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On the fall of Cadiz, and on the press, put an idiot laugh upon

state of England, compared with that of France.›

Kensington, October 15, 1823.

my warning; called me a croaker; called me a false prophet ;" and called upon its brutified readers to give money into the hands o the profound statesmen composing the "Spanish Committee," in order that these statesmen might

GENTLEMEN, ANOTHER of my "lying prophecies" now stands before the public. The base, corrupt and supply the heroes in Spain with

the sinews of war.

At all the balderdash of the Hobhouses, the Whitbreads, the

stapid press of London has been entertaining its besotted readers with what it calls my "false prophecies." Another of these false Bot Smiths, the Erskines (the prophecies has, I say, now been patriotic Erskines); at all this placed before the public. From balderdash; and at the no less the very dawn of the French pro- glaring balderdash ofthe renowned ject for the invasion of Spain, I defenders of the poor Queen: at warned my readers, that the inten- their balderdash at Westminster, tion of France was to get posses- in the CITY, at GLASGOW, at sion of the fleets and arsenals NOTTINGHAM; at the eloquent

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tirades of the one and at the stupid us the best means of public inand hollow noise of the other, struction ever devised by human who declared, at NOTTINGHAM a ingenuity; these " highly respectweek or two ago, that the fate of able" ruffians assured their beliberty was about to be decided in noodled readers, that a Russian Spain: at all this balderdash, all army was marching down towards this rant, all this noise and non- the Rhine, and that another Russense, I have constantly laughed, sian army was about to be conand the greater part of my readers veyed by sea to be landed in have laughed along with me. Not Catalonia, in order to assist the thus, however, has it been with French in their subjugation of the far greater part of this deluded, Spain; and these base and bawland justly punished public, who ing newspapers affected to ridideserves to suffer, and to suffer cule the idea of the conquest being severely, too, for the encourage-achieved by France alone.

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Day by day (for I then had the columns of a newspaper in my hand); day by day, as these lies

ment which it has given and still gives to this corrupt and infamous press. CADIZ is now in the hands of made their appearance, I detected the French. This is no Battle of and exposed them. Of little avail, Waterloo affair. In the first place, however, was this: the corrupt it is a conquest not obtained by a and stupid creatures were bedebt of eight hundred millions of lieved by a large portion of the money. The French have sub- people; and the delusion was dued Spain by themselves: Mr. kept up from week to week and BROUGHAM anticipated, that they from month to month in spite of would have to call in the Cossacks the evidences of men's senses. and Calmucs to their aid. His Cadiz has, however, fallen; this lying friends of the London press; is a fact which even this corrupt those whom he declares to afford press cannot keep from the know

ledge of the public. This is un-possession of it; and, upon what questionably the most important ground are WE to object to their maritime fortress in the world. keeping possession of it? Tempo- · This fortress is now in the hands rary possession of that and of all of the French, and in their hands the fortresses in Spain we shall it will, in effect, remain as long as hardly have the impudence, I the English National Debt shall mean the modesty (for our impulast. The newspapers which give dence is modesty); we shall us an account of the fall of Cadiz, hardly have the modesty to object tell us also that it is said at Paris, to their having temporary possesthat the FRENCH MEAN TO sion, seeing that when we had KEEP POSSESSION OF" conquered France,” we insisted THAT FORTRESS, AS LONG upon keeping possession of cerAS WE KEEP POSSESSION tain parts of France for five years, OF GIBRALTAR! Good. My and of taking certain fortresses readers will recollect that I said, away from her for ever as we beforethe French actually marched thought. Our pretext for keepinto Spain, that, unless the inte- ing up an army in France and rest of the English Debt were al- for making the French people most annihilated, the FRENCH pay for it; our pretext for these WOULD HAVE US OUT OF was, that our army was necessary GIBRALTAR IN THREE to prevent the "hydra of revoYEARS. This appears likely to "lution from rearing its hideous become another "false prophecy."" head,” And shall not the Cadiz is worth fifty times as French keep up an army in much as Gibraltar. It is supe-Spain, and take possession of rior to it for every purpose what- Spanish fortresses, and make the ever; and in every respect it is Spanish people pay their army beyond all measure more valua- for the same purposes? Is there ble. There are the French in one law, one gospel, onė moral

principle, one rule of right for the same right that you held the us, and are there others for them? fortresses of France. Will he tell Have we sung God save great them, that they entered Spain not George our King, have we blus-to make, war against the King of tered, bragged and bullied; have Spain, but against his rebellious we gained victories on the Ser-subjects? They will answer, and pentine river (though we gained did you enter France as enemies none on the Lakes of Canada); of the King of France? No; you has Mr. BROUGHAM bothered us about the greatest Captain of the age, until we, at last, believe in good earnest, that we are to bind

entered it as the allies of the King of France: you called your-. selves his allies: you declared that you were making war for the people and King of France, and

down all other nations by the strict rules of moral rectitude, only against the usurper and his while we ourselves, in our quality adherents; and yet, being in of the "greatest Empire in the France, having, as the allies of world," are to plead an exemp- the King and people of France, tion from all rules whatever? If got into the country with nearly we have brought ourselves to this a million of men of different nabelief, the French will presently tions in your pay; having thus undeceive us; for they will keep got into France, you dictated possession of Spain, and Mon- terms to the King of France; you sieur de CHATEAUBRIAND Will give quartered an army in his country Mr. CANNING Some pretty rappings upon the knuckles, if he shall venture to utter a word in the way of remonstrance.

-Will Mr. CANNING say, by what right do you hold these fortresses?

and made his people pay for it; you took away fortresses of defence from his frontiers; and you stript his galleries and museums.

What reply would our jesting Minister have to make to an an

If he do, the answer will be, by swer like this? No reply, to be