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ERRATUM.
In our Theatrical Notice of yesterday, for " Arndira►y heir
om," read g. profaskmal heir loom."

The following—from our Cit
entitled to the greatest attention:

" CITY, HALE-PAST ONE•

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" We have a strange report afloat, in regard to the
affairs of Portugal. It is stated that information has
been received from France, that Don MIGUEL is to
abdicate the throne of Portugal, on certain conditions ;
and that Donna MARIA, the young Queen, is going to
be appointed Queen, under a Regency. There is not to
be a Constitution, as the Emperor of AUSTRIA has ob-
jected to it."

The pretended news from Lisbon, which made its ap-
pearance in most of the papers of yesterday, in the shape
of an extract from the Moniteur, is a tissue of barefaced
falsehoods. The Tuscan vessel captured by Dou MI-
GUEL'S squadron off Terceira, had no ammunition on
hoard, nor any letters from Portuguese refugees. They
had no more concern in that ship than they had •in the

defeat of BARRADAS at Tampico.
It is equally false that the Refugees are directing
their views against Madeira; and the height of absurdity
to state that they had succeeded, by means of gold, in
seducing some persons there to disturb public tranquil-
lity. The truth is—however incredible it may appear—
that MONTEIRo, the Governor, endeavoured to poison a
whole battalion of his garrison, who were suspected to
favour the Queen, Donna MARIA ! Every Portuguese
will laugh at the assertion that M. de SOUZA TAVARES
IS a good General, or the Count DE CEA an excellent

naval officer.
But the most impudent of all these palpable falseho.
i 3, that the Treasury at Lisbon continues to pay the ar-
rears of the officers in the several branches of the admi-
nistration. Ask any of the officers, in any of the de-
partments—whether of the military or civil service—i,
they have received either their arrears, or their current
pay ? The contrary is known to be the fact. This
notable correspondent of the Moniteur, concludes by
stating that the greatest tranquillity prevails in the
capital aid the provinces. This, in one sense, is unhap-
pily true but it is the tranquillity of the tomb ! Nothing
can exceed the system of tyranny and oppression by
which the people are, at present, kept in subjection and
silence ; but the reign of terror, it is to be hoped, will
not be of long duration. If we have been apprehensive,
hitherto, that our Government would recognise the
tyrant, we have good grounds for, declaring now that all
such apprehension is vanished. The Noble Duke is
falling, and will not precipitate his catastrophe by an
odious and ineffectual attempt.

The despatch of General PASKERITSCH relative to an
action fought after the Treaty of Peace, is an afflicting
narrative, as relating an unnecessary waste of life : but
we cannot blame the PACIIA of Trebisonde for not let-
ting a Russian courier pass by that important route to
the Russian army. The PACHA seems to have known
well, that Russian couriers are frequently officers selected
or their capacity to retain recollections of what they see
and hear. We learn, however, through the medium of

this despatch, a new fact: namely, that the Russian
army—instead of advancing against Trebisonde—was
making a retrograde movement upon Erteroum ; and
therefore that the Ottoman Porte, at least on that side of
its dominions, could not be so fallen as has been re-
presented.
Erzeroum is about twelve hundred miles from Con-
stantinople ; and after all the successes claimed by the
Russians in Asia during the war, we are—we.confesa—
surprised to find that no greater progress has been made
by them, and that no lodgement on the Asiatic shores of
the Black Sea, beyond the Phasis, had been effected.
The Turks—we are told—in this last action, fought very
bravely ; and we g..eatly suspect, though they opposed
no resistance in Europe after the battle of the I 1 th of
June—in which they disputed for four hours victory in the
open field—that there are other reasons for this defection
from duty, than those arising from fear, or good-will
towards the invader. The sudden signature of the peace
—the immediate evacuation of the Turkish provinces, as
now announced—are links in this chain of mysteries,
which a short time will expose to light.

In the Courier of last night, there is a vituperative
article against the STAR, which some of his enemies—
we suppose—have assured us is from the pea.of Lord
DuNOLAs. We do•not believe any thing of the kind,

the language being much more like that of a footman,
thin that of a lord : indeed, we will assume it to be the

effusion of my Lord DUNGLAteII footman, of which
there is every probability ; if we judge it by the internal
evidence. The lying menial introduces his common-
place audacities as follows :--L" We shall in the first
instance give the account of this very immaterial,
but strangely misrepresented occurrence ns it has
been already narrated, adhering substantially to the
published statement, but using our own words : we shall
then 'endeavour to ciivest the affair of all its fictitious
importance, and that in the fairest possible manner, by
relating the simple truth."
One would imagine, for his own sake, after such
a prelude to his projected distortion, that at
least the writer would state the circumstances

nearly as they were announced by us, if it were
only to invest with an air of greater verisimili-
tude the falsification which be had builded on them : but
the poverty of the impostor's imagination did not appre-
hend that a little candour would have imparted much
plausibility to his lie. " The Marquis Da PALISELLA"
—he continues—" who within the last few days came over
from France, is represented as laying claim to an ambas-
sadorial character on his arrival at Dover, and as such
receiving the customary salute." The pitiful hireling
knows that this is a falsehood : who said that the Noble
Marquis laid claim to ambassadorial honours? He
RECEIVED them—received them by command of the

slave's masters—without pretending to them at all.
Yes ; it is the fact that his Excellency did receive them
—and by special orders from the British Government—
in his capacity of Ambassador from the QUEEN of Por-
tugal: and it is this fact that galls the Courier.
" The Marquis"—he says farther on—" proceeds to
London, still supporting his assumed dignity, presents
himself at the Foreign Office, and is refused an audience."
All this is represented by the phrenetic footman in
Downing-street as having been asserted in the STAR,
though it is so notorious that not one syllable to that effect
was uttered by us. We merely published the letter of our
private Correspondent at Dover, announcing that the Noble
Marquis was received on landing by Colonel GOSSETT,
Commandant of the Garrison, and a guard of honour
from the Rifle Brigade ; and that the guns from
the heights and batteries saluted his -Excellency—
on the appearance of the packet in the offing, and again
on his departure from the town—with the full comple-
ment paid only to Ambassadors from a recognised
Sovereign. We re-assert this : we deny that any
public honours were shown to the Princess Es-
TERHAZY—and that she is entitled to any : the
demonstrations from the fort, and the Guard of Ho-
nour, headed by Colonel GOSSETT, were exclusive
compliments to the AMBASSADOR of Donna MARIA 11.
It is quite unnecessary to waste another line on the
footman, or to attempt to prove—with that formality to
which a less established character would be entitled—
falsehood and venality, against asold and prescriptive liar.
The Morning Journal's abuse of the Noble Mar-
quis—and insinuations against our veracity—are no
doubt handsomely acknowledged by ASSECA. We
wish these twin champions of the bloody MIoUZL,
joy of the new prospects of their idol at Lisbon :
since it appears every hour more likely—to use the
phraseology of our Morning Contemporary—that he may
. soon " expiate his treasons on a scaffold."
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We have German Papers this day, the contents of
which are interesting.. The Allgemeine Zeitnng affords
us a nearer glimpse 'of the stipulations of the famous
Misty of Adrianople, showing us that a great number of
airossible things are required from the Porte. The in-
demnity for losses sustained by Russian subjects, at vari-
ous times since 1806, is rated at one million and a half
Dutch ducats. The expenses of the war form altogether
a different matter : " the sum is to be afterivardsfized
and in order to render the payment a seasy as possible to
the Porte, the generous Russian agrees to take part in
goods, property—or any thing, in short, he may have a
fancy for. Besides these very agreeable tidings, we have
a few interesting lines from the Austrian Observer
on the subject of the trade between Russia and China..
" It seems the former Power took possession, a few
years ago, of a country in central Asia, as extensive as
France and Holland together 1" Who is so fool-hardy
now, as to deny the magnanimity and moderation of the
Einperor Nicholas ?
ALEXANDRIA, San. It.

We are still uncertain hem respecting the progress of the opera-
tions of the war ; but secret wishes are probably entertained that
the rank may be unfortunate to the Porte, and that the Bekaa
may be made very dependent en Russia ; for Mehemet Ars plans
moot come to maturity till be bas nothing more to fear from the

Sultan, and is able to direct his whole attention to carrying them
into effect. Mehemet's Agents at Constantinople send him hardly
any letters since the Russians have passed the Balkan ; and it is
apprehended that the Porte has thrown some obstacles in the way
of their transmission. The latest accounts from the theatre of
war come to us, therefore, by way of Trieste. They leave us no
doubt that peace will soon be restored, but they are very vague and
by no means satisfactory to the Viceroy. It is reported that im-
portant negociations have taken place in Cairo, and that greater
activity has since been observed in the equipment of men of war,
and the organisation of the regular troops. The internal admi-
nistration improves daily ; and it is probable that Egypt will in a
few years become muck more prosperous and powerful. The
finances, which could not Sourish while the country was governed
as it has hitherto been, are now improving, and will perhaps soon
bear a comparison with those of the best regulated State. The
system of monopoly is to be done away with, as far as possible,
and freedom of commerce introduced instead. The Government
already contracts by public tender for all the requisites for the navy,
and in general invites competition in all supplies for the army. It
is said that the Viceroy intends to make a journey into the interior
et the country, and to choose several places for the erection of for-
tresses. It is also said that a special agent is again to be sent to
Constantinople. Hitherto M. Rosetti has transacted the affairs Of
the Viceroy there.
ADRIANOPLE, Ocr. 31.
In the 6th Article of the principal Treaty signed here on the
14th, it is stipulated that the Porte shall pay to Russia in the space
of eighteen months,• in instalments to be afterwards determined,
the sum of 1 million of Dutch ducats, u an indemnity for the
losses sustained by Russian subjects and merchants at various times
since 1806.
In a separate or explanatory convention signed the same day
(Art. II.) the payment of that instalment is fixed as follows :
The Porte pays to Russia on the exchange of the ratification,
100,000 ducats ; six months afterwards, 400,000 ducats ; six months
later, 500,000 ; and the remaining 500,000 in another six months ;
so that the whole shall be paid in eighteen months.
The 9th Article of the principal Treaty stipulates that the Porte
shall pay for the expenses of the war a sum to be afterwards fixed.
By Art. $ of the separate Convention this indemnity Is fixed at ten
millions of ducats, to be paid in such a manner as the Emperor of
Russia shall Ix. on an appeal of the Porte to his generosity and
magnanimity. In order to render the payment as easy to the Porte
as possible, the Russian Court agrees to take in part payment all
equivalent in such goods u may be agreed upon. With respect to
the evacuation of the Turkish territory by the Russian troops; it Is
determined that as soon u the first 100,000 ducats are paid, tile
Article respecting Servia executed, and Endorsee° given up, the
and within a month after the exchange of the ratifications, the Ruu
elan army shall evacuate Adrianople, Klrk•Kilisa, Lute, &urges,
Midge. bueada, and other places, which shall be immediately given
up to the authorities appointed by the Porte to receive them. On
the payment of the 4d.),000 ducats, the Russians shall evacuate, in
a month, the whole country from the Balkan to the Sea and the
Gulf of Bourses, retreating over the Balkan to Bulgaria and Do-
broudscha ; which countries, with all their towns and villages, from
the Danube to the Euzine, shall be evacuated on the payment of
the nest 500,000 ducats. The last payment to be then made six
months afterwards. Silistria and the principalities to be held by the
Russians till the cadre payment of the military indemnity, ten mil-
lions, within two months, after which they too are to be evacuated
and given op to the Turkish Authorities. The evacuation of the
Turkish provinces in Asia to begin three months after the exchange
of the ratifications, according to a separate Convention to be made
between Count Paskewitch and the Turkish Seraskier in that
country, so that the evacuation shall be completed in eight months
from the exchange of the ratifications.
VIENNA, Nov. 22.

A Prussian Paper contains an account of the trade between
Russia and China, in Which is the following passage : •
Such a good understanding has long prevailed between Rush
and China, that the former Power took possession a few years ago
of a country in Central Asia as extensive as France and Holland
together. This country is inhabited by the Kirgbi. Kaissacks, and
other Nomad tribes, who have been Induced by skilful negotiations
to submit to Russia. Part of these Eirgitis were formerly subject
to China, which was probably glad to get rid of such turbulent
subjects, and is not sorry to see them under Russia,which will be able
to keep them in order. When a line of fortslications shall have been
erected in this country, which is not every where a barren steppe,
military colonies will be established in it, iron works erected, and the
cavalry that may be necessary, furnished with excellent horses from
Central Asia, to purchase which, the English East India Company
sent the late N. Nidocroft to Dokhara. It is likely that con-
venient roads will soon be made, and Kokand, Samarcand, Sa-
hara, and several smaller Kbanates may perhaps soon be conquered.
The new Russian frontier is distant about 2$ French leagues from
the English possessions in India."—Austrion Observer, Nos. 22.
• Noss —According to the first plan of the Treaty, the payment
was to be made in one year, in three equal sums of half a million :
the time was extended to eighteen months at the request of the
Porte.-4ligemeine &rung. Nee. 48.

Mr. SCOTT, the British officer whose seizure and im-
prisonment by the agents of MIGUEL has been detailed
by the Lisbon correspondent of the Morning Herald,
and which we copied yesterday, was a few years ago well
known in our military circles as the Editor of a Perio-
dical devoted to that profession. Having proceeded to
Portugal for the benefit of his health, he has been occu-
pied in collecting the materials of a work which
cannot fail to throw an important light, not merely
on the manners and customs of the Portuguese,
but on all the secret intrigues which preceded and
followed the usurpation. Although remarkable for
the correctness of his demeanour in not giving any cause
of complaint to the faction, there is no doubt of Mr.
Scorr having felt as became an Englishman, on
witnessing the horrors of the last two years. We
look with considerable anxiety to the arrival of this
much-injured Gentleman, knowing, as we do, that
the details he can furnish, will be highly interesting.
In the meantime; we refer our readers to a second
extract from the Correspondence of the Herald, which
fully corroborates all our previous statements with re-
gard to the condition of Portugal and the approaching
fall of the tyrant.

CITY. Twar.vs (Mane&
We have received, through an extraordinary con-
veyance, letters from Vienna of the 26th November.—
Metalliquee 103140-0 921; Bank Shares 1,250 ; Roths-
child's Loan 5-0 1820 175, and looking up.
The following is an extract of a Decree issued at
Egina, Oct. 1, 1829, in six Articles, by the Congress of
Greece :—" A book of the national debts is to be in-
stituted ; and a loan in a foreign country to be negociated.
All debts contracted shall be liquidated ; and the Govern-
ment is authorised to raise 200,000 sizammas of national
domains, for the purpose of redeeming gradually the debts
by a sinking fund; the honour of the whole nation re-
quiring her to fulfil her engagements." This act is
signed by the President.
Our arrivals this morning are very scanty : not even a
single ship letter has come to hand.
It appears almost certain that the new Four per Cents.
will be paid off by Government ; and thus a further im-
provement in the British Funds is expected to take place.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sia,--71n their grief for the late capitulation of Bar-
radas, the enemies of the liberty and independence of the
new American States will be somewhat consoled by read-
ing a letter, dated Santa Fe de Bogota, Aug. 12, which
has appeared in a Morning Paper of this day. The loss
of a battle, the complete destruction of an army of the
independents, are, and ought to be less satisfactory
to the Spanish Government, than the discredit of
a Chief of so much influence, and so detrimental to
their power in America, as the Liberator Bolivar.
So, after having worked hard, but unsuccessfully, to
discredit in his own country the great Colombian hero,
the agents of the despicable Ferdinand have betaken
themselves to the European press to obtain their object.
I am quite confident that the author of the letter I allude
to is either an agent of Spain, or an i nveterate personal
enemy of Bolivar. I have reason to believe that the
letter in question has been written in Europe, and not in
America : it is dated at Santa Fide Bogota, and no per-
son residing in that capital gives it the name of Santa
which has been abolished by law, and is now quite
forgotten. It is to be remarked, likewise, that the
packet from Colombia, which arrived on the 4th
ult. having brought letters from Bogota to the 14th of
August, this letter, which is dated the 12th of the same
mouth, and which must have come by the same packet,
has not until to-day made its appearance. Notwith-
standing, I will briefly notice its contents, leaving for a
future occasion, if necessary, a more extensive reference
to them.
With an oratorical cunning already too well-known,
the author begins his letter by affecting an air of impar-
tiality towards the Liberator. He tries in vain to dis-
semble that he writes cum ird et studio. He presents
the one side of the medal bright and dazzling, that the
reverse may appear still blacker and more deformed.
According to the author of the letter, Bolivar was
until 1826, " the patriot, the hero, the idol of
his countrymen ; he was amiable in his courtesies,—
accessible to all—well instructed—agreeably imagina-
tive—even eloquent—his conversation fascinating—and
his polished manners gave a singular grace to all he said
and did." What has then Bolivar done to forfeit these
glorious titles and rare qualities ? What has he done ?
Why, he has rescued his country from the abyss in which
it was plunged ; he has saved it from the horrors of the
most disastrous anarchy ; he has checked the dismem-
berment of the Republic, and prevented its provinces from
offering to the world the shameful spectacle which the
United Provinces—or rather, the disunited Provinces of
the Rio de la Plata—have for so many years been pre-
senting.
It is very difficult, Sir, as you well know, to judge of
the events of a revolution, and of the men directing
them, who are often carried away in spite of themselves
by the tide of circumstances. It is nonsense to imagine
that a man whose glory is identified with liberty, that a
man whose penetration his very enemies acknowledge
to be great, should think of establishing absolute power
in Colombia. How could he enslave a people who
have made so many sacrifices to be free—a people so
warlike that every citizen is a veteran ? How could
he subjugate against the will of its inhabitants so
vast an extent of territory? What would support
the absolute power ? Not the allurements and il-
lusions which for 300 years surrounded the Spanish
throne ; not the habit of passive obedience which has
been replaced by its very reverse ; not the influence ex-
ercised by the clergy, and which is almost extinct ; not a
nobility which does not exist. It may perhaps be said,
as indicated by the author of the letter, that he relies
on the army, and that he will sustain the principle of
" the army being triumphant, the people a nullity."
—But who is not aware that such a state of
things would be too violent to last any length of
time ? Bolivar is the son of liberty, its friend.
and its firmest support. Bolivar has ever been sincere ;
he has always declared his opinion as to the
form of Government most adapted to his country : he
openly expressed it at the Congress of Angostura
in 1819 ; at the Congress of Cucuta in 1821, and on
several other solemn occasions. Bolivar knows very
well that in Colombia there can be no liberty without
order, and no order without liberty. He has exercised a
temporal dictatorship which he will soon lay down : a
dictatorship which has been as salutary to Colombia as
was to ancient Rome that of its most virtuous citizens.
It is alleged that there has been no motive for a dictator-
ship in Colombia since the country has not been invaded
or threatened by a foreign foe. Supposing this to be the
case, who can deny the immensity of evils and dangers
which threatened the destruction of the republic? Let
us bring to mind the frightful state of Colombia at the
beginning of 1827, the division of the Provinces, the
dissipation of the revenue, the immorality of all
classes of the people, the abuses rooted in all the depart-
ments of the administration; let us remember all this, and
let us declare whether evils of such a magnitude did not
require a prompt and powerful remedy; whether a canker
so deeply rooted could be extirpated without introducing
the knife to its very roots ?
The slanderer has carried his audacity so far, as to
insinuate that the Liberator has made use of the torture.
I challenge the impostor to produce a sole instance of his
assertion.
I am not aware that the circulation of the works
of Bentham and Constant has been prohibited : the truth
is, that only the teaching by them in the Universities
and Colleges, under the direction of Government, has
been forbidden ; and that, not because the Liberator does
not know how to appreciate the merit of these philan-
thropic writers, but because he considers their works too
abstract and complicate to be understood by the young
students, and because the false application of their prin-
ciples is dangerous to the welfare and tranquillity of the
State.
The Liberator respects the clergy, because the Colom-
bian clergy are equally respectable for their moral vir-
tues and for their patriotism ; because to persecute them
systematically would be unjust and impolitic ; because, as
Bentham himself says, the regular clergy, or the monks,
have also rights to enjoy ; and the monastic state in
which they live is a property legally acquired, and of
which it would be unjust to deprive them. The libera-
tor, however, is far from allowing the clergy to exer-
cise too great an influence over the minds of the people.
Lastly, the Author of the letter accuses the Liberator
of being cruel. This deserves no answer : his conduct
in this respect has been too notorious. Would they have
the assassins of the 25th of September go unpunished?
I beg, Mr. Editor, you will have the goodness to give
this letter a place in the columns of your valuable Papers
by which you will much oblige
Your most obedient servantJUSTUS
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