Star.
London, England, 1820-12-12 00:00:00

PRICE SEvEN-PENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIAR:,

Deceinber S.
Sin—l have read in the London Cornier of Satur:-
day, a letter from this town to the Editor, signed
A.B. conveying some scurrilous observations on the
promoters of a Meeting held yesterday to form a
procession through the town in honour of the Queen"
triumph over her slanderers and perjured-accusers.
From the moment that an intended procession was
announced, the Warrington Twins, Whose cowardice
is only equalled by their meanness, conjured up in
their terrified imaginations, phantoms of danger
and alarm to Church and State; every engine was
employed, which fear and cunning could devise, to
frustrate the designs of the honest advocates of
virtue, and to rouse the fears of the timid and double
minded. The walls wei e covered with " Cautions"
and •" Notices," to urge the well-disposed to keep
within doors, least they might be innocent sufferers
in-the bloody day which was anticipated. A party
of military, quartered in the town, were ordered to
be under arms. The residents in other townships
were warned, that if, they joined in the procession if
would be at their peril, and a host of special con-
stables were created to preserve the threatened peace.
And whilst I am on the subject of constables, let me
mention a trick practised by these worthy imitators
of Castlereagh and Co.—a trick as cunningly de-
vised as the late shameful manoeuvre in the House
of Commons. In order to prevent any respectable
persons from joining in the procession, these worthy
coadjutors of the far-famed Milan Commissioners,
required all the friends to the Queen's cause, of any
respectability, with the exception of one or two, to
come forward to be sworn in as special constables,
and contrived to detain them until the business of
the day was over. Then, forsooth, their cry was,
" what a rabble, what a ragamuffin crew !" With
the indignant Bennett, say shame, shame ; such pro-
ceedings are a disgrace to the town—a disgrace to
the country.
In'tho spirit of the same system, the doors of the
Parish Church were closed against an application to
close the procession with a religious service. And
in the flush of Toryism, and in the exercise of a
" rigour beyond the raw," the Justice Shallou?s and
the Justice " Errors" of our far-famed town; sum-
moned before them the Catholic Priest, to. answer to
an information (wholly grhtindless) that •he lead de-
signed to preach a sermon to this "rabble rout!"—
At the Editor of the Liverpool' Courier once well
observed, things "have been" and are done in War-
rington, which any other town would be ashamed of.
• I remain, Sir, &c.
7 SPECTATOR.

FOREIGN IN,

There is no foundation whatever for the reports
which have been for some time in circulation, of ces-
sions of territory on the part of Prussia.
A letter from Lisbon, dated November 25, says,
" The most important event that has taken place
here since the restoration of tranquillity, is the re-
moval from the Government of Antonio de Silveira,
late President of the Junta at Oporto, and Vice-Pre-
sident of the Provisional Junta at Lisbon. The Lis-
bon Gazette contains a correspondence on the subject
between him and the Members of the Government.
In a letter, dated the 16th November, M. de Silveira.
states, his health being in a most precarious state,
and his physician advising him-that it was absolutely
necessary for him to go into the country, he is unable
to exercise his functions in the Government, in less
than thirty or forty days, within which time they
will of themselves cease, by the convocation of the
Cortes. He therefore requests his discharge, his am-
bition being satisfied with seeing his country and the
Throne of the House of Braganza safe, by the oath
taken to the Spanish Constitution, and to the mode
, -of election prescribed by it. The Government declined
either to grant or absolutely refuse this request.—
After some farther correspondence, M. de Silveira
stated, that his health had much improved since the
17th ; and, in another letter, that since he had not
been able to obtain the discharge, or the leave of ab-
sence which he had requested, he resigned himself to
these circumstances, and would resume his functions
as soon as his physician would, with safety, allow.
—ln reply to this, the Government sent him a letter,
stating, that as, after what he had written; it could
not be doubted that he wi hed not to resume his
functions in the Government; in consequence of what
has lately passed, and as it now appeared that he,
notwithstanding, thought of resuming the exercise of
an office which he had' so solemnly abdicated, which
could not be permitted without absolute contradic-
tion of his own act, and without an. inevitable dis-
turbance of the tranquillity of the capital, threatened
with dreadful calamities by so unexpected an event,
the Provisional Junta, considering the above, and
learning that four Members of the Government only
consented to serve theit country, on the certainty of
this abdication, ordered him to quit the city within
two hours, to retire to his estafe at Canellas, not to
stop, except such time as may be necessary to travel
-conveniently, and not to leave his estate without
the permission of the Provisional Junta. They
gave him as escort of cavalry, to accompany him
three leagues:from the city. He obeyed the or-
der immediately, without difficulty. The Govern-
ment having communicated to Lord Castlereagh all
that had passed on the arrival of Lord Beresfotd fn
the Tagus, to asvoid any premature notice, which
might interrupt for a moment the good understand..
ing with the English nation, Lord Cast'ereagh has
replied, by the medium of the British Charge d'Af-
faires, at Lisbon, that his Britannic Majesty and his
Government could 1.1.1 m no opinion on the subject cf
the facts relative to Lord lseresford, it, being for
his Most Fal;bl9l M:rjeAy alJne to tae c,-Inizance
of them."