Star.
London, England, 1830-05-05 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL.

An express arrived in town yesterday morning, bring-
ing an account of the death of Sir ROBERT PEEL, at his
seat, Drayton Park, Staffordshire, which event occurred
at six o'clock on Monday evening, before Mr. SECRE-
TARY (now Sir ROBERT) and Mr. WILLIAM PEEL had
arrived from London. Mrs. DAWSON was at Drayton
Park at the time of the melancholy event.

The death of Sir Robert Peel was announced in the evening papers
of yesterday. The first, the best, and, we care not though we could
say the last, of the Peels, is no more. He has been, called to
his account at a ripe old age, covered with no honours that
he did not merit, ennobled by a life of integrity and consist.
ency, and carrying with him to the grave the consolation that hi
political principles were as unsullied es his moral virtues. But be
lived long enough to witness the rapid decline of that national
greatness which he had assisted to raise, and which be desired:to per.
petuate.Helived long enough to lament that he had produced a states.
man whose fame was as dear to him as his own, but whose character,
flexible as his principles, fell a sacrifice to the meanest of all attach.
meents--the love of office. Uninspired by his father's principles, in.
enlightened by his father's information, unconvinced by his father's
experience, the son of Sir Robert Peel not only betrayed the
friends who made him, but the cause by which he raised
himself to power. Instead of steering by a practical chart he
became a theorist and a projector—a dreamer of dreams which
he could not interpret, and a reformer of laws which he did not
understand. He thus sacrificed his own reputation and injured his
country. Heedless of his father's advice he preferred that of his
tutor, whom he made a bishop, and who In return made his pupil
a fool. The lessons of the practical merchant, on subjects within
his own province, were despised ; while those of the priest, on mat.
ten beyond the pale of his profession, were attended to and carried
into effect. Hence his pernicious experiments on the currency ques.
don, the banking question, and all the measures of the liberals.
The son, in his vanity, esteemed himself the father of his sire,
and fell, of course, into a thousand errors, a thousand acts of folly
and a good deal into contempt. Such was the late Sir Ronan:
PEEL—such is the prescna baronet. We have said less of the
former than he fairly and honourably merits, and not more of the
latter than he deserves.—Morning Paper.

Prince LEOPOLD left town yesterday, for his seat at
Claremont.

The Duke and Duchess of CumeenLAND, accompa-
nied by Prince GEORGE, came to town yesterday from
Kew. The Duchess and the Prince remained but a
short time in town, and returned to Kew.

Among the inmates of Bedlam is a gentleman who
some years ago wrote a violent book against Lord
BYRON.

Sunday afternoon last the Countess of Fortescue was
robbed of a valuable gold repeater, gold chain, and appen-
dages, as she was leaving Park-street Chapel, in Park-
street, with which the thief got clear off.
The Spanish Minister had an interview with the Earl
of ABERDEEN yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Despatches from Lord HEYTESBURY (our Ambassador
at St. Petv'rsburgh,) for the Earl of ABERDEEN, were
brought to the Foreign-office by a messenger on Mon-
day night.
The Marquis of SALISBURY and the Earl of ABER-
DEEN visited the Duke of WELLINOTON yesterday, at
the Treasury.
Mr. Baron GARROW is confined by a severe fit of
gout, which at present does not promise an early ter-
mination.

Among the on dits which we have heard, but do not
vouch for, is the alleged marriage of a young and in-
teresting actress, to the son of a gentleman whose name
is well known in the moneyed world.
Sir J. NEWPORT has given notice that, in the• Co-
mmittee on the " New Stamp Duties' Bill, he shall pro-
pose the repeal of the stamp-duty-tax on legacies to
children and grandchildren; to reduce to one-half that
on legacies to brotberand sister, and their descendants ;
also, to reduce the probate duty to one-half of its present'
rate ; to reduce the tax on newspapers and on ad-
vertisements to one-half of its present rate in Great
Britain and Ireland severally ; and, if the House
shall adopt these reductions, to subititute an
increased tax on powers of attorney to receive rents and
dividends, rated according to amounts of receipts, and re-
newable every third year.

P : HS, 28, 1830

From Le Reprise; taut des Peuples.

":II 'snow not in truth what the Ministry is doing.
Excsp• -owe regulation for the clerks in the financial
11. !girl iti •nt, by M. de CH A BROL, and an ordinance for
the estabilshment of a school of diplomacy, which will
attach to it some new creatures, the Government has
done nothing. M. de BOURPIONT has received in his
route no very equivocal proofs of the kind of esteem in
which ho is held. They speak in different ways of the
reception which he will meet from the army at Toulon ;
and, according to some of them, it would be possible that
he may not long retain the command which he has as-
sumed. lam loath to believe it. I know well that our
soldiers would prefer another Chief; but in spite of tho
disgust which they must feel, I am persuaded they will
not offend against the laws of military discipline.
The preparations for the expedition are on an immense
scale. All the novel minutiae that can be imagined, and
which were unknown to our armies during twenty-five
years, are now adopted, and enormous expenses are use-
lessly incurred.
The collusions which signalized the commence-
ment of the Spanish war, are renewed at this day. Tho
most distressing marches have been performed. They
take from the extremities of France, to transport it to
Toulon, that which could be procured within a short
distance. They purchase and embark live cattle to
supply the soldiers with fresh meat, when the discoveries
of our chemists afford the means of preserving meat
fresh for a longer time than the expedition can last,
whether it shall succeed or be protracted. But there aro
so many people to conciliate, and money is so good a
conciliator !

In the whole movement which this expedition occa-
sions, each minister for the moment forgets his own
troubles, and there is a sort of dream ; but there is no
doubt that the present organization will not be main-
tained, and that M. de POLIO NAC will disembarrass
himself of M. de Co R VOISIEIt and of M. de CH A-
BROL, whether he must support himself upon the
extreme right or upon the left centre. I consider the
last combination as impossible. The men belonging to
that side of the chamber are the most furious against
the administration which has outraged them in a hun-
dred ways by its acts and by its journals.
We are now furious against FEItDINAND. Our Mi-
nistry has protested against the decree of his M aiEsl V,
which abolishes the Salique law, as if a decree of this
KING signified anything ; as if the same hand which
has signed it, could not, directed by a new caprice, sign
another totally contrary. We know well how the affairs
of succession are arranged among relatives. If only
private persons, they dispute before the tribunals ; and if
they are princes, they make their soldiers fight, and the
crown remains with the strongest. It is in this manner
the business of the succession in Spain will terminate, if
CHARLES has patience to wait the death of his brother,
to dispute his throne, which Ido not believe. This is
not the only complaint which our Government has
against FERDINAND. He has refused to grant us
one of his ports to serve as a station for our marine
during the war with Algiers, unless he should receive
an indemnity. This is the means which ?resents it-
self to the Minister of Finance for liquidating and
discharging the debt that Spain owes to France. This
conduct is attributed to the counsels of England, who,
it is said, views with a very evil eye our enterprise
against the Algerines. lam astonished that this opinion
should proceed from the agents of an administration
formed, according to them, under the auspices of the
Duke of WELLINGTON. I will not tell you what I
think on the subject, for it amounts to absolutely
nothing.
I have seen in the English Journals that they continue
to attribute to Prince LEOPOLD, the idea of a marriage
with one of the daughters of the Duke of ORLEANS. I
do not give it the least credit. The eldest, the Princess
Loy t A, was destined for her cousin, the son of the King
Of NAPLES, brother to the Duchess of BERRY, and
ne-
phew of Madame d' ORLEANS. Although they give out
that this marriage now presents some difficulties, it is
not probable it should be broken off. The second, the
Princess MARIA, is not seventeen years of age, and
consequently much younger than the Prince. Another
report still more extravagant, is, that of the marriage of
this Prince with the daughter of General CHARLES, of
Plasencia, eldest son of Prince LEBRUN, and to whom
they have given a colossal fortune. The Duke of PEA-
sec cis enjoys an income of about 60,0001. His wife,
who is the daughter of BARRE MARBOSS, has been se-
veral years travelling in Italy with her daughter, who is
in the meet deplorable state of health, and who is now
twenty-seven or twenty-eight years of age. These ladies
have an income of about 30,000 francs, granted by the
Duke, and that is scarcely sufficient for their expenses.
Such i , the way they write in the Gazettes. I have done•
with this triffiing. There is nothing, absolutely nothing,

new, either in fact or in perspective.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Of Hastings, the Diana, Winter, front &Mee.
MAL, M* 4. Wiwi S. E.—Arrived the Canadian, Reed,
(rum London for Mauritius; and David Lyons, Derry, for Newry.
PORTIONOUTU, MAY 4.-Wind SE.—Artived the Osprey,
from Matanzas.

pimeouTH, MAT 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Flora packet,
from Bermuda. Sailed the Sir Joseph Banker, Fraser, for Mau-
ritius and Ceylon.
FALMOUTIO, MAT 3.—Wind E. to E.S.R. moderate.—Arrived
off the port, the Juno, Pritchard, from Jamaica, and Atom, —,
fron► Boston.

PORTLAND, hies 4.—C( the port, the Isabella, Buechler, fromßombay sailed 13th December. sod from the Cape of Good Hope
9tb March

IRN.EXCHANOE, AIARIC-LANIL, 31AT b.
We have but little information to give respecting the market tui■
day. Our supplies luersther short.—trade is extremely heavy—ard
prices ate nomin:My the same ►t on Monday.

1201PolillrloNs Ulwit minimax.
Wheat, English (qrs.) . 1,7001 Barley, Foreign
Foreign . . 6,260 Oats, English . 1,600
lri,h . .--. Foreign 400
Barley, English • 790 hub . 1,390
high . . Flour (sack.) . 2,160
kcal, Kent at Esult . Ole 76e Peas Grey . !M 37s
Suffolk, . 66s 74s Beans, Entail . 311. 44s
Norfolk . 112. U. Tick us 32.
RP • . 50. 34s Oats,_ Potato. rte 31s
Emetey,2ssll7s Malting 33s 37s Poland • 115 s ille
Mat —• —a Feed - 334 45s
Peas, White . He 40s Flour, per seek, We 65e
Boilers . 44. —a Rapeseed M. 5191. per last .
COAL-EXCHANGE., Mae 5
The supply of Sunderland and Newcastle Coal was &Damian: u•,.
dry, much beyond the demand; 46 new ships were at marlieL--
That were not many merchant, at the Coal Exchange.
Ships arrived during the month
Best WAtend Coals as lid 33e Od
Other sorts..
Ships at Market, 1001.
NEW FARRINGDON MARKET, Maw 3.
•
Prices per E. to the onleentlPT.
Baar—Maest Raising, 7d. se 44. Ike. Boast& yd. Apia
ntity of each, 51d. Ramp of Dasi, 74. Ran. Mega. Ajd.
Beet Steaks, ed. Wavana Malvas--lag, 7d. and 261. Hassan,
Id. Saddle, 7d. lain, did. aad 74. Mk sod assidlia. ed.
Irian, 4M. Tnaa—lng, Sid. rind 9d. Meet, lei. and $44. &at.
7d. Emit 7d. Moshimr, sed. Peas, M. t. 9d. lanonoo4
and and Da.

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