Star.
London, England, 1829-07-17 00:00:00

OUTRAGE ON BRITISH COMMERCE.

The Plymouth and Di ronport Weekly Journal of
the 16th instant, has the following observations on
the insults offered to our commerce and flag by the
Usurper of Portugal :—" In our last we briefly acquainted
our readers, on the authority of letters received by a gen-
tleman of Stonehouse, that, through the spirited inter-
ference of Lords Melville and Aberdeen, a compensation
to the amount of 3001. had been obtained for the owners
of the ship Lmach, for the illegal detention of that ves-
sel, on her homeward boimd voyage from India, by the
piratical cruisers of the hateful vampyre that now fattens
on the best blood of our ancient ally, Portugal. We are
willing to hail this newly awakened energy as the distant
dawning of a brighter day. But though the pecuniary
mulct extorted from the contemptible wretch who has
hitherto insulted us with impunity may satisfy the purse
of the owners of the Lomeli, fur the injury dune to their
property—what compensation can be given for the insults
offered to the feelings of an indignant nation, in the fe-
lonious violation of.the Consular seal affixed to the letter-
bag of the Ocean—the capture of the Lonach while na-
vigating under the British flag—the wanton degrada-
tion of that flag, by hauling it down, as though the Lo-
mach were a prize of war—and the daring outrage
offered to the rights, not merely of Britain, but of
every civilized nation, in the seizure, detention, and
ill-treatment of Mr. Stoddart, an unoffending passenger
from Brazil to England, in a Dutch vessel, merely on
supicion that he might be the bearer of dispatches from
Don Pedro to England, which the monster hoped to in-
timidate him into surrendering—as though the accident
which brought Mr. Stoddart (without any consent en his
part), within the polluted atmosphere of the despot, sub-
jected him to his controul, or made him answerable for
things done beyond the limits of his usurped authority?
Surely the mere fact of being brought within the waters
of the Tagus, in transitu, without any intention of re-
maining, cannot be held by any rational person to have
rendered Mr. Stoddart amenable to the laws of Portugal,
for any other acts than those done within their jurisdic-
tion. The minions of the tyrant might, with an equal
regard to rigid and to justice, have seized Mr. Studded
for acts done in Brazil, in the centre of the Atlantic; on
the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, or in the very heart of
London itself. We must confess, however, that notwith-
standing our sympathy for the sufferings of Mr. Stoddart
—notwithstanding our indignation at the insult offered to
our flag in the case of the Lonach—and the y v com-
mitted on the letter-bag of the Ocean—we view these pro-
ceedings more in anger than in sorrow; nay,we even rejoice
to see the tyrant thus recklessly hurrying on in the ca-
reer of his iniquities—spurning the suggestions of pile
dence—casting aside the mask of hypocrisy—and openly
displaying the turpitude of his deformities, the enormity
of his guilt, and the extent of his daring in the broad
light of day, assured that the measure of his wickedness
is so much the nearer its completion—the hour of fear-
ful retribution so much less remote. We are far from
being advocates for war,—nor do we see the slightest ne-
cessity for recurring to so desperate a course. Seated, like
his prototypes, the Neros, the Caligulas, and the Com-
moduses of the Roman empik, upon a rickety and hol-
low throne, propped up by a weak, a wicked, and a cow-
ardly faction, it only needs for those nations, which have
not a fellow-feeling for his crimes, to withdraw their pm-.
sent ambiguous acknowledgment of his illegitimate autho-
rity, and to manifest in an unequivocal manner their un-
mitigated detestation of his abominations ;—and this mis-
chievous puppet of a faction—this ape of regal authority,
no longer bolstered up by the hopes of one party, and
the misgivings of another, will soon fall from the eleva-
tion
he has disgraced, into the perdition he has deserved.
Let England, as she has been the most patient under in-
sult, be the foremost in spurning the amity of such a
wretch—and instead of countenancing his crimes, punish
his aggressions."

CORN—EXCHANGE, MAIM—LANK. Jusor 17.
Our market was rather lively this mornhig, having many country
buyers, and fine Wheat fully supported Monday's prices, owing to
the unsettled state of the weather, and the duty having advanced ;
the factors entered upwards of 140,000 quarters on Wednesday.
There was no Barley at market. Oats were dull sale, owing to
the magnitude of the supply.

ixruirAlsoss WNW MONDAY.

Wheat, English (qrs.) . 1,40 u Foreign .
Irish . ---- 0.4U1, Foreign
Foreign . . 11,800 English
Barley, English . . 250 Irish .
Irish . flour (sacks) . .
COAL MA It KET—Tatu DAL

. .10

. 5,5410

. 4.300
. . 5,050
3,050

HALF-FAIT Ong—There were but iew merchants at the Coal
Exchange to-day, and the supply of Sunderland and Newcastle
Coal was very limited, only 14 new *hips being at market, makings
total on the week's arrival of GO ships. Very little Maine's was
done. Number of ships arrived during the present moo* 377.
Best Wallsend C0a15...... 314. Od. s2a;
Other sorts • fl.. lid.
Shins at Merles-23.
FISH HARDEST, BILLINSOATE--Tots Homo&
There was bat a moderate *apply of the sariooteorts of Fisk at
IllHisalste this morning; the better kind met with brbk sale
Prime Salmon Is. 6d. per lb. Gilt, 10d. prime large Ttufbot, lbs.
to Si.. small ditto, as. ad. to 10s. Large Lohsten. Sae. per score,
small ditto, 10s. Crabs, Is. 6d. to 3s. each. Large Bobs, Is. per
three pair, small ditto, lb. Fine Whitinp, 71. 641, per IS. 1164 deck,
10s. to 115. pet dozen.