The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-31 00:00:00

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THE STA'

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well Seotland'end bahidtie publish le
this clip's fidn!sitiArt i %legse of the Irish K.. ,
• preseetatises, making the seine dbtinctiott of.dte new '
ire done in the English list. Among
reirelth' Representatives, there are
One Hinstiid and Twentictbres new Nantes.; ambog
10!.isit there arp. Twenty.siz. The list for Scot.
tiaZi--rwirreit set correctly before Ds, but the
new men amount at least to Four. la a Parliament
then of oft person"-, there ere One Hundred and
Fifty-three new Members—somewhat more than
Oae.siatla of the whole.

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it is not a little retnarkahle, that we should receite
the first intelligence of a military appointment under
our own Government, through the channel of the
Foreign Papers. Yet this piece of information we
have by this medium. We allude to the appoint-
ment which has taken place, of the Duke of CAM-
BRIDGE to be Lieutenant-General of the Hanoverian
Army, of which the PRINCE REGENT, as & mark Of
his peculiar regard, declares himself Colono Gene-
ial. These appointments have of course lefay attach►
ed to them. From whose revenues is.tbis thooveriao
army paid ? Not, we will venture to say, front those
of Hanover, though the limits of that valuable
"Kingdom 7 have been greatly enlarged by the late
annexations, obtained by the exertions of Englund.
The territory of Hanover bas been so considerably
increased by the Congress of Vienna, that an effec-
tual army may be expected to be maintained thereon
the local revenues, and to be employed, when neces-
eery, in the defence of its frOntiers, without salmi.
dies from other countries--at least without any from
England, since it cannot be doubted that we have
a sufficiency of Worthen, of this kind already to sus-
tain in this country. We should really like to know
what connection these Colonelships which the RE-
Gamy has divided between himself and his bather
.with the War-Office and the Revenue of this coun-
try. But we fear we shall Ispress oar wish for in-
formation in vain.

The French Papers Which. graved to the 28th
again allstde to the Royalist Plot, in terms that be-
Apeak the hopelessness of the necessary jostice
be-
tflg done to the conSpirators. One of them thus-
speaks of the arrest of Genital avow.. :••••". CA.OI
NUEL is in prison ; but we fear juice will not be
done upon hini. The worthy Ultras have each staunch
friends in the Tribunals and elsewhere, that justice

is paralyzed in her efforts."—This kg speaking very
intelligibly, and in a French Paper not a little remark-
able, though the article in which this observation occurs
is not inserted in a direct way. That there is too much
truth in this remark few will doubt. The investiga-
tion into the guilt of the accused seems to proceed
very slowly. No further progress is stated to ha►e
been made in the affair. Justice indeed seems alrea-
dy paralyzed. Saturday the King held a Levee at St.
Cloud, and afterwards transacted bissiness with the
Minister at War. A Commission of Military
Legislation has been established, under the su-
perintendence of the Minister at War, whose
labours are to be directed to the object of har-
monizing the Military Code of France, with its new
institutions. The meaning of this, we apprehend,

td be, that this new Board is to endeavour, by an ar,
bitrary mitigation of the Conscription, in such cases
as suits them, to make the People forget, that the per-
petual abolition of forced levies,was one of the bless-
logs, solemnly guaranteed to them by their boasted
Charter. This Charter, they say, whh the aid of the
all powerful principles of legitimacy, form impregna-
ble barriers to ell attempts at Revolution; but unfor-
tunately for their argument, it appears, that this same
Legitimacy has been doing every thing it can to over-
throw the Charter, and produce Revolution. The
report of the King of DENMARK being about to give
a Representative Consitotion to his Grand Duchies,
is contradicted ; and the Commission, which had
been appointed for that purpose, is said to have been
dissolved. These Legitimates, Danish, German,
'Dutch, or French, are not very ready. of their own
gracious will and pleasure, to give Representative
constitutions to their subjects. ignorant of all useful
seience, and enlarged policy as they are, they know
their own personal interests better, than thus to
create such institutions for any other purpose than
that of taxing their subjects; and none but fools
espect them voluntarily at their hands. Such Con.
stitutions are now more unnecessary than ever as
instruments of motion to the poor King of DEN.
swig. The German Sovereigns are now again
enabled to make their levies of money on their own
subjects, and rob the commerce and the countries of
their neighbours by the old and mere summary means
of armed men. The immediate Nobility of the Ger-
man Empire, resident in the territories of Bavaria,
have applied to the Diet of Frankfort, to have their
rights precisely and uniformly defined. The rights
of Nobility are not easily defined, and the Gentry of
Baden may be doomed like inferior' applicants to
wait a considerable time for the necessary explana-
tion. Bat we could wish to see the rights of the
People generally receive a more plain and uniform
defiuition from the High Councils who take cognio
since of the affairs of nations, as well u to witness
a little more respect paid by them to what is already
known of the rights of men to live and enjoy the
fruits of their labour; free front molestation and
robbery.