Star.
London, England, 1830-04-19 00:00:00

LONDoN.

MONDAY, APRIL 19.

The warm and generous sympathy which has been
excited throughout the country by the extraordivary and
alarming terms in which the Bulletin of the 15th instant
30 unexpectedly announced that his MAJESTY was la-
bouring under severe and even serious indisposition, is
as honourable to the personal character of the Soy E-
REW , and to the grateful feelings of his loyal and de-
votedly attached subjects, as the speculations of which the
Kr re's illness has so indecently been made the subject
are discreditable to the parties with whom they originat-
ed, and disgraceful to the Press by which they have been
encouraged and disseminated. True it is, the High Office
—the Chief Magistracy of the realm—is public property,
and a matter of public interest ; and so far, perhaps, the
consequences likely to arise from any personal contin-
rnc.y, ?night allowably be brought into public discussion
in extreme cases : but there was nothing, even in the most
alarming announcement of any of the circumstances of
hit; MAJP.SIY.S indisposition, which could warrant the in-
decorous precipitancy with which results have been cal
collated, and anticipations indulged, as well by the par-
tizans of men in power, as by the advocates of those who
aspire to place. That the imprudent and impolitic mea-
stores of the present Ministry have rendered its members,
collectively and individually obnoxious, to the bitterest
cen3ures, and to the most indignant reprehensions of the
people, we not only admit, but shall never cease to assert ;
and that their retirement or disamissal from a station in
which their incapacity and obstinacy have been produc-
tive only of the most disastrous consequences, would be
hailed as a great national blessing, we unhesitatingly
express our firm belief : but that their removal from power
should be desired at the expense of so momentous a national
calamity as some party writers have not scrupled to calcu-
late upon, betrays an excess of political rancor, or factious
real, which we cannot calmly contemplate. But whilst we
thus condemn the splenetic, inveteracy with which some
Opposition Journals have suffered their passions and their
prejudices to hurry them on to such a violation of public
decency, and such an outrage of popular feeling ; the
more severely should we censure the indelicacy with
which the pretensions of the great Leader of the Cabinet
have been advocated in a Paper which is said to
have been established under Ministerial auspices, and
to be conducted under the direct influence of the Mi-
nister whom it so unmeritedly panegyrises. From the
Intelligence of yesterday we select the following pas-
sage, and we must say, that a more unworthy attempt
was newer made to uphold an unpopular leader, nor could
a more,anfitting occasion have been chosen for dragging
the merits of a political patron Tito such invidious dis-
cession :

We see sorry to say that two leading members of a party which bids
fah' to be soon extinct, devised a scheme by which they hoped, in
tSe event of the Kr xo's demise, and with the aid of a party entirely
opposed to them on general principles, but who, they imagined. would
join diem, to remove the Duke of Wsz.z.iwicis hoes the Cabinet,
acd endrely remodel the Oovernmeet. Considering the ill success
sf ti former attempt of this kind when the illustrious paramoar who
was addressed, replied, that he looked to measures, not men, and