Star.
London, England, 1830-08-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOUR.VALS.

Times—Public interest is vehemently excittd by the proceedings
in France : indeed, it far exceeds even that for the home elections,
in the general mass of the people, those being excepted of course
from its influence who are personally engaged in the latter. It is
glorious to have broken the fetters in the hands of those who forged
them for a whole nation ; and this the Parisians have done by a
spontaneous and instinctive movement of their own. There was a
plot on the part of the Crown and its profligate Ministers • but
no plot, no premeditation, no combination on the part Of the
people, even for their own defence ; and yet the latter have tri-
umphed. As for the King and the Duke of Angouleme, if
they escape the guillotine, it is much more than such vaga-
bonds deserve ; but still we are not sorry to hear that
their escape is to be permitted, or to be connived. We should
have been glad if Ikcy Solomons could have been hung legally;
but the stretching a point to stretch him might have been drawn
into an injurious precedent against one less criminal. With respect
to the Frenchiplinisters, let the law or justice work its high behests
upon them,—no one will pity them : they fully deserve their fats.
But let not the British public mistake: we will readily accept
the assurances which we receive from all quarters, that force
and warlike aggression are at an end on the part of
Charles Ca pet and his son, and that they will be unanimously
spurned and cast out by the voice of the whole nation. Now,
therefore, is the stage clear, and now is the time for political
intrigue and manoeuvring. The minds of a generous people,
exulting in their victory, and proud of their strength, are open to
all kinds of delusions. Advantage may be taken of their excite-
ment by political adventurers of the Corsican school, seeking their
own aggrandisement through the disturbance of the state. Let
Frenchmen, if they tender their own happiness and the peace of Eu-
rope, beware of such. We confess we see nothing distinct of this
sort yet. but we dread popular commotions, even in a just cause;
I for the fury sometimes continues and propagates itself after justice
is satisfied. The Crown, it is said, is to be tendered to the Duke of
1 ORLEANS. From all hat we have heard of him, lie is a Prince
worthy of it, and of the confidence of the French nation.

HERALD —The people of France have taught a great lesson to
nations, and the conduct of the French King ought to be no less in.
structive to Sovereigns. When we compare the ferocious and in-
discriminate violence of the former revolution with the steady dis-
ciplined and considerate bravery of that which has just happened,
we cannot avoid perceiving that the human mind has made great pro.
green in France during the last 40 years. It is true that blood has
been abundantly .hed in Paris; but, according to all that we hear,
the people, in repelling force by force, have not been tempted into
eny acts of cruel or vindictive retaliation. Tito; met their enemies in
arms—they conquered and they spared—no recollection of injuries
survived the power of resistance. Their devotion to the cause of their
country was not greater during the continuance of the murderous
conflict than their attention to the claims of humanity when the
struggle was over. By conduct so elevated by heroism and tem-
pered with clemency the people of Paris have greatly raised them.
selves in the estimation of the civilized world. ‘Ve have always de.
precated popular violence as well as regal oppresssion : but we ad.
mit, with the moat virtuous and dispassionate of philosophic states.
men—the immortal Locke—that there are emergencies in the affairs
of nations, when nothing is left to the people but an appeal to
Heaven. Such was the emergency which Charles X. created. His
insane and wicked subversion of 'the Charter, and his violation
of the oaths by which it had been consecrated and guaranteed,
allowed the people no alternative but an abject submission to ar.
bitrary fpower, or a violent assertion of their liberties. They did
not long hesitate between the suggestions of prudence and the im.
perative demands of duty. Stimulated by a common sense of
wrong, and a common sentiment of danger, they acted with the
unity and promptitude which made their patriotism appear like a
sudden inspiration. They confounded the armed bands of the
tyrant, as much by the suddenness, as by the intrepidity 'of their
resistance ; and the streets of Paris afforded examples of devoted
heroism, which would have done credit to the proudest days of
Sparta. As to the wretched old man who has been the cause of all
this bloodshed, what is to become of him ? He has dis.
solved for ever his connection with the French nation. He
must be a fugitive on the earth, but the land that gives him
an asylum cannot protect his name from the execration of
history. Like our last 3lonarch of the infatuated race of Stuart,
he preferred the sordid assiduities of a few malignant Priests to
the love, the affection, and the honest homage of the univer.
sal people. He has fared accordingly. But may not what he
has attempted in Paris be but a grand experiment, to try how far
the despotic principle could prevail in Europe, by the aid of mili.
tary force, over constitutional liberty ? We hope he stood alone in
his atrocious attack on the very existence of rational freedom in
France; but a strong suspicion has gone abroad that he acted, if
not under the direction, at least with the connivance, of foreign
powers. Already efforts are making to procure public meetings to
call on our government to disavow all intention of interfering
with the affairs of France. We do not admire the policy
which our Government has for some time past pursued. The
attempts made to suppress the liberty of the Press in this
country by proceedings that scarcely tell short of Star•chamber
practice--the evident sympathy of some of our Ministers
with the miserable tyrant Don Miguel—the attack upon the unfor.
tunate fugitives from his oppression in the waters of Terceira—and
some other acts indicative of a strong bias towards absolutism,
might give some colour to the suspicion to which we have alluded
—but we think it would be premature to call meetings on the sub.
ject, until our Government, by some overt act, afforded evidence of
an intention to assist the criminal and outcast Bourbon. We cannot
believe them so base or so infatuated as to have any such intention.
If they have it will soon be known, and then it will be time enough
for the English public to express their abhorrence of a policy that
would again embroil this country with France, for the sake of a fa.
mily who have disqualified themselves to reign over any people who
are not sunk in the lowest condition of satisfied debasement.
Cunostrer.E.-..The all-engrossing subject of conversation is the
wonderful proceedings of the last week in PRA*. Details now
pour in from all quarters. We have seen letters from individuals
of distinction in Paris, to their friends in London, begun before the
hostilities commenced—interrupted at the moment, the writers sallied
out with their muskets, determined to conquer or die—and finished
when the fight was over. The streets were cut up in a thousand places
--the people heaped up the stones and made redoubts of them. An
English gentleman gives a description of a scene he witnessed at one
of these redoubts. .Behind it the people were resisting the onset of
a body of Swiss Guards. A body of females rushed from a lateral
street with pitch-forks and knives, and similar instruments of des.
truction, fell on the rear of the Swiss, and in the twinkling of an
eye numbers of them were weltering in their blood. The English
in Paris have not all been idle speculators of the heart-stirring
events passing around them. The following extract from the letter
of a lady, to her husband in London, alludes to an instance, by no
means, we believe, a solitary one of active participation
" What a pity—you that arc an amateur—that you have not
been here to see a pattern revolution. The French, from being a
warning, have become an example—a glorious example, to all
nations. Never was any thing more prompt, more vigorous, more
intelligent, and, after the must triumphant success, more moderate.
And all conducted by a populace unprepared, and absolutely with.
out chiefs. Note single act of unnecessary destruction or violence
of any sort has been committed. Yesterday evening we walked
through crowds of armed men in all the intoxication of vic•
tory, without the slightest inconvenience. The trl.coloured
flag and cockade were displayed in all directions; the people
were parading the streets with garlands of roses hung on the
point of their bayonets, and from one end of Paris to the
other, nothing was heard but one universal cry of " Five /a
Chat* !" I wrote to you, I think, on the 27th, but I did not yen.
cure to tell you the state in which we then were, lest my letter
should be opened and detained. At that time the firing was
incessant, the trees on the Boulevards cut down, and the pave.
ment torn up to make barricades at the end of every street.
Near the Palais Royal, and further on towards the Hotel de
Vile, the streets were strewed with dead bodies. It is be-
lieved that the number of killed and wounded on both sides
amounts to not less than fifteen hundred ; even women and chil.
dren have been killed ! This is melancholy, but it is to be hoped
that these are the last victims of Divine Right that France will ever
have to mourn for. The poor Garde Royale—my good friends of
Noire Dame—how bravely have they sold their lives for sixpence a.
day, and that which they have been educated to believe right. And
this poor foolish King—can you believe such profound infatuation ?
—yesterday at noon, he graciously granted an amnesty to his loving
subjects. i dare say the poor man will retire to Hartwell, or else.
where, with a conscience void of offence towards Goa and man.
In fact the being a century behind their subjects in knowledge is
the only fault of the Bourbons ; and, perhaps, they ought no more
to be held responsible for the calamities they have been the cause
of, than the bull Apis, if his worship had chosen to cut their
throats on his account. However, it is to be hoped that the reign
of oxen and mists is nearly at an end all over the world. My
brother Charles was at the taking of the Tuileries, and went in
with the rest. He brought me some scented wood from the toilette

of the Duchesse de Berri. He said tlw people did no mischief ex-
cept tearing down the curtains to make themselves scarfs. Only
one picture was shot through with hundreds of ball—it was the
portrait of the Duc de Raguse. Notwithstanding their moderation,
the people seemed to think that they had a fait right to make
themselves welcome to the contents of the cellar. Charles
says a bottle which fell to his share Itasted exactly like the sacra-
mental wine at Queen's. It is now reported that the Due d'Oa.
LEANS IS to be King ; but i do aot believe any thing is yet known.
lam afraid all is not yet finished. As far as the nation is con.
eerned, it is finished, for it is little mischief that seven madmen,
with the poor unfortunate King at their head, could do. But if
they should bring down others of their clan from foreign countries,
this may only be the beginning of misfortunes. I cannot help
thinking it is lucky that GEORGE the Foust rst is gathered to his
fathers; for he might have taken into his head to meddle in the
matter. The preparations for defence are not in the least relax-
ed, and there are said to be in Paris 70,000 men under arms.
But for the 1500 killed and wounded- -alas ! for those who are
left to mourn for them—this would almost have been what 1111ra-
beau said was impossible: a revolution of rose-water. Monsieur
de B. says he saved the life of an Englishman yesterday. lam
sure it could be nobody but • * •. He was sitting on a horse,
haranguing the people in bad French, and exhorting them to resist.
ance ; and they thought he was telling them to disperse. 31. de B.
explained, and got some of them to escort him home. He was a
man about fifty, with spectacles. It could be nobody but • • •.
If you have any curiosity about Haiti, you would be interested by
a specimen of its citizens whom we have hem; a remarkably agree-
able, gentlemanly person. However, I have neither time nor space
to talk about Haiti. Believe me, yours, fee."
What a victory has been achieved ! What an example to the
nations ! Cold must be the bosom that this example will not warm.
There is not a tyrant in Europe, on the other hand, who will not
feel his power shaken by the victory of Paris. It banishes despon-
dency from the nations—it teaches them, that a nation has only
to will its freedom to be free. When the mind of man is eman-
cipated - when he ceases to be merely occupied with his animal
existence, and feels the influence of love of his fellow-creatures,
love of the common good, there is nothing of which he is not ca-
pable. The brave Parisians cheerfully hazarded life and property
in defence of their civil rights. All minor considerations were
disregarded. There was but one feeling among the immense
mass. One of the lessons taught by the victory of Paris will
be, that an army, however brave, however ably led, may be suc-
cessfully resisted in a great city, when the inhabitants are driven to
the desperate resolution of periling their all for their country,
and have their hearts in their right places. This lesson
will sink deep into the people of every country. It will, at the
same time, paralyse the arm of the tyrant. If the mind only
be sound—if the man have been raised to a sense of his own
dignity.—he may defy violence. What has been done at Paris
and the other towns of France, ought to teach us never to
despair of the progress of mankind. The successes of the arms
of the Holy Alliance, and still more the success of their intrigues
in Spain and Italy, led many worthy men almost to despair
of the good cause The nations seemed prostrate. Behold the
greatest nation of the Continent appears in an instant more erect
than ever she was--more heroic than ever—and more than ever int-
pressed with a deep sense of the value of a government of law and
order! The blood that was shed in the Revolution has not been
shed in vain. The agitating events toe of the last forty years have
led men to estimate at their proper value the goods of fortune—to en-
joy them without being their slave, and have, in, short,produced that
manliness of character which the long-continued prosecution of gain-
ful pursuits is but too apt to injure.—We cannot believe that Aus.
trio or Prussia, if ever they dared to promise aid to Charles the
Tenth, will now think of keeping their word. What has passed
in the great Courts must be rather a matter of conjecture than
of certainty. Our own Government has always, we know, been sus-
pected by the French. There is, we know, a profound hatred in
the oligarchy of England of the consequences of the French Revo-
lution ; and indeed they have never disguised their dislike of the
operation of the French Laws of Property and Election. Even Sir
Francis Burdett cannot divest himself of his admiration of feudalism,
and consequently his dislike of the independence produced by
the law of succession. But there is a difference between this dislike
and the countenancing such horrid proceedings as those of the
French King.

EXPRDI7ION AGAINST THE SPANISH GOVERN.

MENT.

At the hitter end of last week, secret information was received
that a vessel then lying in the River, near Blackwell, carrying ar-
tillery, was about to sail with a Constitutional expedition against
the Government of Spain. This information was on Thursday
communicated to Lieut. Simpson, of the Swallow Preventive cutter,
stationed at Blackwell Reach, with directions to him, should he fall
in with a schooner-built vessel called the Mary, bearing a red
streak, to board her instantly, and overhaul her. Shortly after sun-
set that evening, the suspected vessel came in sight, and the pre-
ventative cutter, according to orders, made towards her, and, upon
Lieut. Simpson going on board her with his party, he demanded of
a little man, an Englishman, whom he understood had the com-
mand, his papers, when he was told he had none. The party searched
the cabins, but none could they find ; but discovered a large stock
of fire-amts and ammunition, all of which they seized, and detained
the ship and all hands, which were placed under a guard of Re-
venue officers. Lieutenant Simpson lost no time in making his
seizure known at the Custom-house, and in a short time afterwards,
Webber (and his son), a waterman, living in Fisher-lane, Green.
wich, happened to be passing in his boat up the river, when he
picked up a brown paper package, containing about 2,0011 circulars,
printed in the Spanish language, which had been prepared by the
revolutionists, to disseminate amongst the Constitutional party ;
and a heavy weight was attached to the package to sink it. This
package, there can be no doubt, was thrown overboard by the crew
of the schooner, the moment she was boarded by the Preventive
Service cutter. Webber, upon discovering the nature of the docu-
ments, carried them to the Spanish Ambassador, who thought it
necessary to consult with Sir Richard Birnie as to what means had
better be adopted towards the parties. It was subsequently re-
solved, in the first place, to go on board the Mary, and procure the
names of all the Spaniards comprising the expedition, and to search
minutely into the extent of the artillery on board. Accordingly,
on Monday forenoon, Sir Richard Birnie, the Spanish Consul.
two interpreters, and another gentleman attached to the Em.
bassy, proceeded to Blackwell, in carriages, and embarked in a
revenue cutter, to the Mary. Upon going alongside they found
great difficulty in ascending the side of the vessel, as the Spaniards
had taken the precaution to grease the manropes and sides of her,
so as to make it almost impracticable to ascend. The Spaniards for
some time had the cutter in sight, and were heard to shout aloud,
and, upon her getting close to her, and all but the Consul had
boarded her, a tall stout man, wearing a cloak and a cap, came on
the gangway, and seated himself on the quarter, called to the Con.
sul, in broken English, and said, " You are an Englishman, come
up ; we like the English. The individual was said to be Gen.
and was perfectly acquainted with the person and official character
of the Consul, although he assumed not to know him. The officer
who had the care of the deck of the revenue cutter, advised him
(the Consul) not to go on board; and the Consul, addressing
the individual who had spoken to him, said, " Sir, I offer
no insult, therefore do not wish to be insulted," and kept
his seat in the cutter till Sir Richard Bimie and the rest of
the party returned. Each individual on board was called upon to
sign his name (GO in number) at full length on paper, as was also
Webber, the waterman who found the printed documents. The
paper was then attested by witntmes, and taken possession of by Sir
Richard Bimie. They then took the stock of arms, and found there
were 150 muskets, 150 bayonets, 50 horse cutlasses, 60 common
swords, 4 officers' swords, 4 saddles, and about 2,000 ball cartridges.
The whole of the arms were deposited on board the Swallow cutter,
and the ammunition on board a powder-boat lying off Bugby's.
hole. Another party of Preventive Service men from Woolwich,
under Lieut. Helaley, were also on guard last night, which the Spa-
niards spent in singing, and shouting for the Constitutional cause. It
is intended to keep a strict guard over them till further plans can be
devised. The affair occupies much attention, and excites considera-
ble interest.

Lenox, JULY 9.—To-day was executed the sen-
tence of death passed on the 6th inst. on Antonio Maria du Neves
Carneiro, Student of the University of Coimbra, and one of those
who committed the ho►rible assassination of the professors of that
University, who were coming to Li►bon to compliment his Majesty
the King.
JULY 13.—The Gazette contains an official article,
with his Majesty's signature, announcing, that for the encourage-
ment of the linen manufacturers of the kingdom, which are the chief
support of a numerous class of industrious, but indigent Jodi-
viduals, chiefly females, in the provinces of the North and Upper
Beira, his Majesty has been pleased to decree, that Portuguese ma-
nufactures of Bnu shall be exempt from all duties whatever of ex-
portation, importation, or transit, in all parts of the kingdom of
Portugal and Algarves and their colonies.
Two young citizens of the United Stntes who, on the
first day of the glorious resistance of the Parisian youth, took up
arms to pay their debt to the sacred cause of liberty, perished vic-
tims of their enthusiasm. Honour to their memory !—National.
The Ternps says—" An Englishman who lodges at the
Hotel Muria. Mr. lE—t, fought constantly on the side of the
people during the 28th and 291 h. His enthusiasm and mango so
greatly excited the citizens, that they unanimously elected him their
Captain. This brave foreigner led them on to the fire with unparel.
leled order, and did not resign the command be so well merited un.
til he saw tranquillity perfectly restored. Such deeds are equally
honourable to both nations, and show what a sense of security the
conduct of the French people has impressed upon foreigners."