The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-24 00:00:00

thorpoeqt ,voro4 oat the Heathens, ever it
had been Ivy agette. .
'There gm figeti.aod-fee *het is. it. Mgt they mere
planted therykrjrfir seeseity for • the security of
Britons? for the sccurity of:Ore:Schwa? for Abe
the security, of .Germans ? foe the *murky of. N'
literlander!? foe the seceiity of any other rate of
men ender the pwrsl--Impossible
Had the security of any thing, bet oeiversid des
spotism„. (won ;be ohject of that tient • fro)tr. blotto%
by wbicjl all Sr me
.k No ueckyr a murrisone-ltse
means of security were as obvious at the efficacy
terteinrrand ,ta,coasperiarts with .the eajilleff. Puns
tithhtreeoiryfof.orinarithiwrcetilitviteellnet::eary lierb.F.oolPliffallidui6!lll-11111441 r414:170.17: dtt
.fosterieries : destroy all
thtitiptteefeelWiee of Arms; Yale them note fowling*
Plart IPIV4-I*k foePflittaltitOillokeft ettPaitt•
tnipt 4witilverilletber fofiederg :—perc.al pet belt
the country antopg the Ailing,. or sintselkany• sucla
partition dangerous ka Christian eharity4
among the crowned and newtpchristianited Chris:
thins. divide Lk whole into any somber of lets. INO;
though. the whole country ware pereelled oat Ant*
lots—stills if in me* lot men were. left to take their
own measures fur the preseleation• of what was left
to them, all time inflictions pot Atigether would have
been mercy,in.cmaperison to that of fastening span
their. shouldera.fho old roan of the woods, with hill
Ito,ooo foreign guards.
For the moment, in respect of subjection lib.
lance of every thing that ever went under the name
of liberty, France is bet what she was. Lot the
,Ultras, the real. Kim's men, role, and then Spain
rept be to France therndel of good government.—
..thou, ander the protection of the Waterloo Goo.
leper or and his employers, the wardrobe ache Holy
Virgin will he supplied with a new growth sad every
prison in the country wigh a new set of torture-boots
and thumbscrews.
On the suppositiors,ehet there Is any, real necessity
fur the system of, garrisoning France at present, it is
14 possibie to suppose, any case in which a demand
ter that system would not be made. The demand is
composed of possibilities—cooverfed, it is alleged,
into practical certainties by„past facts. There have
been Septombrieers and Anarchists ; therefore, no
sooner does.Praoce cam to Opiatrisoned by us, them
the reign of tbose miscreants will re-commence. There
_has been ope Napoleon. Bonaparte; therefore of
sooner dues France cease to be garrisoned by tte,
than in comes either the self-same, or erectly such
another. Well; who can cause these past. event,
not to hare token place Isiolorly. Well then;
-WWI' can the uecessity. of garrisoning France with
English armies cease.'
For whit titers is it.that France has been, is now,
and by the blessing of God is destined to be for ever,
garrisoned ? Is it for security ? Is it for the keeping
eat anarchy ? Is it for the keeping out bad totem.
Rent ? Alas, no : to such an object never has any
real fear attached itself. . Would the besting, and the
,IP•derately Monarchical Constitution, on which, at
their entrance, the despots trampled, have been bad
Igovernment ? No; it was not for keeping nut bad
'it was for keepitog out good government. Ueda
whatsoever form a Government might have been
established--either a Constitutional Monarchy, or
Democracy upon the model of the American United
States—there was the real object of terror, to all the
newly re-christianised Crowned Heads, and to their
loyal and correspoodeatly pions, carooetedi and set
yet coroneted advisers.
There they are--bat happily with the Atlantis be-
tween us and them, the never safflciently accursed
United States. There they and (oh,
horror !) flourishing, and so flourishing I ender a Go-
vernment so essentially illegitimatel Ob.
what a re-
proach to legitimacy ! Oh, what a reproach, viewer em
be expunged reproach, to oar own matchless Comfits.
sing—matchless In rotten boroughs and sissecores I
Oh, had they but one neck, these miscreants ! Tem
times, twenty times the blood spilt at Waterloo,
would be well spent in cutting it. There they are,
with their prosperity, the effect—there they era with
their good Government, their matchless good Go•
vernment, the cause of it.
it
There they are—but happy, with two thousansi
leagues of sea between us sod them—the ten millions
of two.lemed swine, with the illegitimacy and the
unencumbered and undisturbed prosperity in which
they wallow.
But now, suppose the same, Of a similarly op-
cursed Government, with the same accursad prof.
transplanted from that blessed distance, p:•ssit.
ed under our very noses: planted with no more them
one-and-twenty miles of era to dilute its stench's.-
%Vithoot so nsich as a single useless place, needles:
place, overpaid place, or unmerited pension—rant to
speak of sinecures; no not so Enoch as a Peerage,
se settle a borough or buy off a country Gentleman ;
suppose these miscreants, not one of them re-chris.
eianized, not one of them occuried in embroidering
a robe for the Holy Virgin, debating, end resolving,
and enacting, without so much as L. single bayonet
to mere good ardor to their deliberations ; and like
their accursed. preceptors and forerunners, pitying
pebtic debt faster than we are cc) nt acting it ..-
Stippooo all this state of things brought slate 'silt.
ante :. and not wombats halt a guinea On a piece in
amtilidage boat—not mere this tine*. boob row its a
.wlateeek, searsittryts enable a teem to see it.-
In this case, by what peseibility weld the got live
head, or. the heertebe drat against the spectacle of
the enlist! euirsoces, prosperity and good govern.
ment? To whet use deny their esistence ? With
eamockeffert might a man levy the . essieveee of the
&Me of St. Paul's, in the. facets( thine who are ?NW.
it trove Sts dames lkPark•
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