Star.
London, England, 1824-09-20 00:00:00

ST. CLOUD, SEPTEMBER 17.

Yesterday the King transacted business with M. de
Villele.

This forenoon his Majesty received the respects of the
Pi inces and Princesses of his family, and the Infant
Don Miguel. It is believed that his Majesty will go to
Paris next week.

The King will not receive company to-morrow.
Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, Made-
moiselle d'Orleans, and the Duc de Bourbon, paid their
respects to his Majesty.
It is said that his Majesty, on taking leave of the
Guards who were in attendance on him as Monsieur,
said—" I leave you, but it will not be long." It is,
in fact, believed that they will be formed into a fifth
company of the King's Body Guard ; and it is added,
that the Marquis de Riviere will be the Captain of this
company.

It is announced that the Duc de Polignac, brother of
Prince de Polignac, Ambassador in London, is ap-
pointed to the place of Grand Equerry.

PROM GA LIONANI.S MESSENGER, SEPT. 18.

AU the public offices were closed on Thursday and
yesterday ; the Exchange, we hear, will be reopened on
Monday.

The following is the official account of the death of
Louts XVIIL extracted from the Monsteur of Thursday:
go PARIS, Sam 18.
" The King died precisely at four o'clock this morning.
" Thursday, Sept. 16, 1824.
" The First Gentleman of the Chamber,
(Signed) " Count de DAMAS.

N The first Gentleman of the King's Chamber having announced
at the Tuileries the death of his Majesty, the Civil and Military
Household of the King proceeded immediately to the Pavillon
Marian, to take the orders of his Majesty Charles X. The gardes
du corps of the King, and the ordinary Poot Guards of the King,
relieved the post of the :aides du corps of Monsieur.
44 The King, accompanied by Monseigneur the Dauphin, by the
Dauphiness, and Madame the Duchess of Berri, set out for St.
Cloud at six o'clock.

" The Ent Gentleman of the Ring's Chamber,
(Signed) " Count de DAMAS."

At a quarter put four o'clock the Chancellor of France and the
Ministers Secretaries of State were admitted to the presence of his
Majesty; to receive his orders.

The King ordered letters to be sent to the Archbishops and
%Lops, and to the Courts of the kingdom.
The King will receive to-morrow, the 17th, at St. Claud, the
homage of the Royal Family, and of the Princes of the Blood.

The constituted bodies will be convoked, to offer on the sane
day their homage to his Majesty.
Messieurs the Peers and Deputies will be admitted individually.
The apartment of the late King, in the castle of the Tuileries,
will be open to the Public to-day, from ten o'clock in the morning
till six at night.

The following are extracts from the .111onitettr of
Friday, and the Etoile dated Saturday :

PARIS, SEPTEMBER 16.

To-day, at half-put four in the morning, Baron Lalive, Intro-
ducer of the Ambassadors, waited upon the Ambassadors, and an-
nounced to their Excellencies front the King the death of his Mk
jesty Louis XVIII.
M. de Viviers executed the same commission to the Foreign
Ministers.

Serrassata 170—The act relative to the decease of his Majesty
Louis XVIII. was drawn up yesterday at the Tuileries, by the
Chancellor of France, performing, according to the ordonnance of
the King, of the 23d of March, 1816, the function of Officer of the
Civil Department of the Royal Household.
The Chancellor also sealed up the private paper of the late
King, by virtue of special orders from his Majesty, and conform-
ably to the ordonnance of the 25th of April, 1820, which gives to
the Chancellor of France, with respect to the Royal Family, the
functions exercised by the Justices of Peace with respect to the
Frenchmen.

Here follows the Are de Doris at length, which states that his
late Majesty, the son of Louis, the Dauphin of France, and Maria
Josephine of Saxony, his consort, was born at Versailles on the 19th
of November, 1775, and had been a widower since 1810, when he
lost his Queen Maria Josephine Louisa, of Saxony.
The persons present at drawing up the Act, were the Marquis
de SimonviUe, the Duke de Duudeauville, and the Marquis do
Brezi. The witnesses nominated by the King were the Duke de
Uzes and the Duke of Cornegliano ; and the body of the late King
was shewn them by the Prince Talleyrand and the Duke d'Autnosit.
The Act is signed by all the abovementioned persons.
The order fur a general mourning for seven months is annexed.
FROM THE ETOILE, SEPTEMBER 18.
ST. CLOUD, SEPTEMBER 17.

After ten o'clock, the King received his Civil and Military
Household : each of the persons belonging to it was named as he
passed before his Majesty.
The Members of the Chambers of Peers and of the Deputies
were presented, and the King addressed to them, with much emo-
tion, a discourse which made a most profound impression, after
which repeated cries were uttered of Five It 1101.
The Diplomatic Body was introduced, and the Papal Nuncio
made a speech to his Majesty.
The Council of State was presented by the Keeper of the Seals.
The King then went to Mass, from which he returned at a quar-
ter past twelve.

After Mass the King received the Prefect of the Seine, the Pt!.
fact or Police, the Municipal Body, the Military Bodies, the Na.
clonal Guard, and the French Academy.
The following is the speech of the King to the Peers and the
Deputies :

" My heart is too deeply affected to allow me to express, the sea-

timents which I feel; but I shotald be unworthy of him who has
telt me suet great examples, if. yielding 100 Ingdi to .MT VIES I
did not preserve fortitude wough to fulfil the duties which ate Im -
posed on me. I was a brother, now lam a King ; and this title
of itself points out the conduct I ought to observe.
" I have promised, as a subject, to maintain the Charter and the
Constitution which we owe. to the Sovereign of whottt Heavies has
just deprived us. Now that the right of my birth has made the
power fall into my bands, I will employ it entirely In convalidating
for the happiness of my people the gteat act which I have promised
to maintain. hiy confidence in my subjects is entire, and lam
fully certain that I shall find in them the same sentiments with re-
spect to me.

" I must add, Gentlemen, that conformably to the institutions
of the King whom we deplore, I shall convoke the Chambers at
the end of December.

The speech addressed to theKingbytheAcademy, complimenting
him on his accession, expresses hs confidence in the protection of his
Majesty, who has always shewn himself a patron of French litera-
ture.—The King's reply was as follows :-
1 " Gentlemen,—l have lost an affectionate brother—France a
wise and enlightened monarch—sciences and literature a protector,
who has cultivated them from his most tender years, and practised
them with particular care. I shall imitate them, not with the same
talent, but with the same zeal : I answer for it, and I depend on
the Academy to second me." .
Preparations ate making for embalming the King's body. This
operation will take two days: after this the body of his Majesty
will lie in state in the saloon of the throne.