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•- tlintlinVi us now is against us. Let us show that we
• ' fsel-a3 It .. ught the deep responsibility which attaches to us.
-- -,Whit. n4stry will ever again dare to do their duty honestly
and conscientiously, if the present honest and honourable
men, who, for the sake of the country's best interests, have
fearlessly thrown themselve on that country, are not promptly
and warmly seconded by the nation? If Reform be post-
poned now, when shall we have it ? Will not the people
prove, if the opportunity be not seized with the eagerness
and energy which are called for, that they are unworthy of
being respected ? But we do not fear the result. The na-
tion will be true to itself. Every man must feel how
• much he has at stake, and be prepared to act his part.
On the heads of those who dare to insult the nation,
be the consequences which their conduct may provoke.
After all, making every allowance for the power of self-
interest, it is a melancholy spectacle to see a man like Mr.
Alexander Baring, saturated with wealth, allowing himself
to be guided, so invariably, by considerations which he
(+light to he above yielding to. From the first appearance
of this man in the House of Commons, the needle is not
more constant to the pole, than he has shown himself constant
in his regard for the considerations alluded to. What an in-
terval between the Alexander Baring, who in 1814 and 1815
arraigned the landholders in Parliament, as guided by a dis-
regard to the interests of the people, in wishing to exclude
food, woo told them, they ought to be satisfied with living as
the landholders of other countries lived, and restrain an
extravagance which they could only gratify at the expence
of the ruin of the nation, and the Alexander Baring, who
last night told them " that he was convinced that the people,
seeing the great attention which that house paid to all the
interests of the country, would be satisfied with it ; and if
ever there had been a legislature which had watched
with parental care over the interests of all classes,
the House of Commons was that legislature ; and he
who denied it, must either be grossly wanting in observa-
tion, or of a most perverted judgment." The proprietor of
the borough of Callington was cheered by the nominees of
his brother boronghmongere. The Alexander Baring
who represented Taunton was hooted, almost proscribed, at
the period in question. The Alexander Baring, who
petitioned for free trade, soon after opposed free trade, when
his constituents of Taunton were about to be affected by
opening the ports to silk. We do not say that he had an
eye then to election expences; but we wish he were still
representative of Taunton, instead of proprietor of the
borough of Callington. However, the people of England
ale not so little accustomed to spectacles of this nature
as not to understand them. They understand, too, the cha-
racter of Sir Robert Peel tolerably well. He is now deeply in
love with the lower orders front whom he sprung ; and wishes
to protect their liberties, as he formerly wished to preserve
their religion. Sir Robert hates corruption, and votes
against the disfranchisement of East Retford ; but he hates
a Reform still more, which would render corruption impos-
sible, A power is to be preserved by this enemy to corrup-
tion,which can only be exercised through corrupt influence.
We will not insult the understandings of our readers,
by noticing the absurdities which men are not ashamed
to deliver at the call of interest. There is not a man of
common sense in the country, who does not understand
that the struggle is between those who wish to
retain the power of influencing, by their votes, the Go-
vernment of the day, in furtherance of their separate
interests, and those who wish to rescue the Government
from a thraldom, which prevents it from consulting the good
of tho nation. The Government of the King is accountable
now, not to the nation, but a junta of Boroughmongers—a
jobbing Oligarchy. Let us support the Government. Let
us drown the voices of the interested by the shouts of a loyal
people, grateful for the intentions of Ministers, and, above
all, alive to the immense consequences which must flow
from the measure of Reform. Let it not be said, that the
men of 1831 were traitors to themselves, and traitors to
the future generations of Englishmen. Once more—let us
do our duty.

Tli E EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
FRIDAY, MARCH 4.

By the arrival at Falmouth of the Sandwich Packet from
Lisbon, after ten days passage, we have private advises from
the Portuguese capital to the 20th ultimo. A. MACKEN•
II E., Esq. late British Consul-General at Lisbon, arrived by
this Packet. On the 20th the Sandwich spoke the Magnet
Packet, in the Tagus, for Lisbon. Prior to the 20th, and
subsequent to the last accounts received from that city, it
hems that only a few arrests have taken place ; nor have
any of the principals concerned in the late insurrectionary
movement, met with that summary punishment which was
thought to have awaited them, at the time of their arrests.
Lisbon was perfectly tranquil at the period of the Packet's
leaving.

AscoN a, the surrender of which to the Italian Patriots,
we recorded on Monday and Tuesday, is the chief Italian
port on the Adriatic, and in the Pope's territory. Being
150 miles from Modena, and nearly 200 from Reggio and
Parma, it is evident the insurrection is very general in
Italy. If, as reported, it has extended to Piedmont, so as
to connect France with the Insurgents, the emancipation of
thib fine country, from the most insulting aristocratic vassa-
lage, may be expected. Austrian Intervention may be op-
posed
by France ; and really the contrivance of Austrian ty- ,
canny in Italy, ought to be opposed by all ci-
ilized nations. Parma, Modena, and Bologna, '
are proximate to the Austrian territory : ultimate
success depends, therefore, on some man of talent, inspir-
ing the youth of Italy with such confidence, as to repel the
advanced guard of the Austrians. If Rome, as there is
reason to believe, has joined in the insurrection, this will
give countenance to the whole Peninsula; and we may then
soon expect that the Italians have become one Nation. We
regard it as " a consummation devoutly to be wished."—
We presume that the connection of Foreign Travellers with
the ignoble Italian Nobility, is the cause of their unpopu-
larity in Rome and elsewhere. The fault is not, however, in
the head or heart; but in the vanity of associating with that
multitude of Princes and Princesses, Dukes and Duchesses,
by whom all Italy is degraded.

Owing to variations in orthography, and to German and
French translations, it is extremely difficult to accompany
the military movements in Poland. It appears, however,
that the Russian invasion is effected from the East and
North-east, in the direction of Bryesc, Grodno, and Byaly-
stock, and the two wings embrace a line from Lokow to
Pultausk, on the Narew, a branch of the Vistula. In the
mean time, a division from Lokow• has crossed the
Vistula, and entered Radom, with a view to surround,