Star.
London, England, 1830-03-26 00:00:00

day, he denounces the prorogation of the Chambers
as " an act of vengeance inflicted on the country, with no
ostensible object but to obstruct the discussion and
adoption of useful and beneficial proposals;"—and then.
as usual, pauses to enquire into the probable result of
such an act. For the hypothesis which he now puts
forth, he js evidently indebted to the friendly remon-
strance of the STAR,—and yet, he has neither the
gratitude, nor the common decency to make a suitable
acknowledgment.—Remembering his reveries of Tuesday,
we own we were amazed by the altered tone of the fol-
lowing

__ Passaic* :
If the parties are irreconcilable in March, is it likely that their
hostility and suspicion will mellow into friendship and confidence
before September, when the majority are repulsed from the palace
with a kind of insult, and sent into the provinces to brood over their
wrongs with their sympatizing or exasperated constituents?

After the defeat of the Duke of Ricitmox n's motion
in the House of Lords, for the appointment of " a Select
Committee to inquire into the internal state of the coun-
try, the condition of the working classes, and the effects
of taxation upon productive industry ;"—of Mr. EDWARD
DAV RN PORT'S proposition " that the petitions com-

plaining of distress in various classes of the community

be referred to a Committee of the whole House, with a
view to inquire into, and report upon, the causes of that
distress, and the remedy thereof :" in short, after the
defeat of every measure that has been either sugursted or
formally proposed in the present Session, having for its,
object the relief of the country, and the amelioration of
the condition of the people ; we were fully prepared for
the rejection of Mr. Pow LETT Tnomrsoles motion for
" the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into
the expediency of making a revision of the taxes, so that
the means of paying the sums voted by the House, and
all other charges for the public service, may be provided
with as little injury as practicable to the industry and
improvement of the country."—We are almost dis-
heartened by the apathy and indifference with which
every appeal to the consideration of Government, and to
the sympathy of Parliament, on behalf of a suffering
people, and an impoverished country, is thus put to si-
lence ; but we cannot suffer such an occasion as the
present to pass, without protesting against the arrogant
assumption of Ministers, who, unmoved by the supplica-
tions of their fellow-subjects, and either insensible
to the appalling calamities of the nation, or inca-
pable of averting or alleviating those calamities,
would deter the yet uncorrupted Representatives of the

people from the conscientious discharge of their delegated
duties, by petulant and overbearing reproofs—by implied
menaces—by invidious taunts—by the jesuitical affecta-
tion of an unfelt compassion,—and by jealous and un-
founded pretensions to the exclusive exercise of all the
functions of the Legislature. It has long been the policy
of the leading Members of the present Administration to
resist—as long as resistance was available—every at-
tempt at the reduction of the public expenditure, or of
the weight of that burthen which now presses so fear-
fully upon the energies of the State ; but when driver
by the determined perseverance of their opponents to
such an extremity as menaced the safety of their posi-
tion, or rendered their hold of power precarious, they
have, with consummate tact, outmanoeuvred their as-

sailants, and converted an unavoidable defeat into the
show of a patriotic concession. We shall not now pause
to enumerate the instances by which this assertion is
warranted ; but content ourselves with evidencing the
fact, by referring to the debate which terminated in the
repeal of the Test Act ; and we now allude to the expe-
dient, or compromise, which was then, its a last resource,
adopted by Mr. PEEL, to save the Ministry from the con-
sequences of a hostile majority,—not in the vain expecta-
tion of now exciting in such a government, a sense of its
own interests, or of what is due to the necessities of the peo-
ple—but in the hope of stimulating the Independent Mem-
bers of the House of Commons to " one struggle more" in
the good cause.—The Cll A/MELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
although compelled to " concur fully in a great part
of what fell from the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Pow-
LETT Tilos( rsoN)," yet, " felt it an imperative duty to'
resist his motion." And what was the motive by which
the CHANCELLOR was actuated ? Why, forsooth, " the
inquiry now proposed was the business of the Govern-
ment, and not of a Committee." The " business of a Go-
vernment," indeed !—of a Government that will not sub-
mit to any Parliamentary investigation—that will not
listen to any proposal for an inquiry into " the state of
the country, the condition or the working classes, and the
effect of taxation upon productive industry," in the
Upper House, lest it should be construed into an
dxpression of " want of confidence in Abo-. inten-
tions of that Government ;"—nor consent to the ap-
pointment of a Committee of the Lower House to
" receive the petitions of the people—inquire into the
causes of their distress—or report upon its remedy,"
because the adoption of such a measure " would be the
means of exciting hopes that could not be gratified :"
of a Government that claims credit with the country for
the prospective reduction of one class of taxes, whilst it
adds to the immediate pressure of taxation by the instan-
taneous imposition of additional duties :—of a Govern-
ment, that to-day issues its mandate for the reduction of
the interest payable to the PUBLIC CREDITOR, and to-
morrow comes down to Parliament, and insists upon the
supreme and exclusive right of controlling and regulating
the system of taxation, because " taxes which were
imposed in a necessitous moment, and which would
perhaps have been refused in ordinary times, were not
only imposed for, but mortgaged to, THE PUBLIC
CREDITOR, to pay the interest of his debt!—and it
was their imperative duty not to diminish the value of
dmiliterest, or endanger the national credit 11"—Such
iirilbs tannage of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHUITZR,
in less than eight and forty hours after he had issued a
proposition, by which the " twine of the interest" was
" diminished," and " the national credit" was " endan-
gered."

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