Star.
London, England, 1829-11-09 00:00:00

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Do. National

To-morrow, at two o'clock, the Kum will hold a
Council in his MAJESTY'S Palace of Windsor, for the
purpose of receiving the RECORDER'S Report of the con-
victs now under sentence of death in Newgate.

This day, at one o'clock, Grace the Duke of WH.-
LINGTOX arrived at his official residence in Downing-
street, preparatory to his dining with the new LORD
MAYOR, at his inauguration-dinner in Guildhall.—
The LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord MELVILLE, Lord
ROSSLYN, Sir GEORGE MURRAY, Mr. GOULIBURE,
Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD, and other Cabinet Minis-
ters, are expected to honour the LORD MAYOR with
their company also on this occasion.

Despatches were this (lay received at the Foreign
Office, from his Excellency Lord STUART DE ROTHSAY,
our Ambassador at the Court of France.

The recognition of Don Min DEL by this country, u
de facto KING of Portugal, is announced as imminent
by the Sunday Times of yesterday, in a strain of com-
placency quite unaccountable in such a journalist. We
cannot, however, agree with our easy contemporary, that
that event is either impending or probable: and till such
an astounding proof of the bull-headedness of the Noble
Earl appear before us in all the damning authenticity 'of
the Gazette, we shall be sceptical as to that audacious
measure to the end. In the mean time we are at a loss
for language aptly to characterise the mean-spirited and
sneaking connivance with which a great portion of the
soi-disant Litigant. PRESS actually winks at, and en-
courages, our unprincipled Government in its systems of
nefarious policy. We speak domestically, as well as
with reference to our foreign relations. At home the
disposition is unconcealed, to repress and down-trample
the people : abroad, the same spirit is furiously co-operant
to aid tyrants in extinguishing the manifestations of li-
berty. In the case of Portugal—to which we have just
alluded—it is not personal predilection which instigates
the Noble Earl to acknowledge Mioun., but the prin-
ciples which by film Del.'s establishment would be ren-
dered triumphant. Intolerance, absolute power—these are
the feodalities which Lord A B ERDEE N works to perpetuate:
these are the desirable forms which he labours to pre-
serve in Europe. Poun sac works with him: MET-
TERNICH works with him—not for MIGUEL, yet
for absolute monarchy—and the scheme and the un-
derstanding is to coerce the general mind, and
keep the nations iu their ancient thraldom. Every
body knows that the interesting and innocdnt Down*
MARlA—far from being an object of individual aversion
—inspires, even in the bosoms of those who wrong her,
unsilencsable abstract sympathies : but the Charter of
Don PEDRO has linked his daughter's cause inseparably
to the cause of constitutions, and in the undistinguishing
hatred of free forms her righteous claims are sa-
crificed without remorse. Neither the Noble Earl, nor
the Noble Duke, ever entertained an hour's doubt of the
justice and legitimacy of these, in spite of the diplomatic
varnish and mystification with which at all times they
have been careful to obscure the question. The hard-
hearted insolence of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S letters
to the Marquis DE PALMELLA, contrasts strikingly with
the ingenuous interest displayed in the same cause by
CANNING ; and the historian—when he does justice to
that enlightened Statesman—will refer to the Noble

Duke's correspondence as s blot upon our ministeria
anmds.

" Don MlGUEL"—says the Sunday Times—" has
been recognised by the King of SPAIN : the same ho-
nour he has received from the POPE—end France and
England will shortly follow their example." This is most
dogmatically asserted. By what channel, pray—if not
from the people of the daily Times—did our so positive
contemporary acquire his information ? We know that
it is in accordance with the ardent wishes and keen pur-
poses of Ministers, and we know that the daily Tines
is even their more than demi-official organ: but in
the present instance, we shrewdly suspect that the

" wish" of these paragraph-writers is " father to the
thought" of recognition. lf, however, the dis-
graceful acknowledgement be proclaimed—in the
name of this unaasenting country—it will be only one,
among the numerous indications of the state of things,
which the Noble Duke is labouring to re-establish in
Europe. As far as the Portuguese question is concerned,
it is just possible that the Noble Duke may carry his
point for a brief interval: but we can tell his Grace that
it will be only a temporary triumph, and that he works in
vain to countervail the spirit of the age.
We do not envy the Duke of WELLINGTON in the
political positions which be has had the temerity to take
up ; for he will be forced from them with conspicuous
discomfiture and open shame. The obsolete oppressions,
which—anteriorly to the French revolution—were the
order of continental government, it is beyond his power
to restore. He may dictate here—he may diplomatise
there—but the resistance of mind is organising fast,
and will soon show a front impregnable to brute coercion.
But for the servility of purblind borough-mongers,
he would not have occupied so long the throne from
which he now fulmin ates against public liberty, and
constitutions over all the world. But the tocsin of
Rumsu is sounding, and the excision of the rotten
limbs is about to be demanded in a voice of thunder.
Fools that the people have been, ever to repose an instant
on the hollow in-door promises of a corrupt assembly to
purge itself! That " reform from without"—which the
great Lord CIIATII AM prognosticated would soon over-
take it with a vengeance—is now sweeping like a destiny
to its completion. The taxes grind—the debt over-
whelms--but the insolence of corruption continues.
Quoisg we tandem abuteris, Insane, patientid populi?
The Noble Duke may take our words for it, his misgo-
vernment is hastening to its close. The Spirit of rege-
neration, " with the fan in his hand," is advancing to
cleanse the floor, and not an abomination will be left.
An equitable adjustment of the DEBT, and the abolition
of the borough system, will restore England to her en-
vied eminence—and on these objects the hopes and hearts
of the people are now fixed with a stedfest determination.
By an article on the subject of Portugal, extracted
from an American Paper, it would appear that so late as
the 17th ult. nothing was known at New York relative
to the decision of the Government with regard to
the seizure of American ships by the officers of the
Usurper, and the imprisonment of twelve men, the
crew of the Galatea, the particulars of which have al-
ready appeared in our columns.—Acquainted as we are
with the flagrant nature of this transaction, we can only
account for the inaction of the Punt MINT and his Cabi-
net, by concluding that the details and depositions, which
were sent by way of Lisbon, owing to the want of a di-
rect communication, must have been intercepted there.

Until, therefore, we are assured that the facts are known
at Washington, we shall not believe in the possibility of
acts of violence, which amount to a declaration of war
en the one hand, and to the greatest cruelty towards the
subjects of a friendlrstate on the other, being passed over
without a single manifestation of national resentment.
We know that British property has been seized to a large
amount, and that the British flag has been trampled under
foot by the partisans of Don Mio vtt.—wo also know
that his treatment of British subjects has met with equal
impunity.
It would, however, be a lamentable sign of the times
wore our example to be followed in any other country.
But of this we cannot entertain the apprehension.

The Courrier Francais of Saturday informs us that a
messenger had arrived at the Austrian Embassy, with
intelligence that the Emperor of Russia had consented
to modify the conditions of the Treaty of Adrianople—
both as regards the amount of the indemnity, and the time
granted for its payment. But this piece of news is of no
value—it wants confirmation; and when confirmed, what
will it avail the &Taunt Porn? He is as fit to pay
eight millions, as be is to pay four; and as to time, the
longer he is allowed the worse he becomes: for, let it not
be forgotten, that the rich revenues and contributions of
his most valuable Principalities aro no longer at his
command.

We have Frankfort papers this day to the 2d Nov. in
which we find an article of Prussian manufacture, re-
plete with plausible argument in support of the gene-
rosity and " moderation" of NICHOLAS in his recent
exploits, both as regards his mode of carrying on the war,
and his mode of making up a peace. Nothing can be
said on the subject farther than has already been said
twenty times oyer. NICHOLAS has every thing his own
way—and he is, in fact, Emperor of Turkey now as
well as of Russia. From the same papers we have
another article from the Frontiers of Turkey, dated the
18th of October, which conveys news that might natu-
rally be looked .for, about the fallen condition of that
Empire. It sets forth that—" In the defiles of Mount
Remus, and the countries covered with fruits, which the
victorious Russians have not traversed, bands of robbers
are formed, who only wait for the departure of the Rus-
sians to commence their depredations. The prospects of
all the east part of Turkey are most gloomy : it is feared
that if even those provinces return under the Turkish
Government, they will be a prey to a state of anarchy,
which Mahmoud, with all the energy of his character,
(?) will not be able to prevent."