Star.
London, England, 1829-08-06 00:00:00

rxTsuers twit TNL OKIIIIAN rAilltS.

VIEN NA, JULY 45._

Upon Change to-day the most contradictory reports were in
circulation touching the affairs of the East. On the one side it
was asserted that the Sultan had directed the Reis Effendi to coun-
termand the Porto Dragornan,whom he was on the point of send-
ing off to the camp of the Grand Vizier, at Shumla, with a view
to an armistice. This assertion, however, is contradicted by the
positive intelligence that the dragoman had already set ont at the
date of the departure from Constantinople of Baron Canna. the
30th June. On the other band, it is given out that the Grand Sig-
nor has declared himself disposed to admit the mediation
of France and England as to the Greek question, and to
negotiate peace with Russia without any direct interfer.
coat. These different reports, according as they are more or
less believed, cause great variations in the funds, though move
of them have any thing of an official character. This much only is
certain, that a commercial house here has received an estaffe from
Constantinople, of the 7th inst. In which, however, besides what
is already known of the demonstrations of the Reis Effendi towards
the foreign Ministers, there is nothing of political interest.
FROM THE DANUBE, Juts, 40.
All hope of peace is given up here, but a Ministerial Congress is
talked of, to assemble at Castein. The Russians are reported to
have four outworks at Shumla, and to be preparing to cannonade
it. It is presumed the place cannot bold out long, on account of
the weakness of the garrison and the want of supplies.
COLOGNE, Juir IS.
To promote a direct navigable connection between Rhenish
Prussia and England, a Prussian Rhenish Company is about to
be formed here, which will commence with a stock of 500,000
dollars, in $OO hares. At first they will open with but small craft
to communicate with Hull, and afterwards with London and
Liverpool.

CITY. TWELVE o'CLocc.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 1181 for the Account
opened this morning at 88‘ f, and at present may be quoted at
$Bl j, with little or nothing doing.
In the Foreign Market at present there is not a feature worth
observation.

CITY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

The Consol Market continues at the same prices they have been
during the week, fie} for Account, alternately buyers and sellers,
the whole of the morning, with nothing doing of any consequence.
The Foreign Market is also in a very languid state.
—........____
STAR OFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK.

We have this moment received the following letter
from Buenos Ayres, of the 30th May, via Antwerp :
" The French Consul having disputed the right of
enrolling their countrymen to serve in defence of the
city, on the arrival of a French frigate from Monte Video,
orders were given to man all her boats, and they pro-
ceeded in the night into the harbour of Buenos Ayres,
and took possession of whatever ships of war were lying
there : the above affair is now under discussion with the 1,
Government."

A Halifax mail has arrived this morning by the
Badger--sailed on the 16th July—by which Halifax
papers to the 16th July have been received at the North
and South American Coffee house ; and by which we find
that his Excellency Sir Hilgrave Turner, the Lieutenant-
Governor of Bermuda, Lady, and family, had arrived in
his Majesty's ship Badger. They were to proceed in a
few days to the United States.
BOSTON, JULY 11.—The British frigate Barham,
which got on shore near Curacoa, was so much damaged,
that she has been condemned.

Much dread prevails in Barbadoes of the failure of the
crops, and scarcity of provisions.
A Boston Paper, received by the James yesterday, fur-
nishes a distressing report of his Excellency the Governor
of Madras having been fired at, and severely wounded,
by one of his body guards : his Excellency was alive the
date of the last account. This paragraph in the Halifax
Paper must certainly be incorrect, and originated in the
following circumstance :—ln January last his Excellency
gave a fete, and a Sepoy attempted to force himself into
the gallery, but being prevented by one of the Governor's
servants, he swore he would be revenged, and returned
to the barracks—loaded two pistols, and proceeded again
to the gallery, fired at the servant, and afterwards shot
himself. This is supposed to have happened when the
Governor was passing by.
By the Jane, Bermuda Papers of the 23d have been
received, in which there is a letter from the Colonial Se-
cretary of State to his Excellency P. Ross, the Lieut.-
Governor of Antigua, on the subject of the support of the
Custom establishment in that Island. It appears that the
question was most honourably settled in the last Sessions
of the Legislature.

THE PORTUGUESE QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
LETTER 11. •

Si It ••• I was bespeaking your attention to the proof fill,
there exists in Portugal a vast and deep dissatisfaotiot
with the actual government ; and I instanced the gat
body of emigrants— abandoning country, property, ani
all the ties of nature—not only to escape from tht
tyranny which rages there, but to mark their ohne
attachment to the rightful cause. Consider, also
immense quantity of victims immured in dungy,,
many of whom have been led to the scaffold withott
even the shadow of any crime, except their N.
luctance to acknowledge a new Sovereign inste,
of Her to whom they are bound by their oat's,
and who is still recognised as legitimate by the Ribit
world. Consider the number of those who still ling
concealed, in order to avoid the same dreadful fate; an,:
besides, Sir, if after eighteen months of such violet
convulsions, it can be conscientiously said that tit
hearts of all the Portuguese nation are inclined in furrjr
of Don Mio UEL ?

But that being the case, it may be asked wily
such a considerable portion of the Portuguese peo*
remained inactive, and suffered itself to be unresistiner
oppressed : and above all, why have the Portugu
Emigrants not effectually exerted themselves to deliver ,
their country, especially after a lapse of time when it is
natural enough to conjecture that the illusion under
which the mass of the Portuguese people laboured at
first, mast be, according to all probability, in a great
measure dissolved, and followed by discontent, and by a
thorough knowledge of the sad condition to which it has
been reduced ? This, Sir, is the essential point, to which
I call your attention !
Whatever may be the discontent which now exists in
Portugal, it can hardly be expected that any effectual
attempt could be tried by scattered and unarmed people,
whose principal leaders are imprisoned, or absent, to rise
against a Government, to supersede its armed follower,
and to form a sufficient nucleus to afford in the first is.
stance some kind of security to those who might be in.
dined to join them : still less so, when you consider the
the whole influence of the only neighbouring Govern-
ment is openly and decidedly declared in Don MIG tat's
favour ; so that in the case of an unsuccessful attempt,
the insurgents, instead of relying, as did those of 1823
and 1826, upon a safe asylum in Spain, could only ex•
pect to be repulsed from it by new and more numerous
enemies. It is consequently evident that, however
ripe Portugal may be for a change, it may never
happen, if the impulse be not given from without:
and how, and by whom can such an impulse be
given, if the natural protection of the Emperor of
BnAz us in favour of his daughter continues neutralized
or weakened, not only by the peculiar circumstances of
that distant Empire, but by all the diplomatic metes
which have been employed to influence him to a fallacioss

reconciliation—a reconciliation which would be no more
nor lees than a virtual abandonment of his daughter's
rights, and the acknowledgment of the triumph of the
guilty Portuguese faction over the QUEEN'S loyal sub-
jects. Again, how and by whom can such an impulse
be given, if the unfortunate Portuguese emigrants hare
been drained of all their scanty pecuniary means, is
fruitless attempts to join their companions on the only
spot of the Portuguese Monarchy where a successful
stand has been made, and where alone any attempt can
be tried to better their situation ?

lastly, how can a reasonable hope of success be pre-
sented to those, whose cause Europe appears to hold as
the right one, if—instead of a frank countenance and
bon4 fide sympathy in the principal Cabinets, especially
the British one, which has not ceased to call itself the
Ally of their Queen—they have found almost every
whore rebukes, when they have called for assistance?
Were they not resisted openly in their righteous endea-
vour to join their friends at Terceira : are they not—
in fact—considered and treated as if they were what the
mercenary press calls them, a set of revolutionary people,
because they rejected and wished to resist the most
scandalous revolution ? It so happens, that by a fatal
combination of circumstances, they have been kept in
involuntary inactivity : that, by subtile interpretations
of the public law, applied to a case for which no
such laws exist, because it is entirely novel, the
Queen of PORTUGAL—though surrounded with honours
in this country—is to be deprived during her minority of
all legal means of maintaining her cause, and denied
what would not be refused to the meanest of mankind,
viz. guardians to represent her interests, and a voice to
defend her.

And has England no reproach to make to herself upon
that score? Let me candidly put that question to the
British nation : are not the ties which bind the crowns
of England and Portugal of a nature to invest the King
of Great Britain, in the present case at least, with moral
rights, and impart to him moral duties of a special kind;
—duties, not to be exactly measured by those general
rules upon which you found the opinion that the Govern-
ment of Portugal must be acknowledged, because it
exists de facto, and because it cannot be reckoned as an
actual nuisanie to British interests ? Is the evident in-
terference of England in the affairs of Portugal to cease
and to be silent only at this moment, transferring as it
were to Spain the kind of protectorate which it has been
the policy of her best times to maintain over Portugal,
and of whose existence it would be worse than hypocrisy
to doubt ? and is it worthy of the government of this
generous nation to hurry itself in giving the fatal blow
to a cause with which it cannot sincerely deny that
it has formerly sided, and to abandon all those individuals
of which the greatest number could have submitted pa-
tiently, if not willingly to their destinies, if they had
not reckoned upon the British faith ? I cannot even
now doubt, that the public of this country will answer
these questions in the precise way that I would do it :
and I think, Mr. Editor, that I am justified in answering
now myself—and in the name of my countrymen- -the

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question which has been put by implication to the Por-
tuguese Emigrants, when it is stated that England can
only think of acknowledging the usurpation of the
crown of Portugal [an act which would be interpreted by
all Europe, if not in right at least in fact, as a sanction
given to the change of the Portuguese dynasty, and the
final close of the contest] after having granted what you
call fair play in all the extent of the word to the
contending parties : after having afforded, in fact, a
sufficient time to the Portuguese emigrants to recover
from the disasters which they have suffered, and of
which England is not in her conscience perfectly clear ;
and a sufficient degree of countenance, to enable the
Queen of PORTUGAL to meet her antagonist in an equal
field, and not—as she now is—as a mute and defenceless
minor, against an openly blamed but secretly-protected
Usurper. _ _

J. A. LUSITANUS.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE arrived in town
about eleven o'clock yesterday, from their residence in Bushy
Park. Soon after their arrival the Princess Somata came to pay a
visit to their Royal Highnesses, and was accompanied on her re-
turn to the King's Palace, at Kensington, by the Duchess of
CLARE:NCR.

The Duke of WELLINGTON left his residence in
Downing-street yesterday looming, and proceeded to the Royal
Lodge, in Windsor, where his Grace had an audience of the Kuto,
and afterwards returned to town about five o'clock is the after-
noon.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial Office, for the Honourable General Poxsosir, the Liew
tenant-Governor of Malta ; and also to Sir G. Dom, the Lieutenant
Governor of Gibraltar.

Several gentlemen of the Committee of West India
Merchants and Planters, headed by Mr. G. Ilizazar, attended at
the Treasury yesterday, and had a conference with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
The Prussian Minister had an interview 'with the Earl
of Amount yesterday, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street.
The LORD MAYOR transacted business yesterday at
the Treasury.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and the KING'S ADVO-
can, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office.
Sir ALEXANDER GRANT entertained BOMB of the 1..a-
-binet Msnlsters and a select party to dinner yesterday, at his resi-
dence in Privy Gardens.
The residence of the Duke of CUMBF.RLAND in the
King's Palace, St. James's, has undergone a thorough and sub-
stantial repair, both in the interior and exterior. The drawing
rooms and several rooms en suite leading to it have a most splendid
and elegant appearance • they have been papered with a handsome
crimson Sock paper, the cornices of the rooms and the mouldings
have been newly gilt ; and the furniture, some of which is new, is
very elegant.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND loft London at a very
early hour on Tuesday morning to meet his Duchess and Prince
Glamor, who are on their way to England, and accompany them
to London.

The Duke of Devonshire, at Devonshire House, from Worthing ;
Mr. and Mrs. Allan, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from
Richmond ; Mr. and Mrs. Pierson, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-
street, from Paris; Honourable William Edwards, at ditto, from
a tour; the Honourable and Reverend George Bourke and son, at
Sysomons's Hotel (late Jordan's), St. James's-street, from Ireland ;
Mrs. and the Misses Needs, at ditto, from Staffordshire; Mr. and
Mrs. Leigh, in Grosvenor-street, from Brighton ; Lady and the
Misses Willoughby, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, from a
tour; D. M‘Farlan,; Esq. and Mrs. APFarlan, at ditto, from a
tour ; Mn.W.VacheU and friends, at ditto, from ditto ; J. Cooke,
Esq. Mrs. and Miss Cooke, at ditto, from Brighton ; T. Duffield,
Ifoq. at ditto, from ditto ; J. P. Cranmer, Esq. at ditto from
Essex ; Esq. at ditto, from a tour ; C. A. Prichard,
Esq. at ditto, from ditto ; Darby, Sap at ditto, from ditto ;
John Gwynn', Esq. at Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; T.
Smola. Lee Bosville, Esq. at ditto; H. N. Hogging, Esq. and
Mrs. M•Farlen, at ditto; J. Gibbings, Esq. Mrs. Gibbings, and
Miss Gibbings, at ditto, from Brighton.
DEPARTURES.

The Duke of Manchester, for his seat, Kimbokon Castle ; the
Marquis of Douglas, from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for
Paris; Mr. Grant, from ditto, for ditto; the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Clanricarde, from St. James's-square, for Bishop
Stanford, Hens; Viscount Chabot, from Talke's Hotel, (late
Miller's), Jermyn-street, for Scotland; Owen Williams, Esq.
M.P. from Berkeley-square, for his seat, Temple House,
Great Marlow, Bucks ; Lady S. Bridgemso, for Brighton ;
Count Colbert, from Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle-
street, for Paris ; E. B. Hale, Esq. from Symmons' Hotel, (late
Jordan's), St. James's-street, for Woolwich ; Major Fancourt,
from Fenton's Hotel, Sc. James's-street, for Hampton-curt;
Edward Arbuthnot, Esq. from ditto, for Hants; John Harrocks,
Esq. from ditto, for ditto ; W. Chatteris, Esq. from ditto, for
ditto; Ralph Hoar, Esq. from ditto, for Bath ; Osgood Gee, Esq.
Mrs. Gee, and family, from Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ;
Mrs. Lang and Miss Lang, from ditto; Sir Charles Chad, Ban.
from Fladong's Hotel, Oxford.street, for Broomsea Castle ; T.
Swinnerton, Fag. from ditto, for Butterton-ball ; Rev. P. Knapp,
from ditto, for Oxford.

DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq. M.P. and suite, arrived
at Moriarty's Hotel, Limerick, on Friday evening, where he was
jobbed on Saturday afternoon by Mrs. 4:llTorrvact. and family,
from Dublin. It is the Intention of the Hon. Member to return
with his family to Ennis. where he will attend the A.siaes, and
proceed from thence to OonmeL The family of Mr. O'Counata.
proceed to Derrinane, where they will spend the remainder of the
summer.—Dublirs Register.
The Duchess of ST. ALBAN'S gave an entertainment
at Holly Lodge on Tuesday to a select party, principally relatives.
An order has just been issued, granting the Admiralty
authority to promote ten clerks, and the like number annually in
future. _ _

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Sunday evening the Duke of WELLINGTON, who was
staying at Widmer Castles, attended Divine Service in Weimer
Church, and, sot being recognised by the pew-opener, was placed
In the pew appropriated to strangers. Lord Maivitts, however,
was in Church, saw his Grace, and conducted him to a more ex-
alted situation.—The Duke of Watturaron, accompanied by the
Prince and Princess Ernotausr, and Mr. and Mrs. Aaaurnsor,
dined en Thursday on board his Majesty's ship Ramilies, in the
Downs, en which occasion there was an immense display of flags
and streamers on board, and the scene was altogether very gay,
and highly gratifying.—Mairistene journal.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT, accom-
panied by the Princess VW7OIIIA, passed through Canterbury, on
Sunday afternoon, on her way to Piermont House. The Cathe-
dral bells rang a merry peal at intervals, during the day, in honour
of the event. A carriage-and-four, with attendants, first reached
the King% Head Hotel, and announced the approach of the Royal
Duchess, whose carriage shortly afterwards appeared in view, pre.
ceded by that of Sir J. CONROY (whose lady had gone to Piermont
the previous evening), and Prince LIININGZN, and followed by an-
other carriage-and-four, with other attendants. The greater part
of the domestics paused through in the early part of the week.
Her Royal Highness did net leave her carriage, but partook of
some fine and choice fruit during the time occupied in changing the
Dosses. The carriage left the hotel drawn by four Line animals,
with new harness. A large assembly of spectators assembled round
the carriage, eager to obtain a sight of the Royal personages, who
arrived at their deUghtfully situated abode in the evening with
safety.
Mr. Baron Hummel( was descended from an ancient
family in the North, from whom he derived very considerable
estates, situate near Barnard Castle, in the county of Durham.
He was in early life entered as a Member of Gray's Inn, by which
Society be was In due coarse called to the Bar. He practised at
the Bar with the reputation of being one of the soundest lawyers
in Westminster Hall, for upwards of twenty gears, and was then
promoted toile rank of a Serjeant at Law. He remained Serjeant
bat a few years; however, during that time he was engaged in
several matters of very great moment. He was retained by the
Govenunent to conduct some very important prosecutions, arising
out of the disturbed state of the North, and he also presided with
feat ability on the Commission of Lunacy respecting the Earl of
Poamemover, tha investigation of which, it may be remembered,
took plasm at the Freemasons Hall some few years ago. Shortly
after this period his Lordship was promoted to the office of one of
the Berms of the Exchequer, on the resignation of Mr. Barest
Wee,. This distinguished situation he held till the time of his
deems% which waron Friday last. His Lordship was is the Olith
year it his age. •