Star.
London, England, 1829-09-29 00:00:00

THE KING.

Her eagle flight
" Fancy renews ; and now athwart mine eye
" Throws an enormous cataract!"
Truly his MAJIISTY has much cause to complain of
those literary and loving subjects of his—the " diurnal
sages," who in the excercise of their tender anxiety for
his health, are perpetually giving the world to understand
—nay, positively affirming, that he is afflicted with " all
the ills which flesh is heir to." If his MAJESTY was a
hypochondriac, he might probably feel obliged to
them for their services : but as none but a hypochon-
driac is proud of a reputation for bodily ailments,
and as his MAJESTY is not a hypochondriac, he can-
not but take it unkindly in " the diurnal sages," to
be eternally stuffing the world with an opinion that he
is the most diseased man in his dominions. Some-
times their " terrified imaginations" represent him
as " overmhelm'd by the swoln hydrops ;" sometimes he
is labouring under the " burning gout ; " anon he is af-
flicted with inflammation of the chest, with fever, with
palsy, with general debility, and all these mortal mala-
dies, " the least a debt to nature :" having failed to keep
him from driving his phaeton, they have now afflicted him
with a cataract, yea, with two cataracts ! ! and nothing
but the unquestionable fact of his MAJESTY having only
two eyes has saved him from having as many cataracts as
a certain gentleman is said to have vomited black crows,
to wit, three. Nay, had his MAJESTY had as many eyes as
Argus, they would have gone on, day after day, until they
had given him a cataract in every one of the hundred.
Luckily for his MAJESTY, however, the cataracts, toge-
ther with the surgical consultations and couchings attend-
ant thereon, to which, " upon the most unquestionable
authority," he was about to submit, are, like most of his
other maladies, " suggestions of mere fancy." If they are
not, then is his MAJ EST Y the most unaccountable of pa-
tients ; for, with " a cataract in each eye," and of course as
blind as a beetle, he actually reads three or four news-
papers every day, " without spectacles ;" besides reading
all the dispatches sent to him daily from the Government
offices, and signing such state documents as require his
signature. " But how do you know all this ?" the
cataract amateurs will demand. Why truly we do not
know it, of our own knowledge ; we only believe it, on
the solemn affirmation of divers persons who have the
best means of knowing the truth, and no interest in
disguising it ; and on the fact which all Windsor
knows of its own personal knowledge, that the afflicted
Sovereign —" afflicted with a cataract in each eyc-
-actually driveth his own phaeton for several hours
daily ; sometimes along the margin of Virginia Water ;
sometimes through the intricate Forest walks ; and
sometimes to Windsor Castle; where " all blind as
he is," he directs the laying out of parterres, the arrange-
ment of statues and of pictures, and finally drives away
by a narrow unfinished road upon the edge of a steep de-
clivity, upon which road a cockney would be afraid to
venture in a donkey-cart, except he was blind drunk.
FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

• CHAIGES.
The Marquis and March Woes. Clanricarde, for Ireland ; the
Earl of Egremont, from Grosvenor-place, to his seat in Sussex ;
the Countess of Gosford, from her seat in Suffolk, to Margate ;
Viscount Harberten, in Upper Brookatreet, from his seat, Salt
Hill; Lord Lynedock, in Albemarle-street, Isom Scotland; Lord
Templetown and the Hon. Miss Upton, from the seat of S. Lane
Fox, F.sq. Dorringten Hall, Ferrybridge, for the seat of Colonel
Howard, Levine's Hall, Westmoreland ; Lord and Lady George
Quin, in Bryanston-square, from Brighton ; Sir Charles and Lady
Cockerell, is Piccadilly, from Brighton ' • the Hon. George sad
Lady Georgina Apr IDLs, at the Earl of Harewood's seat, Hare-
wood House, Yorkshire, from the Earl of Carlisle's seat, Castle
Howard; Major and Mrs. Norman, in Bond-street, from Paris;
Mr. Berkeley Noel for MozaU, in Warwickshire; Mr. John Fa-
zakerley, M.P. on a tour; Capt. Hugh Middleton, in Waterloo-
place, from Naples; Mr. William Henry Fellowes for Ramsey
Abbey, in Huntingdonshire; Sir Simon Clarke, Ban. on a tour;
Mr. Robert Cutler Ferguson, from Edinburgh. for Craig Dar-
roch, Dumfries ; Capt. Vac in Albemarle-street, from Madrid •
Mrs. and Mi.s Maitland for Bath ; Mr. Walter Burrell for Ea.;
Grinstead Park • Captain and Mrs. Lock for Brighten ; Captain
Gore for Manchester ; General Sir Alured Clarke, Bart. from
blansfiekl-street, on a tour ; Mr. William Fitzhugh for Southamp-
ton; Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bart. for Harwich; Captain Foley for
Paris; General and the Misses Buller, in Gloucester-place, from
Cornwall ; the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Howard, at the Pulteney Hotel,
Albemarle street, from Paris; Mrs. Green, at Morley's Hotel,
Cockspor-street, from Hastings ; the Hon. Mr. French, at ditto.
from a tour; Mr. and Mrs Hatfield, at ditto. from their seat in
Essex ; J. Anwyl, Esq. 4.t ditto, from North Wales ; Mr. Mn. and
Miss Page, at Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, from their seat in
Sussex; Mr. and Mrs. Cochran and sonsr at Hawkirw's Hotel,
Albemarle-street, from Scotland; blajor Haly and son, from Mor-
ley's Hotel, to Tunbridge Wells • A. Bolton, Esq. from ditto, to
Dublin ; H. Kynaston, Esq. to (Word ; Capt. Wardley, from Re-
gent-street, for the Continent ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Melville, from
the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, to Amsterdam ; the Hon.
Colonel Stapleton, from ditto, for his seat in Berke; Mr. and Mrs.
Hawkins, from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for their seat in
Cambridgeshire ; Lord and Lady Gleolyon and family, at Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's-street, front Surrey; Mr. and Mrs. Acker., at
ditto, from Swindon; Lord Fitsharris, from ditto, on a tour.
The Duke an Duchess of CUMBERLAND took an
airing yesterday in an open carriage to Richmond.
The Earl of ROSSLYN, the Earl of ABERDEEN, and
Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD, visited the Duke of 'WEL-
LINGTON yesterday at the Treasury.
The Russian Ambassador and Count MAsTuctwiTz
had a conference with the Earl of ABERDEEN on Sun-
day, which lasted nearly two hours. The noble Earl
after the conference bad an interview with the Duke of
WELLINGTON. The French Charge d'Affaires tran-
sacted business with his Lordship yesterday at the Fo-
reign Office.
Mr. BARBOUR, late Minister Plenipotentiary from
the United States to this Court, left town yesterday
morning for Liverpool, on his return to America.
Despatches from Sir. R. GORDON, at Constantinople,
were received at the Foreign Office on Sunday night, by
way of Ancona. Despatches were also received from Lord
STUART de BOTHSAY, OUr Ambassador at Paris. Des-
patches from Sir PULTEN EY MALCOLM, iu the Mediter-
ranean, for the Admiralty, were brought by the same

messenger.
Mr. Secretary PEEL has arrived at the seat of his fa-
ther, Sir R. PEEL, at Drayton Park, near Tamworth,
Stafordshire, from his residence in Norfolk.
We understand that Mr. M‘LANE, the new American
Minister, has special instructions to use his best endea-
vours to persuade our Government to again throw open
the West India trade to the United States.
Saturday, Major WARBURTON arrived in Ennis, and
immediately after proceeded to his residence, Castleguard.
Major MILLER is now engaged in an inspection of
the Kerry police.
Lord Enni)arrow, Sir JOHN NEWPORT, Mr. O'CON-
NELL, and Mr. Oyw Air CAVE, are invited to the public
dinner to be given Lord DUNCANNON, at Carrick-on-
Suir, the Ist of October.
The Hon. NEWTON FELLOWES, who has the care of
the noble property of the Earl of PORTSMOUTH, to
whom the entire of Enniscorthy and an extensive tract of
lands belong, is at present engaged on the banks of the
Slaney, making a survey of the most practicable mode of
forming a ship canal, from the shallows above Ifollevue
to Enniscorthy.
Saturday his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, the Duchess
of NORTHUMBERLAND, and suite, visited Clondalkin,
for the purpose of viewing the round tower, one of those
curiosities in architecture peculiar, to Ireland,

A DAY OF LIFE.

FOR TILE STAIt.
When o'er the sea, u day-light breaks,
Her sparkling course my bark holds on,
And the clear wave reflects the streaks—
The glories—of the early dawn,
I sigh to think how freshly bright

The morn of life shone out for me—
And o'er my soul Hope's meteor-light
Flashed, like the sun-beams o'er the sea
So radiant. yet so fleeting shone,

• That—ere it gladdened—it was gone !

And when, ere noon, the clouded sty
Lowers in the tempest's gathering might,
And vapours, denser grown
.on high,

Shut the ethereal vault from sight,
I think, e'en so, youth's joyous beam
Was clouded, darkened, and o'ercast,

'Till, on life's wild and troubled stream,
No ray of hope was seen at last :
But all was gloom—all drear to me,
And stormy as that noontide sea!
•
•

When tier the sea, at tranquil eve,
My bark holds on her stedfast way,
And languidly the billows heave
In the last gorgeous smile of day,
I often hope, that thus for me
The fading hours of life's decline
May sink in peace, and sunshine be,
In its most tempered glory, mine !
Passing, from this world's shadows free,
In silence to eternity !
CHELTENHAM, Sept. 26.

The Lord Chancellor arrived here on Saturday, on a
visit to the Lord Chief Baron of Scotland, at Willoughby Hesse.
His Lordship went on Tuesday to Cirencester, on a visit to Earl
Bathurst, and returned here the following day, in company with
the Noble Earl and family, on their way to attend the Gloucester
Music Meeting. His Lordship occasionally takes an airing in an
open By, but appears very little in public. in a short time the
Learned Lord leaves here for Cirencester, and from thence pro-
ceeds on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne, in Wiltshire.
Lord Northwicb, Sir Bethel! Cobringten, and several other
persons of distinction, have arrived within these few days. The
promenades at the three Spas were well attended this morning, the
weather being favourable.

It is of importance to give this day the following in-
telligence from the Journal du Commerce, received by
express this morning. It is an extract of a private letter
from Frankfort, dated 22d of September; it speaks thus :
" an express arrived this morning from Vienna, in
seventy-two hours, bringing news that peace had been
concluded and signed by General DIEBITSCII and the
GRAND VIZIER on the let instant!" Peace again
on the Ist! " in a village fifteen leagues distant
from Adrianople, on condition that its ratification by the
Su LTAN was to arrive on the 10th at the Russian head-

quarters—otherwise the treaty would be considered void
of effect. A letter brought by the same courier confirms
the reports of the entry of the English and French fleets
at Constantinople, under pretence of affording protection
to the subjects and property belonging to these nations
in that capital." Our ancient Ally must be in a pretty
pickle ! But to proceed : " This transaction," says the
Frankfort writer, " has been daily expected ; and in
consequence the funds have risen slightly. Every
one is convinced that as soon as the official infor-
mation of the conclusion of peace arrives here, they
will fall considerably, as the stock-jobbers will then
have nothing to hope for; and it appears not improbable
that a crisis will take place among the numerous
speculators for the rise, who are not in a situation
to support, at the current price, the enormous
quantity of Austrian Stock on our Exchange and that
.of Vienna, and which has perhaps never been so high,
as a great number of rich capitalists have taken
advantage of the price of the 50 0 Metalliques, and of the
Bank Stock, at 100, which they bought ten or twelve
years ago at 50.
During the Duke of Wellington's temporary sojourn
at Walmer Castle, he invariably reposes on the celebrated
small camp-bedstead which formed his Grace's couch
throughout the Peninsular campaigns, the highly-prized
article of furniture being regularly conveyed from
Downing-street to Walmer Castle whenever the Duke
visits the latter place,where he rises at his accustomed hour
of five. One of the female domestics is allowed a quarter
of an hour to prepare her noble master's repast, which,
it is said, he usually takes in the same apartment he
occupies as a dormitory. The venerable Countess Dow-
ager of Mornington, the Duke's mother, has attained
the very advanced age of 90, having survived her Noble
husband, the late Lord Mornington, who died in 1781,
48 years. The Countess possesses establishments at
Hampton-court Palace, and has a house in Henrietta-

street, Cavendish-square.
From Madrid, of date 16th Sept. we hear that his
MAJESTY and their ROYAL HIGHNESSES continue
without any change in their health, at the Royal Palace
of the Escurial. The KING transacted business the two
days before, as usual, with the Ministers of Finance and
State.

PEACE? We must still retain the note of interroga-
tion, notwithstanding the confident tenor of the London
Ministerial press since Monday last. We have nothing
in truth but the assertions in the London prints, and cer-
tain vague statements in those of Paris, to justify a be-
lief that Count DIEBITSCII has been induced to suspend
hostilities, when he was on the threshold of Constanti-
nople. That the war is virtually at an end there can be
no doubt, for there is no Ottoman army ; but that the
Russian General, when no obstacle existed to his signing
the treaty of peace, a conqueror in Constantinople, should
choose to rest upon his arms within a hundred miles of the
capital, is a proposition so extraordinary, that we cannot
bring ourselves to believe the statement. We hear much of
the moderation of NicitoLAs. He may be all, in this
regard, that youthful poets fancy ; but if he had the mo-
deration of SCIPIO AFRICANUS, or any other classical
hero that we read of, he would not compromise his cha-
racter for disinterestedness by marching to the capital
of his ancient enemy. The Duke of WELLINGTON is
a moderate man, but what would the world think of him,
if, after the battle of Waterloo, be had opened a negoci-
ation for peace at Ghent ? We think peace near at hand
- for the Russians have no enemy to fight withal—but
when made, it will be called the peace of Constantinople.
—Dublin Evening Post.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT THE EAST INDIA WA RE-
mouss.—Yesterday morning a shocking and fatal accident occurred
at the East India Warehouse. John Edwards, a middle-aged
man, who has been for many years connected with the establish-
ment, was employed in one of the tea-lofts removing some chests
.of tea, in order to lower them by a crane to a waggon in the yard.
He was hi the third floor loft, a height of upwards of 60 feet from
the ground, and after affixing the chests to the rope attached to the
crane, be was in the act of pushing them off, when his foot slipped,
and he was precipitated headforemost to the stones, and literally
dashed to pieces. Several of the workmen on the premises pro-
meded immediately to his assistance, and found the unfortunate
man weltering in his blood, and in a deplorable condition. He
was removed without delay to a surgeon in the neighbourhood,
who rendered every assistance, and ordered that be should be in.
stantly taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was put to
bed, but he expired shortly after his arrival. The deceased, we
understand, has left a wife and family to lament his lois