The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-21 00:00:00

THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA.

The Princess Augusta is reduced to a very distress.
ing state and has become almost exhausted with pain
and suffering. The members of the Royal Family,
with affectionate solicitude, evince their anxiety by their
frequent visits and attention to their afflicted relative.
The Hon. Lieut.-Col. Grey, Equerry in Waiting on
the Queen, came from Windsor Castle at an early
hour yesterday morning by command of her Majesty
to learn the state of her Royal Highness, and Capt.
Seymour, by command of his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, also came to Clarence House. Both gentle-
men, after receiving from the Medical Gentlemen in
attendance an account of the health of the Princess,
left town on their return to Windsor Castle.'
The Duchess of Gloucester, who throughout the
long period of the Princess's illness, now extending to
the term of several months, has constantly visited her
Royal Highness daily, continued in attendance on the
Princess both yesterday and on Saturday. Her Majesty
the Queen Dowager also spent the greater part of both
days at Clarence House. Yesterday forenoon her Ma-
jesty and the Duchess of Gloucester attended prayers
in the drawing-room of Clarence House, the Rev. J. R.
Wood, Chaplain to the Queen Dowager, officiating.
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and
Cambridge paid visits to her Royal Highness yesterday
and on Saturday.
Two accounts of the health of the Princess were is-
sued yesterday, one in the middle of the day, the other
at five o'clock p.m. The former was as follows :
" The Princess Augusta experienced a considerable
return of pain early this morning, but there has since
been a mitigation of her sufferings, and her Royal
Highness, though very weak, is now in a more comfort-
able state."
" Clarence House, Sept. 20, half-past ten."
The account in the afternoon was as follows :
" The Princess Augusta has continued tolerably easy
and free from pain during the day.
" Five o'clock."
Her Royal Highness remained in the same hopeless
state at eleven o'clock last night. The Royal Family all
left Clarence House in the course of the evening.
The following account was issued on Saturday :
" The Princess Augusta continues in a weak and
suffering state, but there is no material change in her
Royal Highness's symptoms since yesterday.
" Clarence House, Sept. 19, half-past 12 o'clock.'
The Earl and Countess of Albemarle arrived from
Hampton Court on Saturday, to inquire personally re-
specting the state of the Princess, and the Duke and
Duchess of Somerset came from Wimbledon Park, for
the like purpose. Among the other inquirers were the
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DEATH OF MR.HAMMERSLEY THEBANKER.
--We regret w state that Mr. Hammersley died at Satur-
day night of a disease in
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EVENING EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURBAY.
(From the Globe.)
The effect in Paris of the publication of the Treaty
of London appears to be similar to that of the Memo-
rsndera of the 15th July. The public mind is made
more tranquil ; and the war party are made more exas-
perated. The juste milieu between peace and war, in
which may be reckoned the organs of the party in power,
and those of the parties nearest to power (and which,
therefore, cannot afford to alienate any influential shade
opinion)—hold pretty much the same language re-
specting the treaty—s. e. they say nothing—and they do
this in many words, like the Courtier Francais and the
Debats, or, more discreetly, in no words at all, like the
Constrtuttionnel, which publishes the document, without
*he addition of any comment. We love above a 1
logical antagonists ; and we find them in the
.National. For the reductio ad absurdum of frenzy
these writers have no parallels. All the alleged affronts
in the manner of concluding the recent convention—
all the conjectured offensive matter in the treaty itself;
having failed them—they take the bull by the horns,
and avow the pretension which we charged the cla-
mourers at the treaty with tacitly cherishing, but cer-
tainly never expected them to acknowledge in direct
terms. The National, in answer to our charge,
observes, " It has been said—What, must the Four
Great States bend to the will of one, and because it
suits France not to consent, must the other Governments
have their hands tied ?—We reply, Yes without hesita-
tion. In an affair of this importance, if Russia, Austria,
or England, if one alone of these Powers had
protested, the others must abstain from act;ea. We
defy the citation of a single example from the history of
diplomacy, in which a Power of the first order, ex-
cluded from the European council, has not taken up
arms to avenge its disregarded dignity. The example
of Spain and the Treaty of Quadruple Alliance have
heat cited against us. Is there the slightest analogy
between these two cases Was it then a question on
which depended the peace of the world, and the ba-
lance of Europe ? What interest had Prussia and
Russia in Spain ?" What interest has France in Egypt
and Syria? No territorial interest—no interest of ag-
grandisement—so her statesmen asseverate. Hers is a
comprehensive moral and political interest—the preven-
tion of the disturbance of the balance of power in Eu-
rope. Who disturbs that balance ? At this menrent, as-
suredly Mehemet Ali. This cannot be contested ;
.and France has not contested it. France has not jus-
Aiied the detention of his Sovereign's fleet, or the other
demonstrations of lawless ambition on the part of her
protege. France has said nothing but that she cannot
assist to coerce that protege. Europe says, be must be
coerced into respecting the balance of power. France
says, or has seemed to say, that he shad not, because the
will not assist in the operation. Does she deny its ur-
gency? She has never done so. Yet when others resolve
na that operltioes, she protests, or her writers protest for.
her, that the balance of power is endangered, and her
dignity disregarded. This is singular language. The
dignity of France may demand that the balance of
power shall not be redressed, when her protege disturbs
it. But the dignity of France, in that case stands
opposed to the balance of power ; and she cannot plead
liar dignity, and the balance of power, in one breath.
France is either interested, or disinterested, in this
question. Her statesmen declare she has no other in-
terest than preserving the balance of power. Well,
then, France must show that she proposed any plan—
that she would have acceded to any plan—for doing
what she cannot deny to be necessary. If France
cannot show this, she must either abandon a hostile at-
titude, or affirm what we have described as an absurd
pretension—that whenever it does not suit France to
as.ist in doing that which is necessary, the other Powers
of Europe must not do it without her assistance. This
is assigning to France the dignified part of the dog in
the manger.