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We cannot suffer the letter of " An Occasional Cor respondent" to go forth to the world unaccompanied by a few remarks :—and in the first place, we are bound, in justice to ourselves, and in vindication of our own con sistency, to show that in our reprobation of Mr. O'CON NELL'S projects for the renewed agitation of Ireland, we do but follow up the precise line of conduct and ob servation which was adopted in the columns of the STAR upon the first announcement of O'CoNNELL'd design to " agitate" the Repeal of the Union.—ln " the STAR" of November 10th, 1829, the following comments were elicited by the speech which the "Agitator"—for as such we shall henceforth denounce him—had just before delivered at Youghall :—" As an asserter of religious equality, the Honourable Gentleman accomplished a glorious mission—he ran a splendid career ; but with all his affectation of liberal sentiment—for it was an af fectation with him—he never convinced us that he was really liberal. Neither will it be going too far, to say that he never convinced the country : by the country, e mean the Protestant mass of the Empire, who mistrusted O'CONNELL from the first, and mistrust him doubly now. Throughout the long " agitation" in which lie was engaged, the cloven foot of his papistical partisanship stood out conspicuously from beneath the mantle of his Irish patriotism. • • • • While they were yet unemancipated, they talked of the injustice of ineligibility to public honours and offices on account of flick religion ; it was a brand—they complained—of civil inferiority. Remove this, by putting us upon the same footing—in point of law—with our Protestant fellow sub jects, and it is all that we desire : surely nothing can be fairer; we do not want the places themselves, but only eligibility to them: eligibility is not election. Such was the language of the unemancipated agitators : the disabilities are repealed—they are made equal to the Pro testants in law—and immediately their tone is altered, and their demands rise. °TON N ELL has carried emancipa tion, and he now calls for a repeal of the Union : if he could carry that, he would propose next a declaration of Ireland's independence upon England. It is that—and that alone—at which, in the intoxication of his popu- larity and self-astonishment at his own successes, the lion. Disturber aims." • • ' ' In the leading article of the Srs n of Nov. 11, it was observed, " He says he wants, and he must have, a repeal of that cursed measure, —phraseology in which deep disaffection struggles fur mastery with indecent egotism." ` * ` * And again, in the leading article of the STAR for January 5, " We must take leave to remark, that the Honourable and Learned Agitator is indebted in a great measure to his own extravagant views and pretensions, for the diminution of his popularity. If Mr. O'CoN NELL have been sincere in many of his latter vehemencies about a native Parliament, and repealed Union, he is a man of dangerous opinions; one from whom it is incumbent—alike on personal and public grounds—that all his friends should hasten to se parate, if they desire to avert anarchy from their country, and destruction from themselves. If, on the contrary, these fierce declamations of the Honourable Gentleman have been employed only as a stalking-horse, and a screen, to cover his private purposes, the pernicious hypocrisy was not less calculated to ignite again the elements of an extinguished !rebellion, rsince the people to whom they AT TWO O'CLOCK. Do. Do. Jul.& Jan.l9 3-16 India Stook. 244; India Bonds 83 2 £lOOO Exch.Bills 81 80 £5OO Ditto 81 80 £lOO and £2OO Do. 81 80 Bank for Acct. India for do Cons. for Ace. 931 were addressed could not know that they were thus fraudu lently used, and received them therefore under the strong conviction that they were the sincere exhortations of their leader." We must be pardoned, if our anxiety to acquit our selves of imputed inconsistency, have rendered it incum bent upon us to recur to these passages, and to place them, even at an inconvenient length, once more before our readers. By such sentiments were the conductors of the STAR actuated at that period, and by such sentiments are we actuated at the present hour. Our vindicatory allusion to the Letter of " An Occa sional Correspondent," must of necessity be brief. We do not object to Mr. O'CON N ELL, any " breach of im plied engagements with distinguished friends of the Country :"—we know of none such. Our quarrel with Mr. O'Ccc x ELL arises from his conduct, as connected with his new Association. \Ve do net charge him with having entered into, or violated, even an " implied en gagement" with any man, or set of men. Had he done both, or either,as long as it affected only a party-compact, we should not arraign him for it. Our services— humble, but certainly zealous and well-intentioned as they are—nre devoted to the public, cause- -and not to the cause of any indi‘klual or of any exclusive party— except, indeed, as we may believe that party to deserve the noble designation of " the Cou ntry's Party." Our Correspondent doubts whether, if certain statesmen had been in power when the Catholic Relief Bill pawed, that measure would have been rendered obnoxious by the dis franchisement of the forty shilling freeholders; but we must say, that the mention of such a subject, in a letter exculpatory of Mr. O'Cow N ELL, seems rather unseason able ; for it cannot have escaped the recollection of his intelligent vindicator, that Mr. O'Cox N ELI. was the very first man who ever proposed to Parliament the surrender of the franchise enjoyed by the Fort-shilling Freehold ers, as an inducement to the concession of that measure of general relief. Neither can our correspondent have forgotten that when, on his return to Ireland from that unsuccessful mission, he found his popularity endangered by the dissatisfaction which the " proposed wings" had wafted through every corner of that country, he affected to deplore the precipitate proposal he had made, and de clared that " to tho last hour of his existence, he should never cease to reproach himself for having listened to, orsanctioned, the suggestion of such an in fringement of public liberty." And yet we beheld Mr. O'CoN x ELI., in a few years afterwards, submitting to the deterioration of the poor man's interests, nay, to the absolute extinction of his rights,—and then availing him self, with eager haste, of thelfacility afforded him by that sacrifice of the people's privileges, to take his seat in Par liament. With such a fact before us, we are justified in controverting, in the strongest terms, the assertion that " O'CONNELL seems not to have desired emancipation for the Catholic Aristocracy, but for the good of the peo ple." We refer to the report of the last proceedings of "The Friends of Ireland" Society, for the best illustra tion that can be offered of the objects of that Society, and the characters of its members. At last, the French expedition to the Coast of Africa has attracted that attention which we, from the first mo ment of its organization, invariably—and exclusively— declared that it demanded. We place no great reliance, in general, on the private letters of the Times; but upon this occasion—seeing that the lagging statements of that Journal only corroborate our previous opinions and admo nitions—we cannot possibly have any objection to give the Express from Paris, which seems to have been ex clusively received by " the leading journal of Europe." In a second, and cunningly constructed, edition of that paper this morning, we have the following passages : _ Letters from Marseilles, dated April 8, announce that accounts have been received in that port from Malta up to the 30th of March . They say that his Britannic Majesty's bomb-ketch the Infernal had arrived in the port of Malta from the coast of Africa. The officers of this vessel, which left Tripoli on the 15th, and Tunis on the 22d, of March, speak of the great excitement which prevails all along the coast of Africa, and the preparations of the Pachas of Tripoli and Tunis to resist the projected attack of the Pacha of Egypt. They say that the Pacha of Tripoli talks of sending 200,000 men against the Egyptians, and that the Paths of Tunis has, already sent to the frontiers of his state 12,000 picked men. These letters add, that the accounts from Malta do not speak of the arrival at Tripoli of a messenger of the Pacha, with a summons to the Regencies to submit to his rule ; but that is not surprising, as the Infernal left Tunis on the 22d, and the vessel which brought the intelligence of the arrival at Tripoli of the Egyptian messenger left blonestler, a port between Tunis and Tri poli, about 60 miles from the former place, on the 28th of Match. The advice' brought by the vessel from Moneatier had been trans.. mitted to Paris by express, and great importance seemed to be at tached them—The African expedition is now beginning to engross the attention of the French public; and it is believed that it does not attract in a less degree the attention of the great Powers. MARSEILLES, APRIL 6. This afternoon the Change was very quiet, as usual : no remark able uansactions have taken place ; but towards the close of the Change the report was spread that a vessel had arrived from Mo nestier, near Tunis, with news of the surrender of Tripoli to the son of the Pacha of Egypt. If the fact be true, it is a most important event for our commerce; and on all sides one could hear nothing but the following questions Has he been excited to it by France or England ? or has the young conqueror fired before the sig. nal ? For our army will not be ready before the 10th of May. This pie= of news is not guaranteed but yet is believed, in conse. quence of the last letters from Alexandria, which all announced that the Pacha was making very considerable military preparations in his fleet. It appears that at Tunis, es well as at Algiers, the great movements at Toulon are no secret. The Europeans are struck with a panic on all the coast of Africa, and ask if they ought not to fly the vengeance of the Moors. We looked this morning with great eagerness for tno confirmation of this news in the Sema phore, and we find in it the following paragraph : It was reported to-day at the Exchange, that the Pacha of Egypt had entered, as a conqueror, into the regency of Tripoli. He is re. ported to have already taken ion of two towns. The Preour. seer states the following, rrO li n s l es a l letter from Marseilles of the 6th :•—• A vessel arrived (this evening announces that Ibrahim Paella had landed near Tripoli, and that he is already master of two forts. Thus our Arabian allies have forestalled us in the African expedition. It is said that an embargo has been laid at Alexandria upon all vessels, which accounts for our not having any arrivals for some time. The postseriptum of another letter says— ' Letters from Tunis, and the statements of a Sardinian captain, an nounce that Ibrahim, son of the Pacha of Egypt, who had left Alex andria at the head of an army, had arrived at Bagay, a nd intended continuing Ma march upon Tripoli, which he wishes to take posses sion of.' Such are the statements that we have been able to collect. We shall, no doubt, shortly receive others We ought to add, that a Sardinian vessel, Our Lady of Mercy, Captain Castellano, ar rived on the 6th at Marseilles, from Alonestier ; but she has been put into quarantine, which;explains the want of certainty respect- ing the news said to have been brot:ght by this vcssel.—Journal du Commerce. DISSOLUTION OF THE CHAMBER. We helieve we can affirm that the dissolution of the Chamber will not so immediately take place as the Liberal journals appear to wish. Every one perceives the necessity of giving time to the Roy alists to recover themselves ; and we are sure that, at whatever time this measure may be taken, they will all equally feel the necessity of opposing, in a firm manner, all the designs of the revolutionists."— Quolid icons. The following article of the Monifewr has, no doubt, been occasioned by the disputes of the Gazette and Quotidienne : "Phe public papers which attack the Government make use of a very convenient system of tactics. They suppose that Ministers have journals, and attribute to them the sentiments, wishes, and discussions of these journals. If they are asked who assured them of the pretended fact, they will answer that it suited them to invent it. When these papers use the following exptessions-- , Ministers say ;" Ministers write ; " the Ministry supposes ;" we read in the Ministerial journals '—Fiance may boldly answer them, that there is no truth in it, and that they ascribe to Ministers their own inventions. In private life noose would dare to accuse his adversary by gra. tuitoua suppositions What is unlawful in private. is not In sso in public life. It is nut likely that Ministers should daily reveal what they think, say, or do to any of their pretended confi dential journals. An indiscreet government is no government. The Ministry have not given to any one the right of speaking in their name, and no one, for aught they know, has done so. They neither own nor disown any journal ; they leave to each its liberty. Government is not composed of private individuals, with particular affections, but it consists of public men, whom a sense of duty raises above the puerility of entering into the debates of opinion. it is to the good sense of the nation that Government entrusts the judgment of public visiters. Journalists in general are not sufficiently aware of the obligations of government not to intervene in their quarrels. In their eyes, the only good government is that which renders an ac. count of its actions on a public stage, where they app: ar as severe cen sors. But the King's government manages the affairs of France with. out ascending the benches like mountebanks. Far from insulting the press, Ministers deem it valuable, when confined within the bounds of moderation and wisdom. They are aware that good ad vice may often proceed from a joumalist of talent and experience. The press ought to enlighten public opinion by all kind of discussion relative to our interests, but it should not excite and cherish the passions. If by false presumption it misses its aim, it will be its own fault ; Government will never become the tool of declaimers and demagogues. Thus Government, in its designs and acts, is not more influenced by the unjust disdain of the press, than subject to its caprices. It would be derogatory to its own digiity if it en tered into the quarrels of wounded selt.love and disappointed am bition, with which most opposition journals now abound. This is supposition which it disowns, and of which it will prove the false. hood by its actions.' " The Courtier Francais of this morning contis:ns the following observations upon the article of the Moniteur, given in another part of the Messenger:--' The Moniteur's article is the object of a se vere censure on the part of the Gazette de France. Thus war is openly declared between them. The journal of M. de Villele af firms that it finds so many inconsistencies and contradictions in the terms of this article, and they are involved in such obicus rimy, that it is impossible to make out any sense or meanirg in them ; yet the Goactic perfectly comprehends the mea sure which dictated them. Now, let us ask, what is the meaning of this article? What is the sense of these oracular phrases?— Is it not a declaration of war between Prince do Polignac and ill. de Villele ? The Gozetc asserts that it feels indifferent as to being avowed or disavowed by any one ; that it will continue to' pursue the line of &induct it has prescribed for itself; and will even defend the Ministry, though they may repel its aid._ This is truly an excellent composition, and at the same time a species of impertinence to which Gevernments arc little sceustomed. Observe this, then, M. de Polignac I Thei arc in different whether you acknowledge them or not ; they will not make the slightest concession of principle to you I The Gus elk belongs to M. de Yillele , and to hurt will it adhere. Thus the most warm and acrimonious hostility still reigns between the two favourites. Liberty and the constitution will at least gain strength by these life ferences. MR. O'CONNELL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Mx. Enrron,-1 have read, with some regret, your reflections on the character and cor.duct of Mr. O'Connell, in re spect to the formation of a new society in Ireland, for the improve. ment of that country, and I venture to suggest to you the following considerations, not with a view of justifying any breach of faith in implied engagements which be may have made with distinguished friends of the people (for Ido not know that Mr. O'C. has made any such engagements, although I am induced to suspect this to be the case, from the nature of your remarks or. Saturday); but with a view to direct your attention to the rapid developement of those mighty and unsatisfied feelings which form the deep under. current of society ;--and, if possible, to alarm, with manly christian action, both Ministers and people. It is the policy of wicked, and therefore weak Ministers, to be without forethought, and wil. fully to blind themselves to mighty facts, while they busy them. selves in unprincipled detaiL Sir, our country is rapidly progressing in events which will make " the ears of every man to tingle," and we have a Premier, who shrouds himself in mysterious silence ; and a Home Secretary, who is delaying every thing which ought to be urged forward, and industriously forwarding every thing which is partial and incomplete. I will not speak of the other mcmbcr of the Administration, but they appear to me as unfit to guide the destinies of this mighty people as our greatest enemies can desire. The Sovereign Is too silent for the welfare of his people ; and I deeply fear, that he will find, too late, that they who advised measures which his present Ministers row plume themselves in having adopted, were worthy of better femur, than he has thought good to shew them. It has always appeared to me,that thedismissal of Mr. Huskisson and his friends, was analogous to the dismissal of Mons. Necker, and that they will only be called again to power when it shall be tou late. I am aware that Mr. H. may not be everything:the people can desire ; but the moral character of the people demanded that they, who laboured for years to bring about a great measure of state duty, should have had a more distinct and in. fluential part in carrying the measure into effect. if this had been the case, I doubt if it would have been rendered obnoxious by the disfranchisement of those, whose claim to enjoy the right which they possessed, was as good as that of any Nobleman to hie Borough, or to his Estate, or of the King to his Crown ; but, Sir, the policy of those who refused Emancipation, so long as it secured them place, and conceeded it when place was to be preserved, can find no favour with uptight men —these are not the men to preserve the rights of the weak, or to entrust with the privileges of the strong. These reflections bring me again to Mr. O'Couutt.t., who best evidences his attachment to truth and the people by the course which he now takes: he seems not to have desired emancipation for the Ca tholic Aristocracy, but for the good of the people; and if Mr. PEEL and his party chose to shuffle and betray, it is no reason why Mr. O'Comsrint. should follow in the wake of insincerity and oppres. 'ion. Mr. O'CouwEr.t. appears convinced that Ministers will grant nothing to weakness and justice. I may doubt the immediate use fulness of his measures, but I am by no means surprised at them. If I were in Ireland (though a Protestant) I should unite myself to his society, so deeply assured am I that the people have no security in the principles of the Government. Sir, cast your eye over your own paper of this evening —look to the last page but one, in which reference is made to the enlarge ment of the Ring's kitchen, and other matters connected with cer tain entertainments already given, or about to be given, at St. James's ; and then read the statement In the next column, which is in these words." 69 ton 9 cwt. of coal was hauled into:Frome from Radstoke Coal Works, (a distance of eight miles) 300 trucks drawn by 392 men, 34 women, and 294 CHILDREN, all harnessed like cattle !" Now, Sir, I cannot command my feelings to make comment on this statement, but this I say, that if such things cannot be pre. vented by Government, they are too imbecile to govern this people ; and if Government can remedy this state of things, and do not, they are too wicked to govern this people. Be assured, Sir, that these are the kind of facts which are sinking down into the broken hearts of the people, and the remembrance of them will steel the people against the laments of kings, and priests, and nobles, and mighty men, and rich men, when calamity shall set in upon the land like a flood, and sweep away the foundations of misapplied power. Th e French revolution began with a cry for " bread." I own that the fearful state in which our nation is placed will make me most indul gent to men in power ; but 'mourn that distress and privation keeps ascending up the form of the body politic ; the head and the arms arc occepied in adorning themselves with " more abundant honours." I have written you a very desultory letter; but I am unable to express to you my increasing and deep conviction, that unless Provi dence should raise up a standard of deliverance amongst us, the self sufficiency, selfishness, and ignorance of those in power, will involve us all in one common lot of wretchedness. AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT. April 11, 1830. CITY. TwELvv. o'CLoca. The French Bente* having come higher, Consols are at 921 / for the Account ; but they arc down to 931, and at present may b e quoted se:11 and for next time 93 1. We understand that in the Foreign Market there has been a failure of some importance—a //dal It is said his deficiency amounts to about 20,0001. No material speculations with the Foreign Market has this morn. lag been effected. Accounts from Lisbon state, that it was deemed necessary totted troops into the Alentejo; and the sth regiment of cavalry has been cantoned at Estremes. Although the promised which thealiPeli'cs have made of the future moderation o their Government, it is know & that within these few days, that two vessels have sailed for the Ta. gus, with three hundred persons on board, condemned for tyinlont. It appeals that the naval arrangements against Algiers will con. sist of 119 ships of war. Admiral Dupene has published an order of the day to stimulate the zeal of the officers in forwarding the ex. pedi tient . Sir John Campbell, who has arrived at Lisbon, thinking to have a command in the Portuguese army, has been disappointed--D or . Miguel re fu•ing to employ any Englishman, until he is recognised by the Britit It Government ! ! ! Marseilles papers have been received at the North and South Arne. dean Coffee-house tap the 20th Dzceniber. They contain an Order of Council fur extending for twee years the registering of the slaves. Information from the island of Jersey brings accounts of the un. pleasant disputes between ;he oyster-boats and French cutters. These have been this year unf..rteinately renewed. Scarcely had the fishing season commenced, when five or six smacks were seized by the French cutter'', for having transgressed the regulated limits. a:ad laid up in the harbour of Grimvill.. ONE O'CLOCK. Consols have been fluctuating during the morning from h:Cf l to 1.131 for the Account; at present they are 93 buyers.- Ihe decline is attributed to the near approach of settling thy. which takes place to-morrow in the Consol Market, and which is supposed to be a Bull Account. Up to the present hour we do not hear of any political information. Since writing our twelve o'clock account we have made further inquiry in re. gard to the failure in the fureigo house, and we understand that it is not of that magnitude as we first stated, the difference being only to the amount of 1,5001. or 2.0001. and there are some hopes that the affair will be privately adjusted. It is settling day in the above Market, and the heaviest account to wind up is that of (heck Bonds. We do not hear of any failure* Greek Bonds have lowered; in other Foreign Securities little doing. LIVERPOOL. A pats. 13.—The Loyale Sam Nicholi was totally lost between Bohai and Macero ; had on board eight hundred bags of cotton. PROFUSION OF VIE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. O. 1.--ARMY MILDICAL DEPARTME\T. Si R, The present crisis calls so loudly for retrenchment in every branch of national expenditure, that 1 am induced, through the medium of your Paper, to direct the atten tion of the public to the extraordinary increase that has, of late years, been made to the patronage, and consc ' quently to the expense, of several departments, that seem hitherto either to have escaped the scrutiny of political economists, or to have been but imperfectly investigated. An inquiry into the relative cost of the Army Medical Department in the years 1792 andlB3o, and particularls in the interval, between the peace of 1815 anti the present time, would lead to the developement of some curious and most important facts. It would be well worth while to compare the state of the medical staff on foreign stations at the two periods, and in so doing to look to the Fifth Re} ort of the Commissioners of Military Inquiry, and contrast the opinions then given by the present DI lt TOR-GEN Etta I. of the Army Medical Ijcpartment (ml,O was at that time a subordinate Officer,) t•. ith his Direr of the Department at the present day. We now find that the retired officers of that depart ment are a Physician-general and an Inspector-general of hospitals. The latter of these held, with the Inspector ship, a distinct full pay appointment, as Comptroller of accounts of army hospitals—neither more nor less than comptroller of his own accounts; and also the situation of Staff-surgeon to his late Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, with extra pay for length of service; and has re • tired on a double pension as Inspector of hospitals and Comptroller of his own accounts, " as aforesaid." These two officers—the Physician-general, and Inspector-ge neral—belonged to the former Army Medical Board; the third officer, the Surgeon-general, died since his re tirement, and his retired allowance is therefore saved to the public. In 1810 a New Army Medical Board was appointed, at about double the pay of the former : one member of which, who had been appointed fiont half pay allowan: of 2651. per annum, retired Upon a !.:tlf pay of 6001. For annum, after a few months' trial of his services, on the plea of having lost the sigl.t of an eve, as if one ,yo were not sufficient for the discharge of his dutiesl..hich consisted chiefly of writing and reading reports. San afterwards, the first Dtit£cTon-Gcxt:RAl.waspermite:d to retire on an allowance of 1,00 . 0/. per annum, on ac count of age, haying been about eighty years of age when he was selected for the appointment; and ho was succeeded by the present Di RECTOR-GEN ERA L. This latter ap- I pointatent gave umbrage to the second member of thu Board, who had expected the promotion • and he en deavoured to effect his retiretnoat on 1,0001. per anuam ; but his application was refused, until the SEC It ETA RV AT-WAR notified in Parliament his inteutim of reducing. one of the three members of the Board ; and an yEer was then made to the second member to retire on t.O/. per annum, which he accepted ; and instantly, in thu face of the SIX KETA It Y-AT-WAR ' s notice of reduction, and in direct contravention of the Kt N Wm rant for the establishment of the Army Mcdici , l Board, the va cancy thus occasioned was titled by an Officer from the half-pay list of 12s. 6d. per diem. This junior Officer was soon afterwards reduced, and placed on the half-pay allowance of 6001. per nonam I —the full pay of the re spective Officers being, Di ist:crud-GEN ERA 1., 2,0001 per annum—two PuiNciral.-Issenc 1 o RS, 1,2001. per annum each. _ There were thus, at one time, six Superior Officers of the Army Medical Departiacut on retired a11u,% ances, viz.:— One Physician-General One Surgeon-Gcneral One Inspector-Gencral Ditto, as Comptroller of his own Accounts MO f One Director-General One Principal lnmpector WI One ditto ditto • • 6OIP .......-.. 4.20(1 Of these two are since dead, viz. One Surgeon-Gtneral ,450 One Director. General Leaving Retired Allowances One Director-General on full pay One Principal Inspector 1 20U X-5,95:t In addition to which we now have a long list of In spectors, Deputy Inspectors, and ether Medical Sof Officers, all newly appointed since the peace ; while, in fact, there were numbers of experienced officers on halt= pay who would have rejoiced in being placed on full-pay and sent upon any foreign service. Mr. Hu M E and Col . DA V is should look to this. I am Sir, your obedient Servant, London, April 15, 1830. INVESTIGATOR. We have reason to believe that the failure of a certain Jew- - although posted up—is not so serious as the Citizens imagine. The deficiency is not so much as twenty thousand.