Star.
London, England, 1829-07-04 00:00:00

TO THE PUBLIC.

Some changes have taken place in the management
of this Paper, which, it is confidently hoped, will secure
the public approbation.

In announcing these, the PROPRIETORS do not feel it
at all necessary to make any declaration of principles,
in the strict sense of the term: nevertheless, they think
this a proper opportunity to state, that they come for-
ward in a pure and liberal spirit, fettered by no party,
though certainly favouring the remains of one, which it
was once equally popular and patriotic to uphold.
Concerning this Party they have elsewhere given their
opinion at greater length—and perhaps with keener
animadversion—than comports with the equanimity of
these explanations. But they are nut bound, nor do
they belong, to any set of men whatever; and it is only
in consideration that the body alluded to yet contains
within its pale some shining and uncorrupt individuals
—a nucleus of redeeming purity—that they permit
themselves to mention it for a moment. Higher—
incalculably higher—is the errand on which they start;
yet if, in the discharge of their great advocacies, they
find themselves side by side with men whom the people
11.ve ceased to count upon as their natural auxiliaries,
t! eir satisfaction will be proportionate to the surprise.
From their youth upwards, the writers of this an-
nouncement have always attached themselves to that
scheme of Government which has seemed to them to
unite the greatest administrative purity with the sound-
est views of practical improvement. During the last
twelve years they have lent to such principles of policy
no feeble advocacy through the press. To the LIVER-
POOL Administration—of whichLOMICASTLEREAGH WAS
the master-spring and informing spirit—they were con-
scientiously and consistently opposed : but when, at
the death of this public scourge, Mr. CANNING suc-
ceeded in the Foreign Department, they felt that
the dissolution of an arbitrary system was ensured
—lt would be superfluous, after this avowal, to
dwell on the animation and cordiality with which
they hailed at a later epoch the accession of that great
man to the helm, and the anticipations which they
formed for the country. They were blighted in their
very formation by his death in the midst of his in-
•aluable plans—but the conviction that his enlightened
♦iews will yet be realized, is strengthening more and
more. The impulse which has been communicated to
the popular mind must force it onward—the embank.
merits of prejudice are thrown down.

The writers of this article have not been inattentive
spectators of the secessions which have lately taken
place. Among these, the separation of Lord BLANDIORD
from the high Tory league has afforded infinite satis-
f action. It would be presumptuous in them to conjec-
ture even, how far—in their general views—they will
be likely to coincide with the Noble Marquis in his new
character: but their impression is, that they may travel
tar together. It is true, the unconditional adoption of
Roman Catholics into the Legi►lature of this Protestant
empire, appears to have alarmed him into some original
reflection of his own, and aroused in him a deep anxiety,
lest it may be turned to the detriment of the State. But
the law is passed, the innovation is introduced: the
business is to guard, now, the Constitution—such as it
remains. It is true, also, that the abolitions which the
Noble Marquis advocates, might still encounter—as
they hitherto did—his hereditary hostility, and that his
triendliness to ameliorations has been contingent upon
his terror at one liberal measure. But he has stretched
orth his hand to the Reformers; the writers of this
note are of that class—and they take it, though many
have rejected it. It is no time bow to coquet with true

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