician should liken
thete wars to those of the Romans, forgetting the
territorial position of one State, and theinsular con.
dition of the other, yet drawing the same con-
clusions, and forming the same pretensions from
the cause and conclusion of their respective
wars, that those restless people did. record-
ing to VITUS'S plan of peace-making, we are
doubtful whether the war in which we are now un-
happily involved, would or could be terminated dur-
ing the life of any one combatant engaged in it. I
But while this sagacious logician is offering his proud
' terms, his flattering project, which is to bind down
the adversary, so as that he may never, nay, again be
guilty of .an aggression, be very unadvisedly furnishes
France with the strongest justification, for all those
aggressions which have now drawn down his vengeful 1
retaliation. He does indeed observe, that to embark
in war for the sake of aggrandisement is a separate
-question from that which he is discussing : so it is.
Ile then adds, that "a people who have originally no
thought of encroaching on their neighbours, may
still be provoked and compelled, by unjust aggres-
sion, to undertake a series of foreign conquests, for
the mere protection of their own Empire—and to
adopt a resolute system of aggrandizement, as the
surest and safest instrument of defence." Now
could the rest Twtsattsz more ably advocate the '
eaten -44,nsi?Atiiti._than - this .-triter delft ;the'
French from
.., she
~. imiinietton :OTTE. rife it,
I revolutionary passion 'at home hen Nieto; war ?
It is impossible they could have (contemplated
such an enoct, since it was 'beyond the conceit.,
tion of the most Quixotic mind that they
should have survived-the tremendous -shock 6 the
manner they did. They. bed no less ihent'soen
crowned beads and ill!' Sovatreign..Stales. IWO. them
at once !--4t.io• truly 'miraculous that they, should
have rentaiii4 it 'nation ; there. not being a point,
no, not ra dot even on the circuinferentiel line of
country including • them, but presented a' -hostile
bayonet to their breasts. Thiult.of this, Yo wend,
English Statesmen—ye philosophic madam, *hither
Statesmen or otherwise : and observe the.: basis of
Virus's
,Treaty of Peace annexed, or rather the
terms el *Treaty proposed by this Knight erre*,
and ;aim the anxious community of theihree king-
doms; iti whatepeeistd of time, in What century even
they may look for the consummation of the wishes
pt the . pppressed, laborious, though valorous peo-
ple of these smarm : ..
41.• We permit the French nation to live according
.a.:*Anily ;own laws sad customs ; &ad to retain all
14 the hides and provinces they Itakin Europe wort
" ;hewer. AM. B. This includes the acknowledge
" sent of „liktuatauts•—but not the surrender, to
14" Franeel of She Austrian Netherlands.)
1 " LotitWAsiirctoti shall Imnsediately abstain
i!I from met.+4 siont.

16 France than deliver op to England all her
f‘ :dips of war, except 10. frigates. -
" She shall revtore to the Allies-of England ever
66y
thing she has usurped from them, or any of them)
" and shall eater into an alliance with them all.
" She shalt supply the British troops irk Gascogny
44 with rations—and pay the Portuguese and Spanish
" till -the return of the Ambassadors
" whom she shall depute to London, to have the
"peace, verified there.•

•4..Slte shall pay to Great Britain in five (50 years,
" *too" .sterling, is eoat payment:;-qa
"'small and mean remuneration for cur losses);
66 She shall put into Lord WELLINGTON'S hands
•" bee hawked hostages, such as he
66 ;
' Idle Pint* faith of her Ruler being sissito,pro-
"'
.terbial).

*lase r theyeace, nor even a trace, shall take
"-place, until BONAPARTC shall have restored to
""•Great Britain, the ships and effects, (and English
" traveikrs), taken from her !luring The former
" truce (of A.miens)!! !"
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