Star. — London, England, 1830-01-18 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.. MADRID, Dec. U. I thought to have some good news to communicate to you; for here things change every moment, and it might be expected that amongst them something good might be hit upon. Some important alterations have certainly taken place : some say for the better, some for the worse. ()TON FI I. is sent as Captain-General to Valencia; Lose. A is sent to Barcelona ; the notorious Esrstt A it, to go to Valadolid ; and QUESADA, who MIR Captain-Ge neral of Andalusia, is to be Commandant-in-Chief of the Royal Guard. Those who expect any good front this measure,—and whom I will call expectantes—stand upon the ground of the character of QUESADA. Ho is, indeed, a staunch royalist, and an absolutist ! You may form an idea of his spirit and character by the following anecdote : —ln 189.0, when the Captain General of Madrid summoned the chief officers of the garrison, to take the oath to the constitution, by order of the king, he addressed them, saying—" that if any of them did not like to take that oath freely, he might dispense with it ; but forthwith leave the kingdom." QUESADA alone stepped forward, and asked his passport for France, which he obtained directly and went away. Upon the restoration of absolutism he was appointed Captain General of Seville, and saved his jurisdiction from some of the evils of the re-action ; and he fostered such little improvements as our miserable kind of Go vernment is capable of. His appointment for the Royal Guard is therefore looked upon by many as a omen of some amelioration. Others, however, think that no change can he made by FERDIN AND, but for the worse (and, unfortunately, the result generally proves they are right)—these malcontents give another version of the affair. They say that O'DoN ELL and QUESADA, al though rank royalists, were the only Captains Ge neral of the provinces on the confines of Portugal, who were not sufficiently subservient to obey the secret orders of the KING, contrary to the public wishes of the Ministry. The truth is, that the Captains-General of those provinces are rather under the direction and controul of the old Queen of PORTUGAL, than of the Spanish Government ; and O'DoN ELL and QUESADA appear to possess, as yet, honour enough not to disgrace themselves by incurring the responsibility of such shameful acts—the orders for which cannot bear light. And now, as it appears very certain that the villainous MIGUEL will be attacked either by his brother or by the Constitutionalists, these magnates want to be well supported by the Spanish frontiers, having Chiefs there ready to act in MIGUEL'S de fence. The sanguinary and rapacious ERPAGNA is anything but inapt to that purpose. It is not yet known who will replace QUESEDA in the command of the pro vince of Seville. Some talk of CAMPANA, who is now in the same station at Granada. But there is an obstacle to that. CAMPANA was formerly Captain General at Seville, and foolishly engaged himself to the widow of a cobler, and at last married her ! The aristo cracy of Seville, although they liked the principle —I should rather say the want of principle of the General—well enough, were too proud to submit to the degradation of keeping company with his wife ; and he, finding himself in so awkward a predicament, ex changed situations with QUESADA, who was then at Granada ; and where his wife was, of course, either little, or not known at all. Your acquaintance with Spanish affairs satisfies you that the command of the provinces is bartered—with the tacit winking of our Government to be sure—in the same way as is elsewhere done with herds ofcattle. Notwithstanding this trifling obstacle; CAMPANA is the man required, and most likely to be appointed. In conclusion, I may at once state, that as thefarce in Portugal is approaching to the middle of the second act, you will see us playing a brilliant part in the catastrophe. You will see old and ruined Spain, at the same time that she tries to destroy the republicism in one world, support absolutism in the other ! Let the nations of the earth look Itpon this lesson of wisdom and power. We believe it is perfectly true that his MAJESTY has been lately bled several times, and that other medical as sistance than Sir H. HALFOILD, has been called in. It is said that it is some disorder in the bladder, which now afflicts the KING ; but the truth is that so awful a silence preserved in the regions of the Castle that nothing can be known of the state of health of the Sov RazIGN, be yond eurmise.—News. The near approach of the meeting of Parliament has occasioned considerable bustle and activity in the bolding of Cabinet Councils, &c. The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Aberdeen have both been to Windsor on se parate days, to confer with his Majesty.—The time now draws so nearthat the heads ofthe Speech must be quickly arranged. The felicitations between th e M onarc h and his people, on the prosperity of the country, we fancy will not occupy much space.—News. A public dinner is to be given to Mr. O'CoNs sad. en the 25th instant, in Dublin, by the conductors of the several Catholic charitable establishments it that city, previous to his departure for London. SINGULAR FUNERAL ARILANQUIRIT.•=III/ late Lady Teynham was buried in a coffin, which is described to have been a sort of chest formed of heart of oak, with a lock and two keys, one of which was placed inside the coffin, and the other was taken charge of by the de ceased)) maid. The coffin was made some years previ ous to her Ladyship's decease. The following assertion, copied front one of the Ba ron d'Jsseca's journals of yesterday, is among the " lies of the day," and one of the greatest we have witnessed since the commencement of the new year: " The King of Portugal and his Royal Sisters, have been much in public latterly, and have everywhere been received with the most marked loyalty and applause." The frost was amazingly severe on Saturday night, Sunday, and this morning. The pavements and paths were rendered dangerously slippery, owing to the sharp frost having followed a slight thaw; but the slipperiness of the paths was eueh in the suburbs, that foot passengers were oikged to walk in the roads over which carriages had passed. As proof of the icy state of the sides of the roads, a man yesterday, at noon, skated along the side the road from Hammersmith to Kensington, is his way to the ! COLUMBIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE 6TAR. LRTTER XIX. Booor*, Oft. 0, len. The policy pursued from its beginning by the Cabinet of Washington is that which reason dictates, and which we should imitate. Columbia should disconnect herself from the other Spanish American States, leave each to govern itself as It thinks best, exercise the same right herself, but culti vate with all, relations of amity and comtnerce. The affairs of nations must be considered under a posi tive aspect. The magnificent and chivalresque must be set aside. Ta public as well as private life, the bril liant must be secondary to the said. The American States formed like Columbia from the dismemberment of the Spanish monarchy, contain more germs of dis organization than the country of Bolivar. NVe have only to look back at what has been passing so long in lifericc—in the Rh , de la Plata, in Central America, in Bolivia, in Chili and Peru, where it has been even said " treaties are only parchments; constitu tions, books; elections, combats ; liberty, anarchy ; and life, a hurricane." Columbia, on the contrary, in virtue of the elements already established, offers every probability of a stable organization in the year 1830, of one analogous to her I condition, and consonant with the spirit of the age, that is to say, of our reposing on the basis of order and liberty. She must, therefore, separate her Trolicy from the afore-mentioned States, not to be confounded with them as she has hitherto been, by friendly or neutral nations. If, when we broko from the fetters of the mother coun try, we were considered as political infants, treated as i such, and made indiscriminately to stiffer for the fiats of each ; now that we are emancipated, and ad mitted into the society of nations, it is but just, that each should be judged by their own actions, and not endure the penalty of their brethrens errors. The distinctive line is already began, and it is neces sary to strengthen it by such a separation as I have in dicated. On the other hand, Columbia and her LI nv.a- ATou, having acquired much distinction in the war of independence, they have excited the jealousy of the co belligerents, especially since the idea went forth, that they projected the union of Columbia, Bolivia, and Peru. It is of the first importance to calm these jealousies and alarms, by concentrating ourselves within ourselves, and to form only that alliance with the other States which may be framed by intellectual emulation, and that confederation, which may exist in good offices, and useful services. Before, however, concluding this portion of the in quiry, I must suggest the advantage of defining our limits, by a treaty with the Empire of Brazil—(a State most worthy of our frieudship)—with Great Britain, in regard to Guayana, and with Guatamala, that there may be no motive for future disagreement. If we pass from the American continent to Europe, we shall find that our relations ought to be established there on the same footing of friendship, good intelligence, and mer cantile connexion. The Colossus of the North is still engaged in a war with Turkey—the rest of Europe Mat peace, but may be obliged to mingle in the contest. In various territories of Germany, the people are not unmindful of the Liberal promises made them by their Sovereigns in the hour of danger; others, like Switzer land and the Low Countries, enjoy prosperity under the influence of just laws and wise Governments. Greece is awaiting from the European Powers the reward of her bloody sacrifice for independence — Italy groans in silence under the weight of her degradation Portugal only wants a little aid to overthow a tyrant who has renewed in the Nineteenth Century, a despotism more atrocious than any which has diseredited former ages. Great Britain and Francs are at the head of that march of civilisation, which is agitating the globe. The former, subduing her ancient religious prejudices, has granted to the third part of her empire, the political rights of which she was deprived by fanaticism. WELLINGTON and PEEL, who all their lives fought against Catholic Emancipation, have been obliged to yield to the law of necessity, and have accom plished a triumph, which the higher talents of Pitt, Fon, and Canning, could not obtain. Great Britain so longer fearing a civil war, will now be able to attend la the affairs of Portugal, and the Greek Question. Francs, equally distant from the demagogue Liberalism at 1793, and that servility which the age repels, is perfectioning her domestic institutions, extending her commercial freedom, rapidly prospering, and augmenting her political influence. Columbia cannot remain like the Ottoman Porte without Representatives in the civilised countries of Europe. Her interest and dignity require her to form connexions with Russia, with the Low Countries, and with other Powers, but more particularly with France end Great Britain, on account of their mercantile capa cities. France requires new wants for her surplus of industrial and agricultural produce, and is obliged to seek them in the vast markets of America. For this object, the Monarch who holds the Sceptre of Louis XIV., who proclaimed to the world that " Commerce and Industry, constitute the glorious of States," has just sent a mission to ColumMa. The Envoy, Monsieur Bingos, and truly worthy representative ofC a n a LEs X. on his arrival at Bogota, expressed to the Government " the high opinion entertained by his Monarch, of the merits and virtues of the LIBERATOR ; and the desire entertained by his Sovereign " for our tranquillity and prosperity, and for the establishment and consolidatione free and vigorous institutions." And there can be nu doubt, when the next Compass shall have constituted Columbia, that the most arguable relations will be formed between two people already united by their idiegi, character, customs, and religion. But it is necessary that Columbia should present herself tranquil; and eau , solidated, to the eyes of France. It was only lately bsv Minister for Foreign Affairs observed, she was ready to do this generally with the new States of America, " soon se they assumed the character of stable, instead of sphaguersl Governments, continually overthrown by the abuse of military force, leaving industry 'Albans the mesas of encouragement, commerce without cesillowne, and abandoning the property of foreigners as E d el =t) the pillage of soldiers and plunderers.' by her great disposable capital, by her superior industry, by her vast commerce, and gigantic navigation, will also preserve constant communication with our country, and we must cultivate a friendship, strengthened by its claims on our gratitude. But with none of those European Powers hays we any natural political relations, and the basis of our system, with regard to them, must also only be peace, good-will, friendship, amity, commerce, and mutual respect. It is to be regretted that in the treaties made with England and the United States, no distinction should have been made between the payment of dues on their native shipping, as it is injurious to our revenue, and re moves a stimulant to our own navigation end commerce —but what is done we cannot undo ; we must only en deavour to avoid, if possible, similar stipulations in future treaties. GARCIA DEL RIO. Ettaaruss—ln XVIII Letter, 61 lines from the bottom, for 2 . 1110 States—read—New States. THE MARCHIONESS A few days ago we acknowledged the receipt of a letter from tl.is Lady ; since which wt. have received the fol lowing coinniunic:ltion from a highly respectable surgeon. It is unnecessary for us to strengthen it by any prelimi naq,co.timeuts TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Wednesday Evening. Sta—ln your Notice to Cot respondents its the Seas; of skis gum. I, perceive you state that the letter from an unfortunete Lady now in confinement in the 3larthalsea Prison, shall be attended to. If that letter is, as I conceive it to be, from the talented Mar chioness. who in earlier life was the companion of Princesses, but I who is now, front political events, reduced to the most destitute state, I beg to assure you a c tee more deserving the sympathy of a generous public, or the support of a respectable Paper, has seldom or ever presented itself. As a medical man, Sit, lam daily com pelled to witness scenes of misery ; yet never has it been my lot to meet with one equal to this. Imagine yourself. Sir, for a moment in one of the rooms of the Marshalrea Prison, in the month of De cember, and that you there behold a Lady nearly 70 years of age, whose language and manners at once. convince you that she is moldy horn, suffering under severe illness, and, although devrieed of al most the common necessaries of life, still cheerful and resigned to her uithapisy fate; and I an, sure you will jolt, with me In think ' log this a case which loudly calls for the attention of the benevolent. When I list saw the Marchioness,l wished her to permit me to make her situ ition publicly known, but from this she shrunk with all the ' sensitiveness of a delicate mind. it is now three weeks since that period, during the g part of which I have been ill, and conse quently had no communication with her. Necessity, I fear, has compelled her to overcome her scruples, and induced her to apply to you. This being the case, I feel it a bounden duty to afford my testimony :is to the truth of her forlorn situation. I enclose you my card, and shall feel pleasure in answering any enquiries. I bare *be booour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, J. C. L. MR. COBBETTS NORTHERN TOUR. To-day, 11th January, I am going to Oldham ; to morrow, to Bolton-le- Moors ;on the 13th to Preston ; on the 14th, to Rochdale ; on the 15th, to 'fodmorden ; on the 16th, to Halifax ; the 17th will be Sunday ; on the 18th, to Huddersfield ; on the 19th, to Dewsbury ; on the 20th, to Leeds This is as near as I can venture to lay down the route at present ; but I think I shall be at Nottingham by the 27th, at farthest. At Leeds and at Sheffield 1 probably stop more than a day. The wo, Wier here now is clear ground and hard frost.— Hitherto the winter has been severe, and I think there is every likelihood of its continuance. However, my ten men and boys, with two maid-servants, at the farm, have got plenty to eat and drink and to burn, and to keep them warm iu the night ; and if other farmers do not do the same, according to the extent of their land, the fault is not mine. Notwithstanding the de scriptions given of my farm and farm-yard by the Times newspaper, there is not a farm-yard in England that presents greater abundance than mine does at this moment. Plenty of straw, of which the ruffians said I had none. Nine working oxen, a cow, and a good lot of the finest of hogs. The oxen have eaten up all the corn-stalks, tops and all. I have about 18 acres of the finest of Swedish turnips, as yet untouched. My opinion is, that such a piece of turnips of this kind, with land so clean, is not to be seen in England at this time, except at my little farm; and yet the calumnious ruffians have spread about all over the country, that the farm is destitute of every appearance of stock or of sub lantial property. What punishment is there 'which base liars like these do not deserve ? My landlord, Mr. Colebrook, has caused a dtemorandum to he conveyed to me, upon the subject of the paragraphs in the newspapers, denying that he had any hand in them. This memoran dum intimates that an explanation will be afforded me when I return to town. I shall therefore suspend opera tions in that respect until such return. If the explana tion shall be satisfactory, there will be an end of the mat ter, and Mr. Colebrook will find me just the reverse of what he has heard me described ; but if it be not satisfac tory, Mr. Colebrook shall find, that though I despise the Old Times and the other paragraph-grinders, I am not about to permit my landord to republish with impunity, libellous publications on his just and punctual, and even generous, tenant ; but I am not going to suffer him to 'islet in the work of calumniating me, while my industry and enterprise are really tilling his pockets with money.— Register. A subaltern upon half-batta may live not only without distress, but comfortably in any part of India. It is not necessary that he should do more. It is even better that he should feel difficulty cccasionally ; but it is a bad training for an officer to place him in a situation where he shall always be at his ease, and scarcely ever feel the necessity of practising economy.—Life of Sir Thomas Munroe. We read in a country paper—" In the Dumfries and e loway Infirmary there is a patient of the name of ,Wn'. Stewart, whose history possesses a melancholy in tftwit. When very young a companion asked perwinb son :o shoot an arrow at his fingers. He consentsi, ind unthinkingly bold up his hand before his face. The arrow passed between his fingers, stuck in his forehead, and actually put out his left eye " Poor fellow ! What an odd situation his eye must have occupied, to be put out by an arrow sticking in his forehead! Perhaps be was a cyclop. Florence is still more gay than it wan, occasioned , chiefly by the attraction of Lord Normanby's private' theatricals, and the splendid hospitality of his table. , Young C has. Mathews designs the dresses, and the subjects of the new and beautiful scenes wit= the theatre is decorated. .THE POOL or • FATIIKR, OR Tilt FATHER OP • F00t..--The Hon. Mr. Ml—, being at variance with his father, sometime speaks very freely in rer heavies of his oeadact, bat plume himself on allowing ao ewa ohm t• de so. A sprig of (whim, with hiss oa his sire's undutiful waded, broke " That feel of a father." " Hold !" cried Sig piety, " allow se NSA to call Lord *fool ofa &- Aar. "It w a mere slip of the teague," replied the ether, 1 self Imam to lay that foam of EA lie'," LORD BYRON. In an extract in our Paper of Friday from Ilfoore's Life e Long Byress,lt is stated that he thought eery tittle of the merit• of " Childe Harold." but promised himself much fame bona a Pa raphrase of Horace's Art of Poetry." That he bhimid have re ferred this performance for a time to the sublime rt amet.mgv of " Child* Harold." the Author considers an error or caprice of judgment unexampled I. the annals of Ilteratute. The prefer..nce thus condemned appears the more extraordinary in reference to the following stanza' in Canto 4 of" atildeHarold'sPilgrentage :" LXXIV. I've look'd oa Ida with a Trojan's eye; Athos. Olympus. Mos. Atlas. made These hills seem tbings of lesser dignity. All save the lone liuracte's heights 411,11'71 Not new in snow, which asks the lyric Roman's LXXV. Por our remembrance, and from out the plain Heaves like a loog-swept wave about to break. And on the curl bangs pausing : not in vain May ke, who will. his recollections rake And game in classic raptures, and aware The bills with Latian echoes ; I abhorr'd Too much, to conquer for the Pores sake The drill'] dull lesson, forced down word by word In my repugnant youth, wl , h pleasure to record LXXVI. Aught that recalls, the daily drug which turti'd My sickening memory; and,tbough Time bath taught My mind to meditate what then it learn'd, Yet such the Sled inveteracy wrought By the impatience of my early thought That, with the freshness wearing out before My mind could relish what it might have sought If free to choose, I cannot now restore It• health; but what it then detested, still Abhor. LXXVII. Then farewell, Horace ; whom. I bated so, Not for thy faults, but mine ; it is a curse To understand, not feel thy lyric Sow, To comprehend, but newer love thy verse. Although no deeper Moralist rehearse Our little life, nor Bard prescribe his art, Nor livelier Satirist the conscience pierce, Awakening w•thoot wounding the traveled Evart. Yet tare thee well—upon Soracte's ridge we part. In note 40 to this Canto the Noble Poet observes—" These stauaes may probably remind the reader of Ensign N.rthertmt's remarks " D—n Homo," &c but the reastris is r our dislike are sow ex Aviv the same. I wish to express that we .become tired of the task before we can comprehet d the beauty ; that we learn by rote lertore we can get by heart; tl st the freshness is worn away and rise future pleasure and advantage deadened and destroyed, by the didactic anticipation, at an age when we can neither feel nor under. stand the power of compositions, which it requires an arquaititacce with life as well as Latin and Greek, to relish or to reason DA NGA N. One day last week, we gave an anecdote abo.it Dangan, which, we helive, was never in print before. The Morning Journal—as is his custom—copied from us,—typographical errors and all ! The Standard ex plained ; and the Courier, of course, contradicted ! ! Never was there such a fuss made about three innocent lines ! M The Dublin Evening Mail, who, very likely knows every room in the barrack—some people tuiAlit call it a house, others a castle ; but ours is parlia mentary language , and we therefore call it a barrack— the Dublin eing Mail settles the affair in the fa:- lowing manner : "The Morning Journal liming put forward a general au.l very just censure of the Wellesley family as a finical race, more remarkable for the neatness than the magni ficence of their tastes and speculations, cited their quoit - dam pretty and little residence of Dargan, in the County of Meath, as an illustration. Now, says The uriel , with all the solemn importance of a dunderhead when he fancies be has made a palpable hit—" Now it 1 appens that there is no such family seat in the County of Meath as Dargau." 0 the marvellous trumpeter of the i owe' s that be—what a discovery ! such a place as Dargae, true enough, there is none. But the man who made dis covery must have known that there is a seat called Dangan—and why did he not r.t ire it ? Simply that he might convict The Morning Journal of falsehood for sooth, because the compositor substituted the dog's letter for an N. This is a sample of the honest) and candour of the Government Press. Dangan, how ever, only was the family seat. Within its vene rable precincts was born that little great man Lord Wel lesley. There too the Lord of Maryborough, the small est politician and the g reat , st stag-hunter of all ages first saw• the light. There Gerard, the fattest Pre bendary and the tinyest Divine, sung his infant hymn. There the Lord of Cowley entered into his primitir.. treaty with his nurse, and in Dangan, though he now Li< the meanness, if not to deny, at least to shuffle it off - the illustrious warrior, the pitiful prosecutor, the magni ficent enemy, the despicable friend, Arthur, First Duke of Wellington, marched mewing and wailing into the light of day. Since that time the no less illustrious, talented, and honest race of O'Connor—the Roger O'Connorshave seen many a hopeful scion grow up to maturity in the green retreats of Dangan, but alas!— ' nor Wellesley, nor O'Cr anor more shall we behold im mortalizing its little groves and ambitious shrubberies, its wide staircase and contracted parlours, with their nativities. Henceforward the Trimming breed of the Wellesleys are fated to propagate far from Trim." e .. _ . Sla CHARLES AT IT AGAIN.—Tbis fkwer d the City will not " give it up." 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