Star.
London, England, 1830-10-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF 7'IIE JOURNALS.

teeeived a pa:giblet, published in Muni).
wick, by Mesta,. Friderirs Vi.:weg and Son, giving a plain unvarnished
account of the i:a.urrectiiiit Li that clean on the GI and 7th of S.pterd-
her, i.. roam!. and inintediate consequences. The perusal of it might
he attendee. with profit at this time, and in this country, by those more
especially who do not appreciate the proceedings in Ireland or
in Kent, and who thitk • • t the notices to quit betted at Newark
and Stamford, anti 'ix Borough of bud Iluntingtower—
these beautiful retwhilio of the Etiglish Constitution— Eng
men have additional motives of attachment to things as they are.
The Duke hail promised iiimself, no doubt, great pleasure in his cha-
racter of Abseniee Prince a:4 Land', rd, with the expending the trea-
sures he had vicuna, by thus•: mean, twin the people who had the mis-
fortune ti be his subjects. Ifut he who rechuhs without his host
must rz eimr, twice. The Itevtiletion disturbed him in the
midst of hi. pleasures, ..nel he war. ()bilged :o r. turn to his subjects.
he naziaiive afford. an instructive lesivni tr• these who posses power,
and those who sutler from to abuse. Let 1:0 man Satter himself
with the idea that the patience. of any people under suffering is
exhaustible. No; the world vitae hot tootle therely fur Ike iluini-
gence of every ca rice of a few 1 the millions who arc the viettuis
of their vicious itolulgeoce :.re men as well as themselves, with the
feelings of men ; and when humanity has been been lost sight of
with regard to them, they cot eh:inlays) ly read . severe fessot. to their
oppressors.

TIM e.— I t is—srmaking of Mr. O'Connell's conduct towards Sir
Henry lisnlinge—not the mere oeLial of justice which revolts us: it is
the wanton perpetration of injury. wish a previous and well.caleulated
assurance of in; pun y. front the sy litemarrc denial of redress. There
is in this a mingled eeis!enee i.t impudence, ruffianism, and depravity.
of which when we my that it fills us with disgust," there is nothing
but pitiful absurdity in site sa.,ertis,si that such disgust is caused by only
a single member ut the whole co,neettil series of offences. But 44 in-.
suit and injury have been inflicted' upon Mr. O'Connell's country by
Sir Henry Hardingc, in issuing tic proclamation alluded to.—
Sir Henry Hartlinge is but an executive minister of the in
structions of his superiors ; and might not have been consulted
by them on the occasion, and durst not have disobeyed i heir commands.
Was it not, then, extremely disingenuous, and eves dastardly, in the
Agitator to /ling the entire weight of popular fury at the head of this
subaltern Aker i And, with regent to the alleged justification of Mr.
O'Connell's violence—the “ insulting and injuring his country*—who
is it that really Insults and injures, and threatens to lay waste, and to
desolate Ireland, if it be not Mr. O'Connell himself, who makes
3,000,000 of men the tools or stalking halms of his own aspiring self.
hairless, and devotes his influence, activity, perseverance, and subtlety,
every thing but his fortune and his person, both of which are wisely
held sacred by the learned gentleman—to the overthrow of every audio.
rity and institution through which Ireland has been raised into

political ezismice, and to the prospect of eventual good. • We cot -
dud, ey strenuously mtoktt.g from the tioverncnent the 111(.14 diligent
4:74 hb.r.ii investigation ino whatever causes oy.y still rvercl the
pro.:ress ,i,rtrarqulPity in Ireland, and the growth of ',mire capital, or
the tratirv- of s.ai!!! film Great Britain. We would miist upon the
romple:inn, by his majesty.* Ministers, of some effectual plan f w
irg Id: n..:s irr, asi:on, cradually superseding TO ignovat.t:e by
i.turat: nt, for inal..i,g ,be land contribute to support the poverty
which a se mdalotts abut' • ~1 the rights of property may have aggravated
or encerdered, and, tb.ts far, eventually releasing the people ot 'reload
hum tl.at vilr lioud.t4e to the designs of faction in %latch NI. 01:46:1-
nell 41.11 his aas 'ciates have contrived for many years to hold theta. a
bondage which bel:...tig is turbulence, but (if it continues)cannot fat to
end ir. d •cp and eiliv.:rsal

Pose.—The vulgar error of supposing that the progress of nations in
kn iwledge. virtue, or happiness, can be accelerated by the iudde: and
student transfer of political power to the numerical ur.i trity of the
fs" e • lies already received, or is about to receive, a sullene and cue.
ticheiv iliustrauon in the cases of France aril Bilgium. In both. Ilia
phyidel: force of the rabble has burst the bonds which restrained it.
In both. de:toter:icy reigne triumphant. in both. n'ttional happiness,
virtue. it,ed nr.sperit y, are extinct or invisible. In F.,ince we behold a
Government attempting tot:propitiate the people by consenting to the eacrl-
tice of men, whose death the King, the Ministers, and the Legisla-
lature hare unequivocally pronounced unnecessary, and therefore un-
just ; in other words, we there behold the adhesion of the people to
the Government precarintwily maintained by means of an act which
the latter his already declared to be, in its estimation. murder.
But we find, moreover, that I:11A surrender or the ennacienc; of the
GoVernment to the fury of th • people is not enough. The :tittle-
tern are to be dismissed. the ('I nnher of Deputies to he di..
solved, a new Chamber elected by universal suffrage, to be ir.sti-
tuted to please the people time eager Mr blood. Who can believe, in
these circumstatte.s, that the crown of Ktng Philip, or the head trit.ca
wears, is safe fur three month.? Who coil belie% that Few c b des-
tined to escape a sanguinary reign of an.n.:hy and tenor? Who .:41
doubt that elle sill letse to retrace her .tepn through much peril asd
suffering Toe tome:son and prospects of Belgium arc stilt mete
deplorable than ewe:: of Ff4'.'e. 111cle we already behold atairchy
and terror in full dominion. Titroughout this unfortunate countsy no
man can say that any thing----that his pr..pery, his person, his voice,
or his °omelettes, is Lis own. Such are the ritcumstanees of two
ratifies which are at present under the hdieo,ce of democratic re-
, volution. And can it then he said that rite British ration has nothing
'to tear? 1. is wo sure to escape the effects of ti7a. i.toral cottagini
sir the spread of which the actual state of Imre .- stviety affoicis es.
troordiemy and Metalling facilities, shit it can afford at this nic.
went to engaite in • the email game of parties aid of factions ? It
there any duty so imperative epee all the reeptcsalt! and intluec:.
tial classes of society as that of rallying round the tkvernnumt—of
presenting a detennieed front to democratic etterneetment—ef rtrent,-
ounly maintaining and uptutlding the erablirlte i irstitutions of the
State ?