The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-21 00:00:00

The Tunes and Post, having exhausted their pre-
en t stock of abuse on the• atrocity of the French
Ruler in Rnssia, have now turned upon the Ameri-
cans, and instead of adopting that conciliatory tone
which the interests of both countries require,
they are wholly occupied in ridiculing the ill suc-
cess of the American armaments, and predicting
their entire destruction. It is true, the former
paper allows, that the loss of the Guerriere fri-
.ite is a most distressing occurrence, and more
than overbalances the advantages obtained by the cap-
ture of Gen. Hutt. and his army. In this point we
perfectly agree with him, convinced that a single
check experienced at sea, is of more fatal import to
this country, than can be outweighed by the acqui-
snion of twenty battles by land; but if our renegade
putiCriaus mould recur to the history of the last
'• ar, they would find no cause for exultation at any
advantages obtained in the outset of the contest with
America, ev?:t !‘y laud. The Americans have been
so long inured to habits of peace, that we cannot
wonder at their discomfiture in the first onsets with
a power which has been engaged in perpetual
.carfare for mare than half a century. But
}vowing the resources of America, and the tried cou.
r: re of her inhabitants, we repeat, that we see no cause
for imitation at any temporary advantage over her ;
and we consider as the worst enemies of our country,
all tlio,e who, by their writings or actions, endeavour
to prolong the unhappy and ruinous contest in which
we are involved.

If any thing could induce us to depart from the
decorum of reason, and indulge for a moment in feel-
jugs of indignation, it would be the wretched at.
tempts of the Ministerial Journals to vilify the cha-
racter of those who compose the Committee of the
Westminster Election, for having, in the most rm.!
triotic and inclopeedent manner, shewn to tile coun-
try that there still remains, unsubdued, a portion of
national virtue in the Electors of Westminster that
will be recorded in the history of the times we live
in, as a memorable example of political integrity.—
The late Address of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT to the
Electors of Westmins.e:, has made an irapressioti in
the country that will not be easily elfaced ; and the
Letter of Lord Cocitaatee to his Constituents, which '
we have this day inserted, must be appreciated by
them, as containing sentiments worthy of an holiest
and indept•tident Representative. The unprincipled
misapplcation of the public money pointed nut by
the Noble Lull, must appear to every unprejudiced
mind in the kingdom, as a melancholy picture of!
the destructive operations of a corrupt Parliament..
--Notwithstandi ig the confidence and complacency
with which the peopte in general regard our naval
system, it cannot be much longer disguised, that
despicable jobbing and favouritism has crone iwto
practice, the deteriorating, ititloetice of which most
he disgusting to our brive and skilful sailors. We
have been put in possession of a variety of atter.
dotes, illustrative of certain characters, whose offi-
cinusness and self-paragraphed merits have brought
them frequently before the public eye. Our politi-
cal Charletans are tint sonfined to the Senate and
the Ministry ; they have crept alike into the Army
and the Navy, add we are dying of writing Gene-
rals and poetical Sailors. Who does not remember the
important measures which a floating force effected
on paper? and hence to insure this success to the
very letter of the theory, Sir Home Portia's( was
chosen, in order to give a fair trial in practical cape.
riment. He was, himself, in a great measure, the
author of that notable, or rather not-able enterprise,
in which he is now frightening the long-shore old
women and children of Spain. He lands a gun,
tikes a village, and writes a dispatch to England—
with, we presume, the circular paragraphs which
follow is such combined and harmonious order, in
the Treasury Prints.

Dispatches were this morning received at the Ad-
miralty from Sic Sameaa Boon, Commander-in-
Chief in the East Indies :—their contents have not
transpired.
Dispatches were last evening received from Sir
James SALMARUI, dated on board the notorg, in
Wingo Sound. They are stated to contain nothing
of public importaire; one thing is certain, they do not
contain any account of the sailing of the long-talked-
of Swedish Expedition
Government have appointed a resident British
Consol at Coronna.

The Dispatches will be finally closed at the East
India House on Friday, to be forwarded to the re-
spective Presidencies by the shoo frigate.
The Oberon is ordered to be fittedat Sheerness for
Channel service, and Capt. JAMES MI/RISAY is ap-
pointed to the command of her.
The Nemesis, which had been ordered for Channel
service, is now waiting at Spithead, to take out Gen.
DOYLL, and several other Officers of distinction, ap-
pointed to commands in the Peninsula.

- By the last accounts from Palermo we learn, that
ennciderable agitation prevails in consequence of the
arprehension entertained by the Queen's party, that
she is to be invited to quit the island and take up her
retiflei,ce elsewhere—in other words, that she is to,
to withdrawn from the means et annoying the Go-
vernment of the Pat NCE her son. This was_formally
communicated to her in May last, as the determina-
tion of the English Councils, if she should persist
molesting the new order of things. bier MaJerrY
i 3 seriously indisposed, and has had several fits, in
consequence of which the litsa has made a repre-
sentation to the Government, stating, that her de-
parture from the island at this season would be dan-
gerous to her life, but agreeing to her removal to a
distance from 144,1errno; with which proposal it is
supposed the new Government will comply.

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