Star.
London, England, 1830-02-26 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We regret exceedingly that it is impossible to insert either the
Letter of PHILO-STAN, or our valuable friend M. They shall ap.
pear to-morrow.

The Earl of STANHOPR brought forward his motion
last night on the state of the count4A4n a speech of great'
power and argument, which—it is almost needless to
say—was negatived by a majority of 118 to 25. The
Duke of WELLINGTON, feeling the justice of the Noble
EARL'S descriptions, and unable—because of their too
much truth—to brook them, made an intemperate alai
haughty reply. The Noble Dinca—as a matter of

course—carried the House with him ; as how could it
have been otherwise, when it is known that the Noble
DUKE is himself both the CABINET and the Houss.
The Minority, however, in which Lord STANHOPE was
left, makes nothing against the truth of his allegations. and
some of these .ivere startling. " The Noble Dulta"—
he said—" at the head of his MAJESTY'S Government,
whose name would be written in the brightest page of
history as the deliverer of Europe, and to whose gall Ant
achievements his country was so deeply indebted, would
be also consigned to posterity—unless he altered his

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present course of Government—as contributing to the
ruin of that country. The SITUATION of the country
was sucir, as no man could contemplate without horror
and dismay." The general line of debate consequent on
this momentous motion—and especially the manner in
which it was received by Ministers, and treated by the
Noble Dux z—will suffice to convince any man that the
starving country has nothing to hope from its aristocracy.
What country ever had ?

The fallen and despised organ of that faction, which
does not blush to call the Duke of CUMBERLAND its
head, has been again spitting at us its vituperative slaver,
as if blackguardism and brutality—the two prominent
characteristics of its article to day—were any answer to
our triumphant refutation of its late rancorous detractions.
It knows well the guilt —the deep-grained, convicted guilt
—of the party, whom for the basest, as well as blackest
of motives, it has the shameless effrontery to uphold as
innocent. There is nothing too sordid—nothing too
vile—for the mercenary speculations of such a grovelling
and craven spirit. " The public mind "—it says—" has
been already set right on the subject :" the public mind
never erred on the subject at all. The Times stam-
mered forth its recantation—the very next day after the
THUNDER-STORM—either for hire, or some equally
moral consideration him thereunto impelling : but the
dust which he threw about on that occasion went into
nobody's eyes, not even his own. He knew—and he
knew that the world knew—that he lied in hie throat
of brass : and, with a strange candour at tho time, he ad-
mitted that he could persuade no one to believe his lies.
What, then, does this contemptible Berlin satellite mean,
by the public mind being set right? It never swerved,
nor vacillated from its first impressions : it was corrobo-
rated in these by too many substantive circumstantialities,
ever possibly to have been set wrong. The venom and
sputter of such a thing as the toad before us, could not
hide nor alter these convictions : sound and fury were,
indeed, there—but they fell, scouted and ineffective,
among the prepossessions which they could not shake.

We have Vera Cruz papers to the sth, and private
letters to the 9th December, this day. We regret that
we have no room for extracts from these papers to-day ;
but we cannot postpone the publication of the following
important passage from our private letter :

" Campeachy has declared for Centralism—so has Tabasco : and
lately, the troops at Jalapa (5,000 strong) have also declared for a
reform in the Government. They have at their head—Generals
BUSTANENTE, SANTA AxxA, Antal:BA, Mustraniz ; and
Colonels TACIO, MOULTAA, INCLAN, ANDRADE, PANTOJA,
ALVIN° Prazz, CARDONA, Omuta Cowin, and AZCARATZ.
We all believe that matters will soon be settled, and without blood.
shed ; when we shall finally enjoy tranquillity.—Sendings continue
to be effected to Mexico, such is the confidence placed in the
above Chiefs.

We noticed yesterday some observations which were
addressed to us on the subject of Greece, and which seem
to have been elicited from the writer by the letters on the
Greek question addressed to Lord HOLLAND on the mo-
tion of the Noble BARON in the Upper House. These
remarks are so just and important, and the views they
take—not of events merely, but consequences—are so
clear and striking, that we cannot refrain from presenting
them at full length:—
" From the answer given to Lord HOLLAND by the Duke °MEL-
LINOTOW on Thursday last, it is obvious that neither the independ.
once of the new state of Greece, nor the pacification of that part of the
world (whiehever be the object of the ensuing settlement) can be effec-
tually secured, unless Candies be either annexed to the new State, or
the nature of the warfare carried on within that island between the in-
habitants and their Turkish masters, be regulated and restrained by
the intervention of the Christian Powers, at the same time that the
affairs of Greece are permanendy settled. The result, otherwise,
must and will be, either that the independence of the new State will
be threatened by the Turks from Candis, or that the predatory and
irregular warfare which first occasioned and justified our inter.
ference, Protocols and Treaties will be revived—and in the latter
case, even if we do not interfere, as we did before, the French or
Russians will : and the former not improbably with the view and
the effect of ultimately obtaining possession of that very important
island, and securing the preponderance of their influence is
Egypt, an object steadily pursued by France, and infinitely more
injurious to English interests, than all the conquests and views of
Russia, real or supposed, effected or to be effected, either in the
Black Sea or in Persia.

" It is quite clear that the passage quoted by Lord Aszanzzx
from Mr. Fox's letter to M. TALLZYRAND, in the spring of 1806,
arose from well-founded jealousy In that statesman of the views of
France on sundry possessions of the Turks, (Egypt and Albania in
particular) and not from any apprehension of Russian aggression,
much less any predilection for the Ottoman power. The whole
tenor of that negotiation was to propitiate the alliance and power of
Russia. The projected article for the integrity of the Turkish ter.
ritories, though in form originating with France, formed a part of
the Russian as well as French policy at that moment, and the no-
tion of introducing the Russians into the Mediterranean as an ad.
ditional counterpoise to the power of France in that sea, was one to
which Mr. Fox was never averse, and certainly less so than ever
at the period of drenegodation in 1106. Mr. Fox's ministry within
two or three months after his death, acting (at last in intention) on
the principles he had •infused into the cabinet and bequeathed to
his colleagues and Successors, sent a fleet to Constantinople for the
purpose of enforcing the just pretensions of Russia, and securing to
them in Wallachia and Moldavia that preponderance which they
have now fortunately obtained, and to which they were long since,
by treaty as well as reason, fairly entitled. That expedition failed,
not from any defect in the plan, but from a defect in the tom.
wander (the very reverse of that so unfairly imputed to the ton.
Angkor of Navarino) cis. a propensity to negotiate when be should

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have fought. But Admiral DUCKWORTH! bad the good fortune of
serving a ministry who, from the most honourable and wise Fin.
dples, always sustained the naval or military commanders they em-
ployed, even when they were disappointed at their conduct,unless they
thought such misconduct arose hem treachery or cowardice, or some
other base motive, which they could not and did not suspect in
Doczwonser, who had erred with good intentions from incapa-
city, or too great confidence in his own talents for negociadon. To
sum up, I cannot persuade myself that Russian preponderance in
the Essine,Bassian introduction into the Mediterranean, or Turkish
decline in Europe, can be hell so injurious to England as the in.
crease 'liken& influence, gisey, preponderance, and, perhaps, ter.
ritory on the continent or islands of Greece, 0r.% Egypt."
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%iota of space Fords the insertion of any farther remarks from
our correspondent to.day. Of the portion here presented, it may be
truly said—whoever the writer may be—that his views are profound
and statemnanlike, and that he exansinsi the question alike with the
eye of a patriot and & philosopher.

At an early hour this morning the Paris Journals of
Wednesday and Thursday were received.' The subjoined

brief extracts 'from these Papers will be found interesting :
"3t appear!, certain that Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg se.
cepted, on the 21st of February; the sovereignty of Greece.
" The Porte has consented to a Catholic Patriarch residing at
'Constantinople. This important concession has been made by the
Grand Seignor, in consequence of the solicitations of France. Our
Ambassador has carried this negotiation through with perseverance
and talent. The Catholic subjects of the Porte will now have a
Bishop, charged with the defence of their interests, under the pro.
tection of France.
" Several Papers publish to-day the number of the regiments
which it is asserted are destined to act in the expedition against Al-
gime. It appears that all the regiments of infantry in the army.will
be required to furnish their contingent in this expedition, which will
be composed of 40,000 men. Each regiment will furnish a war
battalion, and thus the( glory which may result from this campaign
will belong to the whole army. As to the Lient..Generals, of whom
a list has been published, it appears that the Duke d'Escars is the
only one who has been as yet appointed. It is believed that the
Commander-in-Chief of the Army will be appointed this week, G'
at the beginning of the next."
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Pim 24.
Five per Cents. 109 f. 10e. sc. 10c. 15e. 20c. lk.
Four per Cents. 101tf. £oe.
Three per Cents. 841. 84f. Sc. 841. 831. 95c. 90e.
Bank Stuck, 1,9151.
Neapolitan Renter, 92f. 2.k. 110 c. 35e. 30e.
Spanish Ditto, 13 1211 6.
Rentes Perpetuelles d'Espartie. 6931 I.
Hayden Loan, not. 535 f. ssof. 5521. Soc. 535 f.
=CHANGE ox LONDON.
One month, paper. 25f, 70e. money, 2Sf. 85c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 55e. money, 251. Ric.

We briefly alluded yesterday to the public Meetin?,-
held at Holywell in Flintshire ; and we took that oppor-
tunity of quoting an interesting passage from the speech
of Mr. MArliEn. That gentleman concluded his ob-
servations by reading the following resolutions, %%Mei.
were unanimously adopted :
1. That severe distress pervades every class In the community
throughout the kingdom, rendered still more alarming by the fact
that an opinion very generally prevails, that a remedy can be
afforded only by Legislative measures.
2. That the population of this town and neighbourhood employed
in the various pursuits of agriculture, mining, manufactures and
commerce, are in a most deplorable condition :—rents unpaid—mines
abandoned—manufactures and commerce without profit—and retail
dealers almost without customers.

:L That we find in the long and expensive wars in which
this country has been engaged, the cause of the enormous .debt
and oppressive taxation of which we now loudly complain—
wars into which we should not, probably, have been plunged, bad
the House of Commons, by which the taxes necessary to carry cn
these wars were imposed, been elected by the tree and unbiassed
votes of the people, instead of a majority of it having been norm.
noted by Peers and wealthy Commoners.
4. That the return to a cash currency has enormously increased
the load of taxation (previously too great to be borne patiently)
by lowering the price of commodities, and thereby reducing the

means out of which the same nominal amount of taxe► continues to
be levied.

5. That the distress unfortunately now generally prevalent Is ace.
gravated by duties amounting to a prohibition of the importation
of foreign corn, which, while it deprives the labouring classes of the
benefit of cheap food, limits and cripples the export of our manu-
factures and produce to those countries from which we might im.
port corn in exchange.
6. That his Majesty's Ministers having determined to abide by a
cash currency, a reduction of taxation in the ratio of the depreciation
in the value of commodities caused by a return to cash payments, is
not only just but absolutely necessary.
7. That it behoves us, who are struggling under a grievous bur.
den of taxation, to call upon Parliament to alleviate our sufferings
by every means in their power.
8. That this may be accomplished in some measure, by a reduc.
don in the numbers as well as in the pay of the army and navy ; by
discontinuing the vicious system of perpetuating the charge for
half.pay ; by a reduction of the retired allowances, and the salaries
of all public offices, fiscal, judicial, and civil ; by the abolition of
all monopolies (particularly that of the East India Company t) by
the repeal of the Usury Laws; by the revision of the Game Laws (a
fruitful source of crime and expense to the country ;) and by an in.
quiry into the property and emoluments of the Established Church.
9. That petitions to both Houses of Parliament, founded on these
resolutions, be adopted.