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D. O Lisbon • O Jamaica 0 O Sweden 1 O Brazil . 0 O Mexico 0 THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 21. THE KING. No Bulletin of the state of His MAJESTY'S health has been issued this day. The reports, however, as far as we have been able to collect them from the Public Offices, e of a favourable nature. A Cabinet Council was held this day at two o'clock at the Foreign Office, and was attended by the Duke of WF.I.LINGTow, the Earl Of ABERDEEN, Lord Viscount IMELVILLE,LOrd ELLEN BOROUGH, Sir GEORGE MUR RAY, Mr. PEEL, Mr. GOULBURN, and Mr. HERRIES. If implicit reliance—or any reliance whatever—could be placed upon the unofficial and unauthenticated com munications of the Court Circular, the intense anxiety with which the public mind has for some days been agi tated, might subside, on the announcement that " his MAJESTY'S health had improved since Monday :"—but these accounts, coming as they do from no responsible source,—and unsupported, as they are, by any Bulle tins,—so far from allaying tie alarm so universally ex cited, are looked upon only as an evasion of that duty which, in all other instances, the Physicians in attend ance upon the SOVEREIGN have felt bound to per form, and v..ltich the people, who are most deeply in tarested in the health of their KING, have a right to ex peat. It will be seen from the statement of our City Correepondent, that great dissatisfaction has been not only felt, hut loudly and generally expressed, at the in difference thus manifested for public feeling; and we must say, that in a matter of such paramount interest and im portance to the whole nation—and indeed to all Europe —the departure from long established custom is neither hemming, es it respects the KING; nor judicious, as it affects the people. The Globe does not hesitate to as cribe the interruption of the regular Bulletins, which had heretofore been usual, to a cause which seems to us of all others the least probable. " Deeply," says our contem porary, " as the public are interested in the health of his hfssagTY, we must recollect there is one person still more painfully sensitive as to these Bulletins—namely, t►e KING himself." This may be so :—but we confess such sensitiveness but ill accords with that magnanimity and fortitude which have hitherto been considered the distinguishing attributes of our SOVEREIGN'S dispo sition.—But if big Mar err v's physicians have thus been deterred from " putting forth statements painful to the mind which it is their business to soothe ;" —lnd we are bound to infer, that such pain could only be Inflicted by the perusal of unfavourable Bulletins in the dilly Papers—we can scarcely trust ourselves to mew* upon the conduct of those Journalists who, not content pith discharging their duty'to the public by the mere romulgation of such official documents, pursue a cense° *at is but too well calculated to excite emotions the most afflicting and painful of all, in the Royal mind, by the indecent baste with which they publicly discuss the probable results of such a termination of his MA • 410111,1011 illness as men of all Same and all parties must ositerepiste with bitterness of heart ; and the unbeooming oversees With which they canvass the pretensions of po litical lenders, and the merits of political measures, with refoNNION to an event which Arad men most heartily desire that Hatitin, awl lose amt. • la the last page of thie'dare paper , iN. lekbefora oar. and " p oetical illustration" otibo. lehtity lodic& porridge the beiscita of Ora twoallopoi Catholic Association-- or, we should rather say—the " New Society for promoting the Agitation of Ireland." —After such declarations—declarations at once so une quivdcal and unreserved—of their individual opinions upon one great public question, well may the leaders —O'Cows ELL and LAWLESS—compliment each other upon " the singleness ofpurpose" which, , o eminently qua lifies them for the arduous duties which they have conjoint ly undertaken ;—well may those who disclaim all union of principle and sentiment, in themselves, set about the Repeal of our Political Union ;—and well mad• their disciples anticipate the successful result of measures de vised for the amalgamation of all feelings and all in terests, by men who thus manifest their sincerity in the promotion of universal concord ! But matter of more moment now demands our notice, and im peratively calls for the interposition of some effec tual power to avert the danger which menaces alike the tranquillity, the safety, and the integrity of the Empire. At the last Meeting of O'CoNN Lt.'s Association, the " Agitator" boldly avowed his determination never to suffer the United Kingdom to enjoy repose while he existed. These were his emphatic words : " Eman cipation, it was considered, would be a good trick to put down agitation ; but w 1111. E I LI rr. they shall not suc ceed in that." While lie lives, then agitation never shall be put down ! Is not this " too had ?" After such a declaration, well might his newly installed col league, Mr. ANTISL LL , protest against the vehemence of " the great leader,"--and pronounce him—as he did in the presence of his own as,:enthied agitators—" a dan gerous man, because, in the same breath, he expressed sen timents of conciliation and of irritation—a wish to recon cile parties, and yet remarks calculated to rouse the feel ings of the peasantry."—But unless the Ministers of Great Britain have made up their minds to pursue their career of " Irish conciliation," till they have no longer an Irish people left them to conciliate ;—unless they are prepared to concede demands even more preposterously extravagant than the Association has ever yet dared to hint at ;—unless they are resolved to submit to the dissevera tion of the kingdom, and the establishment of Ireland as an independent nation—governed by a distinct and sepa rate Legislature, and alien to all English laws—we tell them it is high time that some effort should be made to enforce the enactment which was deemed an indispen sable precursor to the Catholic Relief Bill, and the en forcement of whisk was never more urgently demanded than at the present moment : " A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which being suffered, rivers cannot quench." The example so resolutely set by Ministers, of resisting retrenchment in every department of the State, ha.• not been lost upon the Corporation of London. Let the country go to ruin as it may,—let the people suffer all the privations that human nature can endure,—let the national interests decay, and the national character be come a bye-word and a mockery ;—let the fundholder be defrauded of the fair and equitable advantages of his contract ; —let the landowner be impoverished—the peasant do the labour of the beast of burthen,—and the manufacturer starve in silence :—but never let the salary of the minister, the wages of the placeman, or the sti pend of the sinecurist, be " curtailed of its fair propor tions:"—touch not with irreverent hand the emoluments of the " Chief Officer of the City," nor mar with nig gardly economy the Board of " Civic Hospitality ;" diminish not the pomp and pageantry of my Lord May ' or's show, nor the splendor of my Lord Mayor's feast : though LAZARUS shiver in nakedness and hunger at the threshold, let DIVES be gorged and pampered in the banquet hall. The bold attempt of Mr. PEA RSON, to infringe upon the immunities of the Corporate Body, and to invade the comforts of Gentlemen who aspire to be rotatory Lords, and of Lords who" lose the title with the office,"—has met the fate of all such propositions ; and what other result could Mr. PEA RSON anticipate in such a season of in creasing prosperity, and overflowing of ? —What ! propose to reduce the LORD MAYOR'S allowance 1,500/. per annum ! and expect that those who, like Mr. Alder man COPELAND, "have not yet reached the dignity," and " may be affected personally by the result," should stand tamely by, and see all their golden hopes thus blighted—all their " creature-comforts" annihilated " at one fell swoop ?" Or that such staunch assertors of " the pride, pomp, and circumstance" of the Chief Magis tracy—such social and generous spirits, as Mr. S. Dix ox should, without " making horrible discord," witness so daring an effort "to lessen the dignity of the Chief Magistrate," or to diminish those festive enjoyments—. those " convivial entertainments that never failed to restore the harmony which political disagreements occasionally suspended between individuals?" Monstrous thought ! to abridge those glorious orgies, at which it is so " essen tial to the maintenance of a good understanding amongst the members of the corporation, that they should perform those important and agreeable functions of Nature—eating and drinking together !" We know not whether we ought most to admire the hardihood of Mr. PEARSON'S motion,—the equanimity of the discussion to which it gave rise,—or the justice of resisting every endeavour " to stint the Loan MAYOR, lest he should indemnify himself and have his revenge by a frightful economy in the larder and cellar of the Mansion-llouse."—.But this all comes of admitting Radical Reformers into such places. Let the City look to it ; and let " the idea of squeezing in the established modes of civic hospitality" be as Mr. Dtxon sagely recommended, " altogether abandoned." We have accounts from Nassau this morning to the 30111 Feb. from which we take the following speech of the Governor at the close of the Session : ONNTLENZN OF TINE COUNCIL, "Mr. SPEAKER and GENTLZININ of the Assztent.v. I " In performing for the first time the important duty of publicly addressing you as his Majesty's Represe n t a tive, , It offside me great pleasure to be able to state, that in all the business I have had as yet to transact since my arri val in the Colony, I have received from both branches of the Legislature that cordial and frank assistance I had anticipated. Whatever measures I may feel it my duty to propose for your consideration in the ensuing Session, I em confident you will receive and discuss in the same spirit of candour and good feeling you have hitherto shewn. in fact, where men have the welfare of the corn munity sincerely at heart, and are convinced of the recti tude of each others intention, (as is, I trust, the case with us,) although they may differ in opinion in some little matters of detail, it is impossible they should not agree as to the leading and general principles which ought to regulate their conduct. " The Consolidated Slave Law, to which I have just given my assent, is the principal cause which has occa sioned my intruding upon you the foregoing reflections. You have done a great deal in this important business, and have gone beyond the ieg,islatures of all the other colonies. There remains but a few points, and those of a comparatively trifling nature, and which in no way affect either the property or the interest of the master, to be attended to. By conceding these, you will s ttisfy his Majesty's Government, and call iu that agitation to which the constant and renewed discussions of the sub_ ject have given rise. I shall draw your attention to these matters early in the ensuing session ; in the mean while, I thank you for what you have done ; and as there re mains so little to do to perfect your work, I hope that in another session you will enable me to send home a bill, with such additional enactments, as will put the question finally at rest. "MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN DE ASSEMBLY, -I thank you for the supplies you have granted for the service of the current year, and which are as liberal as the state of our financial resources will allow. " GENTLEMEN OF TUE COUNCIL AND ASSEMBLY, —The business of the Session being now closed, I hereby prorogue the General Assembly until the 25th day 01 February next. " J. CARMICHAEL SMYTII. '• Connell Chamber, Jan. 11, IMO." CITY, TwiLvE oTtocic. During the course of yesterday great excitement was experienced in the City, owing to the public having been deprived of the publi. cation of a bulletin with thg statement of his Majesty's health. Crowds were flocking to the Mansion-house until a late hour, con. tinually enquiring if his lordship luul received a bulletin ; but the negative being given, they departed much dissatisfied. This morn ing we perceive that his Majesty's health has improved since Mon. day, and had passed a good night. Surely an official communi. cation of this would have been very gratifying to his Majesty's subjects. Consols, which left off yesterday at 921 for the Account, opened at 921$ ; for Money 92i /, with little business doing u yet. In the Foreign Market most of the prices are nominal. Accounts front Bogota bring the following letter from Bolivar to His Excellency the President of the Constituent Congress : " Elm MIXT SIR, " The occurrences which have lately taken place in the province of Venezuela, have induced me to believe that it would be advisable for me to proceed to that part of the Republic, for the purpose of endeavouring to settle some differences which unfortunately disturb the order and tranquillity of the nation. To this end, I have al. ready invited the Chief Superior of Venezuela to an interview, but have not thought proper to make any further advances in so import. ant a matter without first submitting it to the consideration of Con. gram, not only that I may proceed in accordance with the will of the Representatives of the people, but also that if Congress accedes to the proposal, I may receive the sanction of that body, which will tend to the greater success of this concWatory enterprise. (Signed) "SIMON BOLIVAR." Quebec Papers to the 14th March, Montreal to the 11th March, and Mauritius to the 3d January, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, from Upper Canada. The Report of the Committee of Finance to the Assembly shows an increase of revenue of 2,2951. for the year 1829, in consequence of the ezpiradon of the law which imposed provincial duties on shop and innkeepers licenses. The revenue in 1830 will be found to have decreased 17001. The Report complains of the burthen of having two Chief Justices and one Puisne Judge on the pension list, and recommends the curtailment of the Judges. NEW YORK, Fes. 27. The rumour of the intention of the free black population from the state of Ohio to pass Into this province, and form a settlement is the western district, has created much alarm amongst the inhabitants of that part of the country. The Kinpton Bank Bill ha been thrown out by the Council, who hue panted one for authorizing a loan in England to pay off the provincial debt. The Mauritius Papers do not contain any news. Ltvwool., APRIL 18.—The demand fee cotton throughout the week has been steady, and previous prices foe most kinds have been supported; Brasil cotton may be quoted one farthing per it higher. We continue to mistime indications et improvement in our timber market; the country demand is very good, and app.. rently on the increase. The stock is lowering very fast, so that it is probable there will be a scarcity of pine timber, of the best qua. lity, before any new imports can arrive. Our quotations are fully supported. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. Consols have improved during the :seining from 921 to 921 for the. Account ; and at mast they are 921 I, with little doing. The Foreign Market Is quite idle—not a feature worth oblerra. Lion at present. We are informed that some demur has taken place in the Annuity Office, and they will not grant Annuities far 30 years, in exchange for Long Annuities, this mode being injurious to Government ; but they will grant it on Stock. Private accounts from Carthagettabf the 10th of February, state, that the Congress will not admit the separation of the province of Venomla—conciliatory measures will be proposed al: battalions of troops have strived at Panama been the South,- ma four batta lions in this department are going to Karacsibe ; wed it is said that Bolivar is on the eve of his departure foe that city—ether troops are marching from the South; these preparations are making should Venezuela refuse all amicable terms. Private accounts from Port au Prince, via America, state that since the la February the President Dow has issued a Proclansa. tion or Declaration of War aplast,Spain. Four regiments of infantry are stationed at an insportint pees between Poet au Prince and St. Domingo. All the forts ere in active preparation ; but the general opinion is, that nothing of moment will transpire. The Journal des Debars 11111111110111 at 100,000.000 fs. the probable expense of the expedition against Algiers, and asks whether such a sum would not be more benefi cially expended if applied to internal improvement. — How few wars have ever been waged with respect to which a similar question sight net be asked THE KING. E derive no inconsiderable degree of C011801:1110ii being enabled to announce that our beloved Mos .►k~•~ was yesterday considered by his Physicians to comparatively improved, and certainly more tranquil stat e than on the precedingday. —His M el EST Y having rosse, t a good night, was pronounced to be much better: sanguine hopes of approaching convalescence are ago', entertained.—lt has not for the present been deemed no cessary to publish any further Bulletin. COUNT NEWS. His MAJESTY'S health has, we ate happy to state, iinprobr. since the issuing of the Bulkily' on Monday : the Ktrto pas.eJ , good night on Monday night, and was better yesterday. Ills 31mEsTir received a visit during the morning from ih• Duchess of OLOUCESTZII. Sir HENIIIr HALFORD left the Palace at Windsor shortly Wien. eight o'clock yesterday morning, and returned to town : both di! Medical Attendants were absent from the Paitce during the day, the state of his )lAJESTY'S health not requiring their constant a:. tendance. In the evening Sir HENRY Ilm.roact returnm to Palace about half.pa►t seven o'clock. The Duke of CUMBERLAND, after visitirg the KING on Kn.. day Amami, returned to his residence at Kew. LETTER FROM WINDSOR, TV ES DA Y, APRIL 20 Her Royal Highness the Duette... of GLOUCESTER left Lon don this morning for Windsor Castle, to visit and inquire after health of his MAJESTY. Htr Royal Highness proceeded as far st Hounslow in her own carriage, At which place one of the limo% carriages was in attendance to convey the Royal Duchess to Wind sor. Her Royal Highness arrived at the Castle at twelve o'clock, and was introduced to his MAaierrY, and continued her visit until three, at which time her Royal Highness returned in one of the Kora's carriages to Hounslow, and from thence in her own to London." It is understood that the Duke of WELLINGTON ex pressed his high displeasure—but in his usual placid and gentle manner—that the medical attendants upon the king should have presumed to Witte a bulletin respecting his Majesty's health without having previously received his grace's command ; and the noble duke peremptorily ordered all further bulletins to be instantly dis continued ; thus marking his haughty indifference to the anxious fears of a loyal and attached people for the safety of their beloved sove reign. The alarming illness of the king was first announced to the na. lion, and most properly announced, by his majesty's medical atten. dents, the only source on which reliance can be placed ; and if, as we devoutly pray, the king's health should be restored, it is due to the country--and the country demands it—that tidings, rejoicing thi heart of every Englishman, shall be confirmed through the same legitimate source—the king's physician—and that the fears and hopes of an affectionate people shall not be left either to the " Court Circular," a sort of nondescript, and still less to the Courier, which studiously trades every approach to truth.—Morniny Journal. On this interesting topic one thing seems undeniable —either that no bulletin should have been issued, or, that one hay. ing been found mummy, a further daily official announcement should have taken place, till all cause of apprehension had been set at rest by authority ; and this was and is the more necessary, from the equivocal, not to say alarming, teems in which the bulletin of Thursday was worded. Besides the feelings of personal ir. tercet towards the &Azimut, which arc as universal u they are justly merited, the mode in which the public are affected in various ways by the uncertainty which pervades the subject, is most serious and important. To look only to the Stock Exchange—there the public securities are kept in a most fluctuating and feverish state, which, if it affected only the gamblers in the market, would not be of so much consequence, though even in that respect it is to be lamented that gambling should thrive o:, such a topic. But besides this, the moment is most critical to what is called the spring trade of the country, the progress of which sr alarm of the nature alluded to paralyses to an extent which none but those who are engaged in it an in any degree calculate. The topic, therefore, is one en which no degree of uncertainty should be allowed to prevail ; and, were it only to stop the hundred tongues of Rumour, an authentic and responsible announcement should either quiet or confirm the alarm which the same source has crested. —Herald. The Duke of SUSSEX visited the Duke of Gtouc ESTER yesterday. The Russian Ambassador had a long conference with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign affairs. A Deputation of Gentlemen interested in the Danish claims, headed by Mr. Wotrr and Mr. Shilleto, attend ed at the Treasury yesterday, and had a conference with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Marquis and Marchioness of SALISBURY gave a grand dinner yesterday evening, at Hatfield, Herts, to the Duke of WELLINGTON, and a party of the nobility any genty. Sir GEORG I: MI'RRAY left town yesterday for Sun ning Hill. Mr. HERRIES arrived iu town yesterday afternoon from Tonbridge Wells. A confirmation of the capture of the English merchant ship by Don Minuet:a squadron has been received. She proves to be the Mary Aan, front Gibraltar, which had orders to call at Fayal to learn the state of the mar kets there. She would be sent into Lisbon for the case to be decided by the Admiralty Court. The Earl of SEFTON, Lady HAMPDEN, and W. 11. FELLOWES, Esq. M. P. had dinner parties yesterday. In the absence of Levees and Drawing Rooms, the fashionable world will no doubt experience much con solation in the Balls at " ALMACIeI. Under the head of Honourable Murder, the killing in a duel of Mr. MILLER, a Philadelphia Barrister, by Lieu tenant HUNTRR, of the American navy, is stated in the New York Papers. A meeting the Horticultural Society was held yester day, at their Rooms, Regent-street, when it was declared !that a more free admission would hereafter be given to the gardens: that the bye-laws would be revised, and acco modated to the increased number of the members ; and it was understood that it was not intended to give the anni versary Gte at the gardens, as was customary for the last two or three years. DEATH OF CARDINAL SOMAOLIA. —Rome, April 13.—Last night died Cardinal Giulio Maria della So maglia, Dean of the Sacred College, Bishop of Villetri and O slia, Vice-Chancellor and librarian, High Priest of the Lateran, Secretary of the Supremo College of the Holy Office, Prefect of the Holy Congregation die Riti e Ciremonie, Knight of the Order of St. Annunziatia, &c. He was born at Piacenza, the 29th of July, 1742, and was descended from one of the most distinguished families of the country. Pius VI. raised him to the dignity of Cardinal, June 1, 1795: he was afterwards one of the party that formed an opposition to the ad ministration of Cardinal Gonaslvi, and became Secretary of State under Leo XII. Notw ithstanding his advanced age, he executed with the greatest activity the duties of that high office, and was in all respects a man distin guished by multifarious knowledge, and was generally esteemed. He L is said to have left a fortune of 600,000 scudi, which he has bequeathed to the Propaganda. The Pope will not this year perform the usual formalities at Faster, but only give the benediction. Immediately after Easter his Holiness will take up hie residence in the Quirinal Palace, the air of which is considered by phy sicians to be more salubrious.