Star.
London, England, 1830-07-02 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1430.

No. 13,515.

BRIGHTON, Juns 30.

1 KING WILLIAM THE FOUILTII.The Proclamation of Wit..
LIAM THZ FOURTH took place yesterday, with' considerable pa.
!nthand excited a deep degree of interest. The procession
through the different thoroughfares to the public points se.
rec7ed, in the following order, viz.—
. Division of the 14th Dril s.
Inhabitants three andtfrln.
.‘ Directors and Guardians, two and two.

Overseers.
Commissioners' Officers.
Commissioners, two and two.
Officers of Customs and Excise.
Solicitors and Attorneys of his Majesty's Courts.
Ministers of Dissenters, two and two.
Churchwardens.
Band of 14th Light Dragoons.
Beadles—FLAG—Beadles.
Clergy of the Establishment, two and two.
Vicar of Brighton.
Master of the Ceremonies.
Two Flags.
Town Crier.
Vestry Clerk.
MOH CONSTABLE.PIOCILAWAT lON.
Hcadboroughs, three and three.
Flag.
Magistrates' Clerk.
Illagistrates.
Sheriffs' Officers.
Division of the 14th Dragoons.
And a long string of Carriages.
The Count and Countess Vandereuil are among the departures
Ifrom the Royal York ; they proceeded for Hastings and Dover, to
embark at the latter port for the Continent.
The Duke of Devonshire is remaining at Kemp Town.
The Hon. Miss Somerville the sister of Lord Somerville % is
here, for the purpose of visiting the German Spa, and drinking
the mineral waters,
Lord and Lady Clinton are arrived at the Marine Hotel.
The County Hospital, for the benefit of its patients, has been
furnished with the apparatus for a vapour and shampooing bath,
by Messrs. Palmer and Green upon what had been considered
by them the most approved principle. It is no ordinary compli-
ment to Mr. Creak to state that his shampooing bath to the iota
has been adopted.

REPRESENI'ATIQN OF DOVER.
--NON"-

A numctous meeting of the freemen of Dover, resident in Lon.
don, was held, the evening before last, at the Bee-hive Tavern,
Leadenhall.market, to consider of the best means of providing a
candidate to stand an election with Mr. Poulett Thompson, It being
understood that Mr. Trani retires. _ _

Captain Pascau. took the Chair, and stated the objects of the
meeting.
Mr. BAYLEY, son of the learned Judge of that name, informed
the meeting that Sir John Rae Reid (of the house of Reid, Irving,
and Co.) was anxious to come forward as a candidate for the repre.
sentation of Dover. Mr. Bayley, in the course of the evening, eulo.
gized Sir John Reid, and contended that a more St or honourable
man could not be found to represent Dover.
Mr. Barr addressed the meeting on the necessity of immediately
forming a deputation to wait on Sir John iteid, and solicit him to
come forward. As he had been informed that Sir John had obtained
the Lord Warden's (the Duke of Wellington's) patronage, he (Mr.
Bast) thought no time should be lost.—(Cheers.) It was satisfac-
tory to the freemen generally to know, people being in general de.
sirous of obtaining the loaves and SAC., that the Duke of Welling.
ton had intimated that the e should not be distributed as
before ; the Duke has p that it should be fairly distributed.
—(Cheer..) He thought that the best way to act wonld be, to
choose a deputation to proceed to Sir John Rae Reid immediately.—
(Cheers.)
After some further discussion between Mr. Bushell, Mr. Lud.
dington, and others, a deputation was appointed, and the meeting
adjourned.
The deputation waked on 814 John Reid, and he has expressed
his determination to come foriard.

PRICE 7n.

or customary law itself, could have been mistakenly attributed to
him by nothing less than general reverence. How singular must
have been the administration of which the ranembrance so long pro.
cured for him the character of a lawgiver, to which his few and
general enactments so little entitled him !
Had a stronger light been shed on his time, we should have
undoubtedly discovered in him some of those characteristic pe-
culissides which, though always defects, and generally faults
when they are not vices, yet belong to every human being,
and distinguish him from his fellow-men. The disadvantage of
being known to posterity by general commendation, instead of
discriminating description, is common to Alfred with Marcus
Aurelius. The character of both these ornaments of their

station and their species seems about to melt into abstraction,
and to be not so much portraits of man as models of ideal per-
fection. Both fumish an useful example that study does not dia.
qualifp.fer administration in peace or for vigour is war, and that
scrupulous virtue may be combined with vigorous policy. The lot
of Alfred forbad him to rival the accomplishments of the imperial
sage. But he was pious without superstition ; his humbler know-
ledge was imparted with more simplicity ; his virtue was more
natural ; he had the glory to be the deliverer as well as the father of
his country ; sad he escaped the unhappiness of sufferiog his au-
'thority to be employed in religious persecution.