The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-14 00:00:00

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FRIDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 44 1823.

BOURBON WAR.

The Marking Chronicle of to-day tells its readers
rthat the chance stills exists that Spain will be left to
her owd resources; and that the credit of the Spanish
Nation is, probably, /ewer now than it will be, when
hostilities have *easily commenced. Whoever holds
large in Spanish bonds, and believes in this, will be
ruined. We belieie that when the French have crossed
the Pyrenees, Spanish Bonds will not be worth a shil-
ling in the pound. We are aware that people will
deal in them till they are not worth the toss up of a
pin; but that is no reason that they should be worth
any thing. The Morning Chronicle of this morning
contains a greater mass of nonsense than we ever re-
collect to have seen in any one newspaper in our lives.
It encourages people to hope that the Spanish securi-
ties will be of value; it encourages thew to hope
that the outcry set np in England against the French
Government may still have some good effect abroad;
it gives its sanction to the stupid notion, that the
national capital increased daring the war ; it gives
currency to RICARDO'S supreme foolishness, namely,
that the capital of the Nation has been going' on to
increase since the pence; it acknowledges the truth of
the stupid falsehood, that oar Commerce is bringing
upon us blessings. which will finally reach the Agri-
culture. In short each a constellation of tenebri-
ous stars, we never saw in any one single publication.
But of all the follies which we find in this paper, no
one, certainly, Is equal to the monstrous idea that the
bellowings of Tuesday week, and of the (allowing day,
will Lava a tendency to chide tit eaatilimasiivere.
in the pursuit of their designs, with regard to
Spain.

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MR. BROUGHAM'S SPEECH. ;
The Old Times newspaper, of this morning. says,
" we are glad ;" that is to say, Dr. Brodie and Aura
Brodie of Eastbourne in the County of Susses, and
Mary Carden and her husband, of Bedford Square, are
glad: they are glad to see that Ridgeway has pub-
lished Mr. littoconsat's harangue. We agree with
these impudent and lying men and women, for once,
we are glad, too ; for now we shall have the orator in
his own words. We shall now have him safely
pinned down. We have not seen this version yet ;
but we shall see it, of course ; and we understand that
the King of France means, with his own pen, to an-
swer this Orator of the human race. this " dinachareie
the Younger,"—This harangue will be a thing to
laugh at for ever. The " Naval Armament:" the
Fleet to be equipped and sent forth, while the reduc-

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tion of taxes and the severest economy is going on,
will form the subject of a song to he sung to our
grand children.—We hope, that in this edition of the
speech, the nein and bright thought about the 4‘ three
Gaitienden of Verona" will not be omitted. it did so
tickle all the girls and young fellows about Drury
Lane and Covent Garden! It was so tritta, and, as
Sir Arch, says, fluty dl'oetc

PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY.
IN via Loans.—A parcel of Petitions were pre-
sented
for the repeal of the Insolvent Debtors' Act.
We were pleased to hear Lord 1141J.LAND say (when
he presented one of these Petitions), that he disagreed
with the Petitioners. We observed the other day on
the just observation made by Mr. Reiter in the lifinise
of Commons, upon this subject. In any state of things
it is monstrous to give the creditor pretty nearly the
same power over his debtor, as if the debtor had stole a
his goods. We repeat that the. barbarous system is
almost wholly unknownrin everreinintry but this;
and to this country, it is a very great disgrace. We
are persuaded that these Petitions will be of no avail.
.They come, in many instances, from many worthy
and humane persons ; but those persuns take a partial
view of the subject. They see nothing but the roguish
debtor ; they do not consider that they are exposing
the innocent and unfortunate debtor to be put• upon a
level with a thief ; nor do they consider the terrible
power that they would again put into the hands of the
hard-hearted, the perverse, the capricious creditor.
They do not consider that they- would give almost the
power of life and death, to men who might be actuated
by personal spite, in the exercising of those powers.
We think that Lord HOLLAND is entitled to the public
thanks for the expression of his opinion, upon this
occasion.

IN THE Commo:ss.—There was no House.—We
take this opportunity of correcting several errors of
the press in our Parliamentary Commentary, of yester-
day.—. There was, this " morning," instead of, this
" moment." There was: "bne.q,'! instead of, "!asp."
There were several other errors, equally gross, owing
to the haste in which that commentary was printed.