Star.
London, England, 1829-09-19 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH, Sept. 17.

Our Races commenced yesterday, and notwithstanding
the very unfavourable state of the weather, the ground presented a
brilliant assemblage of fashionable'.
The Master of the Ceremonies' Ball at the Royal Hotel was bo.
soared with a brilliant assemblage. Among the company Were :
Lady Elisabeth Baker, Sir T. B. Baker, Bart. Mr. Masterson
U. e, M.P. the Misses Baker, Lady and the Misses Thomas, Go-
vernor Penn, Archdeacon Prosser, the Misses Gray, Mrs. Hag-
gett, Baron and Baroness Nokken, the Olken of the 6th Dragoon
Guards, Lady Keir Grant, Colonel and Mrs. Northey, Col. and
Mrs. Robbins, Col. and Mr. Jackson, Major and Mrs. Stephenson,
Mr. and Mrs. Loftus, Mr. W. Stuart, Mr. and Miss Hill, Mr.
and the Misses Radelyffe, Messrs. Radayffe, Mr. Newton, Mr.
C. Baster, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. and Misses St. John, Mr. Scuda.
more Mrs. and the Misses Ellis, Mr. Mrs. and the Misses Norris,
Mr. i:nd Mrs. O'Kelly, Mr. Mrs. and the Misses Cree, Captain
Payne, R.N. Mr. J. liower, Mrs. and Miss Bower, Mr. not,
Mr. and Mrs. Mackenzie, Miss Warden, Rev. Mr. Mrs and
Misses Grissets. Mr. and the Misses Poole, Mr. and the Misses
Henning, Mr. Fryer.
On Tuesday last the Bishop of Bristol, with his Chaplain, Mrs.
and Miss Gray, Dr. praiser, Archdeacon of Durham, Lady Ric-
ketts Ors. Haggett, Mr. and Mrs. Camplin, paid a morning visit
to Ric-
ketts,
Penn, at Pensylvania Castle, in the bland of Port-
land, and partook of an elegant dilator.

The Duke of WELLINwros was, on Thursday, ob-
served laughing heartily at a caricature of himself in a
shop-window in Regent-street.
On Friday last the LORD Li EUTLNANT held a Prit-y
Council in Dublin, which was attended by the CHAN-
CELLOR' COMMANDRR of the FORCES, MASTER of the
ROLLS, ATTORNEY-GENERA 1., Mr. V. FITZGERALD,
and Mr. RADCLIFFE. The business chiefly occupied
%vas the confirming the appointment of Municipal Officers
in Ireland for the ensuing year.
The LORD CHANCELLOR • has appointed HENRY T.
REDMOND, Eiq. of Killorighter House, in the county of
Wicklow, a Justice of the Peace, being the first Roman
Catholic Magistrate appointed for upwards of a century
intott: county.
The
Earl of Ossoay and the Hon. HENRY FLOWER
WALKER, of Castledurrow, have been appointed Magis-
trates for the county Kilkenny.
The LORD CHANCELLOR. intended to leave Dublin
last week for the Lakes. of Killarney, but is detained in
consequence of gout.
The Royal Irish Academy have presented to the Bel-
fast Institution a copy of their Transactions, from the
commencement to the present time.
THE FORTY-SECOND HIGHLANDERS.—The total
number of men that belonged to this gallant regiment, from 1797
to 1818, was 13,147. In 1817, there were only three men living is
the corps that fought against BONAVARTIL in Egypt.
STEAM CoACitEs.—So sanguine are the persons con-
nected with the steam carriages of success, that wagers have been
laid that within a twelvemonth there will be no other kind of public
conveyance so the western road.
THE COMEDY OF LITE.—The world is the stage;
men are the actors ; the events of life form the piece ; fortune dis-
tributes the ports; religion governs the performance ; philosophers
are the spectators; the opulent occupy the boxes; the powerful
the amphitheatre • and** pit is for the unfonunate; the disap-
pointed snuff the candles ; filly composes the music; and time
draws the mato. —Arinur.
Ex-Sheriff PARKINS passed through New Haven,
Connecticut. Weir, and gave orders fee a beauiful monument to
be erected, in the rear of the Centre Church, to the memory of the
regicides Whaley, Gaffe, and Diswell, who were burled in the old
burial travail of that city.

you permit an Englishman, who highly
appreciates your talents, and who still more highly
estimates your zealous exertions in the public cause, to
cavil at the use of one expression in the spirited and im-
partial notice of the late Naval Court-martial, which ap-
peared in THE STAR of Friday evening
" Seeing what we have seen, seeing what we see," I
am persuaded that nothing but the most casual inadver-
tency could have betrayed you into the unmerited com-
pliment which you paid to " the powers that be," when
you made mention of " the military government which
replaced the popular Cabinet under which the victory was
obtained." What, Sir! the modern dictatorship " re-place"
the administration of Mr. CANNING ? It may, indeed,
have " dis-placed the popular Cabinet" of that patriotic
Minister, by the cold-blooded, heartless and remorseless
persecution which thwarted his every measure for his
country's good ; and, at last triumphed over that manly,
and noble nature, which could not cope with the malig-
nant machinations of such dastardly assailants :--but
to be told that " the Military Government replaced
that popular Cabinet"—you know, Sir, " none so well as
you," that the combined intellects of the present Cabinet
from the Dictator down to his Whipper-in—could not
make up the moiety of that vast intelligence which tie
once immortal master-spirit infused into the Councils of
the State. The Duke of WELLINGTON replace Mr.
CAN NING !! The Duke of WELLINwroN supply the
place (far that is the literal interpretation of the phrase),
• of any Minister hut such a •• Male MALAPROP of
politics" as the CASTLEREAGH of 1798—the LON DON -
DER nr of 1820 ! Nay, even to that inauspicious, that
unenviable, eminence, his Grace could bring but few—
and those the worst—of the Machiavelian qualifications
which rendered that unlamented statesman the most
dmgerous Minister ever inflicted upon a free country.
The Duke possesses, in an incomparably superior tie-
gree, the daring ambition—the reckless hardihood—the
insatiable desire of arbitrary rule—the hatred of free in-
stitutions—the contempt of native land—the thirst after
foreign alliances,—the scorn of popular right,—and,
above all, the deep-rooted aversion to that great moral
engine of national freedom—Tit PRESS : but he does
not possess the sagacity—the tbresight—the political
tact—the courtierly suppleness—the diplomatic craft--
the Cabinet cunning—the knowledge of mankind, or the
plausible pretensions, which acre the peculiar properties
of that pander to Princely power —that scourge el
subjects.
London, Sept. 19, 1829. JOHN OLDII AM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.