Star.
London, England, 1830-07-07 00:00:00

SPIT

OF 2"iiif lOURSALS.

Timas.—lf ours be a " weak"Administraden, in the ordinary
sense of that term,—we mean if it be not supported by *unbolts..
ing numbers and connexions within the walls of parilanunt,—it Cali
evidently look to no auxiliaries but public opinion out of doom
that is to say, the influence of its own measures upon the judgment
of the nation. So far from " weakness" of that description being
in our eyes a ground of censure against a Ministry. it is precisely
that characteristic which ought to form the chief tided n
Cabinet to popular confidence end support. The grand blot
in the modern working of our constitution has been, the do.
pendent, of the Crown and its advisers on a selfish petiteness.
Lary oligarchy. If the Duke of Wellington, shaking ad inch
fetters, be inclined or compelled to resort elsewhere for await.
ance, we hardly know on what public consideration a 311inietur so
circumstanced ought to be systematically opposed. Acting as the
Duke of Wellington and hie colleagues have done, in the great con-
stitutional policy of last session,—in the endeavour to cut dews
their own patronage, and to alleviate the national hardener—in
their recent relief of the lower orders from a disheartening
im-
post, and in their anxiety to conciliate the obligations of justice
with the maintenance of tranquillity over all the world,—.they
deserve, in our humble estimmlo4 the free support of in-
dependent and honest men. Perhaps in the foreign policy
of the Wellington Cabinet there may be a few question-
able features,—towards Greece, a step or two *birth we
have often expressed a wish had been otherwise,—towards
Portugal, some which, though disagreeable to contemplate, we
must admit that Ministers could not alter without a violation of ea.
tional law more easy to palliate than justify. Still there is enough
at home to warrant us in deprecating the polished war-whoop of the
pamphleteer (whoever he may be ;) and to add, that the ' weakness"
which he makes at once the crime and punishment of the present
Cabinet, is the quality fur which, above most others, we should like
to see its administration of the Government of England prolonged.
I' here is, nevertheless, another species of " weakness," from the imps.
ration of which it would be vain for us to attempt an absolute defence
of SI inistent—we mean that weakness which results from the compa-
rative want of talent fur Parliamentary speaking. With scarcely
more than three exceptions, out of eleven individuals there
is no member of the existing Cabinet, who combines the power of
striking elocution with the virtues of temper and discretion, so as to
fit him for explaining what may be obscure in any question, and
for defending and enforcing a disputed proposition, without entail-
ing mischief on his own friends. Lord Ellenborough has, indeed,
the faculty of speech, but he has the misfortune so to employ
it, that his silence is the moat valuable service he can ever,
as a senator, perform. Men there are of superior and admit.
able ability in the Duke of Wellington's Administration ; but
that they are not orators is..-owing to the perhaps vicious
taste of Parliament—• subject of deep concern, and of much anx-
iety to the best friends of the Government. Is is on this account
that we desire to see some leading persona of character appointed to
office. It is foe this reason, likewise, that we regret the publication
dutch little pamphlets as that to which we have alluded, and the
unconsidered escapades which now and then break forth from men
of warm tempers in both houses, the tendency of which must be to
retard an approximation in many respects desirable between
who, each in its turn, if they quarrel among themselves, will
be-
come the prey of a common and incorrigible enemy.
Cunowect.s.—Mr. Robert Grant's motion last night, for an Ad.
dress to the Crown, on the subject of a Regency, wan lost by a
greater majority than we had calculated on. The numbers were
247 to OS, exhibiting a majority of 154. We confess we are not
able to understand how the minds of honourable members should
have experienced such a change in the interval between the vote on
the night of Wednesday last and the vote of last night. No fresh
arguments have been urged by Ministers in aid of the appeal made
on Wednesday night to the interests of Members themselves, who
might suffer from the activity of competitors canvassing for votes,
whilst they were busied in attending to the wants of the nation.
It is no doubt natural that honourable members should prefer their
own concerns to those of the nation. Some excuse is due, however,
to those who, conceiving the Monarch an essential part of the Con:
stitutim of this country,. might suppose that all minor considera-
tions ought to give way to the securing the country against the
chance of having, in the interval between the dissolution of one
Parliament and the assembling of another, a Monarch of an age
too tender to bests'e to discharge the duties of one. The Solicitor-
General took's flight for which his Mends were hardly prepared.
With the most pathetic tone, he demanded of the House, " Whe-
ther they would run a race against death—whether they thought no
risk was was to he encountered in life—whether nothing was to be
left to chance—and whether it was possible for them to pinto the
Royal house of mourning—into 14 palace of the Sovereign, and
while he was lamenting the death of his brother. they could state to
him that the House of Commons anticipated his own demise, and
therefore called on him to concur in a measure which every man
must feel nothing but a present necessity could justify." This
argument, If it can be called argument, would go farther than the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman probably intends to go—for ft would
suspend the royal functions during the period of the grief for the loss
sustained. The Ring, however, we see was not so overwhelmed with
grief as to be unable in a few hours after the demise of his Royal Bro.
thee was communicated to him, to enter on various functions of Roy-
alty requiring considerable exertion and presence of mind, and his
grief surely cannot be of so peculiar a kind as to incapacitate him
from acting only when his own mortality is brought before
him. Mr. Brougham met this flight admirably : " Suppose,"
said be, " that • man had succeeded to an estate in tail
about the end of Trinity Term, and just before the four months of
the long vacation, and suppose that he had a wife enceinte, and
three or four children whom he wished to provide for. It would be
My natural that, looking to the uncertainty of life and the danger
of the whole peoperty, in the event of his sudden death before the
conclusion of these four months, he should be anxious to suffer a
. and thereby bar the tail, and have it in his power to dia.
= en
his property for the herein of his family. Well, he goes to
his Attorney, and the Attorney agreeing with him proposes to eon.
sult one of the Learned Gentlemen opposite probably the Soli-
citor-General, as most conversant with the disposal of property
of this description. The Attorney states the case, and tells
him that his client has just succeeded to the estate under
the circumstances I have mentioned, and to that it is ne-
cessary to do something before the long vacation. What would
my learned friend say. if we are to trust the speech we have just
heard ? He would exclaim, Go to, indelicate man that you are..—
(A laugh.) You an Attorney.—( Laughter.) You a person who
dare to tail yourself a gentleman. "Out, out—(laughter), out of
my chamber—out of my sight.—(Laughter.) Talk not to me of
fines and recoveries, or of bating entails, while the late tenant in
tail lies yet unburied in the halls of his ancestors—(Shouts of
laughter.) Talk not to me of your recoveries, or of the danger of
delay—the late tenant In tail lies yet unburied, and it would be in.
decent, in the highest degree, to discuss such • question at present."
—(Shouts of laughter, in which all the members seemed to join,
except the hon. gentleman alluded to.) A sort of collateral Wes
was also tried last night—the claim of the Duke of Cumberland
to be Regent. The Solicitor. General observed, "He had under-
stood that an honourable and learned member had declared that
the Heir Presumptive had an undoubted right to succeed to the.
Regency, and that so Mr. Pitt had considered it." (Mr:.sattuelluun
said his statement was, that the Heir Presumptive not
a right, but a paramount claim.) " The Solicitor-General con.
timed t Mr. Pitt had never so considered it. In that part of
the debate, Mr. Pitt had only said, that the claim of the
of Wales was one which was deserving of serious coosiderar
but he denied that, in any part of the debate, Mr. Pitt had
ever treated it as a claim—that he admitted, directly or Jodi.
redly, to be unanswerable. Mr. Pitt had only put it ea the
ground of expediency, whilst Mr. Fox (he must say with every
respect for that great man's talents) had put forward
most extravagant doctrines that had ever been promulgated on
subject, either in or out of the House. So that if the Address
been carried, the next question would be the title of the Duke of
Cumberland to the Regency. In the case of the late King. he
would have succeeded in the course of nature to George the Third.
But the Duke of Cumberland or his descendants may never succeed
to the Throne of this country ; and is it not a hazardous attempt to
place at the bead of the Government the man who, if the :Sove►
reign's existence be prolonged, may be excluded from all chance at
succeeding, but who would become undoubtedly King on the death
of the Sovereign without issue ? Verily, analogy seems to lead here
to very perplexing results. , -

stalls. 'We have to ammo, the death of the Hosourable
Thomas Campbell, liambu of the Legislative Council, and ha 1
surly Sherif of as Odeety. On the Ist of this month, 10 yam
31r. Camplall was sworn hi as Se Teary to the diagrams'.
t was as the moss waroin4 that the lamented Oovasor Masquorie
was Wetted kW its agog as the Liege Reprosentadve. Mr.
Campbell TEdsomit of high character forlionour, education,
War% ,in dt6 Important dices be filled in this coun
U try
Ara Number of Council, however, be psi.
tidally boated New Sao& Wales. It was to his dogmas and
perseveres's, sat to these otChisfJustice Forbes, the freed patios
of our e.m.unity are indebted for that invaluable privilege, the
t to oh as Jurors is the Supreme Court of New South Wales.—
Ris death we consider in the present state of public affairs, a great
and almost irreparable loss. Mr. C. died very wealthy.

CANTON.—GOVERNORLE*B PROCLAMATION.
Le, Member oldie Military Board, Governor. General of the two
)twang provinces, and acting Hoppo, hereby issues a perspicuous
ion. It appears that of hue years the Canton Hong
reartaatnts have repeatedly shut up and stopped, and now there
scarcely remain seven houses. Yen, the late Hoppe, reported
this to the Emperor, and his Majesty's pleasure was received,
saying. "If there be men of substantial property who are wil-
ling to become merchants, it is permitted that they may make
the experiment of conducting the business ke. Respect this."
I, the Governor, acting also as Hopp°, have already twice
commanded the Hong Merchants to *elect and invite sub-
standal men that their bonds might be received, and that
they might act in the capacity of merchants. The whole of the
customary fees at the Hoppo's office, on making merchants, were
to be altogether remitted, and the servants, clerks, Ac. would not
be allowed to extort a candareen or cash. 1 likewise ordered, ac-1
cording to the consultation and report of the two aye officers, that
hereafter, when new merchants became by degrees numerous, and'
there was no impediment to public affairs, then, if a merchant were
really inadequate to manage the affairs of the Hong, he might be
allowed to petition the Governor and Hoppo, with a request to retire,
and then wait for a reply, and act in obedience to it. This is on
record—afterwards the new Hoppo will doubtless act in the same
manner. Supposing that the merchants and people may not all
be fully acquainted with this, or that, perhaps, they look about,
and will not come forward, from eatertaining an apprehension that,
as before, on becoming merchants, it will be necessary to expend,
large sums dummy. and that, after they had become merchants,
they would be unable to retire. ft is proper to issue a perspicuous
proclamation full to the point; and I, therefore, issue these com-
mands to the merchants, people, rft.c. for their full information.—
If there be men of substantial property who are willing to
become Hoeg merchants, let them forthwith repair to my
gateway with their petitions, and I will immediately order an
investigation into the real facts, and grant permission for them
to (become merchants. The whole of the fees at the Hoppo's
office shall be altogether remitted, and on becoming a mer-
chant, it will not be necessary to expend so much as even a thread
or a bait, which will be a great benefit to their capital. After
they have become merchants trade will, doubtless, gradually
improve • and I suppose they will be unwilling to quit their shim-
don anescheme other things; but if they be really unable to ma-
nage their business, are of no benefit to the public 'fairs; and
if the officers of government and the merchants all dislike them,
then they may retire of their own accord, without requesting leave
to retire. What necessity is there for them to cherish beforehand
anxiety about not being able to retire ? 1, the Governor, from a
desire to reinstate the attire of the Hoag merchants, do not deem it
a trouble to inculcate this impressively by a perpieuous proclama-
tion. You merchants and people must be careful- not to cherish sus-
picious doubts and look about (without coming forward.)
Do not oppose ! A special Proclamation.
let. December, 1829. Taos-Kwarto.

" RIO DR JANEIRO, MAT 5.
" Speech of his Imperial Majesty at the Opening of the General
Assembly, on the 3d of May, 1830.
" Most August and Worthy t3enhors, Representatives
of the Nation,
" I have now the pleasure of opening the. first session of the
second Legislature of this empire, and much satisfaction in being
able to announce to the General Legislative Assembly, my union
with the Princess Amelia Augusta Eugenia of Leuctenberg, the
Empress, my much-beloved and esteemed consort.
" The much.desired arrival of my august consort was mom-
credby the '
return of the young Queen of Portugal, my dearly
daughter, who (not abandoning her cause) is now under my
protection and guardianship. Though, in the character of her father
and guardian, it is my duty to defend the mese of the said Sove-
reign, I shall still be faithful to my weed, plelpd to the Assembly,
never so compromiseithe tranquillity and Women of Basil on n-
atant of the affairs of Portugal.
" To your care and philanthropy I essonsod the Portuguese
emigrants wbo, having preceded or nesieponsdi their legitimate
Queen, now want assistance in this araatey.
0, I have mut* gnuilication in estunmohnag to the General
Assembly, that the relations of hisodhhin and Ismeny continue
unaltered between me and the other sovereigns coed states of both
hemispheres.
"I have ratified treaties of navigation and comaserce with the
King of the Netherlands, and with the United Stow t authentic
copies of these treaties were laid before you by my TakiMar of the
competent department in the last session of the late legbisinse.
" 1 congratulate you on the tranquillity which peva' in all the
provinces of the empire.
" My minister and secretary of state for the affairs of justice will
make known to you, in the form required by the amstitstion, the
motives which obliged the government to suspend for a time some
of the securities of personal liberty in the province of Ceara.
" Vigilant and zealous in maintaining good order. I consider it
my Indispensable duty to remind you of the necessity of repressing,
by legal means, the abuses which continue to be made of the liberty
of the press throughout the whole of the empire. Such an abuse
threatens great evil., which it belongs to the assembly to avert.
" The affairs of Anomie and justice, which I have so often re-
commended to your nodes, merit from you all that attention and'
zeal which the country hopes to experience on the part of its re-
presentatives. The improvement of these two important branches
of the public administratkin is of vital interest for the prosperity of
the empire.
" The army and the may cannot fail also to obtain your atten.
tion ; the former needs so be=itemen a he mid rigor tam ;it:
and the latter requires sew mks&
cal situation of the svapiss then- sa the molosnottos of sea mod
forum equally es at nee puha and awassary.
" The slave trade hr ceased, sad the Government is determined
to employ all the muses whisk ped faith and humanity demand to
prevent its coatinuatem miler any toms or pretest whatever. I con.
eider it, therefore, an indispensable duty to point out to you the ad-
vantage of facilitating the innodustion of labourers. Laws which
may authorise the distribution of uncultivated lands, and secure the
faithful execution of the contracts entered into with colonists, will
prove of manifest utility and highly advantageous to cur general
industry.
" The education of youth, which has constantly been the object
of my imperial solicitude, requires all your attention. It is near.
sary that the principles of the Catholic Apostolic Roman religion
which we profess, and the precepts of Christian morality, should In
carefully taught and practised in all the elementary schools in the
empire.
" I leave to the consideration of this assembly the matters to
which I have directed its auantien. I pot my trust in the wisdom
and patriotism which I expect to preside over the labours of the
present session, and to draw down upon the legislators the bone.
diction of a grateful country.
"August and worthy Representatives of the Nation, I reckon Ns
your co-operation. Prove that you am Brazilians, that you have
solely in view the general interest of Basil, the consolidation of the
monarcho.constitutional representative system, and the splendour of
my Imperial throne.
" The Session is opened.
" TUE CONSTITUTIONAL EMPEROR ANDI
PERPETUAL DEFENDER OF BRAZIL"

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