Star.
London, England, 1817-12-01 00:00:00

" PORT OF SPAIN, SEPTEMBER 8-

" Old England is revered among the Patriots of,
South America, bin no where more enthusiastically
so than in Venezuela, where the English are received
with open atms by all classes.

" They wish to give as a free trade on better
terms than to any other nation, and to abolish all the
odious distinctions of religion, which were formerly
such a bat to the admission of Englishmen among
them. In a word, they wish to give us a full parti-
cipation of all the blessings which must necessarily
follow their emancipation from Spain.

" Some pretend that the inhabitants of South Ame-
rica are not sufficiently enlightened to form a good
Government. This is a vulgar error, advanced by
those who have a very superficial knowledge of them,
or who have a sinister design. But admit their igno.
rarice or want of experience, and it is of itself a :oi-
cent reason to charge an oppressive system, that,
after three hundred years, should have left so large
a portion of the world so incapable of managing their
own concerns; for nobody has ever ventured to as-
sert that they are all deficient in natural t deals. But,
as I said before, in regard to Venezuela it is a vulgar
error, and we have the proof in this island daily before
our eyes, where three of our first Lawyers are natives
of Caraccas, and received all iheir education at the
University there, as well as the Covet lines A vesi:er,
who, though a native of the Canary Islands, was
also educated at the same University. Nlw, no man
here could undertake to assert that then? were no; all
men of talents, and eap-4Lle of taking some I,:irt in
conducting the aifitsrs of a Government and yet, in
the blaze of talent which distinguished C.iraccas, and
in the great powers of oratory in particular, which
shone forth with such brilliancy in the pulpit and at
the bar, the merit of these individuals, though high!).
respectable, would harm been obscured.

" Great numbers of those able men have ben
murdered in cold blood, by order of Boves and-Mo-
rales ; but there still remains a sufficient number, 1
trust, both to liberate the country, and to establish a
igooo, wise, and paterivil Government. Give the
people their iodepencleuce and alres trade, and such
is the fertility of the country, they will be all at their
ease ; and plenty of freedom makes good citizens.—
But they are so universally disgusted with civil and
reVoui despotism, that they prefer death in a thou-
sand shapes to returning under the yoke of Spain.—
By this time you will have read Morillo's summons
of the Island of Margarita. the answer of the inhsbl.
•tants through their Governor and General, Gomez—
and take thit AS your criterion. It is the worst plan
in the world to attempt to govern los nvah in the
West Indies. It is the plan of almost all Spanish Go-
vernots, and they make their Government detested."

Two Dutch Mails, also Getman Papers to a late
date reached us 'bis day.

Letters from the French frontier mention a report,
circulating it the departments of the North, that it is
intended, unless unforeseen circumstances should
arise, and in case the negotiations set on foot to that
end should hare the desired issue, to diminish, in
the course of the Spring 1818, the number of troops
composing the Army of Occupation ; so that there
shuuld remain only the contingents of the four great
Powers, Russia, Austria, England, and Prussia—
chose of Bavaria, Wurtemberg, HAnover, Saxony,
and Denmark, would, in that ease, return to their
own homes.

The Duke of WELL/a:WON is at his head-quarters.
The exchange of couriers between London and Paris
is very active. .

The encouragement of national industry is still a
favourite topic at Brussels. We do not blame the
people of the Netherlandi for this. So far will this
be from doing us an injury, that ultimately we shall
be benefited ; for all improvements, no matter where
originating, are always ultimately beneficial to man-
kind—and most so to those who are most ingenious
and most industrious. But appeals to patriotism to
induce the buyer to purchase a dear and bad article
of home manufacture, in preference to a cheap and
good article of foreign production, will ever be un-
availleg, and they ought to he so, as tending to a
waste of human industry.