Star.
London, England, 1829-12-10 00:00:00

LONDON.

THURSDAY,'DECEMBER 10.
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This day, despatches were received at the Foreign-
office fiom their Excellencies LORD STUART DE ROTH-
SAY, our Ambassador at Paris; and from Sir CHARLES
BAGOT, our Ambassador at the Hague. _ _

This morning dispatches were received at the Colonial
Office in Downing Street, from Barbadoes, St. Chris-
topher's, Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St.
Vincent's, Tobago, Trinidad, Demerara and Essequibo,
and from Berbice.

The last advices from St. Petersburgh —which have
come to us through truly authentic channels—ascribe the
Em r E non's relapse to the want of sufficient bleeding in the
first instance : the illness having commenced with
inflammation of the chest, and the blood having mounted
to the head, accompanied with all those distressing symp-
toms which constitute phrcnitis.

We have been favoured with a correspondence on the
condition of Mexico, which we earnestly recommend
to the attention of our readers. It is to be continued to
us in a series of letters, which bear about them such in-
ternal evidence of intelligence and information, as quite
to supersede any necessity of praise from us. The sub-
jects which they discuss are of the first importance to
England, politically speaking, as well as of the deepest
interest to the commercial world.

General JACKSON has disavowed the instructions
given by his predecessor to the Minister of the United
States at the Congress of Panama, and which
were made public on Mr. ADAMS'S going out of
office. The disavowal has been made to the
Mexican and Columbian Governments, and is a
very remarkable proof of the more liberal spirit of the
present President's policy. The Panama instructions
flagrantly violated the rights of independent nations, and
discredited North America by the views of domination
they exposed.
We also rejoice at this measure the more, as it relieves
the new States from those restraints which were so un-
justly, because so partially, imposed on their belligerent
rights, against Cuba and Puerto Rico. England alone
now fetters that freedom of action which the safety—as
well as the prosperity—of the new States renders indis-
pensable ; unless they receive reciprocal protection from
her against the evils they have too long endured, in de-
ference to England's expressed wishes and menaced
controul.

The facts stated by our Lisbon correspondent, which
appeared in the STa a of yesterday, have been fully con-
firmed by the statements in the Morning Papers of
this day. There seems to be little doubt that the
' project of the faction in getting up , a marriage
between Mickust. and a Neapolitan Princess, is about
to be carried into effect. Looking back to the policy
of the Noble Duke and his Friends, we should
not be at all surprised if they suffered this notable'
plan to be accomplished, without a single effort
to prevent it. Thus will they realise all that
we have anticipated relative to the loss of
Portugal as an ally of England, and the transference of
that fine country to the dominion of Spain. We look to
this consummation, as among the nearest of his Grace's
diplomatic triumphs. Leaving events to take their
course, we would fain invite the attention of our
honest contemporaries of the Press—as well provin-
cial as metropolitan—to that portion of our Lisbon
Natter which gives an account of the number of
victims confined in the prisons and dungeons of Portugal.
We tell our Contemporaries—and are prepared to prove—

that this sweeping system of relentless persecu-
tion, is due to the policy of Ministers,—and
when we add, that many of the most talented
and virtuous men in Portugal are among the
number, we have surely said enough to excite the sym-
pathy of every person possessing a spark of generosity.

It is most painful to be under the necessity of making this
appeal—it would have been superfluous in other days—but
when so much indifference prevails with regard to passing
events at home, no wonder that we attach little im-
,portance to the sufferings of a distant people. Having,
however, adjured the Government, by all the ties which
bind us to Portugal, we do hope that—roused at last
by such flagrant aggravations—the liberal Press
will arise, and with one voice put an end to a state of
things so repugnant to every principle of justice, so dis-
'graceful to civilisation !

We give insertion to a letter from a very intelligent
Correspondent—and one who speaks with a confidence
derived evidently from his personal knowledge—on the
character of the young NAPOLEON. His account of this
interesting personage goes far to falsify the description
which was published yesterday in the Morning Chro-
nicle ; we think, even too far: yet we freely admit—
and we, too, can speak on information obtained from

sources extraneous to both accounts—that our Cor-
respondent's view of NA poutow, in connexion with the
political destinies of Europe, is mainly much correcter.
We have always understood, from persona' who had the best
opportunities to observe him, that he was lively and high-
spirited as a child; and we think it not unlikely—under
the baneful and effeminising pupilage of the COURT of
Austria—that whatever of intense feeling his young mind
in its first germination might have seemed to promise,
must long since have been either corrupted or subdued.
We do not, however, believe that frivolity was a natural
characteristic of that mind ; and we are even inclined to
suspect—if he could only be soon emancipated from his
Sardanapalian thraldom—that a portion of his Father's
energies would yet vindicate the nature of the Son.
Nevertheless, we have inserted with great readiness
the letter of F. T. D. which—in other respects—
carries with it the impress of a liberal and superior
mind. Disclaiming all connexion with party, he still
asserts himself to be " a staunch friend to the
nascent liberty, which is widely spreading throughout
every region of the Continent"—and the sooner these
friends understand where to find each other, the sooner,
in our opinion, will come the hour of European deliverance.
That France would catchNAPOLEON to her arms with tran-
sport we do not doubt, any more than our correspondent :
but that she would get " a bad bargain" in doing so,
is what we are far from thinking. Circumstances—

at such an age as NnPoteox's—have more than once
made heroes of apparent idiots : and in this instance, we
are tempted to think—as we wish—that the saying of
the Roman bard will be found accomplished, far beyond
the common expectation.