Star.
London, England, 1829-12-25 00:00:00

LONI)ON.

FRIDA-Y; DECEMBER 25.
CLOW 1110iliMiTC111101111AS DAT.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The seated letter on Oeitanbli'en4ntiew•
We apsioglpe to oar Mead M. 'Wait of space alone prevents
our linserdsaof lds valuabiecontaiunkailoo
laseiesitaamiewamennee
By the French bfatbr this morning, despatches were
received at the. Foreign 0144; ,in Downing Street, from

their Excellencies 4AM STUART DE ROTIISAY, our
Ambassador' at Pirifiuid Nal Sit CHARLES BAOOTT,

our Minister at theibigoo...,

We this day..4ose the: official account of the victory
of Tampico-. If dies°• papers. are 'somewhat tinged
with the high coletiOdtheeseolnryse peculiar to Spain,
they are, on tlie jr. hand, replete with sentiments
which do honour Mexican hero ; , and cannot
fail to excite the :applause. •and sympathy of every ge-
nerous mind.. ‘Tkellebeio affair w indeed most important,
inasmuch as • it *vs? the utter Impoisibility of Spain
ever effecting any wing against the New. State; and,
what is not less istoesting,thatidexico possesses officers•
and troops whose-tsients and bravery; will never allow
her to be insulted with impunity. :-: Asa last shift among
the partisans-of the abettors of oppres.,
sion,wborever it is to be established; they have spread a re-
port that tie Xiligpf.Nsples is about to furnish his. Royal
father-in-law the . means of sending a second ex-
pedition to , Mexieo. (*His f—kni ate sure • the
Mexicans liitt-of'lllkialtleX4eite; :But it is no-
torious that tliti.l9:einfititttl.joriarcit 4 iy* much.better
off than Faavia Ar D..,..:l)ftcneed bstedly say,. that. the .
tenure by which he holds his 'poker is quite as frail!
With respect add our e.arneat
hope, that ' 41:04.004,7;. will- be,
steadily directed toviarditstreagthettiog our natural. ally
in every pitsighli!:tity.' • And SO* ;again call •tha particular
attention OfNinsfers to th iintijecti • • •
In the 9tlneticio. ,which has for
a long time p4ibeeii tertifyitig ttorbloOde Colombian.
tondholdiVi of leecnbing' the.
bends as mere things end. ?risk dttempft•
to snarl at the Colombian Gotommeat for smiling to alit
European Friarketit'ilatprodoce of their soil, to dischargo
with its proceeds the debt, of .the country, instead of
transmitting the two millions of dollars, which are an-
nually e,elned in Celombia. The water must be very
itcnoras, ifiarmalicioni, or he would have known that,
the stony: o coined is not the property of the' Govern-
ment,
but of .Brieate parties, and that the Government
has only k seignosage upOn.the,stamp of the bullion: but
the blimlholderti have a much' better mumtity for the re-
guhut payment of ;their dividends in this transictionot
tbOilloyernment,'Oran even if they bad money in their'phiiesoion to-biutaMit—for in:tlve filter case, the pit)lo.
Oght 1,341 )tilonsy the exportation of their coin ;..!
. . tsanesmemon of agriculturnkroaPcos to* for I
by ilbe Government at a fair remunerating price,
will be considered by all parties in the country beneficial
nOts general interests. The farmer in England pays his

rent by the sale of his crops at the market-town. The
Colombian Government is pursuing the same course, and
is entitled to adopt the same measure for the alleviation
of the people's burthen.

We insert the letter of our Correspondent Pinto-
Pi'rats, with sympathetic feelings of indignation and
regret ; but we must
.remind him, that the British Go-
yernment has not " tamely" looked on Don MIGUEL'S
crimes against the law of nations, humanity and British
honour. Surely, he does not forget Terceira ? Would
that' it could be effaced from our recollection, and the
British annals !

We shall postpone yet for some days the remarks which
it will be our duty to submit to our readers, on the subject
of the late WELLINGTON prosecutions at the Old
Bailey. Some of our contemporaries appear to see
pretty correctly, to what the passive submission of the
Press to these Ministerial inflictions must infallibly
lead ; but nut in one Journal do we perceive the
unequivocal exception taken the resolute and un-
stuttering declaration, that it will not submit quietly
to be so coerced and overborne. What is the value
of the Press, if it is to be confined to a slavish echo of
Ministerial opinions ? Where is the people's safeguard
from the re-establishment of a feudal despotism, if the
encroachments which an audacious Governnfent may
make by degrees upon public liberty are to be exempted
from public remonstrance and reprehension ? That a man
like Sir JAMES SCARLETT--who has signalised himself

by such indescribable derelictions—should be anxious to
bring back that condition of things, which would secure
him from being pelted with his own proper designations,
we can readily understand : his political guiltiness makes
it impossible that he can ever again—if he ever did—
sympathise with political purity. Like the devil, in
MILTON. "by his own merit raised to that bad
eminence," even his effrontery cowers before the
popular reproof. It is, therefore, perfectly natural
in him, to seek by every art and means in his
power, the extirpation of such an inconvenient en-
gine as the PRESS: since, so long as one limb of it
remains unmanacled, the sensitive ears of Sir JAMES
must perpetually encounter language calculated to sink
him in his own opinion—the most intolerable of all
humiliations. •
•

One contemporary of our's—the great satellite, par
excellence, and apologist .of military power—bas con-
trived, in his argument upon these trials, to interweave a
nauseous panegyric upon the government of his arbi-
trary patrons. He says—" the present Ministry have
less to fear from opinion (we conscientiously believe)
than almost any of their predecessors for the last
thirty years !" What sort of conscientiousness this

writer's can be, we shall not stop here to enquire :
but we will say, that if—on an occasion so stirring
as these prosecutions, when it behoves all those
who value the blessings of public opinion to make a
stand against the moat daring attempt at its suppres-
sion, which has been made since the days of Sir
VICARY Gums—we will say, that if on such an
occasion our contemporary feels it either credit-
able or safe to offer adulation, where it is a true
citizen's duty to signify resistance, perilous indeed is the
jeopardy, which his abjectness alike augments and en-
courages. We shall take up the subject, as it affects
the liberty of the people generally.

We have the Allgemeine Zeitung and the Nuremberg
Correspondent this day, to the 18th instant.—A commer-
cial letter, published in the last named paper, informstts
that the Russian Merchants are extending their traffic
to the Southern provinces, recently wrested from the
handspf the Ottoman Porte. Some of their Merchants
have already projected factories there. We. 'elect the
following passages :

ROME, Dec, e.
According to an article dated from Florence, and inserted in the
Aglfgeleirse Edisto& the Pope has interfered in favour ef the Ca-
tholics In the Ottoman Empire. We believe that we .tgai pod.,
did, contradict the new.. It is certain that his Holinesslua their
Situation greatly at bean. It is not to be expected that inahe Sul-
tan's want of money that the Christians wha, without acting pre-
viously like rebels, everywhere received their fellow-believers with
the most lively demonstrations of joy, will be treated, after the de- I
partore of the latter, with greater mildness than the Catholic- Apse-
nians; Wheat cruel persecution is well known, were treated .before
the distress was so great. ,We know how a Utak usually
helps himeelfwhen he is distressed for money. What may. we then
net apprehend when, to the usual motives desire. of revenge
added? . Soma shooks el an. eardtpuke, which however did no
damage, have been felt in the delegation of Urbhu. The Journal
'of this citreamounces that the Oevernmentintends to purchase the
concede* of Etruscan _antiquities (2,000 in number) belonging to
the Prince* Canino, which is now exhibited in the faahrivile
Palms: j Ag?ioni-thc Englishates pmejiers gl!ides, %sat.
' • • • ° -.AUGSBURG, Mt 17.
.An Ordnance of the King of &Cade of 29th Nev. Mates to
the introduesien,'lnto the circle of the,Rbine, oldie Custom-house
ielliktiOns and Tariff, agreed upon between the kingdoms of Ba-
;sails and 'W,urtemburg," and the principalitirs of. llobetiaollema,
alliel)atiliy of Brunswick is said to be among the States new asp ,
l'Oelsdat With the creini tit' Pirelli tat facilitating the teals be.
'twee* their Mbjecti, especially is eligisUlal did Weak et rest .
BERLIN;

tA., • •ci • •• l*.
„Yesterday (ainday) the.Chasy et the avangelical. ecanmankles
be this city,, ammosseed eo thsh rispettise congtexadans, the min-
piadesi of .an onteersid beak. 0I:/arsis. revised telth the moat aots-
Inese pre, and amitoyedlii Waheir of Etchodaitleal Affairs.
Its inttoduction. in ate Ain** 00 capital, wide:stag loot his.
the suLject• et a geniKal titho4 telpeetilde :for s want sentidy felt, h
• fined for the !hat Boptiay Pf,l!ehreary nest yeer.7..filsiowitt gab
Airig;;Dec..ia. . .•
.4 ,4„ •
i •:14,049.11V.P.5iti
. „italic:put reports are la cir.culailia *pieties the barb Abel—
altreetio of Sent.. Antoog other thins% it' is said that the mew i
toms Which have hitherto been fernsid:ltO tire:Paelta'of Ihlgraide,
.srul be pissed tinder the management of the chOmiliant.
The fortresses. of thsvia will indeed have Tarkith:prrisies'i bat
th6N which they have bad cousisltFt#llfof lthfeltaats,isd ar
atamire:of• families, are to be elehanse"l:. for regale tiosetistri.
;Net theism, however, do not Mem to phase the UAW leha.
bitaits el Sash, and many families el all classes as* preparing *
Males to Ram' sad Delpris.
Ammon from Adriammle of 10th New. my, that symposia(
the phi's have inanifestod themselves b that thy. •

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IT. PETERSBURGH, Dic. I.
71010 • commzsuaL LICITIS.

Oor merchants are now directing their attention to the provinces
lately acquired co the south of the Caacasos by the treaties with
Persia and the Ottoman Porte. The advantageous geographical
positions of those countries, will soon give importance to the trade
with Persia. Some of our merchants have already projected fac-
tories there. which will undoubtedly be established m soots as the
retorts of peace has led to petmassent tranquillity and order its
those countries.—Nose nburg Ciwreyssidetst. Dec. 17.

Somewhat of a ludicrous mistake occurred in the print-
ing of the 3d letter of MExiciortm—a correspondence
tto important, however, to permit of any error. It was
said " Brazilian diplomatists scribbled protests"—instead
of Basilian, in allusion to the BASIL of Figaro. The
Brazilians were indeed quite innocent of the injurious
restraint so partially laid on the belligerent rights of the
New States, against Cuba and Puerto Rico.

In support of our suggestion on Wednesday, that the
inhabitants of houses at the west end of the town should
be obliged to attend to the comfort of foot-passengers
by daily clearing the flags, we would recommend the
parish officers to 'supply some spades and brooms to the
indigent poor, to enable them to gain their livelihood
by rendering this service to gentlemen servants of great
establishments.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

SIR,—I have read a letter published in your Paper of
yesterday, and which was written in Madeira, at the
beginning of this very month. The perusal has afflicted
me with the deepest pain and shame. Is it possible, that
England should calmly permit the persecutions and con-
fiscations there described ? Did not the British Govern-
ment recognise Donna GLORIA as the lawful Sovereign
of Portugal, and all its dependencies ? Did not the
Government of England, in concert with other great
Powers of Europe, keep military hold of Portugal, till
Don Mro UEL arrived as Lieutenant of Donna GLORIA ?
Did not England, thus virtually impose his authority on
the Portuguese people, suspicious of his loyalty ? And,
on the other hand, by so doing, contract an obligation,
to en fo: ce his obedience to the Government of the Qu Eew ?

Don MIGUEL, however, became an usurper, and yet we
tamely look on, whilst he lawlessly proscribes fidelity, as a
crime, and mercilessly pursues, and punishes the subjects of
Donna G LORIA, dupes to our policy, and victims to their
oaths and duty ?—Great Duke ! Great Duke ! quamdits
abuteris patientid nostrd?
Dec. 25 PHILOPATRIS.

CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK.

This being Christmas day, it is kept as a close holiday, with the
exception of the Post-men who distribute the letters. This
morning two 'French mails have arrived, but we have no other an.
rivals of consequence; and by the above conveyance the private
letters from Lisbon state that some commotion took place at the
Marine Arsenal, owing to the workmen being destitute of pro-
visions : but disturbances of a more serious nature happened on the
Ist. Dec. and had it not been for prompt measures, it would have
had a serious result.—The Government are indebted to the work-
men 11 months pay, who are almost naked. Don Miguel was to
have tome to Lisbon on the morning of the 11th, when the streets
were crowded with these unfortunates, crying out for money to
buy them provisions. Don Miguel having received information of
what was passing in his capital, remained at Queluz, where he gave
an audience to some of the revolters, and distributed to them all
the money be had, promising them, at the same time, that they
should reeelVe their pay in a month if they would again retort to
their work in the Arsenal.

The Gaulle d Lessasusestates that several reports are In diet.
lido° of the polideal movements In the Tyrol. The Tyroksos
revolted in 1609 spinet Bavaria, wishing to be under the Govern.
meat of Austria.

The commercial letters from Constantinople state that the com-
merce there would have greatly improved, were it not for the high
charges for the importation of merchandise. Several cargoes of corn
were purchased from Odessa by the Turkish Government.
The Emperor of Austria has ordered that Venice shall be de-
clared a free port from the let January, 1830.
ignikemnamenuenome
RussiA.--dtussia displays a systematic desire and well
digested plan to extend her navigation and commerce to
every part of the globe, any way in contact with her al-
ready immense and still growing empire, of presenting
the least chance of an opening, however remote and dis-
tantly beneficial. Nor are these vast and gigantic pro-
' jects limited to the European seas alone, where the
ef-
fects of the battle of Navarino have yielded her such
golden opportunities to secure her future preponderance,
especially in the Black Sea and Mediterranean, which
every day develops themselves more alarmingly ; but she
now fiiels• her way. with slow and wary, but sure steps,
towards the New World. The Directors of the Russo-
American Company at Petersburgh have announced, in
the beginning of this month, to the shareholders, that
two-ships, belonging 'to the Association, had arrived in
the port of Ochotak during the presents season from the
Russian Colonies in America. The first, the Ochotsk,
importing from New Archangel, furs' to'the amount of
1,100,000 roubles. The other the Tchitchakoff, brought
furs from the Kurile Islands to the value of 400,000
roubles, The brig Raikal was expected in Kamtschatka,
belonging aISO to the Company, she having been de-
spatched from New Archangel in the month of May,
with a cargo Of salt. All the Russian establishments at
that end of the world were amply provided, and an tie-
pedition had been sent from Kodiak to the northward, for
the purpope of topogrephieal surveys in the interior of
461* fIL4n him; and t‘establiall a comsnerigal intercoidifee
with these unexplored • countries. Thar Russia acquires
in en directions- what a modern great conqueror so ar-
dently coveted—namely, ships, colonies, and commerce ;
and not satisfied with Russian officers gaining nautical
knowledge in England, as heretofore,. numbers have
been sent to the United States of America, where 'models,
Of nautical architecture, and vessels celebrated for their
velocity and other sailing qualities, are purchased for
Russian account at. high prices. Under these circim-
stances, the Government of this country aught to look
to the formidable progress of such a maritime rival with
a Corresponding -degree of vigilance.—Aforig Herald.
ItivearooL- Dec. 03.—We continue to .have a very
good demand fo'r meta and the saki to-day amount to
3,000 ban. • •
CIRENCESSEIII;IOIIC. 23.--The prise of a silver cup
was .gidned at- die 'Cattle Show, held at Court-y-BeUa
Farm, near Newport, on Thursday-last, by Vernon Dol
04. Beg. of 'Eyford; for the bast two-year old cart colt.
--lie frost has set in "so decidedly; and has afforded
such positive supplies of good thick ice, that during the
:test three days, waggons as weltas carts, laden with that
article, were to be seen' coming-in at ell parts of the
town from the mtburbsoirshareoseding to the Noblemen's
ind-othet: houses in • the strarea .(where there ars ice-
'w4l4 and to the lags patty.cooks. Judging from the
iaithease eapprieirditamour of . lbe shops have had, we
(of the uninitiated in encir,mettess).ehould be led to
believe that they have laid In at least a two or three years'
stock.