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were addressed could not know that they were thus fraudu-
lently used, and received them therefore under the strong
conviction that they were the sincere exhortations of their

leader."

We must be pardoned, if our anxiety to acquit our-
selves of imputed inconsistency, have rendered it incum-
bent upon us to recur to these passages, and to place them,
even at an inconvenient length, once more before our
readers. By such sentiments were the conductors of the
STAR actuated at that period, and by such sentiments are
we actuated at the present hour.

Our vindicatory allusion to the Letter of " An Occa-
sional Correspondent," must of necessity be brief. We
do not object to Mr. O'CON N ELL, any " breach of im-
plied engagements with distinguished friends of the
Country :"—we know of none such. Our quarrel with
Mr. O'Ccc x ELL arises from his conduct, as connected
with his new Association. \Ve do net charge him with
having entered into, or violated, even an " implied en-
gagement" with any man, or set of men. Had he done
both, or either,as long as it affected only a party-compact,
we should not arraign him for it. Our services—
humble, but certainly zealous and well-intentioned as
they are—nre devoted to the public, cause- -and not to
the cause of any indi‘klual or of any exclusive party—
except, indeed, as we may believe that party to deserve
the noble designation of " the Country's Party." Our
Correspondent doubts whether, if certain statesmen had
been in power when the Catholic Relief Bill pawed, that
measure would have been rendered obnoxious by the dis-
franchisement of the forty shilling freeholders; but we
must say, that the mention of such a subject, in a letter
exculpatory of Mr. O'Cow N ELL, seems rather unseason-
able ; for it cannot have escaped the recollection of his
intelligent vindicator, that Mr. O'Cox N ELI. was the very
first man who ever proposed to Parliament the surrender
of the franchise enjoyed by the Fort-shilling Freehold-
ers, as an inducement to the concession of that measure
of general relief. Neither can our correspondent have
forgotten that when, on his return to Ireland from that
unsuccessful mission, he found his popularity endangered
by the dissatisfaction which the " proposed wings" had
wafted through every corner of that country, he affected
to deplore the precipitate proposal he had made, and de-
clared that " to tho last hour of his existence, he
should never cease to reproach himself for having
listened to, orsanctioned, the suggestion of such an in-
fringement of public liberty." And yet we beheld Mr.
O'CoN x ELI., in a few years afterwards, submitting to
the deterioration of the poor man's interests, nay, to the
absolute extinction of his rights,—and then availing him-
self, with eager haste, of thelfacility afforded him by that
sacrifice of the people's privileges, to take his seat in Par-
liament. With such a fact before us, we are justified in
controverting, in the strongest terms, the assertion that
" O'CONNELL seems not to have desired emancipation
for the Catholic Aristocracy, but for the good of the peo-
ple." We refer to the report of the last proceedings of
"The Friends of Ireland" Society, for the best illustra-
tion that can be offered of the objects of that Society, and
the characters of its members.

At last, the French expedition to the Coast of Africa
has attracted that attention which we, from the first mo-
ment of its organization, invariably—and exclusively—
declared that it demanded. We place no great reliance,
in general, on the private letters of the Times; but upon
this occasion—seeing that the lagging statements of that
Journal only corroborate our previous opinions and admo-
nitions—we cannot possibly have any objection to give
the Express from Paris, which seems to have been ex-
clusively received by " the leading journal of Europe."
In a second, and cunningly constructed, edition of that
paper this morning, we have the following passages :
_

Letters from Marseilles, dated April 8, announce that accounts
have been received in that port from Malta up to the 30th of March.
They say that his Britannic Majesty's bomb-ketch the Infernal had
arrived in the port of Malta from the coast of Africa. The officers
of this vessel, which left Tripoli on the 15th, and Tunis on the
22d, of March, speak of the great excitement which prevails
all along the coast of Africa, and the preparations of the
Pachas of Tripoli and Tunis to resist the projected attack
of the Pacha of Egypt. They say that the Pacha of
Tripoli talks of sending 200,000 men against the Egyptians, and
that the Paths of Tunis has, already sent to the frontiers of
his state 12,000 picked men. These letters add, that the accounts
from Malta do not speak of the arrival at Tripoli of a messenger of
the Pacha, with a summons to the Regencies to submit to his rule ;
but that is not surprising, as the Infernal left Tunis on the 22d, and
the vessel which brought the intelligence of the arrival at Tripoli of
the Egyptian messenger left blonestler, a port between Tunis and Tri-
poli, about 60 miles from the former place, on the 28th of Match.
The advice' brought by the vessel from Moneatier had been trans..
mitted to Paris by express, and great importance seemed to be at-
tached them—The African expedition is now beginning to engross
the attention of the French public; and it is believed that it does
not attract in a less degree the attention of the great Powers.

MARSEILLES, APRIL 6.
This afternoon the Change was very quiet, as usual : no remark-
able uansactions have taken place ; but towards the close of the
Change the report was spread that a vessel had arrived from Mo-
nestier, near Tunis, with news of the surrender of Tripoli to the son
of the Pacha of Egypt. If the fact be true, it is a most important
event for our commerce; and on all sides one could hear nothing
but the following questions Has he been excited to it by France
or England ? or has the young conqueror fired before the sig.
nal ? For our army will not be ready before the 10th of May.
This pie= of news is not guaranteed but yet is believed, in conse.
quence of the last letters from Alexandria, which all announced
that the Pacha was making very considerable military preparations
in his fleet. It appears that at Tunis, es well as at Algiers, the
great movements at Toulon are no secret. The Europeans are
struck with a panic on all the coast of Africa, and ask if they ought
not to fly the vengeance of the Moors. We looked this morning
with great eagerness for tno confirmation of this news in the Sema-
phore, and we find in it the following paragraph :

It was reported to-day at the Exchange, that the Pacha of Egypt
had entered, as a conqueror, into the regency of Tripoli. He is re.
ported to have already taken ion of two towns. The Preour.
seer states the following, rrOlinslesal letter from Marseilles of the
6th :•—• A vessel arrived (this evening announces that Ibrahim
Paella had landed near Tripoli, and that he is already master
of two forts. Thus our Arabian allies have forestalled us in the
African expedition. It is said that an embargo has been laid at
Alexandria upon all vessels, which accounts for our not having any
arrivals for some time. The postseriptum of another letter says—
' Letters from Tunis, and the statements of a Sardinian captain, an-
nounce that Ibrahim, son of the Pacha of Egypt, who had left Alex-
andria at the head of an army, had arrived at Bagay, and intended
continuing Ma march upon Tripoli, which he wishes to take posses-
sion of.' Such are the statements that we have been able to collect.
We shall, no doubt, shortly receive others We ought to add, that
a Sardinian vessel, Our Lady of Mercy, Captain Castellano, ar-
rived on the 6th at Marseilles, from Alonestier ; but she has been
put into quarantine, which;explains the want of certainty respect-