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SWANN, his wife and children; of intervention and mediation remember Castles, Oliver, and and mutual amity and social Edwards; remember their fates order and national faith; that and the consequent proceedings; they should be able to ma and then, while you give an ac- nage to mix up a mess of this count of these to the world, re-sort, to prolong the civil war in peat, if you dare, your railings against the Spanish Inquisition.

Spain, to exhaust the French, to excite discontents in France, just sufficient to keep the French Government in check, to make our

lonies, to open away for their agents to work in all quarters and thus to get an outlet for their

Here we should take our leave of you; but we have a few words to say to you, relative to our co-slavery quite complete, to scause lonies in America. You have great and long troubles in the cosent, it seems, consuls or envoys to those colonies, who are, it is said, to acknowledge them as Independent States. It is odd manufactures and employment for enough that this should come into your heads, or, rather, into the head of your Government, just at this time, when we shall be soon getting ready to resume our sway in those colonies. Some years This was, doubtless, what they ago, you might have acknow-expected to be able to vdor The ledged the independence of these rapid movements of the French colonies with some chance of success: to do it now is a thing too foolish to have been thought of by anybody in this world but your Government. The truth is, that pretty gentlemen of Whitehall, your wise Ministers, when they whose consuls will, we venture to made preparations for sending say, return much more quickly out these consuls and envoys, did than they went out It looks more not think that Cadiz would sur-like madness than any thing else, render so soon by six months. to suppose that France and Spain They thought, that it would sur- are going to suffer the mines of render at last; but that they Mexico and Peru, any more than should be able to mix up a mess our tithes and convents, to fall into

their merchant ships, so as to ena-
ble them to get money into their
exchequer, and to get along under
the Debt without annoyance from
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General; his most judicious measures, and the consequent sudden termination of the contest, have blown into air the schemes of the

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the hands of the Jews and Jobbers If France and Spain and Porof London, The Patriots" of tugal; or, if only the two former 193 South America have made Chilian come to a determination to put Bonds and Columbian Bonds, in down the pretended new States imitation of the makers of Spanish of South America, a curious diBonds; that is to say, those lemma will arise. Will Mr. CAN*Patriots" have been selling the NING make common cause with -soil dand: Ithes Jabour of those the " Patriots," or will be quietly countries to you, the Jews and see them hanged. There is, howFobbers of London. This being Lever, no question here: he can -the case, it is impossible for any make common cause with nobody man in his senses to believe that and with nothing that needs powthose countries must not desire to der and ball at his hands. He be freed from the freedom be- pretended, that his last despatch to stowed on them by these patriots. Monsieur CHATEAUBRIAND, pre-There aconpation of Lima by thevious to the march of the French Royal troops is quite sufficient army into Spain: he pretended ztó convince y any one that the people of the country wish to be ridded of the "Patriots," who, whatever they might be at first, shave now manifestly become a set dof ruthless plunderers.cyer can England go to war again while it has a National Debt, amounting to a tenth part as much as the present Debt Debt amounts to. This is now known to all the at WH world: it can be no longer disguised upon what ground, the then, is England to go to war, and who is to help her in a war, to prevent the Colonies of Spain from being restored to their Sovereign?

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-soLittle difficulty will, therefore, attend the restoration of the colo onies to order and to obedience. A few ships and a small land force well appointed and under able generals, may do the whole thing, yandu drive away to NEW, YORK, 90гu too Rosemary-LANE, all the “ heroes" and all the loan-makers of liberty together with all their Judges of Vice Admiralty Courts, all their Privy Councillors, taken © from Petticoat-lane, or from out of the ranks of the Westminster Rump.

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you again trouble yourselves with our foreign soldiers, priests and Inquisition. If the people of England hade sense and spirit, they would break" the bonds" in which you hold them; but that is their affair and not ours. Having freed ourselves from this Jew and Jobber craft, which is a thousand times worse than Priesteraft and Kingeraft both joined together, we shall, with regard to the good people of England, content ourselves with offering up for their deliverance the sincere prayers of the

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THE French, who said nothing,

in their public papers, in February last, about the "noisy speeches and bullocking paragraphs," now open

as well as geographically, from the
rest of Europe. What is the re
sult for his honour and interests,
of this apathy? What other peost
England
for it? Her policy is
ple or Government
covered with
a veil, which a Minister (the Earl of
LIVERPOOL) raised when he said
that, menaced by two great evils, Eng-
land should do every thing in her
power to avoid both. But what mind
can reconcile the delirium of ano-
ther English Minister (Mr. CAN
NING), who, more indiscreet even
in the House of Commons than in
the Cabinet, dared publicly to ex-:
press a wish for the success of the
revolutionary
ry cause? The madman !
If Heaven had granted his impi-
ous wish, the Government of Eng
land would have passed into
hands of HUNT and BURDETT
Wanting courage to
opinion
and strength to maintain it, the men
who govern the destinies of England
have recourse to
o the arms of
weak-the pen and the

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up covered with couriers, and nothing has been done which the shade of a PITT or a CHATHAM would not blush to avow. But a glorious exploit has crowned the labours of him who inherited the inkstand of these great men the diplomacy of Downing-street succeeded in disposing of an illusory promise of protection to the Cortes for a sum of 40 millions of rials's but not a 25sel, not a soldier, could the constitu tionalists obtain the English Cabinet withheld all but advice and pro

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their minds a little, of which opening the following paragraph, from the Oriflamme (a Paris paper) of last Saturday is a pretty jects of Constitutions. good specimen. Let my readers look well at it. It is seldom that I quote from the French papers; but, this paragraph is of real importance.

"The system of the English Cabinet is to insulate itself, politically

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But the sword of a BOURBON has broken the bonds of intrigue. The Continent of Europe has beheld with joy the great blow struck by France, whilst, alone in the universe, the British nation knows not whether to be rejoiced or afflicted. Indifferent, however, to the uneasiness of this doublefaced nation, the other Powers cry,

“Misfortune to those who do not dé clare themselves friends or enemies. Every body abandons them in the hour of danger." zalog the

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**It appears foi nie, that the game is going to begin again of raising and lowering the English funds as the French Government pleases. It can now do just what

d This is pretty taunting! What, talk thus so soon after having been conquered If this be the it pleases in this way. If I were case, we shall do well to abstain the French Minister, I would have from conquering France another fifty millions of English stock my time. Where is our greatest property, or, the property of m Captain?" Why does he not come King, in six months times I could forth, covered with his shield of raise and lower the English funds

Achilles and kill these saucy at my pleasure; and I would do it?

to some tume! Our Government could by no means prevent it, except by going to war; and that it cannot do without blowing up

French Now, reader, do you not enjoy this taunting? I do exceedingly! It is, in fact, little more than I said in February last. Oh! "The vaults of Westminster the Debt; and, if it blow up the

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have echoed the speeches." This Debt, away goes Church, and God

is, really, almost too good!" Not knows what besides

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a vessel; not a soldier." Good! beasts of the Pitt-Chibs, look at Excellent! Sweet for the Pitt- this. You praise the Ministers Clubs and for the Poet of the Pilot for their conduct with regard to that weathered the storm! How I Spain: look at what the Bourbons should like to see him (he not see-say of that conduct; your old and ing me) while reading this para- tried friends, the Bourbons→→→ graph! "Woe unto them that do It may be some time before the "not declare themselves friends, French will openly avow their in" or enemies." But, come, Mr. tentions as to South America: Frenchman, you are a little un-when they do it, we shall, I reasonable? our people cannot imagine, see a little stir in the wish You to have Spain and South funds, and amongst the cheating America: they cannot be your vagabonds of 'Change Alley, who friends in such enterprises: and, get noblemen's estates by "watchas to being enemies, as to fighting ing the turn of the market." If you, the very idea of it would the poor things who have our blow their funds into the air and affairs in their hands, if the themselves to God knows whither." inheritor of the inkstand of

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Chathani ifthis do man of sinking our funds, make us pay the inkstand attempt to resist, for armaments to keep ourselves in so much the worse for him. He awe! This is the state in which must give way at last, her go to we are. But Daddies Coke and wur,ɗthat is, to the Devil (funds SUFFIELD and Parsons, SMYTHIES and all) neck and heels. Never and t'other fellow (I forget his theless, there will be a parcel of name) dare such honest men, bigstalk, and whole volumes of that they will continue to pay the noisy paragraphs. We shall interest of the Debt in full and in have the shield brought out gold. And, this they shall door, again to belt thrown over South the Church shall come to book America: So that the poor "heir In short, only let the French to the inkstand" will get worked openly prepare for South America, most estrangely, as little Lord and we shall have some famous John has it in his play. But, it sport or silt diiw'yynelis", babivihm will be call in vain. There canenobrug adi bus jueznos odi to bes no war on our part without a odt to namelinge & of grolod won blowing up of the Debt; and that 120g site JOURNAL to getBO

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cannot be without a blowing up ofw has merjajë 16 ́ 1steem of all the bastions of corruption, IS RIDE IN FRANCE?" which will never be done until viszitsanqiaos and hue zasbrey aft the last extremity.Who would, To the Editor of the Register only a year ago, have thought, that stor blad trsions our Government would silently see Continued from p. 2441) TIBC France in quiet possession of all ST. OMERS, Monday, 13th Oct the ports, ships, arsenals and for 1823. I stayed all this day tresses of Spain, and that, too, with here, on account of my horse, the avowed intention of keeping which had become a little lame. such possession? Who would have I consulted; a French farrier thought this only a year ago? who told me he thought my There was, scarcely a man in the horse, only wanted, fresh shoeing; country who would have thought so, and charged me 15 sous for except me. But, every one would his fee as horse doctor, having have thought it; if every one had come some distance, at the same thought properly of the effects of time, to see the patient. Two the Debt. A French Minister may new shoes to my horse cost me now, by his power of raising and 2 francs; but, the blacksmith

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