Star.
London, England, 1830-10-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TILE JOURNALS.

TIMES. —The only chance which the family of Nassau now possesses
of recovering their bold over the southern provinces, depend.. upon the
concilistory disposition of the Prince of Orange, and the 1,...111ing
good sense of the Belgic people. The success of a war to compel ol,e-
dienet would be extremely doubvel. Besides, If undertat,o Ly the
Prince with Dutch troops, it would M;ta:aly become a war et nation
against natiomand not a contest between rt rotted subjects and their IN, i.
mate sovereign. As soon as negociation shall cease between thePrznce and
Belgians,as soon as the sword itylrawn. a: (I Dutch troopaoss Dutch troops,
invade the Belgic territory, or point do ir ..nnon against the towns of
Belgium,—the claims of his Royal High:- eat+ are changed ; —he c.tn no
longer expect the willing obedience of tho peopl...—be he fort,''. d the
advantage of fifteen years of union—he re-converted hints,ll ity,)
foreign enemy, and can only reign by tl. e right of coaques• ovrr a roil:
who, pointing to the ruins which he has made, may exclaim—

" Nemo ►ic vastat sua
Qum corripl igni, qua gladio jubes,
Aliena credis."

But, without foreign aid, such a result —latnentable at btot—wetiltl
be impossible. Hence we are told of the iiterference of the parties to
the treaty of London; and one Mornirg Paper of yesterday had actually
introduced a whole army of Ptussiars to attack Mussels by three dif-
ferent routes. It was rather surprising that nobody had ever heard of
this clandestine movement till the new. readied London; and it wis
hardly fair in his Prussian 31ajesty thus to l andwink his allies in acting
to steal a march on de Potter and Co. All Lurope ought to have b:eti ap.
prised of the intended invasion ; and the new levies of France should has,
' got a little time to prepare their unifornis, and to go through their
first exercises. But, jesting apart, we tti..) safely say, that no ground
exists at present for such an apprehension or war. The Prussian Go.
verntnent is fully aware of the disposition of France to prevent info.
ference:on the part of other Powers, as the cortittion and consequer.cc tit
a sgsteni of self-deeial which she imposes on her:lf. Nothing cot he
more satisfactory or tranquillizing than the uniforn declarations of Cr.
Ministry, of the Chambers, and of the press of France, against atty
design or desire of intervention on their part; and we rely on
good sense and avowed principles of other Governments to give
France no pretext for departing from her pri;.1;:;:t and sincere engage-
ments.

TIMES.—The Parisian common people—the ca vet:st, as well as
the most susceptible people in the world--have seen throng!' hu-
mane hoax attempted to be practised on their generosity to save the ex.
Ministen from their vengeance, and thus deprive them of the spectael:
of a Ministerial execution. The King, the Court (if ere can speak of t'te
Court of a Citizen King,) the Cabinet, the Cliam'acts, and dot uppe •
classes of society, appear anxious to save the culprits f'rom the ext:eme
rigour of the law, seeing in their apprehension a eaurse of embar-
rassment, in their trial a case of difficulty, and in their certain con-
demnation a subject of regret. They therefore took advantage of
the proposition of M. de Tracy—a proposition made two
years ago without success—to introduce a resolution to abolish the
punishment of death for political offences. The scheme was opper-
timely introduced and dexterously pursued. Petitions:were obtained frout
' individuals who had been wounded by the orders of Polignac in the
glorious days of July, praying the Chamber to free the penal code fruet
ankles which would affect the life of that guilty minister; and Genetal
Lafayette made two or three speeches for the same ptirpose. Magis-
trates and military officers joined in the rtconnitendmian ; and, at last,
the King himself, on the address of the Chamber, has say clitued, by
the meatus concurrence of his opinion, the decision of the
Chamber. Still, neither the reaction of the King, the petitions
of the wounded, the speeches of favourite orators, row the una-
nimous voice of the Deputies, has satisfied the people that any tiling
else was intended than a surprise upon their feelings of mercy. They
exclaim, why change the law at this particular moment, when a trial hi
which we are interested is about to commence ? If the law was bad,
why was it not changed before, re why not wait to change it till
calmer moment for the discussion ankle ? If these men after being
condemned are thought objects of mercy, let the Royal clemency be ex-
ercised for their pardon t but do not vote their pardon beforehand by a
kind of juggle on our feelings. To this reasoning there can scarcely be
any reply which would pot impeach the disposition of the populace fur
blood, or the weakness of the (lovernment in exercising the prerogative
of pardon.

HERALD—" It is reported," says a cotemporary • "that Sir June.
Searlett will be raised to the Bench previously to the meeting of Parlia-
ment.' We do not believe any such thing. To say nothit.g of the
unpopularity of such a step to an Administration not already over.
bounding in the opposite commodity, there is, in fact, no judicial office
vacant which an Attorney-General is in the habit of taking. But a
stronger proof that the Learned Gentleman himself has no such
expectation, arises from the fact, that he la.st week stood a contest
for the Recordership of Guildford., in which, to be sure, be was de-
feated, there being for the successful candidate, ticorge Chapple Nor.
ton, Esq. 19 ; for Sir James Scarictt, 16. This, though nothing more
than a struggle between conflicting interests in a borough, will be taken
by some as ominous of the want of that commodity in certain quarters
to which we have above alluded. Why does the Duke of Wtilington
allow his subalterns to carry on these little unsuccessful contests of th, it
own, in which the credit of his Administration is cornpromis.d without
as in this ease, the slightest countervailing advantage.

Csnowici.E.—ln the present number of The Quarterly Riving,
we have an article on the Decline of Science in England, which fur.
nisbes an admirable illustration of the waking of an aristocratical
Government. " Of all the kingdoms of Europe (says the Reviewer)
France is undoubtedly the one in which the sciehtitic establishments

have been regulated by the most enlightened and liberal principles,
and in which science is most successfully cultivated." For Scientific
and Literary Establishments, 103,7911. is annually voted by the Go-
vernment. " Nor," says the Reviewer, "in her generous care foe the
respectability and comfort of her scientific men, has France overlooked
the most powerful stimulus of genies and industry. All the honours of
the State have been thrown open to her philosophers and literary cha-
racters. The sage and the herodeliberate in the state ; they are
associated among the Privy Councillors of the King; they bit together
In her House of Peers, and In her Chamber of Deputies ; they bear th,•
same titles; they are decorated with the same orders, and the arm and
the mind of the nation are thus indissolubly united for its glory, or for
i-s defence." Let us turn to Aristocratical, Oligarciud England.
" While (says the Reviewer) the mere pox.esrion of animal ez uraga
(which, of course, a well-fed Aristocracy, in a temperate country like
this, can hardly fail to possess,) one of the most common qualities of
the 'pecks has been loaded with every variety of honour, the pos-
sessor of the highest endowments of the mind; be whom the AminosrT r
has chosen to make known the laws and mysteries of his works; he
who be. devoted his We, and sacrificed his health and the interests
of his family, in the most profound and ennobling pursuits,—is
allowed to live in poverty and obscurity, and to sink into the grave
without one mark of the affection and gratitude of his country. And
why does England thus persecute the votaries of her ecier.ce 1 Why
does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers
lof water. It is because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no Is-
' litical strife, and brings up ro reserve to the 31iunter, to swell his
triumph, or break his fall. She is persecuted because she is yin:se:us ;
dishonoured because she is weak." " England's liberality to Newton."
be elsewhere observes, "is the only striking instance whist we have been
able to record, because it is the only one in wh.ch.the houuur re a title w. a
combined with an adequate pecuniary reward." No, under an Ari.tw.
erotical Government, high-born t:unces require too much cramming to
leave any thing for science. In our large N&.ey Ministers could find 14.
one to relieve poor Gambier. who was obliged to remain at seer 10.. g
after his health was shattered. Whoever reads his life, will see wire tis
meant by Parliamentary influence. High as our taxation is—ereur Ire
as our foreign possessions are, and kept up set an enormoos cost to t!
country—all Is too little to enable us to have tile proud dietinctirn of A
rich and proud Aristocracy. Our army is composed of the very drept
of society, because it is necessary that an impassable gulph shouklexist
between the soldiery and the officer.. Our Navy once allowed a err al,.
range of promotion to the sailors ; now the nigher., promotion is t ...t
lof boatswain. Greedy, greedy Aristei:raey ! A whole name nitc.t tae
degraded for the sake of pampering you Ever since the boruegii-mooger-
ing aristocratical system of Government coeumenced, which was at tee,
Revolution, Parliamentary influence has of course obtained every thing
disposable. It is recorded of the celebrated Doctor Halley, tier:
when consulted by Queen Caroline, who was a lover of scienc., as to co.
larging his salary as Astrunorner-Royal, be ea:assay dissuaded bee; for
were it increased. he said, it would instantly be given to one of the
aristocracy. Nothing escapes them where money is to be had. It is
gratifying, however, to perceive, !but even in works patronised by the
aristocracy, honourable and virtuous sentlinnts will sometimes find a
place. In no country have the attempts to degrade and corrept—to root
Oat all generous and noble sentiments, been ou germane as in Eng
I land; bat still sto difficult is it to regress the aspirations ID well-roc.
&dieted minds after a better state of things, that the suggestions of pro_
donee will st times be that:l;4E44d. A man of talents, who lends hint-
IWM to unworthy purposes, hag his ementsiti of compunction. Wbat a
Oftintry Ragland would be, wee* a essise flee to honourable ambition
owl emulation—and were mot the tulle of it parasite the only one wind%
ere thrive Isere.

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Tll MI4LAY AND SEIZURE OF THE BRIG CYPRUS.
vivertlar the form convicts, named George Janes Davis, alias
frualki. William Watts, alias Williams, Ale.ratuler Stevenson, alias
Tel/ord, ind Jona Beveridge, alias Anderson, were again brought
before W. BALLANTINE, Esq. the sitting Magistrate at the Thames
Pollee-office, charged with being concerned in the seizure of the Colo-
nial Hrig Cypric:. between Hobart Town and Macquarrie Harbour, in
the month August, 1029, after overpowering and wounding the mi.
litary gnarl!.
Mr. Wnolier attended on behalf of Davis, and Mr. Flower, of Fur-
nivars inn, fur the other prisoners.
The depositions of Thomas Capon, Esq. the high constable of Ho-
bart Town. proving that the prisoners were convict sent out in the Cy-
prus, and the evidence of John Popjoy, one of the crew, that they sere
concerned in the seizure of the Brig, and were all armed on the day of
the mutiny, was read over by Mr. Fell, the Clerk, after which the
prisoners were asked if they had any questions to put to Mr. Capon or
Popjoy ?
1 he prisoners declined saying any thing, and Mr. Wooller and Mr.
1.11...• tr said they would reserve the defence of their clients until the
sessions
Mr. Curtis Eastmuir, second officer of the Charles Grant, East In-
elcimar,, James Sheath, the Steward, and Charles Harris, the Quarter-
master, were examined, and proved that on the 27th of February last
the prisoners came alongside the ship at Whampoa, near Canton, with
another man, who represented himself as Captain Weldon, master of
the brig Edward, of which the prisoners said they formed part of the
crew, and were wrecked on the coast. Huntly afterwards went to the
Kellie Castle, in which ship he was brought home a prisoner, in conse-
quence of its being suspected by the authorities at Canton that he had
been concerned in some acts of piracy, his statement being so much at
variance with that made by Weldon, who had previously left Chine in
the Charles Grant- Mr. Curtis Rastmir said that Weldon was shipped
as Quarter-master, and Watts, Beverage, and Stephenson came home as
Seamen' and behaved very well on the voyage. The boat lying of the
I homes Police-office, and which Popjoy had identified as the one be.
longing to the Cyprus when she was seized, was the same in whisk
Waldon and the others came alongside the ship at Canton. It was
brought home in the Kellie Castle.
In answer to questions from Mr. BALLANTINE, the witnesses stated
that Watts, on more than one occasion, had worn women's stockings
during the voyage, and had sold other articles of female wearing ap-
parel to the mikes, which it is suspected were a portion of the property
belonging to the wife of Lieutenant Carew, the commanding officer,
when the brig was seized.
A soldier's shirt, sold by one of the prisoners to a sailor of the Charles
Grant, was also produced.
Mr. Capon said he could not identify the shirt, but Popjoy said he
had very little doubt that it belonged to one of the military guard who
were in the Cyprus when she was seized. The mutineers took every
thing with them, and did not give a single article of wearing apparel to
the females when they were put ashore on a desolate place.
Mr. Curtis Eastmuir said, that Weldon went ashore at Margate, the
Captain having no authority to detain him. He had a writing-desk
with him when he came on board at Wharnpoa, and which was now in
the possession of one of the petty officers of the ship.
Mr. BALLANTINE ordered the desk to be produced,:when the pri-
soners were again brought up, as it might possibly be identified by
Popjoy, and if there were any papers in it they might throw some light
on the transaction.
Popjoy said, that Dr. Williams, one of the passengers going out to
Macquarrie Harbour, had a writing-desk similar to the one described,
when the brig Cyprus was taken possession of by the convicts.
Mr. BALLANTINE inquired if any tidings had been heard of Wel-
don, who, from his description, is suspected to be one of the convicts.
named Swallow, sent out from London, and who acted as the ringleader
of the mutineers ?
Mr. Evans, the chief officer of Thames Police, said, that every ex-
ertion had been used to apprehend him, but without effect. A descrip-
tion of his person had been printed, and sent round to all the police
offices and watchhouses in the metropolis. An individual had been
brought up to that office by the New Police, who was suspected to be
the man, but on examining his person for the marks described in the
*. Hue and Cry," it was clear he was not the man, and was dis-
zharged.
Mr. Capon said all the prisoners had committed offences in the co-
lony, after being sent from this country. for which they were sent to
itlacquarrie Harbour, the usual place of transportation. He examined
some papers found on Watts, which, he said, bad been in his (wit.
mess's) possession previous to the prisoner being sent away in the
Cyprus.
All the evidence being gone through, Mr. Wools inquired in what
manner the prisoners would be disposed of ?
Mr. BALLANTINE said he should now commit the prisoners
far trial at the next Anmiralty Sessions ; but, as he expected
some additional evidence, they would be again brought up before
the sessions commenced ; but their solicitors should receive notice
of the day. The wages which was due to the prisoners for their
set vices ;on board the Charles Grant, on the homeward-bound
voyage, would be paid them at the East India-house, as be had made an
application on their behalf, in order that they should not be without
the means of employing Counsel at the trial. He understood they had
no money to fee Counsel, and he thought it but right that they should
be furnished with the means of defending themselves.
The prisoners expressed their thanks to the worthy Magistrate for his
kindness, and said, that in consequence of Mr. Ballantine's interference
they had already been paid the whole of the money.
The witnesses were then bound over in the usual form to prosecute,
and the prisoners were removed in the van to Clerkenwell Prison. On
their departure an immense crowd had assembled in the streets. to catch
s glimpse of the four men whose lawless and daring exploit was perhaps
never equalled.