Star.
London, England, 1824-08-16 00:00:00

POLICY OF THE BRITISH CABINET.

PROM THE ALLOEMEINE ZEITUNG.
FROM THE ELBE, JULY 26.
The Frankfort Journahin its number of the 16th in-
stant, reverted, as has already been stated, to the pre-:
riously published article from Mentz, respecting the,
7easons for the presence of Count Munster at Johannis-
berg, and the presumed triumph in the British Cabinet
of the principles established by the recent Congresses
on the right oaf interference, and certainly the very con-
scientious Editor may well be pardoned for adopting
...ire apocryphal article. Nevertheless, the Elberfeld
Provincial Gazette, and after it, the Hamburg/i Corms-
7)ondent, have on this subject called him to account, and
~are thought themselves bound to stand forward asi
:ltiinpions of the English Cabinet. The Elberfeld ar-
ticle of the 19:h of June is, however, an admonitory ex-
ample of the ill success which must attend the handling
;:t such important and complicated questions of high po-
iic y ,w hen theyare investigated under a local point of view.
even be admittei that the right of interference is,
• .ppeats to this Elberfeld statesman to be—sup-
. ine instances of interference in the afairs of Naples,
Jinia, and Spain, wete as arbitrary acts of intermed-
„: as he, in complete ignorance of the history of the
as represented them—suppose the English G0,:..t
,:..t to have recognised such interference, and
7. 1 '..) s2:l troops to Portugal, or a naval force to the
Lisb still the Elberfeld correspondent
:a• recollected that the British Cabinet had dis-
claime : cite light of interfering in a much more com-
prehensive sense than his definition presented. That'
Cabinet has ti ti..ctly refused to the King of Spain the
right of claiming the aid of his allies to tranquilize his
American possessions, in the same form as the King of
Portugal at present claims the assistance of England,
his ancient ally, to tranquillize Portugal. Now, since
the old law of nations denies to no Sovereign the right
of concluding alliances for the maintenance of the inte-
grity of his po,!....lssions, and England has expressly re-
fused this right to Spain, surely the ElherfeldZeitung
ought to convinced -that the right olinterference is by
no means understood in the same sense in London as at
Elberfeld. What the Cabinet of London regards as irre-
concilable with its views of the law ofnations and political
ights, are not merely the so-called acts of arbitrary inter-
ference, but also, as the above cited example shews, those
. interpositions which take place in consequence of a ditect
demand of aid on the part of A legitimate Government.
1 he Elberfeld correspondent also gave a very inconsi-
derate direction to his polemics against the Abbe lien-
tiecart, oiler) he considered the Bluish Cabinet justified,
on the same principles, in refusing to Spain, and in
granting to Portugal, aid solicited by the legitimate So-
vereign. The correspondent of the Abbe Hennecart is,
however, right when he mrintains, that if the succours
in sea or lend forces sought by the King of Vortugal be
in any way supplied, a peat -and salutary change will
take place in the views of the Cabinet of London, which
change must, from the wisdom and consistency still be-
longing to that Government, unavoidably lead to the re-
cognition of the right of intedetence in a stricter sense.

SP/1/.V.
PRIVATE connEsroxnmicr.
AlAnvin, Jimv 29.
" In consequence of the distutbance of which I gave
you some account in my last leLter, the Government have
thought it prUdent to send away from the capital the
Seanisli soldiers implicated in the affair ; and this morn-
ing the battalion of General Quesada's Guides, and also
that if Itioja, have quitted Madrid. The former, it is
supposed, is destined for Ceuta, where, if it should ar-
rive (which is very doubtful, as the greater number will
most probably desert on the march), it will be severely
punished for its turbulence, as on that spot these is very
little to eat, and no chance of pay. "The battalion of
Rioja goes to At ragon. When the Trench traps pie-
rented themselves at the various posts to relieve the
Spanish, the officers, not having received (through the ne-
gligence of their Chiefs) any intimation of the change,
refused to yield up their respective guards to the
French until some Aid-de-camps arrived with an ex-
press order to that effect. It is rumoured that the re-
sults of this affair have been very unpleasant for
General Quesada--a-indeed, some say that he has been
under arrest, and others that he is to be exiled from
Madrid. As this disgrace of Quesada and the sending
a tay of the Spanish troops have been in consequence
o: the representations of General Digeon, whose wishes,
under our present circumstances, we cannot for a mo-
ment refuse to satisfy, the hostile feeling towards the
French has increased both in extent and intensity. The
balloting for the army goes on but slowly in some
places, because they trouble themselves Rule about it,
and in others, because those who are to be ballotted
have all fled. Those upon whom the lot has already
fallen, and who are in the depots, when it is hinted to
them that they will probably be sent to Amei ica, have
no hesitation in saying, " Hitherto all is well, but when
the order for embarking comes we shall know what to do."
In fine, any man who takes the trouble to open his ears or
eyes, must see the utter impossibility of getting these
men across the Atlantic. The numbers of banditti in
various parts of the country have increased to the most
frightful extent, so much so, that any person wbo is
unfoitunately obliged to quit his home, makes op his
mind for Iris purse to be robbed, putting in it what
is barely sufficient for his subsistence on the road.
—These bands are every day augmented by the young
men who fly from the conscription. A few days ago,
a detachment of the Toledo Royalist Volunteer s, who
were sent in pursuit of a gang of robbers that infestahe
mountains in that neighbourhood, returned to Toledo in
a wretched plight, with 16 of their comrades wounded.
A report is prevalent to-dtty, and which seems to be
generally believed, that Don Juan Martin (better
known by the name of El Empecinado) has escaped
from the prison of Roda, by a well-concet ted stratagem.
A detachment of troops, well mounted, and equipped
in the Royalist uniform, entered the little Lawn of Roda,
and the Officer commanding them presented to the
Authorities an order for the delivering up of El Empe-
cinado. While these worthies were deliberating upon
the order, the pretended Royalists went to the prison,
spoke of the object of their mission, indulged in violent
abuse of El Empecinado, bad wine sent for to treat the
gaolers and drink confusion to the Negros, and then
requested to be allowed to see the object of their
feigned hatred, who was brought out to them in
the cage in which they have been accustomed to
expibit him to the populace on market-days. At
this moment some of the detachment fell upon the
guards and gaolers, while others, letting the bird out of
the cage, placed him upon horseback, and the whole
party, with El Naopeeinado, dashed through the town
In full plies. It it said that tite cordon to be esta-

blished on the fiontlers of Poilagal, will be eothposed of
the provincial militia. Three days agorthe baggage of
D. Villahermosa, our Ambassador in Portugal, arrived
here, and his Encelleticy is expecied'every moment. At
Saragossa, three battalions of the division lately com-
manded by General Itoyo-Capape, now in prison here,
were disarmed and disbanded. We learn frOm Barce-
lona, that some of the es-employes of the Inquisition
have received two payments of the arrears of their sala-
ries, and that some reparations are making in the inqui-
sitorial mansion of that city. These circumstances,
joined to the confident manner in which the reestablish-
ment of this tribunal is talked of here, almost lead one
to suppose the event not improbable."

THE EVENTING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1824.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
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