The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-10 00:00:00

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times and their predecessors were unacquainted
with.'"

We shall, u we hare before observed, not let
this important subject sleep under our pen, till we
hale awakened in the minds of the public a due'
sense of its weight in the scale of libration in the
different powers constituting the Government.

STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O•CL(CK.

The Funds did not continue long in the flourish-
ing condition we mentioned yesterday : for, towards
the afternoon, the principle operators finding them-
selves heavy bunk, the closing of their accounts
turned the market, which, with some sellers,
broucht the price to 681, at which they le!t off,
buyers.

This morning they opened at EN: which is now
about the price, the market looking very. steady.

The French papers speak or twenty thousand
troops being put under the command of the Duke
d'Angotileme, and sent to the frontiers of Spain.
as a corps trohaerration. Every, the feehlett,
politician knows what the intelligence means. We
do hope, however, that the King of France, though
he has not travelled far or much, has yet made some
useful obserrations on men and things. His Nta.,
jesty will not. therefore, we are persuaded, propose
nor permit stick a body of troops to be sent to the
foot of the Pyrennees, and especially under the
command of one of the Princes of the blood of the
Bourbons. As well might the good Louis the
XVIII. think of sending the Viscount de Chateau-
brian t as an Ambassador Extraordinary, or Plenipo-
tentiary to the Court of Madrid at this critical
juncture.
M. CHATE% VBRIANT. of ancient literary celebrity,
now become the political (Mn Quixotte of France,
has dreamt of a thousand democratic windmills,
which in his waking reveries he is attacking.
Cohatitationnel,in its poignant satire, but which is
bytter, in his well-directed censure on the noble
Viscount's demand of four-score expiatory victims
on the ilst January., adds, that, in this charitable
view, so conformable to the genius of tAriationity,
it is to be feared that the bloody expiation might
be only a simple prelude to the catastrophe of the
intended oligarchy tragedy, which might bear a
similitude with that of &tent Bartholo►new.

We copy the following °Nervations from The
Exeter .41:fred. They convey a just censure on
those measures which have been chiefly instrumental
in occasioning the distresses which now overwhelm
this country :

From time Throne, his late Majesty, in his first
speech, deliurateil the TLOCRISIIING state of his king-
doni—descanted on its HAPPINESS, prided himself on its
LIBERTIES and laws—hut had retnrnieg reason, before
bis Majesty departed from this life, given him porter to
retrace past events, to remember the scenes of Isis Tooth
—could he hare seen the condition to which this king-
dom is reduced—heard the mournful tale of the friendless'
sailor, starving in our streets—seen the weaver bilis
thg. jperketjp6cgfor want ofi ja,,x;;;;.„., and t
labourer let old Tenire 'IMF 1
31ajesty have beholden the rights of Englishmen openly
trampled upon tinder the base pretence of pp.r• crier
the Cuestitittio"—the Press hound in fetters, in lied*. I
taunts of foreign policy—the castles of Englishmen omits
to the partitions of 51inisters, on the oath of a spy, by
day or night—the public swaging% of femme. hound w
trammels, that the 'Ties of the people might be stilled alit
suppressed! Could he have seen the mad crusade ;waist.
France terminate in the triumph of tyranny and supoi-
stition—in the restoration of the inquisition, and in
the Holy Alliance against the just rights of inankind—.-
seen the escutcheon of England blotted by the sanction
of the dismemberment of States, and the spudplunde 1
Empires—seen barracks after barracks erected foi
poses too evident to be doubtful—the laws executed by
the sword—persons, accused of the highest crimes
against society, rewarded for their misdeeds—seen the
standing army increased in time of peace—the national
debt become a national calamity—in his benevolence be '
would have sighed over measures that have destroyed 11
his subjects' hopes; in the warmth orbits heart lie wosid
have condemned the dark misdeeds, that have covered I
with gloom and wretchedness this once happy land;
and he would have despised the deceit which could pros:
tend to preserve a nation's blessings by works of desalts.
lion and destruction, by wanton waste of public tree-
ritre, and by shedding seas of human blood! lint en*.
sciousness did not again inhabit the worn-oat mind of
our good uhf KtmiL PEACE TO XIS SIOEL; ASID Ma? IT
REST IN nearex !"
A letter from Portsmouth, dated Feb. 8, says—
" Captain Montague, 'M.P. Commander of the lime-
ton, set off yesterday express for London. It is'
reported the Phaeton is to proceed to the Medi-
terranean, to bring the Queen to England."
The new reign, it is said, will usher in four Dew
Dukedoms, in the persons of the four following
Noblemen, vit. Stafford, Buckingham, Hertford,
and Hastings.
In addition tb the names mentioned of indivi-
duals present at thel'oronation of our lainenksil Sovereign,
stands Mr. Francis Hankwirod, one of the Royal musi-
cians, who is now in good health. and in his titsth year.
Mr. Hackwood was in the procession at
,the funeral of
George the Second, and at drat time was a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Musicians. He was horn in the parish
of St. George's, Hanover-square, in the year 1731, and
has long been considered as one of the greatest pedes-
trians, for his age, in the United kingdom.
There is an old adage, which says, " M ben
peacocks die, crowned heads fall." It is a fact that all
the peacocks, kept at the Palace of Carlton-house, died
during the late intense frost ; anti the 'legater verifica-
tion of the adage, at the present moment, forms one of
the principal tea-table ina dies among the matrons of St.
James's.
Mr. Cawthorne has declared his intention of
again standing the event of a poll for Lancaster,
and two other candidates are expected to otter
themselves.
An active canvass has already commenced
the respective friends
throughout Devonshire, by
of Mr. Bastard, Sir Thomas Ackland, and Lord
Ebrington.
M. Dawe, an eminent English painter, is at pre-
sent engaged, at Petersiourgh, in executing the portraits
I of the Russian Generals who have disttnguished *mi-
-1 selves by their exploits, for the gallery of l'F.nwitage,
I forty of which are alteady completed, sod bear a striking
I resemblance to the illustrious origittals. The whole
collection will consist of two hundred, for each of which
will be paid 1,0100 roubles, in hills rot the Bask.