Star.
London, England, 1829-07-07 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received an important Letter frum Lord &Amman,
in reply to some constructions which had been put by us on the
Parliamentary principles and opinions of the Noble Marquis. It
shall appear tomorrow.
MilCaTell is only delayed from the press of imperious matter.

The state of Ireland is certainly feverish, and there
is a great tendency to further excitement ; but we
ascribe much of its present irritation to the injudicious
exclusion of the Member for Clare from Parliament, by
the operation of one of the clauses of the Relief Bill,
and to the continued machinations of a vindictive
faction, who, moaning over its for ever lost monopoly,
like dogs in the manger, will not allow national repose
to be enjoyed.
We know attempts are also making in this country
to kindle feuds of religious denomination, though in
fact of anti-religious character, but the good sense and
hourly advancing intelligence of the people at large
will render such mischievous designs abortive. The
nation will not divide itself into sects for personal ob-
jects, but constitute a whole, animated by one feeling
—the common good—administered under " the Con-
stitution—nothing more—nothing less."
The Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr. PEEL, under the
sanction of the KIN% and by the approbation of Par-
liament, have passed a great measure of justice. We
expect they will not allow the beneficial effects to be
circumvented in Ireland. Let the Government take some
means to declare that it will not in any way interfere
with the election in Clare; and let it show. by its acts,
that it will not permit with impunity any encroachment
on the laws, which henceforth can have no partial ope-
ration without an abdication of the duties of Govern-
ment.

Ministers need neither fear any Court nor party in-
trigues—they will have, they may rely on it, supporters
enough to uphold them in a righteous course.

We congratulate the French Government and nation
on the timely arrival of the courier at Naples, sent to
prevent the execution of M. GALLOTTI, who had been
delivered up by the Prefect of Corsica, under an order
from Paris. It would have been a grievous reproach
to France, if the victim of a most atrocious perfidy had
been immolated. The Neapolitan Government, how-
ever, owes a signal reparation for this insult to French
honour; and we trust the next advice, from Naples will
announce the restoration of the prisoner to the French
authorities. Let us hope good may come out of evil,
and that this flagrant abuse of good faith may make
all civilised Governments more scrupulous before they
violate the asylum of misfortune, and deliver up a fu-
gitive under mere ministerial statements of an anti-
social criminality, not entitling him to a sanctuary.

We this day insert the first Letter of a short series,
intended to appear in the STAR, on Portuguese affairs.
In taking up this subject, as we shall—and making it
a prominent feature of our early labours—we are ac-
tuated by no captious nor vindictive feeling towards
Government. Our only object is to clear the character
of our aspersed country, not less at home than in the
eyes of the whole civilised world; and to vindicate—
at least for the people of England, if we cannot do so
for its Ministry—some credit for a love of justice, and
the common feelings of humanity. It has been asserted,
and this in highly respectable quarters, that our Cabinet
—and more especially the Foreign Secretary—have been
all along acting on a conviction that they were con-
sulting the best interests of the country, in their conduct
towards the Portuguese: and that they do not conceive
themselves to have departed, in any degree, from the
strictest rules of equity. Difficult as this supposition is,
we should be truly rejoiced if we could persuade our-
selves of its accuracy : there would then be some hope
for the friends of freedom, that the Ministry might
revise its measures. We desire only to see the question
treated on the broad basis of justice and public principle;
and we wait with painful anxiety the moment, when
maturer deliberation may induce the Government
to retrace its steps. In the meantime, we shall
proceed to develop that system of wrongs, which—
in our opinion—a policy far from neutral on the part
of this country, has infbcted upon suffering Portugal.
And if we can prove that the throne of that kingdom
has been usurped under the eyes of a British army, and
in open violation of a solemn treaty, guaranteeing legi•
timate succession in the House of BRAGANZA: that
from the moment of his usurpation, up to the present
hour, the career of the tyrant has been marked by the
most 'evoking crimes: that, not content with wholesale
murder and proscription among his Nsion's subjects,

he has persecuted with equal vengeance and audacity
the subjects of Great Britain residing in his usurped
dominions—exercising, even upon them, confiscation,
torture, imprisonment : that our flag has been in-
sulted, and our ships plundered—while our commerce
has suffered incalculable detriment, from the in-
security and terror which he inspired: if we can prove
that the toleration of such a monster is dangerous to
those understood doctrines by which all the other
Princes of Europe are antlered to retain their thrones :
above all, if we can prove that his longer sufferance
where he is, is quite incompatible with the repose and
harmony of Europe—we trust that Ministers will
hasten to change their policy. But whatever course they
may adopt, let them rest assured that the people of
this country are nct so fallen and degraded, that they
can ever be reconciled to an act which has already
roused the indignation of Europe, and—if persevered
in—will fix an indelible blot upon the scutcheon of
English honour.

It is understoo3-4nd is said to have been proved by
figures—that the Duke of WELLINoTora is in the receipt
of L 56,000 a-year personally, either by grants of Par-
liament, or through the favour of the Crown; and that
his Grace's four brothers enjoy among themselves
£34,000 a-year more: thus making a total of £90,000
a-year—public money—among the five WELLESLEY'
alone. The assertion, however, is not altogether correct.
The incomes which are incidental to the Duke's
brothers, ought not in fairness to be charged as aggra-
vations against his own quite sufficiently indefensible
rapacity: and besides, they do not receive all this from
the public purse. Lord MARYBOROUOII discharges
functions pear his MAJESTY'S person, of which the Ktzto
is the indisputable nominating and presenting patron;
and the revenues of Doctor WELLESLEY arise from
ecclesiastical preferment. But in the instance of Lord
WELLESLEY, it is a pension for past services, to which
he is well entitled as a retired Minister, and there ought
to be no grumbling about it : and the £14,000 a-year
received by Lard COWLEY at Vienna, is national salary
for national representation. There is no crime in Lord
COWLEY'S receiving that, which must have been paid to
some one else, if not to his Lordship, for specified
service in a high public department. If Lord CowLaY
is inefficient in his great office, the corruption is in his
appcintment to it, infinitely more than any crime in his
receipt of salary. The case is far otherwise with the
Noble Premier, who holds more paid places by virtue of
Eoo papaws Tou.o, than all his military desert—if it
were ten times greater—could justify. High honours—
high emoluments—high place—are undoubtedly doe to
the conqueror of Waterloo : (there is no question here,
how much he was favoured by chances) ; but in a crisis
like this, of threatened financial extremity and great ge-
neral privation, that laurel ought not to be the leviathan
that swallows all. It is true, there is no late to make the
Noble Duke disgorge; but therefore his delicacy ought
to be the more susceptible. If we were desirous to draw
invidious contrasts, we should say, behold what he did
in the field—and what he has done in the Cabinet ; look
on this picture—and on this ! No, no. Fifty xis thou-
sand a-year out of the public purse—and received by a
man who affects economy and retrenchment to such a
degree, that he stops an estra ten pound note from the
wages of a treasury menial—;s, as Lord LIVERPOOL
memorably remarked, something " too bad." Retrench-
ment, like charity, in the case of a public functionary,
ought to begin at horse.

German papers to the 30th ultimo are received this
morning. They are perfectly silent on the present
movements cf the Turkish and Russian troops. The
following are extracts—