Star.
London, England, 1830-07-15 00:00:00

AHD HIS HIGHNESS THE DIE OF ALGIERS.

" The fort of the Casanba, all the other forts depend-
ing on Algiers, and the port of that city, shall be de-
livered up to the French troops this morning, at ten
o'clock, French time. • 1

" The General-in-Chief of the French army promises
his Highness the I)ey of Algiers, to leave him his liberty
and the possession of every thing that belongs to him
personally.

•' The Dey shall be at liberty to retire with his family
and all that belongs to him, to the place which he shall
fix upon ; and so long as he remains at Algiers, he and
all his family shall be under the protection of the General-
in-Chief of the French army ; a guard shall protect the
safety of his person and that of his family. The General-
in-Chief promises to all the soldiers the same advantages
and the same protection.

" The exercise of the Mahometan religion shall remain
free. The liberty of the inhabitants of all classes, their
religion, their property, their commerce, their industry,
shall be inviolate ; their women shall be respected . the
General-in-Chief promises this upon his honour.
" The exchange of this convention shall be made be-
fore 10 o'clock this morning, and the French troops shall
immediately after enter the Casauba, and successively all
the other forts of the city and the port.

" Camp before Algiers, July 6, 1830.
(Signed) "Count de BOURMONT.
(Here the Dey has affixed his seal.)
(A true copy)
" Lieutenant. General Chief of the Staff.

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(Signed) "DESPREZ."
The letter accompanying the express says the elections
proceed at Paris very quietly : in all the arrondissements
the provisional bureaux have been changed, and it seemed
certain that eight opposition candidates will be elected
by an immense majority.

By express from Vienna, we have advice. this day to
the 7th of July. They are of considerable interest.
"Prince METTERNICH," says this letter, "has just
arrived; and Donna MARIA, the young Queen of Por-
tugal, is expected, by way of Trieste. The Emperor
Don PEDRO has agreed to the mediation of the Emperor

of AusruiA, in the proposed amicable arrangement of
affairs with Miu um., and hie marriage with the Queen.
Count LEPZELBEIIII is about to proceed to Lisbon by
way of London; and a brother of Prince LEOPOLD, or
the Prince LICIITERSTEIN, is to visit the Court of
WILLIAM the FOURTH."

By an extraordinary conveyance, the accounts of the
doath of GEORGE the FOURTH had been received at

Vienna before these advice* left ; and the EMPEROR had
ordered the whole Court to go into mourning for six
weeks.

This being the day appointed for the interment of his
late Ms. EsTv, all business in this Metropolis is sus-
pended. Tile bells of the various churches commenced
tolling at noon, and will continue the announcement of the
approaching melancholy ceremony, at intervals, until
its termination. Minute-guns have been fired at the
Tower, and in the Park, during the day : all places
of public amusement aro closed—all the shop windows
are shut, as is the custom on such an occasion ; and
prayers are offered up at all churches, chapels, and
Jewish synagogues. Thus passeth to the tomb of his
forefathers, with every appearance of the sincere respect
and sorrow of his subjects, GEOUGE the Foy ant, the
late Monarch of these realms.

The period of intombment is not an unusual period for
offering a few remarks on the character of the
deceased. At the time that the KING'S death was
first announced, all the public Journalists employed their
pens, in giving to their readers a delineation of his late
MAJESTY'S character, as they appreciated respectively
its merits or demerits; and we, among others, ventured
to perform a similar task. From taking a view of all this
variety of comment, we caunot perhaps be surprised, that
considerable discrepancies of opinion should be disco-
vered; for the character of a Kt so is ton intimately
identified with the policy of his reign, not to call forth
all the approbation, and disapprobation, with which dif-
ferent parties have viewed that policy.
We are only a little surprised to discover in more o
our contemporaries than we had expected, that the se-
verity of stricture bad not been a little mollified, by the
reflection, that the object of their remark is no longer sus-
sceptible of experiencing either pleasure or annoyance,
and no longer capable of self-vindication. We feel our-
selves therefore justifiable, before dismissing the melan-
choly subject, to avail of this opportunity, to add a little
to what we have before ventured to say, on a retro-
spect of what we Luow of his MaissTes life.
The old maxim' of de nsostuis nil nisi bonuai,,
lass been frequently censured ; and, taking it as a
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uiversal rule. with renson. Another maxim. de
mortuis nil nisi rerum, has been put in its place ;
and this last maxim must undoubtedly be considered as,

the only correct law of human conduct. But we think
that he who takes upon Maori( to be the censor of the
dead, and to act with that rigid discharge of the duty
which the last maxim exacts, takes upon himself

a task of great respasibility ; and one which, if
be discharge not with the most scrupulous care, will in-
jure his own character for those kindly feelings, by
which, we are inclined to appreciate a man in the scale
of moral merit. He who acts by the first maxim—
who says nothing but good of the dead, and leaves
unsaid all that is evil—we admit, diminishes the ♦alue

his writings, in avoiding the opportunity to

hold forth vice to the contempt which it should
receive, in order to insure a just appreciation of virtue.
But he who assumes to speak nothing but truth of the
dead, must be very exact in his delineation of all the
finer shading of his picture; or he deviates into untruth—

wounds the charities of our nature—and accomplishes
nothing but mischief.
We have been led into these rather, we fear, too ab-
stract remarks, by perusing the severe strictures of some
of our contemporaries: we deem them too severe, because
" overstepping the modesty" which should govern the
pen or lips, when treating of what has yet been
but imperfectly open to the eye of observation. It is
impossible, we maintain, for any public writer to judge,
at the present moment, with any certainty, of most of
the incidents in our late Kiso's history, which have been
mentioned, or alluded to, as the data from which we
are to deduce our notions of his moral worth, and apply
accurately an expression of praise or blame. We farther
maintain, on the principle we have stated, that
when we can obtain no certainty, we infringe no sound
rule of moral conduct if we condescend to await infor-
mation in silence ; or if not capable of holding our
peace, and so rigidly righteous as to dread a devia-
tion into charitable apology, that it is our next incum-
bent duty to utter what we say, with the diffident expres-
sion of imperfect knowledge. He that is positive in the
condemnation of others, should be sure of his facts ; or he
becomes the most fatal condemner of himself. Can any
man of experience, in common life, say that there are
facts before the public adequate to enable it to form a cor-
rect judgment on the female attachments of his late Ma-
taavv's early life ? Why then express a decided opinion
upon them ? Why not, if sub umbra, be silent upon
them, until time remove the obscurity ?
In appreciating the character of Kurcis, there are
many and solid claims which they may make for a more
than usual consideration. Society is in all ways unjust
towards them : it flatters, it pampers, it spoils them ;
and then, like a weak and cruel father, turns round
upon 'them, and chastizes with a rod of scorpions. The
laws of society subject our liznos often to marry those
whom they do not know and cannot love; it then ex-
acts from them as an example all the external duties of
connubial love. To this, a sense of duty might induce
a Prince to conform ; but society goes beyond requiring
mere externals—it forgets that the Kinn is man,
and subject to all the usual passions and appetites o
the two-legged unfeathered race ; it scrutinizes with •
censorious minuteness, and castigates often upon mere
surmise. But we must close.

We are willing to admit, and we should be very sorry
to be thought to entertain Any other opinion, that there
are many points in his late M AMITY'S life, parti-
cularly his disagreement and conduct towards his
unfortunate consort, on which we are not satisfied ; but
we know there may have been unintentional errors—there
may have been evil mieleadings—there may have been
many causes to prove an apology. We therefore see
no propriety in dwelling farther on the point. We
know the KING was beloved, during many years of
his life, by Fox, and many others whose names we
venerate. We think that, in general, his reign was one
which displayed perhaps more than any other, a proper
governing policy ; and we are willing in attending him to
the grave, not to withhold that tribute of applause which
we think may, with propriety his due.
By accounts from Stockholm, to the 3d inst. we learn
that the Crown Prince of Sweden sailed on the 28th ult.
on board the Eurydice frigate, for St Petersburgh.
Some serious disturbances appear to have taken place at
Leipsig, on the occasion of the third centenary of
the delivery of the Augsburgh confession. The students
have obtained permission of the authorities of the Uni-
versity, to walk in procession ; and costume bad been
prepared for the occasion ; bands of music engaged ; and
various other expenses incurred. On the morning of the
25th ult. orders came prohibiting the appearance of the
students, in particular costume—the consequence of which
was, that the idea of the procession was abandoned ; and in
the evening the students, annoyed at the expense to
which they had been put, commenced a disturbance,
which the police was unable to quell. Things threatened
to be serious, when a sensible address by one of the Pro-
feseors, prevented the continuance of the tumult.

CITY. TWELVE acLocr.
Pants.—The retention of Algiers, and all the territo-
ries of the Regency, appears to be determined on.
The Lisbon Gazette contains the following :—The
Portuguese brig of war, Mary, has arrived from Rio
de Janerio. At the moment of her departure, a report
was spread that Don Pedro had been proclaimed
Abso-
lute Emperor of Portugal in the Province of Ranki.
The Aviso de la Medeterania states that the Turkish
frigate, commanded by Tahir Pasha, left the Roadstead
of Toulon at half-past six in the evening.
TRIUTZ, JULY I.—By a vessel which left Malta,
we learn that Admiral Malcolm was on the point of re-
turning to England, with the greater part of the Beet
under his command.

Letters from Tangiers of the 22d ult. state, that the
Spanish Consul had not been able to conclude any nego-
elation with the Emperor of Morocco.
The Bey of Tunis has sent to the French Admiral a
frigate and a brig, on board of which were some officers
of the Regency, who oared to the French Admiral pro-
visions far his fleet, with other articles of necessity.
This Wag the day for the ceremony of hie Majesty'.
funeral, ell the public places in the City are closed,
with the exception of Loyd s, the battlers, &c. and the
City he' the appsemace of Sunday.

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