The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-22 00:00:00

DU11;11 MAIL.

BRUSSELS, MAIM 13.—We learn from the French
frontier that the French Miniater of War continues
in the farther organisation of the French army, to
place as far as possible the Officers who have served
in the old army, and that lit enidoet is, therefore,
bighly extolled by many persons, particularly by
the Officers on half-pay. They begin now to
think on the organisations of the reserve; that
is, of the men, who, being old soldiers. may be
called oat in case of need. It is calculated, that th•
member to which the organisation will esteod, in all
France, at 115,000 men. In every military division
• separate corps is to be formed of this reserve ; the
departmental legions receive, from time to lime, nu-
Ineroes detachments of recrelis from the departmenti.
according to the Recruiting Law; the two regiments

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TH N STATESMAN.

LONDON:

MONDAY, MANCH 22, 1819.

Th► French Papers are less Interesting than might
have been expected, wade► the condition in which the
King stands with r►gard to the most ancient of the
Nohi:ity of the kinctloo. We shall not be sur-
prised if Louts XVIII. proves himself to be the most
politic Prior, of the House of CAPE?. That he will
be a second CHARLZMAONT, none calcolate upon,
and yet be pays an uncommon attention to all
BoNAPARTeS surviving Generals; sn mach so, that
we undertake to say, thst bad Marshal Nay evaded
the fatal sentence, sod were now alive, he would
be allowed to share the Monarch's admiration.—
One of our Ulfra-Royal Journalists takes every op-
portunity of abusing lb. French military, mid cen-
gyring the good-natereJ Louts for noticing the heeds
among them. In this respect he manifests hit ;goo-
ranee of the conduct and character of the French
1 army. That they fell daring the war into the excesses
of all victorious warriors no man can deny; but on
all occasions they proved heroes, not mord eeeee as
the National Convention of 171113 would hate made
them. It passed a decree that the armies should pet
all the red coots of their enemies to the sword,
meaning to include in that description the Bri-
tish and Hanoverian troops. The Commanders
of the armies of the Rhine, and of the Sambre
and Meuse, received the order with marked
indignati 111 l , exclaiming, " the Convention Is un-
acquainted with the character of it. own troops :
they ate soldier:, net murderers!" In their National
Chambers, they have every few days some new Pro.
jet de Lot on the Liberty of the Press. The French
have bid a taste of freedom, and they will enjoy it
sooner or later; bet it is oat worth filling our co.
lemma with the discussions upon the sabj..ct. It
seems the desire of the most energetic p•tliticians
of that too-long 'Owed country, to obtain a Go-
vernment possessing the chief principles of a Repub-
lic with a King at its bead. Beery thing, then, bet
it rotation of power (as in America) will, or may, be
edablished, and more is not likely to he had. Bet,
without that the People may flourish and he happy
fur an age. Yet every sound politician knows that
in HEREDITARY succession the seeds of degeneracy
are ever to be found. This consideration it is which
makes the epithet kgitinsate particularly offensive to
the ear of the pore licrustacan.
The French Finance Minister, like our own,
makes use of the stratagem in opening his IWO,
of encouraging the People to pay an encressed
demand upon their pockets, by armoring them
that their affairs ere in a prosperous way.
There is indeed some excise for the exactions of
Monsieur, their financier, rather then for those of
VAN, our financier. They hive had to ussintsin the
armies of their conquerors since the peace; we have
i placed ours, at free quarters, on the subdued. They
have also had to pay, during that period, more than
four millions of snarl-money.

It i 4 amusing to bear the sophisms of a renegade
contemporary, with a view to frighten his Readers
from countenancing Reform, under the dresdfel ap.
prehension of revolution ; in describing the pro-
gress Of which be takes care to introduce the word
eusAagration often 'slough. Is it possible that
many of this Journalist's Readers an be so ig.
uorant as not to know that • timely reform in
the French Government might and would have
prevented the Revelation he complains of. After ell,
the conesgralion of London was no doubt a sight
of horror at the thee, bet its sabsegeent distant fleets
have been beneficial to all the inhabitants of the vast
metropolis. The residents breathe a parer air, live
without the alarm of pestilential diseases, and the
beauty sad harmony of the whole City have HIM
oar of the acekkat which nevertheless historians mast
deplore.

In the two last dimessions in the House of Com-
mons which inflict es mach despair and disappointment
in the public mind, but which elates equal @saltation
in the Ministers and their satellites, wears persuaded
that if the sebjecta bad been, or could be referred to
the nation at large, ninety-nine in every hundred
would have voted against the Duke of YORK'S grant
of 10,0001.11. year for visiting bis father; and nearly in
the same proportion would the Injured People have
expressed their dislike to so espensive a Board of
Admiralty, at a lime of profound peace. Mr. Conan
might indulge es with a rhyme or two upon sects
profailoos bat be mild star as no sae solid reason.