The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-19 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS•

PAM!, Auo. 27.—Political affairs betemd 14f11:
daily more and more perplexed and Intricate in all'
orders.. That miserable policy which has for yearsd
been labouring •ist the Astir, against Germany, aed
which hypocritically. conlrived to conceal itself under ,
!diverse philanthropical forms
.of love of mankind,
love of the Negroes, end love of the French, must
now come forth in open day.tight, and show in the
eyes of the whale world what it is Worth, and how t .
it is guided by the lowest motives of Vulgar, stupid
jealousy. It thinks -the Germans have been 0r,,,d
enough, with their broad strong shoulders, to lilt it
out of the jeopardy of Napoleon, to which short:
sighted cunning had reduced it ; but as such slave's
work may still be expected of them, they must, now
their work is done, be sent hack to the mill, to ex- •
peed their superfluous vigour in proper labours.
Conscious of its own internal debility, this policy
dreads every new-born energy, and the increasing
firmness of the Germans fills it with apprehension;
so that rather than confide in the good spisit that
animates us.. it enters into -conventions with the
wicked French ; but the times are pist, in which
' pompous forms, mystery, and affected airs could
• conceal the intrinsic nothingness of their policy ; it
stands naked and exposed in its whole deformity.;
Iwhile it fancies it is going in secret in its crooked
paths; the world beholds it, and is filled with ins
dignation at its proceedings. Let it beware how it
plays with the fire that inspires there times; like St.
Elmo's flames, it plays InWooncies upon the masts
and yards, .but will become e.onattrileg lightning,• if
its' powers are excited by nrrogentdefance,.
The.negociations are now. begun, *Ad 'Prussia bps
brought forward, as a, condition tine qua won,..the
cession of Alsace and Lorraine. Against this a ter.
rible clameuri and running and striving has eritels,
as if every one were called' upon to make the •ces.
sion out of his own means ; it was grown to suc.b.st.
charming custom, in dealing with the Germans, ulg
to take away from them, that the people witii,ths
greatest naiveté wonder how it could come info their •
beads, now that every body else are so richly pro•
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„ Kinow , jaisairno July 15. vided for, partly at their eipetice, to advance and
” We have this day the melancholy and distress-
I demand also their part. The French are, of course,
ing task of recording the effects of a fatal and de-
1 the most indignant at this unheard-of pretension,
structive fire, which broke out in the town of Port 1 and have immediately put themselves in *inky to.
ar,, 1 baffle it. The well-known means which' socceediedr
Royal about half-past one o'clock on Thursday
ternoon. It began in a negro•yard in-Cannon-street, Is° well in the Peace of Paris, with the tutrlittill°4ll(
new inventions are employed, and the result 1/1 iIL
and was occasioned by a negro-wy
man making a fire
in its improper place. It y. communicated to soon bee vident. Talleyrand prowls about in silence
i and places the note; Fnucho gives.and receives great
the adjoining buildings, and, among the first, to Miss
entertainments ; the man who is at dinner is a
Fentiatt's fine lodging-house; from thence iespread
most tractable animal ; and what the•tsble does not
its ravages to the adjoining and opposite houses, and,
from the very strong breeze that prevailed,•borning I effect is accomplished by the desert. Good and• bad,
shingles, &c. were soon wafted to, others, which,
are so mingled together; that it will- be difficelt.4*
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hying remarkably dry, quickly burst curt into a . part them without the actiuq of tiro Rod a greaten, .
blaze, so that by two o'clock three or four parts of I
The. issue of negotiations depends' ape n thie
Plosion. . •
whether means will be found to gain
the town were burning in a most horrid manner. The I
catisteruation that now prevailed in the town, as we • princitiallyv
minute I Aastria, so that she-also.declares for the ceesion, and
are informed, surpasses description; every
insists_epon it. This accession of Austria de-
fresh flames were issuing forth; ,the principakstreet, : firmly
pends again upon the perseverance with which Prys.
in which the Court-House, Tarrant's Tavern, Mr.
Bassan's and Mr. Jackson's stores, are situated, be- j sia abides by itsdemand. Prussia mutt show that it
came a volume of fire and smoke, and front thence it . did not merry this demand as feeble, empty experi-
spread to the whole of the stretts :meat, to recover the rights of Germany, merely to and lanes towards
the harbour, the wharfs, and the Naval Hospital, establish itself in the public opinion for other pur•
poses, but that it is seriously resolved to fulfil the
Mr. R. IVl4Kown's house and wharf. and all adjoin.
.duty it has undertaken, of being an * ifugmenter of
ing, to within a few houses of the Officers' quarters
the Empire, and by no means to desist from this
on the Parade. The fire having cpmmunicated to
utmost resolution. If it announces this firm will,
Mrs. Whittaker's house towards the west corner of
the Parade, it was suggested to pull dowp the houses if it places itself as a column on which real depend.
opposite, so as to open a passage between those on elm. may be placed, Austria will, assuredly, joist
with its whole influence, as it did before, in B..honstn..
fire to those which it had nut yet reached, which, be-
:The French themselves lose daily more, and more
ing effected by very great exertions, vas the inverts I
of the temper in which they might make Considers-.
of preventing the flames from continuing their fetal
bee opposition. Party hate and party raga•daily ht,„
effects along the row of houses on the Parade,.
crease, and the hope of uniting all parties again*/ the
leading to the Artillery Hospital, which were thus
fortunately preserved from the dreadful, element, foreigners must decline more and more. In. OW
South of Frrioce, the fermentation is dreadful
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bat the'extraordinary exertions and skill displayed
on the unhappy occasion could kave secured it ; as it
is, snaseof the buildings near the wall, close to Mr. d").'• Pat°o a
place, in a village near Nimes. Louts i.hrits., his
Jackson's store, !lave been demolished, partly by the
shoulders, pities the victims, and tuts th;„..:, t,ke
ire, and poly by pulling them dowp, to prevent the
vcourso.--(Rkeoish Afercsire, - Sept. 9.)
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