Star.
London, England, 1829-10-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM LISBON.

We hare just received, by Express, a Utter from our
Correspondent at Lisbon, from which we extract the fol-
lowing :

LISBON, Oct. 10, 1829.

The greatest confusion now pervades this city ; the
last remaining hold of public credit has been shaken,
and all those who are engaged in commerce, or em-
ployed by the Government, are puzzled--bewildered—
and know not what to do, for a sort of panic has
struck all classes. There has within two days
been a run upon the Bank, which, however, by
the aid of an increased number of paying clerks,
has hitherto contrived to meet the demand. The
paper money, a sort of Government assignats, of which,
in all legal payment, one is obliged to receive half as
currency, which, when Miguel arrived, was at a dis-
count of about fifteen, will not now be accepted by
the Money Exchangers at thirty per cent. All persons
either expecting payments, or having remittances to
make, are alarmed, for it is feared that the discount
will rise to 40, and even more. The Exchange on

England was, on Thursday, at 45i ; it fell yesterday
to 45, and to day to 444.

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SATURDAY NIGHT, NINE O'CLOCK.
It is stated, but the statement requires confirmation,
that, by a despotic order of MIGUEL, and his Ministers,
the Bank is to close on Monday next. Exchange on
England, 44i, variable ; Government Paper Money from
30 to 31 discount.
EXPRES-TIVITI PARIS.
From the Message? des Chambres—Second Edition.
BUCHAREST, San. COSSIMININDIMIM
According to letters from Adrianople, the Treaty of
Peace was ratified by the Sultan on the 20th of Septem-
ber. In consequence, the Turkish troops are at this
moment evacuating Ghiurgevo, which is going to be
occupied by the Russians. The Russian army will

begin its retreat on the 28th of October, and first of all
it will evacuate Adrianople, the Porte having engaged to
make by that time the first payment of the commercial
indemnity. It is said that the Russian garrisons of Sise-
boli and Bourgas will occupy those places for another
year, even though the army shall have re-passed the
Balkan.
Since we have become certain that the principalities
will have an independent Government, and will cease to
be subject to the arbitrary dominion of the Ottoman
Porte, universal joy prevails, and landed property in-
creases in value. The whole attention of the two Prin-
cipalities is directed to the choice of the new Hospodars ;
and, it may be supposed, that the Russian Governor-
General will have no inconsiderable influence on their

nomination.
We expect the return of the foreign agents, who left
their posts during the war. Turkish Commissioners have
arrived in Servia, to concert with Prince Mulosch respect-
ing all the points relative to the five districts, which were
mentioned also in the Treaty of Akermann. The Prince
will afterwards go to the Russian head-quarters. We hear
no more of the march of Gen. Geismar, who was said to
have followed the Pacha of Scutari in his expedition.—
The organization of troops in the Principalities will now
become an object of serious attention—their strength, it
is said, will be raised to 14,000 men.
FRONTIERS OF WALLACHIA, Scre.23.
It seems, according to the accounts which we receive
from the army of Count Diebitsch, that that General re-
mains with his head-quarters at Adrianople ; while Count
Pahlen with 12,000 men, and Kisselew, with 8,000, are
to occupy Moldavia and Wallachia. General Roth will
remain with his corps between the Danube and the Bal-
kan ; and the third corps, under General Krassowsky,
which is still before Shumla, will re-pass the Pruth.
General Kisselew is said to have stopped in the envi-
rons of Sophia, to wait for new orders. It is not yet
known whether he has had any engagement with the
Albanians of the Pacha of Scutari. It is probable that
the latter has proceeded to Shumla. Public report de-
signates Lieutenant-General Count Suchtelin as future
president of the Principalities. The Committee of Boy-
ards is still assembled at Bucharest. It is at present
engaged in the choice of a Hospodar. Opinions are di-
vided between the antient Hospodar and Gregory, Ghika
and Kupiniana. It is supposed that Ghika will succeed,
though he has many adversaries among the Boyards.
( From the Austrian Observer of October 11.)
Vii wrf A , OCT. 10 .—Metalliques, 102—Bank Shares,
219.

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PAW KOCK ■ICuADOt, TUESDAY, OCT. 20.
Five per Cents, 108 f 50c 45c 50c
Three per Cents, 82f 55c 50c
Bank Stock, 1862 f 50c 1860 f
Rentes de Naples, 89f 50c
Royal Spanish Loan, 78,77]
Rents Perp. d'Espagne 53italH
Haytian 1.08.11, 347 f 50c
101e111AVOI es Losposi.
One Month, 25f 65c ; Three Months, 25f 50c

The Flanders Mail, which arrived this morning, is
destitute of any important intelligence. A sketch of the
KING'S Speech on the opening of Chambers, is given in
Le Beige—but it is very meagre, and as unmean-
ing as similar harangues are on this side. He
speaks this is always a matter of course
of his amicalile relations with foreign Powers, and he
announces the approaching marriage of one of his
daughters with a Prince of the House of Prussia. The
following are extracts :
BRUSSELS, Ocr. 17.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Prussia is expected at the
Hague on Monday next.
It Is sow certain that Baron Von Zeylen Von Nyeneldt, his
Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, will haveleave of absence
to return to the Netherlands.
On the 14th inst. the sea rose to an extraordinary height at
Ostend, viz. 94 inches above high water mark.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange has been very ill for
some days, in consequence of a fright caused by the sudden ap-
pearance of a chimney-sweep who had mistaken the room. The
Princess was the more earily alarmed, as the late robbery of her
diamonds has left a painful impression on her mind. The physicians
have socceeded in their efforts, and she is now better.
19.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange arrived
here yesterday from the Hague.
The programme for the opening of the ordinary Session of the
States• General, which will take place at the Hague on the 19th
October, has just been published in the usual form. His Majesty
will open the Session in person.
Oar. 19.—His Excellency the English Ambassador to the Court
of the Netherlands, who arrived here the day before yesterday
from London, set out this morning for the Hague.
The Prince of Orange has returned to the Hague, to be present
today at the opening of the Session of the States GeneraL
Oce.2o.—A British Cabinet Messenger arrived here yesterday
front Loudon, with dispatches for Vienna.
It is much to be regretted (says Le Beige) that many Deputies
of the southern provinces will not be present at the Ind Sittings of
the Second Chamber—some of them in consequence of circum-
stances over which they have no centres', others through careless-
ness. Besides the Address, the wording of which is not am unhn-
portant matter, and, under present circumstances, ought to contain
something nacre than the usual common-place expressions, there are
questions *upends' the validity of some new elections, which will
be inunstilatslyosamineds and which deserve the serious attention
of the Chamber.

HIS MAJESTY'S SPEECH.
“ I am happy at seeing myself again surrounded by the Repre-
sentatives of the Belgic Nation, which, In the several provinces that
I have visited shot your last Session, has given me unequivocal
proofs of attachment, and confirmed me In the belief that the Na-
tion entertains towards me those sentiments of love and confidence
which my bean values so highly, and to which my constant solici-
tude for its happiness gives me a claim.
" Mambo to Deems Pawn:mum this solicitude has net been
unfruitful. and has received its recompense.'

His Majesty says be convinced hheself in hie We tour at the
progress of manufactures, and the Manse of general prosperity.—
Hb Maiesty speaks of the amicable reladeas of the kingdom with
foreign Powers, and the intended marriage of his only
daughter the Princess Ma:Wm. with Prince Albert, son of the
King of Pressiae—HM Maiesty citruses his bores of a happy m-
inima= of the troubles in the Beet Ws pessesdoss.—His W-
iest/ enneences, among ether abiects that will be laid before the
Climbers, the budget, the code of precesdirp in the Criminal

Cams, and a law as public instruction, in order, says his Majesty ,
to give, by our joint agreement, more stability to the liberal prin-
ciples which. ought to regulate this Important matter.—Brusseir
Papers, 041.21.

NAPLES, OCT. 1.
M. de Ribeaupierre, who fs still here, expects dispatches from
his Court, which will probably direct him to return to his post as
Russian Ambassador at Constantinople. From all we learn, it
seems that the Greek State will obtain the wished-for extension of
its boundaries. The President of Greece seems to be very desires.
to form a considerable Greek navy. Not only are all the ships of

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war to be retained. but negociations are said to be on foot witb a

great Pourer, which will, on acceptable terms, furnish Greece with
several large ships of war, which however the Greeks must man
themselves. If this plan should succeed, the natural aptness of the
Greeks to a seafaring life may lead to the rapid formation of a nrw

naval power in the Mediterranean, which is desirable on many
accounts, u it would trot only give a new impulse to commerce,
but also probably contribute to put an end to the excesses of the

feihusg, Oct. 16.

A letter addressed by M. BEUGNOT, President of the
Board of Trade and Colonies in France, to the mer-

chants of Marseilles, and recommending them to take

advantage of the recent conclusion of Peace (i. c. Truct
between Russia and Turkey, for pushing their trade in
the Levant, has furnished the Times of this morning
with a leading article remarkable for its sophistry and
shallowness.

While the " system of blockades," and total indiffer-
ence to the commercial interests of the country, betrayed
by Ministers, have produced such wide spread ruin among
ourselves, the laudable and patriotic measure of the
French statesman is sneered at, as if it were
both useless and unnecessary. If instead of allow-
ing such a wretch as the usurper of Portugal,
and the execrable faction which surrounds him,
to interdict British commerce, and seize on British pro-
perty without even the forms of law and equity, our
President of the Board of Trade had written a circular,
calling the attention of commercial men to any new open-
ing which presented itself for advantages of speculation,
the Times would have no doubt treated it in the same

facetious way as it has the communication of M. BEUG.
NOT. But the principal object of our noticing the
observations of the " Leading Journal" is to undeceive
the writer with regard to a matter on which he labouri
under a lamentable self delusion.
" The fact, however," says he, " is important though
it required no minister of state to discover it, that the
settlement of the Greek question, and the restoration of
Peace between Russia and Turkey, must give a new

impulse and a more extended range to the trade of the
Levant." With reference to this passage, me have no

hesitation in telling the Times and the country, that, as
we stated a few days ago, the overwhelming influence of
every kind secured to Russia by the treaty of Adria-
nople, added to the successful rivalry already established
on the part of France and Austria, render it utterly im-
possible for the British manufacturer or ship-owner henc,.,-
forth to compete with the commerce of those countries.
To say nothing of that state of exhaustion in which the
recent war leaves both Greece and Turkey, it is noto-
rious that Austrian and French goods of all kinds an
even now sold at a much cheaper rate than those of Eng-
land, while we are absolutely thrown out of the carrying
trade altogether !
Had there been the smallest tufposition on the part of
Ministers either to uphold the national honour, or pro-
mote our commercial interests, they would not have
suffered Russia to proceed to the fearful lengths she has;
much less would they have lost every particle of that
respect and influence among the people of Greece, which
it would have been so easy to maintain. We are sick at
heart, when we reflect on the humiliating state to which
the country has been reduced, and we freely confess that
our feelings are greatly embittered by an apprehension
that a change of system, if it ever arrives, will come too
late to retrieve the violated honour and lost prosperity of
England.

There was a somewhat singular article yesterday in a
Morning Paper, concerning the overgrowth of the aris-
tocratic system in this country. Nine individuals were
particularised, who are certainly all men of enormous
wealth ; and our contemporary argued from this great
power to corrupt the people, the fact of popular corrup-
tion. We do not find him wrong, but we find his com-
mentary incompletely developed ; and this imperfectness
with which he has stated his case, has tempted the Globe
to impugn the principles of his argument generally. In
fact, they seem to be both floundering, though both have
got hold of something.
The case for the Chronicle may be stated briefly as
follows : that while entails, and other conspiring acci-
dents—such as purchase, testamentary acquisition, in-
termarriage—often consolidate three or four princely
estates into one possession, thus imparting to the per-
son in whom they center an excessive and unnatural
predominance, the small properties on the other hand
are tending eternally to subdivisions. But while the
" secondary class of gentry," put by him at a
maximum of one thousand a year, are perpe-
tually driven because of their large families to
resort to mortgages, or equitable partitions, or partial or
complete alienation of their little properties, which keeps
the mass of popular possessions—if we may so term it—
in a state of constant fluctuation : " the great landowners
who possess political power are under no necessity of di-
minishing their estates," by reason that they monopolise
within themselves all the resources of private as well as
official.patronage--and are thus enabled either to pro-
vide for their younger branches at all times with rich
ecclesiastical endowments, or billet them upon the public
revenues. Our contemporary states, that great hind-
holders at the epoch of the Commonwealth possessed
even more of the land of the country than they do now
but that the preponderance of the few over the many—
which is so striking in our day—did not obtain then.
The middle classes of our times are much wealthier than
the middle dames were under the Protectorate : but Om
very wealth—" from the distribution of political in-
fluence—is only made to rivet the chains of dill

people, by increasing the fund from which the
privileged few derive inexhaustible means of per-
petuating their dominion, and a constantly operating
motive for corrupting the principles of the population."
Such is a tolerably fair outline of the argument used
by our Morning contemporary—so far, at least, as he is
quoted by the Globe : let us examine by what style of
reasoning it is attempted to be contravened. The Globe
says, that the Morning Paper " assumes somewhat
hastily" that these changes in the relative position of
the great and small gentry have taken place; but ad-
mitting that they have, he questions their adequacy to
produce the effects complained of. The Peers enume-
rated in the antagonist article, he contends are not
more conspicuous for their amazing riches, than many
Peers were in the time of CHARLES I.: that the " union
Ind severance of fortunes " is immemorial in this country ;

and that—" as the money incomes of all classes have in •
creased"—so, keeping the same ratio, those of the great
lords are come to be nominally higher also. This is just
so much plausible twaddle. B hen he says, that—
•' if the supposition of the Ch imicle be correct—he
does not see that it accounts for the state of things which
the Chronicle deplores," he puts us upon examining
what supposition it is, that the Chronicle has offered to
his consideration. We have seen above, what the asser-
tions of the Chronicle are : the question, therefore, which
the Globe combats is—Does the distribution of political
influence operate upon the mass of property, so as to
cause it to rivet the chains of the possessors? The Globe
would maintain that it does not: but he cannot say
three words to the purpose.
We shall maintain the opposite affirmative, and—by
way of illustrative argument—let us look at the Borough
of Newark. If we make good our assertion there,
() fortiori, it will stand good in the case of all rottener
boroughs. The " political influence" in this place, is
known to inhere in the Duke of NEWCASTLE; that,
therefore, we take as a postulate. Now as to the
question, whether the " distribution" of this influence
has conduced " to rivet the chains" of the smaller pro-
prietors who either hold under him, or dwell within his
vortex ? Might we not almost make a postulate of this,
also, and so carry the matter—as it were—by acclama-
tion : now, while the fester of the Noble Duke's oppres-
sion is even yet discharging its green slough before our
eyes, and contaminating the surrounding health ? Look
at the memorable and spirited requisition addressed to the
Mayor of Newark by the freemen of that borough, and
see how the Mayor of Newark treated that requisition?
This man may—or may not be—a tenant of the Noble
Duke ; it is of small importance : he was the Maims
of NEWARK, and as a pubic functionary had civil
obligations to fulfil. Did he fulfil them? Did he call
the meeting ? Or was he overawed by the rank, and
power, and relative position of the Duke of NEWCASTLE
in the borough ? Yes, he was overawed by the Noble
Duke's preponderance : he knew—quite as well as we
do—that it was his imperative duty to call the meet-
ing, but he was afraid to call it. Thus, the sanction of
the municipal authority—which that constitutional meet-
ing desired to have—was wanting to complete its
character; was withheld from it by considerations unwor-
thy to influence a public officer ; by the hope of conci-
liating a powerful neighbour, or the terror of incurring
his displeasure. The individual in question could not
disagree with the requisitionists as to the propriety of
the meeting, but his dependence, or his dishonesty—or
both—induced him to resist a measure by which his
townsmen sought to burst the shackles of their vassalage,
because he knew the strength of their noble oppressor, but
was either too cowardly, or too corrupt to brave it. In
this manner—from the great Leviathan of the
vicinage, in a graduated scale downwards to the
meanest proprietor of a cabin—the principles of inti-
midation and corruption are borne into a pervasive cir-
culation, and fear and interest rivet—even in spite of
themselves—the chains of an oligarchs' domination over

the people.
We will not recapitulate here the details of the Noble
Duke's outrageous tyranny in the ejectment of several

hundreds of his tenants : it is more to our purpose to
prove wh at—upon the mind of a public function-
ary—has been the eject of that moral influence which
is devived from the propinquity of Clumber. We sub-
mit, therefore, that our case is made out: and that
the distribution of political influence—in the case of
the borough of Newark—has operated upon the mass
of property there, so as to cause it to rivet the
chains of the possessors. We shall recur to the sub-
ject to-morrow. The Chronicle is continuing the dis-
cussion to-day, but neither he, nor the Globe, seem to
know where they are.

We yesterday stated the important fact of Captain
GORDON, the brother of Lord ABERDEEN having been
dispatched to the western Islands and Madeira, for the
purpose of inquiring into the late excesses committed by
the partisans of Don MIGUEL against British com-
merce and British subjects. We have since been in-
formed, that Colonel DASHWOOD, lately appointed Con-
sul for Guatimala, goes out in the Briton, for the pur-
pose of assisting Captain GORDON in the important
objects of his mission.

Letters from Prevesa, arrived at Corfu, state the death
of General DENTZEL on the 15th August. He has
been succeeded by General CHURCH, who is appointed
Generalissimo of the Greek troops.
Letters from Stockholm, of the 29th Sept. mention,
that the States have been extensively occupied in the
Budget, and the salaries of persons high in office have
been augmented; that of the Minister of Justice, from
5,849 to 8,000 rix-dollars ; the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, from 6,849 to 9,000 rix-dollars ; and that of the
Councillor of State, from 4,282 to 6,000 rix-dollars.
Accounts from Toulon bring information, that a tele-
graphic dispatch was received there, suspending for the
present the departure of all vessels destined for the Le-
nt. The Scipion was on the eve of sailing, but pre-
anted by the dispatch.
e A Government Notice announces the death of H.
a mphrey. Big. the Police Magistrate.

THE LAST OF THE GOTHS,

OR TILE
DICTATOR'S LEVEE.

Continued front the STAR of yesterday.
No. 111.
Scans. as before.
Gory =Solve. After thoughtfully pacing the apartment, he
stops suddenly before a looking•glau ; where, after contemplating

the image of Nature's fair
he thus exclaims :
Hall! my old friend, there's life about you yet. Tho'
Time bath traced his lines of march—and counter-
marches, toe, faith—on that face, there's much adven-
ture written on it still. One cursed rival only blocks my
way ; but be is worn in body and in mind ; so we can
lead or drive him •• • So far—no further—is a harsh
behest of Fortune, kind tho' she's been ; and yet (looking
complacently round). 'tis something to have mounted
even so high. A Customhouse Comptroller might have
been my lot—by tailors bullied, beggared in renown. But
now (conceitedly) my name is made—my fame spreads far,
and it is mine to bully all the world. (With the stupendous
importance of one who has discovered the grand secret)—
the fact Ift, Pm a prodigy !—a Devil of a Duke—au uni-
versal genius by intuition. Without the smallest labour
of my own—talent and science, judgment, are all mine.
Strange! that so lens I did not once suspect it—ne, no►
no one elee—by Jove! Doe night, I went to bed like
other folks, and rose nest day a hero !—'Tis odd!
I have passed my young time in the tented field, and
found, to my surprise, I had been studying all the time—
perchance while sleeping—the science of diplomacy.
'Tens next discovered that I had a wit to legislate and
rule. (Scratches his head and looks foolish.) Where did
I pick it up ? ?Auntie ! I'll turn Poet next, and write
an Epic : I have to try it only, and 'cis done. The folks,
as usual, will uphold my merits. Or, I shall turn Philos°.
pher and Invent new systems of the world, or turn my band
to steam ; nay, better still—conceive some way to cure
the nation's ills, redeem its honour, and preserve its
power. Ah ! not so fast—'tis this alone I fear I cannot
do—seam/arts la bagatelle. (Smirks at himself in the
glass.) Your Geese, I wish you well! (Bows reve-
rentially.) Here—aU hail! (Proudly pulling himself
up with his arms a kimbo.) Luck to the friend of
Princes! (With looks of fearful awe of himself.) Health
to the Minister!
El*? SICRITARV.
Sneer My Lord ! Sir Amman Ressrscanw. Justice of the
Peace from Lincolnshire.
Gore :—Sbew him up—spew him up. A man of the true cast—
s model upon which to form a people!
Enter Sir RICSAILD, with a look of veneration and
fear.

meagre to be sure—

Sus K :—My Lord !—hem—l am so much astounded to find
myself before so great a man, that I can scarce find words
to say—a—hem—
Gout :—Take courage and—a chair.
San R :—Nay, in your awful presence, it were wrong—l dare
not make too free.
Gan :—(Aside)--An interesting person, on my faith. With
people such as this, one could do wonders.
Sui R :—(Aside.)—Good Lord ! How link for so great a man—
why, all the world take him for a giant—he bears no
sort of likeness to Ms statue ; and seems to differ nothing
from the rest, but by his nose—'its marvellous to look on.
Goys :—Your name I long have been acquainted with. 'Ti, one
that's old, and Landlordly to boot.
Ste R s--Aye—though I should not say it,—l must own 'tis of
the genuine kind. Behold our pedigree !—(Gives a
parchment). It traces us thro' good five hundred years.
00111 :—(Takes it with reverence and smells it). True—'cis of
the right old musty—refreshing to the nose. (Redoubling
its attendou as be smells it like a boaftset). Ido entreat
you will be seated, Sir. You are of the elect—a leader
of the people. What can be done to serve you ? •
Szalt:—First, as I hold great influence in the county
Goes :—Ah! dear Sir. sit.—
Su R :—Return two members, and
Goma :—Come, come, my friend, sit down beside me on this elbow
chair. I'm not indeed so awful as I look.
Ste R —(llurkily perching himself on the edge of the seat)—l
I come, my Lord, to help you in the work of great rege-
neration; and hint a plan by which to save the nation.
Goes :—Proceed.
Ste K :—The country is in a terrible predicament.
Goss ! (Looking cautiously round).
Ste R:—Pray, do you guess the cause?
Gown :—(Uneasily)—l have not thought upon the subject yet,—
and to be frank, would rather never think of it at all.
Sna R s—Then, thus it ia,my Lord—pray mark.
Goan :—" Had I three ears I'd hear thee."
Sass then it is--
Goya i.—Go on.
Stu R :---It is indeed—
Goza :—Bah—
Sir It :—Upon my soul—
Go= :—I understand—(looking wisely) and yet,—what may it be'.
Sts 11:—Why,this—(rising from his chair, and emphatically) the
great dtereaas gore
Goss:—lndeed ?—(aside) 'Tis strange.
Su it :—(ln the deciantatory)—Each vassal varlet now presumes
to feed his carcase upon game; and, for himself, with
base plebeian bands, shoots—shoots—shoots—his own
hares! 'Tie monstrous!—my own shoot up to think on't.
'Tis pedigree alone should purchase license.
Goan :—'Tls certain.
Sir R.—The people an allowed, by industry, to hoard, by which
they rise to wealth, and cease to fear us. Let Govern.
ment, like the (*rand Sultan, seize all goods superfluous,
in base born hands; or once more give us back the slaves
that dig, to be to us as ozen. Upon their shoulders let us
put our mark ; and round their necks an iron collar, bear-
ing our names and our addresses.
Goa :—A luminous conception.
&a R.—Moreover, to maintain our high born rights, invaded daily
by thevulgar caste, abolish schools, and make it death to
read. Nay, more : lop off a hand from each low man, to
keep us physically better too, in body as in moral.
Goss :—An oracle—an oracle!
Ka It :--'Bove all, my Lord, with these salt I urge it—lwo
it be death to fail us in our rents ; the State without this
never can wort well ; and banish all who utter a cons-
plaint.
Goss :—.So far your notions coincide with our'*—(drawing his
chair closer). Bat did power grant you this, say, what,
in turn would you, friend, grant to power?
Sir It :—(With a salaam to the ground)—Submission !
Gnu :—But where do you conceive the power nista P—ln Kings,
in Lords, or Commons ?
Sir R :--Why, is Us.
GOTS :—(Starans, as if hr stumbled upon Coanev)—ln You?
Theo, after all, you are a Radical, and advocate the Com-
mass' right to power.
Sir R:—(With horror.) What?—l, my Lord? Why, God in
heaven forbid—l'm in the Lower Chamber, it is true;
but then I have a Manor, Arms, and Name; and Coal-
men only because not a Peer. We're all of the same
feather you well know. The People, truly common, ere
the mass—vile creatures only made to serve our need, and
pay ear tax.

Gout : ...(Aside)...Hum—•there's yet a difference 'twizt the head
and hand : I yet must rock the fellow's arrogance—.
these are the cat's-paws of oar princely power—our trusty
tools to work on the community. (Aloud)—Your
thoughts, my friend, have long been ours in seem. We
labour to mature. and bring them promptly to a fair
fruition. Meantime, haveyou nought further with us now?
Sta R:—(Blows his nose and summons courage)--Why, yes,
my Lord I sold before, I can return two Mem-

ben •
Goys :—Dear Sir—
Six R:— And I, Sir, have a son ! !—of constitution delicate—per-
chance, somewhat consumptive. The sea air is prescribed
Ly his physicians. Now, as the eldest—sickly, too, poor
boy—is in the army well provided, Sir :my second, in
the church, advancing fast ; my third, in the corps diplo-
mail/Ise, rising ; my fourth, well pensioned in the Trea-
sury ; my fifth, high up in the Colonial Government—l
think of sending ibis, my sixth, to sea.—The navy, doubt-
less, will restore his health. Instead of pining in
disease at home, perchance, aro' fauna, soon grow
Admirat—Now, having but IEIO,OOO a year, and a
poor sinecure which scarcely brings 41,000 more, I beg
your patronage for one so poor, and recommend my son
to your protection.
Gent • —And is that all? Your wish is granted ; and, like a comet
rising, the world shall see him top a thousand heads.—
Now, friend, the slaves that clamour about rights wax
every day more loud, proud, and intolerable ; they watch
me with a wary jealous eye , and call each step I take to
• save our power, from being equally weighed in constitu-
tional balance, a dangerous encloachment—oppression—
treason—nay, threaten me with tempests in the Senate.
Sax It :—Uugrateful hinds! to kick at such mere trifles in a hero
—one who has served with scarce the least reward.
GO= : —They call my Government—l scarce can speak it—they
call it. Sir—a bungle!!
Six It.--How dare they say's of any Government ?
Gore :—That 'tit tyrannical—
Sta ft.—Just so my tenants speak of me, by Jove ! Why not dra-
goon them all?
Goss :—(Ominously)—Hold there—the season is not fitting yet;
meantime, the creatures menace a Reform.
Six R.—Reform !—What's that?
Guru :—(lmpetuously)—To clip our claws, and force ■s to walk
straight :—to sweep away our little savings up of privi-
lege and advantage one by one—filched from the common
right—Would you side with them?
Six R :.—l'd perish first—no change, no innovation I proclaim—
hang every man who talks of it, say I.
Guru :—You are an excellent man—a thorough English country
gentleman !
Sus It :—(Exultingly) Illy Lord, I am a Tory.
Gout :—Your sentiments bespeak it ;—Sir, there's my band—
Six let me kiss your foot—(Falls at his feet and kisses
the iron heels of his boot with reverence)
GOTH :—(Asitle) A very worthy man, upon my soul.
Sax It :—(Sneaking out quite overcume.)—Farewell'. Immortal
Greetnesa ! _ _ .

Goya :—Sol sta—Kiudly looking after him—give me a score or
two of friends like these—and lig for aU the millions!
Ste It :—(Returning to the door, respectfully pepping in his
head.) You'll not forget my Son ?
Gown :—He's down for the first ship.
Sis II :—(As he descends.) Let any one now dare to blame his
government.—and I'll resent it as a private wrong. He
is a very Solon, I protest.

(To be continued.)

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