Star.
London, England, 1829-10-08 00:00:00

PEACE.

The Prussian State Gazette of the 30th September,
received this morning, has the following important infor-
mation:—" A dispatch from General Count DIEBITSCH
SABALKANSKY announces that, on the 14th inst. a de-
finitive treaty of peace was signed at Adrianople, between
the Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the Eatrzaoß, and
those of the Su LTAN."
The same Paper to the 2d October, also received this
day, has the following passage, dated from Warsaw on
the 28th of September :—" We have learned from an
authentic source the following particulars of the circum-
:-tances which immediately preceded the conclusion of
peace In order to remove, as far as possible,
the objections which the Turkish Plenipotentiaries,
charged with the negociations at Adrianople, ap-
peared latterly to oppose to the definitive conclusion
of the treaty of peace, and in the well-founded
apprehension that in case General DIEBITSCH should
find that the time which he had positively fixed
was suffered to elapse without effect, the inevitable
consequence would be the advance of the army against
the capital—M. V. ROYER, Prussian Ambassador to
the Porte, wished, at the express desire of the Sul:
TAN', and :the urgent request of the Ambassadors of
England and France, to embark without delay for Ro-
dosto ; and thence to proceed to the head-quarters of
General DIEBITSCII, to remove the difficulties. His
exertions essentially contributed to the signing of
the treaty of peace within the time given to the Porte."
The Austrian Observer of the 28th September, now
before us, has the following brief notice on the same
subject from Vienna, dated 27th :—" Simultaneous ac-
counts from Bucharest and Semlin announce the signing
of peace between Russia and the Porte at Adrianople
on the 14th September."

The Allgemeine Zeitung, just received, has the follow-
ing information on the terms of the Treaty, which appears
from the previous article, to have been definitively signed
tm the 14th Sept. This article is dated from Pera, the
10th September :
" Ever since the sth inst. when an Express from the
Turkish Plenipotentiaries at Adrianople brought dis-
patches to the Porte, relative to the progress of the
negociations, all the Turkish and European Ministers have
been in motion, and the Diplomatists betray an un-
easiness which will scarcely be calmed, till the re-
turn of M. Von ROYER ; who, after a long con-
ference with Mr. ROBERT Go RDON and Count Gun,
I.Est xoT, set out on the Bth, in the morning,
for the Russian head-quarters. It seems that the
terms demanded by Russia are the cause of alt this
bustle; the Turkish Plenipotentiaries, though furnished
void' unlimited full powers from the Sultan, would not
venture, before they had received further instructions, to
pot their names to a treaty—the fulfilment of which
they conceived to be impossible—because the payment of
48 millions of Turku piastres, for the indemnity of
Russian subjects, stipulated by the treaty of Ackermann,
is to be made immediately on the ratification of the
treaty of peace ; and Gen. DEIBITSCH has declared that
the Russian army shall remain in Its present position till
the payment is made. The Turkish Plenipotentiaries
had succeeded in obtaining a delay of ten days to pro-
cure fresh instructions, which have now been sent to
them, with directions to sign the Treaty, and to declare
to General Di EBITSCH that he will not refuse his ratifi-
cation ; and that he expects, from the generosity of the
EMPEROR, conditions which he will be able to fulfil.
" M. VON ROY ER seems to have gone to the Russian
head-quarters, at the desire of the French and English
Ambassadors, in order to obtain from General DI E-
IT SCH a modification of the demand of forty-eight mil-
lions of piasters, immediately on the ratification of the
treaty : so that one thirdonly should be paid immediately,
and the remainder at certain intervals. At the same time,
he endeavoured to obtain an important alteration in one ar-
ticle of the treaty relative to Greece, and at which the two
Ambassadors are greatly surprised. This article is stated
to be to the following effect :—" That the Porte shall
rescind, not only the treaty of London of 6th July,
but also the protocol of 22d March: and to engage to
assent to the extension of the boundaries, of Greece, to
the gulfs of Volo and Arta." This
*stipulation by
no means accords with the instructions of the

two AmbassadOrs ; and they therefore exert them-
aelves to the utmost, that the arrangements to be made
Grero may be left to be settled at the
,erences in London. From the PORTE, Sir

R. GORDON could only obtain the declaration that
it wishes the Greek question to be settled at London ;
and leaves the fate of Greece to be discussed there

—provided the Russian General gives his consent.
We are now impatient for the next accounts from Con-
stantinople, and do not doubt that peace is at hand. The
other more important points are said to be the demoli-
tion of all the Turkish fortresses on the left bank of the
Danube. The remainder of this article, respecting the
cessions in Asia, the payment of the indem-
nity, &c. coincides with the statements received
through other channels. The Turkish fortresses to be
demolished are Ghiurgevo, Kale, Tournoul, and Ibra-
low ; which, being on the left bank of the Danube, are
to be incorporated with the principalities in which they
are situated."

This morning Major HOLME arrived at the Colonial
Office with dispatches from the Hon. Major General
PoNsowsY, at Malta.

Another Cabinet Council met this afternoon, at the
Foreign Office, in Downing-streot, and was attended by
all. the Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of Lord
Viscount MELVILLE, who is still in Scotland.

We have not done yet with the Duke of NEWCASTLE.
The question between his Grace and the Borough of
Newark is of too great importance to the electors of
England generally, to be dismissed with such a superficial
notice, as—amidst the pressure of multifarious avoca-
tion—we were compelled to assign it yesterday. It is
an example of oppression in its most odious form ; of op-
pression aggravated by the exalted rank of the oppressor;
and portending—if the perpetration be suffered to go un-
redressed—the speedy annihilation of the elective liberties
of the people. We believe, however, that reparation will
be obtained for this enormous wrong ; it is so flagrant—so
nakedly tyrannical—that the appeal against it must be irre-
sistible. On no point of popular right is the Constitution
more clearly defined—of none is it more jealous—than the
right of uncontrolled suffrage: the voters are called free-
men, because the vote is assumed to be free. It is uncon-
stitutional for a Peer to intermeddle in the elections of the
Commons ; if he do so in a glaring manner, it can be
made even matter of impeachment against him : if 'it
were not so, the people would be bought and sold by a
corrupt oligarchy, like beasts in a market.
We do not affirm that the votes of the electors of
England are not often so bought and sold, and
that a crying deprivity is not the frequent sub-
stitute for A pure franchise ; for the notoriety of
this condition of things has at last led to a general
agreement, .no longer to delay reform. But we will
say that such a monstrous, such an iniquitous, such
a violent interference with the exercise of the greatest
popular prerogative—if ever it has been attempted be-
fore—at least was never defended so audaciously and
so alarmingly as to-day. What does the Duke of
NEWCASTLE mean, by saying that " whilst the laws
of England exist, and are respected, he will permit no
clamour, ncr threats, nor even force itself, to deter
him from doing as he may think fit with his own
property ?" Is he not violating the very " laws," to
which he appeals with such a cool effrontery ? Is he not
employing " threats and force" himself, " to deter"
others from the performance of a capital public duty ?
What? drive away more than two hundred of his tenant-
ry—who have always paid up their rents with regu-
larity—because they would not vote for his nominee,
and then swagger out the oppression, by declaring that
he will " permit no clamour ?" Really, this is past en-
durance. But we can tell the Noble Duke that the " cla-
mour" is only beginning, which his presumptuous aggres-
sion will yet certainly draw down upon him: to the latest
hour of his life, he will be made to remember this unconsti-
tutional invasion. We know that he is not accustomed to
hear such plain language as our's ; the parasites at
Clumber have spoiled his ears for the auscultation of
truth : therefore, it is the more imperative that he should
hear it from us—whose failing, at least, has never been to
flatter the vices and insolences of proud men.
The Noble Duke, strong in his fancied power to pervert
even the laws which he has outraged into auxiliaries of his
fantastic oppression, presumes to give advice to the con-
veners, as if they had asssembled more in igno-
norance of what their duties are, than in support
of their violated rights. They " deceive them-
selves"—exclaims the supercilious peer—" with the
notion that they are acting as becomes free-born English-
men : my advice to them is, to maintain the well-balanced
scale of even-handed justice, and not blindly to engage
in an unjust crusade against any man or men—especially
when those men themselves are the real friends of ge-
nuine freedom and the constitutional rights of the people
—merely because they may be the possessors of title or
property." Is it the Duke of NEWCASTLE, who talks
about the maintenance of even-handed just
Noble oppressor yet flagrant in his tyrannous delinquency
—is it he who talks of balancing the scale ? Did he
balance it like a just man between himself and the poor
elector, when he turned him into the street for not voting
against his conscience ? Is it the Noble Duke, who
deprecates others from embarking blindly in an unjust
crusade against any man or men, and does he fancy—
when this amusing deprecation comes to be made pub-
lic—that his own " crusade," against more than two
hundred men who did not brook to be the slaves of his
dictation, will not be uppermost in the reader's mind ?
Is it he who calls himself " the friend of genuine free-
dom and constitutional right," and yet persecutes—ex -
terminates—hie tenantry, who will not vote as he re-
quires ? It is too preposterous.
The conclusion of the Noble Boroughmonger's letter
arrogates pretensions of another sort ; virtues and bene-
volences of which—since his Grace lays claim to them—
it is fair to examine the grounds of his arrogation.
" Neither I nor my ancestors have ever been oppressive
or tyrannical landlords. The very reverse is the well-
known fact. in us the town of Newark has on all occa

sions found ready and prominent benefactors ; by us the
deserving poor and needy have always been regarded
with steady kindness and consideration, and not to suit

the mere purposes of the day."
The first thing to be remarked in reply to self-attri-
butions like the foregoing, is the improbability that they
can be true. Charity vaunteth not. The pharisaical and
ostentatious parade of sympathies, which ever shun ex-
posure—deeds, whose chiefest beauty is to have been done
without unnecessary testimony—smacks of hypocrisy far
more than benevolence. The sweetest of all virtues ever
abhors to proclaim itself. On these principles alone—
principles which are known to constitute the essence of
genuine charity—we should be quite prepared to contra-
vene the Noble Duke's assertions of his own philan-

thropy. But we are spared the trouble of these un-
erring deductions, by the fiat contradiction with which
they have been met by the indignant Newarkers them-

selves : audi alteram partein.

a We confidently appeal to the experience of our fellow-
townsmen for the truth of our assertion, that we are not in-
debted to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle for any of those acts
of beneficence to the poor, or utility and liberality to the town.
for which, in his letter, he takes credit ; on the contrary, the ar-
bitrary and exclusive principle by which the letting of his pro.
perty has been governed, has impeded the march of improve-
ment, checked the progress of wealth, and confined (for election

purposes) within narrow and inconvenient limits a town, which

from its local situation, the fertility of the surrounding country,

and its proximity to the best market's is well calculated to

become, and, in despite of every impediment, is to a con-
siderable extent, the granary and storehouse of a large

portion of the manufacturing districts. The acts of be-
nevolence adverted to in his Grace's letter are, like
himself, entirely unknown to the inhabitants :—he nei-
ther contributes to their charities, nor does he promote
their trade—he lives in their recollections only from the periodi-
cal visitations of his rent collectors, and In the rare case of de-
falcation in rent, it is exacted with the strictest severity ; parti-
cularly so if the unfortunate defaulter is suspected of holding
sentiments adverse to the Dukes political influence In the
borough. The Duke has also Ing been accustomed to provide
the town with Members of Parliament, which, from the power
the Crown lands have given him, he has been enabled to get
elected; and, although they have nonsinally represented the
tows, they have even been insensible to the promotion of its in.
terests, holding their seat but to swell the number of his Grace's
claims upon the .Minister of the day, for the advancement of
his own personal and family interests ; and so completely have
such members been the puppets of the Duke, that, at his
pleasure, be has displaced and replaced them without
notice to, or the knowledge of those to whom they
nominally were indebted for their elevation. Had
the conduct of the Duke been such as in his letter he is
pleased to represent it to be, his property and virtues would have
been surely sufficient to confer influence within the borough equal
to every just and rational expectation, without attempting to
dragoon his tenants into a compliance with his will, by the present
undisguised attempt to reduce the town to the degraded condition
of a rotten borough."

It turns out, then, that instead of assisting the town
with his liberalities, the Noble Duke has impeded its im-
provements, and checked its progress to prosperity : that
instead of contributing to the relief of its poor, and the
encouragement of its industrious population, he has ob-
tained an odious distinction from the visitation of his rent-
collectors, and the severity of their exactions. We
" arraign him," therefore, not for having deviated from
the course which he pretended to state that he had fol-
lowed, but for having followed a course, the opposite of
that to which he so insultingly pretended. The " cor-
rection," which—in the case of his deviation from a sin-
cere course—he admits that he would have merited, is due
to him d fortiori for having persisted in one which has
been always vicious. We let him off—without any far-
ther amplification—for the present, but we recommend
him to commence his career of atonement. A revocation
of his oppressive discharges may yet save him from
a Parliamentary enquiry, and perhaps continue the
borough—over which he has domineered with such a
feudal spirit—for another Session under his noble pa-
tronage. When, however, the excision of the rotten
parts of the Constitution comes to be called for by Lord
BLANDFORD—in pursuance of his notice in Juue last
—we feel assured that the Noble Marquis will not pass
by this appendage to the domain of Clamber.

So many false and scandalous assertions appearing
perpetually in some of the metropolitan prints concerning
the state of Portugal, we have been long determined to
ascertain the real condition of that distracted kingdom.
It is now, therefore, with sincere satisfaction, that we
can call the attention of our readers to a description of
the political state of that country—which appears in our
columns to-day—and on the faithfulness of which they
lice—the I may depend.

CITY. TwaLve o'CLoec.

Consols which left of yesterday at 89k for the Account, and
89j for money, opened at the same price:this morning,sinee which
they have been done at 891, buyers for the Account, and 89i
sellers for Money. The Paris express received this morning
brings some corroboration of the signing of the peace in the But,
which from the source of information received some days since,
could not be doubted, although the official accounts are not as
yet arrived, but may be expected in a few days.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols continues at 891 I for the Account, and 119 j 90 for the
nest Account, with little business doing. No further news has
been received from the East up to the present hour. In the Fo-
reign Market all the Northern Securities have rather improved.

We have Brussels papers of the 7th instant, by which
we find that his MAJESTY has granted his placet to the
Bulls of the Bishops of Leige, Tourney, and Ghent. His
MAJESTY was to leave the Palace of Laken on the 7th,
and go to the Hague.
The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE arrived at the Palace
of the Prince of ORANGE on the 4th instant in the even-
ing; and the Government of the Netherlands received
the news of the conclusion of peace between RUSSIA and
the PORTE by an extraordinary Courier Sunday last.

THEATRICAL NEWS EXTRAORDINARY .
We understand that as a set off against Drury-Lane,
for thus supporting the dignity of the British drama, by permitting
the Intellectual tumbler, Ducaow, to exhibit his antics on the
stage, Covent-Garden has engaged Mons. Commas., the fire-king.
to run against this object of attraction. Mr. Pates, it is
whispered, having learned ibis, resolved to steal a march upon
his rival, and is now in treaty with some cockers and prize.
lighten, to uphold Shakespeare. and do honour to an English
audience, by turning the stage into a ring and cock-pit, be-
tween the play and farce. But Covent-Garden, watchfully on
the alert, is again making ready for his opponent even here.
by engaging the wild beasts—late of Exeter 'thenge—u a part of
his dramatis persons for the ensuing month. Puce has conceived
a plan for rendering his theatre most popular during this winter,
by permitting gentlemen the indulgence of segars at his entertain-
ments. Covent Garden, once more ready with a Roland
for his Oliver, means on the other head, to distribute cake
and bottled porter to his audience rags. AU the trans-
lators of lifelo-drema represented at those most distinguished
theatres at Paris—the Gaited, Agmbige, and Park St. Marine,
lately attached to the Cohn and ifstley's—are all labouring
in behalf of the two great houses; from which we augur a most bril-
liant feast of intellect for the season. The great English bloaaar,
Mr. Lax, to the terror of Roman, is ready with thirty-two grand
Operas, all composed within the last fortnight ; and fifty-four
fresh "debutantes" on the town, of most alluring charms, are about
to come out at the Saloons. Previous to granting them the usual
free admisaions. the beauty of their persons, nymph-like taste in
dress, and gay vivacity of disposition, have been strictly ascertain.]
by the Directors ; who beg leave to inform the public, that Brandy
and the best Old Tom are still retailed in the Saloons at reduced
prices. We are happy to hear that the New Police have orders to
permit no lady to vociferate any oath amounting to blasphemy
and Gentlemen are particularly requested not to toy with his
female friends in any of the lobbies, under the second or third
tier. These worthy efforts and wise regulations of the Chiefs of
his Majesty's Servants, promise to raise theTheatre to aU its former
honours ; and make it, at once, the resort of decency and the
envy of foreigners. N. B. If Sir WALVIS SCOTT, SOUTUZY,
Moots, or any other distinguished writer, can be prevailed upon
to compose for the Stage, Messrs. Morton and liernotas promise
to be indulgent, and Managers to be liberal. A private Box,well
shrouded from the upper range, and ear-proof, is about to be
fitted up for the accommodation of the Clergy.

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