Star.
London, England, 1827-01-31 00:00:00

den hire been seat for t!.e removal. without any ex-,
option, of all the Portuguese rebels, who have re-
owed Spain, to a distance of sixty leaguts into the In-
terior. Thus all, or nearly all, the demands of Portugal
and her Ally are conceded; and though the dismissal of
Catimiatpc, Minister of Grace and Justice, may not
have been formally required, yet it seems to us highly
probable, since his Catholic Majesty is in so penitent
and yielding a mood, that hi will make this spontaneous
sacrifice on the altar of conciliatory principles. Had
father concessions, even that of proclaiming a Chatter,
similar to that of Portugal, been demanded, we verily
believe, that they would be granted rather than incur
the risks of a refusal. But upon this point the Cabinet
of Madrid may remain perfectly tranquil, because the
Britil Government is wholly incapable of any pteten-
sion,that would have an appearance of interference in
the domestic concerns of that or any other country. The
goesti in of a Constitution will therefore remain, as far
as England at least is concerned, a purely Spanish one,
'llia the Spaniards and their Monarch will be at full
liberty to settle between themselves. Our Ministers.
vihatever may be their wisher respecting the internal
situation of Spain, will of .course rest satisfied with
baling protected Portugal, and thus completely vindi-
cated British honour and good faith. It will not now
be denied that the protection and vindication are as per-
Feet aspossiblil and we may safely add that British in-
fluence newer assumed so controuling and at the same
time so beneficial a character. as it has upon the present
memorable occasion. •
The news from Portugal is even more cheering than
that we have just given respecting the conduct and dis-
position of the Spanish Government. Count VILLA
Fun, who has the chief command of the ConstituNional
troops, and who has played so distinguished and honour-
able a part in these troubles, has given the Coup de
grace to the rebels, of whom it may be now said, that
they did exist. On the Ilth, two days after the battle
*ith which our Readers were previously acquainted,
the Count made another general attack, the results of
which will be best described, when we say that the
rebellion appears to be cut up root and branch.
CHAVES, the rebel leader, had a hair's bseadth escape
on that memorable day, and in his eight was accom-
panied by only a small portion of his adherents, the
rest having thrown themselves upon the clemency of
the victor, in which they will not probably be disap-
pointed, if it be seen that they have acted from igno-
rance rather than perversity. The greater past of them,
we hope, tome under the former denomination, and
may be therefore considered as legitimate objects of
mercy ; but the Leaders ought to be inexorably
punished, for their crime is of the blackest dye ; and
to enter into any compromise with them, would be an
outrage upon humanity as well as justice, and an en-
couragement to rebellion. The battle which has restored
tranquillity to Portugal, and consolidated ber new insti•
unions, was fought within 30 milts of the frontiers; and
without wishing to detract from the merit of the conces-
sions made by the King of SPA lime suspect that they are
in a great measure a tribute to the courage and fidelity of
the adherents of the Portuguese Constitution: No doubt
the march of the British troops, which bad commenced
when the last accounts, which are of the 20th left Lis-
bon, has materially contributed to subdse the pro-
verbial pride and obstinacy of the Spanish• Court; and,
whatever may be the leading cause of its submissive
conduct, the fact itself is incontestable.

There is a bit of gossip in the ?tench Papers, which
we should have deemed wholly unworthy of noticulbad
not some of oar contemporaries commented upon it, as
if it were entitled to the highest credit. It is stated that
the departure of the Russian Ambassador for Constan-
tinople bad been delayed in consequence of Mr.
Calcium's speech on the subject of the Aff4irs of
Spain and Portugal, and that the Emperor NlcaoLas
has expressed his disapprobation of it in a still
more marked warner. With respect to the former
part of the statement, we can only say, that M. Macau-
nun passed through the Capital of Moldavia on the
22d of November, and that he consequently must have
left the Russian Capital before Mr. Secretary CA N tsiNes
Speech could have been known there, or even before it
was spoken!

We have also received Dutch Papers to the 27th, and
Haniburgh to the 24th, but neither of theni contain any
political intelligence of the slightest importance. There
is intelligence in the latter from St. Petersburgh to the
1% inst. but it mentions no fact of general interest,
beyond the establishment of an extraordinary post,
between that capital and Tiflis in Georgia, which is
to be dispatched twice a week, and which chews
the vigilance and activity with which the war with
Persia is to be met for the future. The winter continued
still very mild in Russia. In Hamburgh, on the con-
trary, it had set in with its usual rigour ; and on the
22.1 the Elbe was covered with ice as far as Neu:unities.

The Cow of Denmark has gone into mourning for
boar weeks, on account of the death of the Duke of YORK.

Letters were receired this day at the Colonial Office,
Downing•stteet, from Jamaica. That island, wicheur
other West India possessions, remained healthy and
batquil, at tire date of the letters.

The country papers are filled with accounts of the
411p1t513 and solemn manner in which the day of the Duke of
Yoga's obsequies was observed throughout the kingdom.
Yetterday morning Mr. Hutsralt. Mr. Lurriswnou,
and kir. Mums, the King's Messengers, staved in Downing-
ewer, with dispatches from Berlin, Vienna, Hanover, Brussels,
Pair, ion. Their dispatches were received by the Under Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, and afterwards forwarded to .ktr. Se-
(rotary Cammo, at Brighton.
It is highly honctvable to the family of Lord RA-
s b:sFORTII, that at this season of the year they are extending their
blrxunty to a great number of pooitnillvidials in their neighbourhood,
both tii the form of cichmg and money. .