The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-27 00:00:00

THE MILITARY AND THE PEOPLE.

The late transactions in which the military hare been
concerned, the fatal effects thereof to the lives of peace-
able citizens, and the pains which were taken to avert the
consequences, in the due visitations of retributive jus-
tice, continue to haunt the imagination, and to terrify
with forecast of prospective evils the apprehension of
every really constitutional and reflecting man ib the
kingdom. Startled as the late Speaker of the Bosse of
Commons said, and justly said, our forefathers would
have been by the enormity of corruption which was
then avowed, they must have been still more so; they
would have stood aghast at the bare recital of the man-
ner in which, since that time, the military have been
managed and employed.
" To prevent the Executive Power from being able to
oppress," says Judge Blackstone, it is requisite that
the armies with which it is entreated should consist of
the people and have the same spirit with the poopk as
was the case at Rome, till Marius neiroscidolled the
legions, by enlisting the rabble of Italy, and kid the
tiendetios of all the military tyranny that mud.—
Nothing, then, according to these principles, ought to
be more guarded against in a free state, than making
the military power, when such a one is necessary to be
kept on foot, a body too distinct from the people. Like
01.111, it should be wholly composed of =towel sabiedni
it ought only to be enlisted for a short and baited
time; the soldiers also shoals, live intermixed with tie
people; no separate camp, no BARRACKS, DO Weed
fortresses, should be ALLOWED. And perhaps it might
be still better, if by dismissing a stated number and en-
listing others at every renewal of their term, a circula-
tion could be kept up bet Ween the army and the people,
and the citizen and the soldier be more intimately coll-
uded together." Can, then, any man solicitous for the
honour and safety of his country, ;salons of preserving
br his children the privileges banded down to him from
his ancestors, fearing degradation or detesting tyranny.
compare the principles avowed even by • courtly and
high preregadve lawyer. who notoriously hunt to the
side of assumed authority rather than to that of the
people, with shot:induct of Ministers and their prate-
onsets of the same school regarding the military, with•
out shuddering with horror ?
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at Sun-rise on Monday last, incladitrg 10 by malig-
nest fever, viz. William Levering, Fred. Otte, Mrs.
Smitb, Lucy Degory, a child, Mrs. Lowry and daugh-
ter, Miss Cunningham, Mr. Garret Brown's son, a
child, John Berkman, jun. and Pence, a black man.'
Interments for the last week, ending on Monday
morning, were sixty five--of which number 14 were
coloured. •

It has been a finesse in the late European wars to
bolster up the loss of one battle, by report of a victory
ich formed a kind of for
is asother qaarter,
whed the despondingbalance conse-
the moment, and pr
event
quences likely to follow a material reverse. Our Trans-
atlantic politicises appear to have caught the utility
of adopting similar measures, and in order to coun-
teract the real victory of Caliboso, where the Spani-
ards were beaten and routed by the Independent army,
or we might be allowed to add, by the noble assistance
of Our countrymen, under Col. Ferrier, they have
given us a Spanish victory over the patriots at Lima.
—Before we credit the account, let us examine
our source of information, and then calculate
on the probability of its correctness. The ac-
count is given in the Jamaica Royal Gazette ;
but bow is it given ? By accounts from Panama,
under date 20th of July, by a Spanish ship Esperansa,
a Spanish recollect,, which accounts were received by
a schooner from Payta in ten days. These accounts
from ship to ship, and from hand to hand, leaves great
rdent to suppose the finesse above-mentioned has been
played of en the present occasion. They tell us that
'General St. Martin. (the brave cotemporary of O'Hig.
gins) had left a garrison of 900 invalids ; it don't say
where : that he embarked at Quacho with 4000 men,
and landed two leagues from Lima, (a fortified city);
that the Royalist army attacked him and killed 1500
Cl ilians ; that St. Martin escaped with the rest, under
%cover of night. The first question we naturally
ask, is, what wets the Royalist army doing while
St. Martin was landing 4000 men, within two
leagues of the fortified city of Lima ? or, after such
immense slaughter of the Independents, how comes
it, they did not follow op the victory, but let a con-
quered army take shipping quietly, within two
leagues of bead quarters? The thing is too preposterous
give it a inoment's serious consideration. That a
battle Lao taken place is most probable ; and that the
Patriots may have received a check in an attempt on
Lima is not improbable; but the judgment as well as
the intrepidity of St. Martin, is too well known, to ad.
mit us to supplant be would make an attack on a forti-
fied city without sufficient number, and the likelihood
of a successful Issue. Where a manoeuvre of this de-
scription is playeela, they frequentlt give ns too
much of a good thing, which, by calculating on the
past, helps, to strengthen out doltiKs of the present
-account. Although the troops at Lima did dot 'pre-
vent St. Martin's easy embarkation, they can be spared
for au expedition against Trazillo, where the Governor
is prepared to act on the defensive. Another account,
tut sot a lino of written document throughout the
whole :—‘4 The Captain of a British whaler toothed at
?girl, after the departure of the aforesaid schooner,
and reported that he bad spoke a Spanish brig of war,
in company with a ship of the line and frigate—ail
Spanish, mind ! directing their course to the port of
Callao; from those he learned. that the Emeralds. a
frigate captured some time since, by Lord 'Cochrane,
had been re-taken by the prisoners on board, and car-
ried into Lima." This, indeed, is very like C whale ;
Lord Cochrane is so foolish and so remarkably im-
prudent, that he left a *efficient number of prisonets
ton board iris prize to let her become the easy prey
of those he so lately conquered. So that we may say
the Spaniards have it their owe wain on the shores of
the Pacific.

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eld Spaltiv some bops were entertained by the

Ultras that the presence of the sanguine monster,
Miwillo (whose footsteps Were covered with the blood
of the Columbian Patriots), would have given confi-
dence to the ;may, and enable the petticoat-maker to

bring forth another edition of the murders at Cadii ;
but it would not do. The soldiers of a Patriot Army
are not to be induced to fire upon their mothers and
sisters. Morillo *as known to the army ; they loved
the honour of their country ; they would not degrade,
they would sot divide the name of soldier and citizen ;
is fact, they would not murder their nnoffending
seighbours, The attempts to ruin Quirego and Mini
proved abortive, and the people triumphed, while the
beloved EmbrAdererimpt as close as other great men.
-Still the people are determined be shall not give them
tile slip once more, and demand his presence ; but the
'poor dear creature's illness prevents him gratifying
Aid loyal subjects with a view of his beloved coon-
tenanee.

In Prance, Richlien and the Intro are totteringo
and It is thought the desired cannot carry on the joke
without the assistance of Decant, who has gained
more science by retirement than in a scene where he
was surrounded by a batch of narrow minded Ultras.
Should the change take place, the Liberals will be-
come more formidable, and public confidence increase
in due proportion.

la Turkey, promises and manifestos are the order of
the day, and if we are to believe the Grand Signor,
be is a most Christian•like Prince, as far as be is al•

lowed by the tenets of the Alkoran. Notwitbstande
Jag, the Russian has no MOT. confidence in Ms premises
than we have on the Holy Alliance, and in all likeli-
hood, will clip his wings, and in due time prevent his
lying across the Dardanelles. Already have the Turk-
ish troops bees witharawo, from the Ins pr daces of