The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-07 00:00:00

oufactures. Those who sobscribed,would have a fell right
to dispose of their otrn property ; and there the mattes
*Mild end. -The real feelings of the parties alluded to, are
very different. They. knotrupon how very trifling advan-
tages the result of the contest. may torn. They may,
bora a well grounded thit, in the determination o!
the opulent fatteners on the system, not to subacribe.—
They may calculate, with some reason, that the itobscrip.-
tion will not reach any vast amount. We are eatisfied,
notwithstanding the Chancellor's boast of the prospirity
of the country, that the people of England bad t Mter'm
• little to spare ; and if it were true, as one of the scrib-
blers of the English Ultras has stated, that thirty thou.
sand pounds would not carry on the Spanish military
operations for 36 hours, there might be reason to &pre-
.nd. alit we should be but indifferent replenishers of
their military chest.. But this's so untrue, es the feelings
that dictated the remark, are politically base. We must
• not calculate the price of talent and courage in Spain, by
.'the. ice correntof such articles in England.
The guerilla costs little to the State; he wants nothing
tit arms and a supply of ammunition to equip him for
action. lie preys for the-most part upon the enemy ; and
ti ie friendly disposition sof the people in N hose cause he
is embarked, readily supply his wants in case of extremity.
It is quite certain that Mina has not expended the half of
30,0001. in a campaign of three months, during Which he
bas found ample employment for more than 30,000 choice
French troops, besides the hordes of banditti which have
joined them in their enterprise.
If Spain bad no disposition, whatever, to resist
the aggression of 'France, it would have been a
Fuestwo with all . our past politicians, whether
rance could be permitted to take military pos-
session of that country, without a war, if necessary, on
our parts to prevent.tt. We are not the slavish partizans
of the ancient cry of " the balance of power ;"—but that
thete ire matrons in which the annexation of one State
to soother. would operate so injuriously upon the interest
of's third, as to justify an interference, we are not pre.
eared to *deny; and that this is such an occasion, if one
ver did exist, we are ready to maintaio. it would not
hate been more injurious to the interests of this country,
that Joseph Buotiaparte should have maintained his regal
seat at Madrid, than that the. Duke d'Angouleme should
establish a French dictation at the Court of Madrid. If
Spain is to be under the confront of France, it m itters eat
in whose name that controul is exercised. Bourbons or
Napoleons are the same to us, in the consequences that
are certain to follow. Our Ministers have been every
way childish in their policy. Ferdinand, if restored by
the arms of France to despotic authority, will bate the
Foglish administration for having Seemed to take part,
in sowe degree, with the Cortes. He will, therefore,
throw himself into the arms of France, and of the Holy
Alliance, at once. During bas life at least, the Court of
Spain will be decidedly hostile to England:—and this is
Sresult se hich wil I not be very palwable at Downing
treet, though there may be no objection there to such
a trifling matter as the mere reestablishment of a de.
spotism in Spain.
Is it to br imagined that France and England are to
be inseparable friends ? Thom who can indulge such an
Utopian idea; must think human nature in general, and
Duvegnments in particular, revolutionised is character.
It is as certain there will be, as that !lbere have been,
wars between the two countries; unless those who coon-
sdus to leave Spain to her fare, are also prepared to ad-
vise ns to let England also he swallowed up as a depend-
enc&.of France. The same interests that have before
dallied, will clash again. The same passions will be
.again at work, and the same folly will give them free
mope. Tie wisdom, therefore, of adding France to
Spain, cannot fail to strike every observer.
The Ministers, however, have, as far as in them lie*,
done this. They have abandoned Spain to her own fee!.
lugs, and to her own resources. A great part of the
British public condemn this policy; and still a greater
portion of that public regret, although they believe it
necessary, because they feel that England cannot main-
tain the charges of another war. What, then, do the
Subscribers propose to do? They cannot send forces
into Spain.. English adventurers would make bad
gnerillas. MEN Could only be useful, if Spain hat a re'
plat- army in the field, and could contend hand to hand
with her unprincipled invaders. Supplies of men, are
therefore out of the question ; except a few enterprising
and able individuals, like Sir Robert Wilson. The auh.
scribers have other groin; Is foe expectation. ?bey cal-
culate npnn the general antipathy which a people has I
to be dictated to by foreigners. They know that it
is only the moral feeling of the Spaniards that
can defeat the objects of France; bid they know Wiles,
that this feeling may he powerful assisted, and that too
at a very trifling expence ; and they have very wisely
determined to do ill that individuals can do, to remedy
the false po'icy of the government.
While n e admit, that, the subscription will be small,
compared ai' the object its promoters hive in view, we
would not be understood as meaning that the amount will
be small—on tile contrary, we believe it will equal the
most popular subscription ever known in this country. In
most places, individuals are waiting to contribute to
their local funds; and where meetings have been held
tie snliscriptions have npt Teen yet remitted to the gene-
ral fund. Yet that fund already wears a promising
aspect. One individual has evinced his affection for the
case of Spain, by a mnnificient donation of 50110/. He
fins given no name with t!!is_srdendi.l contribution; and
. there are many who may not deem it prudent, from pe-
culiar circumstances, to array themselves openly against
the avowed policy of the Ouvivnutent; leo wryer mistaken
it may lie. The King. for insiance, could not openly dr
slate from the Wedged i.edtiality; but it would be no
imarobalde mater, that a Monarch who feels that his
family has owed the throne on which he sits, to the
generous gift of the people, should anonymously contri-
bute to aid another people in the assertion of the princi-
plis to which he owes so iiinch. Nay, we are not sure,
tat that the 'e,hittet Ministers themselves, and all the
" Lost of office," will arc in titre the danger of suffering
France to otottii possesion of Cadiz, and contribute
anonvniongly w its d-fenrr,
A Illorn:ng Paper, apparently alluding to our remark,
that taxation has not been reduced, in yfict, since the
termination of the war, half promises to return to the
'inflect, to show the" growing greatness" of the country,
to lose grumblers who are " shameless enough to deny
the existence of light, in the very face of day." We trust
it will, and that speedily ; for we are prepared to chew,
by indisputable figur's, that the ta.eation has been in-
creased, instead of being diminished,

• STOCK EXCUANOv, 12 o'cLOCK.—Congols opened at
8211, at which price they remained during the whole of
the morning. This day being the first transfer of Con-
soh, there is scarcely any business doing. The Expresses
from Paris this morning have brought the French Funds
83. 85. to 9U. Spanish 36. and none to be purchased
at 35t.
FoßatoN FUND.—Colombian 67, to 63. owing to
information arrived this morning from America. Spa-
nish New Bonds 32.

Something curious is expected from the Lord Chan-
cellor's opp_osition to the second reading of the English
Catholic Elective Franchise Bill,
_which is fixed for
Wednesday. His Lordship has given notice that he will
strongly object to it, not we nay presume upon print
ciple, but, as be says, as totally unfit.to be diocaried at
this period of the Session. What a rationaland solid
argument is this objection to time! it is 'ln argument
contemporaneous not only with •every minith but with
eyo,y day in the year; with fair ,weather' and foul
malter, with hot weather and cold. in the beginning