Star.
London, England, 1823-09-10 00:00:00

THE LATE POPE.

RoME, AUGUST 24.—Cardinal Pacca, head of the
Apostolical Chamber, being informed of the death of
the Pontiff, assembled the Chamber, and proceeded,
on the 20th, at nine o'clock, to the chamber where
he breathed his last. After praying for the defunct,
and viewing his features which wete uncovered by
two persons in attendance, he received are seal of the'
fisherman from the Secretary of the Chamber, who
performed the ceremony on beaded knees. Cardinal,
Pacca, on returning to his Palace, was escorted by the,
Swiss Guard. The Senator of Rome, informed of
the event, caused the bells of the city to be rung.—
The Roman Senate directed the prison of Neuve andl
that-of the Capitol to be thrown open. None but per-1
sons guilty of minor offences are kept in them. On
the 20th, Cardinal Sonaglia assembled at his house
the Heads of the diffetent Orders. There were pre-
sent the Cardinals Pacca, Pesch, Consalvi, and M.
Mazio, Secretary of the Sacred College. The Peni-
tentiary Fathers of the Vatican remained with the
copse, repeating the usual prayers. On the morning
of the 21st the body was embalmed, and laid in state
in one of the noticharnbers of the Quirinal Palace.-1
The people were permitted to render to the defunct
the tribute of their sorrow. In an Extraordinary
Congregation of all the Cardinals present in Rome,
and held on, the same morning, it was determined
ti. it the Conclave should be held in the Quirinal Pa..
On the 22d the body lay in state as on the pre-
ceding day. The vase containing the heart of the
deceased was conveyed in a carnage to the Church
of St. Vincent and St. Anastasius, where it was re-
ceived by the Vicar and his Clergy.• At one o'clock
in the morning, the cone was removed in solemn pro-
cession from the Quirinal to the Vatican. It was
placed upon a litter; covered with crimson drapery,
and borne by two mules with rich housings. On the
body, which was covered with a cassock and airless,
there was placed a go!d cross. It was followed by
various detachments .of troops. Seven pieces of ar-
tillery, the men bearing lighted matches, formed part
of the cortege. The troops formed a double line from
the Quirinal to the Vatican. Having arrived near the
statue of Constantine the body was borne by the Pe-
nitentiary Fathers into the Sistine Chapel, where it
was again exposed in all the pontifical ornaments to
the view of the people. The concourse of spectators
was immense, and from every quarter were heard
the indications of profound regret.

A plan for erecting twenty alms-houses, in Dover,
has been agreed upon; and the buildings, when com-
pleted, will form a square of neat dwellings.
There is nothing of which a Negro Slave has such
horror as that of becoming the Slave of a free Negro,
for these are generally found to be the severest of mas-
ters: and to the fear of being made Slaves to other
Negroes, we must, in some degree, attribute that ad-
herence to their masters which the slaves have often
manifested in cases of insurrection.

Wednesday evening a ludicrous occurrence took
place in a tavern in Hose-street, Edinburgh. Two
Frenchmen, who follow the honourable occupation
of barbers, went into the house in question, and suc-
cessively or dered two bottles of porter. In an evil
moment their eyes were attracted by a cupboard,
•which they ventured to force open ; and finding in it
six battles of good Madeira, they deliberately pro-
ceeded to discuss two of them. There was also a
large pot of jelly—most tempting to the sight—
which, without the aid of spoons, they somehow
managed to devour. The female waiter of the house,
thinking that they were consuming a most unreason-
able time over a bottle of porter, entered the room
upon some ft ivolous pretence, when a sad spectacle
presented itself. The two Frenchmen were stretched
insensible upon the floor, and their mustachios and
eye-brows, (in consequence of their attack upon the
jelly-pot) seemed absolutely dripping with gore. It
at once occurred to her that there was manslaughter
in the case; upon which the tender-hearted damsel
raised one of the lengthened howls so customary
upon such occasions. This brought the landlord into
the room, who, judging from the state of the cup-
board, soon came to guess the true cause of the me-
lancholy catastrophe. With much ado he succeeded
in rousing from his lethargy one of the Frenchmen,
ho starting to his feet, discharged a dreadful volley
of curses, half French and half English, at the land-
lord, as von d—d rogue; and, brandishing his curl-
ing-irons, declared that he would give him von, two,
tree stabs ors de skull, if he presumed. to lay hands
upon him. The hallucination of the other was more
complete ; for, having been set upoa his legs by a
ouple of watchmen, he yawned and rolled his eyes
about in a most distracted manner; and supposing
himself to be in his own bed-room, he complained
)iitterly of being deprived of his natural rest, and
swore that he would go to no Polish °ids until he
bad gut-von good preahlast in his petty. After a stub-
born resistance, which led to the demolition of sundry,
lanterns, the two Wights were lodged in the watch-
Abzuse ; and next day were presented at the bar of the
race Court upon a charge of theft. Upon the in-
dictment being read over, he of the culling-irons,
shrugged up his shoulders till they were on a line
with the crown of his head, and, extending his hand
in the same time like the fins of an expiring turtle,
he exclaimed, .0 My Got! Me, who had the honour
to serve Le Grand Napoleon—me von thiefl 0 no,
120. Pao!" And then looked at the Magistrate as if
imploring him not to believe in moral impossibili-
ties, The landlord wished the affair to be quashed ;
and as the prisoners after all were men of good cha-
racters, they were, to their inexpressible joy, dis-
charged upon paying all damages.

BRIGHTON, SEPTEMBER 9.

That masterpiece of ingenuity, the Chain. Bridge,
compared with which the arch that spanned the'Hel-
lespemt was but a plank, is now receiving its last
adornments, and casting a magic splendour on its
vicinity by land and sea. The brave artificer whose
peculiar esprit dr, carps has thus raised his " naval
arch triumphal'. upon the bosom of the floods, and
convinced us that when he is most in his element he
is most in his glory, gave ample proof on Friday last
that his gallantry is not less active than his wit.
At four o'clock in the afternoon of that day, all
Brighton was sur le pare, and every eye turned
towards the pier, to which the trumpet, drums, and
clarion of the 7th Hussars gave martial note of in-
vitation. At the instance of the amiable and fasci-
nating Mrs. IlnowN, the Colonel of the above-men-
tioned Regiment, with true soldierlike courtesy, had
stationed the full band at the extremity of the pier,
intending to compliment the beauty and fashion of
the town, then universally assembled, by a perform-
ance of the most favourite national and foreign pieces
of music. This concert of exquisite melodies, ren-
dered still more enchanting by the effect of the pass-
ing breezes, which, as they floated above the wave,
subdued and mellowed " the shrill-toned clarion and
the echoing horn," by wafting their mingled notes at
intervals to 44 the all-listening shares," continued for
more than two hours, to the delight of the countless I,
multitude assembled. It was, indeed, 64 no sound
that the earth owed," as Comus would exclaim—each
cadence of harmony traversing the space of a quits ter
of a mile o'er rock and billow before it reached terra
firna. Nothing could exceed the gaiety and attrac-
tiveness of the scene ; nothing could have presented
a more novel or interesting picture: Army, Navy,
Church, and State, sovereign Beauty, and Fashion,
had each their representatives:

". AU Brighton had gather'd then
Iler beauty and her chivalry, and bright
" The sun shone o'er fair women and brave men ;
" A thousand hearts beat happily, and when
• • • Music arose, with its voluptuous swell,
" Soft eyes beam'd love to eyes that spake again,
" And all went merry as a marriage bell!"
In short, the gratification of all parties was complete;
and as the satin and silken sandals of our lovely coun-
trywomen bounded on return to shore, along the iron-
girt foot-paths which, in this Giant Causeway of the
ocean, have at last LINKED security to our passage
above the deep, the graceful wearers declared with
rapture---that now, for the first time in their lives,
they derived real pleasure from a state of suspense
and deemed it sport most entertaining to hang in
chains, through the contrivance of Captain BROWN!