The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-24 00:00:00

BOURBON WAR.

The Courier of Saturday night hlo.rs the bhst of war
aspin. Whether this last Paris wren be intended to
pelt down oar hinds, that the French may make a per_
elate in them, in oral r to sell out stein when they s►nd
over a pacific dispatch, we cannot tell. If we were French
Ministers, we should carry on this game for a month or
z weeks, till we hal money enom4h to repay the try
bete of 1S15; and, perhaps. money enough to carry tit
army to Madrid. However, the (Owner say% that it
heueperts that it is upon the eve of het is g intelligence cf
great, perhaps decisive. importance to communicate, to
tbe parsons, the tax raters, and the stupid landlords that
read it. In the same string of paragraphs it observe*,
that whatever may be the refelt, " ,eery OM in E•,•
s. rope will be (tarnished with the most clear Ind
sitive conviction that the whole conduct of the
" tish Government has been guided by the most de,•;'
as and anxious desire to preserve peace." Amines
*re would have bees enoegh fir us. We would bare
dispensed with the deep desire ; but we must say that
we think this a very ominous paraeraph ; very etnirr's
for those who bold what is called volt ; that is to my.
witless they sell oat immediately : fur, whenever we 8..1
those notozions tools of the government making irate►
'bestations, it is oar invariable rule to held these rarest'.
detest° be false. Not that we believe that oorSlinistris
I bare been eager for war between France and Spain. We
',believe the contrary; but we believe tbsat they lire
bade no exertions at all; precisely betatea lb* Mire
"'Gelid not listen to them any more the* they
ten to a eat. It would appear from these 'Faris papers, that
the French are left by the Allies to du is bat they please
with rt gard to the war with Spain; aid we repeat fcr
abort the fiftieth time. that we believe they will iuvalle
•Spain. We think they will get to Madrid and Cadiz.—
Whether they will finally sweet I in subduing Spain, i:
is impossible for is to gi►e aoy thing like an opinion.—
Another stir in that quarter way bring hack the Revoln•
Lion into France. If it do not do that.it may excite a ►it le
stir here; and help the lame tiOlt over the style.
are sure that it cannot fail to give a shake to flatten
end Old Sarum : and if it do that it will do more for tie
liberties, even of thecontinent than all the new consults.
tions that have been yr: mid'. or talked of. It will over.
set the Bouanoss ; or, it will go far towards convincing
every man in England that the deht cannot be suffered
to remain round our Recto without total degradaties.—
The debt cannot be l:ached without •rvtcbteg the bo-
roughs; and these, with us, arc all is all.

TO THE EDITORS
PAPERSOF TUE LONDON NEWS.

O,NTLI S►R!,

I have a very anxious desire to come to a Motive( un-
derstanding with yogi, upon one point; namely,
WHETHER THE INTEREST OF THE DEM'
OUGHT TO BE REDUCED? Yon and I know, that
I never have been able to bring you to a—y thing like
plain declaration on this subject. For friary years, yea
abused me with great virulence fur proposieg sack re.
&mien. You langlted (or, rather, grinned) at toy pro.
pheciek as you culled them ; you sneered at what yen
called my wild doctrines. Sometimes you, as if by cos •
man consent, kept silence fur a long time together.
You seemed to shake your wise heads, like Bustatsa
in the Critic. At other times, ohms furnished ak:
what you deemed the ntea-ts of showing what you were
kind enough to tall my prefia:e prirciples, yon opens i
those n,outhaof your's strain, stared with all the eyes
you had, presenting, in your prus!e, the jaws of ano:i.
Of Lt., you have got into a s!-..te that may be rat!..
(
that of botneration. Those who reed your surprisinelv
voluminous pendactiotts, h ive been wholly at a 10"•
even to sufluise nhAt you would be at. Hints ntew sr'l
then escape you. You mention the weight of the Feb.
pc debt ; you give accounts a the loin of the landlor.
and their tenants; hut still, you lurk about astional ho-
nour and national faith. TAM'S yon would reduce sorer•
tinier; and yet again ye.' would maiotairs the 'bitter
which cannot he maintained withont the Wm. Yon
differ very widely from each other in opinion, and, not
unfrerinently it happens that e.,cli of yon differs from
himself two or three times %Wain the compass of so
many days. You seem to be animated, at different times.
by very different motives ; and you very often seem to
exchange motives as often as you change opinions. In
one thing, however, you have all agreed, and have beet
steady and nniform in your conduct ; that is to say.
you have always avoided cowing to the poise with me•
with regard to this great question. The sole object of
this address to you is, to endeavour to briar; you to that
point : to make you speak oat ; and that, too, if pos-
sible, in pita,. Eaglish. lant, hod Lula been, for the

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