Star.
London, England, 1824-09-17 00:00:00

PARIS, SEPTEMBER 14.

Every moment diminishes the hopes which we might
have entertained that the health of our beloved Mo-
narch would improve. His strength diminishes, but
his firmness is still the same. The prayers of religion,
the wishes of the immense multitude of subjects assem-
bled round the Royal residence, cannot suspend the
progress of disease, nor check its most visible effects.
If, as everything induces us to believe, the King, on his
bed of sickness, where all his mental faculties are alive,
has known the pledges of love which burst forth in
every part, he will have experienced from them the
strongest consolation which he can receive, and his suf-
ferings will have been softened by them.
The French have displayed all their character in this
great conjuncture. All the. conversations among per-
sons whom this event has !nought together are inspired
by the same sentiment. Eves y one recalls with pleasure
the claims of this Prince to the respect and gratitude of
his people. But if the present is for us a subject of
grief, the future offers at least its consolations. The
august race of the sons of St. Louis, continued by a
miracle, will never more peiidi ; and PROVIDENCE,
which has signalised in so striking a way its protection
of France, offers the most precious pledge of this pro-
tection, in giving to its lova three generations of Kings.
In France the King does not die.
His Majesty, who yesterday had given his blessing to
his family in the morning, demanded to see the Chil-
dren of France. They arrived at St. Cloud at three
o'clock, and were conducted shortly afterwards to the
apartment of the King, their great uncle. 'They left at
five o'clock, and as they quitted the Tuileries to remit
to St. Cloud, the crowd threw themselves in their pas_
sage, shouting repeatedly Vive le Roi 1. Vivent lea
Bourbons !

Although the King the day before yesterday presented
himself before the Tribunal of Penitence, his Majeity'
confessed again yesterday. We are assured that. at the
moment when the Grand Almoner arrived, the King
s sid to Monsieur, " My brother, you have affairs which
claim your presence—l also have duties to futfil;"—
e..ords s os thy of a son of St. Louis, and which remind
us of what limy IV. said to his confessor, during the
ceremony of the Queen's coronation—" I am tbinkink
of the last judgment, and of the account which we must
render to GOD."

PRIVATE LETTER.

" Paais, TUESDAY EVENING, lIMIX•PAST FOUR O'CLOCIC•

" During this day the death of the King has
been reported at least twenty times ; but up to my
last inquiry at the 'Tuileries, from which 1 have just re-
turned, he was still living, and, it is said, in perfect
session of his mental faculties, although his death was
expected every moment. Paris is perfectly tranquil,
and is likely to remain so, as the public are taught to
expect that the measures of the new King will be pre-
cisely the same as those of his brother, with certain li-
beral concessions calculated to give eclat to the reign.
As far as operations in public securities give one an
opportunity of judging, every thing looks well.—
At Tortoni's Coffee-house, the last • quoted price of
the I:eines was 99f. 25c. but a general idea is enter-
tained that.at the opening of the Exchange they will be
much higher, as it is understood that the Mini-ter of
Finance has a vast sum en caisse, from the Sinking
Fund, and the remittances from the Provinces, which
will be employed in purchasing limes. I send this ex
press thus early, as the death of the King may take place
in a few minutes, and the expresses will then probably be
stopped."

Dutch Pipers to the 15th instant reached us this fore-
noon. The following are extracts :

F! AGUE, SEPTEMBER 12.

The exact time when the offices of the Ministers and
the Council of State will be transferred to Brussels is
not yet determined, and it seems in general that it will
be litter this year than usual, and probably in the troLth
of October, as the important affairs in which they ate
,engaged, will not allow of any interruption at present.
The office of the Commercial Association has already
commenced its operations, and is fixed for the present
in an edifice adjoining the Royal Palace, which was the
residence of the late Counsellor of State, De Mist.
The workmen are actively engaged in the palace
building for Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, which
is now-rapidly advancing.