Star.
London, England, 1829-10-21 00:00:00

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY,
PRICE OF STOCKS
Bank Stock ex. div. 2131 141 India Bonds 63 4
5 per Cent. Iced. ex. div. 891 90 South Sea Stock
5 per Ct. Cons. 901 3 Old Annuities,
51 per Ct. 1818, ex. div. 981 9 £lOOO Exckeq. Bills, (2d.) 74 5
51 per Cent. ited.ex.div. 981 9 £5OO Ditto 74 5
4 per Ct. 1031 / £lOO and £2OO Ditto 74 5
4pr Ct. 1826, ex div. 104 ; k Bank for Acct.
Long Ann. ex.div.l9 13-16ths India for Acct.
lulls Stock i Consols for Acct. 901 91 90;
FOREIGN FONDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Brazil Bonds, spr Ct. 66 6 / Do. Acct. 16 15;
Do. Acct. 65/ 61 1 Do. Bds. 1825, 6 prCt.
Colour. Eds. 6 per Ct. Do Acct. 191
Ditto Acct. 191 Port. &Is. 5 p. Ct.
li‘l4. 3 p. Ct. 73 Ditto Acct. 4
Ditto Acct. 731 Fr. Rts, 5 per Ct. 107L25c.
Mexican I3ds. 3 per Cent. Exchange 251. 65c.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO ,►'CL,,CK.

OCTOBER 21.
AT TWO O'CLOCK.

MAZE. ?AID. PIM MAZE.
Brasilia , Imp. (iss. .E 5 pm) 35 20 76
Do. National 25 Ti 10i 11
Colombian (iss. at ,E 5 pm.) 100 55 al
Marine AUianee 100 5 51
Guardian Fire Ass. 100 20 24

Dispatches were this morning received at the Colonial
Office from Lieut. General the Hon. Sir G. L. COLE,
Governor at the Cape of Good Hope ; Lieut. General Sir
C. CoLv LE, Governor of the Mauritius; Lieut.-Gen.
Sir EDWARD BARNES, Governor of Ceylon; and from
Lieut.-Colonel ARTHUR, Lieutenant-Governor of Van
Diemen's Land.

The Manifesto of NICHOLAS, on the termination o
the war with Turkey, will be found in another column.
After thanking DIVINE PROVIDENCE for bringing
about the treaty of Adrianople, he attests the whole
world that he only went to war from necessity. He
then thanks his " faithful subjects" for the eager tribute
of their property which they laid.at his feet, in order to
enable him to continue his operations—doubtless, taking
the hint of this tribute from sundry suggesting Ukases—
and passes to the eulogy of his " intrepid warriors."
On this theme the Manifesto dwells with a not unnatural
complacency. They had triumphed over nature, not
less signally than over the enemy ; the chain of the
Sanganlouck was no barrier to their advances—even the
Balkan bowed his summit before them—and they stopped
" only at the very gates of Constantinople." Formida-
ble to the enemy alone, they were all mildness to the
unoffending population.
No doubt, it must be very gratifying to NICHOLAS,
to have discovered that the Balkan is such a bugbear as
it is. At the crossing of the Prnth, his armies no more
contemplated to make that passage, than they did
to scale the Andes : but ce n'est que le premier
pit's—and the accommodating supineness of England in-
viting them from experiment to experiment—they
finished, in sensu literati, with what bays would call a
steeple-hunt to Constantinople! Capital fun it has been
for them; and now they knOw that it is of such easy
practice—though they have gone home to save appear-
ances, and prevent an inconvenient alarm—they will re-
turn to the sport with confidence.

Not to digress, however, long from the Manifesto—
NicitoLas, in the next paragraph, renews his dis-
claimer of ambitious views, and his professions of mode-
ration. " The commanders of our armies"—says the
Atitocmt—" after every victory, hastened by our orders
to offer it [the Porte] peace and friendship. Neverthe-
less, our efforts were always fruitless. It was not till
he saw our standards displayed not far from his ca
pital that the SULTAN was at length sensible, from
our conduct, that our object was not to overturn his
throne but to obtain the execution of the Treaties.
Being then convinced of the purity of our intentions,
he held out his hand to receive that peace which
had been so often proposed to him." In this last
sentence there is an admirable vein of humour.
After being thrashed every step of the road
from Shumla nearly to the seraglio—finding him-
self defeated beyond hope of reparation, and his
empire prostrate before the victor—the despairing SUL-
TAN perceives all at once, that the " PA DISH A of all
the Russias" only came so far to shake hands with him !
It was not to the imminent danger which threatened his
palace and city—not to any fear of the bowstring from
some rebellious Chief, or aqsaqsination by popular fury—
but to his conviction of the Czaa's " pure intentions "
that MAUSIOUII yielded at last. Be that as it may, the
important fact is established, not only that MA u :stoup
has yielded—but that he has yielded to Russia.
The Manifesto then begins its fearful enumeration of
happy and prosperous results to Russia. " The blood of
our warriors"—it continues—" is redeemed by numerous
advantages. The passage of the Dardanelles and the
Bosphorus is henceforward free and open to the com-
merce of all the nations in the world. The security of
our frontiers, especially on• the Asiatic side; is for ever
guaranteed by the incorporation with the empire of the
fortresses of Anapa, Poti, Akhaltzik, Atizkour, and Ak-
halkalaki. Our preceding Treaties with the Porte are
confirmed by it, and re-established in all their force.
Just-indemnities are secured for the expenses of the war,
and the individual losses experienced by our subjects."
In reference to this catalogue of conquered advantages,
many of which .are definite and positive, while others—
under the phraseology of JUST INDEMNITIES—are
tremendously insinuated, the universal remark which
cannot fail to suggest itself will be, that Russia ought
never to have had it in her power to hold such language.
The passage of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus—
which the Manifesto so imperially regulates—has been eP
all times in the keeping of the Turk. It had become his
imprescriptible privilege, by the acquiescence of the sur-
rounding States—not for any love which they bore the
Crescent-=but because that Power was its recognised and

convenient, as it was its natural, depositary. In the hands
of any Extra-Byzantine Sovereign, it would have
been an object of just jealousy and apprehension—not
merely from the inexpedient preponderance which it
would give such Potentate in the commerce of the world—
but from the still more inexpedient capabilities with
which it would invest him, to wrong or disturb the king-
doms. The general consent, therefore, founded on con-
siderations for the general advantage, vested that right
in the Ottoman: and his retention of that right has con-
stituted—ever since—the criterion of his political inde-
pendence. He was great by nothing so much as by his
custody of those gates, and the necessity in which Europe
was, to maintain for him that custody undisputed. A con-
quest, which could not have been achieved but for the
spell-bound apathy with which it was contemplated by
the Western States, has now transferred this custody to
Russia : and along with it, all those undue and danger-
ous preponderances, which—whether in commerce or
aggressive operations—nothing short of the insanest policy
both in France and England, ought ever to induce those
Powers to confirm in her possession. What have we to
do with disclaimers of meditated aggrandisement, and the
protestations of forbearing power ? In spite of the
" disclaimers," do not we see aggrandizements ac-
cede : in spite of the " protestations," territorial
extensions widen on every side the bounda-
ries of " forbearance ?" It is sufficient for us to
know that these annexations rather intoxicate—than

assuage—conquest; that these preponderances capsize
the political balance—overturn the independence—and
compromise the general safety of the nations. Not
now, perhaps, nor in five years—possibly not even in
ten—may we witness on the part of this encroach-
ing Power the deliberate occupation of one of the great
continental thrones, and a kingdom extinguished from
the world : but that our acquiescence in the right as-
sumed by Russia relative to the Bosphori and the Dar-
danelles, must lead infallibly to these ingulphments, it
would be an insult to the commonest understanding
to deny.
The formal recognition of the political existence of
Greece by the Sublime Porte, is an announcement of more
agreeable interest, and the sole announcement which
claims our sympathy throughout the whole Manifesto.
It is artfully silent on the amount of the stipulated In-
demnities, and finishes—as it began—by dragging in
DiviNE PROVIDENCE, as particeps facinoris in this
ever memorable expedition.

Although our Lisbon Correspondent merely alludes to
the recognition by FERDIN AN D of the Portuguese
Usurper as a report, we ought not to be surprised at the
sympathy which prevails between such kindred spirits.
While the *'hole world is by this time sufficiently ac-
quainted with the qualities and crimes of 111tovEL, it
should not forget either the facility with which his friend
FERDINAND became a perjurer to the Constitution which
he had sworn to maintain, or the series of atrocities by
which his power has since been supported. Whether the
rumour be true or not, we do not apprehend the example of
Spain will be followed by any Cabinet of Europe. With
regard to ourselves, we cannot imagine that the Duke of
WELLINGTON has any serious intention of recognizing
an individual whose monstrous usurpation, and notorious
incapacity for government, are now so universally ad-
mitted by the whole civilized world. On the contrary,
we have reason to know that the total ruin of our for-
merly lucrative commerce with Portugal, the insults to
our flag, and—above all—the wanton seizure of British
property in violation of common honesty, have at
length roused the attention of Government; and
that Captain GORDON, the brother of Lord ABER-
DEEN, is about to sail in the Briton to ascertain
personally the accuracy of those details, so disgraceful to
the Usurper's miscalled Government, and so injurious to
England, which the Noble Earl has hitherto persisted to
disbelieve. We hope and trust a favourable breeze may
soon bear the gallant Captain to his destination ; con-
vinced as we are that that spirited and intelligent Officer
will soon remove the film, which continues to obscure the
vision of our Foreign Secretary. While we congratulate
the Noble Earl on a determination which cannot fail to be
productive of important consequences,we should have been
still more gratified had he decided on sending back the
Consuls who have been so unjustly and injudiciously with-
drawn, at a time when their presence was so indispensable
in every point of view. We sincerely hope that the
Noble Earl will take these matters into his early and dis-
passionate consideration. A personal knowledge of the
serious injuries arising to commerce and individuals from
the absence of our Consuls, would justify even much
sharper remonstrances—but we forbear them now.
We understand that the Admiralty have it in contem-
plation to adopt a very ingenious contrivance, suggested
by Captain Joni; LI nov, of the Navy, and by which
ships at sea may repair accidents occurring to their rud-
ders without the necessity of going into port. Hav-
ing heard that there is a ship constructing in the river
on the gallant officer's plan, we shall take an early oppor-
tunity of giving a more minute account of his important
invention, for the information of our nautical readers.

Files of the Colonial Times from Vs,n Diemen's Land
to the Ist of June, Hobart Town papers to the let of June,
Calcutta to the 25th of May, Cape of Good Hope to the
15th of August, and the Gaceta Mercantil of Buenos
Ayres to the 25th July, are received at the New South
American Coffee-house.

From the Gaceta Mercantil :—The following is 'a
note addressed by Admiral Grevel, on assuming the com-
mand of the French naval forces on this station, to the.
Commodore of the French squadron in the River Plate:
—" Do not fail again to recommend to our countrymen,
tranquillity to follow their employment, and not to take
any part in the political concerns of the country, de-
claring to the King's subjects, who despise these coun-
sels, that, by the act alone, they will lose the protection
of his Majesty's flag. Yon can, on the other hand,
assure those who conform to this advice, that they may
rely on the most prompt and efficacious protection in case
(which GOD avert) it becomes necessary for their secu-
rity. The orders communicated to our marine forces are
positive."

We have Hambwgh Papers this day, which are in-
teresting in a commercial point of view. The followinz
are extracts :

HAMBURGH. OCT. 16.

Bonen Halle, Four &Clock.

Wamke.—The supply continues to be small from the Upper and
Lower Elbe, but is equal to the demand. Towards the beginning
of the week a few parcels of best quality were bought at reduced
prices for the French market, but within the last few days there
have been no purchasers. Our own consumers buy only as much
as they want for present use. Rye has also been less in demand,
and sales are to be effected only at reduced prices.
A few parcels of Barley have been taken. to be sent to England.
Our own consumers are shy in buying either this or any other kind
of grain. During the first nine days of October 48 cargoes of corn
passed through the Sound; 15 were bound for British and 17 fur
Dutch ports.

Wheat—Dantzie
Pomeranian .. 105 115
Anhalc White
Ditto Red .. 110 120
Danish . 80 95
Petersburgh and Riga . 100 105
Rye—Dant zie - 68
Barley—Magdeburg
Anlaalt - 68
Ditto, New
Oats—i leeklenburgh
Malt—Pomeranian
Rapeseed—Holstein l5O 160

Funds are to-day less in demand, and a shade lower than o:i
Tuesday.
English Danish Loan, 3 per cent 69;
English Russian Loan .. • 991
Hamburg Ditto • • 941
Polish Bands .
Austrian Bank Shares .. 1209
Ditto Metalliques ....
—Hanks's?' Papers, Oct. 16.
ST. PETERSBURGH, Ocr. 7.

On the 4th there were solemn thanksgivings to the &MHOS of
ALL GOOD for the series of brilliant successes of the Russian armies
during the late war with the Porte, now happily terminated by a
glorious peace. At ten in the morning twenty-six battalions of
infantry, twenty.nine squadrons of cavalry, and thirty-two pieces
of cannon, were drawn up in columns in the Champ du Mars. Ge-
neral Dimidow I. commanded all the troops. When the Emperor
appeared on horseback, accompanied by his son and a numerous
suite, and rode along the lines, he was saluted by all the troops with
loud acclamations the bands playing the popular air of " GOD
bless the Emperor." The procession of the Cross, which with
the singers had proceeded in solemn pomp from the Casan Cathedral
to the church of the Transfiguration, in which the trophies of the last
campaign are preserved, went from thence after mass was performed
to the Clamp du Macomber. Divine Service was performed in pre-
sence of the Curt, the Chief Officers of State, and the Diplo-
matic body. The trumpet gave the signal for prayer, and all the
troops kneeled with bate heads. When the hymn, "We thank
thee Gon" was performed, a salute was fired by the fortress, and
the eight yachts which lay at anchor on both sides of the Great
Bridge over the Neva, and had displayed all their colours. In
conclusion, all the troops defiled before his Majesty. All the
streets and windows, and even the roofs of the houses were filled
with spectators; though the weather was rainy, towards the
end of the ceremony the sun shone bright. All the ships in the
Neva hoisted their colours, and the city was illuminated in the
evening.

By an order of the day of the 4th. His Majesty has conferred
additional honors on many of the Generals employed in the late
campaign. Counts Diebiuch and Paskewiuith are rai,ed to the
dignity of Field Marshals. The first army stationed in Lithuania.
Poland. Ste. will be organised in a quite different manner ; six
Generals of the second army are to be Commanders of corps,
and 17 Major-Generals to be Lieut.-Generals in the first army ;
the six Generals, are, Counts Palen, I and 2 ; Generals Kras-
sowsky, 1, Sawoyni, 1. Roth, 1, and Rudiger, t.

General Nesselrode, the Vice-Chancellor, and Count Woronzow,
Governor of New Russia, are made Knights of St. Andrew, and
General Canain and the Minister of Finance are raked to the dig-
nity of Counts. Up to the 4th of Oct. 1,397 ships arrived at
Cronstadt ; sailed 1.125.
HAMBURG, 15th OCT.

His Majesty the King of Sweden was attacked on the 7th by a
violent ibtertnitting fever; but on the 9th, when the post left, he
was considered to be better.

General Francisco de Paula Santander has arrived here on board
the Maria, from Laguira and Puerto Cabello. He is accom-
panied by his nephew, and will most likely go to Paris with
other passengers.—Harnburth Papers, 161 k Oct.

=commas ON LONDON.
HADMIDOW, OCT. 16.-13 101 ; two months, 13 9}.
Payaasauttais, Ocr. 6.-10 21-32.
StoccooLm, Ocr. 9.—Ninety days, 11 31.
Lamm, OCT. 12.—Three months, 6 16}
Balsam, Ocr. 13.—Three months, 6 26i.
Bassunt, OCT. 13.—Two months, 611.

CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The Hambro steamer has just arrived, by which we have re-
ceived the Hartsbro Reporter of the 16th Oct. which states than the
supply of Wheat continues to be small from the Upper as weU as
from the Lower F.lbe, but fully equal to the demand : the begin-
ning of the week a few parcels of best quality were bought at
reduced prices for the French market. During the first nine days
of October 48 cargoes of corn passed through the sound. The
funds were ou the 16th less in demand, and must be quoted a
shade lower than on Tuesday. In Paris 13,00 W. sterling Anglo
Danish Bonds have been stolen, and the public have been warned
against puchasing them. Exchange on London, at two months
13 91 ; at sight, 13 101.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 901 for the account, and
901 e for money, opened at the same price; since which the market
has become very stiff, a►d Consols have improved to 901, and at
present may be quoted-901/ for account, and 901/ for money,
with a good deal of business transacting.
CITY. HALF-PAST ONE.

Some of our Evening Contemporaries have been amusing the
public for several days put with reports in their French anklets
that the cause of the improvement of oar Consols was owing to
attempts making on the Continent to get up the Foreign Funds.
They must have been imposed upon, or badly informed. The real
cause of the continual improvement is, and credited by the well.
informed, that Government have it in cootensplarion to pay *Eche
Four per Cents. as well as the Three and a Half per Cents. era-
sting a New Stock of Two and a Half per Cent. by which
financial operation there will be a saving to the public of seven or
eight millions sterling, should this plan be adopted—it will cause
another great improvement in the funds. No doubt this grand
scheme has got vent in the Stock Marker, and has given the Bears a
fever. Consols has again improved in the course of the morning
per cent. In the early part of the day they were at 9011, and may
be quoted at present at 91 for the account, and foe money 90#
buyers, with considerable business doing.
We have numerous arrivals this morning from the
East Indies.
The El Timnpo of the 23d July makes some remarks
upon the foregoing, concluding thus :--" 'Who knows
whether M. Grevel, by prompt and efficacious protection,
may not understand what Viscount Venencourt under-
stood ? This affair is yet pending. The Government of
Buenos Ayres has had recourse to that of his Most Ca-
tholic Majesty for redress. Some time must pass before
it will be possible to receive an answer • and, notwith-
standing another French naval officer already threatens
us, our Journals admit the insult without saying a single
ord ."

[WELLINGTON AND POLIGNAC-
POLIGNAC AND WELLINGTON.]

Friends Wellington and Polignac
Ride rough-shod on the people's back ;
But look that you hold tightly on.
Friends Polignac and Wellington :
Or you may find the restive hack
Throw Wellington and Polignac.
Metternich'. day is nearly done,
Friends Polignac and Wellington ;
And Fate begins to frown full black,
On Wellington and Polignac ;
And left to shame when he is gone,
Friends Polignac and Wellington—
How will you 'scope from dire attack,
Friends Wellington and Poliguac?
The nations hail you with a groan,
Friends Polignac and Wellington—
And black remorse prepares his rack
Fitt Wellington and Polignac ;
Fall—fall, you must, and every one
Curse Polignac and Wellington.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
LISBON, Ocsossa 3.

As fast as the banditti increase in the provinces, we
are, as belongs to a capital, improving in robbery. A
short time since, some men who had lived in respectabi-
lity took a vacant wine-store at the back of the shop of
an eminent goldsmith in the street of the same name,
where was deposited much wealth in the precious me-
tals, of which the new inmates wore aware. They com-
menced their operation by boring the wall, which was
carried on several nights, and was progressively over-
heard by a gentleman on the first floor, who at last quitted
his apartment in the night, called the police, and had a
portion of the delinquents arrested just as they had nearly
completed their object!
Persons in Royalist uniforms constantly commit rob-
beries in the suburbs with impunity, and at length it has
come to the streets, notwithstanding the strong police
guards, so that no person is safe after nine o'clock.
The Briton frigate sailed yesterday, taking our Consul
on board. He was saluted with the usual number of guns.

Every account from the provinces is truly dreadful :
they depict an approach to the utmost state of barbarism,
and nothing less.
Let a Government be absolute, be ever so tyrannical,
while it retains an iota of civilization, it still enables the
peasant and the minor trader to live by their labours, that
the proprietor may produce revenue to the State :
Luke's iron crown, er Damien's bed of steel,
To men remote from power, but rarely known,
Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own !
Vastly different is it here—no principle of government is
observed, but annihilation of all the useful subjects of the
country; no consideration of its being ploughed, sown,
planted, or reaped: but that all the useful hands shall
be destroyed, and nothing but friars and banditti remain !
This is a fact capable of the most positive demonstration.
English printed calicoes and woollen goods will con-
tinue to be received in Lisbon for a time, by favour of the
women. Douro wine will also continue to keep Porto
alive a little longer. Some bad cork will continue to be
shipped from Faro, but nothing more. If the present
regime goes on, all will become a blank. The merchants
may perhaps laugh at this, but it will be ultimately a
convulsive laugh.
The clothing manufactures of England will continue to
the last, so long as the men and women of Lisbon and
Porto can afford to wear good English coats and pretty
cotton gowns, at a reasonable rate ; but all this must
ultimately cease.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND HIS
FOREIGN POLICY.
The leading article in the Times of Friday last, con-
tains the case of the English Government in the Turkish
question; it assumes to emanate from authority, and
evidently does so. The defence it contains rests upon
the impolicy of England acting in the question without
the concurrence of France, and the failure in obtaining
this concurrence is imputed to M. Pozzo DI Bouoo.
The previous position is probably well founded, the im-
putation is calculated to mislead: what deprived England
of the concurrence of France ? First, her wavering and
timid policy, which offered no fixed line of conduct, no
solid support ; next, her tergiversation in the Greek
question, shewn by her repudiating the day of Navarino,
and by the friendly tone taken towards Turkey in the
King's speech after that action. France could not but
feel that the Duke of WELLINGTON had been playing
her false in the question of Greece during the whole of
his administration. It is therefore the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON and not M. Pozzo DI BonGo, who has
alienated her from England, and forced her to look with
complacency upon the triumphs of Russia. The Times
says well that this question in the East could only be
dealt 'with in concurrence with France, and by losing
that concurrence, the Duke of WELLINGTON has com-
mitted a vital error, and given evidence of the greatest
incapacity. But this is not all, his conduct in Portugal
&hewed at once to Russia, that he might be slighted and
insulted with impunity, and to France that his policy
was directed by a blind Austrian hatred to representative
systems, to which, national obligation, interest, and
honour, were equally to be sacrificed. Could France,
holding firm to her constitutional institutions, safely
coalesce with their sworn enemy ? The Minister he has
since inflicted upon her proves her calculation to have
been just, while the subsequent inability of M. DE
POLMNAC to assist the man who placed him where he
is, shews the danger of councils where will is mistaken
for capacity. The errors of the Duke of WELLINGTON
have not stopped even here, for not content with aliena-
ting France, he encouraged the resistance of Turkey.
First, before he was called to his present office, by under-
hand communications through a tool of his, since named
by him to an embassy for equally honourable objects.
Next, by the King's Speech already alluded to ; and,
lastly, by sending ck an Ambassador to Constantinople
without previous concession from the Sultan. In the
mean time, his underhand assurances have never ceased,
so that it is doubtful whether he has behaved worse to the
Greeks, whom he meant to betray, or to the Sultan,
whom he led on to his ruin, and has not dared to support.
He has placed England in the singular position of being
neither loved, feared, respected, nor depended upon by
any one power in Europe. .There is a corollary to the
article in the Times (now a Government Paper) couched
in the most unbecoming language towards Russia, for
having enforced the execution of a Protocol, to which
Great Britain was a party : can there be a clearer proof
that it was never intended to be executed at all ? Men
do not repine at their objects being carried without an
effort of their own. Yet this is the substance of the
complaint made by the Times against Russia. Any
amelioration in conduct is from these men hopeless, but
they might at least consider that there is no sign of weak-
ness like ill language. • It has been their characteristic
• throughout this affair, to offend those whom they did
not dare to withstand: hence they have accumulated upon
themselves the conflicting disadvantages which attend
falseness in friendship, faintness in hostility, and insult
and offence in submission.

THE LAST OF THE GOTHS,

OR THE
DICTATOR'S LEVEE.

Continued from the STAR of yesterday.
No. 11.
&ear, as before.
GOTH That Ireland is a hump upon our hacks—a fear-
tumour not to be discussed. Then let it hang and grow :
the Devil cure it!
Enter SkeRRTA
SICT Y :—Captain Ma scant!
GOTH :—What wants the Slave with us ?
SECTT :—He bears from Mrs. a letter fur my Lord.
Guru : —A charming woman—straight admit the Captain.
Enter Captain MARCUM.
A stout sun-burnt bilious looking gentleman—his visage seamed
with scars, and ploughed by wrinkles. His hair " a sa-
ble silvered," and coat of thread-bare half-pay com-
plexion.
GOTS :—(lmperlously) What do you want?
Can :—Promotion.
GOTH :—Buy it.
Carr :—" I have not now one ducat in the world."
GOTH :—A pretty fellow for a so:ditr.
Can :—The King's bread I have eaten thirty years.
Gorn :—Be thankful to him then.
Carr :—I bear full twenty honourable wounds.
Gore :—They'll serve to talk 'about on winter nights.
Carr :—ln ludia I have done the State some service; in Spain, in
Portugal, and Flanders too.
GOTH :—Why, so have I—and am full well content. From me
take good example.
Cart :—I am a proved tactician—possess science.
Govt;—lle silent, Sir. Out grain of lucky chance—is worth it
all. What interest have you had to push you on 7
CART None.
Ginn :—(Shrinking back, putting his hands instinctively to his
pockets) Then pray who are you, Sir ?
Can :—A man of humble birth.
Goals :—( With disgust, as if treading on a toad) And wear an
Epaulette!—Why, air, you have intruded on a service
for high birth set aside ; Nay, even without that second
title fortune. Tactic and science are best left to Ser-
geants. 'Tis men of fashion only I promote,—fellows
all Syllabub and Macabaw—such as frequent the Clubs
about St. James's.
Can :—But can such men lead soldiers?
Gone :—And if they can't, they'll follow. (aside.) Many a glori-
ous name has thus been made. (Aloud.) Be brief, Sir !
for I may'nt not be importuned. In peace, when camps are
bloodless and fine dress maketh the soldier, fashion for
each commission offers up a score of Candidates. It
makes the service brilliant, and I love the power of pa-
tronage.
Can :—But should a war soon—
Gore :—(Starting) Hah Sir—are you there? (Checking him-
himself and disguising his alarm) The army as I found
it, served my turn. What it may prove with my sue.
cessor, Sir, is no affair of mine.—You say you want pro-
motion—there's a way ..
Carr :—Name it, my Lord ! I've sighed for it so long that any
way were clean and most acceptable.
Govt j—(Mysteriously empbatical.) Did you e'er read of
Glenco 7
Carr :—(Opening his eyes) Yea ! my Lord.
GOTH :—( In a wheedling tone, offering a pinch of snuff) What
think you of the heroes that served there?
Cart :—They stood not upon straws.
Gore :—Would you ?
CANT t—Hens-1 wish promotion.
Gant :—My worthy friend (looking round) are you a Whig ?
Cart :—What's that?
GOTH :—What's that ! (Scratches his head) Why, a Conspirator
—an enemy to GOD, to Man, and Ms—Say, do you love
the people?
Can :—I hate all that is civil.
Gout :—Enlightened gentleman ! How stand you to the Church?
Can :—I only know the Tavern.
Gore :—A liberal mind! You take an interest, Sir, in State af-
fairs? stickle on rights?
Can :-1 stickle only on my rights to rise—confining all my inter-
est to the barrack.
Gout :—Good. If I said • firs' and paid you—d'ye mind—
would you think twice ?
Carr :—(Suddenly catching a ray of something) I understand—l
never had a will.
GOTH :—Bravo! Shake hands. You shall be Major in our New
Police.
Can :—A Major ! Oh! my Lord ! (kneeling)
Gam :—Aye—Major, Sir —if staunch and true, soon more.
Carr :—Oh—Oh !
Gory :—(Gives his hand, which the Captain kisses) You may
retire. Who waits there? Conduct out Major MAD.-

cum.
Carr :—(Springing almost to the ceiling) Delightful sound . I
Mqjor blaacums ! A Major—even a Major—after all,
to hold that rank, I'd join OLn Nick's battalions.
Erg in transport.