Star.
London, England, 1830-02-03 00:00:00

J' slope% en that u that, et Rollin us hippo!

What will be said to hie title to respect, when I
stalloaithsatee he n 0 merely stood in a balcony of
the of Ajuda, but warmly applauded the rab-
ble, while they cried death to Dow Pznno I death to
DONNA MARIA, his brother and niece I A person who
conducts himself like Wilson.; a traitor, who usurps a
crown which was confided to his care ; who encourages
such insults towards the members of his own family, and
who has been detested in so many crimes, does not merit
much respect. And if no distinction be made between
the wicked and virtuous, what becomes of morality ?
It is asked how those editors who do not belong to the
faction of which ?Amon. is at the bead, can know
what passes at the Palace, when they are i of
what occurs In the residence of GEORGEfirintThe
eemparison is laughable in the extreme. The writer
should have told us who are the kind of persons forming
the Court of Mto vim, and reasoned accordingly. They
consist of a few dissipated nobles, some ignorant priests
and domestics, with whom the whole of his time is passed
in riot and debauchery. Conversing in the most unre-
served manner with these minions, attended by them in-
all his pastimes, even to his favourite one of Mildew's's'
buff,followed by guards,many of whom are secretly devoted
to the Constitution, how is it possible to conceal what
passes ? On the other band, it is well known that the
anti-chambers of Quelus and Ajuda are filled with a mix-
ture of persons including all ranks, from the highest
down to the lowest of the multitude; and how often is
the Usurper seen talking to the ostlers and stable-boys in
the Court-yard ! These and many other circumstances
connected with his mode of living, render it very easy
to become acquainted with the habits and character of
MIGUEL.--1 am, Sir, &C.
February 2. DETECTOR.

Mr. O'Connell sailed from Howth at half-put eight
o'clock on Sunday morning for Holyhead, on board the
Escape steam-packet. Mr. O'Connell was accompanied
to Howth by a number of his personal friends.
A lively periodical of this month, in a biographical
sketch of LISTON, states that about the year 1800 be
was engaged to superintend the parochial school of st.
Martin-in-the-Fields, which he soon after quitted for an
engagement at a provincial theatre.
A Requisition from the Merchants, Manufacturers,
and Traders of London is now in progress of signing, re-
questing the Lord Mayor to allow the use of the •
Hall, for the purpose of taking into
coos• the
general distress now pervading the whole of the Com-
mercial interests, with a view to petition Parliament to
institute an immediate inquiry into the causes thereof,
and for the adoption of such measures as may best tend
to a speedy and effectual removal of the same. The Re-
quisitionists purpose asking the Lord Mayor to appoint
Tuesday next, for the above purpose.
Among other subjects which will engross the *aeration
of Parliament, owing to the strong degree of excitement
which it has created in every part of the United King-
dem, is the policy of renewing the Charter of the East
India Company. According to a very current report,
which has been circulated among the best-informed circles
in the eiq, Ministers have it in contemplation to
send Lord El'imborough on a special mission to the East
Ladies to make a Report, and that until Its arrival Mi-
nisters will decline giving any decided opinion as to their
future intentions, and by so doing dispose of the matter,
with which they would otherwise be much peepiezed.,
India Stock, which had previously sustained a vary so-
rare shock by the apprehension entertained by the poi
body of the Proprietors, that the Charier of the Bet
India Company would not be renewed, bee adiessod tap
wards of 6 per cent. within the lest few days, swiss
has been dons at 233.

LITERATURE.
Recollections of Travels in the East. By Join!
CARRIE, Ley. Pabliehedv%COLlllllN 4 BENTLEY.
Recent events combine political and commercial
speculations to direct' the contemplative and inquiring
mind, with all its energy, to the particular country visited
by this entertaining and instructive . traveller. But the,
materials of which ha avails himself derive an interest
from a more sublimes and a more commanding source.
The soil be heeds on is snored. It is the scene of acts
recorded in holy writ, end the matter is in great pert
associated with scriptural recollections, which diffuse,'
over its various anecddtes and pictures, a pleasing
solemnity which no fancy, however brilliant, without
such assianos, could bestow. In drawing the cha-
racter of the oriental females, and remarking the dif-
ference in the expression of feeling used by the two WEN
under circumstances of severe distress, the author relates
the following anecdote; --" A floe instance of attach-
ment in misery came under our view amidst one of these
scenes. Four young Turkish women had taken shelter,
in a forsaken dwelling, wham many apartments bad been
left desolate by the hurried flight of the wealthy family
who lived there. Desertion bed been too recent to allow
the removal of all the articles of ornament as well se use;
but the band of the spoiler, was visible on the defaced walls
and toots of the dwelling. The Carpets and divans were
taken sway, and the air Same freshly through the broken
lattice-Work ithe windows. In one of the select &em-
bers these.four friendless fugitives bad takes refuge ; and
their attachment to each other seemed to increase as
destruction drew nigh their place of coacealment. The
fear of a painful doers was dreadful is these delicate
women, wises life had hitherto bees on of calm and
indalgenes ; and often with trembling steps and an-
guished features. they inquired, like the victim King of.
"if the Maness of death was past!" It come
at hot, °and the hand of the stranger could not sea it.
As they lived compaeas is fear and solitude, so they
resolved to perish, and the hand of the murderer did not
spare. They fell at the same moment beneath the pnr-
eases 'wort."
Records of Captain Clopperton's Last Expedition to
Africa. By RICHARD LARDNER.
NustAmes ST COMM' ass seenee.
This work, written by the faithful attendant and the
only surviving amber of the Expedition, is full of in-
terest. The following account of the death of Mungo
Park, an event for a long time the subject of anxious
conjecture, extinguishes all hopes that may have bees
entertained that his papers may have survived his fate. It
is satisfactory to find from it that the 'melancholy catas-
trophe was not the result of a hostile feeling ea the part
of the natives, but that it originated is mistake.
" Disregarding the prudes* counsel of the Sultan of
Yonri," says the author, " the ill-fated adventurers pro-
ceeded down the Query& as far as die had of Bass,
from whence their strange looking canoe was observed
by one or two of the inhabitsats, whose shouts brought
numbers of their eonspaidons, armed with bows and
prows, to the spot. At that time the usurpations of
the Palmas had began a ho the general talk ea black
population of the country, se that the people of Booms,
who bad only heard of that alike nation, fancied Mr.
Park and his associates to be some of them, coming with
the intention of taking their town, and subjugating its in-
habitants. Under this imprisons, they mated the unfortu-
nate Englishman from the beach with showers of missiles
and poisoned arrows, which were returned by thelatter with
a discharge of musketry. A ema/1 white fag had been pe-
skiest, waved by our catrymes is token of their pear
able intentions ; but this symbol not being understood by
the people of Bass, they continued firing Maws till
they were joined by tits whole rash population of the
island, when the unequal contest was renewed with
=violas. co than ever. In the mean time, the Erg-
, the blacks they had with them, kept firing
unceasingly among the multitude en shore, killing many,
and wounding a still greater number, till their ammuni-
tion being expended, wad seeing every hope of life cut off,
they threw their goods overboard ; and desiring their sable
assistants to swim towards the beach, locked themselves
firmly in each other's arms, and springing into the water,
instantly sank, and were never seen again. The bodies of
the two slaves, who attempted to save their lives by
swimming, were pierced with a grove of arrows, but they
subsequently recovered from the effects of their wounds,
and were certainly arrived when we were at Boum ; but,
as I understood afterwards, they were carefully concealed
in order to prevent our making any inquiries of them re-
lathe to the affair. Resistance being at an end, the float-
ing property bad been eagerly laid hold of by the people
of Boas, and taken in triumph to their city. In
the evening they formed a circle round it, and for several
days and nights, nothing was to be seen or heard but feasting
and rejoicing; but it happened before their revelries were
well over, an infectious disease, whereof they had not pre-
viously the most distant idea, raged in the island, and
swept off the Sultan, with numbers of his subjects; and
it was remarked that those who had been most active in
the destruction of the strangers, were cut off to i man,
expiring in great agony. The people endeavoured to ap-
pease the wrath of the white man's GOD (by whose in-
strumentality they were firmly persuaded the destroying
plague had reached them,) by the offering of sacrifices,
and afterwards by setting ire to all the articles found on
the surface of the water; shortly after which, it is as-
serted, the pestilence left the island."

Never at any period of the frosts, since 1814, has
there been known so thick and solid a bad, of ice ma the
Smpeatine exhibited yesterday. %Nis mate of affairs'
brings no delight to the skaiter, the surface being co-
vered to a great depth with snow, while the meadows
of the ice beneath is such as to defy the most pererraring
bpd to make progress. The most practised skaiter
We himself ballad, for a gravelled walk would ass
seat more distressing obstacles. With the exec
therefore, of a few circles, in which some very excellent
performers exhibited, the ice was perfectly char of
*alters, but the promenaders were numerous, alimetod
by the gleams of canalise which cheered the scene isms
twelve till three o'clock. It was intensely milt -the
fhermattieter was at no period of the day h*ber thi4,lll.
In the count', of. Hants, of which the Passe
is himself the Lord Lieutenant, and, tirrofoto, a doahly
laisamdal personage, rather strenuous; efforts are making
.to payout the holding of a public meeting on 'the pre-
sent state of general distress. If the Hampshire Squirm
and their tenantry have " driven their cattle to a better
barker than their asighllears, they would act wisely
IN beanbag &dr gold, and lidding their tongues. BO
dais we have pretty pod reason for knowing is not the
ruse.—alforan4
_Paper.
We have rassivoil an aossuat of thpgroestrer the
lantostail election fir* comity of linferielr, his