Star.
London, England, 1829-12-08 00:00:00

FACTS AND FANCIES.

ROYAL OPPOSITIONS.—The KING OF BAVARIA is
reported to have lately said, " They would be much'
astonished in France if they knew that it is I who form
the opposition in my kingdom." We know not what
our continental neighbours, who may hitherto have been
deluded into a belief of the resistless supremacy of the
Military Chief of Downing-street, would think of an
opposition so formed in this country ; but this we
know, that there are few, very few indeed, of the
people of England, who would be " much asto-
nished" to see their own beloved Monarch, with that
patriotic attachment to his native land, and that paternal
solicitude for the happiness of his subjects which are the
most cherished feelings of his benevolent nature, de-
cidedly, aye and publicly, opposed to the rash and
unconstitutional projects by which his present Ministers
have reduced the country to the most calamitous con-
dition, and even now menace her national charac-
ter, her glory, and her influence, with extinction.
TILE New POLICE.—A few days since, one of " the
poor men with coarse blue coats, and oil-skin capes—as an
Evening Contemporary most contumeliously designated
the " Officers of the New Police"—was apprehended on
a charge of forgery, and, in military parlance, " handed
over to the civil power" to be dealt with according to
law. But " they are all, all honourable men !"—We
have heard much of late, of the activity displayed by
Mr. THOMAS, Superintendent of the Covent Garden
district, in taking into custody a number of young
females who, being seen walking along the streets at
late hours, were apprehended, not for any offence they
were then committing, but on suspicion of the offences
they might intend to commit. Without questioning the
purity of the motives which induced the vigilant Superin-
tendent to assume such a responsibility where the liberty
of the subject was concerned, it is very much to be de-
plored that equal zeal was not manifested in the case of the
poor creature, who, on being brought to Bow-street on
Friday last, declared that she had not slept in a bed
for six weeks—And of course had wandered about
the streets—where she at length attracted the notice of a
constable, under circumstances quite as suspicious as
those which required Mr. Timm As's interference. It is
lamentable to observe, with what little respect or com-
miseration the humane orders of Sir RICHARD BIRNIR
were attended to by the Parish Officers, to whose care
he referred the unfortunate woman ; who, it appears, was
" one of the bread and cheese poor of St. Giles's."

THE BOAST OF MORTALITY.

To joy in the splendor and pride of a Crown.
To hue myriads of flatterers crouched round a throne.
Then lie la the drat., damp, vault—alone—
And this is the boast of Mortality !

To feel the heart bound at the trumpet's breath,
To exult in the bloom of the victor-wreath,
Then fall—subdued by the shaft of Death,—
And this is the bout of Mortality !

To live in the hum of a babbling crowd,
To hear their coarse praises shouted loud,
Then fade, forgot, in the 'mouldering shroud,—
And this is the boast of Mortality !

To bask in the lustre of Beauty's eye.
To breathe back the breath of Beauty's sigh,
And then—in the worm's embrace to lie.—
And this is the boast of Mortality !
To string the loved harp to joy oe woe,
To be glad in the fame that its strains bestow,
Then make it Death's cold, silent pillow, below—
And this is the boast of Mortality !

Dy the midnight lamp In abstraction to pore
O'er the Chronicler's legend, the Sep's lore,
And then In the grave to be learned no more,—
And this b the boast of Mortality !

Private letters, from Lisbon, of the 18th November,
state that the paper currency is still going down ; and
for three days past has been at 29. Unfavourable news
has been received by the Government from Madeira, St.
Michael's, and Terceira, which causes great fear that the
two former Islands will make a common cause with that
a the third Island. Serious measures are going to be
taken : two new Governors are going to be sent ; but
they will arrive too late. •
Two hundred ships sailed from Crownstadt for different
parts, when the ice was beginning to block up that port.
Lord F. lately solicited a Consulship from his Majesty
for his old associate Brummel, at the same time express-
ing Brummel's great regret for some former indiscretions,
which had lowered him in his Majesty's favour when
Prince of Wales, but which he hoped would now be over-
looked ; " Yes," said his Majesty, " but the situation is
not worrh more than three or foul hundred a-year, and
he, perhaps, will not accept it." Lord F. assured his
Majesty that such an addition to Brummel's income would
be of great importance. " Well, then," said the King,
" tell the Duke of Wellington that Brummel is an old
friend of mine, and I wish him to have it."
Wednesday week the Duke of BucK ISO A3l arrived
at Stowe, after an absence of more than two years spent
on the Continent. On his entering the town of Buck-
ingham, cannons were fired, and the bells rang merrily.
His Grace's carriage was drawn to Stowe by a large
party, who could not be diverted from their purpose, and
rent the air with their acclamations. Monday the Cor-
poration of Buckingham waited on his Grace with an
address of congratulation on his return in perfect health
to the seat of his ancestors.

DUEL.—Thursday last, a rencontre took place on
Kelso race-ground, between Mr. Pringle, son to Sir
John Pringle, of Stitchel, and Captain Noel, both offi-
cers in the 92d Regiment, in which the former was se •
verely wounded. Captain Noel had sinec been appre-
hended, and, along with his second, lodged in the Jed-
burgh jail. We have learnt nothing of the cause of
dispute.

Rio Parton,.

Lake Tampico.

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BATH, Dec. 7.

effects of the accident.

It appears from the brokers' statements, that the im-
port of cotton into Liverpool, from the lst of January to
the 30th of November, amounted to 623,333 bags,
against 589,278 during the correspondent period of the
last year. The sales, from the commencement of Janu-
ary to the end of November, reached 691,630 bags.
The stock, on the 30th of November, was estimated
at 214,200 bags ; in 1828, it was estimated at
299,900. The operations during the preceding week
have been insignificant, compared with their extent
during the month of November. The sales amounted to
8,450 bags only, at a fall of id. per lb. in Maranhams,
and a rise of a halfpenny to a penny in Sea Islands.
Saturday the demand was very dull, the sales not ex-
ceeding 1000 bags at the previous currency. The ar-
rivals from foreign parts, owing to a change of wind,
were numerous on Saturday, and were likely to be still
more numo•ous on Sunday, if the wind should continue
in the south-west.

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Pueblo Viejo de Tampico.

CHELTENHAM, Dec. 7.

Lord Tullman. Hon. Mrs. Trevor, Lady Dynevor, Sir John
Franklin, Colonel and Mrs. Lewis, Colonel arowley, Lieutenant-
Colonel O'Malley. Liatitenant.Cotonel Wailer, Captain Groves,
Captain R. Vassal!, Captain Copper. -Captain Paget, Dr. Steel,
Rev. C. Wallington, Rev. J. Devereux, Rev. Mr. Cary. Rev. I.
Jones. Rev. Mr. Num.
CHANGES.

The Hen. Mr. Stourton and Thomas Weld, Eeq. from a tour
through this county for town ; the Marquis of Anglesea, Lord
Moontcharles. and Colonel Morhe, for Cruume Abbey, the seat of
the Earl of Coventry ; Major Leigh for this town; Major and
Mrs. Hslket. for Bath; John Pane, Esq. for Sherbrooke Lodge,
Own ; Oland°, Leigh, Esq. for his seat Stooleigh Abbey ; Mr.
Seymour, for Hereford ; Mr. and Mrs. T. Worslay, from Lea-
mington for this town, &c. &c. Sm.

ARR `a
Her Grace the Duchess of Beaufort, Lord and Lady W. So-
merset, Lady Susan Somerset, Lady Bland Somerset, Lady Mary
Somerset, Countess Barrington, Lord W. Cecil. Lady C. WlJon-
nrU, Lady Williams, Sir C. Batnpfylde. Mr 0. and Lady Gregory.
Sir T. Trowbridge and family, Sir C. Vale. Hon. Miss Montague,
Col. Cecil. Col. Roberts, Lieut.-Colonel Preston, Major Marks,
Major Watson, Captains Bryam, Crook. Campbell, Roper, Skip.
icy, Lieut. Mortimer' Dr. and Mrs. Jacques, Dr. Watts, Rev.
Mr. Deaucroft. Kew. Mr. Morrall, dtc. &c.

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Monday se'nnight, while Viscount Avonmore was
pursuing the pleasures of the chase, in the neighbour-
hood of Stratford-upon-Avon, his Lordship was thrown
from his horse, and the animal falling on him, was so

THE ARMY.

►OURTCRN TSARS' lIERVIICI.

much bruised, as to confine him to his apartments ever
since ; but his Lordship is rapidly recovering from tho
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An authentic contradiction has been given to the state-
ment, that it is a Presbyterian Clergyman, resident tutor
in Lord Moustcashers family, who writes the letters in
his Lordship's name, in reply to the Bishop of Ferns. It
appears they are, ipso facto, Lord Mountcashers pro-
duction.

Lord GODERICII proposed a Finance Committee, dis-
claiming at the same time any merit of his own from
the proposition, and stating that if Mr. CAN N INO had
lived, he meant to have submitted the whole financial
consideration of the country to Parliament. This Finance
Committee was adopted by the House of Commons, and
they sat during the whole Sessions of the year 1828 ;
but their recommendations were generally slighted by
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the Government. They proposed the abolition of the
office of Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, and
this was done after a very long examination of
the Duke of WELLINGTON himself ; but the pro-
posal was rejected by the Government, and the real ob-
ject of the Committee defeated. Indeed, so inconve-
'lent was this Committee deemed by the Government,
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had the grace, at
he opening of the last Session of Parliament, not to re-
vive it. We do not revert without pain to these topics,
because there is something humiliating in finding a Go-
vernment not sympathising with the wants of the people;
but yet the cause is the same—every man's industry (out
of the privileged classes) is affected by too heavy an im-
post. This is the case in manufactures, as well as in
land ; and it requires a degree of reform which we can
hardly expect from the Legislature, as at present consti-
tuted. The people, speaking of them as a body, are not
sufficiently represented in Parliament. The privileged
classes are, and they use power in their own way. We
do not mean to blame them for these faults, for they are
almost inseparable from human nature ; but we must
again and again say, that the-loud voice of the suffering
public does not find, as it ought, a sufficient echo from
the walls of St. Stephen's Chapel.—Cheltenham Journal.
Wednesday last, a public meeting was held at the
Plough Hotel, Cheltenham, to take into consideration
the price of provisions. This subject, as may be seen
from the metropolitan and provincial papers, has lately
excited the utmost attention ; indeed it is an object of
considerable importance, particularly in these times,
when distress and absolute want prevails from one end of
the kingdom to the other. We are not among those
Who feel pleased in chiming-in with the common but too
often erroneous cry of popular distress, or individual
monopoly ; we always wish to hear both sides of the
qeestion fairly stated, and in this view we are sorry to
see the meeting terminate so unsatisfactorily for all par-
ties ; for the reductionists, in not having collected
sufficient evidence of the comparative price of pro-
visions in the town and neighbourhood —and for the
anti-reductionists, by not giving an explanatory state-
ment of their transactions and prices with the farmers.
Every trade has indubitably a right to a fair profit :
some butchers are now selling the best meat considerably
lower than others, and the farmers universally complain
of not receiving any thing like an adequate remunerating
price for their stock. The business terminated by select-
ing a committee from both parties, to meet ok a future
day, and it is hoped something satisfactory may arise
hetefrom.—Cheltenliant Journal

POSITION OF THE SPANISH AND MEXICAN FORCES, SEPTEMUR 7 1829.

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REGULATIONS REFERRED TO IN HIS MAJESTY'S

WARRANT OF THE 14TH NOVEMBER, 1829.
(Continued from the STA& of Saturday.)
motto SLIME—WOUNDS ItC111•111:1 118 lICTION.

7. The daily rates of pensions for wounds or injuries received
In action are to be governed by the rules contained in the following
schedule, viz.—

First Degree.—Men losing two limbs, or both eyes, from
wounds, or being so severely wounded as to be totally incapable of
earning a livelihood, and to require the assistance and care of some
other person, serjeant, from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. corporal, from 2s. to
3s. private, from Is. sal. to 2s.
Second Degree.—Men rendered incapable of earning a live.
lihood, but not requiring the care of another person, serjeant, from
2s. to 3., corporal, from is. 6d. to 2s. private, from Is. to Is. 6d.
Third Degree.—Men able to contribute in a small d gree to-
wards a livelihood, serjeam, from Is. Gd. to 111. corporal, from Is.
to is. 6d. pi ivatr, from W. to Is.

Fourth Degree.—Men able to contribute materially towards a
livelihood, although unfit for the ordinary duties of the service—
gerjeant, from Is. to Is. 6d. corporal, ed. to Is. private, 6d. toed.
9. In cases of severe wounds or injuries received in action, the
pension •hall be fired, according to the rates in the foregoing sche-
dule, by the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, who will grant
the lowest or the high-st, or any intermediate rate, according to the
degree of the injury received, the length of the soldier's previous
service, his character, or any peculiar circumstances attending his
conduct at the time the wound was received.

311 CLASSe•••DISABILITIRS ON INJURIES CONTRACT= ON SERVICE, •TTRR

9. Any non-comnlssioned officer or soldier discharged after 14
years' service, but under 24 years in the cavalry, ur under 21 in the
infantry for a permanent disability contracted by and in the ser-
vice, may be awarded a permanent pension, at the following rates,
iris.:—

A serjeant, from 9d. to Is. 3d.
A corporal, from Td. to I a.
A private, from 6tl to 9d.
Provided that the serjeant or corporal shall have served at least
Ave years in the rank he holds when discharged, and that the
disability was not occasioned by any want of proper care on his
own part. But unless the injury for which the soldier may have
been discharged be considered by the Commissioner to be per-
manent, he shall be awarded a constitutional pension only at their
discretion.

10. The precise amount of pension for permanent disabilities
after 14 years service, shall be regulated at the discretion of the
Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, according to the time the
soldiers may have served ; the climate in which be may have
been serving ; the degree of the disability as affecting his
means of earning a livelihood; and his good conduct whilst
serving; but nn pension shall he granted on account of dis-
ability, if it has been occa,ioned by vice, intemperance, or
misconduct.

+7ll CLAS4.-.-DISAISILITUIS MOM MUSSEI:4 TIMIS' SIMMS.

it. Any non-commissioned officer or soldier discharged under
fourteen years' service, in consequence of disability contracted in
and by the service, and not from a want of proper care on his part,
may at the discretion of the Commissioners be awarded a tempo-
rary pension, according to the following scale :
Under fourteen years' and above ten years' service, a temporary
pension of 6d. a day for a period extending from two to three years.
Under ten years and above seven years' service, 6d. a day from
One to two years.
Under seven years' service, 6.1. a-day from one to eighteen
months.

In special cases where a gratuity in money, proportioned to the
length of the soldier's service, may be considered more advantageous
to his interest, than a temporary pension, a sum varying front LI
to may he given, as a commutation, under the authority of the
Secretary of War, if the soldier he discharged without being exa-
mined by the Commissioners ; or under their authority, if examined
by them.