The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-26 00:00:00

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.LONDON, FRIDAY,

is The Casa Jbt which HAMPDEN fell is the

THE GRAN MASQUERADE and CA RNl-
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VAL, order the itamediatapatronage of several of the Nobility,
will take plan at the ARGYLE IIWIIIB, on MONDAY NEXT, Decem-
ber IL 1823.
Ticket, One Orbits, inchiding Refreehments. Confectionery. rec.
Application for Rotes and Characters to be mad. to the COOlll6, O.P. at Mr.
CH ARLDE WRI °Hrs. Opera Colonnade, Haymarket, who 'Misapply tbe
Wine nu the above occasion.
Families who may be disposed to regale their younger branches wit% I
view of the Masgeorado, without mingling in the motley peep.
may have Hoses hem Two to Sic Guineas. Early applleatioe
is requested. as ibe amber will be limited. A Scale may be seen at the
Committee.
Farther particalers vane duly announced.

THE COUNTY FIRE OFFICE AND PROVI-
DENT LIFII , Regent-street, were the ORIGINAL OF.
TICE'S whirl. e • leraraneee upon the principle of combining the se.
gorily eats elegaane . rit Capital (in addition to the doetuating Funds
.arisinstraus the ) with the beneficial rule of returning, at stated
rii.N, tbe inirpluse. Si annual Premiums to the Contributors. after pay-
b.e es and. The importance of this Improvement is arks...
I gad by exteawdhtaefNMlc approbation, and by the niemerons imitations
oft. wales new Milli here Wolff offered, and which older one have
u4ilems,
adepted.in changing thee The principle le of chief value,. be.
Moil lialifithlG by OH imMlostlyed. and the Returns of the Illsw.
PlWlEltie ful:tyAl •pittrini hare no reseesabe delve i
tergenthring ofdli 'agetesollsesit Petoesiiii proposed in•
temestfy Menem% Odle* (request %stamen of disappoint-
isseatead ralis.r•
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••. CAPITALS. A MILLION FiTERLING, and upwards.
8113(1INTY.FIYE THOUSAND PERSONS havesought Proteetke In
Use Cowry Orrice, sad haeo.fhand it. _
CLAIMS have been paid te Sixteen Hundred Claimants.
• Evened from the Expenees of Lawsuits, aid also from the Flnerlffee of as
enenoousConseission to Agents, to aisles some New Offices submit, to is-
duerthem to canvass for business, great Aceumidatioas bare been nuicht.—
In there. Persons who now insure, participate equally with the original
Members
RETURNS OF 23 AND 20 PER CirNT, In consequence, have been
invariably paid to all persons who have condoned Insured seven yeah, upon
annual, as well as upon septennial Policies, and whether they have been
Claimants for loess or otherwise—tee-AO base been returned it. this way
to about WOO persons insured, within the lent nine Teen—au Important
advantage which no other Insurance Office existing has afforded.
_ BONUSES of £l3 fie. and .fftes.l2s. per neut. have been paid on LIFE

Policies.
'~ Agents are appointed in all the principal Towns.

HOPE FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
°pram,
8, BRIDGE STREET, BLECRYRIARS; and 325, OXIORD MM.

LONDON;
Entsaunast ; and 18, Watresoanisso grant, DUBLIN.
lIHE Directors of this Company respectfully inform
the Public, That Policies of Assurance are granted by
them on the Lives of Persons in the Army, Militia, or Yeo-
manry, within the United Kingdom, whether on half pay, or In
actual service, without extra Premium.
Life Assurers with this Company are permitted to pen by
see from one part of the United Kingdom to another. In decked
vessels, or steam boats; and are also allowed, during pose.,
to pass from British to any Foreign Port between the Text!
and Brest, both initiates, in vessels as above described, with.
out additional chew.
LIFE OFFlClt—Capi•al Owa Mtwolt.
,Persons assuring in this °Mee participate In profits entail•
slaty, without incurring the liability of loss, the Proprietors
hawing undertaken all responsibility; upon which principler
sonorous are the instinees of ten, twenty, and thirty per omit.
being paid in addition to the moan' assured; and cases have
'occurred where the Payment has been more than double the
sem assured.
A Boots, amounting, in most Instances, to twenty an per
cent, and in some to upwards of Thirty per Cent. on the pre-
mium paid, within the seven years, ending at Michaelmas IBM
has been added to all Policies of A sssss nee Minted is this of.
ice, for the whole period of life.
FIRE OFFlCE.—Capital Oxt Mixt.tox.
Policies effected upon every description of Property within
the United Kingdom.epon reasonable terms.
Losses ere unlfermipspeld by this Compass; vilkililfiereitty
end promptitude.
Policies, which expire at CURISTNAS, should be renewed
within 13days thereafter. or the same will become void.
No entrance money, admission fee, or other official charge,
exacted.

WILL1A:11 BURY. Secretary.

BEACON FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
No. 8, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London.
DUI PCTORS.
ROBERT WARD. Esq. Chairman.
JOHN WRAY, Esq. Deputy Chairman.
Benjamin Ansley. Esq. David Laing, Esq.
11. J. Bouverie, Esq. Laurence B. Morris, Esq.
Henry Hallam, Esq. Sir 11. Parnell. Bert. M.P.
George liammersley, Esq. William Sotheby. Esq.
J. A. Hawkins, Esq. W. R. Spencer, Esq.
Managing Director—John Clark, Esq.
Auditors—Wm. Petrie Cranford and John Wray, Esquires.
Twenty five per cent. abatement of the ordinary Premium
of Insurance on Private Dwellings and on all other description
of Property; a proportionably liberal reduction in ad casts
en allowance of 3 per cent. on the duty psyable to Government'
REDUCED RATES:
Prem. Duty. Total.
On Dwelling•bottses and Fur• s. d. s. rl. s.
d.
siture not hazirdeus.... •10 11 10 4 4 per 1100.:
Oa Shops and Warehouses
and Goods not hazardous I 9 210 4 7 ditto
Farming Stock..• ••• ••• . l 3 910 4 7 ditto
Bankers—Messrs. liammersleys and Co. Pall Mali ; and Sir
P. Pole, Thornton, and Co. Bartholomew Lane.

DECEMBER•2S, 1823.

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ad SYpNRY died on the

FRANCE, ENGLAND. AND RUSSIA.
The journal der Debate gives an account of a work
a M. Dalai'', in answer to the Parallel between England
and Russia, by the Abbe de Pradt. M. Dupin. in reply
to de Pradt's assertion, that England cannot be happy but
in doing good to others, says—
" England. in her commercial relations with other
nations does them good; when their good agrees With her
own—and evil. as soon as she thinks herself interested,
whether for her industry or her policy: This is no
reproach to her more than to any other Power—for all
nations have hitherto followed this line of conduct. They
have only differed in the Smits of their selfisbnest and
cupidity.
The interests of kommerCe influence also in another
manner the policy of Great Britain. That nation, the
views of which are very exteasive an*profound, knows
perfectly that the superiorityk.of lit commerce and itt
strength depends on the Ippyleabrace of its tastitiatkoss.
'the 101 l enjoyment of ail its Hittite& That, even to thole
ititer times, has it appeared little desirous to lams, on
the Continent the same benefit to other nation!.

" In a very remarkable Parliamentary inquiry ow the
trade of Great Britain, compared with that of different
nations, Members of Parliament charged with the inqoiry,
asked merchants of London, ,Do you not think that
France, if she preserves her new institutions and Coo-
stitntional Government, will not find in them elements of
1 prosperity for her commerce which she has hitherto
been without?' Undoubtedly,' replied the skilful mer
chants.

England, then, has no pecuniary interest in the preserve*
lion by France of her present form of Government, and the
liberties guaranteed by the Charter. She sees in them means
by which we may swords against the monopoly created by
her manufacturiag superiority. We do not say thence that
England would help with pleasure to overthrow this fine Eno'
nament—the eternity of whioh is our hope. We would only
say, that she has no mercantile Interest to prevent such a sub*
version. Her views in this respect should not be a motive to
us to implore her protectorship."
After having established, says the Journest des Debate, the
absurdity of the English Protectorship of M. de Pradt, M.
Dupin considers the Power of Russia In all Its relations.—
This is the most novel part of the tract. M. Dupin thews
how mistaken Earope is In considering Russia as barbarian.—
The happy condition of the peasants, the Corporation rights of
the towns, the incorporation of whole nations accustomed to
free institutions, the taste for science end letters diffused among
the Russian Nobles, all lead Monsieur Dupin to the conclusion
that Russia is less backward 113 civilization than Austria ; •
conclusion which will surprise some readers, but which is
skilfully supported.
is What appears to me to deserve deep meditation (he says
is the spirit of the Russian Government, viewed in its
relation to the great art of assimilating to its Empire the
invaded countries. Since Rome, tholurs of which ,ceased
made far the conquest of the world, no country bag bees
framed like Russia to extend, and above all, to preserve
its conquests. Russia having seen itself destined, like
ancient Rome, to compose her Empire of a crown of nations
of different religions, customs, and Isngusges, she bee
made it a rule to leave to each nation all the ideas that are.
dearer to it than political existence."
He then shews how Russian policy conciliates all re
ligions, preserves every where the see* nodose! idioms.
1 old meteors staadiog, and. iiiirliande itself, as In
Polantand*Finland. to constitutional ideas.
In painting the defensive military power of Ramis, M.
I Dario Is.. math. n• acquainted a ith a new institution,whlch
has not excited enough attention :—" The Emperor Ales•
ander has conceived the idea of founding in different parts
of his Empire military colonies, or rather easter. In them
all the male children are born soldiers ; they pass under the
standards at the age of 15 ; they remain enrolled till 60.
In becoming soldiers they, according to the Muscovite law,
Cease to be slaves. Thence the military State, which In
other petiole is regarded as a time of servitude, bas for
them the double benefit of freedom and glory.
" The Monarch takes from the domains of the Crown the
land necessary for the establishment and subsistence of the
colonised regiments. In return for the lands thus conceded,
these warriors are to support themselves and their houses,
so long as they shall not be ordered out on any foreign
expedition. By this means large armies will be kept on
foot during the peace, without any expense to the Public
Treasury.
" The pay of these corps will commence only when they
shall be called out of their respective Colonies—this pay
will be moderate in proportion to the limited wants of a
people newly colonised—sot indulging in luxury. Tbia
military population will bear arms without exception, and
Bill he constantly enercised. They will maintain their
warlike spirit, like the standing armies of the Roman
Empire, at the most formidable period of their conquests.
" When this project shall have been tarried into execn'
tion, the empire will reckon three millions of males in its
military colonies. Among these three millions the Auto•
crat of All the Russias will be able, by a simple Ukase, to
make all individuals enter from the age of 15 to 60; that is
to say, at least 15 millions of soldiers.
" At present 40,000 horsemen are thus colonised; a single
colony not far from Petersburg. near Novogorod, reckons
70.000 fighting men. The total of the military cute is
400,000 soldiers."
These details are very curious; hot instead of refuting
the opinion of hI. de Pradt on the dangers n ith which the
power of Russia threatens Europe, they only modify it. It
is as a Barbarian Power that M. de Pradt would have us
fear the Empire of the Ceara; it is as a civilihed and politic
power that ibis empire is worthy of all the attention, all
the vigilance of statesmen.
There is one only way of maintaining the independence
and the honour of European nations. It is not in •
balsams of power, often chimerical and allays
precarious, that we can find a solid guarantee. Nations
must henceforth hope only from their own strength,
sad, above ail, their strength. We agree in this
respect with M. Dupin, whett he says —" Let us
establish every where strong institutions which may be
the reciprocal guarantee of Monarchs and subjects ; let us
favour the progress of science and arts, the instruction of
the people, industry, and commerce. Let us render
citizens happy and Intelligent, that they may prevent the
dangers which may threaten the State, and, in the time of
need, die with enthusiasm in defence of a country which
gives prosperity to their families, and guarantees the con.
tinuance of that prosperity to their ipMterity. France
May occupy tlae first station in the noble career, which
will be at once the security and Ike glory of Western
Enrope ; else may command by her etample, end direct
by her intelligence.. this is the neutral part she has to act.
1 bit is the sole destiny worthy of her greatness:"

On Tuesday evening the ‘23.1 instinanieeting of the
innkeepers and publicans of Newark, honk place at the
Pack Horse Inn, in that town, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the necessity of petitioning Parlivnees
for • reduction of the wine, spirit, beer, and tobacco
licences; and a committee of nine resident innkeepers was
appointed and authorised to take measorrlitor carrying thir
object into effect and alio of petitionieg Parliament for
an alteration of the lase as it respects private retail brewert
and retailers of beer.