Star.
London, England, 1829-08-21 00:00:00

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Colombian

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The Times is yet extremely reluctant, to part with his
dear friends in the French Ministry; and although he
receives—through the undoubted channels of his own
trusted correspondents on the spot—proofs upon proofs,
in continuous accumulation, of their unpopularity,
as well political as personal, he holds on in their
defence per fas atque nefas. He says that the
Ministry, " to show their impartiality and their regard
to existing institutions, have ordered the prosecu-
tion of an Ultra Journal"—that is, a Journal of their
own party : and he sees in this a great security for their
future good behaviour. Now the Apostolique, which is
the Journal prosecuted, is one of those injudicious
organs of the men who have arrived at power, which
even they themselves, for decency's sake, cannot publicly
acknowledge ; its venom, and its extreme inveteracy,
outrunning —not the malignity indeed, for that is
unsurpassable—but the prudence of its clandestine
patrons. To infer from a prosecution of this kind the
future liberality of a set of men, who owe their appoint-
ments to the united bigotry and terror of a King, who
never yet sincerely pardoned his brother for the Charter,
is as absurd as it would be to prognosticate a generous
line of foreign policy for this country, because the Age
might be officially prosecuted under the government of
the Noble Earl, and company. :Ls to the speech of M.
MA NG iw, the new Prefect of Police, it is only so much
wind against a long life of contrary experience.

We direct attention to a letter, contradicting the ca-
lumnies which have been spread by the Jamaica papers
against BOLIVAR. It is from an Anglo-Colombian of
high rank, and great intelligence, whose authority on
the matters which he discusses can be as little questioned
as can his attachment to his countrymen in that republic.
The articles which are the subject of his expostulation
obtained their insertion in our columns entirely through
inadvertence, and we should have contravened their asser-
tions ourselves to-day, had we not been superseded so
much better, by that equally able and authentic exposition.
We know, of our own knowledge, that the LIBERATOR
does not entertain views prejudicial to the liberties of
the State which he administers, and that he would re-
gard the diadem of Sovereignty—if all Colombia prof-
fered it to his acceptance to-morrow—as a stain, rather
than a gem upon his glory.

Lettere from Paris announce that M. de BOREL
Pe-
~.Ehc the Russian Envoy to the Court of Brazil, was
about to take his passage to Rio Janeiro. It is said that
M. de BOREL will be a great acquisition to the Emperor
Don PEDRO : he enjoys the confidence of the Russian
Emperor, and no one is better acquainted with the state
of Portugal. M. de BOREL was one of the Diploma-
tists who supported Sir EDWARD THORNTON, and M.
HYDE DE NEUVILLE, on the 30th of April, 1824, and
saved the kingdom to Don Jon x VI.
The Russian Cabinet has gained great credit for its
impartiality during the long political distractions in Por•
fugal, and the emigrants in this country emulously con-
trast that forbearance with the neutrality displayed by
England. We wish to hold the balance fairly, and
while we admit to the fullest extent the dishonourable po-
licy of our own Court, we cannot perceive that any
principle of an opposite nature has dictated the acqui-
escent apathy of Russia : she had neither the temptation
to interfere actively, that we had, nor the right ; to
say nothing of her geographical removal, and the inci-
dent of the Turkish war, which has been quite enough
for her to manage, without intermeddling between such
distant disputants. Let us watch what will be her con-
duct, when the settlement of a new Sovereignty, con-
fining upon her own dominion, comes to be more speci-
fically agitated. Russia—we can assure those, whom
very despair now converts into eulogists of her modera-
tion—is the last Power to deserve the praise of disinter-
estedness. When it is asserted, therefore, that she has
not sullied her high character by a departure from the
spirit of her declarations, it ought to be added that she
has pot had the opportunity to do so in the case of Por-
tugal, nor been tempted by a collision of political and

commercial interests. That the cause of Donna MARI.%
has been regarded with coldness by the European Cabi-
nets, because they felt that the cause of Constitutional
systems was interwoven with it, there is not a question :
and rather than witness in the triumph of that cause the
collateral prevalences which it would bring with it,
they have preferred to sacrifice their own principles of
legitimacy, as laid down by themselves at Troppau,
Laybach, and Verona. These remarks have been
extorted from us, by a paper which was put into our
hands yesterday, attributing unmerited honour to Russia
for her behaviour on the Portuguese dispute. They
must not be taken, for an instant, as designed in any way
to palliate the duplicity and injustice of the Noble Earl,
who recognised Donna MARIA nearly ten months ago,
and is now " paltering with her in a double sense," to
rec ncile conflicting interests : that is, to play the game
of the Jesuits and Ultras.

Our private correspondence from Lisbon confirms all
the previous accounts, hitherto received, of the political
and social confusion in that unhappy country: The
disposition to an insurrection against Don MIGUEL—if
he attempts to relax in the bloody course prescribed
by the apoetolical Directory—manifests itself more
and more. The old QUEEN has addressed an autograph
letter to MATTOS, Minister of Justice, and another
to VEIGA, the Intendant of Police, threatening
them in the most unmeasured language, if any order, or
mandate—having for its object to mitigate the prosecu-
tion of persons suspected to be liberal, or to thwart io say
manner their arrest by the Royalist volunteers—should
issue from their departments. She has instituted an
Order, with decorations, to reward and distinguish those
who best signalise themselves in her service : scuffles
will in future be frequent between the rival parties.—
Printed proclamations have already appeared, inviting the
Portuguese to proclaim Don SI:BASTI AN, a Spanish
Prince. The militia regiments are to be disarmed,
in order that the Ordenanzas—armed inhabitants—
may take the field en masse. BELFORT, and
PINTO Comio—the two Adjutants of Police—are
instructed by the Qi.,Exx to obey her immediate
orders, and they are to disregard those of the Superiors
in their respective departments, whenever. in any
matter, they may clash with her's. It is the opinion
of every one, at all acquainted with the actual pos-
ture of affairs, that CUESTA MONTALEGRE iS playing
a Spanish game, and that the occupation of Lisbon by
the BOURBONS is neither an improbable hypothesis, nor
a remote event. If, simultaneously with such an oc-
currence, the Russian Eagle shall be flapping his wing
over the towers of St. Sophia, the position of the twO
" most ancient allies" of England will present a strange
coincidence. For ourselves, we deem neither the one,
nor the other improbable ; especially now that Trebisond
is taken, and Lord ABERDEEN remains refractory.

The Prussian Stitte Gazette to the 14th instant is this
day received ; and affords us some additional particulars
of the rapid and triumphant progress of the Russians on
their march to the capital of Turkey. Having elsewhere
spoken on this subject to-day, comment here is unneces-
sary. The following are extracts from the Papers brought
by the Flanders Mail.