Star.
London, England, 1824-08-04 00:00:00

LISBON, JULY 16.

To-day we present to our readers the Speech of his
Britannic Majesty on dosing the Session of Parliament.
With the exception of the convulsed state of a part of
Ireland, to which his Majesty alludes, all the rest of the
Speech sbews the state of peace and increasing prospe-
rity of the British nation.

Some English Journals, animated only by thirst of
the gain which the idea of the separation of the pro-
vinces of South America from the mother countries io
Europe, hold out to them, are amazed at not finding in
his Majesty's Speech any allusion to the subject of the
recognition of the independence of those States, which
they eagerly expected, and their impatience breaks out
with unjust complaints and satires.

These are the same journals that murmured because!,
the English Government refused to precipitate Great
Britain into a continental war in Europe, to support the
impotent party of the Cortes of Spain, which was after-
wards treated by these very journals with the most in-
sulting epithets, and with the most remarkable incon-
sistency, decreed as the most contemptible of the human
race, for not having defended with more heroism the
city of Cadiz, in which they had shut themselves up.
The English Government, by its prudence and wisdom
on that occasion, delivered Great Britain from a war in
which, at least, it would have been opposed by the will
and the efforts of the principal part of the population
of the Peninsula, as the event proved.
The most distinguished and sound part of the British
nation knows how to appreciate the good fortune of
having escaped from the manifold tens ptations of the
disorganising notion which moved heaven and earth to
draw England into its ruinous contest: the English
Government gave a great proof of its wisdom and firm-
ness on this occasion. It sheaved that it knew Spain
better than those who sought to involve it in that war ;
and the British nation has every reason, as well as the
people of the Peninsula, to praise and bless the mode-
ration and foresight of the Government which saved
Europe from a cruel war, and from a renewal of those
miseries which it cost so much blood (English as well
as that of other nations) to terminate.
It is the same wise and prudent policy which now in-
duces the British Government to resist all the incite-
ments of these same advocates of the cause of " Liberty
and Equality," now invested with the specious title of
the Independence of America, and gilded with the se-
ducing hopes of a commerce which shall transform the
stones of the streets of Great Britain into gold and dia-
monds. This policy, which prevents the British Go-
vernment from interfering in the measures which the
nations of the Peninsula are taking to put down rebel-
lion in transatlantic dominions, after having conquered
it at home, is that which justice prescribes, and the pro-
priety of not precipitating a measure which would be as
contrary to the relations of peace and good neighbour-
hood with the mother countries of Europe (of much
greater weight, in a political view, than the unformed
and distant new States of South America), as if the lat-
ter should think fit to recognize the independence of
Ireland, or of any other part of the British empire
which should be in a disturbed state, merely because it
might suit the political or commercial interests of the
State which should choose to act in this manner, and
even without first giving time to the States of Europe
to maintain their political rights by means of persua-
sion or force, which they have been prevented from em-
ploying by the political convulsions from which they
have not been delivered till within less than a year.
Besides this, the state of things which is already ma-
nifesting itself in various parts of those desolated coun-
tries, shews how much reason there is to distrust first
appearances, always disfigured by enthusiasm; and
how much more agreeable to the interest of Great Bri-
tain is the policy recommended by its wise Ministers,
precipitating nothing, leaving circumstances to be ma-
tured by the course of time, and by the series of events,
which are the best guides of the true policy of nations.
Meantime, nothing prevents the British commerce
from continuing its peacef ii relations with those States,
the recognition of whose independence would certainly
not increase the means of causing the private right of
the English merchants to be more respected, in their
commercial transactions with these people, than in the
present state in which those nations exist.
Experience proves how slippery is the step for a
formal recognition to our intimate alliance, and the con-
sequences of such an alliance are incalculable. A pre-
cipitate step is not always easy to be retraced, and its
influence almost always extends further than is desired,
or than can be afterwards remedied. At all events,
the recognition of the independence of a State which
has not yet received from time the necessary solidity,
and which really does not know its own situation, would
be an absurdity, looking at the question in the most
favourable light, since such a recognition of indepen-

dence would be only saying to the world, " I recog.
nice this State as independent, so far as k can defend
itself against that of which formerly it constituted an
integral part; and this declaration which I make is not
designed to restrain tie free exercise of the political
rights of the diplomatic Sovereign over it."
By what we perceive in the speeches in the English
Parliament, we must believe that the great and prevail.
ing policy by which its Government is guided in this
matter, as it was in respect to the first of which we
spoke, is that of peace and good understanding with all
nations, this being the best calculated to secure to it
the immense benefits which it must always derive In m
the excellence of its institutions, from the great mas=
its productive capital, horn its commercial genius, frnru
its extensive navigation, and from the. immense supe-
riority of its manufactures, which must necessarily
open to it all the markets in the world, whether it re-
cognises or does not recognise the independence of this
or that political Government.
We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday and
Monday, with the Etoile of yesterday, by Express.--
Private letters of Monday have also reached us. The
Etoile of Tuesday, as indeed it does every day, contains
a long article on the state of the French Ministry, in
reply to some observations in the other Journals.
The Etoile has another long article on the affairs cf.
South America, and ridicules the intelligence respecting
the reported victory of BOLIVAR, which we were the
first to doubt.

The French Papers of Monday contain a long accourt
of the first interview of General GUILLEMINOT, the
French Ambassador in Constantinople, with the GRAND
Vara, which took place on the 27th of June. The lac,-
cession and the audience in the hall of the Divan were
conducted with the usual Oriental pomp. Compli-
mentary speeches were exchanged through the medium
of interpreters, and the whole ceremony appears to have
been in that chewy style which the French call grand
and imposing.
Monday, M. de VILLRLE and Marshal LAURISTON
transacted business with the KING.

Private letters from Paris state, that not the slightest
expectation prevailed of any change in the Ministry. It
was understood that M. de VILLELE possessed the fa-
vour both of the KING and MoNstetra, and there is no
party sufficiently strong to resist so powerful an in-
fluence. It was in his financial arrangements only that
he was vulnerable, and this danger he had surmounted.
The Budget is expected to pass the Chamber of Peers
without serious opposition, and the Session will probably
close in about a week.

It is rumoured that the following, arrangements
on the eve of taking place in the French Ministry :

N. Clermont Tonnerre, Minister of Marine, to succeed :11 de
Chateaubriand, as Minister of Foreign Affairs; the Duke tie Dot:.
deauville, transferred from the Management of the Posts to the
nistry of Marine; M. de Rochefoucauld to succeed the Duke t:e
Doudeauville in the department of the Post Office.

We have given extracts from the French Papers of
Sunday in a preceding page, and we add the following
from Galignani's Messenger of Monday :

PARIS, AUGUST 1.

Yesterday his Majesty granted a private audience to the Earl of
Hurowby, President of the Council of his Britannic Majesty.
The Duke of Bourbon and the Infant Don Miguel visited the
King yesterday.
It esterday, Lord Harrowby and family arrived at Meurices
hotel. Rossini and Madame Pasta have arived at Paris.

Scrox EXCHANGS, JOLT 51, Frvc o'Ctocir.—ln consequence of
the Settling of the Account appearing heavy, and offers to a consi-
derable extent being made, the price of Stocks went down rapidly
to-day, but it afterwards recovered to the opening quotations. The
Five per Cents. for Money closed at 97f. 15c. for the end of the
month. The price at four o'clock was 97f. 70c. ; at this hour 971:90c.

Rarras.—Five per Cents. 981.25 c. 15. 10. 20. 25. 65. 55. 60. 55.
75. 85. 80. 90. Spanish 18. End of the month, half-past three
o'cloct.-991. 20c.

The Jamaica Mail, received this morning, brings no
confirmation of the reported victory of BOLIVAR. The
latest accounts from the General are of the 27th of
May, via Panama. In April, his head-quarters were
at Ttuxillo, when he had a force of 19,000 men; and
letters from Carthagena, of the 14th May, state, that he
had demanded more men and money from his Govern-
ment, which it was not able to supply to the extept of
his demand. Another account, of a later date, repre-
sents him as having received reinforcements, and about
to commence offensive operations.

Yesterday, Mr. FINNERSEY, an Extra Messenger, was
sent off with dispatches from the Colonial Office, in Downing-street,
for Ancona.
Mr. Secretary CANNING transacted business at the
Foreign Office yesterday. In the evening, the Right Honougable
Secretary left town for Coombe Wood, on a visit to the Earl of
Livearow., where there was a select party to dinner.
Yesterday, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER came
to town, from Charlton, Kent, and after transacting business at the
Treasury, returned in the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. HUSKISSON, after visiting their friend,
Lord GRANVILLE, in the Netherlands, will proceed to Ai:-la•Cha-
pelle, from thence to Cologne, to take a peep at the Rhine, the Mo-
selle, and the Maine, and return by way of Brussels, visit the plains
of Waterloo, the noble fortress made by BONAPARTE, under the
superintendence of CanNoT, at Antwerp, and before they embark
for England, see the “ sports and pastimes" of the motley group at
Rotterdam during the Fair.
Saturday, the 17th ultimo, the Right Hon. the Lady
Mau: Lombok:. CaawronD honoured Leslie House with a visit,
previous to her Ladyship's departure for the Continent.
Monday afternoon, the wife of a man named Simp-
kins, a gun-maker, living in White Horse-court, Rosemary-lanes
had an affray with some women living in the same court. The
husband accidentally coming home, took the part of his wife, when
he was attacked by four women, who knocked him down, and beat
and kicked him in such a violent a manner, that after lingering to
great misery, he died this morning at a quarter before five o'clock•
A Coroner's Inquest will be held on the body this evening•—
His wife also suffered much, and still is confined. Two women
are in custody for the above outrage.
Friday, a person calling himself William Lindsey,
and pretending to be a Cornet in the Coldstream Guards,
was apprehended at Dover, and fully committed for
trial, on a charge of forging the acceptance of Mr.
CHARLES Cox, ut the firm of Cox and GASENWOOD, tO
a draft drawn in the name of William Lindsey, in favour.
of Lieutenant Vernon. Upon searching the baggage of
the prisoner, his linen was marked D. N. and his name
is supposed-to be David Nearne.