Star.
London, England, 1831-06-16 00:00:00

LZTTIII It.

Julia 13.

Be it so, my good friend : the riclwelers have takers
in dudgeon, it seems, the wholesome advice I gave the-1
in my former letter. Better so, by a thousand times, than
remain contumaceously sulky t expressed malice may gise
hopes of reformation. whilst we can have no hopes frc:.4
incorrigible silence. Even they may forget se doctor their
beer for one night (which marks the tine of operation),
and their customers marvel next day at the change which
has been silently effected in their medicine dicsost:ca.
When I spoke of delinquency attach;ne itself to the
character cf your virulent opponents. I mainly referred to
the half-thousand convictions which the licensed victualkrs
have sustained, during the preceding twelve months, foe
mixing deleerious it gteslients in their beer, and *hies
prosecutions are still going on, I observe, until they reach
about double that nun.ber. As in all similar cases el
unfair or dishonest trading, they fall unpitied into tl'e
hands of justice, and stand convicted amidst the scorns
of those they have reduced below the ranks of manhood.
They thus furnish the strongest arguments that could be
adduced for passing the salutary law for opening the tree
in beer: yet do they writhe and rail at " cep. 64," (whic%
copped all the other statutes of the session.) like the hydro.
culprit " hanged innocent ! my masters ! " They rail at tl
passing storm,—as Calibas railed at the punishment of his
perverseness, though they must have seen it approaching ever
since 1822 and 1823 ; when the manner in which Mr.
Broughams's two bills were received by Parliament convinced
the more astute among them, that "the congregated wisdom
of the nation" would not much longer stand their nonsense;
and they "sold out" to the tare congers under suspicious
circumstances, which, I am of opinion, subjects all subs,.
quent bargains and sales of such leases to the revision sad
restitution which a bill in equity would assuredly give the
dupes. Indeed, the whole system of good-will, as it is
called, has arisen, and la supported by, a strain of sesqui.
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I pedaltan arguments, befitting no other subjects than tap.tube
I and beer engines come to. "Public-house chanyes"—says
a writer in 1820, who will understood his pockets—" when
I these take place, exhibit an entire series of cajolery from one
lend to the other. On such occasions,two or three ap-
praiser-brokers render the newly-taken house a scene of
riot, of quirk, and confusion, for days together, nowise com-
porting with the character which should constitute the de-
cent tradesman." But, let me ask those among them, who
might not have been quite so up to things as their mote
knowing ireelsers in iniquity (the sinners !) could it appear
probable, to any one capable of bestowing a second thought
upon any thing, that the Government of this misery, which
always professes, and usually feels, a lively cons restive care
of the people, would long continue an extensive monopoly at
the disposal of men who have thus been brought to justice
, by hundreds, and proved
.the reckless destroyers of the
I people's health, robbers of the revenue, and dishonest 'sr.
vents, or customers, of their principals, the brewers ? If
P they have been undone and ruined by fines, or bereaved 4.1
pelf so obtained, in consequsnce of the New Beer Bill, have
they not brought those evils upon themselves by their
Own cupidity ? and do they candidly hope that two thousand
flue hundred housekeepers of this metropolis, who have re.
wady embarked their all as "licensed retailers of beer,"
will be " driven from their propriety," by base entices such
, as those before noticed. adduced by corrupt judges like these ?
Most assuredly not. The *warrens:, is not in the nature of
things. Nor will I allow those among them who may not
have been had up, to escape the suspision of guilt I neither
. shall those who happen to have escaped comfit:dist% pint!
: their innocence in bar of the general censure thus passed
opal the body of old enders in beer ; for this is the mama
r they themselves recendypessed judgment open the now mini&
ors, condwenbag the whole far theaters ea few. Is not the
detection of else evil spirit baffler (fa this is the proportion
of adulterates among them) far presumptive evidence of a
more extensive contamination P OM if we were not in per-
mission of proofs that very many of the remaining three thou.
sand licensed victualkre still amebae the same tual.prac-
doss. Here I may menden, from my own knowledge, that
out este heasard Anuses in my immediate reighbouthood,
sot yet had up, I have tasted the beer of three, and found
them all donors&

After this, will the *lel trade complain of the Pica TY'S
in beer, as enacted by the bill of last year ? Will they again
seriously set up their "vested interests," like their proto-
types of beroughoongering notoriety, virdicating their "ea.
luable interests," rested in the rotten system of misrepre-
*notation, of similar cajolery and the like practices carried
en against the same s.iffering people? Will those 3000
publicans any more plead their licences, their premiums, or
their lessee, whilst the greater number have been gioshop-
ping their fronts, or converting their hitherto entire butt"
shops into villas, constructed after the itsts-in-wrbe fashion.
Do we ley that the new !redeye a less corruptibk set than
&sold, By no wens: we cannot deny that they are as
liable to sin as any other biped race of GOD'S creation; be.
sides, iatiktion goes a great way in these respects, sod they
may facilitate contamination by corning in contact with the
old ones. This, however, is certain, and you may still
exult in the fact, that hitherto none have been found out as
adulturaters of their beer ; nor, so far as is made known by the
vigilance of year opponents, none are pointed out as lying
ander suspicion of employing poisonous admixtures; for this
would have been tender ground lur the old ones to tread
upon, as giving eke to comparisons nowise to their advantage,
but much to the contrary. However, let us not vainly ex-
pect that this happy state of innocence will last for ever....
Raclin let us look for more than one transgressor in this par.
dollar walk of dishonesty ; and suppose. doses be disco-
vered ere this ink be dry, it will not become the old ones to
shout the facts, at any rate, too loud, lest we point the linger
of recrimination at their own thousand-and-one offeadeis.—
But if such an one be hereafter discovered among our body,
and brought to light, even let him receive his full deserts at
the hands of unswerving justice; and, in addition, let his
own proper ears be nailed to his own door poste, and his
soul to its own reflectivos—for thus alone will the survivors
be satisfied of his exit, and their injured cause he adequately
avenged.

By what contrivance Grand Juries have been superinduced
Ito misrepresent the retailers of beer. soda good Bishop pre.
seated • petition of some others with the same pious view,
I remains to be sifted in one other communication, with which
I hope to close ibis correspondence. J. U.

W 5, understand that the Duke of Norfolk and
Lord Mulgrave are to move and second the address is the
House of Lords, and ►tr. Charles Penman, member his
Lincolnshire, with Sir John B Johnstone, member for York.
shire, will do the same thing in the House of Commons.
Official value is a rate fixed in the year 1696,
when the Custom-house ledger of exports and hu-
loons was first established The amount of these
rates will be found in an account printed by order
of the House of Commons, on the 18th of May,
1826. Declared value is the value declared by the
exporter at the time of export. It was not required
until 1798. Th. one (othcial value) shows the
variations in quantities ; the other (declared
value) shows the variations in prices from tins* to
time.

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POLISH PRONUNCIATION.

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LOVE AIAKING.
Oh ! what upon earth is like woman's bright eye,
If that eye is but turned upon me ?
What's a lamp in the streets, or -a star in the sky,
Tu that glance which with raptifre I set?
Toeugh the coach wheel's may rattle, the horses make battle,
The rens fly like feathers on air ;
V. t when woman's but by, with that light in her cye,
Lite's as smooth as a one.horse chair.
Ti.n.iuh the rabble around us may wish to confound us,
IVhile I gaze on your twinkiers, my dear,
All F.psom might go to the regions below,.
To meet with all Doncastet there;
Lend Humpback might wive his whole family hive,
The Melton' at ditches look shy;
The world run ago,t, and the King play leap-frog,
And the Thames and the Bank both run dry.
Now the bird• ate all bliss. and Sol gives his last kiss,
As much as to tell us, my dove,
That evening's a moment which uo one should miss
Who thinks to make music or love;
S.) come to my side—two such bosoms as ours
Were made to be linked in one chain;
I've a cloak for the sun, an umbrella for showers,
And a cab for old London again.

LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

All vowels in Polish are sounded as in French
and Italian; and there are no diphthongs, every
vowel being pronounced distinctly. The conso-
nants are the same as in English, except
te, which is sounded like o, at the beginning of a word ;
thus Warsaw— Vorsofa ; in the middle or at the end of a
word it has the sound of f, as in the instance already cited;
and Narew—Nore:
like to. and never like k; thus. Poe is sounded Pair.
a, like p in Gibbon; thus, Oginski
eh, like the Greek X or k; thus. Lech—Lek.
ex, like the Roglisli teh in pitch; thus, Curtner/LI pro-
nounce Tehartoryskt.
se, like sA in shape; thus Stassye like Slashytx.
szer, like shies; thus, Szcserbiec like SAteherbiets.
ex, like j in je, with a slight sound of r; thus, Rzewuski

THE WHITE-HEADED, Oft BALD EAGLE.
The following picturesque and eloquent descrip-
tion of this magnificent bird is taken from Wilson s
American Ornithology, which has been judiciously
reprinted in Constable's Miscellany, and copiously
quoted in an elegant and useful work, The Mena-
gerie. published under the sanction of the Zoolo-
gical Society :
" Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree
that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and
ocean, he (the eagle) seems calmly to contemplate the mo-
tions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy
avocations below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing
the air; the busy tringre coursing along the sands; trains
of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful
cranes, intent and wading; ciamourons crows; and all
the inged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of
this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these
hovers one whose action instantly arrests his whole atten-
tion. By his wide curvature of wing, aud sudden suspension
in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over
some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the
sight, and, balancing himself' with half-opened wings,
on the branch, he watches the result. Down,
rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of
his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it dis-
appears In the deep, making the surges foam around I At
this moment, the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour;
and, levelling his neck for fl•ght, he sees the fish-hawk once
more emerge, struggling with his prey,and mounting in the
air with screams of exuhation. These ate the signals for
our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase,
and soon gains on the fish-hawk ; each exert. his utmost to
mount above the other, displaying in these rencontres the
most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencum-
bered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of
roschhig his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, pro.
hably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his'
fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take
• more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in
his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten
booty silently away to the woods."

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