Star.
London, England, 1830-04-06 00:00:00

TO TIID EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sin,—Nothing can be more liberal and just than
that a people•—whatever be their origin or religion—who have been
invited to establish themselves in a foreign state, and have there
shared in all the burthens and liabilities of the general community,
contributing largely by their industry, their prosperity, and their
numbers, to the welfare of the whole ; should, at the same time.partid.
pate in all the freedom and privileges enjoyed by those who have a-
dopted them as citizens.—That the Jews amongst us have increased
to importance in number;—that they are industrious and sobes,
and possess amongst them men of great talent and wealth r—tha
they have borne the burthens of a highly taxed state in common with
us all; and that they have been anxious to promote the commercial
welfare of the country, none can deny : but that they have fairly in.
corporatcd themselves with this nation, and confidently identified
themselves with its inhabitants ; that they have sustained an
equal proportionate share of liability, and have become so truly
English, that they consider our land as alone having right to their
allegiance I deny, as an absurdity, as notorious, as it is a palpable
proof of ignorance—respecting Jewish habits and principles. To
the mildness of our legislature are we alone indebted for the resi-
dence and increase of those people amongst us; but with us, as in
all other Christian countries, they live as strangers, separate and
apart ; and the people collected to the synagogue on this shore, are
as much English as the mongrel natives of the town lately demo-
lished on the neutral ground near Gibraltar, were citizens of Spain.
—lntolerant and estranged from all other people themselver.-
by the very essence of their persuasion, and the necessity of pre-
serving their Hebraic institutions entire and distinct...it is ri-
diculous to hear them, and their advocates, talk of their rights to
an equality which they—era the sole pure and elect of Heaven,—con-
temptuously disclaim. The Jews of England, like all their other
brethren, are Cosmopolites, and attactud most to that country which
offers most advantages. There is not a family of diem which is note
much, and as essentially, French, German, Italian, Polish, or Portu.
guess, &c. as they are English, either by their birth, their character,
-
their habits, or their natural language. Settled amongst us, like a
wandering tribe of Arabs, they are ready to strike their tents at the
first sign of scanty pasture. In apprehension lest any should, in
reality, incorporate themselves with foreign nations, and become at.
tached to other lands than those held out by divine promise, they
are forbidden by their Rabbis to acquire territorial possessions; and in
Poland alone are they to be found as cultivators of the soil. They are
not manufacturers, tradesmen, or handicraftsmen, for these callings
bind a man to his penates, and confound and amalgamate him with
the society which feeds him. No—the Jew is merely a broker, an
agent, a mercantile speculator, rarely of any fixed and positive con.
merce—ready, at a moment's notice, to collect his bills of exchange,
and be off to any spot of earth in the four quarters of the globe.
So widely dependant on foreign princes, detached from the rest if
mankind, sacrificing all for gain, and inimical to every Christian
people—their election to authority, and a voice in our councils,
would necessarily be attended with as much danger as if we pro-
moted a bona Jleli and avowed Frenchman, Spaniard, or Turk, to
he same advantages.
London, April 6, 1830.

JUSTUS.

Prince LEOPOLD dined with the Duchess of KENT
on Saturday_ evening at her residence in the King's Palace, Ken.
singtoa. His Royal Highness, attended by Sir HENRY Szvow,
left town about eight o'clock yesterday morning for Dove, on his
route to Paris.

The Princess AUGUSTA and the Duchess of GLou-
CUTER took an airing together yesterday, and paid a visit to the
Princess Soonia at her apartments in the King's palace at Ken.
'lnman. The royal party partook of a deforms.
A numerous deputation of the distillers from Ireland
and Scotland attended yesterday at the Treasury. The deputation
were received by the Duke of WILLINGTOI4 the CHAIICELLOS
of the EXCIIXQUZR, and the Deputy Chairman of the Commis.
Jonas if Excise. The conference with the Ministers lasted a con.
sidenble time. Mr. M. FITZGIRALD attended the meeting.
His Majesty's alms were yesterday distributed to eight
hundred poor and aged men and women at the Ahnoury.oflice by
Mr. Hanley, secretary to the Lord High Almoner.
A deputation from the city, headed by Mr. Aldan=
Woon, had an interview with W. Humane yesterday at the ot.
Bee of the Board of Trade.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening by a mes-
MIK for Mr. DAWKINS, our resident in Greece, and also far Sir
Tim:mama ADAK, the lewd high conuniadoner of the laden
Islands, from the Foreign sad Colonial daces.

BIRThS.
At Wandsworth, Mrs. H. J. Barchard, of a ton.—At
the lady of E. Bicknell, Esq. of a son.

111AkitIED.

Saturday, at St. Gerrge the Martyr, Wm. Henry, third son of
d. 31ortlatutit. Esq. of the Lawn South Lambeth, to Charlotte
Foxon, second daughter of C. Becke, Esq. of Devonshire-street.
Queen.aquare.—At St. George's, Bloomsbury, (lenient, youngest
son of W. Wigney, Esq. of Brighton,' to Hartiet Sophia, dangli.
ter of S. N. Cowley, of RusseU-square, and Heatlifield, Sums.—
At Tottenham, T. Bridges. jun. Eq. of Clapton, to Ellen, eldest
daughter of B. M'Ghie, Esq. of Hanger's lane.—At St. George's,
Bloomsbury, Capt. J. Criddle, of the Hon. E. 1. C.'s Bombay Ma-
rine. to Louisa, youngest daughter of Mr. J. Griffin, late of the
Strand and Sloane-street.