Star.
London, England, 1830-04-29 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.

The arrival of the brig of war 22d of February, brought,
news this day week to the Government of the instalment of
Regency. Alarm was, therefore, the result. The brig, at.,
though in a most wretched state, was despatched again or.
Tuesday to St. Miguel's with fresh instructions to the Governor
On board this brig were brought to Lisbon six persons taker
out of a British merchant ship, seized on near St. George's 1.
land, as having broken the blockade of Terceira. The name a:
the merchant ship is the Marianne of Aberdeen, bound frog.
Gibraltar to Newfoundland, with salt, tobacco, and soap.
Four of the prisoners being British subjects by birth, and a fifth a
Portuguese, naturalized and married at Gibraltar, have been re.
claimed by the British Consul The sixth, said to have gone as
passenger, is a Portuguese gentleman, who has not been protecnd
by the British flag. and is now in prison. The sailors are confined
in one cf the hulks. The (hestes brig of sal was sent, 0%
Tuesday, in such haste to Madcria, that Miguel's own bacee
towed her over the bar. On board were Don Alvaro da
late Governor of the province of the Minim, who has been
appointed to replace Alunteiro, the hated Governor of the
isi Ind, and 160 cacadores and avillery.men. went or.
board to mak.. excuses to those soldiers, many of whose corps had
des..rted n few days before, front their not having received da.
clothes long duo to them A useless attempt Lad been made soave
days before to procure volunteers among them ; but they have not
been well treated, and arc discontented. Don Alvaro is considered
one of the hest officers serving under Miguel.

The diploma. is news of this week is of the highest importance,
for it appears that the Spanish M Mister and the Nanc:e—who,
since the departure for 111atleiti cf Mr. Brent, the Charge d'Affaires
of the United Slates, are the oily nietobas of the Corps Diploma..
tique—have slighted Miguel. On ta,ter Monday there is a grant:
Court held usually at noon : neither of the diplomatists had at.
rived at Queluz. At half-past 12 o'clock Miguel sent an es.
press to Lisbon to state that he wan waiting. The Nuncio ',lie.
that, having passed a bad night, he could not Michel and the
Spanish Minister had remained at Cintra. At a quartet
past two o'clock Miguel held his Court, when none but Portugues,
were seen. The Spanish Minister, whose functions are stated to b.:
suspended, Is waiting for instructions as to his departure. Miguel.
on Tuesday moruh.g, went to a church festivity at the ItalLlr.
Church, amen the Nuncio had prepared an expensive tlejeuze
ii la fourchette " his majesty and the princesses:- but
Miguel was sulky, and would nut even condescend to go ins.
the room ; the princesses ate nothing, and Miguel re.
fused, as he was afraid of being poisoned." Report speaks 0:
the approaching departure of the Nuncio also—yet it is said the
Courts of Madrid and of Rome are merely speculating, in order ta
know what line of policy the great Powers will adopt. The Gazette
of Lisbon—which will, no doubt, be translated in London—stated
on Tuesday that his Majesty was pleased, on Monday, at the
palace of Queluz, to receive jam compliments of the Diplomatie
Corps ;" but it is a falsehood so gross that even the Lisbonese are
laughing at it.

The want of money is still the crying evil. Arrests are goiLe;
forward, even amongst the former adherents of Absolutism;
veral of the employees have been imprisoned this week in this city.
Flom Oporto, it is known that prisoner* arrive daily from the
neighbouring districts—and that discontent is spreading more thao
ever. Robberies take place in the villages in every quarter: strong
patrols of horsc.police are parading Lisbon on all sides. A vessel
is preparing to convey political prisoners to the African colonies :
seventeen have been taken out of St. Julian's Tower—anwrig
them is the well.known Prior Des Anjos. The Governor o:
St. Julian's having put a man guilty of more than a dozen of mu:.
ders in among the prisoners as a spy, a quarrel enitted, in wl.fch
stabbed several ; but he was himself killed. Several of the most
respectable prisoners have been thrown, on this ground, into the
water dungeons : among them is Rent° Pereira de Cameo, whose
cheek was laid open by the murderer. The nickmanie of the latter
was Ferro. Old Basto, being somewhat convalescent, wishes to
assume the Portfolios of the Interior and of the Marine Depart-
ments ; but the Duke of Cadaval, who seems to be as n.uch inclined
for persecution, is struggling to prevent the old man from coming
again into power.
Exchange on England 44/ ; Government Paper Money 21.
discount.

Advices wore received yesterday from Calclam, bv
way of Bordeaux, stating the failure, on the I's: ~f
January, cf the old and eminent house of PA me FIR =A
Co. of that city. On that day the partners held a ill irate
meeting of their friends, when the deficit on their books
appearing very large, and the concerns of great latrine)
and importance, they thought it their duty to declare their
insolvency, and to take the benefit of the recent bankrupt
law in India. On the 4th of Jan. a notice was accordingly
given and published in the Gazette, and the Gth was ap-
pointed for a meeting of creditors, for the purpose of appoint-
ing assignees. The house had also notified its ability to
produce assets equal to one-half the amount of its debts,
as soon as assignees were named to 7^ceive them. The
shock of this failure was very seve!e n Calcutta, but a
hope is expressed in the letters that its effects would not
extend further, and it was understood that the sliperin-
tendance of the winding up of the elite of Messrs. PAL-
MER and Co. would be confided to two gentlemen of the
highest respectability, connected uith one of the most
eminent mercantile houses in Calcutta. The fine of
PALMER and Co. has been established more tine, 11l a
century, and is said in great merman, to have owol its
fall to the extreme liberality with which it has ever made
advances to the members of the two services (civil mid
military) in India.— Times.
A letter from Naples says—" A new opening has
been formed in the crater of Vesuvius, from whence the
smoke and bituminous matter which term in the crater
escape. For several days past loud detonations have
been heard."

A letter from Frankfort of tl:e 20th instant states, that
it was through the mediation of PrcsAa that the direr-
ences between the Duke of Baden and the King of
Bavaria, had been adjusted. The Queca Dowager of
Bavaria, who was on the point of setting out for Vienna,
on hearing of the contest likely to arise between the two
States, repaired on the 15th instant to Carlsrulte, in order
to use her influence to prevent a ruptu:e between the
two families.

The Mayor of Marseilles has published Ln official letter,
stating that his Royal Highness the Daupl.in would
arrive in that city on the Ist of and there rein: in
during the whole of the ensuing day ; that on the 3d he
would go to Toulon, and return on the sth to Marseilles,
which he would quit on the titit for Avignon. The in-
tention of his Royal Highness is, that the department; ned
cities shall incur no expense for his tecoption ; that the
National Guards shall not be pat under arms; that the
Mayors shall not receive him at the gates of the towns,
nor shall triumphal arches be erected on his passage. The
letter adds, that in all these resput ts, the inhabitants cf
Marseilles will obey the will of th sir Prince, but that there
are gratifications resulting from his presence, of which
that august personage cannot 14bid them the enjoyment.
The French papers of Sunday, which arrived yester-
day, contain rumours of an immediate dissolution of the
Chamber of Deputies, and of attempts made by tic
Ministry to negotiate with soma of th.. opposition Roya-
lists for their support. M. Delalot IV4S mentioned among
the Deputies whom Prince Polignac wished to conciliate
This honourable gentleman had voted the late hostile
address. He is one of the Royalists "of the de-
fection," as they are called. He has adopted the
politics of M. de Chateaubrhuul and his friends. He
is a man of talent, of independence, and of Par-
liamentary reputation, and therefore worth courting.
It was accordingly believed in the papers, and circu-
lated in all the saloons, that the Ministry had made
overtures to him, and that be had held a conference
with Prince Polignac on the subject of a coalition.
All these fine rumours and speculations are at once
annihilated by a letter of M. Delalot, in which he
declares that he has never seen the Prince since the
prorogation. These papers contain no other news of
any interest either foreign or domestic.

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LONIM:S.

THURSDAY, APRIL 29.

THE KING.

The following Bulletin has been issued this day :
"WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 29, 1830.
" The KING continues much in the same state, with
~cosional embarrassment in his MA J EST Y'S breathing."

(Signed)

4, HENRY lIALFORD.
4, MATTHEW J. TIERNEY."

In the House of Commons, last night, pursuant to
notice, Mr. C. GRANT brought forward a series of Reso-
lutions relative to that dastardly and disgraceful affair at
Terceira, in which the naval force of a IVeutr•al Power
—save the mark S—perpetrated acts of open and decided
hcstility against the peaceful subjects of a QUEEN,
whose legitimate sovereignty that very Power had ac-
ktionledged; in which British ships of war boldly fired
upon two unarmed merchant vessels ; and in which the
magnanimous character of Great Britain was gloriously
vindicated, and her boasted " empire of the sea," tri-
umphantly asserted, by intercepting and attacking the
defenceless transports, conveying some hundreds of
stretched and unarmed exiles—the victims of the most
odious tyranny and persecution—to the only asylum that
tuts left them,—and forcing them to return to Europe at
the risk of perishing at sea in their crazy vessels, or
being taken by the cruisers of the blood-stained Usurper.
The debate to which Mr. GRANT'S motion gave rise will
be read with some interest, but with deep humiliation, since
it proves—incontestably proves—that the " faith of Na-
tions" is no longer sacred in the eyes of our own coun-
try; and that there is scarcely a barbarous people on the
face of the habitable globe,—no, not even an uncivilised
tribe in the most remote regions of tho earth,—that
could more wantonly, or more unscrupulously, violate the
obligations of treaties, and all the principles of justice,
truth, and honour, than the Ministers of England have
in this case. The affair has been so clearly, so
i:mpictiously stated, and the subject so fairly discussed,
hr Mr. GRANT, that we refer to his able and eloquent
vetch, not only for the statement of the facts, but for
the development of the principles, upon which our Go-
; mum was bound to act, but which our Government
has most unaccountably and most unjustifiably outraged.

The turbulent proceedings of O'CoNNELL's revived
A,suciaTtos--and the mischievous purposes for which
:i at illegal assembly wns avowedly re-organized, wore
first denounced to the people of England in the columns
of this paper, as dangerous to the tranquillity of Ireland,
and destined, if not promptly and peremptorily suppressed,
to compromise the safety and integrity of the Empire.
in the STAR of April 21, we asserted that " unless the
Ministers of Great Britain had made up their minds to
pursue their career of Irish conciliation—till they had
no longer an Irish people left them to conciliate
unless they were prepared to concede demands even
unto preposterously extravagant than the Associa-
tion had over yet dared to hint at ;—unless they
were resolved to submit to the disseveration of the
kunplom, and the establishment of Ireland as an in-
:. po❑alerit nation—governed by a distinct and separate
6,;6lature, and alien to all English law—it was high time
that tome effort should be made to enforce the enactment
which was deemed an indispensable precursor to the Ca-
tholic Relief Bill, and the enforcement of which was
never more urgently demanded than at the present nso-
taeut."—And only two days afterwards, we had the
Yatisfaction of announcing—and we did so cxcht-
iqly—that " Ministers had been roused by the
intuuptrate language in which O'CONNELL and his
Cou.sno t; ES laboured to irritate and inflame the minds
of their deluded followers—to a sense of the danger
to which the tranquillity of Ireland must inevitably be
exposed by the unrestrained exercise of such influence
" the leaders of the association unquestionably possessed,
•Intl which they seemed determined to employ only for
the iniquitous purpose of perpetuating the agitation of
the empire; that the subject had been brought under
r:onsideration at a recent Cabinet Council ; and that a
communication had been made to the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, in consequence of which, it might be expected,
that measures would immediately be taken to suppress
the association." On the day following this announce-

' went, the Duke of NORTH L' M BERL.% N n took the most
decisive means for carrying into effect the prudent and
highly commendable intentions of the Govermiient ;
and the Catholic Association has—for the present at
least—ceased to exist. For this act, the Ministe-s of
the Crown deserve unqualified praise si it onini !
BY THE LORD LIEUTRNANT CENERAL AND t:ENEKAL

GOVERNOR 01 IRELAN D.
A PROCLAMATION.

NOILTRI7MBEILLAND.

Whereas by an act passed in the tenth year of his present Ma-
jesty's reign, intitled " An Act for the Suppression of Dangerous
Associations or Assemblies in Ireland," a power is vested in the
Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor, or Governors of Ire.
land, by his or their Proclamation or Order, to prohibit or sup.
press any Association or Assembly, or meeting of persons in Ire-
land, which he or they shall deem to be dangerous to the public
peace or safety, or inconsistent with the due administration of the
law, or any adjourned, renewed, or otherwise continued meeting of
the same, or of any part thereof, under any name or pretext, or de.
vice whatsoever.

And whereas it bath been made known to us, that an Association
or Assembly, or Meeting of Persons, bath been formed and exists
in the city of Dublin, under the name of The Society of the
Friends of Ireland of all Religious Persuasions."
And whereas we deem the existence of the said Association, As.
sembly, or Meeting of Persons, to be dangerous to the public peace.

We, therefore, thc Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor
of Ireland, being resolved to suppress the same, do hereby prohibit thc
Meeting of said Association, Assembly, or body of persons, and all ad.
journed, renewed, or otherwise continued Meetings of the !AMC, or of
any part thereof, under any name, pretext, or device whatsoever; and
being determined and resolved strictly to enforce the Law and the Pe.
nalties thereof against all persons offending in the rem ises,do charge
and command all Sheriffs, Mayors, Justices of the Peace, and all
other Magistrates, Officers, and others whom it may concern, to be
aiding and assisting in the execution of the Law, in preventing the
Meeting of said Association, Assembly, or Body of Persons, and
the effectual Dispersion and Suppression of the same, and in the
Detection and Prosecution of those who, after this Notice, shall
offend in the respects aforesaid.
Given at His Majesty's Castle of Dublin, this 24th day of
April, 18:10.

By His Grace's Command,
W. GREGORY.

GOD save the KING.

In all cases of doubt, or of controverted assertion,
there is nothing like the testimony of an unwilling wit-
ness,—whose manifest leaning to the stronger side
makes every statement in which he—whether inten-
tionally or fortuitously—corroborates the facts alleged
by the complaining, and the weaker, party " confirmation
strong as proof of Holy Writ." Thus the Courier, who
has all along contended—as in duty bound—that the
distresses of the country were exaggerated by factious
writers,—and " only partial," of course ;—and who
boldly declared that it would be found that the repre-
sentations and petitions of the people were all unfounded ;
—now comes forward with documentary evidence, which
proves beyond all question that the public distress has not
been exaggerated, and that the representations and peti-
tions of the people were not unfounded. The " official
organ" has played his worthy task .masters a slippery
trick, for which he will be obliged, before the end of the
week, to " read his recantation," just as he did in the
case of the Jew-Emancipation-Bill, (which, considering ,
his ancient Protestant predilections, must be a horrible
infliction to such a martyr of the righteous cause)—for it
cannot be supposed that any Minister should tamely
suffer one of his creatures to give " the lie direct" to
all the statements which it pleased the Head of the Ca-
binet to dictate to his colleagues, and cause to be offi-
cially promulgated in both Houses of Parliament. Thus
it is, then :—the Courier of last night called attention to
" the following Accounts of Bankrupts and Insolvents,
from the Returns laid before Parliament,"—which, in
his anxiety to parade the imaginary importance of
his " peculiar sources of information," he pronounced
to be " an interesting Index to the comparative state of
the Country." And so it is—a very " interesting index :"
but it is also a very lamentable index to the falling off
which " the comparative state of the Country" evinces.
We desire no more convincing confirmation of all that we
have hitherto advanced on the subject, and of every asser-
tion which we have made as to the impoverished condi-
tion of the people, than we find in " the following ac-
counts :"

Number ofßankrurisin cach Number of persons declaring
athefollowlmvAmm. themselves insolvent.
1825 1,163 .. _. 101
1826 . _. 2,583 .. 315
1827 —. 1,368 173
1828 .. 1,212 179
1829 .. . 1,664 ._ 190

From this statement, then, it is obvious that the last
year has—with the exception only of 1826, the ever-
memorable panic-year—been more ruinous to trade than
any of the preceding four. The number of Bankruptcies
in 1829 exceedcd those of 1825 by 551 ; those of 1827
by 286 ; and those of 1828 by 442. Then come the In-
solvencies, and we find the Insolvents of 1829 exceeded
those of 1825 by 89 ; those of 1827 by 17; and those of
1828 by 11. So that, taken together, the Bankruptcies
and Insolvencies of the several years would stand thus :

1825
1827
303
18213

A very satisfactory exposi: of the " comparative state
of the Country," no clout)* but decidedly opposed to all
the declarations of Ministers. Hut then, to be sure—as
the Courier remarks—this" does not show to what extent
capital has been diminished by the failures :"—if it did, we
fear the balance would be wofully against " the state of
the Country" at the present day.

A Paris Paper says, " The Prince of Saxe Coburg has
given orders that all letters sent tq his hotel, addressed
• To the King of Greece,' should be refased, and they
have, therefore, been sent back to the post. The Dau-
phin left Paris to-day for Marseilles, where he is expected
on the Ist of May. His Royal Highness is expected to
be at Moulins on the 27th, and at Lyons on the 28th ;
and ho will return by Digon, where he will arrive on the
13th of May, and wake a day's stay.—Messager des
Chambres.

Mr. WALLER, from the Office of Woods and Forests,
presented, on the 26th inst. at the bar of the House of
Commons, returns to orders of the Honourable House,
dated March 2,1830, of the price of oak bark and timber
from each of the Royal Forests, from 1819 to the present
time.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

According to accounts from Paris, the young Prince Lieven has
;:i sisal Leazer of important aetTatches front Undo:: to the
Russian A:nbassador in that capital.
The alarming statenent in some of the marnit.g journals, in re.
;artl to the situation of his 3lajnsty, has tended to cause great alarm $
a:l6 in consequence the funds remain irucive, and opened this tonsil.
ing at the same price they kfe of yesterday, .2if for the account,
and for money 921 4, with little or nothing doing.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish and Greek Stock still continues
the favourite speculations s...the former has gone down to :I, but a
roaction has taken place. end they have got up to 224.
Greek Bonds have also recatlea. In ether Foreign Securities, no-
thing doing as yet.
Quebec papers to the 2sth March, and 3lontreal to the 21th
March received at the North and South American Coffee.l.ouse.—
The House of Assembly of New Brunswick, having attached to the
Supply Bill certain regulations relating to the collection of the re.
venue, the Council threw it out to remedy this unexpected and in.
convenient occurrence. The President prorogued the Legislature
to the fith, and summoned it to meet again on the 10th ; and on the
13th the Revenue Bill was finally passed, and the Parliament pro.
rogued till June.

QUEBEC, MARCH 24.—The Assembly disposed of all Cie bu-
siness in hand yesterday, and Friday is supposed to be the day on
which the Legislature will be prorogued.
The substance of the Currency Bill, which has passed the As-
sembly, is now before Council. Immediately after the Act shall
have received the Royal assent, pistereens shall not circulate for
more than lOti. and half pistercens for bd.
The 3lontreal Bank Charter has passed, to expire in IB37—the
clause for an additional capital of one hundred thousand pounds,
struck out.