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This morning despatches were received at the Colonial
Office from the Earl of CHATHAM, Governor of Gi-
braltar; and from Lieutenant-General the Honourable

F. C. Powson BY, the Governor at Malta.

The dispatches from Gibraltar are dated the 12th of
October, and those from Malta the 18th of September.

We have received several enquiries, on the subject of
our late notice of Lord GROSVENOR. A correspondent,
who signs himself A WHIG OF THE OLD SCHOOL, de-
sires to be informed whether we intended—in our article
on the proprietary boroughs—to recant or qualify aught
which we had pronounced of censure upon the Noble
Earl, in our comments upon the Chester dinner ? De-
cidedly not. It is true that our observations upon the
borough system arose collaterally out of that occurrence,
inasmuch as a Member of the Cheshire Whig Club—
imagining us to have wronged Lord Gaosv exon in some
essentials—called upon us to do reparation to the Noble
Earl, and also to correct a mistake into which we had
fallen, relative to the identity of Mr. DAVIES DAV Elf
PO RT. We published, therefore—as we were bound to
do—the letter of this last correspondent, and our lead-
ing remarks for that day were addressed to a few of its
principal points: but it will be seen by a reference to
the STAR of the 12th and 13th ultimo, that the con-
cessions which we made to the Noble Earl in his capa-
city of borough-master, did not in any way alter, or
affect the condemnation which we had pronounced upon
his subserviency to the Noble Duke. In that
condemnation we inflexibly persevere. It is
pernicious example for those who cannot afford—
within any approachable degree—to be as honest
as my Lord GROSVENOR can, to see the Noble Earl fas-
cinated from the path of political rectitude, and pros-
trating his high state amid the crowd of meaner syco-
phants, before the shrine of despotic ascendency. The
condition of th 9 country, perhaps, was never—since the
expulsion of the House Of STUART—SO critical as
at this conjuncture : and if, in addition to
the various oppressions derived from excessive
taxation, and all the ramifying details of go-
vernment unconstitutionally administered, the people
'are to witness one by one the secession
from them of their most prevalent and influential friends,
it is easy to see that they will not bear it much longer.
For the effect of these great desertions, will be to throw
them directly on their own resources ; and so soon as
they once perceive that they are left alone—with no alter-
native between abject misery, and the strenuous re-
assertion of their rights-their union will be simultaneous
and overwhelming. It never did take place yet—an
union such as that which we now contemplate.—and fail
to bring the crest of tyranny to the ground. But we
shall recur to these considerations more fully.

It will not be out of place here, to notice the postscript
of the MEMBER OF THE LATE Wnio CLUB, which
—in our anxiety to reply to some of his major
points—we overlooked on Tuesday. " I under-
stand"—says our correspondent—" the suppression of
Mr. EDWARD DAVENPORT'S letter was entirely ac-
cidental, being a mere oversight of the Chairman's amid
the hurry of other business." ...Now, we beg onr corres-
pondent to ask himself the simple question, whether it
is likely, that a letterbreathing the glorious principles
which Mr. DAVENPORT'S letter bresithed• -.could, at
such a Meeting as that of the Chester Whig Club, assem-
bled too for the express purpose of making its annual
political ' professions, have been accidentally thrown
aside? Our respected Correspondent will not—we
should think—on re-considering the importance of that
letter, persevere in his insinuated opinion. If Mr.
TOLLETT could IN, guilty of such an, inadvertence, the
Honourable Gentleman is utterly unfit for the high
presidency with which he was invested : but if he could
be capable of its suppression, we know not •the term in
all the la:Kliegs of exprobration, -sufficiently strong to
stigmatise the moral enormity. • We call upon hiss to
explain the (=lesion.
A Morning.P,iper,
_pulling in the wake of the Times,
whose doctrinsirof" State necessity" concerning the re-
cognition s( Don Idiom we have already held up to
public 62:14u, and Oloqatibag 1 (aims .46 radon with

the following paragraph at the close of a laboured com-
mentary on the relative position of England with regard
to Portugal:--
" It is futile to urge objections to a termination of the
present suspense by a reference to the personal demerits of
an individual; international concerns of overwhelming
importance are not to be kept unsettled until a claimant
wholly unexceptionable in character can be disicovered.
Besides, it is perfectly easy to renew our amicable rela-
tions, in so far as the interests of British subjects may
require, without at all compromising the reputation of
our Cabinet by any step that could be strained into an
approval of Usurpation."
The writer might have saved himself some time and
trouble by merely copying the passages from the Times,
to which we have replied, since they are an exact echo to
the sentiments of his contemporary. Having already
so frequently given our opinion—as well as those of the
most enlightened of the Portuguese patriots, on the
whole subject, it is not our present intention to recapitu-
late many unanswerable'arguments.
Nevertheless, we would ask the writer, what gave
rise to the long coalition against NAPOLEON, but the
" personal demerits" attributed to that extraordinary
man by the Allied Sovereigns ? That he was the
choice of the great majority of the French nation
will not be denied : while it is notoriously the reverse,
in the instance of the Portuguese usurper.
Upon the facility of renewing our " amicable relations
as far as British subjects may require," we are not less at
`variance with the Morning Chronicle. We flatly deny
the possibility of securing British subjects from insult
and persecution, or British property from being wantonly
seized and sequestrated, under a wretch who has fur-
nished such repeated proofs of his total disregard of
both : or rather, such a settled determination to seek
every pretext for their spoliation and annoyance. We
are most impatient to see the whole of the Portuguese
question brought before Parliament, and entertain the
sanguine hope that there is still sufficient patriotism
and public spirit left, to redeem England from the deep
disgrace which a flagitious Ministry has entailed on her
throughout the whole civilized world.
When we remind our readers that this advocacy—se
important to the oppressed Portuguese, and so inte-
resting to Europe generally—has been undertaken by
Mr. DAVIES DAVENPORT, they will at least feel with
us thathope is not yet fiedfrem the cause of constitutions.

In reply to several letters we have received concerning
the improvement in the mode of fitting ships rudders,
made by Captain Liu ou, of the Navy, and to which we
called the attention of the nautical world some days
ago, on account of the extreme importance of the inven-
tion, and facility of its application ; we are now enabled
to inform our correspondents, that one of the ships pre-
pared on the new principle, will be launched from the
building yard of Messrs. CURLI)IO and YOVNO, Lime-
house, on Saturday next, the 14th . instant. We need
not say that an invention so calculated to become emi-
nently useful, is entitled to the particular attention of
naval and mercantile men.

We bawd the Allgen:thee Zeitung, and Frankfort
Papers to the 31st ult. this day. By our extracts from
the former, it will be observed that Pius has succeeded,
by virtue of a special commission, in the conviction and
condemnation of the Society of Carbonari that annoyed
his territories for such a length of time.