Star.
London, England, 1830-11-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THR JOURNALS.

Timis.—The visit of their Majesties to the city has been postponed,
SA will be seen by the notice from the Home-office to the Committee ap-
pointed to conduct the entertainment proposed to be given to them to.
morrow. The grounds on which their Majesties have altered their gra-
cious resolution to honour the city festival with their must
endear them still more to their faithful subjects. Thougtresareencemsiy hops
that the anticipation of any disturbance was unfounded, yet even the
slightest contingency of such an event was sufficient to justify the advice
which the Ministers have given to their Royal Muter.
POST.-It has long been our duty to apprize the public of the dark
and seditious, not to say deeply rebellious projects of the Infamous fee.
tion by whom the peace of the country, and the very existence of social
order and domestic security, have been so seriously menaced. We have
frequently called their attention to the inflammatory harangues of low
demagogues, delivered at public meetings, In the open thee of day, ex-
citing the populace to acts of outrage and rebellion, on the first favour.
able opportunity that should occur for the accomplishment of their dia.
helical purposes ; nor were we without the most serious apprehensions
that their Majesties' intended visit to the City would be considered by
them as an occasion auspicious to their infamous designs. That our
fearful prognostics in this respect were neither visionary or unfounded,
will be sufficiently seen by the official communication, which so far
bears us out in all our anticipations as to prove the necessity felt by his
Majesty's Ministers to advise him to postpone his intended visit to the
City. .—......
bloawtwo Anywnrisna.—The King and Queen do not visit the
City to-morrow ! !!—What is, or is not, the private information on
which the King's Ministers arc acting, we do not pretend to know. The
warning letter which we published the other day indicated danger, and
we were also aware of a report, that it was intended by certain ruffians
to assassinate ourselves, as well as a eotemporary and his colleague 1
but we did not pay much attention to these matters, and thought that
the King and his ministers would as little swerve from their way, as we
do from ours, either in going to, or returning from our homes. But it
seems we were mistaken, and what is more, that Government is in pos-
sessionvl of sufficient information, to warrant it in ad his
Majesty to postpone his visit. We fear that they have judged and
that they are about to bring upon the country the very evils are
dreaded. There might have been a tumult on the occasion ; but there
could have been nothing to endanger the life of the King, and still lees
to form the groundwork of a revolution ; for there Is no revolutionary
spirit in the country, and nine, we are confident, out of every ten,
arms, would have been raised, in case of danger, to defend their Major.
ries. In a word, we deprecate the unnecessary alarm which will be ex.
cited by the postponement of the King's visit, end must beg our repro-
seotatives to inquire, whether there Is not more of state trick, than of
real danger, in the matter ?

Hkaatel.—The tumours then, which prevailed foe some days past—
rumours too
_vague and improbable not to be scouted by all rational
men..-have had but too good a foundation. The ministers have ad.
vised the King not to visit the city 1 They have advised him to mor.
tify the ant commercial body of his empire, by the retraction of a
formal pledge which be had given to honour then:, on the occasion of
the choice of their chief magistrate, with his presence—they have in.
duced him to disappoint, woefully to disappoint, hundreds and thousands
of his subjects, whose hearts are beating with unmeasured loyalty to
his crown, unbounded devotion to his person, and whose money has
been for days lavished, and their ingenuity exhausted, in devising the
means of receiving him in his progress with all that attention which affee.
tion, strengthened by respect, could bestow. We are told that this sad re.
solve on the part of the King is the result of the councils of his'
advisers. There needed noassurance of this sat; such a suggestion could
never have found its birth-place in the pure,atout and English breastof our
king. The monarch, then, who a week ago could walk, unattended, from
one part of his dominions to another, and at any hour of the day or
night, is now told that, though the utmost pains have been taken to
marshal uround him the whole strength of his police and military power,
he cannot safely trust himself amongst his people. Can those squabbles
b,:tween the new police and the mob—those disturbances which we were
told but a few days ago were the work of pickpockets and thieves, be a
reamin for all this? or is it the working of a plot, dark and unknown in
import? There is, however, no doubt but that there is felt a serious alarm
by ministers. At four o'clock yesterday a council of all the mi-
nisters was held, which sat in deliberation upwards of two hours;
and again at midnight another council of equal duration, was held.
To this we may add that, however strange it may appear, on,
dm have been given to put the military stations throughout
tl:c metropolis in a state of efficient defence. At the Tower, the gates
are ordered to be kept closed for the day, and all the troops to be under
anus. Sand-bags and other muniments of war proper for sustaining a
siege have been sent into that fortress. The place is also provisioned
for a considerable time, and every arrangement made as well to put it
into a condition to resist a sudden attack, as a lengthened and more se-
rious blockade. We understand also that reinforcements of troops have
been ordered from all quarters towards town. No doubt the public will
wait with much anxiety for an explanation of all this in the House of
Lords to.night, and perhaps the Duke of Wellington may now admit
that some fide inquiry Into the state of the country h necessary. It
will be seen by a Court paragraph, in another part of our Paper, that
the Lord Steward has issued cards of Invitation for this evening. We
hope the popularity of our beloved Monarch is not likely to be can-
promised upon slight grounds.

Cnioniet.r..—The visit of their Majesties to the City is postponed !
We refer our readers to the official Letter, aped " Robert Peel," to
the Lord Mayor, which announces this astounding fact. " His Ma-
jesty's confidential Servants," says Sir Robert, " have felt it to be their
duty to advise the King to post:dote visit which their Majesties In-
tended to pay to the City of on Tuesday next. And why ?
" From information which has been recently received, there Is reason
to apprehend, that notwithstanding the devoted loyalty and affection
borne to his Majesty by the cidsens of London, advantage would be
taken of an occasion which must necessarily assemble a vast number of
persora by night to create tumult and confusion, and thereby
to endanget the properties and the lives of his Majesty's sub.
*ls." Their Majesties have therefore resolved, " though
not without the greatest reluctance and regret," to forego
the satisfaction which that visit would have afforded to them. We will
venture to say that William the Fourth may proceed, by day or by
night, without a single attendant, in perfect safety through every street,
lane, or alley of the Metropolis. How, then, is tumult a ed t
The King's advisers say they apprehend tumult g but King, we
are sure, feels the firmest conviction that he has no cause to apprehend
any. He knows that there is not an Englishmen who would touch a
hair of his head ; and that were the attempt made, ten thousand bands
would be raised in a moment against the person who should think of
iesuldng him by deed or word. So then his Majesty's advisers have
not hesitated to proclaim to the kingdom and to all Europe, that the
King and Queen are not safe in the metropolis of the British Em-
pire 1 After their Majesties, on due deliberation of course, had been
advised to accept the invitation to a splendid entertainment to be given
by his Majesty's loyal subjects of the City of London-aave not
hesitated to advise their klajesties, on the ground of apprehension
of tamale, to refuse the proffered honour. What has happened since

the invitation was accepted, that should make it dangerous for his Ma-
jesty to proceed through the Metropolis ? The King's speech has been
delivered to Parliament, but the Hines speech isBezteech of his MI-
, maters; and though the speech has given very dissatisfaction,
the people only say that they wish his Majesty been better advised
—that they are sorry to and him in such bed company. Still, if any
manifestation of displeasure were to have taken place, we are sure that
a distinction sufficiently broad would have been made between the King
and his Ministers. We regret this ill-advised measure. We regret it be-
cause we are sure it will lead, in foreign countries, as wallas at a distance
in our own,to inferences which:are by no mesas warranted. Is his Majesty,
who takes such pleasure in free commun leaden with his subjects,to be made
a prisoner of state, because his Ministers make foolish speeches, lind
ore in fear of the consequences. Better far that they had frankly told
his ida*ty, you may go to the feast, because the loyalty of an English.
man will always ensure respect from him to his Sovereign ; but we
have strange misgivings with regard to ourselves. What are we to un-
derstand from this strange measure ? Is the interdict of his Majesty
from appearing in public on great occasions to be temporary or perma-
nent ? Must his Majesty always proceed by stealth through the City
Or must he wait till the Ministers make better speeches for him ?

Canoxicut.—The general belief is, that the tenure of ministers is
insecure. His Majesty, It is supposed, did not wish to withdraw his
confidence from ministers whom he believed to be popular with the
nation. But the late coquetting of the Duke of Wellington, first with
the Reformers, and then with the Ultra-Tories—and the disgust with
which the declaration of his (pace respecting Reform has been every.
where received—have materially changed the aspect of things. It has
been observed too, that a certain Journal has been lately a very luke-
warm advocate of his Grace. As to coquetting with the Reformers, it
is believed that the report of his intention to give a partial Reform, was
thrown out to frighten the Tines. Ile may not have committed himself,
but it mast have been first thrown out with his cognizance.

FOREIGN INTELLIGINCE.

(From the Currier Fraisosio of Saturday.)

It was stated today upon 'Change that the Government had deter.
mined upon removing the prefect of police from his situation. That is,
no doubt, true; but it was further stated that the ground for this mem.
sure was the political difference with the ministry ; bat this is not cor-
rect. N. Girod de l'Ain had made up his mind for the last month to
give up the painful duties of an office which he had merely accepted
through zeal, and which were contrary to his tastes and habits. id. GI.
rod de PAin would be a proper choice for the Presidency. His charac-
ter as a magistrate, and the impartiality which has always distinguished
him, offer proofs of the discretion and calmness which he would use in
the discussions. It is said that a great number of votes have bean pro.
raised in his support.