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ERRATA.
Ina part of our impression on Saturday, a letter which we
copied from the Tunes newspaper was erroneously headed by the
printer, " To the editor of the STAR i" we have to apologize to
our contemporary for having overlooked this inadvertence until
our paper went to the city ; but it was corrected the moment we
discovered it.
In the article un the " Dons of WICLLINGTON and his Fossiou
Poucv" the word "flame" occurs twice, and ought—ln both places
—to be Masse.

Last night, Mr. HAN' EL AN D, one of the Kt NO'S Mes-
sengers, arrived at the Foreign Office with despatches to
the Earl of ABERDEEN from the Hon. Mr. GORDON at
Constantinople, and from Lord COW LEY' at Vienna.

The Haniburi Reporter, received this morning, ai
giving the treaty of peace between Russia and Turkey,
I,dds the following " Separate Act."—One comment
taken from this document, is sufficient to settle the ques_
the Principalities for ever, and to establish the
ir of NICHOLAS for moderation.—" The
PORTE engages to retain no fortified point
the left bank of the Danube, nor to permit any
tent there of its Mahomedan subjects. It is ac-
ly irrevocably fixed, that no Mahomedan shall
allowed to have his residence in Moldavia or
;hia." We content ourselves with giving this'
:traordinary paper to our readers to-day, and reserve
remarks for to-morrow :
SEPARATE AC'T,
va TO THE PRINCIPALITIES OF MOLDAVIA
AND WALLACIIIA.
the name of the ALMIGHTY GOD! The two
contracting powers, at the same time that they
all the stipulations of the separate act of
:ermann, relative to the forms to be observed on the
of the Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia,
recognized the necessity of giving to the adminis-
. of those provinces a more durable basis, and one
harmony with their true interests. With this
. has been and definitively resolved, that the reign
Hospodars shall not, as formerly, be limited to
.ears ; but they shall be invested with their dignity
, except in the case of a free and unconstrained
abdication, or of an expulsion in consequence of crimes
committed, as detailed in the said separate act.
• Hospodars are to administer the internal govern-
of their provinces, with the assistance of their
according to their own pleasure ; but without
.witting themselves any infraction of the rights gua-
ranteed to the two countries by treaties, or Hatti-Scherifs ;
- shall their administration be disturbed by any cow-
' tending to the violation of those rights.
Sublime Porte obliges itself conscientiously to keep
that the privileges granted to Moldavia and Wal-
t shall in uo way be violated by the neighbouring
:moss, and that these shall in no way be allowed to
interfere in the affairs of those two provinces ; also, to
it the inhabitants of the right bank of the Danube
making excursions upon the territory of Moldavia
Wallachia. All isles situate nearest to the left bank
Danube are to be considered as part of the terri-
of those provinces ; and to the point where it enters
ittawan territory, to the point of its confluence with
Prutb, the channel of the Danube is to form the
Indarieo of the two Principalities.
provide the mere securely for the inviolability of the
.toldavian and Wallachian territory, the Sublime Porte
engages to retain no fortified point upon the left bank of
e Danube ; nor to permit any settlement there of its
Mahomedan subjects. It is accordingly irrevocably
that no Mahomedan shall ever be allowed to have
_ residence in Moldavia or Wallachia; and that only
merchants, provided with firmans, shall be admitted for

the purpose of buying, on their own account, such arti-
cles as may be required for the consumption of Con-
stantinople.
The Turkish cities situate on the left bank of the
Danube are to be restored to Wallachia, to remain incor-
porated with that principality ; and the fortifications pre-
viously existing on that bank are never to be repaired.
Mahometans possessing landed property, either in those
cities or upon any point left of the Danube, provided they
have not unfairly become possessed thereof, (non usurpis
sur des particuliers) shall be found to sell such pro-
perty to natives within 18 months.
The Government of the Principalities being entitled
to all the privileges of independence in their internal
administration, it shall be lawful for the same to draw
sanitary cordons, and to establish quarantine stations
along the line of the Danube, and whereever else it
may be deemed necessary ; nor shall any strangers,
be they Christians or Mahometans, have a right to con-
sider themselves above an exact compliance with such

quarantine regulation. For the execution of the quaran-
tine duty, the protection of the frontiers, the maintenance
of order in the cities and in the open country, and for the
purpose of obedience to these decrees, the Government of
each Principality shall be permitted to maintain a suffi-
cient military force. The numerical force of these troops
is to be determined by the Hospodars, and their restric-
tive divans, upon the basis of former examples.
The Sublime Porte, animated by an earnest wish to
secure to the two principalities every species of prospe-
rity which they are capable of enjoying, and being aware
of the abuses and oppression occasioned by,the contribu-
tion for the supply of Constantinople, and the victualling
of the fortresses of the Danube, renounces in the most
complete and unconditional manner its rights in this
respect. Moldavia and Wallachia are accordingly for
ever relieved of all those contributions of corn, provi-
sions, cattle, and timber, which they were formerly
bound to furnish. Nor shall, in any case, labour-
ers be demanded from these provinces, for any
forced service (corae.) In order, however, in some
degree to indemnify the Grand-signorial treasury for the
losses which may be sustained by this renunciation of
rights, Moldavia and Wallachia are bound, indepen-
dently of the yearly tribute paid under the de-
nominations of Kharadzh, 'dive, and Rakiabiye,
(by virtue of the Hatti-Scheriff of 1622,) to pay
to the sublime Porte yearly, a pecuniary indemnity,
the amount of which is hereafter to be determined,—
Moreover, upon every fresh nomination of a Hospodar
in consequence of death, resignation, or deposition, the
Principality where that event occurs, shall be bound to
pay to the Sublime Porte, a sum equal to the yearly
tribute of the province. With the exception of these
sums, no tribute or present of any kind shall, under any
pretext whatever, be demanded from the Hospodars.
In consequence of the outline of the above specified
contributions, the inhabitants of the principalities are to
enjoy an unlimited freedom of trade for all the produc-
tions of their soil and industry, as stipulated by the se-
parate act of the treaty of Akermann ; the same not to
be liable to any other restraint, except such as the hos-
podars, with the consent of their Divans, may consider
necessary for the due provisioning of the country ; they
shall be allowed to navigate the Danube with their own
vessels, being provided with passports from their own go-
vernment; and it shall be lawful for them to proceed, for
the purposes of trade, to the other harbours and ports of
the Sublime Porte,without suffering any persecution from
the collectors of the Kharadsh, and without being exposed
to any other act of oppression whatever.
Duly considering, moreover, all the burdens which it
has been necessary for Moldavia and Wallachia to sup-
port, the Sublime Porte, animated by a proper feeling of
humanity, consents to release the inhabitants from the
yearly tribute payable to the treasury for the space of
two years, to be reckoned from the day of the total eva-
cuation of the Principalities by the Russian troops.
Finally, the Sublime Porte, animated by the wish to
secure in every possible way the future prosperity of the
two Principalities, binds itself to confirm every adminis-
trative measure which, during their occupation by the
Russian army, may have been decreed in confor-
mity to a wish expressed in the assemblies of the
principal inhabitants of the country, such decrees
serving thenceforward as the basis of the internal admi-
nistration of those provinces ; provided always that such
decrees do not any way infringe upon the rights of so-
vereignty vested in the Sublime Porte.
On this account, we, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries
of his Majesty the Emperor and Padishah of all the
Russias, have conjointly, with the plenipotentiaries of
the Sublime Ottoman Porte, regulated and fixed the
points respecting Moldavia and Wallachia, the same
being a continuation of Art. V.. of the Treaty of Peace,
concluded at Adrianople, between us and the Ottoman
Plenipotentiaries.
Done at Adrianople, 24 (14) Sept. 1229.
(Signed) Count 6LEXIS ORLOW,
(Signed) Count F. V. PAHLEN. .
Confirmed In the original copy by
Count DIEBITSCH SABALKANSKY,
'gat Second Army.

This morning we have the A llgemeine Zeitung, and
Hamburgh Papers to the 20th instant. The former
contains some particulars of a fearful storm which de-
vastated the neighbourhood of Trieste ; the latter has
nothing of importance, further than a notice from Stock-
holm, stating that his MAJESTY is convalescent. The
following are extracts :
TRIESTE, OCT. 9.
Frets the Obsereatore Triestine, 4' October 13.
After the almost daily rains for above a month, our roads were
yesterday visited by a furious storm, which did great damage to
the shipping. At day-break the rapid course of the clouds to the
N.W. shewed that the Sirocco was very violent ; but from the
situation of our roads, we did not expect any disastrous conse-
quences. But, all at once, the wind turned to the S.W. and blew
with increasing fury ; so that we were exposed to the whole vio-
lence of the sea and wind ; which impelled the waves to-
wards the coast, so that the lower part of the city, next
the sea, was inundated to a depth, of which we do not re-
member any former instance. Happily the ebb set in
just at the time of the storm ; so that after the first fury
of the waves was broken, the waters subsided ; but not with-
out having damaged a great quantity of goods in the magazines
and warehouses, which were so unexpectedly overflowed. Our
fears for the ships at anchor were not so soon dispelled, for the sea
was in the most violent agitation with the raging of the storm
from eight in the morning till four in the afternoon. The chief
damage sustained was reduced to the following :--the American
brig Zamor, which lay at anchor at the mouth of the Channel, and
her chain-cables broken, and run foul of a bark ; and the English
brigantine, Gambia, broke her chain-cable, and was driven
by the wind to the Jquero Pond% and damaged a small honer
against which she struck. All the banks have sustained great
damage. At the Lazaretto of St. Theresa, several parts of the
parapet were thrown down, and the lighthouse, near the Lazaretto,
was raised from its foundation and thrown on the neighbouring
rocks—happily, no lives were lost.
PRONE, Oct. S.

To.day we bare bad a most dreadful storm : we ban already

heard of five boats, partly laden, that are lost; two ships have also
drove ashore. We do not yet know how many lives have been
lost.-41llgesseine Seisms& 20l Oct.
HAMBURGH, OCT. 17.
It is affirmed that on the 27th Sept. a Russian squadron of 11
large ships of war was seen to pass by Calmar. steering, as It was
thought, towards the Sound.
STOCKHOLM, Ors. 13. . .

The bulletin of his Majesty's health announced to-day that the
fever has not returned, and his Majesty is convalescent.—Hass-
Papers, Oct 20.
NIOMIANORS ON LONDON.
HASUURGH OCT. 20.-13 101 ; two months, 13 9i.
LIMN, OCT. 15.—Three months, 6 16i
Braun, Ocr.l7.—Three months, 6 261.
Banos, Oct. 16.—Two months, 610 611.
Cuarartania, Ocr. 7.—Three months, 6 21.

The high and general dissatisfaction manifested by the
Bengal Army in all its branches, at the odious and ty-
rannical attempt to reduce its field allowances, which—
under tho designation of batta—constitute an important
portion of its pay, has created a deep sensation in Leaden-
hall-street. We do not envy the Hon ou RA BLE COURT
its position—with its Charter on the eve of expiring, and
its territorial possessions jeopardised, when it can least
afford to display the antics of capricious Sovereignty.
That it should exhibit reluctance to give up its long en-
joyed monopoly of the trade to China—productive to it
as have been those misapplied sweets of corruption—we
do not think unnatural : undisturbed fruition has taught
it to regard that abuse, almost as a constitutional right;
but its mad injustice in this affair of the batta, merits
quite the appellation of a suicidal policy. During the last
week, memorials remonstrating in strong language
against the grievance of these reductions, have found
their way into the public prints. These documents re-
present the feelings of dismay and discontent, at the pro-
mulgation of the order for carrying them into effect, to
be universal throughout the service. There is a memo-
rial from the Artillery, signed by General MscLeon, the
Commandant, and forty-four officers; there is another
from the Cavalry, signed by Colonel HA WTREY, and
fifteen of his brother officers, in the name of the
whole body; another from Colonel CoMY N, of the
24th Native Infantry, and all the officers of that
corps, on behalf of the Infantry of Bengal; and there
is a fourth memorial from the medical staff. All
these memorials are addressed to the GOVERNOR-
GENERAL in Council, to whom they were not only sub-
mitted by the Commander in Chief of the Indian Army,
Lord Con BERM ERE, but before whom they were sup-
ported in their full prayer by that noble and gallant
General, and supported—it is said—with such argu-
ments, as determined Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK in-
stantly to write to England, recommending that the
obnoxious Order should be rescinded. Nor can we
entertain a doubt that the HONOURABLE COURT in
Leadenhall-street—when it considers the quarter from
which this recommendation conies, as well as that from
which the remonstrance proceeds—will hasten to repair
its error.
Tha memorial on the part of the Artillery says—that
the abstraction of superfluity might be received with
indifference, and an overpowering State necessity might
reconcile men of honourable principles to temporary pri-
vations : but the ARTILLERY cannot refrain from
declaring itself wholly unable to bear quietly a per-
manent reduction, from that which was before barely
adequate for a decent maintenance. The memorial on
the part of the Cavalry, calls to mind the " belief
and underAanding" with which—at the outset of life
—its members entered the army of the Hoxou RA BLE
CO M r ; abandoning, their connexions and their
native land, in the full reliance " that they would
enjoy during their exile a scale of income not only
sufficient to support them as gentlemen," but to enable
them to lay by from it for the future. This me-
morial is in some places even affectingly worded : it is
an eloquent appeal against the injurious Order which
it repudiates, and sets in a strong light the bad
faith of the DIRECTORS towards their servants—
amounting to a violation of compact—which its promul-
gation involves. We should be wanting—say the
CAVALRY—in a due regard for the welfare of the
army, if we submitted silently to the operation of the
order. The memorial on the part of the Infantry, ex-
presses confident hope and expectation that the Go-
v ERNOR-GENERAL will defer carrying the order into
effect, until reference can be made to England : but if
the reductions which it deprecates shall be persevered in,
the cheerfulness and promptitude in duty which have
hitherto distinguished the INFANTRY, must give place
to feelings of dissatisfaction and despondency which it is
not in human nature to combat or overcome."
With all our hearts, we sympathise with these gallant
Remonstmnts, who have deserved better things of their
unjust and insensate masters. It is true, they are at a
great distance from the parties whom they memorialise,
and distance—in the case of represented injury—is con-
ceived always to be detrimental to the chances of redress.
But they have this advantage over ordinary complainers,
that they are the physical depositaries of the Sovereignty
against whose injustice they are expostulating, and they
expostulate with arms in their hands. As to the cant
about obedience being the paramount duty of a soldier,
which appeared on Saturday in an evening paper,
with whom the vindication of tyranny is in some
sort an official obligation, we recommend the HoNouR-
ABLE COURT—if it values its future power of dictation—
to adopt in this instance the promptings of a more enlight-
ened policy. The Indian army can feel no chivalrous
feudal principle of ALLEGIANCE, to bind it—an instant
longer than protection is reciprocated for service—to ase
of commercial Suzerains, who owe to IT every foot of
their extensive territory, every soul among the countless
millions who call them LORDS. Let them beware how they
to inflict a grievance
exasperatewhichihiast, sobylPcoeftrislyistiiinppgealed. The conjpncture
justlya6.ains t
in which they are about to lose their charter—or to yield
up. for only a modified renewal of it, the marrow of their
hitherto guaranteed monopolies—is not the safest in which
to try experiments, which may alienate the affections of

their army. Where would this company of traders be,
if the military—throughout those enormous possessions--
declared itself independent of their authority to-morrow ?
There would be no sending over a regiment or tux► of
• _

King's troops—supposing that Government were inclined
to assist them—to put down the formidable and distant
mutiny : even the entire army of England, were it prac-
ticable to transport it thither, would be insufficient to stay
the plague.
The Courier, who treats the affair with signal insaga-
city and want of feeling, observes that it is so much a
matter of course for officers to memorialise autho-
rity on topics connected with " pensions, pay, and
promotion," that it is quite ridiculous to entertain an'
serious apprehension on the subject. According to him,
the members of that profession, when they have once
submitted themselves to military discipline, are never
thenceforward to acknowledge any but the mechanical
impulses which directing power communicates. P Ass lv is
os ED I HNC E—even under arbitrary and insolent oppres-
sion—seems with the Courier to be the cardinal virtue
of a soldier. The Bengal army—he says—has expressul
a natural disinclination to have its allowances reduced,
and its memorials, to procure the matter to be re-consi-
sidered—backed by the recommendation of the exalted
Functionaries in that Presidency—have been forwarded
to the Supreme Authorities here. As a matter of course--
he continues--the re-consideration will take place," and
there can be little doubt that the ultimate decision will
be strictly consonant with the principles of justice and
the important interests involved." Now, as the " inte-
rests involved" are those of the Directors especially, we
are inclined to be of the same opinion—but not at all on
the same grounds—as the Courier. We do not think
so highly—indeed, we do not think highly in any view—
of the principles of justice which govern the Leadenhall-
street Corporation : but the arguntentum ad imperii rui-
nam, we suspect, will prove equipolent to more ge-
nerous animations. The Officers of the INDIAN ARM v
have manifested no desire " to intimidate" their supe-
riors : they have merely assumed that preparatory atti-
tude, from which the HONOURABLE COMPANY may
infer—without being conjurors—that the tame abandon-
ment of their invaded rights is the very last thing which
they contemplate.

Our promised narrative describing the treatment ex-
perienced by the Spanish exiles and patriots, from Don
MIGUEL and his agents, will be found in another co-
lumn. All we shall say of this document is, that there
are a hundred witnesses now in London, ready to prove
its perfect veracity—since they were themselves among
the sufferers.

While we cannot doubt that public sympathy will be
largely extended towards these unfortunate persons,
whose only crime has been a desire to give
freedom to their country and maintain the prin-
ciples .they had espoused, we trust that be-
sides the subscription which has commenced under
such generous auspices, some influential means may be
adopted, for inducing the Government to take up this
matter in a national point of view. Here we might go
back to the origin of the Spanish Constitution, framedas it
was at the instigation of England, and while Spain was
among the most effective and faithful of her allies.
We appeal to the noble Duke himself, whether the
Spanish Patriots have not a powerful and unanswerable
claim on the protecting generosity of England. We shall
not be suspected of adulation or flattery, when we remind
the Noble Duke that his brightest laurels were gathered
in Spain, and that however inefficient the co-operation of
a few of the Spanish Generals may have been, the people
never ceased to act as powerful auxiliaries.
While we invoke not merely subscriptions, but every
article of clothing which can be spared from families or
individuals, we would fain call the particular attention
of Ministers, and especially of the Noble Duke, to
this subject. Until the Cabinet of Madrid is
persuaded to receive the exiles, and give us a gua-
rantee for their safety when once in Spain, would it
it be too much to entreat that a wing of one the hun-
dred now empty, military quarters might be assigned to
the starving soldiery whose case is set forth in the nar-
rative ; men, of whom perhaps many fought and bled in
the fields of Salamanca and Talavera ? If to this were
added a few weeks rations, and some old blankets, the
Duke would acquire laurels of a new kind—they would
not be less fresh and green than those obtained from his
most brilliant victories.
We should hope the above narrative,which has acciden-
tally fallen into our bands, will find a place in the
columns of our contemporaries throughout the kingdom.
Its circulation will do more than any ordinary appeal to
the British generosity.
BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF THE SPA-
NISH PATRIOTS IN PORNIGAL.
•

The injustice and cruelty with which the Government
of Don MIGUEL has treated the Spanish exiles, who
sought an asylum in Portugal, having been frequently
alluded to by the Public Press ; and a number of these
unfortunate persons having reached England in a state
of the utmost destitution, we have little doubt that the
following affecting statement, drawn up by one of the
sufferers, will be read with deep interest, even by those
who have no political sympathies to bestow on the
victims of such wanton oppression :
The Spaniards who took refuge in Portugal went there at dif-
ferent periods, and, from various motives; some sought shelter from
the relentless persecutions which followed the invasion of the
French for the purpose of putting down the Constitution; many
were provided with passports in regular form, which were regia-
wegt at the Spanish Legation ; scene had fled with their arms from
tar garrisons on the frontier, rather than surrender to the Libertl-
ride army. Another portion of the emigrants consisted of those
who, on bearing that a eh.. ter bad been granted to his subjects
by Don Pena°, were glad to avail themselves of the protection it
was likely to afford, as well as to Sy from the system of espionage
and persecution to which their opinions exposed them at home.
. Finally, a cousiderable number of those patriots, who bad passed
over to England and the Netherlands after the French invasioa,
naturally wished to seek a more genial climate, and little imagined
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The Government of the Princess Regent, in order to prtven e
the exiles from committing any hostility against Spain, established

three depots for their reception—one for the infantry, a second for
the cavalry, and a third to receive officers and civilians. The depots
were superintended by Spanish officers of known integrity, while a
Portuguese General, with another officer of high rank under him,
were entrusted with the command and general management. Such
of the refugees as could provide for their own subsistence were al-
lowed to reside at Lisbon, under the surveillance of the Police.
This was so strict and effectual, that with the exception of a few

individuals, afterwards proved to have been spies and emissaries sent
by the Apostolic*ls, not a single individual betrayed the smallest

disposition to take advantage of the asylum thus afforded, to inter-
fere with what was passing in his own country. Notwithstanding

the studious efforts of the Patriots to merit the confidence and ap-

probation of the Portuguese Ministers, several were ordered out of
the country under suspicion of having infringed .the rules estab-
lished for their conduct, whether in the depots or at Lisbon. Those
who remained were so circumspect and prudent that neither the
Minister, SANTA MK, by no means liable to the suspicion of Ultra-

liberalism, the almost Apostolical police of Bassos, nor unceasing
activity of Sir WILLIMI A'Couzz, could find anything to condemn.
As if a regular plan of • persecution had been prepared,
scarcely had Don Ithaum arrived, and before his treason burst
forth, when suddenly piquets of the armed police sallied out,
and in the dead of night seized a Spanish General, some
Colonels, several Priests. and Dignitaries of the Church,

together with some Spanish merchants who had resided four-
teen years in Portugal with the full approbation of the Go-
vernment. The whole of these persons were conveyed to the
Lemoira now well known throughout Europe, and thrown into
the commonest part of that loathsome receptacle to associate with

the vilest criminals. Orders were at the same time given to arrest

the commandants of the depots. These were sent front Lisbon
and Santaren, to Abrantes and Peniche. While the depots were

thus deprived of their leaders, several Portuguese regiments, who

had determined to adhere to the charter, were on their march

to Oporto, in order to resist the apostolical faction. The Spaniards
could have easily repaired to the same point, as there were at this
moment no means of preventing such a movement. Having, how-
ever, pledged themselves to follow the orders of the government,
they did not stir, or indeed commit a single act which could fur-
nish a pretext for the subsequent measures put in force againit
them.

On the 28th of May, 1828, nearly the whole of the Spanish
officers and soldiers, were thrown into three Hulks moored in the
Tagus, where with the exception of those who have lately been al-
lowed to withdraw, they have been exposed to every privation and
hardship which the most malignant spirit of persecution could devise.
As no preparations whatever were made on board these vessels,
for the reception of so many prisoners, nothing could exceed the
horror of their situation, and total absence of every conveniency.
To add to their sufferings, they were frequently transported,
without a moment's notice, from one ship to another, as
these happened to be required for some other service.
Three hundred soldiers were literally crammed into the
lower deck of the Maria Cardoso, and eighty three officers
put into the ward-room of the same ship. An equal number of
rank and file were confined in the lower deck of the San Samoan,
while one hundred and fifteen officers were restricted to a
part of the ward-room. Besides the misery of being thus huddled
together in such a limited space. the ports were fastened down
with iron bolts, so that there was not a particle of air except what
descended through the hatchways, and not a soul was suffered to
go on deck. In addition to this state of suffering, they had neither
beds nor hammocks, nor were they allowed any cooking utensils.—
Some notion may be formed of their situation with regard to cloth-
ing, when it is stated that several of the officers were almost naked,
while scarcely a stogie individual bad a change of linen. They were
soon covered with vermin, which, together with want of food and
other privations,brought on a contagions fever : this carried off num-
bers, especially on board the Maria Cardoso. The soldiers were of
course forced to perform all the drudgery of the ships, and during
the time thus employed, armed keepers with bludgeons in their
hands, inflicted heavy blows on the most frivolous pretences.—
Emissaries were sent on board by the police to tamper with the pri-
soners, and persuade them to effect their escape ; those of the exiles
whose wives had followed their fortunes were separated from them
and confined in a different part of the ships. Whenever a muster
took place, die Portuguese commander never failed to point some
loaded cannon towards the prisoners lest any attempt at escape
should be made.

A considerable number were also immured in the dungeons of
Saint Julian, where they continue exposed to hardships and cru-
elties which are almost incredible. It is a well known fact, that
the tide frequently Bows into the narrow cells in which they are
confined, that they ate scarcely ever suffered to see the light of
day, while bread and water is their only food. Titles .Terdais, the
governor, and one of the most furious partisans of the usurper, de-
lights in adding to the tortures .f his victims, by getting up
accusations of plots against them, and inflicting punishment with
his own hand, whenever vengeance or caprice may dictate. It was
thus that be destroyed the virtuous Munoz Toaasao, a member of
the Spanish Cones, and a Bishop, distinguished for his piety,
learning, and patriotism. The death of this amiable prelate, who
died through the cruelty of his treatment, is deplored by the whole
constitutional party of Spain as an irreparable calamity.
The mode adopted by the agents of the Usurper to tantalize their
victims, and inspire hopes of release which there was no intention
of carrying into effect, is worthy of remark. So early as August,
1828, a few month. after their imprisonment, they were de-
sired to name the countries to which they wished to retire.
This was instantly complied with, by some naming England,
others France, the Brazils, and even Spain. It was not,
however, till last April that any person could obtain
his liberation. Forty-three officers, and a hundred and
thirty soldiers, were then escorted by a large armed force to
Bedejos, and there handed over to the authorities, by whom they
were instantly consigned to a prison. Those who remained being
again ordered to indicate the points to which they wished to go,
warned by the fate of those who bad selected their own country,
renewed the former request relative to England, and two parties
have accordingly reached this country. There is still a large
number remaining in confinement, and exposed, as before, to every
species of suffering which a rigorous imprisonment can inflict.
How different was the reception of the ?diguelites in Spain !
Not only were they assisted by the Government even after its policy
with regard to them had changed, but the very Constitutionalists,
whose relatives were afterwards confined in the bulks at Lisbon,
paid them the most humane attentions. It is said that remon-
strances were made by some of the Consuls resident at Lisbon, and
that even the Envoy of FUDDIAND, brother to the Spanish Minis-
ter now in London, joined in these representations to the agents of
the Usurper—with what effect, it is needless to state.

Judge Day and Mrs. Day left Limerick on Monday,
for Clatisford-House, the seat of the Lord Bishop of Killaloe.
The East India Company's ship Princess Charlotte of
Wales, outward-bound, was all well, in lat. 20. 40. South. long.
29. 30. West.

A vessel has arrived from Buenos Ayres at Liverpool,
sailed 18th of August; nothing has as yet transpired of
the information she brings.
The New Orleans Mercantile Advertiser, says,
that „An important law case was pending before one
of the Courts of that city, involving the right
all d duty of a Court of that country to deliver up a
deserter from a foreign army within its territory.
It arose from a demand made by a Lieutenant of the
Spanish Forces at the town for the arrestatjon and deli-
very of a deserter to his officer, and is resisted on various
grounds. No description of the case has as yet taken
place,

FOR THE STAR.

THE RECANTATION.

" I ant not mad, vast n.blr FESTL I.'
Though once I solemnly avowed

I must be mad to think of puce,
And some, who that avowal heard,
Indignant flung back—word for word—
Th' unblushing falsehood in my face ,
I've gained the goal—my speech a jest i,—
" I am not mad, most noble FeCTUII !"
I ne'er in that beguiling hour
Imagined Statesmen could he found
To fly the post—and tamely cower,
Whilst, like a fort, the seat of Power

I scaled at one tremendous bound !
A ruse de guerre my speech cnnfest is,
•' I am not mad, most noble FESTUS !"

Though sanguine as " souls made of fire,"
Spoiled child of Fortune though I he—
I saw, surpassing wild desire,
DnIAD, Duro, and Durum conspire,
To work ev'n miracles for me.
Success, of human skill the test is—
" I am oot mad, most noble FESTCS !"
For, having with a sword of flame
Nations and Empires overthrown,
And on their ruins built my fame—
It long has been my boldest aim
To try my hand upon "w own !
I've gained the goal—" a farce" the rest is—
" I am not mad, most noble Funs!"
Yet, though in " pride of place" elate,—
Some grumblers swear, beneath my sway,
As 'neath th' avenging stroke of Fate,
The glorious pillar of the State
Moulders in premature decay :
Well !—e'en though crumbling into dust 'tis,
" I am not mad, most noble Ferns!"
But I will make the grumblers groan,
And work the base Philistines woe ;
For they shaU find, that, stone by stone,
The hand, the mighty band alone,
That prnpp'd the pile can lay it low !
My model 'a &MOON AMMISTFIH-.•
" I am not mad, most noble Films!"

London, Oct. 24, 1829.