The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-14 00:00:00

TAE STATESIVIASt

TIONALLY conferred it on them; can eesume it
whenever it. is forfeited by delinquency or incapacity,
have resolved to fence themselves in Mike, and to
hold the delegated authority independent of the
people from w!, m they received it.

They seem to tell us in very intelligible language,
that they will no longer beaccountable for their actions.
That it is not our affections they covet, but our obedi-
ence they demand. It is lines of circurnvallation these
Gentlemen seem to be drawing round their respec-
tive Thrones, for protection against revolt, acid
the better to ensure impunity to despotism and
crime. Their contiiving at the tyranny exercised by
one of the Brotherhood ifi Spain,eloquently proclaims
to the world in what estimation they hold the civil
and religious rights of all mankind. if it be
from a sense of delicacy they are restrained from
admonishing Gis woo (Mess Kitte—This disgrace to
royalty, to a conduct more consonant with his duties,
how comes it that the sante sense of delicacy has not
prescribed silence to those Sovereigns with respect
to the internal uflsirs of France question, I
am aware, is embarrassing, but it applies most
forcibly to my subject, and points out to the people
the absolute necessity of their counteracting every
conspiracy, every attack on their legitimate right%
by combinations of equal force with that of their
hereditary enemies.—Your very able and judicious
Correspondent, Mr. Csriff. LoreT, in your Paper of
the 7th instant, has most admirably defined the ad-
so iit;fves and disadvantages to a nation from an lie-
rrilitary Nobility.—llis arguments are nitatiswerab!e ;
nor is he less correct ire stating, that a Republican
form of Government is the best adapted for the hap-
piness of mankind, but that, unfortunately, it is
only adapted for small States, uncorrupted by the
influx of wealth, from extensive commerce, and in
love wills a simplicity of manners.—All this is un-
questionably true; but whatever nu t> b., the passion
of the present day for a monarchical government,
and however averse men may be to renounce long-
established habits and prejudices, an attempt to esta-
blish an absolutely hereditary authority in the reign-
ing dynasties, independent of the people, may pos-
sibly give birth to other sentiments, and force man-
khd to recur to first principles. In that case every
difficulty will be temnsed—great empires may be
split and divided into Cantons—motrarr by give place
to federative gcvernirents, and America and Swit-
zerland become examples to tie insulted and op-
pr.-.s,ed notions of Europe. If these reflections
bho,,ld fall under the inspection of any of the Sow,-
reigns on th- C,,..,;tient, the admonifion may possi-
bly be of t t them—alt power under (leaven is
vultret IWe. ~fol the hio ory of the present times
Oft rs to !deir contemplation, that bayonets are rot
always the test bet:A-Wes for thrones.
()LLB, 181 i REGULVS.

To inn ROYAL. HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS
or ANGOULEME.

Antsi,—l have the honour of inclosing to your
Roy al Highness a letter inserted in yesterday's
STATEiNINN, concerning some vital interests of the
French :11011archy, Inniely the succession in the il-
lustrious Family of Bounttox. Your Royal High.
ness will allow, that the writer of this letter, ap.
parent:), a sensible man, has not sufficiently fathom-
ed this interesting and delicate question. For in-
stance, he confines himself to a general statement of
your desire to become a metier, without specifying
the sex of your much desired cit.:truing, forgetting
that the Salic laa-s, established in France for cen-
turies, grant the succession of the Throne of Sr.
Loves to heirs mule, to the exclusion of females.—
Supposing, therefore, that it should please. Heaven
to grant the prayer of all good and loyal French-
men, and to operate in your Royal Highness a mi-
raculous pregnancy ; that after solemn thauksgisings
for such die int. favour, you should be delivered of a
Princess instead of a Prince, then all these brilliant
prospects of succession would prove idle and frus.
trated, a circumstance which would again reduce
your Royal House to the miseries of your present
doleful and joyless barrenness, on account of such
sad disoproihintent of the Bay Ghost, so fervently
invoked on this occasion.
%Visiting to extricate your Royal Highness from
this painful embarrassment, I most humbly and most
respectfully beg to submit, that I have invented a
safe and infallible remedy for begetting nude or
female children, at the option of the parents, a re-
medy grounded on established and approved prin-
ciples of medicine, anatomy, and physiology, and
demonstrated by fifteen years experience.
1 aas confident that the superior mind of the
lle-
I rouge of Bourdeams despises the sneers and oljec-
lions of prejudice, originating in fake delicacy, likely
to be started against the adoption of my system,
' which alone can secure to the 'Throne of France an
heir as vigorous as the boasted King of Rome during
the late usurpation.
Am-aitiog your further commotals on the subjact of
an invention so interesting to all Crou.ned Beads,
and the Nobility and Gentry in general, which has
already engaged the attention of a Prince of the
illustrious and enlightened liquae of , I
have the honour to be, with the most profound re-
spect, Madam, your Roval Highness's most obAlient
and most humble servant,
Lotaitta, oct. 13, 1813.

LU CR ETIUS.

It k ,nid the PISINCE itMS sent a pack of hounds to
old BLUCHER. Ilis Royal llighoehs would hate bet-
ter consulted the moral% and tasie of the man by
sending Nat a pack of cards and a bottle of brandy.

To THE EDITOR OF rna STATESMAN.

columns of the Times Newspaper have
of late been so charged with scurrility and low abuse,
that its Editor appears to have takmi up his resi-
dence in Billingsgate, and to " lice, move, and
hare his being," only amidst the fil►h and garbage
produced in that foul hotbed. This unhappy and
pitiable condition has already exci►ed the notice and
called forth the censure of almost every public
wtitPr, and I should net babe deemed it necessary
to occupy a line of your Paper on the subject, bdt
from a fear that the habit will become SO inveterate
that the conduct of private inditiduals, as well as
public measures, will come in for a share of the
Editor's ribaldry.

This fear has been octiasioned by the perusal of ti
paragraph in the limes of yesterday, respecting the
1 Mayor of Queenborough, in Kent ; a paragraph
which appears to me to contain as foul a calumny as
ever tins penned, and affecting the character riot
merell• of the individual in question, but of the Ma.
gistraty in general. Were the story there told of
Mr. litigators tree, no person, who had the least pre-
tensions to delicacy or humanity, would ever again
be seen in his company, and the inhabitants of
Queeuttorough would consider themselves disgraced
by his residence among them. In fact s,:ch a circum
stance w outd render the optics of Mayor forever disre-
petable; nor would any Gentleman chose toitake its
duties sit rot bins. or to have his name to,socl sted with
it, evi is were the title " Lire to be piefixed.—
, Doubtless NI r. NI A 1 Olt it ill show that he has sufii-
, dent spirit to repol is foul an attack on his character,
aid to convince those who elected him to the office
he fills, that he is not unworthy their choice, by en-'
te,isig the lists with this bless% st Editor, slot by a
controti;ction in the columns of Lis ownipollotesi and
pollutieg Piper, nor by callie,4 him into the field of I
glory and honour, but by an action iss his Majesty's
Corset of King's Bench. If ever a case came before
that Court, in which a Defendant merited its visita-d
lion in the shape of a verdict for heavy damages,
this surely is ono.
While, however, the paragraph its question forms
a wicked libel on a respectable individual and a Ma-
gists ate, it hears honourable testimony to the clot-
rade, s of the rest of the inhabitants of govenborough,
a. men and as Christians; and especially it records a
fact which adds a laurel to the blow of every soldier'
in the --- regiment, more honourable than '
those which were won by the corps which was most
closely engaged with the enemy on the plains of
Wa Moo.

! I trust his Royal Highness the Commander in
Chief will not suffer that regiment to go without
some special mark of his approbation of their truly
honourable conduct on this occasion ; and were I
possessed of the means, every man amongst them
should receive a gratuity of 51. for so nobly rejecting
the temptation of ss. held out to them (at least said to
be so by the Tidies), to dishonour their ono individual
characters, the army in general, and the King and c,,un-
try,wllose servants they are. It is impossible. Ur. Ent-
roe4 for me to find words to el press the high opinion I
entertain of these bravefellows, w ho hare shown that
though they are paid for defending their fellow
zees, even at the point of the bayonet, they are not
destitute of humanity, and can disdain to accept
money for exerci.ing the office of the lowest wretch
in any country—that of haNtnan. Unworthy, in-
deed, must that man he in whose mild such an Ora
could, for one moment, be haihoured, as that of re.
goestitig a soldier to indict the torture of the lash on
an Englishman, at a time when Nlembers of the Le-
gislature have just succeeded in abolishing it as re-
: sp-cis himself. Let me remind you, Mr. Ent volt,
that these men had a strong, temptation held out to
them : the sum of sa. would, probably, have made
many a poor fellow in that regiment comparatively
hat~py; but I trust they wilt not lose by giving effect
to the virtuous indignation which would rise in each
man's breast at the degrading proposition. A sub.
scription ought immediately to be made for them; and
I doubt not the Editor of the Times will nut only in-
sert the list of subscriptions gratis, but will himself
largely contribute on the occasion, and " press" his
readers to follow his example. I have to apologise
for detaining your Readers so long from something
better worthy their perusal ; and am
Your most humble servant,
day's bin, Oct. 11. A. M.

fluitct..titV INn SU ProsED MI;It OF . —The inha.
biiantsof the parish of Mar) -le- Bonne, hare 1/PPli in
considerable alarm since Thursday last, in cot►se-
quence of a report being in circulation, that a nornan
and girl, left in care of the house, No. 19, Foley.
place, had been murdered. The house in question
was fitted up last spring as a 1°4;114- house, and was
soot, after taken by a family who were little known
in the neighbourhood; a few weeks back they went
into the country, and since that period, the trades.
men, &c. had no communication with the house, but
an elderly woman and a girl were occasionally seen
there, who were supposed to be left in the care of
the house. Last Thursday morning the area gate
and kitchen shutter were observed broken, and on
further examination it was found that all the fur.
niture was taken away, even the Venetian blinds
were taken from the windows, the persons before
alluded to were also missing, and have not since
been heard of. Hence it was inferred by some of
the neighbours that they were murdered, and their
bodies carried away by the robbers.
The immense sums daily received and expected
front the ri-derant Bottapae tette Princes, to be
vested in our Funds, will readily account for the
rise or rather recovery of Stocks, for we can •ee nu
reason why Consols, which trete at 79., when in a
state of warfare, should fall to 5G now we et•joy
universal Peace; except it was to enable Mr. Bicir
to contract with Government for the Three Fifty
Thoucatol Pound and Four Tit Felt Thousand Pound
Prizes,&c. at that low price which gives to Purchases
iu this Lottery all the advantage of the ri:e in Stocks
above 56, with the option of receiving the t aloe in
Motley, if they prefer it, however high the Stocks
may l.s; and (tom the appearance of the market we
should not be surprised to see Consols at 70 before
the 7th of November, on which clay all the Capital
Prizes may be drawn.