The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-24 00:00:00

ment, so far was the Government of France
.from affording any hopes of success from the resist.
knee which was opposed to it, that the only efieet
produced by that resistance was a eeeater portiee
of eeertion, and a more determined perserme"
in the plans which had lliraeeeigf(czntih rns of
eticethcle.
tlbreachthe Noble Earl had said, three-fourths
eeeiee, %sere against the Goveittmeete of &nee
parte, i.e conceived that the very 'system of se.
eressiee, 'which was cow proposed, weold predoce,
instead of advantaee, the neee iecalculeble nee,
chiefs. Bat ho %could ask, -teem whet fouteteriel
this settement of the Nc,ble Earl tette!? Alt-
aic information v, hick he had had an opperetreivy of
obtaining, had induced him to come to the comet_
sion that the Gower:meet of the lieu-dente:swat an-
poplar, not only among the milettre,leit Amen
the 'note refitted .pert of eilrepepwlation.orfraree ;
and that, if it had been tontiougel,•in all probability
it he* Reiolution would have' beekie reitlit *that
reentry. Rot twerp thee. owstutery mita eit retie_
flee of this conclusitet ? In a pamphlet money pub.
lisie;tl by a French-Noblemen, which foe intended to
have brought distill
,packet, n lagniiiere review
was taken of Ihe state of Frence, from the period of
!the KinesacCessioteto his flight. The states,
!' the t these in*favnur of the ftttig were I he Clereyethe
old Noblesse, and those ref s•Ils eho were &win.
Iguishetl at Come—bet these denies he remarked,
were of leapt weight iet the ceeeral melee of the ne.
lion. Vutswbe had he'teaVedp
gunnery toe lung
First, the whole of the ery ; then, all who
had acquired national property,
not, 'with reason or eithout. This Li tt r ehteseee,
observed, were apprehensive- tittle dideeeelie neer
system, their property nac insecure, utev)tettce tey
t;tecatite enemies to the Geweritwewie • elie strouisi•etere
advert to the argument of the Nettie Lard ettistite4
i s.
wede that this Was military reso)okett, and ate.
trary to the
,wisher_ oftheeeeeptee. fr epptstred: to
him that there was not sufficient festodatien for such
-a conclusion—and; as illestrative of -kit amertione he
would call uponehe • kites, to say, 'tether thet-ie.
lieved that ilthepeople ef 'France seem teteily hostile
to • Bonaparte, that ixtrabrilinary Melt Rabid' have
proceeded with the rapidity of the• pOstvfeem, the
time of his landing to his eptrance lute 'tie Wilk
licarce a handful of twee, soihetimes before gear&
'sad .sometimes .after them, 'without. meeting tips
slightest opposition, or encountering .any other
feeling than that of pleasure wherever he went?.—
Throughout the whole of theextentstif country ever
which he travelled-be was invariably received with
acclamations—end this being the case, he would
ask, whether there was •not a general, and not
simply a military disposition ln his favour ?-
IThere was another reason, however, for inher-
it' this to be the case. Ue had always heard that nue
I peculiar excellence accompanied the French army,
' which did not belong to the troops of other countries,
' and that was that since the French Revointioo. feint
the effects of the Conscript Lows, and the diflicahy
of obtaining substitutes, pereot. is of higher rank
and supetior qualities thau previously, were'en.
relied iii the ranks; ;eel hence so far was the tot.
litary from being a styarate claw, distinct from
the general disposition of the people, that thisy
might he considered as' a pretty srceneate speciera
of the feeling. of the people as And wliat
tended more clearly to emliflo tits confidence
of the present Gplielatnellt its the general feeling
of the people, was the fact of their arming the whole
mile population, from the age of twenty to sixty,
who,' th4t well knee e,' if they' ere dissatisfied with
the restoration of Bonaparte, might easily tarn
their arms egcrinst him. This, at least proved.,
whatever might be the sentiments anrerraieed' by
the Noble Lord, that there was net the least &trait
felt on the part of the French Government. 'I he
Noble Earl, to point out' the eiPediency of adopting
rather a course of: moderation thou of. aggression tn.
*wide Fiance; conceivi4,• as he dirt,' from all past
itperieoce, that the laqgoair(Sifeilaree;would tend to
disavow, while .acte -of 'trir'ettre Un4 wiciletice would
only lend to Retaken the ptidee 'aced give impetus CO
the energies of the French people. ilavin'eutaken a
j view of the internal state of France, which he: ap-
preheeded weedd be considered not quiteso favour.
able as had beep represented, by the Noble Lord,
be wctuld neat advert to the strength of the Conte.
&mei, The first consideration which offered itself
was, how far. the prospects' ef the:Allied Powers
were•better than at the commencement of the last
year. It would be recollected that in the Runes*
campeign of 1812, the Freed, army were almost-all.
nihilated; but notwithstanding this, early in the
spring of 1513,, Ronaparie again . took, the field at
the head of a new army. This
:army, like the fet-
ter, was broken and deft reyed,: but the Cnentnefre"
metteof the, Year 1814 ogon presepted: Ogniaparte
with a cdrps of 150;000 men, indepetteent-!'f thin
garrisons on the Rhine, the array under the Viceroy
of Italy, and the other' tretipse of whose assistance
he could tint avail himielf the,ff.ltl. In opeosi•
lion to this limited• foreveAo presented a
combined army 10,000.... It..might he said,
that this was an exaggerated statement of the force
newel!y is thofield, but he thought he vinght fairly
state the tiennber of mete opposed to 14otiaparre at
340,000--eand yet, whoever .reoefleetie the events
of that campaign; musteeelt to rebid that the success
of the Allies depended upon, the narrowest accideol•
—With-this circumstance in view, who could look
witho appreheesinn to aereuewal of the war
mare especially when it 'Wes recollected' that Franey
had, since dint period; concentrated those forces•.
which bad previously been dispersed, added to her
resources at least 100,000 men, who had been pri-
soners of war, end by her lows of conscription,
called into action almost the who;st of her'nelle
'gelation ? Tice Noble Eari• then took a review of
the prolethlo extetit of Pie ermy of the Allies, Ore
which so much 'reliance had been placed.
served, that from Senn) and Portugal little or il6
as-
sistance creed he expert, il. With respect to the
German States, nn aresceement had as. yet fiPen
mad', as to the farce white) t!tey were to filing into
the ti:ed, en:lough it ass pretty clear aliditieeat
subsidies must he granted to secure their assieanc'e
The army, lie ceetended, was no luneer i"
that S'aln ref (lisrip;it,e in which it was lei! VII 10 tic-
tore by the Del,e ef Wellington, the flow"' of
rants havine, been scat to perish ingloriously in Aimee.
rica. The' Saute troops, from the ieeraetude Ws .
which they had been treated, could not again ;'

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