Star. — London, England, 1830-07-15 00:00:00

A MORNING. A. 0 0 1.1 4 1WW1 ..... .. 0 O Jamaica ....: 0 1 Swedrn 0 O Malta .. n O Brazil . 0 AHD HIS HIGHNESS THE DIE OF ALGIERS. " The fort of the Casanba, all the other forts depend ing on Algiers, and the port of that city, shall be de livered up to the French troops this morning, at ten o'clock, French time. • 1 " The General-in-Chief of the French army promises his Highness the I)ey of Algiers, to leave him his liberty and the possession of every thing that belongs to him personally. •' The Dey shall be at liberty to retire with his family and all that belongs to him, to the place which he shall fix upon ; and so long as he remains at Algiers, he and all his family shall be under the protection of the General in-Chief of the French army ; a guard shall protect the safety of his person and that of his family. The General in-Chief promises to all the soldiers the same advantages and the same protection. " The exercise of the Mahometan religion shall remain free. The liberty of the inhabitants of all classes, their religion, their property, their commerce, their industry, shall be inviolate ; their women shall be respected . the General-in-Chief promises this upon his honour. " The exchange of this convention shall be made be fore 10 o'clock this morning, and the French troops shall immediately after enter the Casauba, and successively all the other forts of the city and the port. " Camp before Algiers, July 6, 1830. (Signed) "Count de BOURMONT. (Here the Dey has affixed his seal.) (A true copy) " Lieutenant. General Chief of the Staff. _ (Signed) "DESPREZ." The letter accompanying the express says the elections proceed at Paris very quietly : in all the arrondissements the provisional bureaux have been changed, and it seemed certain that eight opposition candidates will be elected by an immense majority. By express from Vienna, we have advice. this day to the 7th of July. They are of considerable interest. "Prince METTERNICH," says this letter, "has just arrived; and Donna MARIA, the young Queen of Por tugal, is expected, by way of Trieste. The Emperor Don PEDRO has agreed to the mediation of the Emperor of AusruiA, in the proposed amicable arrangement of affairs with Miu um., and hie marriage with the Queen. Count LEPZELBEIIII is about to proceed to Lisbon by way of London; and a brother of Prince LEOPOLD, or the Prince LICIITERSTEIN, is to visit the Court of WILLIAM the FOURTH." By an extraordinary conveyance, the accounts of the doath of GEORGE the FOURTH had been received at Vienna before these advice* left ; and the EMPEROR had ordered the whole Court to go into mourning for six weeks. This being the day appointed for the interment of his late Ms. EsTv, all business in this Metropolis is sus pended. Tile bells of the various churches commenced tolling at noon, and will continue the announcement of the approaching melancholy ceremony, at intervals, until its termination. Minute-guns have been fired at the Tower, and in the Park, during the day : all places of public amusement aro closed—all the shop windows are shut, as is the custom on such an occasion ; and prayers are offered up at all churches, chapels, and Jewish synagogues. Thus passeth to the tomb of his forefathers, with every appearance of the sincere respect and sorrow of his subjects, GEOUGE the Foy ant, the late Monarch of these realms. The period of intombment is not an unusual period for offering a few remarks on the character of the deceased. At the time that the KING'S death was first announced, all the public Journalists employed their pens, in giving to their readers a delineation of his late MAJESTY'S character, as they appreciated respectively its merits or demerits; and we, among others, ventured to perform a similar task. From taking a view of all this variety of comment, we caunot perhaps be surprised, that considerable discrepancies of opinion should be disco vered; for the character of a Kt so is ton intimately identified with the policy of his reign, not to call forth all the approbation, and disapprobation, with which dif ferent parties have viewed that policy. We are only a little surprised to discover in more o our contemporaries than we had expected, that the se verity of stricture bad not been a little mollified, by the reflection, that the object of their remark is no longer sus sceptible of experiencing either pleasure or annoyance, and no longer capable of self-vindication. We feel our selves therefore justifiable, before dismissing the melan choly subject, to avail of this opportunity, to add a little to what we have before ventured to say, on a retro spect of what we Luow of his MaissTes life. The old maxim' of de nsostuis nil nisi bonuai , , lass been frequently censured ; and, taking it as a lIIIIMMOMMIIIIIMINE.IIIIIIIIIIIIII.IIIIII „„_ uiversal rule. with renson. Another maxim. de mortuis nil nisi rerum, has been put in its place ; and this last maxim must undoubtedly be considered as, the only correct law of human conduct. But we think that he who takes upon Maori( to be the censor of the dead, and to act with that rigid discharge of the duty which the last maxim exacts, takes upon himself a task of great respasibility ; and one which, if be discharge not with the most scrupulous care, will in jure his own character for those kindly feelings, by which, we are inclined to appreciate a man in the scale of moral merit. He who acts by the first maxim— who says nothing but good of the dead, and leaves unsaid all that is evil—we admit, diminishes the ♦alue his writings, in avoiding the opportunity to hold forth vice to the contempt which it should receive, in order to insure a just appreciation of virtue. But he who assumes to speak nothing but truth of the dead, must be very exact in his delineation of all the finer shading of his picture; or he deviates into untruth— wounds the charities of our nature—and accomplishes nothing but mischief. We have been led into these rather, we fear, too ab stract remarks, by perusing the severe strictures of some of our contemporaries: we deem them too severe, because " overstepping the modesty" which should govern the pen or lips, when treating of what has yet been but imperfectly open to the eye of observation. It is impossible, we maintain, for any public writer to judge, at the present moment, with any certainty, of most of the incidents in our late Kiso's history, which have been mentioned, or alluded to, as the data from which we are to deduce our notions of his moral worth, and apply accurately an expression of praise or blame. We farther maintain, on the principle we have stated, that when we can obtain no certainty, we infringe no sound rule of moral conduct if we condescend to await infor mation in silence ; or if not capable of holding our peace, and so rigidly righteous as to dread a devia tion into charitable apology, that it is our next incum bent duty to utter what we say, with the diffident expres sion of imperfect knowledge. He that is positive in the condemnation of others, should be sure of his facts ; or he becomes the most fatal condemner of himself. Can any man of experience, in common life, say that there are facts before the public adequate to enable it to form a cor rect judgment on the female attachments of his late Ma taavv's early life ? Why then express a decided opinion upon them ? Why not, if sub umbra, be silent upon them, until time remove the obscurity ? In appreciating the character of Kurcis, there are many and solid claims which they may make for a more than usual consideration. Society is in all ways unjust towards them : it flatters, it pampers, it spoils them ; and then, like a weak and cruel father, turns round upon 'them, and chastizes with a rod of scorpions. The laws of society subject our liznos often to marry those whom they do not know and cannot love; it then ex acts from them as an example all the external duties of connubial love. To this, a sense of duty might induce a Prince to conform ; but society goes beyond requiring mere externals—it forgets that the Kinn is man, and subject to all the usual passions and appetites o the two-legged unfeathered race ; it scrutinizes with • censorious minuteness, and castigates often upon mere surmise. But we must close. We are willing to admit, and we should be very sorry to be thought to entertain Any other opinion, that there are many points in his late M AMITY'S life, parti cularly his disagreement and conduct towards his unfortunate consort, on which we are not satisfied ; but we know there may have been unintentional errors—there may have been evil mieleadings—there may have been many causes to prove an apology. We therefore see no propriety in dwelling farther on the point. We know the KING was beloved, during many years of his life, by Fox, and many others whose names we venerate. We think that, in general, his reign was one which displayed perhaps more than any other, a proper governing policy ; and we are willing in attending him to the grave, not to withhold that tribute of applause which we think may, with propriety his due. By accounts from Stockholm, to the 3d inst. we learn that the Crown Prince of Sweden sailed on the 28th ult. on board the Eurydice frigate, for St Petersburgh. Some serious disturbances appear to have taken place at Leipsig, on the occasion of the third centenary of the delivery of the Augsburgh confession. The students have obtained permission of the authorities of the Uni versity, to walk in procession ; and costume bad been prepared for the occasion ; bands of music engaged ; and various other expenses incurred. On the morning of the 25th ult. orders came prohibiting the appearance of the students, in particular costume—the consequence of which was, that the idea of the procession was abandoned ; and in the evening the students, annoyed at the expense to which they had been put, commenced a disturbance, which the police was unable to quell. Things threatened to be serious, when a sensible address by one of the Pro feseors, prevented the continuance of the tumult. CITY. TWELVE acLocr. Pants.—The retention of Algiers, and all the territo ries of the Regency, appears to be determined on. The Lisbon Gazette contains the following :—Th e Portuguese brig of war, Mary, has arrived from Rio de Janerio. At the moment of her departure, a report was spread that Don Pedro had been proclaimed Abso lute Emperor of Portugal in the Province of Ranki. The Aviso de la Medeterania states that the Turkish frigate, commanded by Tahir Pasha, left the Roadstead of Toulon at half-past six in the evening. TRIUTZ, JULY I.—By a vessel which left Malta, we learn that Admiral Malcolm was on the point of re turning to England, with the greater part of the Beet under his command. Letters from Tangiers of the 22d ult. state, that the Spanish Consul had not been able to conclude any nego elation with the Emperor of Morocco. The Bey of Tunis has sent to the French Admiral a frigate and a brig, on board of which were some officers of the Regency, who oared to the French Admiral pro visions far his fleet, with other articles of necessity. This Wag the day for the ceremony of hie Majesty'. funeral, ell the public places in the City are closed, with the exception of Loyd s, the battlers, &c. and the City he' the appsemace of Sunday. - 'l%l 1 TISARRIVED AND DUE lit n. 1 A. P. I rhthiln ... 0 1 1 France. ..... .... 0 1 Waterford 0 1 Pander.' 0 2 nuern tic .Itr.ey 0 I n floTlind . 0 0 Buenos Ayre , ... 1 1 11Amhur6b .. . 0 0 A merles-- .... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 TIT F EVENING STAR. 6. 1 .. q. L( )')' ': THURSDAY, JULY 1.5. CLOtt 1101 IDAY •r TUB Pmts O►►lCq. Two of the Morning Papers—the Times and the Ile: raid—have this day given us the contents of two ex presses from Paris, containing a variety of documents. from the seat of war on the Mediterranean coast. In all this mass of matter, we do not find a single line worthy of abridgment or extract, with the exception of the fol lowing:— '• CONVENTION ■ETWET.X TIM GENERAL.-IN•CHIET Or THY TRENCH ARMY • y 4 ' . et • 0 • - CA I e A 7 1••••••• -•- • • COURT I vTRI.LIGENC If. The entrance of the Royal vault in St. George's Cha pel, Windsor, (which is a short distance in front of the altar,) was opened on Tuesday, and the necessary prep rations were made for the interment of the corpse of his i late Majesty. The backs of the stalls of the Knights of the Garter have been all hung with drapery of black cloth. The Earl Marshal, accompanied by Sir George Nayler, in spected the whole of the arrangements for the funeral on Tuet.day. Seats have been erected round the altar for the Dean and Canons of the Chapel, who w ill be stationed there during the performance of the service. The whole of the interior of the Chapel will be covered with black cloth, under which matting will be previously laid. From the place where the funeral procession will enter St. George's Chapel on the south aide, a platform has been erected, which passes under the large stained glass window at the west end of the Chapel, and is continued up the whole length of the nave with a gentle ascent, which brings it level with the top of the steps in front of the organ screen. It has been covered with black cloth, as have also the seats which have been erected at the sides of the Chapel. Prince Frederick of Prussia arrived at the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. St. James's Pa lace, yesterday, about one o'clock, from Kew. The Earl of Rosalyn and Lord Ellenboreugh visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday. Yesterday Pane. Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassa dor, had an interview with the Duke of Wellington. The Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council had a meeting yesterday at the Council-office, which was attended by the Lord President of the Coun cil, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the Master of the Rolls, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Their Lordships met at ten o'clock : the first appeal was that of Elphinstone, &c. against the exe cutors of Amerchund Berdachand " from Bombay. Their Lordships heard the Attorney-General reply for an hour and a half, when Lord Tenterden delivered the judgment of the Court, that the decree of the Court below should be reversed. The next appeals were " Rogerson •. Reid," from Lower Canada ; " Bocquest v. Lemperere," from Jer sey. ',hese and other appeals occupied their Lordships till near six o'clock, when they adjourned. Sir George Smart has received the King's commands to direct the musical part of the funeral service on the late King. and preside at the organ. The .music to be performed is to be precisely the same as performed at the funeral of George 111. The chorus to consist of some gentlemen and Boys of the Chapel Royal, St. James's, with the choir of St. George's Chapel. When the procession enters the Chapel, the choir will com mence singing Croft's burial service—" I am the resur rection," &c. After this, the 39th and 90th Psalms will be chanted ; after the lesson, Kent's Anthem, " Hear my prayer," will be given ; and when the body has been deposited in the vault, Handers Anthem, " His body is buried in peace," will be sung. The whole to conclude with the " Dead March iu Saul," to be per formed by Sir George Smart on the organ. The King has intimated an intention of holding a Drawing Room in October next, prior to which his Ma jesty will have a series of Levees. No time has yet been fixed for the Coronation, which, it is imagined, will not take place till the ensuing spring. THN LATE RING LYING IN sntra. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—Thin town has been for the last two days, and is now, thronged with vi sitors, and every hour adds to the number, who arrive in all sorts of vehicles, from the splendid barouch and four to the humble one-hors. chaise and taxed cart. The consequence is, that accommodation is hardly to be hail " for love or (what is more to John Bull's taste) money." We know not whether this anxiety to witness the last sad tribute to departed greatness arises from fondness for ehew, or from real feeling of respect to the deceased Sovereign, but this we know, that viewing the character of our late revered Sove reign as a Sovereign, and forgetting his faults as a man, and no one will deny but he had his failings, but they were the failings of humanity, we cannot think of him but with mingled feelings of respect and admiration. But we are digressing. When we commenced these observa tions respecting his late Majesty, we were adverting to the feelings of the people, in attending at Windsor to wit iness the solemn ceremony, after the due performance of ; which, the remains of George the Fourth will be con signed to the tomb of his ancestors. We said we knew not whether it was fondness for show, or feelings of deep respect, that influenced the visitors at Windsor, but per haps it would be estimating the existing feeling fairly by saying it was a mixture of both; but let it arise from what motive it may, this we know, that long before the appointed time for opening the outer gate which led to the apartment in which his Majesty's remains were, accord ing to kingly custom, laid out in state, the throng of per sons was excessive. The appointed time for opening the gate (Henry the Eighth's) was ten o'clock. At this hour there could not be less than 3,000 persons, chiefly females, waiting for admission. We need hardly say that all were dressed iu the deepest mourning. Although the pressure was great, and the heat intense, both of which circum stances must have operated to inconvenience the indivi duals in question ; still the annoyance did not appear to be felt, for not the slightest murmur escaped them The pressure would have been more severely felt, were it not for the care taken to prevent more than were capable of filling the space near to the gate from entering it. Barriers were judiciously placed in certain parts of the castle-yard, and the superintendence of them given to the police officers of the Thames police, who were dis tributed through the castle-yard in an exceedingly pro per manner by Mr. Stevens, the chief officer, by which means the increasing crowd was kept at hay. bir Richard Birnie, who was also in attendance, seeing the situation of the persona near the gate, sent to the officers of the Household to facilitate the is of the visitors as much as possible. The consequence was that, in about twenty minutes after ten o'clock, the public were admitted to witness the ceremony of lying in state. They passed through Henry the Eighth's gate, along the north terrace, through the presence chamber, the throne room, and then into the King's drawing room, at the extreme end of which the remains of his late Majesty lay in state. The presence chamber and the throne room were tastefully festooned with black cloth, and lighted with curiously constructed candelebra. Gen tlemen Pensioners and Yeoman of the Guard lined those rooms who.. mournful hangings and solemn appearance gave " dreadful note" of what was to be met with in the next chamber, the King's drawing roam. This room was tastefully fitted up for the due performance of the solemn ceremony. A festooning of purple chith*as" hung in elegant and cheats folds around the room. The was lights were properly placed, so as to shed thiir lairs upon the Reyol coffin, which, as we before observed, was slated at the extreme end of the apartutent, under a canopy of purple cloth, studded with escutcheons. At the head of the coffin sat L9rd Strathaven, as Lord of the Bedchamber, and two Gentlemen Ushers on his right and left ; at the feet were two heralds. The coffin was !covered with a white Holland sheet and velvet pall,which hung down in ample folds, and displayed the most splen ded escutcheons. The foot of the cffion was exposed to view ; it, however, presented nothing remarkable to the eye of the observer. The Royal Crown of Hanover, and the Imperial Crown of the Empire, were displayed resting upon cushions, upon the top of the coffin ; the latter Crown was nearest the head. On either side of the coffin stood three massive silver candlesticks, each containing a large wax light. Three gentlemen ushers were also placed on either side ; a short distance from them stood six of the band of his Majesty's Gentlemen Peuxicners. Next to them were arranged six of the Yeomen of the Guard, with their battle-axes covered with crape. lhe company, after passing through the apartments in question, in slow time, proceeded along an apartment into what is called the Brick -court, and so out by King John's Tower. The priviledged per sons, those who were admitted by special tickets from the Lord Chamberlain's-office, proceeded to the chamber of death by entering at the temporary gate opposite the entrance to the Long Walk. From this temporary gate they passed up the new line of road through George the Fourth's gateway, between the towers of York and Lancaster, across the great quadrangle to the grand stair case entrance to the old apartments, and thus ascended at once to the King's drawing-room : the lower end of this room was railed off, and enabled the privileged in dividuals to view the mournful pageant without mingling' with the great mass of visitors. This arrangement prevented much confusion ; for the privileged few were thus enabled to enter the state-room from the south, _ and retired by the same way, while the public retired the way already described. In the early part of the day much disappointment was experienced by the holders of privileged tickets who did not arrive on horseback or in private carriages. The porter at the gate refused to recognize the ticket, unles the holder of it was drawn to the spot by a coach and four, or was mounted upon a spirited quadruped. This inconvenience was severely felt by many ; we ourselves were sufferers for a time ; but owing to the kindness of Mr. Martin, of the Lord Chamberlain's office, the inconvenience was but partially felt. Indeed, we cannot too warmly remark upon the attention shown us by the gentleman whose name we have just mentioned, not only in conducting us into the apartments of woe, but in enabling us to a itness the whole ceremony with the most perfect convenience. Townsend and Sayers were in attendance at the privileged gate. The former was as active and as loquacious as ever. Up to the time of closing the doors, the public were constantly applying for admission into the Castle. Upon a rough calculation, not less than ftorn 12,000 to 15,000 persons passed through the Royal apartmentsduring the day. The covered platform from the Palace to St. George's Chapel is completed, the matting is entirely laid down, and the upholsterer has nearly finished his portion of the work. Several men were actively employed in this latter department during the whole of the day. The car upon which the Royal corpse will be conveyed from the Palace to the Royal vault, was drawn along the platform in the course of the day, and was found to run without impediment. The preparations in St. George's Cha pel are all but completed, the matting is all down, and the festooning valance of black drapery is now entirely placed over the railing of the platform in tbe Chapel. The Stalls of the Knights have been hung with black, as has also the altar. We never witnessed, upon any former occasion of a public pageant, so little trouble or inconvenience ; and it is but justice to the visi tors to say that they conducted themselves with the most perfect decency and decorum. Every one felt satisfied as to the way in which the thing was conducted, and the solemn occasion was not detracted from by the rudeness or incivility of menials, who frequently interfere to mar the propriety of any proceeding with which they have to do. Upon the whole, we must say, that we view the preceediugs of the day as most creditable to the loyalty and good taste of that portion of the people of England who visited Windsor to witness the last solemn ceremony performed in honour of " One of the Best of England's Kings." —Correspondent of a Morning Paper. Our present King, William IV. entered Cork harbour on the 3d of December, 1787, in his Majesty's ship Pegasus, from Halifax, as Prince William Henry, her then commander. The object was to visit the Duke of Rutland, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, at Dublin. His Royal Highness, however, was much disappointed on learning that his Excellency had died on the 24th of Oct. preceding, and that his remains had been removed to England on die 17th of November for interment. His Royal High•Ces was waited upon by J. Kingston, Esq. the mayor of Cork, and dined at the Mansion-house with that hos pitable gentleman, who well knew bow to handle a bottle of claret, as most of Alderman Carleton's connexions did. His Royal Highness afterwards dined with the mer chants at the King's Arms, went to the Assembly Room in George's-street, and danced with the daugh ter sad niece of Alderman Kellett, and with Miss A. Lane (now Mrs. Sealy Baldwin, of Bath, daughter of a former town-clerk,)—went to Youghal, and dined with the Youghal corporation,—proceeded to the seats of the late Earls of Shannon and Grandison, and afterwards to the Marquis of Waterford's, attended by Sir Richard Musgrave, High Sheriff, where an express from his august parent reached him, and his Royal Highness re turned to Cove, embarked for England in his fit: and landed at Plymouth on the 27th, and went to don. During this latter passage a thunder-storm broke over the ship so violently as to destroy some of the sail., and shiver the mainmast. His Majesty was at that period in his 22d year.—Cork Paper. Among the Parliamentary Papers distributed yesterday was a " Return of all Prosecutions during the Reigns of their late Majesties George HI. and George IV. idler by Ex- fyficio Information, or Indictment under the direc tion of the Attorney or Solicitor-General, or Libels or other Misdemeanors against Individuals, as Members of his Majesty's Government, other 1 3,- acting in their official capacity ment of the Solicitor for the Treasury." This return is signed know not if prosecutions for State any other department than that licitor ; but of this we are ,- waits a number of prosecutions. —Mr. Perry, the former Proprietor Chronicle, was twice tried for time, before Lord Kenyon : Lord Ellenborough. Neither entered. Messrs. Hunt, of the cuted for Mr. Perry's lest libel, they were prosecuted for a libel and convicted. Mr. John Hunt Vision of Jadritent, and convicted, only calculatsd to mislead. le 27a, and went to Lon: age a thunder-storm broke ► destroy some of the sail', Majesty was at that period 'opera distributed yesterday miens during the Reigns of I. and George IV. ei,her by idictment under the direc- itor-General, or Libels or Individuals, as Members ;, or against other Persons ; conducted in the depart- Affairs of his Majesty's rued " Geo. Mauls." We tate Libel are conducted in that of the Treasury So- certain, that the Return as. To take an instance roprietor of The Moraieg for State Libel : the first and the last time, before 1r of these presecutions is he Examiner, were prose- el, but not brought to trial; bid on the 'Prince Regent, ant was prosecuted for the convicted. The return is 11111•1111111.11.111111111111. 1 4 6 .~ 6 ~~'; !• ) 1 , if f •