Star.
London, England, 1829-07-10 00:00:00

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TO THE COMMITTEE OF LLOYD'S.
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Gaseuness,—ln alledlng to what he calls," The Wit OM! krill,
USN of the Cue relative to the late seizure and robbery of the Mail
Bags by the Mignelite squadron, a writer in the Times makes the
following quotation from Vattel.--" If we led an enemy's effects
on board a neutral ship, we seize them by the rights of war; but
we are naturally bound to pay the freight to the Master of the
vessel, who was not to suffer by such a 'ciente " The Times added
by way of Quere—." Are not the letters. addressed by the party of
d Deana Maria to their men the same party now in England. the
eirestelCheadinowliaged 6of Miguel? The Captain of the
Ocean, therefore, would have ari tto demand of the Ulcer who
seized the letters,or aids Government, the payment which be would
have received on their delivery according to their several addrettee.
This, tee few, is GS the redrew that now he obtained under misting
cireninstaisca, for who are the persons injured? Not British
subjects. : the letters are neither from them nor to them."
The writer of the-above remarks does not surely require so be
informed that the power to capture vessels at sea is, by the law
of nations, onry conceded to ships of war, and that they ought to
be sent into port for adjudication: that to steal or take any thing
out of a vessel at sea is 'limey, for it is to the jedicial. and net to the
executive authority, that the power of condemoition belongs, and
the appropriation of any ejects at sea, without legal condemnation.
is therefore piracy.
Who will attempt to deny that a mail bag of letters sealed by
the British Consular Agents of packets abroad, is the public pro•
party of the Crown of Great Britain? lle bag being so sealed in
virtue of an Act of Parliament, and the letters subjected in coo.
sequence thereof to the ship letter
The writer of the article in quest onspeaks tithe right of search,
as If such a right ought ter an instant to be conceded to the
blockading ships of Dee Migoel--claiming, as Eingsleifede et Por-
tugal, the right of blockading the ports of our ally the Qesesorithout
even a declared= of war against her ! If, however,the act of forcibly
taking unadjodicated effects from vessels at Goa, be of itself piracy
to all intents and purposes, the act in this instance is greedy aura.
vated by the property so taken being nadelbeed, and eassetale as
to' whom it belonged, for the superscription sushi only shsw to
whom the letters were directed, but net by whom mitten unless
opened. Now the right of search, in its greatest amnia latitude,
only gives the power of opening letters at see fee the purpose of
discovering the true owner of the cargo—and as the Ocean had no
cargo to seize, the right of search was grossly abetted by the niya
widens of the 'Tenet. :
Those who seem determined to justify every act et Aimee
against our lag, attempt to Otani& the atrocity of this see by'
saying that the letter bag was not broken open by the Onuses ell
Don Miguel, but by the Captain of the Ocean, in consesioesse of
their orders. So far front this subterfuge betted's" the Mut It
renders the affair mon flagrant. Sock an order was not only an
execution of power over the property, bet ever the penal sin
British subject, by compelling Na to commk en as for whisk be
Incurs a large penalty, until be can prove the guilty force that
obliged him to vidate the Act of Parliament.
Sods is the real state el this outrage; and it is submitted to SIN
Gentlemen,whether such acts have been ever tolerated at any fuser
period of English bitter'?

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STAR OFFICE, QUARTER PAST THREE.
FROM THE CITY.
We can-state from the first authority, that akarthe
GRAND Vilna had regained Schumla, the Russian
Commander in Chief sent a gag of truce into Schitula,
with propositions to open a negociation tor peace.—
By this it will be observed, that the Russians have made
the first offer to the Turks, which may moderate the
pride of the Gotta Salcursm, and no doubt will lead
to negociations."

Some remarks having already reached citrons, con-
cerning the unceremonious plainness with which we

have begun to treat certain high characters, it is as well
to be explicit at once upon the system which it is our
determination to follow. That system shall be one of
rigid impartiality. The names of the Duke of Wet..
LINGTON and Mr. Pan., we admit, have been some.
what angrily mentioned; but we feel at the same
time—since we only spoke in reference to their
less immediate acts and opinions—that there is no
necessity to apologise for what we said. There is
ample justification for us in the past. mad it was
only retrospectively that we spoke. We said, and we
re-affirm it, that it has nog been a spontaneous abdica-
tion of vicious advocacies on the part of these persons,
but that they have been carried irresistibly down the
torrent of public opinion. We regard them, therefore,
as consenting to a more liberal scheme of administra-
tion from the imperiousness of their own positions,
infinitely more than as voluntary converts from their
old inveteracies r and with that corroidioa on our minds,
'there will be a natural sense of insecurity about us, re.
spectiag all measures which emanate from their coun.
c►ils, which it will be for a long time our duty rather to
entourage, than to lull.

Qmo most est lambus recent. tenable odorea
Testa dle !
But they may calculate on our not niggard support

henceforward, if they shall show themselves the tree
friends of amelioration. For the great boon of eman•
cipation—since they conceded it—we give them all credit,
all honour: but the great battle of general reformation
is coming, and it remains to be seen what will be
their staring then. As to personalities, nothing can
be so opposite to the spirit on which this Journal
has been re-modelled ; and—saving certain bastinesses,
such as must at all times be incidental in utempo
rumens commentary—not even the Gaunt, ORANGE
MASTS' shalt have just cause to upbraid

We interided,tsi remark yesteiday; that Spain *as a
country the most favoured by nature in Europe
by a typical error it Was miff/paid. which I. 'also
true as a Spanish quality, but we wish it were founded
upon better pretensions than these of self-opinion: When
we think of the soil—the climate—the ports—the posi-
tion—the configuration of the tertitorytht physi-
cal properties of the populition, and' genially of
what tray be termed the capabilities of Spain, we grieve'
to think of her present decadence in the scale of nations,
and of the sufferings she is coddling from * Vicious Go=
vernment —a Court where the most abject 'agility
only finds place-4 Nobility entreated by system--a
Priesthood in possession of more that' one half of the
lands, and. a totally uneducated people. thit absolutist
and fanaticism may maintain their rule.
Spain, igbeO die MOWS 'Ficisbeiod the outlay; *typal*
eminently distinguished for its lanfigaities.titigative,
Scittati, a d 01#*A CitAiitna r.Abigisett
infantry was the best io Europe, and the' New World