Star.
London, England, 1831-10-08 00:00:00

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTN, OrL 7.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Ocr. 5.
This say an Address from the inhabitants of the county of
Renfrew. soliciting aid in support of the Poles was pre-
seated to his Majesty at the Levee, and graciously/ received.
This day the Prince Esterhasy, Ambassador Extraordi-
nary and Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Austria;
And the Chevalier de Zea Bermudez, Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Spain,
had audiences of his Majesty, to deliver letters from their
Sovereigns:
To which they were respectively introduced by Viscount
Palmerston. his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Kat.
la.ter of the Ceremonies.
This day the Prince Esterhazy, Ambassador Extraordi-
nary and Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Austria ;
The Prince de Talleyrand, Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary from the King of the French •
The Count de Ladolf, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis-
ter Plenipotentiary from the King of the Kingdom of the
Two Sillies ;
The Baron de Cetto, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the King of Bavaria;
'l'he Chevalier de Zea Bermudez, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Kingdom of Spain ;
And Monsieur Van de Weyer, Envoy Extraordinary and
sl inister Plenipotentiary from the King of the Belgians, bad
.todienees respectively of the Queen, to deliver to her Ma-
jesty letters from their sovereigns;
And Mr. Van Buren, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the United States of America, had his
first audience of her Majesty, after delivering his credentials
tt, the King.
They were severally introduced to their audiences by Earl
Howe, her Alajesty's Lord Chamberlain, and conducted by
Sir Robert Cheater, Kut. Muter of the Ceremonies.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 7.
Forasmuch as by the Statutes of the Most Illustrious
Order of St. Patrick, certain limitations of the number of
Knights of the said Order are hid down and established ;
the King, as Sovereign of the said Most Illustrious Order,
has been pleased, upon the solemn occasion of the Royal
Coronation of their Majesties, to dispense with the said limi-
tations and valifleatlons, and to declare and appoint that—
The Most Honourable Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull
Marquis of Downshire,
The Most Honourable Ulick John Marquis of Clauricard,
The Right Honourable Francis William Earl of Cherie-
mont, and
The Right Honourable Francis James Earl of Lhndaff,
shall be Extra Knights of the said Most Illustrious Order of
St. Patrick, and shall hold and enjoy all titles, privileges,
immunities, rights, and advantages, which the Knights of the
said Order may lawfully hold and enjoy ; and that the said
Extra Knights shall, in all Chapters of the said Order and
other solemnities, rank after the Regular and Extra Knights
now existing, and before any Regular Knights hereafter to
be made • and shall, among themselves, rank in the order In
which their names are herein-before enumerated ; and that
on the death of any one of the said Extra Knights, the va-
cancy thereby created shall not be filled up.
'ST. JAMES'S PALACE, SEPT. 13.
The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Colonel Themes Downman, of the Royal
Horse Artillery, Aid-de Camp to the King, Commander
of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and
Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian
Cuelphic Order.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE. SEPT. 21.
The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Major-General George Butted Fisher,
Commandant of Woolwich.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE. OCT. 6.
The King has been pleased to appoint Lord Lilford one
of the Lords of his Majesty's Bedchamber, in the room of
the Earl of Waldegrave. resigned.
CROWN OFFICE. OCT. 7.
SISMDRAS ISTTIRNRI/ TO azure IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Shire of Forfar—The Honourble Donald Oa ilvy, of Clove,
in the room of the Honourable William Ramsay Mettle.
now Baron Panmure, and one of the Peers of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
County of Louth—Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart. in the room
of Alexander Dawson, Esq. deceased.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County
of Gloucester, and of the City of Gloucester and County
of the City of Gloucester, and of the City of Bristol and
County of the City of Bristol.
Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Militia, Liente-
nant'John Burman to be Captain, vice Ctipps, deceased ;
dated Sept. 28,1831.—William Leman, Gent to be Lieu-
tenant ; dated Aug. 29, 1831.—Ensign Isaac Nind to be
ditto, vice &Irmo, promoted ; dated Sept. 28,1831.—Ge0.
Hawker, Gent. to be Ensign ; dated Aug. 27, 1831.
Montague filerryweather, Gent. to be do; dated Aug. 20,
1831.—George Tate, Gent. to be do ' • dated Sept. 8, 1831.
Hamlet William Millets, Gent. to be do; dated September
10, 1831.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
J. A. Lamb. Battersea.. victualler.—Oct. 5.
:BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
F. Rix, St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire. banker.
BANKRUPTS.
J. Barker, Layton, Essex, brewer, to surrender Oct. 18,28,
at three, and Nov. 18, at two. at the Court of Commis-
sioners. Attorney, Mr. Smith, Basinghall-street.
,L T. Lomas and F. Cooke, Dover-street, Piccadilly, tailors,
Oct. 91, at eleven, 22, at half-past nine, and Nov. 18. at
eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr.
Gale, tasinghall-street.
S. Hutchinson, Queen-street, Golden.square, engraver, Oct.
11, 28, and Nov. 18, at one, at the Court of Commis.
stoners. Attorneys, Messrs. Sylvester and Walker, Fur-
nival's Inn, Holborn.
F. 31askery. Birmingham, linen-draper, Oct. 11, at eleven.
28. at twelve, and Nov. 18, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners. Attorneys, Messrs. Bell and Broderick,
Bow-ehureh.yard.
R. Hill, Rotherham, Yorkshire, common-brewer, Oct. 13,
14, and Nov. 18, at eleven, at the Kingston Hotel, King-
ston-upon-Hull. Attorneys, Messrs. Hooter and Son,
Gray's Inn-place, Gray's Inn ; and Frost, Hull.
E. Barnett, Liverpool, victualler, Oct. 21, 22, and Nov. 11,
at two, at the Clarendon Rooms' Liverpool. Attorneys,
Mr. Toulmin, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Norris and Co.
John-street, Bedford-row.

11. Donne, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, scrivener, Oct. 25, 26,1
and Nov. 111, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, Cardiff. At.
corner, Mr. Gregory, Clement's Inn ; and Mr. Williams,
Cardiff.

W. Snell. East Stobehouse, Devonshire. coal-merchant,

Oct. 25, 26, and Nov. 18, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel,
Devonport. Attorneys, Smith, issinghall-street ; and
Gilbard, Devonport.
J. Parker, Birmingham, pearl button-maker, Oct. 15, 17,
!!and Nov. 18, at twelve, at the New Royal Hotel, Bir.
wingham. Attorneys, Messrs. Norton and Chaplin,
(hay's Inn-squwe ; and Stubbs, Birmingham.
J. Steward, Stafford, surgeon and apothecary, Oct. 21, at
four, 22. and Nov. 18, at eleven, at the Littleton's
Arms Inn, Penkridge. Attorneys, Dove, Carey-street.
Lincoln's Inn, anti Somers-place, West, New-road; and
Barnet, Walsall, Staffordshire.
DIVIDENDS.
Ar the Court, Basinghall-street, London.

Oct. 28. J. Gilbert, Iligh.strees. Southwark, hosier, at
twelve.
Oct. 28. W. Young, Boehesteromachmaster, at two.
Oct. 28. S. Slingsby. Cbeapside, cotton printer, at eleven.
Ott. 28. B. G. Topbarn. New.road, victualler, at twelve.
CERTI FICATES—OcT. 28.

W. Pratt, Norwich, common brewer—J. Best, Kidder
minster, maltster—T. Fall, Leybutn, Yorkshire, book9eller
—'sV. P. Scholtiehl, Lad.lane, warehouseman—W. Parry,
Liverpool, slater and plasterer—M. Bell, Great Surrey.
street, Blackfriars-road, victualler—J. Jay, Broad-street,
Westminster, upholsterer—J. Goode, Wiltiernms.row. Gos-
well-street, and St. Swithin's-lane, City, engineer-- IL Alex.
andel-and S. Isaacson. Strand, printers.
PA RTNERSHI I'S DISSOLVED.
S. New and C. C. Mitchell, Bath Cottage, Fareham—J,
Cull and T. Cull, High-street, Ramsgate, cabinet makers
E. C. Richards and J. Dunbar,Bread-street, Manchester,
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WI

G. Illeadows and W. S. linfieltl, Mary
la-bonne.street, Piccadilly, tailors—A. Robertscn, B. Wil
Damson, and. ). Forbes, Aberdeen. tobacco manufacturers—

R. 314Robeit and J. Fisher, Cambridge, tea dealers and'
drapers—W. Walker and C. Walker. Hincliwiek, Glouces-
ter,tire. farmers—C. Myers and E. Hirst, Leeds, dyers—
R. Upson, and R. Longson, Worksop, Nottinghamshire,
mobsters—W. G. Gibson. T. A. Catlin, J. Gibson, and N.
Catlin, Saffron Walden. Essex, isankers—.R..Spartow and
J. .1. Sparrow, Jesus•lane, Cambridge, hone dealers and
livery stable keepers. —J. Gordon and A. Watt, Union.
buildings, Aberdeen, druggists.—J. Radford and J. Rad-
ioed, jolt. Cambridge, tailors and robe naked.—M. Grad-
well, J. Rowley, and S. Tonge, &Amor* Ledge, Lan-
cashire, silk printers.

PROSPECTS FROM TORY RR-ACTION.
Front as Westminster Regime, No. XIX.

le there any man of understanding that would!
save him from being the dupe of one of the Bour-
bon sanitary cordons, who can doubt that THEE
TORIES MEDITATE A RE-ACTION ? It is true
their preparations are against the cause of the
people in the progress and results of the Reform
Bill making an attack upon property. Let nobodji
pretend there has been any misrepresentation upik'
. •
,this head. The Tories will aver that their pre.:

parations are for another object, and that " nooing
but malevolence can misinterpret their inten-
tions ;" but who will be misled by the plea ?
Here is a distinct levying of war against the
King's people ; officers pointed out, on whom the
leviers think dependence can be placed, and the pro-
bable way in which the army will divide upon the
question, calculated. The civil war is begun ;an
if It is not stopped by the prompt exertions of t
community, from this to the battle of Edge-hill
will possibly be some ten weeks. It may be a
lamentable thing that the opponents of Reform
should have chosen to bring things to this issue ;
but at the same time it is a blessed thing, that the
Tory staff should in their cups and their taunting
have prematurely let out the plan. No man of
common sense can misunderstand either the danger

or the remedy. They calculate upon having every
man at their mercy, who has committed himself by
assistance to Reform. A' brave time' is coming;
and the Lord Chancellor is to get his fairing by-
and-by.' Did this mean a time when the people
should make an attack upon property ? No man
mistakes the meaning of slang of this kind, in the
pouths of a desperate party. It means the op-
portunity of sangulnary revenge, on all who have
resisted or opposed them. The war is to be espe-
cially against the " manufacturers," who, with
those " employed in trade," are stated to be " two
thirds of the whole population of Great Britain ;"
and the manufacturing towns are pointed out by
name for " blood." The men are now at their
work in the shops and the fields, whose wives are
marked to be widows, and children fatherless, un-
less the designs of the enemy are nipped in the bud
by the prompt exertions of the people in every
quarter of the country. Are the tender mercies of
the Tories unknown ; or have men forgotten their
massacres, their suspension of law, their military
executions, their half hangings, their putting to
the torture, or the grinning beads of the time when
dissectors' assistants were in requisition, tts do the
Tory vengeance on their victims ? All this is what
it must come to again, unless the people of Great
Britain have the vigour to prepare themselves in-
stantly for their defence ; and that not leisurely
or by half measures, but by one of those simulta-
neous displays of energy which, in moments of
crisis, save nations. Not a man, high or low, who
can be pointed to as having in any instance
abetted the cause of refetm, but will be exposed to
the measure of revenge which his importance or
his activity may have made it worth while to
bestow on him. Height will be no protection,
and lowliness no security. It will end—to take
the highest first—in the deposition of the King for
another, and the endurance of all the calamities

which, in the actual situation of things, such an
event would bring with it in its train. There is no
instance of a king so foiled ,who has survived as king.
The weaknesses of declining years, which all
must come to, will be made the pretext for remov-
ing him from his high office ; and a crowd of events
are within the scope of probability, which would
make the temptation too great for any party, si-
situated as the Tories will be, to resist. Not that
the individuals into whose hands these warnings
will chiefly fall, are of all men the most keenly
moved by prospects of royal woe ; but still there is
a decent adherence, an honed anxiety, a plain
manly wish and instinctive determination, that a
king who has gone beyond the mark of vulgar so-
vereigns, and incurred the risk in the promotion of
the people's cause, should not personally be a
sufferer. What the other portions of society will
have to undergo, is best told in the words in which
the enemy recalls the glories of the gone-by time,
" men, women, and children, having the excuse of
utter ignorance, hunted by cavalry, cut down or
trampled under their horses' hoofs by yeomanry,
thrown by crowds into dungeons, and afterwards
pursued to ruin and beggary, exiled, or
even decimated by the executioner." This
is the Tories own description, of what " but a
dozen of years ago,'! they inflicted on the people
for " less than the least" of what the people has
now been guilty of attempting. It is no exagge-
rated statement; it is the enemy's own thoughts
in the enemy's own words. The people who cannot
t.alte a hint when their enemies speak thus plainly,
(tight to take the locks off their doors when they

hear of thieves being abroad, and run about saying,
" Come eat me," like nest pigs in the country of
Cockaigne.
There is not the smallest reason for despair. The
Tories calculate upon the army ; but never were
men more wrong in their reckoning, than when they
sav " it might be counted on with great security.
Themselves appear to have an inkling of the fact,
that "among the regimental officers" there would be
abundance aho from one cause or another would
side with their opponents. As the Tories have
chosen to begin the calculation, it is but fair to
follow it up. And first then, if there should be itny
attempt to divide
.the army, let the people recollect
the intense interest which, independently of the
ideas of honour and duty which of themselves would
make thousands of officers take the popular side,
all that most influential body the captains and su-
balterns would feel in supporting the side which
held out the prospect of escape from the aristocra-
tical monopoly of promotion. Putting out of
question, as before, the higher ideas of duty which
would make this ass of officers join the portion of
the upper classes which sided with the people, this
motive alone would operate with intense force on at
least three-fourths of the individuals described.
And if it operated on them, with what vastly
increased force would it act upon that more
numerous and still more influential body,
as regards the conduct of the masses, the non-
commissioned officers. The Spanish constitution-
alists sank under the Bourbon invasion, because it
never occurred to them to make a dozen serjeants

'captains upon the field of battle. The French
their revolution were aware of the irresistible ell

produced upon an army, by the prospect of ad,
ling the lower classes to their fair sbare of pr

tion and reward. If the English soldier cool
conquer" under the cold shade of aristocracy,'
(what might not be expected from him, when thi
deadly bar to exertion was removed. But this(

'is a worse reckoning for the enemy still ; there,
would be a cause operating with peculiar force,
upon the men who have never aspired to a corpo-1
ref's stripe, a cause which appears to have been
cherished with particular seal, as if on purpose that
it should operate at a crisis like the one supposed.
The moment a division of the army was attempted,
there would be the whipped army against the un-
whipped. All men, except the rotten part of the
aristocracy, know that an officer who, with the
prodigious faculties given by military law, with a
power of solitary imprisonment almost unlimited,
and an opportunity of indicting misery, disgrace,
and suffering, on every hour of the life of every
man beneath his orders, cannot maintain discipline
without having recourse to the brutal methods
which dishonour the British service,—is one, in the
more contemptuous than elegant expression of the
common soldier and seaman, " not fit to carry gar-
bage to a bear." But then the rotten part of the
aristocracy could not change their mode of disci-
pline or substitute wisdom for folly on the spur of
the occasion ; or if they made the attempt, their
men would laugh at them, and point to they
opposite ranks as what they had to thank fors
the indulgence. Besides these, there are numerous'
other means by which the portion of the government
which acted with the people would operate upon
the armed bodies. The navy and marines would
be strongly led by professional feelings to side with
the sovereign ; and they and their officers would
at once furnish an incomparable artillery for the
defence of posts and passages, and the basis of a
disciplined infantry. In the corps a talens, the
artillery and engineers, the interest of the worst
part of the aristocracy would be found feebly in
proportions tethe degree' tlt whiat the officers are
drawn from the middle, which are the scientific,
classes of society; end it would be completely nul-
lified by the sweeping interest which might be
created, by opening to these corps the way to gene-
ral promotion, and giving the prospect of the com-
mand of armies to the young Napoleons they may
contain. In addition to all these, would come the
vast energies derivable from the people's own ex-
ertions. It is well known, that with a mixture of old
troops, a good infantry may be made in three
weeks. Cavalry requires a longer time; but with
good horses and willing mer,—tailors, if desired,
like those that composed Elliott's regiment,—it is
hard if in three months a cavalry could not be
made, that with careful leading and some small
advantage in numbers, should ride down the proud-
est of the proud. Make fifty troop-serjeant-
majors captains, and the same number of serjeants
and corporals subaltern officers, on condition
that they brought their troops into the field in good
order in three months ; and it would be seen how
certainly the thing would be brought to pass.
These considerations, and many more that might
be added, show the utter rashness and folly of the
plan the Tories have formed of bearing the
people down with the army, and executing
their vengeances at " Manchester or elsewhere " in
" blood ;" provided only the community acted with
moderate promptitude and vigour. And here
there can be no doubt or hesitation about what the
community ought now to do ; take instantly all
legal measures, in combination with the govern-
ment, for being prepared against the sanguinary
reaction the Tories have been pleased to threaten.
The trouble is of their own making ; they have no
right to threaten ' blood,' and expect that other
people are to sit down quietly and wait their plea-
sure. They have no right to print a list of the
officers they wish to see employed upon their staff,
and expect that their opponents are not to be ready
with another. The country must be prepared
against brute force, and will be; and the evidence
of the necessity is in the printed documents here
presented. As the further means of reducing
temptation to violence, impress every where the
necessity that will exist, if the attempt is made
and put down, of demanding increased security
for the well-being of the people ; and let that se-
curity be the ballot. Impress moreover on the
ministry the necessity of making more extended
concessions to national feeling in Ireland, and of
engaging the hearty co-operation of the Irish
people against an enemy whose success will in-
fallibly be followed by an attempt to restore the
old religious inferiorities in that country. The
times are urgent; and every man must incur some
trouble, to avoid trouble. The Tory plan is in a
nutshell, if the country proceeds like one man to
quash it without delay. Give it head and time,
and there is no defining to what overpowering
magnitnde of evil It may rise.
One new reason for exertion has presented itself
within the hour. Warsaw has fallen ; and the
Holy Alliance is now in full march on Paris. The
French people has suffered itself to be cheated and
betrayed, and it is doubtful whether any measures
can now arrest the progress of its enemies. The
liberal party in the different states of continental
Europe cannot be expected efficiently to oppose
that progress, at all events till France has a govern-
ment on which their confidence can be reposed.—
The probable results ate two; either that France
will be conquered and partitioned, the Bourbons
taking their share; or that it will throw off the
form of government that has given up all its out-
works and brought it to its present pass, and esta-
blish a republic, though with every chance of being
too late. In either case the English Tories will
make their market. In the first event they will
ride over us with their Russian allies, as when the
English minister pointed to the state of the Conti-
nent, and asked what chance there was for popular
resistance at home. In the other, they will cry out
against the perils of popular power, and the emir.
mity of a people's not submitting to foreigners
when asked. If either from carlessness or con-
tempt of danger, the threats of the calf are not
provided against now, it will be a bull when the
time comes for putting its threats into execution.
In the meanwhile there are sundry measures
which the government might pursue, as the means
of diminishing the peril of the general fever of the
times. The Reform bill has displayed the fact,
known indeed before, that a certain portion of
those who pass under the name of radicals, dislike
reform, as being a preventive of revolution ; and
their special object is, the funds. Even of these,
the majority are actuated rather by a vague idea
that the destruction of the debt would be public
wealth, than by a simple desire of spoliation. But
i
the government should make provision a • t
storm from this quarter, by doing aomethiug to
encourage the subdivision of funded property. If
every man held a sharp in exact proportion to hie
taxes, none would call for confiscation, because it
would only be confiscating from one pocket to.