Star.
London, England, 1830-01-29 00:00:00

ARRIVALS.

Lord and Lady King and family, at their house In Dover-street,
from their seat, Ockbam, near Ripley, Surrey , the Right
Honourable Charles Manners Sutton, in St. Stephen's-court.
Colonel J. K. Motley and Mrs. Money, at Marshal Thompson's
Hotel. Cavendish-square ; Wm. Mules, Esq. Lady Pilkington and
the Misses Pilkingtost, at ditto; Lord Deeds, at ditto ; Henry
Gillet, Esq. at ditto ; Lieut. Ogilvy and I H. D. Ogilvy, at ditto;
the Earl and Countess of Jersey, at their house In Berkeley-
ley-equare. from the Duke of Bedford's seat, Woburn Abbey ;
Prince and Princess Lieven and family, at Ashbornham-house,
Dover-street, from Richmond; Lady Glynne, at her house in
Berkeley-square, from a tour.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

SIR—I ended my last by assuring you that his Ruin-
ing. of WATERLOO was just the same now that he ever
has been, and that those patriotic Gentlemen, ycleped
" Whigs," had not undergone any material change.
What the Duke ever was, I have already told you :
what the Whigs were in days of yore, I should wish to
tell, and—and if I should not be thought too presumptuous
—I should like to rank my name among that distin-
guished class of men. But as all this is irrelevant to the
present argument, I shall confine myself to what they
have been for some years past.
Well then Sir, these same gentlemen have been, with
some few honourable exceptions—and still are—divided
into two classes :—the ultra or topping Whigs, who want
a revolution; and the nether Whigs—l like ;hat epithet
in contradistinction, because JOHNSON says, it means
infernal—who want a place ! So long as Mr. CANNING
opposed them, and I may say, insulted them, he was the
most insignificant coxcomb, the most frothy humbug, and
the most corrupt public minister,that ever existed. So long
as the Duke of WELLINGTON opposed them—for if hie
Grace had any political bias par excellence, it was oppo-
sition to the Whigs—he was the merest tool, the poorest
and most insignificant of modern Statesmen. But no
sooner did Mr. CANNING or the Duke of WELLINGTON
exhibit to their tearful eyes and hungry appetites the
Open Sensed of office, of lucre, and preferment, than
these same distinguished Whigs crowded all sail to offer
their humble services; dispelling, as they advanced with-
in its orbit, the mists and clouds, and clouds and mists
which had hitherto obscured the rays of the rising sun.
Let me not, however, be supposed to include all the
Whigs in this denunciation. There are many, very many
of the most worthy and amiable men enrolled In their
party. There is not one, perhaps, more honoured iu
public and revered in private life than the Earl of FITZ-
WILLIAM, the Nobleman—shameful as it is to admit
that any member of the aristocracy should return, and
thus influence a member of the democratic pert of the
"Constitution—who returns Sir J AN ES SCA RLETT to Par-
liament ; and to whom, since, I fear, it would be a
labour lost to apply to the General, who naturally
enough wants such a Quarter-master as this Jamai-
can, I must appeal, to turn him out of the Repre-
sentation of Peterborough. Nay, I wonder, and it
is his great age which is his only excuse, that his Lord-
ship, who was equally venerated by Fox, by CAVEN-
DISH, and by BURKE, the guardian angels of the Press,
should suffer such a half-begotten Englishman as this
ATTORNEY-GENERAL, to invade its liberties—as be
has—with impunity. But to return : the motto of the
greater part of the present race of Whigs, is the outward
and visible sign of patriotism, with the inward and spiri-
tual grace of self-interest ; and on that ground, I main-
tain it is not a whit surprising, that they should,
in just accordance with their principles, worship
the graven image—for the General is no better—
which the choice spirits of our Aristocracy have set up for
their idol. They are not" altered : and, in like manner,
the same characteristics which marked the youth, the
manhood, and the career of the Duke of Wimus G-
row, have distinguished his Administration since be has
been in power. Having conquered all around him, he
is in his turn overcome (and a most degrading lesson it
is to human nature) by a set of flies and flatterers who,
having first tempted him to undertake what he was not
fit for, are now exposing him to infamy and degrada-
tion. His Grace is not the first man who has been ruined
by prosperity. His great antagonist NAPOLEON, whose
fate is hardly yet removed from our eight, was the vic-
tim of prosperity. Who knows but the ALMIGHTY
may have marked his Grace, as he did the EMPEROR
of the French, " for some displeasing service he has
done for the hot vengeance and the rod of Heaven."
But let me speak of his administration. No sooner
was he in office than he regarded the Catholic Question,
which the wisest and best of our statesmen bad thought
a prudent measure, but one that required the gravest de-
liberation, as a political bugbear, and having decided that,
he—like a regular captain—resolved to carry it : in
doing de, it was, however, requisite, con ensure, to have
his feints and his manoeuvres—his movements to the right
and to the left, and to the " right-about face." Having
marshalled his forces, he moved them on at " quick
march," heedless of all consequences, in much the
same way as he would have stormed a fort,
or attacked an advanced guard. Yet, think you
my Lord DUKE, this was like a statesman,
whose province it is to dive into the womb of
futurity, and weigh with present advantages future conse-
quences ? Verily, verily, I tell you, most puissant Kier;
of Israel —that is to say, Mara of Jews, Jobbers, in-
fernal Whigs, and Dunces—that that Catholic Bill of
yours, admitting, as I do, the necessity of it,was carried in
so unstatesmanlike a manner, so subtle in its contrivance,
, so contemptible in its developement, so unparliamentary
in its proceeding, so unjust in its detail, so bungling in
its execution, and so injurious in its consequences, that
, ages yet unborn shall rue the day it was entrusted to your
inexperienced bands ! _ _ .

His Grace's attacks on the Press, in order, as " SID-
NEY" justly remarks, to intimidate the country, were no
less fearless in design and disgraceful in execution. He
has only to call out the military and order them to trample
on our bodies, to fill the cup of our misery and bondage
to the brim.—Beware, however, oh KING ! beware the
Ides of March ! !
But I trespass, I fear, too long on your indulgent..
Depend on it, Sir, the Duke of Wet.r.rworow is now the
same he ever was—proud and arrogant—haughty and
ignorant—with no redeeming quality but boldness : and
one would almost suppose that BACON had the Great
Captain and the times in which we live, in his eye, when
he wrote as follows :
" BoLnuess—Wonderful is the case of boldness in civil
Wien: what first ? Boldness. What second and third ?
Deiliese. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and
Irmirm, far inferior to other parts. But nevertheless it
doss thecinate, and bind hand and foot, those that are
Aber shallow in judgment or weak in courage ; which
are the greatest part : yea, and prevaileth with wife men
at weak times. Therefore we see it hath done wonders
in popular States ; but with Senates and Princes less : and
more ever upon the first entrance of bold persons into
action than soon after ; for boldness is an ill keeper of
promise. Sorely, as there are mountebanks for the na-
tural body, so them are mountebanks for the politic body
—men that undertake great cares, and perhaps have been
lucky in two or three experiments, but want the grounds
of saw*, and therefore cannot hold oat ; nay, you shall
me a bold fellow irony times do litabooiet'a inirecle.—
Mabseuttweide the pee* believe that he would call an