Star.
London, England, 1829-11-26 00:00:00

TO CORP ESPON DENTS.

We desire that those Correspondents who write to us for no
other purpose than to gratify their own vanity, and from other
selfish motives—and whose Communications it is quite impossible
to make useful to the Public—may pay the Postage of their Letters.

The partisans of usurpation and tyranny in Portugal,
have attached great importance to the recognition of
M trEL by the Cabinet of Washington, which attempts
to justify the act on the plea of its having been an old
maxim of its policy to recognise all governments de
facto. We are not disposed to cavil at this practice,
though we are certainly of opinion that if an exception
were ever to be made, it would have been fully justified
in the present instance.
While we can neither conceal our regret nor surprise,
that the rulers of a Republic who pique themselves on
-their regard for public principle, should have set so bad
an example to the Old World, it is somewhat extraor-
dinary that the recognition should be volunteered, before
any redress has been obtained for the cruelties exer-
cised on American subjects, who were first violently
beaten, and then thrown into the prisons of Saint
Michael : and more extraordinary still, that it should take
place while the ships and property seized at Terceira
remain =restored. Upon the whole, we freely confess
that the forbearance on the part of a Power which has
hitherto been so sensitive on such matters, is quite inex-
plicable to us. It is but a poor set off against this policy and
forbearance of the Washington Cabinet, to say that while
it receives the Envoy of the Usurper, it permits the Consul
of the legitimate Q IMES to continue his functions in the
name of her MAJESTY at New York. It is also said
that, as with regard to France, the blockade of Terceira
will never be acknowledged by the United States.
It is highly satisfactory to reflect that the whole liberal
press of America—for, as among ourselves, there are
journals of a very opposite cast in the Union—has dis-
tinguished by its most marked indignation, as well the
Act of recognition, as the unexampled indifference of the
PRESIDENT.

We perceive that the Morning Chronicle is again
crawling like a parasite before the feet of the Noble
Premier. In an article to-day on the Sale of Offices—
occasioned by a late trial of the KING V. GROEBECKEV.
—instead of reprobating, as a writer in his situation
ought, the, facile connivance, if not corrupt participation
of the Lords of the Treasury in those unconstitutional

practices, he makes it a theme for high, and sounding
panegyric on the Duke of WELLINGTON, that he pre-
vailed on that Board—in his character of FIRST LORD
—to exert the condescension of replying to an injured
applicant. Tu what a pass of profligacy and depravity
have not our Ministers arrived, when the First Lord of
the Treasuryin a case where the Treasury itself comes
under the suspicion of the grossest peculation—is cried
up as a pattern of public purity,. for persuading his col-
leagues to entertain a complaint of grievance !

We insert in another part of our paper an ac-
count of the quantity of each kind of FOREIGN
GRAIN and FLo on imported into Great Britain,
and of the quantity charged with duty for home
consumption, in the month of October 1829, with
the Weekly average price of each kind in the week
ending the 14th November, 1829. The rate of duty,
also, on each kind, will be found in these tables, as well
as the price of the same, after the duties are paid : but
from this price all the. contingent charges of freight
and delivery are to be deducted, before the proceeds to
the exporter can be shown. It will be perceived by these
tables, that property to the amount of not less than one
million sterling is kept locked up, by an absurd fisca
regulation ; and this, at a time when distress was never
more extreme nor universal, and a winter of unusual

severity threatens to aggravate the general calamity.
The principles of Mr. HUSK ISSON certainly operate
unpropitiously here.

By the Flanders Mail this morning, we have the
Allgenteine Zeitung to the 20th instant, which conveys
intelligence of more Concessions to the Rus-
the SUBLIME PoaTE,—namely, the delivery
ortress of Ghuirgevo, and the tame submission
'eau) of SCUTARI, to Count DIEBITSCH. At
Itinople, we are told that a bitter and dangerous
prevails against the Su LTAN and libi.counsellors;
night passes without some victim of fanatic

FRONT} RS OF WALLACUM O. 5O
Ms at length bees Induced to issue a Waists to Kotm
deliver op the fortress of Oblurgeio, end, to seed ft

to Count Diebitsch to be forwarded. General Negry, Commander
of the flotilla on the Danube, to whom this instrument was given,
to be sent to the Pacha, has officially informed the Divan at Bucha-
rest that he had the Finnan delivered to the Paths by one of his
Officers, accompanied by an interpreter; that the Pacha had re-
ceived ft with great respect, and declared himself ready to comply
with it; adding, however, that he must first acquaint his august
Sovereign with his having received it before he could give up the
fortress, whence it appears that the Pacha stiU seeks to gain time
and delay in the evacuation of the fortress.

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