Star.
London, England, 1830-03-24 00:00:00

IS MORNING.

MAILS ARRI'

FACTS AND FANCIES.

DF:STROTERI Or THEIR OWN RETUTATIOW....3IERCIER,
in his History of the French lieetilution, says, " The Cardinal de
LOIHIRIE was made Prime Minister. The whole of his adminis.
tration was employed in ruining his own reputation." To the
notoriety of so suicidal an °Vence against a good name, many men
in the ordinary ranks of life may make as full *claim; but it seems
to have been reserved for our country, and for our days, to furnish,
in the Mini.trrial circles, a parallel to the ease of the Cardinal de
homani E. We have even now before us the lamentable evidence of
similar infatuation, in the appointment of " the Great Captain
of the Age" to the station of Prime Illinister ; and of him it
may with strict truth be affirmed, that " the whole of his ad.
ministration was employed In the ruin of his tsputation." But
there the parallel ends. The appropriation or seizure of any pos.
sessions of the State or of the Church, as the " recompense of his
uselessness" we believe never entered into the contemplation of our
" great man"—whose " most easily besetting sin" has been the
wilful destruction of the proudest fame that ever a soldier acquired,
or an incapable and headstrong Minister sacrificed to his ambition
and his obstinacy.

ROYAL. DARDYI92I FORTY YEARS 4100.—Mmictea, in the

same work, lets us into one of the personal whims of the present
King of France, which recent circumstances may probably induce
that Monarch to turn to some account. His Majesty, then Mon.
sieur the Count n'Airrots, was so particular in the decoration of
his person, that even his inexpressibles—but we must be more

precise in the term—his lenther.breeches became humus. They
were so precisely fashioned, and made to adhere so closely to his
limbs, that in order to get into them, his Royal Highness was lifted
into the air by four powerful lackeys, who let Lim fall into the gar.
ment, so that it should hate no plait ; and thus he remained cased
up during the day, and was unbreeched at night by raising him in
the same manner, but with greater force. Now that the Royal
spirit seems "in arms and eager for the fray," such leather
breeches would be invaluable to him, should the KING (which
Heaven torefend make up his mind to put his menace into effect,
and prove that he would tadter " loonier d eltsrai qwe loonier en
chartne." Such a garment might save him from the " untoward
event" which betel the Duke n'Arroovutme, in his immortal
Spanish Campaign, and which he described in a letter to Madame in
the following terms :—"J'ai le posterieur ligerement
dos stag'." _ _ _

Otoatous Costri.oufwT.—When Lord BOLINGBROKE was
asked " How many faults the great D.;ke of MARLBOROUGH
had ?" be calmly replied : " He was truly so great a man, he had
forgot them all."—llappy were it for England, if the mom of mis-
rule into which her Modem Hero has suffered himself to be be.
trayed, could all be forgotten in the recollection of his greatness !

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Cambrian, Stock, of and for Liverpool. was wrecked on the
Bar of Arieate the 11th January. Crew and cargo saved.
The Rosemont, Mihail, from St. John's, has arrived at Mont- •
rose.
The following vessels have arrived out at China :—The Johanna
Cornelia ; the Olivia, from Rotterdam; Mary Ann, Spottiswood,
from Singapore • Ferguson. Groves, and Helen. Langley. front
Bombay • Triomfo,i and Union. from Manilla ; Grace, Allan,frons
ditto; and Angelica. from Timor.
The Fanny, De liner, from Batavia, has arrived off the Wight.
DRAL, MARCH 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived from Landes:.
the Young Norval, Waterly, for Bermuda. Arrived the Rghant,
--. from Cadiz, and Laurel. Dobson, front Havannas.
PORTRAMTII, Masai 23.—Wind W.—Arrived from London,
the Montrose, for Demerara ; Britomart transport, for
Gibraltar; Lord Wm. Bentinck transport, for Aseen4oo; and the
Univ., Clench. for Trieste.
Faasectorn, Miaow 2g.—Wind W.—Sailed the Lady Mary
Pelham packet, for Rio Janeiro.
The Duke and Duchess of Cv MEERLAND came to
town yesterday morning, from their residence at Kew. The Duke
Lita visit to his sister, the Princess AUGUSTA, at her It edam/
e Kayo's Palace, St. James's, soon after his arrival in town.
A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign Office, which was attended by
the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke OtWELLINGTON; Earl',
BATHERS?, ROSSLYN, and ABERDEEN; Viscount MaLviLLII.
Lord ELLICIIIKIROUGH, Mr. Secretary Part., Sir GEORGE Mug.
RAY, the CHAWCCLLOII of the Excuaraczn, and Mr. HEREIN&
The Council sat an hour in deliberation.
The French Ambassador visited the exhibition of the
Naitmal Repository, in Pall-mall East, yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Clarence returned to their
residence in Bushy Park yesterday morning.
The retirement, from age and infirmity, of one or more
of the present East India Directors, has been for some days coed.
dcntly talked of.
Mr. MONK last night presented a petition from some
place in Ireland, praying that the Parliament might be held in
Dublin " once in three years."
Nlr.W.a n atrium); , in presenting a petition from Shef-
field for additional facilities to prosecute the study of anatomy. in.
timated that he expected kis Rill to be resuscitated in another place,
without being any longer exposed to those obstacles which hereto.
fore tether unceremoniously cut short its mortal career.

THE CLERGY AND THE POOR.-111 the Council of
Orleans, assembled by order of CLov ts, and held the
11th of July, A.D. 511, article sth, was to the following.
effect:—" That any benefactions bestowed on the church
by a prince of the blood, shall be appropriated in repair-
ing the church, supporting the poor clergy, maintaining
the poor, and ransoming captives. Bishops neglecting
to conform to this advice to be excommunicated."
We are glad to find that Mr. BtLcars o AM, whose
refutation of the calumnies so invidiously heaped upon
him, we have recently noticed, has adopted the praise-
worthy determination of personally vindicating his cha •
meter from such aspersions, by the gratuitous delivery of
a public Lecture, on the policy of Great Britain with re-
spect to her future commercial intercourse with India.
The Lecture. wo understand, will be given at the Crown
and Anchor Tavern, Strand, and is to commence at seven
o'clock this evening.
OMINOUS DAYS.—II is worthy of observation that
some of the most important occurrences, that may be
said to have particularly marked the destiny of Louts
XVI. and to have precipitated the French Revolution,
took place on the twenty-first day of the months in
which they severally happened.—Loves XVI was mar-
ried to MARIE ANTOINETTE on the 21st of April, 1770;
and at the fite given in commemoration of that event,
on the 21st June following, numbers of the populace were
trampled to death. On the 21st J une,l792,the king escaped
from Varennes. On the 21st of September, Royalty was
abolished in France; and on ti.e 21st of January, 1793,
Louts XVI. was decapitated.—One day more, and the
peremptory mandate by which the present King,C lIAKLLS
X. prorogued the Chambers, would have been promul-
gated on the 21st of March.

C4PRN•BICHANSII, /4ABILLAN
Notwithstanding the Market has bean fully E,
sUppIIANCKIyed this snow
kW§ Grain las 'Amer* aniessind the foil prim of llooday•
The supply of Flour has dee bah sonsiderahle, but no advance
has taken pies, 6.58. bears best peke. There were but few buyers
in the Market, and bet Isle bedew deierr.
IMPORTATIONS SACS
Wheat, English (vs.) . 5,900 Barley, Foreign
Foreign . 900 Oats, English .
Irish . 900 Foreign
Barley, English • 6,050 Irish .
Irish • • Fiver

3,00

. 11.109
. 5,800