Star.
London, England, 1830-02-25 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

PHILOZTML is too late fee this day, or we should have much
pleasure in obliging him. His Letter shall certainly appear to-
morrow.

D. B. on die Civil Disabilities of the Jews, shall appear on an
early day.

There is an article in the Times to-day, relative to the
motion which is to be made this night in the Peers by
Lord STANHOPE, on the State of the Nation, which can-
not be too widely exposed, nor too signally reprobated.
It is on paramount public questions like this—where the
political remedy interferes with his Stock Exchange spe-
culations—that the abandoned recklessness of that Paper
calls loudest for exposure : for it is in these matters, that
he does the greatest harm, by his sophistries, to the public
mind. His base and mercenary spirit is such, that there
is no truth which he would not sacrifice, to maintain the
hollow system by which he reaps• his gains. He would
deny the distress and misery, and nakedness and hunger
of the land—nay, he has denied them—to uphold his mi-
litary patron, and keep up the delusion of threes
and fours, which is such a prolific tnilch cow to
him. But his dirty traffic is now as notorious
as the political apodacy which it has superinduced ;
and valeat quantum valet, is the universal comment of
those, who read his insidious and unprincipled effusions:

The motion of the Noble EARL—Whom our Stock jobbing
contemporary takes upon himself to ridicule— is looked
for with deep anxiety by all who know his talents, and
who can appreciate his love of country.

If we made no comment yesterday, on the motion of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL—for leave to bring in a Bill to
enable the towns of Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham
to. return Representatives to serve in Parliament—it was
not because none suggested themselves. The best comment,
perhaps, that was made throughout the whole course of
4hat long debate, was the pithy observation of the
Marquis of BLA N DIPO RD, that it was a tub thrown out to
the whale. What good—we beg leave to inquire—
would have been effected for the general interests of the
community, if those three towns had been invested all at
once with the privilege of sending delegates to an Assem-
bly, in which their voices, if honestly raised, must be
overruled by preponderant venality ? What would it
boot us, the people, that the Members for Manchester,
Leeds, and Birmingham—presuming them to be faithful
to their high trusts, which is an improbable hypothesis,
and unreasonable presumption—should add six more to
the deride'', and unavailing minorities, who urge in vain
the necessity fora purer system ? No, no—it is not by
such patching of the corrupted garment, that the consti-
tutional mantle can be restored to its pristine beauty and
durability. What ! • leave Westbury, and Wootton-
Bassett, and Corfe Castle—et id genus omne—
and call that the representation of the people ?
Farcical and iniquitous hypocrisy ! The whole borough
system—we mean, by that, the proprietary influence—
must be cut out, root and branch. As things stand now,
and as HORACE Twiss and Mr. Humissor: would
have them —the House of Commons no more represents
the people of England, than it does those of Hindoortan
or Cochin China. The speech of Mr. BROUGHAM was
the only speech of great importance in this debate : for
it is always important—as a lesson to the people—to
expose the tergiversation, or the recklessness of splendid
talents. The speech of the new Member for Knares-
borough was marked by two prominent peculiarities, both
tending—in a remarkable degree—to show how little
reliance the country ought to place on shining abilities
alone. His flirtation with Mr. PEEL—the unconcealed
enemy of all real reform—is the first: his objection to
any farther infusion of popular principles into the House
of Commons, is the other. Besides this, he called the
PEOPLE of ENGLAND the rabble—which is a violent
liberty in Mr. BROUGHAM, so long as he yet affects to
enumerate himself among them. Had he mounted the
woolsack—an elevation, which too frequently produces
giddiness—or assumed only his bargained supremacy in
the Rolls, some allowance would be made. But in his
present situation, and while he yet presumes to call him-
self a Representative of the People, such proligacy is
equally barefaced and offensive.

Lord SAN DON met the proposition differently; for,
being a sincere friend to the restoration of the repre-
sentative principle in that House, he moved as an
amendment the abolition of all rotten boroughs, and
the transfer of their franchise to populous, unrepresented
places. But that was negatived, just as the motion of
Lord BLANDFORD was, and .as all motions will be
negatived, which have for their aim the effectual excision
of the rotten parts of the system. Tho House of Com-
mons thinks—and votes itself—a very capital and
efficient organ of the country, though all the world
knows that it is returned to that room at Westminster,
by the nomination and concurrence of principally two
hundred oligarchs. But it is not such motions as Lord
JOHN RessELL's—nor as that even of the Marquis of
BLAxDroato—which will go any way to reclaim the
House of Commons. It is the VOICE FROM
WITHOUT, which may, perhaps, induce it, at last,
to listen : or—if it cannot induce—may perchance
exert a more potential influence, and compel it. The
apologist for Ministers—the Times—has already said,
that they have gone the length of their tether in vo-
lunteered liberalities, and that they wait for popular
compulsion, to fill up the measure of justice. That it
will be soon filled, is not less our confident expectation,
than it is our ardent hope. The " winter of our discon-
tent" will prove the herald of a " glorious summer."

We Owe it to Mr. EDWARD DAVENPORT—Of whose
postponed motion on the State of the Country we spoke,
at the time, under erroneous impressions—to explain that
no blame nor reproach is justly attributable to him. The
Honourable Member—so far from having deserted the
cause of the People, as we were led to believe he had—
only deferred his important motion, on the ground of a
really incapacitating indisposition. It is to be brought
forward in the ensuing week, and we have no doubt the
Honourable Gentleman will do full justice to the mo-
mentous arguments it involves.

We have received two letters on the subject of Por
tugal, containing a refutation of the statements put
forth by Ministers during the debates on the motions of
Lords MELBOURNE and PALMERSTON . From the num-
ber of facts brought forward in these communications, we
regret extremely the impossibility of giving them a place
to-day. They shall appear very soon. In the mean
time, we call the attention of our readers to the private
correspondence from Lisbon, which proves that the state
of things in Portugal, so far from experiencing any im-
provement, is getting daily worse.

The Letters which have appeared in our columns, ad-
dressed to Lord HOLLAND on the subject of Greece,
seem to have attracted the attention of a writer, who,
from the observations he has addressed to us, is inti-
mately acquainted with the past and present state Of the
question. The facts with which our valued Cones-
pondent has favoured us, with relation to the able and
judicious policyof Mr. Fox, are so important, that wa
shall recur to them on the first open day ; and only re-
gret that the length of the debate has rendered it impos-
sible to keep better pace with our Correspondents, during

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the last ten days. A third Letter to Lord HOLLAND
has reached our Office, but must also be unavoidably
deferred.

It is truly gratifying to perceive that public Meetings
continue to be held or proposed throughout the country.
That which took place at Holywell, in Flintshire, fur-
nishes a new and striking proof of the great change
which has taken place, and is fast working its way
through every class of the community. There is such a
remarkable coincidence between the sentiments ex-
pressed, and the statements made, at Holywell and the
Mansion House, on the same day and perhaps hour, that
we cannot refrain from quoting a portion of Mr. MA-
Tine's speech, as reported in the Herald. The resolu-
tions, which are drawn up in a kindred spirit, and car-
ried with acclamation, shall appear to-morrow.

The long and expensive wars (as he had consented to term them,
in accordance with the wishes of some gentlemen with whom he
acted on the present occasion, but, for himself he would say, the
unjust and unnecessary wars in which this country had been engaged
—first against America, and afterwards against France) were the
cause of that enormous progressive incense of the national debt under
which the nation now groaned, and which neither our children, nor'
our children's children, would ever see redeemed.--(loud applause.)
The war against the independence of America, in 1776, was forced
upon the Minister of that day by the obstinacy of George the Third.
This laid the foundation of our embarrassments; and the war with
France—another war against principles--plunged ns still deeper,
until the debt became upwards of eight hundred millions ! The
difficulty for providing for the payment of the interest of this enor-
mous debt was farther increased by the expense of maintaining an
unnecessarily large standing army and navy in times of profound
peace—by shoals of collectors of taxes and public functionaries,
always greatly overpaid for their services, and whose salaries
were further augmented on the plea of the high price of provisions
during the war; and by a host of placemen and pensioners, who
preyed upon the vitalsof the country, as a reward for their own po-
litical subserviency, or that of their connections.—(Applause.)
This was a state of things that would not exist if the House of
Commons represented the feelings and interests of the people—.if it
had been chosen by the people, and acted with and for the people—
(Loud applause,) instead of a majority of it being nominated by
Peers and wealthy Commoners. This fact was publicly asserted in
1792, by a society of patriotic Gentlemen, called "The Friends of
the People," who offered to prove it at the bar of the House of Com-
mons itself.:-(Applause.) He held in his hand a list of 26
boroughs, no one of which contained more than 26 voters ;
and in some of them there was not even a house ; yet each
of these boroughs returned two Members to Parliament ;
collectively, a number equal to half the Representatives for
Ireland.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Of these the borough of
Horsham alone had twenty-five voters; Andover, Wilton, Christ-
church, Downton, Westbury, Caine, Newport, and Beaumaris, sash
24 voters; Banbury, 19; Droitwich and Bewdley, 14 ; Bucking.
ham and Malaiesbury, 13; Orford and Hastings, 12; Blilburn
Port, 9 ; New Romney, 8 ; Rye, 6 ; Winchilsea and Marlborough,
3 ; Castle Rising and Gatton, 2 ; and Midhunt and Old Sarum,
only 1 voter each ! This was the system that they were told
" worked well." But was it for a moment to be tolerated that
Gatton or Old Sarum should be put in competition with the county
of Flint? And yet each of these rotten boroughs sent as many
Representatives to Parliament as the county of Flint, including the
Representative for the Flintshire boroughs.—(Loud applause.)
This was the root of all the evils which afflicted the country—the
people not being adequately represented in Parliament. Had they
been so, instead of wasting the blood and treasure of the country in
unjust and unnecessary wars, we should have been at peace with
those nations, and cultivating the relations of commerce and mutual
advantages with them.

We insert a letter from a correspondent, who signs
himself A. B. accusing us of such truckling as he does
not remember to have witnessed for eighteen years, be-
cause ;,we did not rejoin yesterday to the stuff in the
Morning Journal. We entreat A. B. not to fret himself
about the pure and firm character of the STAR, which
will always know how to maintain itself—whether on a
public, or more private question—without the assistance,
or instigation, of officious curiosity like his. Any body,
except our correspondent—who is dying, we suppose,
for all sorts of scandalous particulars—would feel quite
satisfied at the condition in which that business has been
left by the STAR. Any body else would perceive, with
half an eye, that our opponent has dropt altogether the
great subject matter of animadversion, and contented
himself with discharging at us the brutum fulmen of
insignificant contempt. Why should we take the
childish trouble of telling him that we return the com-
pliment ? We shall not sink, at least, under the weight
of such magniloquence:

Lad aunt humeri, majoraque ponders portant.
As, however, our correspondent has made free with the
name of Mr. ALEXANDER, we ought to remark that we
do not know Mr. ALEXANDER in this business—neither
do we believe, that either one or the other of those articles
to which we are now alluding, emanated from his pen:
and such—as we here express it—was our conviction,
when we took up our's. Whether this explanation will
satisfy A. B. or not, is quite immaterial to us : we are
sure it will satisfy those, who—like us—are only anxious
not to see GUILT pertinaciously upheld as clothed in in-
nocenco. But when A. B. talks of unprincipled truck-
ling, why does he pass in silence the monstrous retrac-
tions of the Times ? There, indeed—if he desires to
distinguish himself, by standing forth the castigator of
public profligacy—is a fine opportunity and field for our
indignant friend to show off in.

His Majesty held a Court yesterday afternoon, at his
Palace at Windsor, which was attended by the Prussian
Minister, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the
Council, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries
of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Depart-
ments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lord Steward
of the Household, the Master of the King's Stag Hounds,
the Treasurer of the Household, the Judge Advocate-
General, &c. The Prussian Minister had an audience
of the King, to which he was introduced by the Earl of
Aberdeen, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Judge-Advocate-General had an audience of the
King, and laid before his Majesty the proceedings of a
number of Courts Martial, for the purpose of receiving
his Majesty's commands respecting them.
His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which Mr. Gre-
yille attended as Clerk.
T!! King gave audience to the Lord Chancellor, the
Drlt f
.Wellington, Earl Bathurst, and Mr. Secretary
Peel.

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Lord Glonlyon and Colonel Arrostrong were the Lord
and Groom in waiting.
The Court broke up about fire o'clock.

CITY, TWELVE o'CLocit.
HAILE ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING.
•. D. •. D. •. D.
1 Dublin ... 0 0 France . 1 0 Lisbon ....... 0
1 Waterford..... 0 0 Flanders 1 0 Jamaica 0
I Guern. &Jersey 0 0 Holland 0 0 Sweden 2
0 Leeward Islands 0 5 Hamburgh .... 3 0 Malta . 0

We are again this !naming without any anivals of consequence,
and the French Mail still remains due ; consequently there is no
political information. This being settling day in the Cowl Mar.
ket, the only business doing at present is making up their accounts,
and the extreme fluctuation during the present account is about 3,
per cent. Consols, which left off yesterday very heavy at 91i for
the account, opened at the same price this morning ; since which
the market is *shade better, and Consols may be quoted at 911 j.
and 92j for the next account. Money is so abundant, that the
middling merchants can obtain discounts at 2j per cent. Up to
this hour we do not hear of any failures in the market.

The Foreign Market is divested of
doing.

or nothing

Report says that Prince Leopold is to receive #750,000 to give
up his annuity !

We have received the Guernsey Paper to the 22d February.
STATES MEETING.—The State of this island met in the large
hall of the Royal Court House on Wednesday morning, to elect a
Jurat in the room of Peter Le Coeq, deceased. On the recapitula-
tion of the votes, they appeared to be thus divided :—For Mr. Man.
sell, ; Mr. Dobree, b 4 ; Mr. Vatrect, 42. The President said
that she votes for Messrs. Mansell and Dobree were equal, and it
was therefore impossible for him to declare who was elected; and
be thought it was usual in cases of this kind to refer the matter to
his Majesty in Council; and the electors appearing to be of this opi-
nion, the meeting broke up. •

lIALF-PAST ONE.

By private information received yesterday afternoon from Paris,
by Express, it was the general opinion there that Prince Polignac.
owing to his bad state of health, would retire from office.

A Buenos Ayres mall has arrived off Falmouth.—letters and
papers not as yet come to hand.

Letters have been received from Oporto by a vessel which left on
the 16th inst. They do not bring any political information.

Information is received at the North and South American Coffee-
house, which states that about 80 Pail of ships are in the Bay of
Flushing on the 22d inst. owing to the ice, and that a thaw of four
or fire days would clear the river of the ice, when they would pro.
ceed to Antwerp.

The present Account of Consols being now terminated, they may
be quoted for Money 91i and for the Account 94. Up to the
present hour we do not hear of any thing wrong in the Market.
The Foreign Market continues without the least interest—prices
much the same as yesterday.

A de'jestne was prepared at the Castle for the Ministers
and others attending the Court on their arrival from town.
His Majesty gave a grand dinner in the evening to the
Duke and Duchess of Clarence, the Prussian Minister,
Count and Countess Munster, Lord and Lady Clifden,
and the Cabinet Ministers, the Officers of the Household,
and other Official Gentlemen who were present at the
Court.

The Russian Ambassador entertained a large party to
dinner, yesterday evening, at Ashburnham House.
The Marquis of Hertford gave a grand entertainment
yesterday evening, at his residence in Park-lane, to a
numerous party of the Nobility and Gentry.
Lord Ellenborough entertained some of the Cabinet
Ministers to dinner yesterday evening, at his residence
in Grosvenor-place.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India-house, when Robert Cutlar Ferguson, Fag. took
the usual oath and his seat, as a Director, in the room
of Richard Chicheley Plowden, Esq. dec.—Capt. Bryan
Broughton was sworn into the command of the ship Earl
of Balcarras, consigned to China direct. The following
commanders took leave of the Court previous to departing
for their respective destinations, viz.... Captain Henry A.
Drummond, Castle Huntly ; Captain T. Smith, Lovdon,
Madras and China.

A deputation of gentlemen connected with the mining
districts, amongst whom were Lord Wm. Powlett, Lord
Lowther, and Sir James Graham, had a long interview
with Mr. Herries and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at
the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday morning.
The county petition against the Malt and Beer duties
was sent from this town last Thursday morning; it was
signedgpy 801 persons—a trifling number, considering
the population of the town and neighbourhood. But the
fact is, that the question excites very little interest here,
for it seems to be a general opinion that even the repeal
prayed for, if granted, would produce very trifling benefit,
compared with taking off the taxes un some more neces-
sary articles of consumption.—Boston Gazette.
The Lord Chancellor, Sir Anthony Hart, has been
confined to his house for some days, by a severe illness.
—Dublin Paper.
The will of the late Lord Redesdalo was proved yes-
terday at Doctors' Commons. It is dated Jan. 7, 1830.
His Lordship bequeathed the whole of his real and per-
sonal estate to his son (the present Lord,) subject to a
legacy of 20,0001. and an annuity of 4001. to his
daughter, Frances Elizabeth Mitford. The personal pro-
perty was sworn under 60,0001.
Lord and Lady Graves sailed on Friday afternoon for
Liverpool, from whence they proceed direct to Hampton
Court, where they remain for a few days, and then go to
Bishop's Court, his Lordship's seat, near Exeter. It is
the intention of Lord Graves to retire Jim the army im-
mediately.—Dublin Morning Register.
COUNTY WATERYORD ELECTION.--.The usual pre-
parations for a contested election are going forward with
activity. The booths for the different baronies are nearly
completed in the Court-house. Precautionary measures
have also been adopted to preserve the peace. Quarters
have been prepared in our foot barracks for three addi-
tional companies of infantry (of the 7.3 th or 84th regi-
ment,) and two troops of dragoons are also expected.
We understand that Counsellor Haseard is to be the She-
riff's Assessor.—Waterford Mail.
It is rather remarkable that—whilst in the Commons
condemnatory allusions to the recent newspaper prosecu-
tions have been " neither few nor far between"—in the
Upper House not a single observation has been allowed to
escape from any of their Lordships on the subject. The
Ipresence of a Noble Duke--whose penchant for the vicinity
of Battersea is well known—is suivosed to have had an
important effect in securing the silence of the patrician
Senators.

LONDON UNIVENSITTO-.4 meeting of the Proprie-
tors and Shareholders was held yesterday morning in one
of the lecture-rooms of the college to receive the Annual
Report, Mr. A. Baring in the chair. The Report occupied
hour and a half in the reading, after which Lord Althorp, .
a short speech, expressed his satisfaction at the promising
stateofthelnstitution,andmovedthatthereportbe printed.
The Noble Lord's motion was seconded by Mr. Smith, M.
for Norwich, who declared his satisfaction, as a Dissenter
from the Established Church, that an institution was
length formed in which the conscientious opinions and be-
lief of no sect or party would operate as a bar to the admis-
sion of its professors. Mr. Fearon then rose to oppose the
printing of the Report, and avowed his dissatisfaction
some parts of its contents. Enough, he thought, had
not been done to satisfy the public, or redeem the pledges
held out at the commencement of the undertaking.
After some further discussion the Report was brought up.