Star.
London, England, 1830-08-14 00:00:00

LON DON.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 14.
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Ai'e have Tobago papers to the 26th June. The
French colonists, w ho attempted to form a colony on the
Indian Coast, near Cape Gracios a Dios, have given up
the idea in despair. Their situation is represented as hav-
ing been most deplorable. The Tobago Legislative
Council and House of Assembly had been further pro-
roghed until the 13th of July.

We have a file of the Barbadian to the 28th June.l
His Majesty's ship North Star, Captain Lord William
Paget, sailed from Barbadoes on the sth for Grenada
and Jamaica, having on board Sir Robert Kerr Porter,
Consul-General to Columbia. The Governor of Barba-
does, Sir James Lyon, had embarked on board His Ma.
jesty ship Ranger, Captain Walpole, for St. Vincent's,
St. Lucia, Grenada, Antigua, and St. Kitt's, on a tour
of military inspection.

We have Boston papers to the 14th ult. They state,
that on the Ist July, more than six millions of the na-
tional debt were paid. The whole would be paid in the
course of three years, with the exception of the thirteen
millions of three per cents. This stock is redeemable
at the pleasure of the Government, and is now quoted at
914. It was doubtful whether this stock would be re-
deemed, it being the obvious policy of the Government
to appropriate the sum to the purposes of internal im-
provement. The next step, it was anticipated, would be,
to take off the duties from commodities not of home
growth and manufacture, to the amount of the present
sinking fund.

We have Trinidad Papers to the beginning of July.
The distresses of the Trinidad planters, from the exces-
sive rains, bad induced the Executive of that Island to
grant them an extension of two months for the payment
of the Colonial taxes ; with a hope of further indulgence,
in case of necessity. The absence of Governor GRANT
had once more thrown the administration of Trinidad into
the hands of Mr. Cti Ait Lus SsilTll; and his former po-
pularity was immediately encreased, by the prompt relief
extended by him to the landed interest, in time of
great need.

We observe by a late trial in Trinidad, for an infringe-
ment of the Orders in Council, relative to slaves, that
the defendant was fined 1501. At St. Kitts, a Planter
had been tried under the New Slave Act, and sentenced
to fine and imprisonment, for flogging a negro on the
Sabbath Day, and inflicting an excess of stripes. The
weather at Trinidad had been, in a great measure, re-
stored to its general state ; but at Grenada the rains had
done much injury, and on many of the estates the plan-
ters had been compelled to abandon taking off the re-

maining crop.

Some remarks have been made in the Morning Chro-
nicle, the Morning Post, and othor Journals, on the
subject of the subscription commenced in this country,
in favour of those who have bled for the cause of freedom
in France ; and no doubt with equally honest principles,
very discrepant opinions have been maintained. We
think it proper to express our sentiments on a question,
which is, at present, so generally agitated in political
circles. Admirers, as wo are in principle, of the
noble achievement of which the people of France
will for ever have to boast, and anxious as we
are that no imprudent effervescence may lead to
mistakes, endangering the permanent security of the
political rights which have been so bard earned, we are
most solicitous, that the person called to the throne of
France, may not only experience the full confidence of
the nation of freemen who have elevated him, but the
heartfelt co-operation of surrounding nations, and their Go-