The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-07 00:00:00

DUKE OF ORLEANS.

The Morning Chronicle, which can always see so
much further into a mill-stone than any body else, has
found out that the Duke of Orleans, the cousin of the
King of France, is to be King of France, when the na-
tion shall be ready to cry" rive la Liberte r from Mar-
seilles to Dunkirk, and from Toulouse to Strasbourg.—
What can have put this in:o the head of the Chronicle
we know not. It says it will mention the subject again
in a day or two. We shall be curious to see how it gets
on with this new notion. In the mean time it is doing
the Duke no very great service, we should imagine,
except it relies upon its paragraphs being laughed
at. It says positively, that if the Duke cannot prevent
his " crazy relatives" from throwing the crown
out at the window, he will risk his life in the at-
tempt to pick it up." This puts us in mind of a passage
in Sbakspeare : "Oh no, my lord ; be is no traitor :
" treason lay in his way, and he found it." In short, the
Duke must be a goo f deal annoyed at these surprising
compliments of the Morning Chronicle. The Duke is, we
should suppose, abont fifty years old. We remember him
very well seven or eight and twenty years ago in Ame-
rica. He is pretty well off as he is ; and we dare esy, that
he hal seen too much of the consequence of conspiracies,
t) hare the design of being a conspirator himself.—The
Chronicle says, in this article, what amounts to this
that England is the most free nation of Europe." We
call upon the Chronicle to take the items of the last
Register, one by one, to contradict them ; or to retract,
this assertion.

SOUTH AMERICA.
Observations appear in our newspapers, stat ing tha
the United States have got the start of us, in forming
commercial relationships with the South Ame•iran
S:ates. Our Government is blamed for this, and it is ob-
served that our merchants are suffering greatly, because
we have not acknowledged the independence of those
South American States. It is observed by one of our,
papers, that our Government ought to insist on the
Spanish Government acknowledging the independence
of those States. Strange as it may seem, this co:nes
from the Alarming Chronicle, who would thus support
Ohl Spain, by forcing her to give up her colonies.—
However, it is not Old Spain that we have to deal with
in this case: it is the Holy Alliance, and particularly
France. If we want South American independence, we
must get the consent of France ; that is not to be had
without the use of cannon ; and the Morning Chroni-
c* will not allow our Ministers to make use of cannon.
The truth is, that with this debt about our necks we
h4ve no power to stir in any such business as this.—
This the French know as well as we do; and if our
pipers were prudent, they would, in every such ca se
hold their tongues.

YORK BANK NOTES.
At the Assizes at Lancaster, • man was condemned to
death, fur forging notes of the Bank at York; and others
were convicted of uttering notes of the same kind.—
This is a natural consequence of forgers being cut off from
their grand resource, the sin ill Bank of England notes.
This is about the twentieth instance in which they
have been found at work upon the country notes. In
twenty days' time, every country banker will be compel-
led to give up gold in exchange for his notes, if that
gold be demanded. If, th;:refore, any man either take
or keep a country bank-mote after the first of May, he
will deserve to lose the value of it. On that day, Bank
of England notes will c. ase to be a legal tender. We
applaud the Peril ascot for passing that law which
cieres them so to cease; and every man who does not
aid that law, by insisting upon gold, deserves to suffer
in loss to the amount of all the paper that he takes
or keeps.

Paris papers of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, have
arrived. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 3d instant,
there was a short but animated discussion on the Budget.
—The debate then closed. The Duchess d'Angouleme
tqok her departure, on Thursday, from Paris for Bor-
deaux. The report of a Russian army being in motion
on the banks of the Oder is again in circulation. A
private letter from Paris of the 4th, says—" As soon as
hostilities commence, a manifesto will be published here,
which will coincide with a Proclamation to be issued by
the Duke d'Angouleme. The demand for 60,1100 men
has not vct been made in the Chamber, but it is only de-
layed till the budget is agreed to. Accounts have been
received to-day from Petersburg, which announce some
movements of troop's." The only mention made of the
conspiracy is in the following article from Bayonne, dated
Nara 29th. " The arrival in our city is this instant
announced, of his Excellency the Duke of Minn°, wh

is to supersede, as Chief of the Staff of the Army, Ge•
neral Guelliminot, who is recalled to Paris. The first
Aid-tie-Camp of this officer, M. de Lostand, MS arrested
in the night of the 23d, and set out for Paris the next
day, at four in the morning, in a post-chaise. escorted
by two gendarmes. This arrest has given rise to many
conjectures :—That nearest to truth, it said to be
the seizure of a parcel, which was directed to him,
from Paris, containing tri-coloured cockades, and other
Bonaparte emhlerns." The 'Journal des Debuts
stales, as certain, that the French army will make
its first movement about the 7th of April, and that
the corps of the Duke of Reggio will cross the liidassoa
on the 10th. Orders have been given for the establish-
ment of a line of telegraphs from Bayonne to Paris,
which, it is said, will be in full activity on the 15th.—
This paper also contains :-. letter frbm Santos Ladron, one
of the chiefs of the Army of the Faith, in which he pre-
tends that he has gained a victory over a detachment of
the Constitutional Army, and has taken 600 prisoners,
200 of whom. however, escaped. The Constitutionnel
contains an account of a disturbance at Brest, which on

ginated in the alleged ill treatment of a drunken woman.
by some Swiss soldiers. The populace rescued the wo_
man from their bands, and placed her in the house of a
M. Picard. The soldiers forced the door of the house,
and M. Picard and his wife were taken off to prison.—
This arrest excited great discontent, and numerous groups