Star.
London, England, 1830-02-24 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

SIR—In my letter addressed to you on the 26th of
January, which you were obliging enough to insert in
your Paper of the following evening, I stated it to be my
conviction, " that no effectual relief would be afforded
to the people by the government." I further said, that
" I should be mistaken, if the Aristocracy, like the
Church, did not find themselves, sooner or later, humbled
by the proceedings of a haughty soldier." Parliament met
on the 4th of February,and I can appeal to you whether my
expectations were correct as to these two points. With
regard to the first, his MAJESTY has allowed himself to
be misrepresented to his people, by the insertion of an
atrocious falsehood in the speech from the throne. That
speech, Sir, is, in my opinion, a constitutional ground of
impeachment of the Primo Minister, and his servile
satellites.

There is a passage in the Times of this morning to the
following effect :—" Ministers, he could assure the Com-
mittee, deeply lamented the distress of the people, and
sympathised in their sufferings ; sympathised with them
the more, on account of their moderation and forbearance'
under the pressure of calamity." This language, Sir, is
stated to have been used by Mr. PEEL, with a view ma-
nifestly to heighten his own self-complacency at the ex-
pence of Mr. Humn, whom the home officer very violently
abused, because Mr. HUME assured this clerk of en-
dowments, monopolies, and corruption, that the people
would ultimately break their chains upon the heads of
their oppressors, or something to this effect. Now, Sir,
to speak in language which the government are fast
urging into frightful currency—that is strong and vulgar
language—l ask, does Mr. PEEL so delude himself as
not to think that, if he were to stand on the Change of
London with these, his words, placarded on his head,
every nine persons out of ten would not call him
hypocrite and knave? And yet, Sir, it is with
the doctrines of such a man that the KING or
ENGLAND is binding up his own 110VALTY,—and the
lives of those subjects whom it is the KING'S duty to
protect ! As one of the people, I reply to Mr. PEEL, that
I believe him to be adding lie to lie—" flattering himself
in his own eyes, until his abominable iniquity be
found out."

With respect to the second point.—The determination
of the Duke of WELLINGTON to adhere to the present
currency measure, must have the effect of passing over
to the hands of the poor, and the fundholder, and the
mortgagee, the " lands, tenements, and hereditameuts"
of a very large class of the nobility ; and this I think
will be humiliation enough for those who have sold the
people into the hands of corrupt power. Do not imagine,
however, that I rejoice at this retributive justice. lam
sorry that the younger members of noble families
should be driven from their family homes, by " events,"
over which it may very truly be said, " they had no
controul."

Whilst I thus write, Sir, I unfeignedly assure you
that I know of no man from whom. I would take away a
" shoe tie :" I know of no man whose outward circum-

cumstances of comfort I would forcibly abridge ; and
whilst I believe that monarchical, priestly, military, naval,
legal, commercial, professional, and literary ascendencies
have to be fearfully humbled, there is yet a path out of
existing difficulties, which the " vulture's eye" bath not
seen. " Destruction and Death say, we have heard the
fame thereof with our ears —Gov understandeth theway
thereof."—Job, xxviii. 7. 22. 23; see Daniel, xi. 32.
S. H. B. C. PHILO STAR.
February 23, 1830.

I cannot close, without referring to Mr. PEEL'S as-
surance to the people—see the Times of this morning—
that should they be led to use force, they must be
" promptly, efficiently, and successfully resisted."
What hope can a nation have in a coxcomb like this ?
Did he yield to the Catholics—and will Englishmen be
less firm in despising him and his opinions ? Did the
people of France quail before the babble of hypocrisy
and fribble ? A stripling became the scourge of Kings,
when the people rose into the madness of despair ; and who
were the true revolutionists of those fell times ? such
men as Lord ELDON! the Duke of Wzmallozow ! Mr.
PEEL! ! ! and the leaven of unprincipled INDUSTRY !
It cannot have escaped your observation that this genus
are the root of republicanism :—" and the man JE-
ROBOAM was mighty, and the KING seeing the young
man—that he was industrious—made him ruler over the

house ; and JanonoAw, even he, lifted up his hand
against the Kixo."—l Kings, xi. 28, 26

His Majesty, it is expected, will hold a Court this day,
at his Palace at Wi,dsor.

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester have arrived in
town for the season, from their residence at Bagshot
Park.

The Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of
England attended yesterday at the Treasury, and had a
conference with the Duke of Wellington.
The French Ambassador had an interview yesterday
with the Earl of Aberdeen at the Foreign Office.
A Deputation of Ship-owners from the City waited on
Mr. Herries yesterday at the Office of the Board of Trade,
and had a conference with the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman.

Earl Rosalyn, Viscount Strangford, and Viscount Mel-
ville, had interviews yesterday with the Duke of Wel-
lington, at the Treasury.
The American Minister had a long conference yester-
day afternoon with Mr. Herries, the President of the
Board of Trade, at his Office in Whitehall. Mr. Herrin
afterwards visited the Duke of Wellington.
The Duke of Wellington gave a grand dinner yester-
day evening, at Apsley House, to a numerous party of
the nobility and gentry.
Earl and Countess Bathurst entertained a large party
to dinner yesterday evening, at their residence in Down-
ing-street.
The new Member for Calne is said to be only the locum
teams of the eldest son of the Noble nominee, who comes
of age in about a twelvemonth.
The Countess of Essex entertained a select party of
fashionable' yesterday evening at her house, Hill-street,
Berkeley-square.
An English Amateur Theatre is to be opened imme-
diately at Geneva. The dresses and scenery are in a
state of forwardness.