Star.
London, England, 1830-08-06 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1830.

PRICE 7D.

ANCESTRY OF QUEEN ADELAIDE.

Soon after the accession of our present Sovereign, you, (addressing
the Editor of a morning paper,) favoured the public with a very
exact account of the family, the judicious education, and the antiss.
big character, of Her Majesty the Queen Consort. Ass supplement
to that well written paper, I request your insertion of a brief notice
of some particulars relating to the past history of the Ernestine line
of the family of Saxe. The facts cannot fail to be interesting, at
the present juncture, to our inquiring countrymen. Eminent vir-
tues of ancestors deserve to be recalled to view, whether as contrasts
or as encouragements ; but especially when there is reason to believe
that their descendants sincerely imitate the examples which have
such high claims on their regard. Those who, with a true Protes-
tant spirit, read the eventful and often almost romantic history of
the Reformation in Germany, will be not a little gratified by kno w-
ing from whom our most gracious Queen is lineally descended.
Her direct ancestors, in the sixteenth century, were the three suc-
cessive Electors of Saxony, to whose names, after their nobly spent
lives were ended, their surviving contemporaries, with the approving
voice of posterity, affixed the epithets, without flattery deserved and
characteristic, by which, they are known in history,—Frederic the
Wise, John the Constant, and John Frederic the Magnanimous.
The heroic honour of these illustrious men,--their devotedness to
the cause of human happiness and liberty,—the treachery, cruelty,
and tyranny which effected the deposition of the last of them, and
robbed his family of the rich domains and dignity of the Electorate,
can be but imperfectly judged of by the superficial and te-
ments of Robertson in hi' History of ColesPfllly sta
the
best and fullest accounts to which the English reader can be referred,
are to be found in the late Dean liliiner's and the present Mr. Scott's
Continuations of Mr. Joseph Milner's Ecclesiastical History.
The parts of Mr. Scott's last published volume, which refer to the
magnanimous victim of perfidy and usurpation, are peculiarly vs.
luable.

After the death of the deposed elector, his son, of the Name names,
was prevailed upon by the Count Von Grumback. a desperate ad.
venturer, to attempt the recovery of his hereditary dominions. The
rash attempt failed, as might have been reasonably anticipated; and
he languished in prison, a victim to the ungenerous vengeance of
the Austrian Government, till death released him, after twenty.
eight years, in 1595. In the mean time, the Duchies of Gotha ma
Weimar were vested in his younger brother, John William. H.
was succeeded by his son, the Duke John, of whose ten sons, two
acquired an enduring name in some of the most interesting recoils
of the history of the seventeenth century.
One of them was Bernard, Duke of Weimer. He joined the dot.
liverer of Germany, Gustavus Adolphus, accompanied him in his
triumphant career, and when he fell at bums, contributed mainly
to secure the victory of that terrible day. He was then intrusted
with the command of the chief part of the Germano Swedish army.
Providence smiled upon his undertakings. Among other ;Femme.
asses, he conquered the Briagau, the most imam possession of the
house of Habsburg : and he would have added this small but va-
luable district to his own little domain, had he not bees cinnun.
vented by the intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu. The wily ecclesiastic
sought to allure the frank and heroic Saxon from his course of
service to his country and the Protestant muse, by proposing a
marriage with the Duchess d'Aigullon ; but Bernard rejected the
insidious offer. (A. D. 1639.) Soon afterwards he died, in his
35th year, after two days' illness, declaring his persuasion that
poison had been administered to him by the contrivance of Riche-
lieu. "In him," says Schiller, " the allies lost the greatest captain
that they possessed after Gustavus Adolphus." In the school of
Gustavus he was trained; he closely followed his exalted pattern,
and be wanted only a longer life to have equalled or excelled it.—
With the bravery of the fighting moldier he united the cool and calm
glance of the general,—with tits rapid resolution of a youth the
persevering courage of a man, —with the wildfire of the warrior the
dignity of the prince, the moderation of the sage, and the CelleCien.
tiousness of the (Christian) men of honour"—Thvyseigfehrige
Krieg, voL IL p. 409.)
One of his elder brothers was Ernest I. Duke of Gotha and Al.
teuburgh, whose name, with the epithet the Pious, is to the present
day a mark.word of affeedon and Maur among the discondants of
his subjects. He also joined the pious Swedish hero la the ear.
memorable expedition to the deliverance of Germany, and rendered
many essential services. In particular, on the day of Lilian, be
sustained the shock of the fresh troops brought up by the fierce Pap.
penheim (the Telamonlan Ajax of the Imperial army, who also fell
in the dreadful slaughter), and turned back that bet onset of despair
and rage. Soon after, at the request of Bernard, he left the army,
and devoted himself to heal the wounds and repair the ruins of their
contiguous territories. The miseries which the thirty years' war
inflicted upon the whole of Germany were such as to haft deserip.
Lion. Ernest became in every seem the vegans and father of the
country over which his authory w his Messes estosded. He en.
couraged and masted to the unmet In the rebuilding of hailed's@
and public edifices, the revival if eglicalmreolte prometies
river.navigadon, and the advancing., ornery kind of industry and
l enjoyment. He gave a bmelgent ammitution and settled
Cillrecetruand he reorganized the system of aderiaileation, by which
he raised his states to an unezeneplal degree of egairi+aned meta
happiness. He restored se Ilemeigil gehmh and for all
ranks ; and for the poor, hooplook einthimels, 111101.•
schools. He took the greatest palm to Alain pima, andld,
and laborious clergymen, to supply ill the Owes god
He laboured to allay air/renege and aoheagoodes of all kinds, and
to promote a kind and pad& ollimosithee he the minds of
theologians, whose zeal for igemderige of human inventionia
made them too forgetful of ommeelkel charity. He
powerful and liberal means he the universal if
the Bible, and that It might be NM only milled In
house, but diligently read, unthemsed, and obeyed. lame
a deep Interest in plane for the eitiodon dtbe Chdeden se.
ligton in heathen and mentleinened mumble. To pemegie
this objmt, be sent an embalm le the Meg Abyegkile,
and mAr ether active measures whoever he ognegivel hope of gno-
mes. For the education of his chilies berdepeedi the whist
and to their private religious Instoweign. in melptural knowledge
and he practical applications, the Doke applied . his pummel la.
bouts with affectionate devotion and persevering reguimity. And,
to crown all, his own character, in all the virtues of pub lk sat pei.
rate life, was an unaffected and oonaboent illustration of the Bible,
religion which be took so much pains to inculcate on his ehildres
and subjects. This good and gnat Pence died in 1675, aged 7_4.
" His will," says one of my Gerona aathhorities, " la a Stirrer be
rulers; and all princes would do well to take lectures from He
was the founder of the New or United House of Oahe. 'Jt•wea his
wish to preserve the unity of his do.ninions ; but hie plan fee that
purpose could not be carried into effect, and shortly shortie 'death
the domain was divided among his seven sone. Home arose those
seven subdivision.' of this branch of the Ernestine line skive amine ,
electoeal house of Sammy, which often perplex Bailie' readers of
modern history; the houses of Saite-Oothe, Caine& Meiniegoa,
Bashild, Melberg, Liblbsegitsusen, and Saalfeld. The lut four
have, by the failure of heirs, or bytraoriages and treaties, bees in.
cooperated Into the preceding three. •
The third of these seven sane was Bernard, who received se his
appanage the Duchy of Saxe Meinin.gen ; end, by the death of his
brother Albert in 1400, obtained some accretion of tertiary; he
died in 1700, and the ishavitanee passed to his *lslet sena, who.
reigned joiady. MS's= the survivor was Anthony Mob On
his death in 1763. the euesesaim red the Oldest admitilawales
Were vested bids two soar, Aagruis Predate Chad's ad
Fvedhie Math* ; • the kernsf whom dying is 1202, 111Al2:
peamesion remained with his brother, the late Duke Giorgi, the
father 4 the Princess who is now raised to the theme of that I.
tale. He died December 24,' lillekletiviorthietethildlresi, her ma.'
jetity, who is the eldest'; thi Mores Na, beim la and her.
vied Itt 11114 to Bernari, son of the Aochduks parka A.ttgus.ue of
*No Weimar-Menrich and Bernard Henry, who w=
years old at the death if hi Wier ' Jab awlib4;' kW!
age; alusinistatedilseiktiemetint Ski Dekerakeilil, 411;4711:
Ikukeloadielkpliedideret• pia 14 11111, b tnfhriet►' May,.
daughter of Mehra 111 'Press of Hesse Om* .
rig dram Odle territory of Sees le 41.74 equate
==ilea,.eitial.to Aosta,
‘* " Ides, Gait the
140;40 sn4
alligtot'an lientilees. The primipoPeami, Meinlogefit mambo .neadY
two inkabowiss. The ipas.aleilts.thlti."
Eircasui ferairtirs". aZial 1.614`i
abate the* Beta
tereemativilt, the Mehtbeeelf.
411141,Wi5f747
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YORK

In the course of the day
Lire. at prices which vary u.
taco*-2 to I apt the favourite
Ratty could hare been procured '
wicker, Hawn, and St. '
prices. The prices on the
Great Produce a
6 to 4 offered on the held. p. p i but flow the Mystery that p►e-
vails respectiof Brunswick', rod he. Nicholas. it is difficult to form
an opinion which is meant. • •

IT. LISSA.

• to 1 asst Mr. Chiflases Priam
• to 1 Mr. Helens' y Mots Rose
14 to 1 .-. Mr; tgieref aro orwilitor
15 to 1 Lord satsved's Roby
15 to 1 Mr. Powlett's Lady Esnmeline
17 to 1 Lord Queanberry's Hassan
17 to I Mr. Richardson's St. Nicholls
10 to 1 Mr. Riddell's Emancipator
20 to 1 Maria (take)
-- 10 to 1 Lady
30 to 1 Caramel
Handicap Stakes of 15 son. each, and 20 added. One mile.
Lord Queenobty's b. f. Maria, 2 yrs, 7st. lib.
Duke of Leeds's Jenny Mills, syo Sat. 71b.
Betting.-4 to 4 oust Alarias-•avid 4to 1 apt Splendour.
Two-year-old Stakes of 20 mom each g for colts. So. Mb ; and
fillies. Bst 21b. T.V.C.-31 Subs.
Lord Scarborough's Ist. c. by Comus, out of Bynnu's dam
Mr. Blakelock's b. f. by Osmond. dam by Carton
Duke of Leeds h. f. by Wanton, out of Lady of the Lake
The Peregrine Stakes of 50 soya each, 15 ft. and 40 added ; for 3
yrs old oolts, list. Mb ; fillies, Sgt. 21b. Mile and three quarters.
—.5 Subs. •
Lord Kelbume's ch. c. by World. out of Emilia
Lord Scarborough's Chancellor. b. to Tartan. rec. 20 sons. 2
Three to 1 on Chancellor, who made play to the stand, where the
other let kose, and won cleverly by half a neck. Rode by Lye, the
otbet by Nelson.
Sweepstakes of 10 sows. each and 50 added, for 4-yr old colts, Set.
71b. and fillies, Set. 41b. 'l'wa mike. Si: subscribers.
Mr. F. Richardeon's b.f. Lady Sarah, by Tllllllll
Lord Scarborough's Cistercian
Mr. Wilson's Liberal
Mr. Smith's Agitator
Betting-11 to 10 apt Cistercian, Sto 1 apt Liberal, and 7to
1 apt the winner.
Woo cleverly by half &length. The winner rode by Cottony,
Cistercian by G. Nelson, Liberal by H. Edwards, and Agitator by
ShWeerdCOrpoeation Purse of 501. The winner to be odd fob 200
guineas, lko.—Ham is mils and three quartets.
31r.Walker's b. c. Netherby, 4 yrs. SO.
Mr. Riddell's ch. c. by Dr. Syntax, 3 yrs, 7st 7Ib.
Lord Scarborough's Melrose, 4 yrs. Bat. Mb 2 3 de
Won cleverly. A protest is entered against Netherby, on the
ground that he did not pass the post in the first heat.
Immediately after Lady Sarah's race, St. Nicholas rose to l to 4,
p. for the produce to.marrow. and to 13 to 1 for the St. Urger
Mark has also sprung to le to 1.
TATTERSALVS,—Yesterday.
1110000,000 IMAM.
3 to 1 apt 31r. Forth's Aaron
3 to 1 Mr. Blgg's Whisk
5 Is 1 Mt. Bolloley's Bustle
400111,000 OOLD COP.
3 to 1 apt The King's Fleur do Lis
6 to 1 &apse&
LEWES RACES—THIRD Day. Aura. 4.
The Town Plato of 701. New Course Heats.
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Mr. Shackle's b h Watchman, iyrs old ~.. 2 I I
Mr. Coleman's b f Scarlet Runner, 3ym .. 3 3 3
Mr. Young's eh c Acts, 3 yrs old ————— I 2dr
Mr. Vansittart's b h Unkboy, aged 1 4 2
A Losing Plate of 50L
Mr. Rush's b.f Whalebone, ac. (T. Robinson) ... 3 I I
Mr. Gardnor's Conjures
Duke of Richmond's Almost&
A most excellent nee. The first and second
heat
head. The third heat wily. —s
won 2 drby a
MEETINGS OF CREDITORS THIS DM.

FIRST BIZETINGSga • at.
R. Anderson, Cockspur-street, gun maker "'' '«........ II
R. A. SPilig, filth Holborn, leather seller Aril • 1
J. White, Itatelitre.highway, t •••• I
H. J. %natio), Stockwell, wrZtant. .IIII:
J. Colegats, Rotherlield-street, islibgron, Masi
J. Hawley, High.street. W dales 1
SECOggilkilarGS.
J. Gray, Prospect-row, Bermondosy, rasstaitaarlam
R. Bacon, Ponehurcb.otreet, tea broker
11
_ _

B. W. Dibsoa,Pacy.sts Rath &mks be hat isbeedsgs 9
P. W. White, Epping-pleas, Me lad 014 Torntorkesaller... 12
THIRD MEETINGS.

T. Cush's, Little Brook-street, litasi;ar-sq mare, paper hanger 2
Z. Hubbard, .14.Tments:t, Kentish Town, lour factor . . I
W. Haskins.
stir jeweller
R. T. Moore,.boose-keeper
T. G. Horan; Beker-street, rreeal-deskr. .
G. Swim Norfolk-street, Sued, balkiest
J. A. Itiehardsoo, Adam-stew, Adelphi, wine.nterchant .
DIVIDENDS
W. Abbott, Windham-place. merchant . . . II
J. Rumpus, Newgate-street, bookseller . . . . 9
W. Kew, Southmd, Rama, linen.draper . . . I I
T. Bevill, Pall-mall, tailor - . . . . 12
J. Scott, Cateaton4ifte, warehouseman . i • 9
R. Rockland, jun. Shaftesbury, draper . . . . 9
H. W. Jackson and W. W. Beaumont, Great Easteheap,
cutlets . . . • . . . I I
W. Godwin, Strand, bookseller . . . . . 19
W. Davies, Pinner, Middlesex, baker • • . 2
0. G. Giroux, St. Geerge's Orem, Saotherark, Susie seller 2
J. Copped sad Co. Gutter-law, cheapskie, wareboueernan . 10
W. Wisedill, Friday.atreet, inoMeoger
J. Fox, Church-eatot. Clautertelt.leste, drysaher
E. Hooke, Gilbert' Clare-market, cook . . .
Chapoten, gloom Mallserbe, Kest, 'dealer .
J. Cramp, Pbmolz-vharf. Pickle Honing. Surrey, own factor lo
T. large, Wells-street, ehtfeed.street, ammo . .
W. Down, Charch-PooolBe, etoWhall, Illaekwell-ball.feetor
T. Moms, Gnat Russell-street, Btoeinsbary dealer .
T. Plasm smi R te. OGGiI44OI, Milk.strem,lrish factors . 12

REGISTER OP PUBLIC SALBS,Auposi 4.

•DCT)O! 'CART.

_
Ozo. Roatuv.--TbePreshabl *Wm Liss lan, Bamford.
with coach and chaise besot atelling kr 45 hams.
two comps, a elan of meadow loM, mull as ailleumnst of land on
Bros Hi .I Common, in all 3a. Ir. Bap. let for throe yews, at Ihui
per annum, clear of taxes, poor's rate 61. a year—Kmocked down at
, A Patent for the Improvements in Firewarlts, granted to Sir Wni.
Csagreve, Bart. au the Sib of October, in the feurtli year a the late
Kinea reiga-241.
A Patent for the Improvement In Steam Engines-201.
A Ditty for killing and rupturing Whales, mated the 7th of
June, 1821-101. _ _

A ditt;ef me; motive power kr propelling weasels by means at
capillary attractions-10L
A Patent 6as Meter fur meager* hay—lM.
Mx. T. HAMMY (of Iliad}—A freehold estate, land tax re.
&abed, called die World'. Knd Farm, Hersebarelt, Essex, with a
dwelling boom, barn, stable, outbuildings, and 14 acres of land
. .

lIAIMAWAT.II.

Watson •ND Son (of Ore.ookh).—T•o freehold houses
and shops, opposite the National School, Oreenwieh, producing 411.
deal vent per annum— 660 L
.6 leasehold detached residence, with a large walled garden and
paddock, on Blackheath, near to St. Gerniiin's.place, held for 67
yeses, at 241. proand.twat--1,2951. •

PRICE or TALLOW, SOAP Ste. ----
-
Town Tallow • ..: ... 50e SO I Yellow Soap - ... ... 711. Od
Yellow Rwoia ... ... Js. Id Mottled .. . ... 71Ie od
White ditto .. ... 37e Od Coed .. . ... ... Ste ed
Soap Mots ... ... 34s od 'Groves ... ... ... toe ad
allekiss Stitt -....- Me Od Good Dregs - .. Se Oil
1
Tallow Impotted frost St: Peterebtrile. pals •
. - .

oit F. 141111111
Best Premiss met ' to 1.11
Cawtoo Ditto. ......... .-....-... tM to ted
*too to Olio toe 111# to kof
'Ditto 45 tll • IWO OS no
Citillaoe. DS* Oil ...... Ist to OM
it... •SO to ..... to 2111
*Odle U
SAS Ilsoloviboodiod) 161.*

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wuramt "la alialoWiaar a
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AUGUST ME . • .r,teif s . --
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YORK, Wr. ft '
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IT several bets engines's/en eltr . d!,`/ • . 1
ey in several pesticidal" Oda de t itib=
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yourke went begging. as 4 U L ;bout
.to I ,
cued in any quitter. Mess-Pnee,Mtins.
Nicholas, remained steady at their former
race.ground this stevisorm were as follow 3 • 1
Amos &aka (traisnow.) I
4.1 .. u . hut f too mystery that ore.

PRICE Or s roi.h
hank Stock 2191
3 per Cent. lied- 911 21
per Ct. C"ns. 91i 1
3 per ('t. 181 P, 100 991
31 per Ct. Hed. 991 ;
34 per Cent. New 1001 I
4 per Ct. 1826, 105 41
Long Ann. 19 7.16
On.3ol'ears, Apl.Oct. 19k
130. July, Jan. 16 11-16

AT FOUR OCIACR.
India Stock, 2384
India Bonds 84 3 5
New Annuities
Three per Cent. 1751,
£lOOO Bitch. Bills 77 80
£5OO Ditto 77 80
£lOO and £2OO Do. 77 80
Commercial 77 80
Bank for Acct. 2181
Cons. for Aee. 911 1

tit E EVENING STAR.

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LONDON

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

ABDICATION OF CHARLES THE TENTH.

Our correspondent at Paris informs us, by letter just
-eveived by estafette, that forty thousand men, of the
National Guard, accompanied by the two Commissioners,
who had previously gone to the Kt No, went to Rambouil-
:et. This large force had the effect of instantly bringing
CIIARLES the Tenth to a decision. Ile has relinquished
power ; and is to proceed to Cherbourg to embark.
On the evening of the 4th, Paris was in perfect tran-
quillity.

We have received another express from Paris announc-
ing that the mission to the King has succeeded, and that
he has consented to depart without further opposition for
Cherbourg.—The following is the off►cial letter of the
to the Duke of Orleans, announcing

" RAMBOUILLET, Atm. 3.