Star.
London, England, 1829-07-08 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

" HARLING, JULY 6, 1629.

that the abolitions which the Noble Marquis advocates,
might still encounter, as they hitherto did, his hereditary
hostility." Passing by the question you have raised
upon the probability or non-probability of my here•
after proving faithless to the cause I now advocate

(certainly in these days of apostacy no unreasonable
hypothesis), I desire to remark, that I have never exhi-
bited nor entertained any hostility to the question of,
Parliamentary Reform—and that when the late Mr.'
CANNING, whose accession to office you hailed as
" ensuring the dissolution of an arbitrary system,"
vowed, nevertheless, eternal enmity to the Reformers,
I was neither of the number of those who, by their
cheers, applauded the audacity of the declaration, nor
of those who, by their shift of places, supported the
individoal offering this unmeasured violence to the
feelings of a large class in the community.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient humble
servant, BLANDFORD."
To the Editor of THS Evnrtaa Sus.
Such a letter, from such a personage, will not fail to
be read with intense interest.

I The fact of the Noble Marquis's secession from the Tory
league, was already notorious enough; but it was by
no means so well known—until his Lordship announced
it by this unequivocal declaration—that he ,g never ex-
hibited, nor entertained hostility, to the question of
Parliamentary Reform." Tai s is a most important
avowal, inasmuch as it secures the Noble Marquis irre-
vocably to that interesting advocacy, the circumference I
of which is extending itself every hour.
It is difficult to say all that Lord BL.MJDVORD merits,
on the score of such a candid manifesto: the accession is
felt the more, because it was so little expected. We
remember well the impression, which his new attitudes
produced upon the House. A great Party—one of whose
cardinal aims is confessedly to abolish the traffic and sale
of seats—stood aloof, and left him to plead,unsupported,
the cause which i c2as its NM 41 Mr. HOBHoUSE
alone"—we quote from a document trot unknown to
that Party—among all the ranks of the Reformers, bad
either the courage or the virtue to stand up: and even
his support was given with an air of aristocratic jealousy,
and costive and uncandid reservation, alike inde-
cent in a professed regenerator like him, and ominous
of the fate of the question. On the other hand, it was

amusing to witness the overawed mediocrity of Mr.
Pm, doing homage to the noble seceder. He felt that
he could not oppose any argument, to shake his lost
disciple in his constitutional determination ; and he
tried to Ratter him—it was a clumsy essay—on the
scare of his descent from an " illustrious warrior." As
if the quartering. of an adventitious ancestry could
come into comparison with positive public virtue:
But it will be seen with regret, that the eloquent
and manly assorances, in which our noble corres-
pondent distinctly pledges himself to support the
great measure of reform—and denies that he was ever
hostile to it—are not unmixed with charges of a grave
character against the principles of Mr. CANNING. These
.we will endeavour to meet, because we regard that great
man as wrongfully treated, not merely on this very
point of Parliamentary Reform, but misrepresented in
aunts other lights, by the enviout satellites of present
power: by the sycophants of that military chief,
who sits now supreme in the civil seat, from which
death only—as death did—could have divorced his
predeceisor. Shall it be said that the man, whose
posthumous infltience . has notoriously carried eman-
cipation itself—that mighty measure which equa-
lises excluded millions, and• throws wide the door
of the " Constitution " to all alike—shall it be said
that he would have resisted in detail those minor Re
forms, those secondary purgation., which he could
not bat know and fed to be, the nnavertible conse-
quences of his better prevalence?
' When we say 'daft we respect the Neble Marquis,
Ike term is too weak to convey the sentiment with,
wBi~h pis condaci 'has iaieired is: we adMire him,
l'We cabins • interest in him, we-gaped, stack .froot
Wei • feel,.. that ws • shalt nor 110144
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We feel greatly obliged to Mr. &mow for his kind wishes: he
will perceive that his communication has been acceptable.—We I
cannot furnish, at present, any list of the Yacht Club for 119.

We have received the following letter from the
Marquis of BLANDIORD, calling upon us to correct a
mis-statement, into which we had been inadvertently
betrayed :

Stn—Having noticed in your Paper of the 2d instant
some observations relative to myself, I beg perminion
to correct the following mis-statement—"lt is true also

pointed. But it is precisely on this account, that
we are anxious to vindicate Mr. CANNING before
such a mind as his. Does Lord BLA/IRFORD imagine
that the milder tone—when contrasted with their for-
suer arrogance to the country—of the present Minis-
ters, is imputable to any voluntary chaage in them ?
Does he suppose that the stubborn bigotries of the
Ex-Chancellor—the arbitrary bias of the Duke of %VII..
LINGTON—the contracted and mean-spirited policy ,
of Mr. Pair., have been spontaneously abdicated
for a system of more generous adoptions ? He can-
not think so. Oh, no: it has been the impetuous rush
of the popular mind—the burst of light—the torrent
and diffusion of knowledge—which have carried their
unresisting degeneracies down the flood ; and will con-
tinue to sweep and purge, until the moral surface
is utterly cleared of its incumbtances. This WAS the
so %VAR OF OPINION which M r.CA NN ING SOSCitated, Mr.
CANNING waged: and now that he sleeps in the grave,
to which his anxiety for the public welfare prematurely

consigned him, his principles are misrepresented, hig
memory insulted, and the laurels which are due to
him exclusively, usurped by one who ought to rest con-
tented with his own.

We cannot resist—as most opportune to these re-
marks—the following quotation from a little pamphlet,
never much circulated; and we strenuously recommend

its argument, not to Lord BLANDFORD only, bat to all
those, who—from whatever cause—have been either
disinclined to examine, or incapable to appreciate, the
character of Mr. CANNINU.
" It has been affirmed—and there Is no reason a doabt the

assertion—that in all which related to his own immediate depart-
ment, the late Foreign Secretary was impenetrably dose. Such,
at least, Is one of the posthumous charges of his quordans fellows
in the Ministry, and it does honour to the accused. It wu a
natural and necessary circumspection. He felt that his liberal and
enlightened plans would be jeopardised by their unreserved dis-
closure to men, who recoiled instinctively from any system which
tended to constitutionatist nation, and thus to trench upon the no
longer imprescriptible privileges of absolute power.
" On the subject of Parliamentary Reform, great public repara-
tion seems due to Mr. Cassixo, for he cannot new be misunder-
stood. From the date of his accession in Downing-street, the eye
of the Nation was never withdrawn from him a single moment, but
watched, with a deep and growing interest. his patriotic tendencies
unfold themselves in the House of Commons. Ever and anon, some

liberality of sentiment, more philanthropic than ministerial—some
burst of public spirit, which found sympathy among his constituted
opponents—removed him from his colleagues, and drew him closer
to the people. How, indeed, could a mind so comprehensive and
expanded as his, have been ever false to its polarity for freedom !
" He was averse from innovation in the Representative system,
nut bemuse be was friendly to esisting vices, but because he saw
that the Parliament must inevitably referus itself, under the in-
fluence of e eternal agencies already working. It was a favourite
doctrine with him, that no compulsory compact could ever be
made available against the slippery and invisible Prows of Par-
liamentary corruption : but that all those desirable purgation;
and changes within it, are to be accomplished by the moral force
of •public opinion acting upon individual minds, rather than by
any coercive legislation which would outstep the march of its
advancing probities. His hostility to this cardinal affection of
the men with whom he coalesced, originated solely in his con-
viction
that they were prose9iting inexecutable plans. That it
was futile to attempt—and.unphilosophical to expect—any violent
purification in human morals, or improvement beyond the standard
of actual intelligence. That at this became exalted, public sera ant
would more clearly perceive that their own interests are identified
with those of the country, and their sincerity in its service become
commensurate s but that, so long man oblique perception of things
led men to prefer the furtive and sinister advantages of malversa.
don to honourable reward, in that ratio they would be liable to
the thossansd sorrupSer iajlucnces which are too subtle for any penal-
ties to overtake, or legislation to comprehend.

" Such were the considerations which induced Mr. Cassais to
resist all forcible inroads upon the Constitution, attempted by the
popular Reformers. In his union with some of the Chiefs of that
party the 3110111tIn be became free to act, he never abandoned his
original grounds of dissidence; but in the simple fact of that
coalescence alone, be was regarded—and riglals—by the country,
as pledging himself to all attainable reform&
" It wu the peculiar felicity of Mr. Camases genius, both to
discover and illustrate the truth, that the best interests of a public
Minister are the interests of the State he serves. While his Col-
leagues were retrograding into the darker ages, be kept pace with
the ameliorations of his own. • That the exalted character which
be lived to develops as a Statesman, and as the friend of Nations
'was nurtured into its glorious ripeness by the Sun of public Opinion,
there cannot be room to doubt. He was a master-specimen atheist
minds which, under the vivifying influence of her Fast Psass—are
only to be found indigenous in the clime of England.
" The adherents of the late men, and the late men themseives-r•
who fell self-precipitated from the heights of power, like the swine
in the Guspel, by some Divine impulsion—represent Mr. Canonic
as the deadly enemy, and sworn, against every species of amend-
ment. He was, however, nnesur, the great Reformer and Re-caster
of the Government : the Herculean cleanser of that asigean Cabinet,
which had so long exhaled its pestilence upon the afflicted land.

" Let his ophdons, then, about /Worm have been what thEy may
the advocates of all substantive improiement will remember his
lame with gradtude. He will be regarded as the blending point
in which parties—who were long opposed—met only to amalgamate
and disappear; as the annihilator of the senseless disdnetions of
nig and Tory t as the reconciler of jarring interests, and victor
over personal animosities in the highest quarter : who scoured the
plaguaspets from the purple of the Monarchy, but succumbed under
the after-infection of the filth which he had washed away."

The Courier of yesterday, announces with an evident
air of triumph, that Mr. STODDART, whose case we-
stated in the STAR of Thursday last, has been liberated
by Don Moult., through the intercession of our Consul
Mr. MATlitWi. When the shortness of this Gentleman',
incarceration is compared with that of the many other
British victims of persecution in Portugal, it is certainly
a fit subject of congratulation. We have already stated
that like nearly the whole of our countrymen who have
excited the malignint wrath of the tyrant, Mr. Brox,.
DART was seized without even an accusation beingtpie-,
(erred against him. Here it may be again asked. how
long Englishmen are to be left at the mercy of such
ruffians as aresnow adMinistering the affairs of Porto.
gal? While we applaud the conclum.of Mr. MAntsws
in this and other transactions; rie
,hOpe and trust the
time is fast approaching, when British subjects
will no longer be trampled on with impunity,
In reflecting on the uniform conduct, and number..
less atrocities •of this contemptible wretch, we ire
often induced to ask; 'what must be the fate of thou
whom he ivies his subjtiits, it those of die oldisf ally a
his soi disaitt kingdom are treated with such wanton
lentality, •

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Wesaid we should advert w lb* state of Maio),

which is a country that has excited, and for the time
disappointed, so many hopes; but the English are apt to
be too sanguine, and too depressed—they rush and tall
Into extremes.'
Mexico certainly possessed more of the characteristic
features of a political State than any of the Spanish
South American Provinces or Vice• Royalties. The
population was more considerable, and more condensed.
Ihe communications were better. The establishments
had been formed on a more independent basis, and
the arts and useful sciences were more cultivated...—
But the ardent and sanguinary struggle for independ.
ence unhinged the social as well as the state fabric. and
left the conqueror in a feverish and restless agitation,
which made him the wily agent of ambitious and tur.
bulent chiefs who had survived the contest.

Time, however, was cooling the passions, and in-
dustrious habits were beginning to reorganise the coos.
malty. when the envoy of North AaleriCA, with the
design of rendering Mexico a vassal to her policy,
and commercial views, introduced under the pretext
of Masonic Institutions, those Ultra Republican
Lodges, which, aiming at the controul of the
Government, occasioned revolution on revolution.

A Pamphlet lying before us, entitled Spaxish
America, and coot sining the instructions of Mr.ADaids
to the American Envoy at the Congress of PAnama,
clearly and unequivocally exposes those machinations

But supposing, which is said to be the case, that
Mr. Powsxrr should be recalled by his Government,
that Mexico should no longer be disturbed by
United States intrigues, and order, the first want,
should be established, is Mexico in a condition to
maintain a profitable trade with Europe ? to pay
her debts, and internally and externally exhibit the
character of an independent and prospering nation?
Mexico, in her late most disturbed periods, has ex-
tracted annually from her mines, ore which has pro-
duced from 11 to 14 millions of dollars. This new
capital is as regularly converted into a circulating
medium,which she barters against foreign commodities;
and hence a trade, very advantageous to those concerned
in it, and who, to keep it snug to themselves, often
write by their agents—is Trade is very dull. Nothing
doing. We advise no shipments."
Besides this precious metal trade, there is tobacco—
cochineal—and every other article may be produced
which is wanted for an European market, and which
is producing by a people becoming daily more in want
of European goods and commodities, by the inter-
course which has been established, and the convenient
habits of a mere civilised state of society, which are
rapidly extending. But, it is said, if this wealth really
exists in the country, why is it that the Government
is always in want of money? why is it we always
hear the army is without pay, and that there is oo
prospect of any remittances for the dividends? The
people of Europe, learning that the treasury is empty,
suppose the taxes have been screwed to the highest degree
of pressure, and are yet unproductive.—An empty trea-
sury is the image of an exhausted, impoverished no.
tion—but that is not the fact in Mexico—there
are no internal taxes, properly so called. The
Government depends for its general revenue on a
Tobacco Duty and the Customs. It depends on the
contigencies therefore of the Smuggling Trade, the de-
monstrations of LABORDIei squadron--11 possible
blockade; but the quiet of the country, is again
dependent on the former contingencies; for if the
Tobacco Duty be not paid, if the Customs be not flou-
rishing, the army of military and civil emplosils becomes
disaffected and disorderly, and every thing is at a
stand still. Trade and commerce are suspende,d.
It is necessary to get out of this vicious circle. This
can only be done, Ist, by a vigorous Government, re-
solved to maintain the laws inflexibly and inexorably
against factions, and offenders. General GUIRRERO
seems to be a Governor of this description—a discipli-
narian not to be trifled with, and who ought not to be,
if be acts only as the conservator of the peace, and exe-
cutive of the Legislative Body.-2d. By a direct taxa-
tion, which may secure to the Government the means
-of paying the forces and commanding their obe-
dience—if not, eustosks qui eustodiunt, in the moment
their allegiance are most indispensable—and which cer-
tain means of revenue may put the credit of Mexico on
that footing of respectability as to inspire general con.
fidence, Ind obtain all the traits of confidence. This
seems also to be doing—the last advice: from Mexico
intimate such a design. The bead Minister of Finance
is a very clever man, and knows that good credit is the
best mode to reduce a public debt, borrowed at six pet
cent—that it affords the only honourable, real, safe,
1, and certain means of liquidation.