The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-21 00:00:00

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sothlng to do arida a child,of +slurs:afters ran old
`prebi not orgliwfs-te It site.‘ Wh yokes IWO Ai*
I,lNi wifTrelaigilioi ?sift arid Petititis fit a teptaif
of fp hitimectiiiiids nipoeases • theta toliarokod,
or* MA* rog r usetteegirsey 7for anybeniMilf Pen/.
Poe*, bat most seriously end powerfully detiimentil.
Witt tliebeasemeot by Om lltittirerto all 444batatitt
tormisof !reload ? 'Were it deemed ikrprd4tit,a-rerti
parish its the Island Ought: to imitandYetitlilblillidost.'
(*ether. coodnuante of an evil. nhith;Oviis y Mao
feels to he so opposed to his own Interests,. 'and to
hose of his country.+ We ha se a inning! hope that
' the Prop!. Will-do their duty for once-4-that they '1
will oelther be nor cajoled Into itibinialion
talkie's which.is mainly helping to convert poverty..
into deslitstion, end to propagate- peadience among
a wieetclied community that only' Wcnlid this senarge
to Consemmate I heir mivert: If the-Window Tarte
not repented herperthe conclosiniyof he 'hest Session
of rarllement, the Peoplevand the People.only, will
be IQ Pl!ose. ••'• ••
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Mrll hint: Kits* .details se' operations. in India;
rho* istiotesad Were of 711 !more recent date than!
$O7 former intelligence from the acme quarter. The
*oat itwereauing portion of the news thus common!: ,
Ailed respects the operations againit the Pattutwei
loatelolog 'fore', ' under the Generale %SITU 4nd
Paitie,re, who alone Canalised in the field. In all
wilier India escepitowardt the soutk.east, the war-is
rOpreiented Ma at an crud, end the armiis had retired,
The General Orders of the Marquis of Ilatatmott'are
dated February 21, when his Lordship .tcrek. levee
of the seseral divisions, and warmly thanked the
Officers 'odic• had commanded them. The
army of 'Sir THOSIA• lIISLOP tray to break op,
on the 31st March ; its Commander was to ;tittered
to Madras, his old head-quarters. Many of the Pin.
demo 'Cliiele.bed accepted lands from the British
Goveriments se theiLonlysneans of sebsiateoce.

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We. have already noticed the contradictive( (Iv*
without • much kiterriedge et thy! fads, •by the Go.
rernmeut Journals to the report rota new Governor..
General being appolutitiVie India: One of these
Papers (the rimer) knot #iient with the asser-
tion that such a rosminy Is end_ must be. entree;
" from the Itlerchinness el likvrisos being on her
passage to Calcutta," bet it dilates again this morning,
in laboured phrase, to prove thaf the Marquis if to
continue in the East, and that iho revenue of
India is highly creditable folio Government.—NoW,
it on happens, for the credit of the Times', assertions,
that the Marchioness of Ilerriers, so far froM being
on her passage to Cattail*, ia living in the neiehboar.
hood of Cheltenham; and as to the' atisfaction to
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be derived from- the expences of the wet, .pnd the
state of the Ca.mpowy'it finances, there is!cartainly
very little evidence adduced to paves that ifitit kind
of, feeling most be the prevalent one' at the India-
/louse, or in this country, upon which the delttaand
expences of the Cionpany
.are invariably and el.
timately saddled. The expences;of the late. wars,.
commenced for • what object *s should perhaps
ire blamed were. we ,to give -way to conjectsier, have
like the Marquis's campaigns, beets epos 1 'grand
scale. • What may be the hurl etinsequence of the
war with' regard to its operation " UllOll, thefrtmlr
of the Company," or rather it should be said upon
the general fends of the British community, .the.
Times is not prophet enough to predict ; but it kindly
lays before us a statement of facts in figures tied ea-
tracts from Parliamentary Periesoelith serosionseiu
thit(lemarkable instance .ef resperiii..?f 0.40
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uettsthent—namely, that .the net escess
Company's Debt mounts only to 12,698,1101
British People hate certainly too much 'seesaw far
complaint that the custom of submitting anneal In.
dian Budgets has been discontinued, and it .is not
easy to cause the Parliament That could sanction the
aid given•frem the Public Treasure to the Great Mo.
nepoly, without requiring sufficient esplanationspon
such momentous subjects. The late Lord hi etvtiti
stated his Indian Budgets to the House of COmmone
as regularly as. the Session recurred : so did Lords
CASTLEREAGH and glourtTtt. But the present Lord
MELVILLE and Mr. CANNING think this wholesome
practice perfeftlx. en news' ry.
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Frani% Papers to.the-lilth, and Mahe ilea Fite.
ders-with .Brussels Journals to the 17th, bays 'Mead.
—.The witless by. these enrieeyencare agree in stating,
that tow Congress ofSeeereigrit at Ail•la:Chapelle is
,mot e,ltpectedsm be kW before the lsuer end of neat
month.. Much Interest !antiglare, to be excited le
Germany by dm expected meeting 4(itserie eterfede-
,*l politkiant. 'We wish tbsra.eleups, end all
hike pet their talk 'in 'Prinees, midi good from the
dillfilittittiotth *Of dale 4seembin beilly maple of

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istr`of'ibtis'airti
Waea..lWarei 'deer 'OPeraiit izeattigiet ti theitiwee•
iskilisast of In and eillgiteed pelitY Irons/Such d
rAmotig, other opsitaletlowa is to the ob-
jects tarwhich their attention say be called, it is
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tat rise
*J(Daa intends
Project foe'eniting. the European States into a grand
:9111ffiellitteoPoo e Jolts
irea‘tuaritare to
confetlerter 'whir I ilea' to the malittiirnce of per-
petual peace; "linty Morel like)); for. the purpose of
• keeping theePeo-iie in subjection to their tyrants',
and 'l;fferdi'pe a .plee. for maintaining military eats.
blishments. A most bate and unchristian argument
-employed to justify this policy. It is
founded on the eril of excessive population. This
evil (that iswheu •People fall under the suspicion of
begornini 4egoternaltie)'Kings used to get rid of
by wars. and this help of words and gunpow-
' =MO, from the osti6ott of the con federat.
ittr; scheme, givrn Ass ea .article from the Maine,
phis so. darnserostir Deettoi, is to be
4nartled.. aeohire.ist,. a ;Oh*: '40.—.--;;-t.Emigration
*lit bkwiloistrisirieleable:. The prefect is to go.
tdNlse the Norijs Of with • riteior plot of
Euro.Oen pnpulatlite the mention efl tech a pro..
jest.oolci,.:l4.. "tom minds, sagged-Altai-revisal of
, r :gybes .of Ititytifyi without a
particle -,of oito •.tisienart laillienthropy ;
but,• it is is• fact" that the • teerkoriolOnisation has
beets' going ''otr` in -.consetpleno of the met•
sires Of: these • benevolent go‘treigns ~.to a much
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greetei.extent since they retwrned ,to power, than
perhaps with all ILeit.wisdotbthey are aware of ; and
if they • goatlike their•iiotilic'
loliistence and basin liberty; it. is ,by no MOOR ,
prribable that even the wilds of Siberie and.thi Nu-
bian deserts tozYbe colonized.. would seem, fray
the project-in dew, that !the grounds frir permanent
tranquillity ant *universal happiness, laid by the
Peace and the e! Most noble•and virtuous example of
?the • Grail SOVereigns,".. are 'lnspected to be not
quite se solid sad .so ample as the Cossiier re-
presents. The writer -of tbit German .article •
'does not tell. es, bet petha'ps the' Courier. may,
". from eulbeiiiic information" from vfigkort,'whe-
ther•the colonizing scheme Ili tq.k effected with the
consent of the inhabitants at the envied region, or by
virtue of the combined alms of the Ais-la-Chapelle
Confederacy. The German perhaps (eeriest hat there
is no injustice In putting themias welt as the natives
of Ilindostsis and the aboriginal eLkeierics, -ont of
the pale of. his pacific compact. Hut sapposiitutbit
difficulty to be got rid of, (for the nuisances on the
Northern Coital' of Africa, so long connived at by
the European Powers, certainly -deserve to lbs tai-
roeved),She speculative' politician has not told is bole•
such geserets is have 'hitherto arisen, betweiriWeigh--;
booth% ; &woken vettlemeate it other parts of the
globe, art taba ivoldeitin the porth.of Africa, and
bow their ifeets aril to ite.;pettroted. from recoiling
PPoo_,the. relations selosistiaubetwees •the mother
conntries.. I( any sack prejfit broeglit
forward, k wilt•aot be Veitjtteed the: visionary
espectation 0( its ostensible object being permsneittly.
realised; 'but it may answer. s pewit pll..poie--
It may: furnish an eaatti.for keeplig'
military establishmentino•it Noy give time to Settle of
the Sovereigns to anvairmati the ill-assorted .and
discordant materials et :which. their' empires are now*
made op. It may redacetheinhabitants of the States
that have been partitioned or ennezed,.to the listless'
nets of despair, and,p'reparethem to-become the in-
strumeitts of future aggiession.• it is still asserted.
that Messrs. ROTHSCHILD and BARING, the Sove
reigns of the purse, are to attend the Congress. Lord
Ce”TLEREAOH, the Representative of the ;?za susst,.
and his Chinese Secretary, have not, it seems, yet
set. out. The training Joy the new. lioo.teu sera,
many, is however going- ow. • •
The Duke et Nola* arriaid on the lath
instant, at Ostend; •lieso
fications, after haring wes the lime day examined
those.of Menin and Ypres.. He art oat en the 13th
to visit the ((winced/HM.I Niewpave, Sod was es-
pect.d to arrive at Glees the lame day. 'The rat
slew of the Preseien CO* d'Arindre in leiseee;..
it is said, telte.piseatrairds the Wad Of shilisontis„
In thevotriebot of L Igp7. ' The !Erne OrPIUMA
respected to. hi prow orn the occasion:. •••• ..*
There Were no repot pettlished at Pule oalliat-
day last, because it happeeed -so be-the inniverairy,
e(
the day. on which, treenail's. to one of the legends
of the Catholic Chutch,-'tili,Vracult MART was,
lifter her death, or-iajher.tiaritie;'lrir'dily ts,itea ap to
Heaven. The Eiog, and the Princes and Peisoesses
of the family of Hougeow were, of course, conspi-
moody devest•on• thet•areleorable day. Soledin as
the- ceremonies gone Alifeigh spots thii occasion
were, It is riot without W or disgust and
pity thit we reed *the tiotaillla tbq French Papers.
After the performance of Visepert,.their Royal high.
nesse* padded about the streets for an hour, in a
procession made in celebration Of the vow of Lours
XIII. to which Frenchmen are taught tobalievithat
Ihey.are indebted .fur the birth of Lours XI.V.—
.Withoat adverting to the scandalous srenuers of the
pireind of his production,- which affiliated Wm upon a
Tireign favourite of Arts of AUSTRIA, it sorely savours
ant a little of impiety to refer to the special -inter-
position of Heaven the origin of a man of whore it
bs. justly been said, that he was a Conqueror with.
Lout personal courage • a Pktron if Arts without taste;
rof Sciences withoutliterature; a Religionist with.
out piety; aid a )1014 Christian King, without hmi
maniti."

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