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London, England, 1830-11-09 00:00:00

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TH E EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9.

LORD MATOllet DAT.—Housai &t was Balm

A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon, at two
o'clock, in the Foreign Office, which was attended by the
LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Earls
BATHURST, ROSSLTN, and ABERDEEN; Lord ELLEN..
BOROUGH, Sir ROBERT PEEL, Sir GEORGE MURRAY, the
CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, and Mr. HERRIES.

A grand dinner, the grandest this season, will be given
by their MAJ ESTI ES on Thursday next, at St. James's.

From an erroneous idea that this being Lord Mayor's-
day, the usual processions by land and water would take
place, immense numbers of persons of all denomina-
tions, crowded the streets of London and Westminster.
St. James's Park also had its full share of gazers,
through whom the Duke of WELLINGTON passed un-
molested on horseback from Apeley House, cheered by the
surrounding multitude.

The disappointment which was experienced in the metro-
polis yesterday, by the unexpected postponement of his
MAJ!STT'S visit to the City, need not be described. The
imprudence, or prudence, of the advice given to his Mai zszT
on the occasion, was, and is, still matter of discussion; and
much difference of opinion exists on the question. We
expressed yesterday all that we thought could be said reason-
ably on the subject, without those specific facts before us,
which we considered probably in possession of government.
We thought that if there were any probable chance of the
event producing a popular conflict, his M arr If.ll Ministers
had acted wisely, by pursuing the cautious course which
they bad done. Our remarks yesterday were written
with a baste, which we fear should require of us to apologize
for their crudeness. We have since reflected on the sub-
ject; and, as we have not altered the views we then took,
we shall take the liberty to deliver our sentiments at more
length, and we hope more distinctly.
We have perused the debates in the two Houses of

Parliament, and all the facts which have been hitherto
developed, to explain the conduct in question ; and
we think those facts, taken alone, and isolated from
all which is, or may be generally known, as to the
state of the popular mind, was not perhaps adequate
to justify the alarming caution which it had occasioned;
but we maintain, that taken in combination with what I.
open to the observation, and experience of all in this town, it
was not to be set aside, as the idle babble which some have
been inclined to consider it. With respect to the individual
conduct of the LORD MAYOR elect, nothing we conceive
was wrong in it, except his not having previously consulted,
the Court of Aldermen, as to what he deemed necessary to
be done on the occasion; .but we confess, entertaining Ids
impressions, we should confider him much more culpable,
had he not conveyed them to the ear of Grovernmnp: 'A
much more important view of the subject is, however74he-
titer facts, which are indisputable, and common to all, would
not fully have warranted the postponement of his MAIZS-
TTII visit, even had Alderman Kay never existed ; and
it is to this view, we are desirous of calling the public
attention.
It may be laid down as a basis, or postulatum for our
proposition, that distress, from deficiency of employment,
sillicts more or leas a large mass of the inhabitants of this
City; and that the human mind, operated upon by such
circumstances, and without that counteracting reflection
which proceeds from extended information, becomes impa-
tient, discontented. and prone to seek redress. The people

so distressed, are paying to the state, a portion of their in.
own; and their distress, they think, would be relieved
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by paying either none, or less. That is not onlyl
their own impala= ; bet it is openly proclaimed to them,
by all who inks the trouble to address them, whether from'
femisani. et frog legitimate motives. Correct reasoning
mid otVara S. thai, that this vim, was arroascati; sod'
that easatisia is net di, Awe of their poverty, nor Would

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its absence relieve it; but that it is the predominating
notion, cannot be denied.

We have, then, a nucleus', for dissatisfaction in this country,
with the present position of affairs. Just at this moment, a
neighbouring people, accomplish by violence a complete
revolution of their Government. Was it not known that the
example would be perilous to every state,in Europe? Have
not events confirmed the conclusion ?—and is it not
Iproducing effects in our own ? An allusion has
been made in Parliament to a LOAD MATOIL in the
year 1780, (Kan NIT we think by name,) who when
questioned as to his conduct in not preventing the riots,
said that he was really covered with temerity—meaning

timidity. We have now a LORD MAYOR who is blamed
for timidity ; but we think the Mayor, Minister, or man,
would really be justly charged with culpable temerity,
who should recommend the present moment for the pa-
geant which has just been postponed.

We Lave hitherto only argued on what may naturally be
concluded, from well known facts, to be the hazardous tem-
perament of the times; but has not this temperament seen
already sufficiently developed ? Had we not to announce
before the meeting of Parliament, that his Grace the Duke of
WELLINGTON had been disgracefully assaulted at the very
door of his office, in Downing-street? and have we not seen
him assaulted and almost unhorsed in mid-day, even in Par-
liament-street. Of this we were ourselves witnesses. Now
this was before his Grace's anti -resorm declaration ; and
when he was popular in some degree among reformers,
as many expected him to be on the point of intro-
ducing reform as a Cabinet measure. Much is said
about the people's loyalty, and we believe no King was
ever more beloved, or more generally so, thanthe present;—
but the discriminating delicacy of a mob put in operation, has
never been much confided in, and, we think, should not be so
now.

These are in fact, it cannot be disputed, perilous times ;
and those who take upon themselves the onerous duty of
advising the Executive, do it under circumstances so new,
as to render all past experience of little avail. We deny
that any wisdom in the country could predict, in the
present times, what would have been, or would be. the re-
sult of congregating, on any occasion, large masses of
the people, in the public streets of the metropolis ;
and we decidedly think, that humanity, creditably in-
fluences the Government, which has avoided it on the
present occasion. To live in London, read what is written,
and hear what is said, and not to acknowledge that the signs
of the times, require caution in Government. is, we think,
the extreme of folly. Our present Government has not re-
quired new laws ; they have shewn no symptoms of con-
templating a system of terror. They. therefore, have, we
think, claims for that voluntary public support, in the

execution of their high duties, which renders extended
power unnecessary; and this we shall continue as far as
is in our ability to give.
On the subject of reform, we think his Grace holds an

erroneous opinion. We think some modification of our re-
presentative system, would have abstracted all that is respec-
table, from all that is factious, in the land ; and then the
factious would have proved contemptibly innoxious. Bat we
have no doubt his views are sincere ; and they have been
honourably and candidly declared. We admit, too, as we bane
before said, le presaier par, has its terrors to all reflecting
politicians.

We have this day received an Antwerp Paper of the 7th
instant, which states that the negociations with the citadel
continued ; and it was believed that, in a short time, there
would be a favourable termination of the existingdifferences.
The armistice, to which we alluded in a former paper, is
continued for an indefinite period; and each party hare now
engaged to give three days' notice, in cue of hostilities. A
convention has been formed, to arrange a plan, for the
free navigation of the Scheldt.

The city this morning presented a very animated ap-
pearance, and notwithstanding the notice that there
would be no procession, a great number of persons col-
lected together near Guildhall, the Royal Exchange, and
other places, to learn what proceedings were es b.
adopted. with respect to the postponement of the King's
visit. The Loan MAYOR Elect proceeded, in his private
carriage, as early as nine o'clock this morning, to West-
Waster, to be sworn in; and attended-only by a few of the
necessary officers. A Court of Aldermen was held at two
o'clock, on urgent and important business. It is no* fully
expected, that the KING will be invited to dine on the 19th,
inst. at Guildhall. Crowds continued to assemble in various
parts of the town, from hour to hour, during the day ; and
at noon, a multitude collected, and set up cheers and cries
at Temple Bar. We are informed that in their progress
last night, from the Rotunda to Westminster, a partial
attack was made by the people on the Courier office, and
several windows were broken.