Star. — London, England, 1829-11-05 00:00:00

))%\ , C* , • . On the subsequent (last) day, Royal admit! and discernment were chiefly busied in visiting the &unloosed the Capitoline Mu seum. In the latter, the Venus, and the Ague erroneously styled the Dying Gladiator, messed to obtain most attention. At St. Peter's, the young Queen-elect displayed her agility in ascending into the bail which summits the dome; and upon her return. found notice of the auspicious exploit prepared for posterity, to :its inscription in a marble tablet that had been allied daring her ab sence among the clouds. Yesterday, the day of departure, they pai d another, and "moving" visit to the Pontiff, and afterwards, a hurried one to the Borghealan and Alban' Villas. At the Porta del Popolo they started, under a salvo from the Papal guns in the Castle of St. Angelo, for Viterbo, where they were to sleep last night; and, GOD willing, win this morning proceed from thence towards Florence.—Herald. lA)N DON. THURSDAY,_ NOVEMBER 5. Houniir—Oorrownsa PLOT, 1605, TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. Within the last month we have received numerous complaints of the non-delivery of Papers recently or tiered and dispatched direct from our Olive. 119 w this has happened we have not at present the means of as certaining; but to prevent .a recurrence of such disap pointments in future, we strongly recommend those No blemen and Gentlemen, who now subscribe to the STAR, to give orders to their respective Newsme— n ho unquestionably form the best and surest medium of Our first page contains a copy of the Armistice con cluded between the Generals of Columbia and Peru, for a period of sixty days. We trust that during this interval, the Governments may conclude a definitive Treaty of Peace, and thus terminate a quarrel which has been so detrimental to their mutual inter e•sts. It is indeed high time that the South American States, till now the scenes of almost uninterrupted anarchy and bloodshed, should convince Europe that they possess some elements of order, and pod government. How deeply it is to be lamented that the Congress of Panama, should have separated without accomplishing any one of those objects for which it had been convened. It is probably to this circumstance alone, that may be attributed the subsequent divisions and disasters of Buenos Ayres and Columbia herself; and above all, the attempt of Barradas on Mexico. By a reference to the letter of our Lisbon Correspon-• dent, it will be seen with what feelings the recognition of Don Mtn UEL by Spain has been received, as well as the conditions of the Secret Treaty. A variety of other de tails, for which we have not space to-day, represent the c•vi?s of every kind inseparable from the usurpation, to be increasing rapidly, and no doubt is entertained that a crisis is not far distant. The letter of another Correspondent, a concealed patriot, informs us that the policy of England added to a conviction that our present Ministers are leagued with the ruling faction, could alone prevent an immediate effort to shake off a yoke which is becoming hourly more intolerable. In the comments we yesterday made on the recogni tion by FERDINAND, we omitted to recur to the impor tant fact of the POPE'd having refused to acknowledge Don MIG UEL. We are told by our Lisbon friend, that, as might be anticipated • nothing can ex ceed the injurious effect of this refusal upon the Usurper : the people who were led by the Priesthood to believe in his legitimacy, are now terrified lest their own excom munication should follow, so that the Despot's fall would be regarded as a judgment from Heaven. We some weeks ago, stated the case of several indi viduals who were arrested at Mafra for no other reason than that of dining together to celebrate the birth-day of a friend. These unfortunate persons are still incarcerated, and among them Madame STORZY, the wife of an Englishman, who is employed by one of the Mexican Mining Associations. We would fain call the attention of Lord ABERDEEN to this Case, aggravated as it is, by the fact of the Lady in question having nearly lost the use of her limbs by a former malady. The Austrian Observer, of the 24th and 25th October, just received, gives us two more Decrees of the Greek National Congress: the first, respecting the exportatic of Antiquities ; and the second, for ameliorating the situation of the Church and the Clergy. It may be of importance to many to know that the Greek Government is now only " empowered to allow the exportation of remains of Antiquity, when they are required for the purposes of Archaeological Researches of Scientific Institutions." These Decrees are as follow: VIENNA, OCT. 23. DECREE OP THE GREEK NATIONAL CONGRESS, assracrom trs 2:roar:isms or armor:um Considering the 18th Article of the Ordinance of the Govern ment promulgated by the National Congress at Treezene, forbid ding the sale and exportation of antiquities : considering that the present Government, in conformity with the said Ordinance, has refused all applications made to it for the exportation of antiquities : Ike Fourth National Comma decrees— Alit. 1. All that was resolved by the National Congress at Treezene against the exportation of monuments of antiquity is confirmed. ART. 2. The Government is only empowered to allow the ex portation of the remains of antiquity when they are required for the purpose of archaeological researches of the scientific institutions of the several Governments. DECItE Or TUN IriTIONAL CONGRESS AT ARGOS, 14TY AUGUST, TOL AUX LIORATING TUB SITUATION Or TUB CM/NCB AND TUB CLUMSY, ke. " The fourth National Congress. considering it to be one of its paramount duties to tern its 'undoo to the most suitable means of accelerating the moral and political restoration of Greece; con sidering, as the basis of this restoration, the moral regeneration of the citizens, produced by the principisi of our holy raUgioo, and of a solid education ; recognizing the notesillty of giving to the Go vernment the necessary means : _ 1. To improve the ;hoodoo of the Church and the Only. It. To endow the orphan-house with funds adequate to the object of that institution. 3. To promote the propagation of mutual instrutdon and Normal Schools. 4. To found schools for the higher branches of education, m well for those who dedicate themselves to the Church u to those who are to serve the State in a civil capacity, or mean to devote them selves to the Arta and Sciences. 5. To establhb public printing Aces. The National Congress resolves—Art. 1. The Government is fully empowered to collect, in whatever manner it judges the most proper, all the legacies which patriotic Greeks. as well at home or abroad, have bequeathed, or may hereafter bequeath, in favour of charitable or useful institutions. 2 In concert with the Senate, to take measures to apply to the benefit of the above establishments, the charitable foundations al ready existing in the State. 3. The Government will form. under its immediate direction, a fund, In which the produce of the legacies and charitable founda tions may be deposited; and which *hall be exclusively applied to the promotion of the object stated in Art. 1. We have Brussels Papers this day to the 4th instant. A deputation of the Two Chambers has presented to his MAJESTY the address in answer to his speech. It touches, of course, on all the subjects mentioned in that speech. The subjoined are the principal passages 4' We flatter ourselves that the measures taken by the Gomm meat, in our East India possessions, will put a happy end to the trouble which still exist there. The mother country has msd t great and menses sacrifices to attain this object. We wish to seli the end of them and to enjoy the fruks. " We hope to see the liberality of principles guaranteed by our fundamental compact confirmed by a law on public instruction. " We think with your Majesty, that it is in the nature of our Government to place as much as possible, under the eyes of the laws, every thing that tends to consolidate the welfare and the liberties of our fellow-citizeas ; your wise designs answer to our desires, and you may depend on the cordial co-operation of our assembly." BRUSSELS, Nov. 3. His Majesty has granted to Rotterdam, in the same meaner as to Amsterdam, Antwerp, and other towns, the free importsdon and re-exportation by sea, by means of a general enueg6t.—Brsis• ida l'apers, Nor. 4. An elegant pamphlet has been put forth by Mr. GA LLT KNIG lIT, in the shape of a letter to the Earl of ABM.. DEEM, on the subject of the Foreign Policy of that Noble Minister. The style is perspicuous rather than strong, though in many passages it rises into the emphatic by the inculcation of great truths and principles, which— however, are but too partially insisted on, and too im perfectly unfolded. The natural bias of the writer is evidently to liberal systems, and yet in him the liberali ties of a highly cultivated mind appear to stand checked and chastened in their mid career, as if conflict- ing with some antagonising principle. In the complacency of his unconscious attachment to the free institutions of this country—as he calls them—especially, he overlooks entirely the hUmiliating fact that they sur vive only as black-letter curiosities, but to all substan- tial purposes are abrogated and annulled among us, as far as concerns the people. The borough-system, of which we said so much on Tuesday, has carried into all the arteries of our institutions its pervasive vitiatory power, and beneath the surface of our unrivalled forms just like consumption at the lungs of a hectic beauty—the obliterating gangrene of corruption is poison ing public health at its noble fountains. " England," says Mr. DALLY KNIGIIT--" in spite of her financial embarrassments, occupies an envied station, and possesses great and peculiar ad- vantages. Your Lordship will not deny that those ad vantages principally arise from her free institutions." Now, we complain of this passage, as being a misrepre sentation of the actual condition of England : for it implies that her " free institutions" are yet working with unimpeded wheels, and that " those advantages" which only belong,to them in their perfection, continue to re sult equally, notwithstanding their deterioration. A little reflection will convince Mr. GALLY KNIGHT that he did not sufficiently weigh this proposition, before he advanced it : in his too much abstraction in the dreams of our olden purity, he lost sight of the contaminations which have supervened. No ; England did occupy "an envied station," but the station of England is any thing but enviable now. Whether she will regain ever that pre-eminence which the voice of testifying Europe so lately acknowledged to be her's, is a question which we should timidly approach : but that she has lost her glo rious rank among the kingdoms—and lost it through the misgovernment of an incapable and unprincipled administration—no dispassionate observer of her late foreign policy can deny. It is in this view again, that we see cause to complain of the indecisive spirit, and infirm opposition of Mr. GALLY KNIGHT to a set of Ministers, who—by his own showing—have so de graded this country in the eyes of Europe, that the dis paraging mention which he hears everywhere made of her name, " has made the fire burn within him." Yet he begins his book with collateral compliments to the noble Duke, who carried Waterloo and the Catholic Relief Bill ; as if the battle and the measure were to be held up as everlasting skreens, to cover his subsequent imbecile and flagitious policy. lie goes out of his way, also, in more places than one, to bandy civilities with the Noble Earl, whose disastrous conduct of our foreign relations it is the imme diate object of his pamphlet to impugn. These are trimmings and temporisations unworthy of a sincere pa triot, and detrimental to the efficacy of any eloquence which may accompany them in the cause of freedom. One other remark of Mr. GALLY KNIGHT—in the same spirit as the preceding brief quotation—we must use the liberty to contravene. It is where he says—" So long as the British Senate exists, so long will there be a tribunal in this world, before which the tyrants of the earth must appear, there to be inevitably held up, whatever their rank or their power, to the hatred and contempt of mankind. Nothing they do can be done in secret; the British Senate proclaims it to the world." Here again the author—forgetting the corrupt reality of things—has been amusing himself with the beau ideal of a British Parliament. Has Don, MIGUBL bee s dragged as an example before that tribunal ? Or has the beloved FERDINAND been held up to the execra tion which his enormities have earned ? Mr. GALLY KNIGHT'S memory must have surely failed hint, or he would not have predicated thus of a Senate in which bloodshed and usurpation found—only in the last Session—such obstinate and shameless defenders. Does he forget the recommendation to " reconcile conflicting interests," which the Noble and Military Premier had the audacity to put into the SOVEREIGN'S mouth, at a crisis when the wrongs of Portugal made the blood of every virtuous Englishman boil with indignation ? Alas, for such tribunals—where the lamb is condemned in penalties, and the wolf gets his verdict of acquittal ! With such exceptions as we have made, the letter of Mr. GALLY KNIGHT may be regarded SS an able expo sition of the false and wicked conduct of our foreign transactions, under the direction of the Noble Duke and the Noble Earl: and we give with much pleasure—as an illustration of our last affirmative—Mr. KNIGHT'S state ment of the Calle, as regards MIGUEL and Donna MARIA. In what ether light could Europe view the second stir of the proceedings in Portugal? What was the position of things ? Portugal could not be desk mated as a case in which changes, dangerous to menaschy and society, had taken place through the means of insurrection ; and this was, perhaps, the very reason which induced the enemies of liberty to regard the new institutions of Portugal with peculiar aversion. Portugal had accepted a constitution which was the vo luntary gift of her lawful sovereign, and a British force wet con ceded co the request alone most ancient any, to forbid interference from the side of Spain. The interference which the British fierce was sent to resist, menaced the new institutions. Did not England, then, appear to take those institutions under her especial care ? It is idle to ay that those who supported the constitution of Portugal, did not consider themselves as acting under the pro tection of England. The British forme was sass to protect thew. Under these circumstances Don Miguel came to England, and from thence went to assume the Regency of PortugaL His as. sumpdon of the Regency was only agreed to on certain conditions. England, and the Emperor of the Brazils, equally stipulated that the existing institutions should be preserved. Don Miguel engaged to observe these =editions by all the obligations which are binding upon the honour of a Prince, or the conscience of amen ; and then returned to Portugal, escorted by British vessels, and received on his landing by British troops. When, therefore, that misguided Prince departed from all his engagements, he broke his faith at once with his Sovereign, his country, and with England. The violation of the conditions into which he had entered was not only a breach of faith, but a - direct insult to the country from whence be came. The honour of Eng land was implicated. as well as the fate of Portugal, and It became our imperative duty at Duce so show that we could not be mocked with impunity, at the hazard of enforcing the fulfilment of those conditions which we had declared to be indispensable. Embarrassed as we are in our finances, we do not yet pretend to be reduced so low as to be unable to make an exertion when ever the real interests of the country demand it ; and did not the real interests of England demand it when our character, our honour, and the welfare of Portugal were at stake ? And what was the course which England adopted .—Are re called our Aintbassadorl We did just enough to confess to the world our sense of Don Miguel's conduct. and there our exertions ended. We recalled our Ambassador; but we permitted the overthrow of institutions which we had received Don Magueys promise to maintain; we abandoned the friends of limited monarchy to the fate which awaited them; and we went so far as to show a nervous apprehension of In any way displeasing the blood stained usurper. This, my Lord, was a line of policy which was any thing but a prosecution of the Portuguese question in the spirit in muck a m s commenced, a mode of proceeding which it would have more con. sistently emanated from the Cabinet of Vienna, that from that of Great Britain; a mode of proceeding which altered the sentiments of Europe, and changed She position of England. In justification of the cour.e we had pursued, the defenders of the Government (at the same time that they fully assented to the enormity of Don Miguel's conduct.) brought forward the excellent maxim of non-interference. I say emellent, because I am entirely of opinion that England could have no better rule of conduct were it invariably observed. It would he good far ourselves and not prejudicial to others; for, could our neutrality be relied upon, the patriots of other lands would know that they had nothing to fear from British hostility, and nothing to rely upon except their own exertions, *filch they would always find to be the best and most enduring source of national independence and welfare. But, unfortunately, we have usually departed from this rule, except when those who had made the most generous exertions were left to their fate; and, in the eye of Portugal, we had alr:ady irderfeeed. On this account we could no longer. either honour ably or logically, shelter ourselves under the old maxim. The ac tual interference of England was an important feature in the position of Portugal. Trusting to the British shield, the friends of the Constitution took no precautionary measures. When, there fore, perfidy took advantage of the inaction of confidence, it be came our duty to continue the interference we bad begun, till we had given sufficient proof that confidence in England could never be misplaced. It Is said that the Portuguese people are indifferent to a free con stitution. Bet the friends of order seldom inquire into the senti ments of the people, unless it is when ancient prejudices excite a popular cry in favour of certain abuses. When the more enlight ened class have endeavoured to break their chains, and reform these abuses, then, forsooth ! the people become the oracles of wisdom, the only fit judges of questions of state. But the m ore bigotted and ignorant are the people of Portugal, the more do they require the assistance of better institutions; and if they ars not as advanced as other nations, is this an honest excuse for delay?— Or can the ignorance of the multitude be !nought forward by En gland as a reason, and an excuse, ftir deserting the ten righteous men, whose virtue should have saved the city ? A slight effort on the part of England would have preserved the lives of those who have perished, and continued to Motel the safeguard of these institutions which the personal character of her ruler shows to be so desirable ; and, in a more interested point of view, have we, let me ask, pursued the coarse from which we are likely to derive the most advantage? Can we expect to be so much considered as heretofore by a country in which we have given satisfaction to neither party ? Will the Absolusists ever forget our long disavowal of their favourite, or the friends of the Constitution our entire desertisn ? Can we expect that the old attachment of Portugal to England will remain *simpered ? The moment of interference is unfortunately past, bet the usurper remains unacknowledged, nor should his assumed title ever be allowed, unless he gives a certain pledge of amended intentions, by concessions and reparations of a more durable nature than the mere change of meanies and counsellors. Yet, as we have ad mitted the right of the Emperor of the Brazils to dispose of the crown of Portugal. should the emperor, at any time, be per. goaded. unconditionally to recognize Don Miguel as king, the Governments of ether countries will find **esteem placed in a eery embarassing dtuaden. Let as, however. hope thrt the example of Terceira will not be lost epos the mother reentry ; and that the Portuguese nation will, by exertions of its own, effect such alterations as shall at once decide the *sodas of recognition. Sir GEORGE MURRAY arrived in town yesterday af. ternoon, from Tonbridge-wells. PRIVATE LETTER. LISBON, 17th OCT. 1829. Sessav,—The interest of the week commenced at the great fait of Campo Grande on Sunday; the etecution-ot two Patriots at Oporto, and the banishment to Africa of fur for life. It is be lieved the two former were a Jura as Foss, and a student of Coimbra. Another was led round the gallows with a rope round kis neck ; and two more are expected toaster. But this is thought nothing of to what will forthwith happen. Mounav,—what every person of information had, for some time, folly expected, has taken place. viz :—the annunciation of the acknowledgement of Dos Mao= as King, by Spain. The price of this acknowledintent is stated, first to be the cession of Valance de Minbo—which, commanding the frontier town of Tay, in Galatia, within cannon shot of the frostier, may be deemed the key of Portugal. It is the work originally of Vide tus. and the place was peopled; by his veterans; secondly, Al meida, perhaps the strongest fortress in Portugal, but of the importance of which to an invading army, on the new system, military men are much divided ; Deniourier thought it quite otherwise, as the invaders might push oa and leave it behind them safely, without a wasteful siege. TaZIDAT, the " achnomied i ser Bing, who bad been occupied quietly at nsafra suddenly made his appearance, without the slight est predens notice. The ostensible cause was stated to be hlb desire to see the casting of some bells fora church, at the Roya Cannon Foundery—the sight of which gave him the facility, after arriving there by a circuitous route, of darting into the city at once. But this was very unfortunate, inasmuch as he found the loyal city atopensered to mast him—not a handkerchief waved from a balcony—sot a win arose! When he entered the great .square, nobody knew him from his altered looks; and lti. countenance was so cadaverous that positively old Portuguese de clared, notwithstanding his strong body guard, the visas of hired Whims and pickpockets alone, that he was a Spanish Duke! Is it not amazing that the friends of the proems *bar should not act with better taste than to give their sovereign in such an entree, accompanied only by the same agates that proclaimed him? Among the whole fifty of the runners, across the Pram Conunerdo. there was not a single adult. It was altogether a miserable eski. Winn ! he had better have stayed at Mafra. However, so it was ; and at night, notwithstanding no weal declaration had been made by the senate, bodies of thieves under the charterer and , some, but very few, in the dress of Royalist Volunteers,—in a riotous procession, passed through the streets demanding illundnadons ; and some British merchants, who would have done any thing under the usual direction of the City Senate, had their windows broken by what the Ler Awn. re p o calls " she isdfripeds I Essiand." The cafes were all quickly deserted ; in two or three, the people were beaten with sticks. Some young noblemen and others from the notoriousness of the act were seised by the police. On their names being required by the guard, the noblemen were est at liberty, but the others were detained ! WZDNUDAT night, the Saw& (City Senate) illuminated, and then it followed that all should do the same ; but it was very partial among the Portuguese. AU the English in a more or less degree, however, under fear of Ls, Ameasuro's de claration, spent their money —now, be it told him, very hardly earned—in candles or oil, to celebrate the ecbsseskdgesess, by a really great leaden in these times, of Don Munn as King of Por tugal--hitherto disowned by England, unless in a dirty, underhand, petty diplomacy with the miserable AMC*, and the still more mi serable SAPTARIDI from His Britannic Majesty's Pt incipal Secre. tart' of State for Foreign Affairs—L► Atberdssso ! Tens Evasive, paraded the streets, about beige ragamiffins, with en Improvisamee at their bead—coating asiegits on " the aelesesulealgissesa" by Spain !—They passed on unheeded. The Spanish Government has been so kind as to offer the We of ten damson! um to enable Maim to reduce the remainder of his refractory subjects. To obtain this aid, considering that the Por tuguese Government have not yet dared to reduce the Nth Regiment, notwithstanding the arrival in town of the other troops that was :preparatory to it, it is hardly possible that any thing less should be claimed than the fortres s of Elms : Mauna was bog singe gotten by Spain. But what of this? It is all one family! Family compacts were talked of, and acted upon fur some time by British abeam& But what was their policy compared with the "new Lights" of Lw Acesanuto, and the Due de Vuzaurros? CITY, TwiLvs o'CLocK. In consequence of this being the anniversary of the Stb of No vember, it is a strict Holiday at the Bank, Stock Exchange, and Foreign Market ; and, according to the usual custom, the Brokers and Jobbers are assembled on the Royal Exchange. Consols, which left off yesterday at 91* to * for Money, and int for the Account, have been done on 'Change at 91; Thi improvement is attributed to the Express from Paris, which brings • considerable rise in the 3 per Cent. French Renter, which no doubt is the cause of some speculative operations going forward a Paris by gteat capitalists. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE. The business doing in Consols in the early part of the morning was rather considerable, which took place before the Royal Ex change was open in the Stock Exchange court and at the Coffee houses. At present there is a great assemblage of Brokers and Jobbers on Change, and Consols may be quoted at 914 for the Account, and for January Act ount, 92. The only business doing in Foreign Securities are in Danish, at 73k, and Brazil-Bonds, at 661 67. The private letters by the Dutch steamer this morn ing, of the 2d of November, brings the exchange higher. Money was abundant at Amsterdam. We have an arrival this morning from New York by the Dalhousie Castle, which left on the sth of October; the above vessel brings back fifty emigrants: papers and letters not come to hand. Accounts from Lisbon state, that in several parts of the kingdom the harvest has failed, and great fear was enter tained. In the said districts measures were taking to supply l the capital with wheat. The frigate built at Marseilles, for the Pasha of Egypt, has arrived at Alexandria in 13 days. On the 17th of Sept. there were 75 French Ships in the Port of Alexandria waiting the arrival of the harvest. From the interior also the cotton, indigo, and saffron. His Excellency the Commander in Chief is expected at the Presidency early in July. His Lordship would leave Poiree about the 24th inst. Letters from the district of Tuneedpore state, that the indigo plant was in a most flourishing condition ; in some places upwards of four feet high. CALCUTTA, Juwn 5.-.. For days past the weather at the Presidency has been oppressively hot and close : the showers that have occasionally fallen have rather ap peared to increase than to mitigate its ardour. CALCUTTA MARYETII.OUT Cotton market has been quiet during the past week, and the transactions confined to native dealers. The new crops are coming fast to market. The Calcutta Paper, of the 29th May, states that a reduction on the duties on East Indian sugars was confi dently looked for, soon a ft er the sitting of Parliament. Letters have been received from the N.E. frontier, dated 21st May, reporting that the inhabitants of the principal villages belonging to Rajah Teerut Singhad, came in and made their submission to the British Go vernment. A Government Gazette extra states the death of his Highness the Neyementins, on 21st May. el t L. THE EVENING STAR. , )1( PVC ATIS , -