Star.
London, England, 1829-11-30 00:00:00

We should be wanting in our public duty to a degree
little short of criminal, if we were to pass over altogether
the flagrant behaviour of a Magistrate—the Chairman

of the Westminster

we find variously

noticed in various papers. The facts are, shortly,
these : John Harris, young lad about fourteen years
of age—having established his character by long pre-
vious bad habits and associations, as an incorrigible
thief—was sentenced, for stealing some silk hand-
kerchiefs, to seven years transportation. On receiving
eentence, the audacious young delinquent replied—" I
'ball then be just of age ;" and as the gaoler was
'removing him from the the dock, he called out to the
Presiding Magistrate—" I hope •you will stick there
till I come back." The Chairman ordered hint back,
and sentenced him to be transported for the term of
his natural lift I
be the Morning Chronicle of Saturday, there were
• some remarks ink this case which did great honour to the
writer, and in the Morning Journal of to-day there
is a notice of it with whicb we as cordially coin-
cide. * But the degraded slave in the Courier
goes out of his path, to 'find excuses for—or rather to jus-
tify—this unconstitutioiel arrogation of the Magistrate :
and affords ass more proof if one more proof were want-
ing, of hit despicable and iikrvile spirit. It is unneces-
sary to quote the crawler : but with regard to this QUIZ-
KAI!, we must say that language is too weak to furnish
the epithets of reprobation, with which we would mark
such undignified and violent intuitios. The man who
carries with him. In the judgente+seet en nsgosensable,
and palmate temper, sellim—dillboatturs that sat std
• ought to be removed from It, is mask 611101Cille its high •
and *pada femitlea *.• 744;64if dig thie eeMeielve
end extraordinary * 4 lisAwtmentei Proper
quartet, walla titbit** otthe -Igegislrsieriel oilesdet
mill be firi/slitk Stria Ott of 403imosission.citcht.
Petit*.

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

Zealous saws are for the maintenance of Constitutional
Freedom,. and appreciating highly—in common with alt
liberil minds--the advocacy of native talent in every quarter
where that
.glorious principle has bad to contend with
the jealousies, the arrogant pretensions, and malignant
wantonness, of Absolute Power,—we felt that we were
but doing an act of the simplest justice, when in the STA a
of October 29, we paid the well-merited tribute of our
admiration to the talents and patriotism of the enlightened
Portuguese who, having abandoned that ill-fated king-
dom, whose subjection to an infanious Tyrant—a per-
fidious traitor, and a most unnatural Usurper, they could
no longer successfully oppose, or calmly contemplate in
its atrocious consummation soughtan asylum in this land
of boasted liberty—and have honourably devoted their
leisure to the duty of advocating their country's claims
to the sympathy of mankind, upholding the cause of Con-
stitutional Liberty, and asserting that sacred principle,
which must, sooner or later, hurl from the guilty eminence
of a usurped throne, that scourge of Portugal—that idol
of the Apostolical faction—that blood-stained persecutor
of the people—that disgrace to kings—the Infant Don
MIGUEL. To justify the high opinion which we have
uniformly entertained and expressed csf the abilities, inte-
grity, and zeal, as well as the intimate knowledge of
European politics, which have been so conspicuously dis-
played in the literary labours of these devoted exiles—.
for devoted they have proved themselves, by the many
sacrifices they have made to the cause of legitimacy, of
truth, and honour,—we now present to our readers an
article from the " Chaveco," a -Portuguese journal, which
claims particular notice for the political sagacity and skill
with which the vital question that now engrosses the
attention of all Europe is discussed. The victories of
Russia, and the effects of these victories upon the inte-
rests of Great Britain, and upon the interests of com-
merce in general, are thus ably considered:
" The consequences of that war (the war of the East) and of
that peace—which after an is but an armed pease—are precisely
such as have been foreseen by all intelligent men, and indeedby all
who have not suffered themselves to be deluded by the false cal•
citations of their pride, or blinded by the self-Micieney of their
imaginary power. The Ottoman Power now only exists in Europe,
stemistally and porisionany. Rona is in actual possession of bet
seas, her ports, her fortresses, and her commerce : Roma is in
reality mistress of the empire of Constantine. Can we win doubt
whether the Sanas or the Cuss is the Sovereign of Twigl—
we still beak which of them will speedily become made
ci tan Wane sad navigation of the Materna.= ? Oaths*•
deo eon sanded to the East ;—the-barrier of Ottoman barbarity
awe crushed—that barrier which prevented the communicadon of
Europeans with the Asiatic. ; the widen trade of the Levan will re-
vive with double force, sad resume by degrees its former superiority.
It is tableau thulium,. will be indebted for this benent.but Roma
herself will derive the greatest advantage from the result of her
own policy. The assetlehle consequence of this istetheik event,
must be the diminution of Asiatic trade and navigation by the
Con or Goo. Hon. The discovery of the EAST Imam, by the
Can, would probably not have been so soon accomplished, U the
contrite of the Linn, (which were the only known route in
past ages) had not been in the power of a barbarous people, the
enenthe of Christine. No vague conjecture is hasatded in this
assertion t—reilietke will but confirm ha truth:
"The disciwery of the Imam was the meet heroic achievement of
the Tortegeese nation i fee that achievement Weems Bonn
=ovate, much—even Eamon owes muck of bee present he.
portant to the ancient discoveries of the Portuguese :—al s! the
bas well =peed them l• The Peones, gees a destructive blow
to the trade of the Lava" and to the greatness of the Venting
and thistierinse; who due almost excladvelp enjoyed it. Bet
a navigation so daftness and so bog, as the navigation to
. the Immo by the Cent of Goes Hors is even. now,
(thank, it was thee coodderably mere ardnoter) amid not
have desreyed the commeree et the trading towns et the
Lunn se speedily, U, beside the Winkles of bottom:ere
anal In utak extreme distances, more foneldabb obstacles
had not presented thanselves-iiiond such obstacles voquestico•
ably woes from the barbarity of the liarealmen whilst
the Peetagone tradeß by she Cape, encountered no *Scolds
bet those width sprang hem award causes—and none whatever
from the luterpositioa of mantind.—lt test also be observed, that
• the Asiatic trade, and eardelly that of India, carried en direvgb the
Levant. possessed ens great advantage emelt= which we effected
by the Atlantic, and round the African ceeser4or it came direct
to the heart of Ismors—whibt the other went to the extremity et
the Costioath—to Lwow. for insane, just as k is now breeghtio
Lesson. Now. however, that the barriers of barbarism, pad the
hostility of the Asiatic nation en the thorn of the hiediterranan
are destroyed by the power of Russia. it is much mere prudes.
ble—asy, it is even easy, to osemoset all the obstacles which
=Med at the period when the Portuguese supplanted the Vene-
tians. We thuds particularly to the diSculdes of bad-canine ;
and who is there that moot, now a-days, conceive that the pee-
gross of civilisation which has constructed lifesedeserbed high reeds
over the mountain passel. and pteciple.es of the principality of
. Walesmwhich by the mighty power of steam, crosses lands and
seas and nods, against wind and tide, and despite of all that of
old men reseeded as the established laws of Nature—who is there,
we repeat, that cannot cooceive, that the tame civilised= which
has worked these wooden, can, and ought, in extending itself to
the East, to erect similar =backs In that quarter, by opening and
facilitating► by the shortest route, the communication between Ea.
rope and Ads ?
" The achievement of Vise* as Gnu will always rank amend
the greatest actions of maahled;—it win be as eternally enduring
as " the /and " aad " (ate"—the Iliad and the Howes of
that intrepid Navigator :—bar the immediate consequences of that
exploit, pass from es like those of the destruction of Troy. before
the Gneks•:—k may appear amongst the heroic epochs of the his-
tory of modem nation—brilliant in poetic spleeda—but divested
if political importance.
" When we ssym divested of political importance," we do se only .
with reference to the resist question. A world within itself is
there :—eight Dew satins, some in an infancy full of hope and
promise, others in their vigorous pekoe—are there to attest how
much is due to the dissever= of the Portuguese. The abtence
of these new MIMIC= satiates is at muck importance to the
Asiatic commerce of the Cape of Good Hen; and that
very consideration might retard the relax of that Asiatic trade
towards the Medlterneam. Ban it has not =indent strength
to restrain it. The trade of America can only have lenience or
Beet upon that of India, whilst thews* of the Levant jointe that
et India—the trade of Syria—of Persia—of Egypt, Sro. aid the
series of internatioed enhanges (which are the very soul of com-
merce) is longer, more connected, more varied, and more com-
pacted by the Mediterranean, than by the seas of Africa.
" And does the world (that is to lay.) the cease of iturnsolty,lese
or gain by that reveleden t The reply is easy : it gains—yes.
galas considerably. It is wily Lassen and her commerce that
loses by it. Dm the less should be attributed eselesively to her
Gevenenerit ;it is only of her own Bidders that she timid am.
plata. A =Mir pert was dees= for her h dds gasses& Zia
kum (or rather her Mmes.'.) abandoned sod pernethel
• Rosen Ws embraced k. The conseepekee is Ware ail
the weld. Who amid have prodicated,in the Adalehlatiss of
Casein, that luißaii sheeld have became the sown el thaw
deo. of the cites* of bassanky, sad et essemerce? Coosserse,
Llberty, and Ciellsedee. are cornadves ; men ea dbit ia•
doubt, bat the/ are se losiorkagwat el It.•
' M Isaianiwili Medi barviataess sad kw etrunieissbits sof
'lbe weal her dientdift+lllthede