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MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 192 j,

BOURBON WAR.
We have long had to correct the statements of Our
cotetnporaries upon this subject. Many thousands of
families would have escaped something very much like
ruin, if our opinion with regard to this war had been ge-
nerally adopted. Seeing that the war will inevitably
take place, the stock-jobbing press of London has recent-
ly conjured up a conspiracy in the French Army. Th:s
is a lie invented in London. Not one word of truth in it
from the begiuning to the end. Yet the whole thing was
stated in the Old Times newspaper with as mach confi-
dence, and as much in detail, as if it had been the report
of evidence taken before a Judge and Jure. The
lie has died away ; but has never been contradicted ; and
nine-tenths of the people of England believe ie the cur-
spiracy to this moment ; nay, there are no small part of
them who like the thing the better because it is a lie.—
' Strange as this may seem, It is perfectly true, and people of
this description would almost cut your throat for exposing
the lie. This is a natioumuch more ignorant than any other
in Europe ; and this ignorance it owes to its corrupt and
stock-jobbing press. The ignorance, however, like that
of the cuckold, may be deemed a blessing to it; fur
while it is less free than any nation that we know any
thing of, it puffs itself up with the opinion, that it is the
most free upon the face of the earth. The speculations
of our friend the Chronicle, as to war or peace; we mean.
our remaining at peace or going to war, have long
amused us. It gives us to-day an extract from its friend,
the SCOTSMAN, calling for war. The words of the Scots.
man are these;—" We believe honestly that, had our
" Ministers expressed at the first a firm resolution to
" make a common cause with Spain, this atrocious at-
" tack would never have been made. Wt.r may be in-
" convenient for us; but we have it from the two /cad.
" big. men in the Cabinet, that we are in circlunstak.ces
to fight, if honour or policy require it." Now
"we have no hesitation in saying th it honour:
" humanity, freedom, our ancient renown, our national
.4 glory, and the whole course of our policy, nay,
0 our self-interest, call loudly on us to succour Spain."—
We should like to ask the Scotsman what would have
been the use of saying that they would make common
cause along with the Spaniard:, unless they had prepared
to make good the saying? The Scotsman says, that two
leading men in the Cabinet said, that we were in (*cum•
stances to fight, if honour or policy required it. Well
then, says the Scotsman, honour or policy do require it;
therefore, go to war. Bat the cunning Scotsman does
not say for himself that we are in circumstances to fight.
Ile only says that two leading men in the Cabinet say
so ; which is a very different thing. Our friend, the
Chronicle, endeavours to hold its brother Scotsman is
checic, and observes :—" We have already expressed it as
' " our opinion tkat this country ought et present to
" remain neutral; but the grounds on which we Ifs
" are, we suspect, very diferent from those that inl, .
" once his Majesty's Ministers." We should be
glad to know what are the Chronicle 'n "grounds.'
—lt has told us very frequently of late, that it is fx
any thing bat war ; but it has never distinctly told
us the grounds. It wishes the Bourbons to be overthrown;
it is sure that the invasion of Spain will overthrow the
Bourbons; and yet it rails against the invasion of Spain.
It cries out dreadfully against the Minister fur not pre-
venting the invasion of Spain; it knows, and indeed says,
that the Ministers can prevent this only by war ; and yet I.
it says the Ministers ought not to go to war. Such in-
consistency ; such nonsense, could not find its way into
print in any other country in the world. It is a bullying'.
bragging, empty, stupid country become. In proportion
as a nation becomes base and enslaved, it generally be-
comes empty and bragging. This used to be a modest
nation: in the.exact proportiou in which it has lost its
liberties, it has lost its modesty. There is not a people
in Europe that might not laugh at us, if they chose to
condescend to notice the stupid braggings that are pet
forth by our press; and as to the French people, how
mach do we owe to their forbearance. However, this thing
shall not go on thus. These bragging writers are the
worst enemies of this country. Had it not been for
them, we never should have been brought to the present
pass. We will warrant it, that, as long as there is a
press to call our THING the envy of surrounding na-
dons aad the a,cimiration of the world, so long will those,
pito have the carrying on of that thing, take care never
to make any changes in it that shall produce a diminu-
tion in their power.—We have several times challenged
the Morning Chronicle to show that the French people
,are less free than we are. It dares not accept oer
' challenge ; but one week more shall not go over our
beads before we vindicate the people of France, All
this bragging, and all this humbug, shall not go quietly
on without exposure.

LORD BYRON.

It seems that Lord Byron is beginning to follow oar
advice. We begged of him, some time ago, to come to a
truce with his Wigan, and to lay the lash a little upon the
Jolterheads; the indescribable cowards, coromouly allot
country geode's:ten. In another part of our paper, is as
extract from a forthcoming poem of his Lordship. We
offered a premium some time ago to any one who would
verify Peel's Bill. We thank his Lordship for this littk
touch at the Jolterheads.

Paris Papers to the 30th inst. have arrived. According
to those of Friday, the war between France and Spain my
be said to have actually commenced. The French Arlll
on the line of Bayonne, CAW strong, is, it w•as understood,
to enter Spain on the Ist. But on the other Frostier,
between Perpignan and the Pyrenees, a corps of Spanish
Royalists had been statio,ed under the Baron d'Erol4.
On the evening of the 17th. Mina and Gracral Llobna