Star.
London, England, 1830-09-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Gozsco.—Amid the agitation of countries situated in our imam.
diate vicinity, the affairs of Greece have of late escaped public attention.
An Italian newspaper, received yesterday, has the following paper, re-
ferred to elsewhere :

Letts from:the Plenipotentiaries of England, France, and Russia, to
Count Capo d'lstriss, in the name of their respective Sovereigns.

" Sts—We hasten to acquaint you with the high approbation of our
respective sovereigns of your administration, and of their desire to set
you continue to govern and administer the interests of your nation with
that zeal and activity which have always distinguished your Excel.
lency.

" As the renunciation of Prince Leopold again gives occasion for the
Allied Sovereigns to think of the interest of your nation, we, being
authorised by them, inform you that the last protocol will not be exe-
cuted in any part, and that another will be made in every respect much
more satisfactory to your nation, and by which there will be assigned to
it a more ample extent of frontiers, both by land and sea.

" It is also the intention of their Majesties that the Sovereign
who is to teign over the, new State be a young Prince, and that
your Excellency shall be his guide and his Mentor as long as you live.
—You will observe that the loan of sixty millions of francs for
your nation was determined, and that as soon as possible a part will
be sent to you to be employed for such purposes as your Excel-
lency shall deem most necessary. Their Majesties have learned with
regret that some individuals of your nation very often give your Excel-
lency a great deal of trouble; and we arc therefore authorised to tell
you, that if these persons do not be quiet, but still continue to give you
cause for dissatisfaction, your Excellency is authorised, by the full
powers of the three Allied Sovereigns, to proceed against them with all
the rigour of the laws, and in ease of need, to apply freely, with full
authority, to the Commanders of their Majesties' forces, both by ikea
and land, who have already received their orders to this effect.

" Accept the expression of our esteem, 6t.c. Btc.
(Signed) " ABERDEEN.
" MONTMORENCY LAVAL.
" ATOUSHEVITZ."

Covent en Faawcats.—There arc men whose very name stems
fatal to empires, whether by chance or perversity their apparition in
power is ever attended by some public calamity. At the very sight of
thaw, uneasiness, fear, and suspicions, arise in men's minds. Enthu-
siasm] is smothered and superseded by distrust, whilst the future is
doubted. Of this description is 31. de Talleyrand. If M. de Talley_
rand has not all his life betrayed the cause of liberty, he was, at any
rate, very unfortunate in serving it. In 1792, France had just, as at
present, thrown off a shameful yoke. Then, as at present, England
applauded this movement, and flags were flying in every town, with th:
inscription of "No French War or Revolution." It might have been
likewise supposed then, that the upper classes of British society beheld
this noble effort with pain. M. de Talleyrand was sent by the French Go.
vernment on a secret minion to the Cabinet of St.Jamees. He resided fo:
some time at London, when a Member of Parliament, Lord Stanhope,
said to a Frenchman, whom in case of necessity we could name--
" Your agent betrays you. lie is sold to Pitt—he excites this Mi.
nistry against France, and France against England. and secretly he
runs down the Revolution in the papers, which were then very much in
its favour." Dad Lord Stanhope spoken the truth ? All we know is,
that a few days afterwards the Morning Chronicle disowned its former
doctrines, and attacked the French nation violently. Our Government
made them a terrible beginning, yielded to the wishes of Mr. Pitt,
threw England into a coalition, and M. de Talleyrand, who had fled to
America, remained a peaceable spectator of the days of terror and of'
blood. Afterwards he made again his appearance on the scene
of politics. Some intrigues of particular coteries thrusted him
into the administration of Foreign Affairs. This was in 1709.
Championnet, the conqueror of Naples, threatened Sicily, whither
a numerous party called him. M. de Talleyrand Perigord, the
uncle of the Minister, hastened to Queen Caroline. A regular con.
respondence, the traces of which were discovered, was established 11,,
twecn him and his nephew. Championnet was recalled by the Di.
rectory and thrown intothe citadel of Turin. The object of Sicilymis.
carried, and Italy was soon afterwards last to France. We shall not
follow M. de Talleyrand through the details of his long political ca-
reer. We mean to quote only one fact, of which we have a persona:
knowledge. In 1814, one of the best citizens addressed a note to
the Emperor Alexander,; through the medium of Count Capo d'lstria,
wherein he demonstrated the Impossibility of the restoration.—.
This Alemoire was well received by Alexander, who expressed
a wish to see the author • but, in the interval, M. de Talleyrand was
admitted to the secret confidence of the Autocrat, and changed his dispo.
sitions. The courageous citizen was turned away, his councils were
despised, and the Bourbons returned to France. Since that,it is well known
with how much obstinacy 11. de Talleyrand defended the Muse of that
family at the Congress of Vienna • nor is he either guiltless of the glo-
rious blood shed at Waterloo. These ate the services he rendered to
France, and the sacrifices he has made to her quarrels ! However, he is
now called upon to represent his country under the same circumetanzes.
and at the same place as in 1792. Regenerated France sends to her
friends in England a man who boasts of having taken 14 oaths. Can
such a choice have been perfectly voluntary on the part of the French
Government ? and has it not been imposed upon it by some of those con.
aiderations which operate so powerfully on mediocrity of mind ? The
high Aristocracy of England was not ignorant that pr:pnratione
were making at London for a solemn procession, decorated with
tri-coloured flags, which was to go to meet the French Ambassador.
Did it wish to prevent this manifestation of public opinion ?..
Might it not have hinted, for this purpose, to our Cabinet,
that:the' choice of M. de Talleyrand would be particularly acceptable
to the English Government? Alight not this proposal have been fa-
vourably received, the wishes of the British aristocracy been granted,
and its plan been crowned with complete success ? We have beard some
I Englishmen exclaim yesterday with great pain, " that we had thrown
an iceberg upon their enthusiasm ;" that they abandoned the idea of
their projected fetes; and that our Ambassador would find only solitude,
silence, and no very flattering grumblers on his passage. Is it not to be
feared that the bonds of sympathy, which united England to France.
may not break, and not unite again for a length of time ? We cannot
speak of this subject without pain. When the Government was at va-
riance with the nation, its blunders concerned It alone ; but now that it
has emanated front the bosom of the nation, it cannot injure itself with.
out injuring France likewise. It is intimately united with the coun-
try. It is because we wish its stability, that we reproach it with the
harm it has done to itself ; it is because we should wish to see it, that
we sigh, when we see it lean on men who only an injure its moral
force and political consistency.

s resolution with regard to the mode of administering the Prevk Govern-
tient, which, if it have no other characteristic, has doubthiss that of
riginality. They inform Count Capo d'lstrias, in one Hue, that the
'l7 Sovereign shall be a " young Prince—meaning, we presume,
.3 it- ;lon ; and, in the next, they have decreed, that the said young
iirince shall never come to years of discretion ; because they announce
0 Count Capo d'lstrias, that he i to be the guide and Mentor of the
aforesaid Sovereign during his (Capo d'lstrias's) life. If such be really
the determination of the Allied Governments, it would aceonnt for,
nd semi to authenticate, a report which has been circulated, that
:ercral " young Princes" in succession had refused the Throne of
s.reece, after Prince Leopold's renunciation of it. Humble as we are,
C should not greatly covet a throne, on which Count Capo d'lstrias,
in his quality of Mentor, was to keep us tied, neck and heels, to the
tal of his natural existence. The design of the letter, nevertheless,
is liberal and encouraging to Greece ; though (as will be observed by
lur manner of treating it) we more than doubt its authenticity.

Cliaostso.2.—We have had some conversation with intelligent na.
lye; of Brunswick now in London, on the subject of the late disturb-
Inas in that place. They all agree that the Duke is not insane, but
Jiat he is excessively depraved, and a perfect Nero in disposition. The
small territory of Brunswick is one of the most flourishing in Ger-
many ; and, though the population of the Duchy is only about
MO,OOO, it contains a number of thriving and comparatively populous
towns, the capital, Brunswick, having 32,500, Wolienbuttel 6,800, and
llelnstadt 5,259 inhabitants. The wrctch who has at length exhausted
the patience of the inhabitants, has been guilty of every sort of robbery
and traud. Letters were seized aii,the post-office, their contents appropriated
without ceremony,and he carried his effrontery so far as to give to an aban.
doned female a valuable gold chain which he took out of a lettcr,and which
she did not scruple to wear publicly. No functionary was safe under
him ; for he trampled on all law, and all order, and all decency; and who-
ever refused to degrade himself, by the vilest subserviency to his crimes
and vices, was treated with the utmost indignity. Personally he Is des-
cribed as an arrant coward ; but those who incurred his ill-will con.
ceived themselves in danger of assassination, or of being poisoned, for
he was supposed capable of any crime. On the subject of the conduct
of the Duke of Brunswick, during the seven years of his rule since his
becoming major, we understand the public may expect some
valuable details in a few days, as a gentleman who latelcly filled the
Alice of Private Councillor to hius—M. Klinworth—is now in
London, preparing a pamphlet for publication. Most of our
Readers must recollect the absurd hostility of this wretch to our
!ate Sovereign, and the accusations of fraud which he brought
against him and Count Munster. The manner in which he con-
ducted himself in this dispute led strangers to suppose him de-
ranged, while he is merely low and depraved. The late King is, how.
over, blamed for having disregarded the recommendations of those who
had an interest in his good behaviour to have him educated at Berlin,
where he would have seen good examples at all events. But Ocorge
the Fourth hated Berlin, and was enamoured of Metternich, and he was
sent to Vienna, a place whence no Prince returns not abandoned in prin.
triples and depraved in conduct. Don Miguel and the Duke of Bruns.
wick bear ample testimony to the skill of the politician, who is repre.
Rented by all who have ever visited Vienna (and for one our readers may
=insult the excellent tour of Mr. Russell, of Edinburgh), as laughing at
311 principle, and honour, and virtue. The inhabitants of Germany are
peculiarly unfortunate, from the manner in which they are parcelled out.
Those who form part of large states, can be kept down by other na-
tions under the same sway; and then, again, the smaller states, like
Brunswick, are kept down by the great states. In vain for Instance,
have the people of Brunswick sent deputations to Vienna, to the
statesman who has so long directed the councils of the Holy Alli.
mice, complaining of the intolerable oppression to which they were
subject. The answer they abtained was, that no doubt the Duke
was not what he ought to be; but the erman system wrought well
on the whole, and it was not to be disturbed on account of 200,000
people who felt themselves ill-used. It was added for their conso-
lation, that the Duke could not live for ever, and better times might
be hoped for under a successor. It would appear that the people ofd
Brunswick, seeing that their misery could only end with the life of '
the Duke, have endeavoured to take the shortest way to put an end
to the connection. The wretch, however, has succeeded in effecting
his escape.

BELL'S WEEKLY MESSEXCIER.—We cannot help thinking that,
under present circumstances, nothing can be more mischievous than the
constent excitement in the daily papers, addressed to the large commu.
nities of Europe, to rise in mass, to demand free governments, and to
pull down every civil institution which subsists as a curb in the mouth
of the people. One day the Spanish nation is advised to rise In open
rebellion, and to hurl Ferdinand from his throne. Perhaps, in the same
breath, the Italian States are counselled to shake off the iron sceptre of
Austria, and to re-construct anew the scattered fragments of the Cisal-
pine Republic, of which Napoleon Bonaparte was the Grand Master
Mason. Now we wish to ask if language of this sort is de.
cent in the press of this country ? It is not the mere ma-
Masai of liberalism against arbitrary power—the idle proclama-
tion of usurpation between certain circles of longitude and
latitude, which the rulers of those countries, thus proscribed by the
journalists, might despise • but it is part of a scheme or open conspiracy
ten thousand times more dangerous. It Is an attempt made to try the
effect of the physical force of the people against their governors; to
incite them to open rebellion by reading them clinical lectures, as it
were, on the practical operation of revolt. To show them how regi.
ments of soldiers may be resisted by unpaving the streets of a town,
and how the civil power may be summarily defied, not only in the
execution of arbitrary edicts, but also in the enforcement of laws of
the tint necessity and the most manifest justice. We sincerely think
that too great a part of the press of this country is becoming the most
mischievous abettors of popular insurrection —a power of danger, of
despotism, of tyranny, of cruelty, of licentiousness and ferocity, be-
yond all comparison worse than any to be found in the reach of absolute
monarchy. Should any society ever lapse into that state, that the
unmitigated force of popular violence should be let loose upon it,
there is no moral, natural, or physical evil,—no pestilence, tontine, or
sword, which could commit so wide and prompt a havoc and destruc.
tion. The power of the people, when purged and administered through
certain representative bodies, is the power of general amelioration of the
common condition of the social community. But then these winds must
be tied in bags; this god Eolus must be confined and pent within cer.
tarn limits. Once let this wild Gas loose, and give it an uncircumscribed
expansion, and storms and levanters are sure to follow—to shake the
foundations of the earth, and to confound every thing to its centre. It
is the duty of a public Journalist, at the present time, to abstain from
preaching the doctrine of rebellion to any people. Let Spain and Italy
reform their own grievances. It is not for us to act as incendiaries and
abettors to the universal people of Europe. We have enough in our
own country to occupy all our care—" Sufficient for the day is the evil
thereof." The despotism of Princes and Kings we thoroughly hate and
detest; but the insurrection oft' people—the malignant levity, the careless
fury—the indiscriminate reform, or rather ruin, effected by popular vio-
lence, is with us a subject of much deeper detestation and tear. It may be
one thing, in the unrelenting: despotism of callous rulers, to teach
the people the way, and to make use of their strength, in the reform
and improvement of civil institutions ; but having once shown the mul-
titude THEIR POWER, can we:be sure how they will use it 1 The se-
zret of a people's force should ilways be kept from themselves. The
mechanics and journeymen having once tasted the pleasure (for such it
is to them) of successful riot against sonic remote, public object, will
soon, and much more naturally, learn to confederate to promote their
own private interests—a victory over their employers and muter, will
he much more valuable and easy than a victory over the Government ;
and they will gain more by the demolishing of machinery than; by de.
greying a barrack, and putting to flight a troop of horse. I u one word,
the system now on foot in Europe is that of Club Law and the pro-
ptrty and condition of the rich will necessarily be at onceits temptation
Ind its spoil.

The guillotine at Paris, now proposed to have its opera,.
:ton suspended, from the new law about to be introduced to abolish the
punishment of death, is said to be the same which was used at the
decapitation of the unfortunate King, Queen, and bladame, and, by
an express order of Robespierre, the number f pounds weight of lead
attached to the fatal knife are equal to the number of the departments
In France.—/tar Wilkon's Travel:.

L.l Temps, in mentioning that the Archbishop of Paris
left that city three days ago, for what place was not known, must be
wrong in its statement that ail, the runaway Archbishop of Rheims,
is at Fribourg ; he escaped in an English packet boat, having been se-
creted in the ladies' cabin ; and it is understoood at Bath that Latil is
now sojourning with '• Bishop" Baynes, at the Prior-park Roman Ca-
-.hone College, near that city. Curiously enough, Latil was the prelate
that proposed the law of sacrilege, and yet, on fleeing from his Bishoprick,
he took as much of its property as he could, but it was stopped on the
road ! It is confidently believed in Paris that these prelates, those of
Paris and Rheims, offered to absolve Charles X. from his oath; and
that, when the Government finds itself stronger, the improvise/sem of
those clerical traitors against the Constitution and the rights of the
people will be proposed. It is as confidently declared that there is no
`want of strong and direct evidence against them.
The Queen of the Ne herlands steam-boat, which ar-
ived yesterday in the river horn Rotterdam brought four of the Duke
of Brunswick's carriages, his secretary, and several of his domestic
'avant& The carriages were landed on the wharf, where the secretary
Ras waiting for the order from the Treasury to pass his baggage—
'he of the carriages attracted particular attention, from the &cum-
'iance of its carrying a very great number of pistols. The inside
And the bout was literally studded with them. • it is said that a very
:onsiderable sum of money is contained in one of the carriages. The
Passengers by the steamboat stated the intention of the Duke of
litunswkk to have gone on board with his servants; but the weather
aPnearing unsettled, and having a great dislike to the sea, he deter-
mined at last on going by land to Calais, In order to cross to Dover,
where he arrived yesterday.