Star.
London, England, 1831-05-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

HERALD.—If the Earl of Aberdeen had continued to the present
time to fill the important office of Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the in.
suits of Don Miguel to the British nation, and his repeated and gnu
violation of the rights and liberties of British subjects, would have not
only remained unnoticed and unatoned for, but, most probably, the suf.
ferers would have been exposed to additional vexations for daring to
complain, while the dastardly usurper himself received substantial marks
of the favour and sympathy of our Government, for no other reason that
we could ever discover than for showing to the world, on ewer" Possible
occasion, that he held the power of Great Britain in die most ineffable
contempt. The document Which produced the required concessions on his
part was submissively regarded and complied with,not because of the justice
of its demands, but because of the servile terror which its threats in-
spired—for it opened to him the prospective view of the "meteor flag
of England"—the insulted, the dishonound flag—floating on its mis.
sion of vengeance in the Tagus, and surrounded by the thunder-clouds
of battle. Already the cruh of a throne raised in fraud, and perjury,
and blood, resounded in his ears. His coward instincts prevailed over
his inveterate malignity, and he submitted to humiliation, which is the
proper and natural consequence of that injustice which obstinately re.
slats every argument but force. The fact is, Don Miguel believed the
old British lion was sick—peradventure dead—and, like his long-eared
brother in the fable, he was liberal of his kicks. At length the lion
roared, and shook his mane, and the assumed courage of the bully us.
poratcd in grotesque terror and trembling submission !

POST.—The good cause of the Constitution, opposed as it has boo
by all the artifices of our revolutionary Ministry, and the brutal farce
of hired mobs, has been wore successj ul than could haw bens anti&
paled I In England, the advantages gained by the Revolutionists a
attributable, mainly to that organised system of outrage, which has in
so many instances deterred the honest voters from coming to the poll,
and in some even been productive of fatal consequences. In Ireland
the same system of Tenor is pursued; but we are rejoiced to be natal
to state that the utmost efforts of the Revolutionists in that unhappy
country are likely to be counteracted by those of the long recognised tat
friends of the Constitution I

TIMES.—With regard to the numbers and character of its friends.
the fate of the question is completely settled, and the Parliament Is
indeed as near being reformed as any measure is neat being law, fen
which little more remains to be executed, than the formality of
of to it the Royal assent. For the effects of reform, with
which we are so loudly threatened,—vie. its destructive tendency
to the church, to the finances, to the throne, &e.
we look upon all such trash with pity, as the audible and
old womanish sobbinga of those who have lost their last ticket in the
lottery of corruption. The Church will, doubtless, follow the example
of the State, and reform herself, as • guarantee against revolution.—
There its no destruction in that, but much security. The financial re-
sources of the realm will not be exposed to such squandering from the
folly, or to such depredation from the knavery. ofjobbing /Wolof/Nand
their profligate and insatiable supporters. There will be fewer wars
rashly undertaken, and ignorantly and improvidently conducted : there
will be no establishments kept upon a scale of such needless and
monstrous prodigality. The colonial system and the commercial eyr
tem, will be suffered to threw off the shackles of numberless monopo-
, lies. There will be no interested oligarchs to interpose between the
Crown and country—to misrepresent the King to his people, and them
to him, and to domineer over both by sowing jealousies between thew.
The monarch will be secure, because the people will no longer be plun-
dered or trampled on in his name, for the benefit of irresponsible depre-
dators. Such is the ruin about to be wrought upon us by reform.
However, the task of its honest advocates is not yet entirely fulfilled.
Some struggles are still carried on by the ultra.Torles, with unrelenting,
because despairing, obstinacy.

Verissimo, who is noticed in the Lisbon papers as hHug
been dismissed by Don Miguel, is one of the creatur:sef
the tyrant, and had absolute authority in arresting air in-
dividual without cause or charge. Although he has been
dismissed his official situation, Miguel has appointed lulu
to a place in his household, and has given him a lu-
crative office in the customs.—Devonport Telegraph.
We yesterday received papers from Van Dieman's Land
to the 20th of November : they fully confirm our former
accounts of the most serious insurrections in the island.
His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor (Arthur) had
been in the field for six weeks, with a sixth part of the
whole population—men, women, and children; and at the
latest date, confident expectations were entertained
that he would put down the tribes of the Aborigines, she
were hemmed in on every side ; the line of the British bad
extended at first sixty miles, in a kind of semicirle; by ad-
vancing in a point on the sea coast it is reduced to twelve;
he had divided his forces into twelve detachments, and the
report is that they have enclosed the whole of the unfortunate
' natives.

GIBRALTAR, APRIL 21.—8 y accounts received fro
Tangiers it appears that an insurrection had broken out at
Mequinez, where the Emperor is residing. It seems the
troops, 12,000 in number, under the command of the Era'
peror's nephew, who had been sent to occupy the reale!
of Tremesen, in the Algerine territory, on the Frew'
linvasion' have disgusted the Tremezians by their e-
orbitaut exactions, and the Emperor, fearing a
war, recalled them to Mequines, where gratification"
were given to the army generally, making a difference,
however, the household troops receiving three dollars, but
Ithose returned from the expedition only two. A revolt en-
sued, threatening the lives of the Emperor and his Mi-
nister Bendris. The former had been shut up three Jar,
in his palace, and the latter was supposed to have escaped
when the accounts came away."