The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-16 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, ISM

PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY.
The only subject that came on Ise • nigla, and that is
worth attention, was the motion of Mr. Brownloir,
expressing the opinion of the House, that Mr. Ptuatncr's
conduct its the Fs-officio affair, was isuroarditslamoi•
The Order of the Day was moved upon this, as a mid-
dle course; so that Mr. PLUNRET got off witkiihrit may
he called a rap on the knuckles. It was thia,:, his ene-
tnieisaid, he ought toile censured: his friends said, set
will go to the Order of the Lay this is to'say, we will
not say, that he ought to be censured, and we will not
say, that he ought not to 4 censured. We leave him
just there.—Mr. BROWNLOW laid on his charge well, and
the defenrie of Mr. PLUNKCT was poor. Ile contended,
that: his .ex-qfficio was legal; and, Lawyer ScARLCTT
s ait•th at, "though it was legal, it was not constitutional."
This is a pretty thing, then! That which is agreeable
to . the law, may, according to this, he hostile to
We Constitution! Grand discovery! What a happy peo.
pla we are, to have a Constitution like this! Well
may. 'Wounding nations envy us it, and well may
the world admire the THING !—The Order of
the Day was carried without a division..—Mr.Broughatri
spoke of the divisions in the Cabinet. Does Mr.
Brougham think, that these divisions will Mike openings
so wide that one planet in at? We can assure him that
they will not. The divisions are for very useful pur-
poses. The two parties in the Cabinet are singularly
useful in many cases; and, if the present men could get
rid of a large part of the Debt without a blew up, they
and their heirs and assigns would rule this nation to all
eternity.—The Debt puzzles them. They ea snot go to
Uwe, This works them. But, still, the!' are the men, in
whose hands the system will breathe its last.—lt is clear,
that the Orange-affair is patched up; and that the affairs
ofireland will go on as usnal.

NEGOCIATION PAPERS.
. .
• On ore thing WE may certainly congratulate ourselve• ;
suds that is, on the fact now being proved, that our read-
srs base, from the account that the Verona people sent,
been kept duly and truly informed of what was passing.
If we bad time, we Mould take the several despatches
and put now their substance and them, alongside of that,
pet doun oar opinion as expressed in THE STATESMAN.
The fact is, that, if we had been split into three parts,
and each part had retained the faculties of the whole ; if
One part bad been at Vienna, one at the Tuileries, and
tl e other at Whitehall, and if the parts had been present
at ell zhe consultations and all the despatch-writings, we
coeld.not have given our readers more accurate accounts
of what was going en, than we did give them. We de-
scribed even the tone of the parti. a. While the stupid
press of London was blundering about, backward
anit forward, we kept steadily on in the path
of • truth. We knew better even than our Mi-
nisters ; they, poor things, thought they should
frighten the Bourbons by the means of the big "House
that passed the Six Acts, and the Sun set Act, and trans-
'pOcting poachers Act. They thought, that this great
• House would frighten the Bourbons; and they had the
weakn to expre-s their hopes to that effect! We told
them, that the Bourbons cared net a straw for " the
.Ilouse or i s Acts; that it could not put them into the
Lands of -Sidinouth ; that the big House, though it
(malt puss acts to transport men for being in pursuit
of wild animals, could not, with all its power, with
ail its omnipotence postpone for one single day,
the march of one single French soldier's troll '

. —Thus has it turned out. Au!. let any one
• look at those despatel2cs; let him look at this record
-o/English disgrace, and see bow right we were flout
first to last. Ittwill not be expected of us that we enter
into an examination of these miserable papers; but, good
Goo ! Only think of Lord Fit,•;roy Somerset, sent off
zo pump the " leading characters in Spain !" Ah ! Thus
it is to be uw!er a government of " L.,rd Johns
".and Lord Charlescs, and Lord Henries!" Never
was there such a thing hrard of before. A jumping ad-
junnt to the Envoy! And pray, people of England, do
rent the " Great Captain's" MEMORANDUM ! His
advici to the Spaniards! • And, think of the mediation'.
• And, then ,when that was rejected hy both parties, think
of our p-rsevering in spite of kicks and cuffs and spitting
upon. Can the " Right Honourable George Canning"
tlf ui of any nation on earth that ever did such a thing as'
this before? Absolutely laughed at by both parties;
spit upon by both ; and still going on to arsomplish that
by the pumping system that we could not accomplish in
any other way!—The Spaniards seine to hare seen us to
the bottom ; fur they had no scruple to tell our man,
that we wished to prevent war, and the conquest of Spain
by France/be our own sakes. -The French are not so
plain with us; but, they make us exhibit a sweet
.figurel--Never was before seen such a series of acts in
order to prevent that which might,• at once, have been
prevented by the single word war. Why were all these
efforts msde to prevent France from invading Spain?
There most have been some powerful reason for the
efforts. And yet, these efforts having failed, we make no
others!—Our teaders will remember the pretty stories,
that were told the public, about a shield, she shield of
the British Empire thrown over the Peninsula, as
whiskered coxcombs called Spain. They will remember
the conversation between the " Great fluke" and the
King of France, in which the former conrinced the latter
oldie itnpolicy of the war ; and made him resolve to give
up all thought of it. la abort, how many of these stock-
jobbing tales came back to our minds as we read these

I'M STA'

1 Negociation Papers. We now see, that, from beginnintr
to end, we have been acting the part of the most mean
t and pusillanimous, 'the most silly and inconsistent, that
can he imagined —But, the fact is, we were unable
to go to war; and this was known to the French
from the outset. They are called, by Mr. Brougham
and others, " imbeciles ;" but, at any rate, they have
shown, that they understood our affairs better than
some of us did ourselves. They knew that we could
1 not go to war; they were nearly sure of this be-
fore they saw the famous papers of Wellington the
[Great and the great Canning ; but, the moment they
siw those papers,they must have exclaimed, oh! oh! here
is the great hie " British Empire" hoping, praying,
supplicating ! Faith the great big " Empire " mast be
in a pour way !--i always said: Mr. Canning dares not
talk of war ; au I that being the case, the French will
march ; for they are rich &nit-strong, and they will avail
themselves of this occasion for augmenting their power.
—Thus has it been. A'nd our consolation is
that, when We see the French safely Masters
II of Spain, we shall have to say, this arises
out of that debt, which was contracted to pay on
a war, the main object of which was to prevent
Parliantentary Beform.—This is the thing to keep in
view : the nation has been reduced to this state for the
sake of the Boroughtnongers,• This is a fact of which
the people ought never to lose sight. The Boroughs
are the cause of the whole. And, if we act a sensible part,
we shall lament no calamity, no disgrace, that arises from
Ibis cause. ln a word, we wish for any thing, no miter
what, that Is likely to give Crofton and Old Sarum a
shake. The " Lord Charles's" have laughed heartily
enough, while the silly nation were shouthug
and . paying for " victories," the only tendency of
which was to make the silly nation more completely
theirs. This is over. Even the stock jobbing
press can no longer cajole the people for any length of
time to come. The cation thought itself a " conqueror";
hut, now, it bogins to stare at the movements of the peo-
ple that it " conquered." This has roused it out of a
sweet dream. The " Waterloo Bridge" . awl the
" Achilles" look silly enough with the French at Ma-
drid. But, where is the Waterloo-Column? •Is that to
be built yet? Let the foundation stone be laid by the
" grea'est Captain" on the very day that the French
enter Madrid ! Come, come. There will be some spout
come out of this. We might be angry with the Bour-
bons 'in other cries ; but. they are now working our
'Borouglonongers. They are disgracing us, and
waking us see that we owe the disgrace to
the Soroughmongers. This is doing us good.—
We forgive the Bourbons for every thing, pro-
vide(' they work the Borough-fellows. These are our
enemies. All other enemies are nothing compared with
these. These are the enemies that ruin us, that make us
poor, that snake us suffer in all sorts of ways, that make
us a degraded people. How long they will continue to
possess their terrible influence we know not ; but, at any
rate, we rejoice at any thing that works them; and we
are sure that this invasion of Spain will %colic them most
furiously.
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'ESMAN

they have dared to publish. One letter date:. the number
from 200 to 300. It is also stated that the French army
will not pass the Ebro for sonar time, but wait there
until the fortresses are reduced in their rear. The Ex-
presses which have arrived this morning from Paris,
bring only Monday's Papers, of which the contents have
been alreaJy give n.
FPRFIGN 114;mm—in consequence of the Spanish Di-
vidend being advertised, the Bonds opened this morning at
33, with some business doing in the earlier part of the morn-
, ing. A great misunderstanding still exists between the
Committee of the Stock Exchange, and the gentlemen who
deal in foreign securities.
Chili, 684 to 69—New Spanish, 311-01 d, 39—New Prur-
elan, til4—Uld, Si—Russian, 754—Daitibh, S3—Neapolitan,
72—Colombian, Gli,

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