Star.
London, England, 1827-08-14 00:00:00

" SO TIM =nos.

H Pasts, Am:5T 9.

" Sus—Civilization has sustained an irreparable loss: a great
Statesman, who gave to the interests of nations a tutelary support,
has descended into the wash_

" It seas in the midst of a French city—famous Bourdeaux—
that .Mr. Canning made known the sentiments which will Milt his
memory to hire and to be bieseed.

" France was deserving of witnessing the revival, in the midst of
Its generous population, by a Foreign Minister, of the wish which
she brat caused to be' Leard in favour of all people—' Civil and reli-
gious liberty throughout the world.'

" By giving to the policy of Great Britain the direction which
lends to this object. Mr. Canning has rendered himself the ben..
factor of a great number of nations.

" 'fhe people of South America, when they learn the premature
death of :he Minket, the pacificator, who, the int in Europe,
bailed them as an independent people, will weep over the illus-
trious friend, whom death baa removed at the moment, even when
as a last benefit, be suppressed among them intestine war, and re-
stored at once peace and freedom to the shores and the waters of II
she Plata.

" Fortosal will mourn the Minister who saved her from the
opprobrium of invasion, the horrors of civil war, and a return
to servitude under an absolute power, rendered sanguitury by
,vengeance.

" Greece will mourn the Minister who took her under his pro-
, section when she was in the extremity of distress—who proclaimed
the property of the Hellenic territory to be complete and nocesary
in favour of the sons of !lends.

Ad other nations will mown the great nun who shewed to
what point he wished, he was capable to realize the idea of which
we were the first and the mutt worthy confident%

'• Well, then, to maim •in the rank which becomes us, let us an-
ticipate all natiuos in eapre,siuns of regret and praise tuwards the
friciol of 'macula.

" Let us get engraved by our most skilful artists a medal, on oni
side cif which we will in.cribe his device and our
' Civil sod religious liberty throughout the world.'
" The other side will bear his tffigy, with tile words:

" ' In the name of nations, the French to George Canning.'
W We should become the organs of two giat,:ful worlds. This
part Is worthy of France. Alinister., in the two worlds, will learn,
that if they have to struggle painfully during their life againit the
factions which beset them I* the bosom of their own countries, as
was as they are strong enoush to raise themselves above partial
mterests..-tn work on an enlarged scale the Larpiness of the human
tee—nations, full of gratitude, will reierv:: for them hontaris,

W An ietive.cetnnsittee will he formed of three of the principal
subscribers out of the brat hundred, and of three artists and literary
men chosen frog amongst the most celebrated. T",:s committee
shall select a banker to receive and manage the [unit:.
" The sum thus raised will serve to pay the artist who shall fur.
nl.h the most beautiful mod, l of the proposed medal, and likewise
to defray the expense of engraving it.
" Afterwards the medal will be delivered to subscribers upon the
payment of a moderate sum, equivalent only to the expense of the
metal and of the striking it off.
" Two anedals wlll be struck In gold—one for the widow of Mr.
Caosiing. the other for the magnanimous Monarch who has set a
great clawless) Soigrtigne, by selecting to direct doe .Jfairs of his
empire a friend pf nations and of their liberties.
I the honour to be, With the greatest consideration, your
very.kombla iota obe,liem servant.
• CL It mix Ott IS, Member of the Institute."
/ IVO 1d XI T IVA or SATURDAY, AUGUST 11.
ft IS, -A oihirr to.
The' n a r. Centag has aoPeatied..from the
very 64.4 day, to a great number of persons, rather as a
public than a private event.r,th..y have thought they
saw not a man perish, but a Item. We feel it neces-
sett :o rectify the opinion formed of the immediate con-
sequence of his premature death.
Withont dnabt ( and we are eager to relieve our heart
on this subject) we cannot behold, without lively emo-
tion, a statesman, always distinguished by the most
brilliant success as an orator, and recently honnuted
With the confidence of his Sovereign and the regard of
oars, fall all on a sudden from the summit of power,
and from an elevation still more personal—that of great
talent*. Glorious Parliamentary recollections, flattering
hopes, were attached to the name of Mr. Canning. His
country expected, great things of him; apd the inte,
rests of civi ization in the two w, rids are, in our times,
so united together, that a man distinguished by the
qualities of the heart and understanding cannot die in
any part of the gtobe-withcidt universal in ,urning.
But, its order justly to appreciate the emotions of the
first moment, we must think of the feeling which iinpels
so many restless spirits tb foresee, to find serious event.
in all the incidents which occur. The peace which con-
soles Europe is a burden to many descriptions of am-
bition. These suffer no pretext to escape for deceiving
themsel►es with respect to the consequences of any
event whoever, and to :.eize upon it as an argument
in their favour. Hence that almost general disposition
to exaggerate the importance of every fact that occurs
in the natural course of things, and to see in it an entire
resolution.

Wrist abuse has been made during the last 80 years
of these phrases-4. All is lost—Alt is saved." Human
affairs aro not go in this manner: they follow 'their
course without continually returning ui their sower.—
' First causes are rare, and it is our weakness that makes
us consider as such, causes th are pu•ely secondary.
Let us not look on events either in so good or so bad a
light ; the age hears nothing absolute.
And i•r the first place, what system should we believe
to be herded in the tomb of Mt. Canning? No man has
more need than that statesman to have his political life
divided into, several periods, and nobody has more
eagerly aimed himself against him by his own contra.
dietions than the new friends on whom he depended in
Eiglins.l and on the continent. Let us close the Par-
liamentary journals and political biographies, to d.,te
the new career of Canning fr,,m the day when he re-
entered the Council. But first, we see him sitting there
under Lord Liverpool, as President, cordially joining
in his policy, and in no point separating his conduct
horn that of that wise Minister. The spe:ches of both
correspond in the two houses, only with the &fret ences
suggested much more by the difference of the condi-
tions than by difference in the opinions of the two
spa •kern. In a word, the two great English determina-
tions w'oich have distinguished these latter years—the
first ostensible separation of Great Britain from a con-
tinernal system which was ascribed to the Holy Alliance,
the other the recognition of the South American States.
Were nut those two measures, we ask, the first a vim .le
sanction of the conduct of Lord Castlereagh at the time
of the Congress of Laybach, and of that of the Duke of
Wellington at the Congress of Verona? the second, a
necessity long since foreseen by Lord Londonderry,
and proclaimed by Lord Liverpool after him, anal
before Mr. Canning?
If we fix the question of a new system to the day
when Mr. Canning was raised to the chief place in the
Administration, we find it difficult to understand in
what acts this innovation is to he di-covered. We find
no traces of it but in changes of persons, whin had not
vet produced any result except to raise up numerous
and complicated difficulties, sahich, if we may believe
those writers who are the most devoted to the memory
of the illustrious deceased, c ntributed not a little to
accelerate his end. It would, therefoie, be very hazard.
oils to calculve now what would have been the, final
issue of the late arrangements commenced in England,'
and which were not yet completely finished. We con-
fess that it was not possible for us to see in it, as others
have done, a determinate system. We w sited, we did
not, however, fail to observe that Ft once (as settled by i!
the restriction-) could not but be easy, as far as she was
concerned, by the succ•eJing conduct of Mr. Canning.
ti city, fuily celebrated for its attachment to the linsal
cau.e, heard him, in 181 G, prufe,,s the most honourable
rrinciples with resp-ct to crier legirithate King.
At all events; there is, in favour of the maintenance
of the go id understanding between Cie Government on
hich the prcsperi'y of nations i. founded, a dilemma
which is very easily stated. It England had adop;ed,
in'the i.ersoif of Mr Canning, a new system, judged
indispelsahle for the reparation of its domestic evils,
and the piesrrv.aion of its foreign ii.fl .ence, it cannot
be suppose" th it the necessity of the system, which
seemed is n:i respect co :trary to the order of things in
Europe, can have di.ap,,eared with the man who was
called on to carry it iota execution. It cams it be sup-
posed that the adoption of this system, a; ter being long
contemplated, can he discouraged by a natural accident
which was too easily to be foreseen, not to have been
'altea into the account en the pievious determinations.
If, on the contrary, we were to see in Mr. Canning only
a matt of talents, called upon to perfect by continuing

it, the English system, as it h s been kr.nwn to Rump,
for these fifteen years. in this. ease there is nothing to ,
be said gull people's m•ods, sinless it he that Eors
land has co ope,ated in eeery tegi•i:nate ig•t . -
even in that at 1823. However :dos he. fwe set aside
the considerat,oas which mo-e particularly affect G.eat
Britain, to c, memplste only those w hich m y extend
to our own Fo.intry, it is then we fed a just pride in _
the situation in which France is rrplaced by its legiti!
mate Princes. Fiance, especia ly in ehese latter time:,
has recove-ed truly French policy, which permits it to
adopt in all foreign policy whatever is gond in it,
without having reason to tear what may he bed. It
sympathises with all generous and p•eitic infloences,
wi:hout coalescing it, on exclusive manner with arry
one. : Thus she has lately enterrid. for Vie interests of
her commerce, into the road o, ened bs Engl n.I Ame-
rica, and yrt observes all the I recaotions recommend d
by her relarioris olds Spain. Assiwiing with Russia in
the means a/gipping thelifosisser rif bioisi in the East
—with England in those of prver*ving peace in the.
Peninsula with Austria in the .sipbt..if Qieeit asnna
Maria mad the Infant D m.lt‘mar3., France ibex (marche)
alone, since sbe does so lone keep ter as witTi the t) 4, Ws
*hose views are supposed to be the least compatible
with each other; at rather each of them acts catch her •
according to wants and institutions, between which she
always reserves the choice to herself. This policy,
which Is wholy national, and, if I 'may be crowed the
expression, wholy geographical, since it results &arts
the twofold position of a Power at once maritime and•
,continental, gives her certainly a right- tes spew herself
indifferent to external accidents, which can never be-
come serious v Won't her concurrence, or in spire of her
opposition. These ale truths which may have been long
overlooked by blind passions. The results ate the an-
swers; and the diplomatic history of France, during the
last five years, is an eloquent refutation of the
matory accusations of her false f; lends, who ate often
more dangerous than her real enerni.,„
The preceding remit ks seem to indicate but little soli-
citude its us to seek the probable results of the death. of
the English Minister, and the combina:Suns which may
take place in the Cabinet of his Britannic Majesty. We
must observe. first, that profound respect fur the inde-
pendence of Governments—a respect founded:on the
sentiments of our own indepmdence—seems to forbid
these delica•e di. cusshns on the eventual determinations
of A Sovereign, oar friend and ally, whose wisdom has ,
long been known by Eur ,pe, and especially by Franco,
Made easy by it, we must wait with confidence for the
issue of a struggle in which we can see nothing but a
rivalry of men and of moans to arrive at the same end.
This end is, in England, *hat it ought now to be in
all countries—the union of wise and moderate men, to
obtain, by a good discretion of p'-wer, the satisfaction
of the general interest. There is nothing it, this to alarm
France, which on her part, constantly aspires to the
same object ; and which, to attain it completely, is also
in need of the same concurrence of which the passions
of parties continually endeavour to deprive her. For
the rest, a second proof of the highest Royal preroga-
tive exercised by ;he King of England, will fix the opi-
nion of his pe tole resp ciing his will.
France has nothing to tear from the choice which the
English Monarch will make : it krs ;sr's that all the Ca•
burets are at present actuated by a common want,—
the maintenance of peace found: d on the legitimate
ril,hts of Governments, on the legal order of states, era
the mutual liberties of nations—in a word, oat that uni-
versal patrio:isni which excludes all tyrannical preten-
sions, and admits all generous :alliances.

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ESCAPE OF LOUIS XVI. AND HIS QUEEN,
AND THEIR UP:CAM:ILL:.

FROM SIR WALIZR SCOTTS NArouccm

- The very first person whom- the Queen encountered
in the streets was La Fayette himself, as he crossed the
Place du Carousal. An hundred other dangers attended
the route of the urifortuate fu,;iiiiees, and the hair-
breadth eicapes by which they profited s-emed to inti •
mate the favour of fortune, while they only' proved her
mutability-. An escort pl iced fair them at the Pont de
Sommeville, had been withdrawn, after their remaining
at that place ter a time ha.l eacced poplar suspicion.
At St..Menehoarld they meta small (let:rarity's, of dra-
goons, stationed there by Bouilie also for their sena.
But while t•ey halted to change horses, he Kings
whose featu•es were remarkable, Was reccgiiized by
Drouet..-a too of the P.istrna,ter. The yiiui gm in was
,a keen Revo:otionist, and resolving to prevent the
escape of the Sovereign, he ni.iunted a horse, and
pushed forward, to Varennes to prepare the municipa•
line for the arrival of the King.
Two remarkable chances seemed to sinew th it the
good angel of Louis still strove in his favour. Drouet
was pursued by a resolute Royalist, a Qn irtermaster of
Dtagonns, Who suspected his purpose, and followed him
with the deign of preventing it at ail hazard,. But
Drimet, better acquainted wide the fold, escaped a pur-
suit which might have been fatal to him. The other
incident la a,. that Dr ouet for a time pursued the road
to Verdun, instead of that to Varennes, concluding the
King had take.) the f tmer direction, and was only tin.
deceived by an accident.—lle reached Varennes, And
found a ready disposition to stop the Bight if the un-
happy Prince. Tile King was stopped at Varennes and
arrested; the National Guards were called out—the
Dragoons refus!ti to fight in the King's defence, an escort
of Hussars, who might have cot a pas,age, arrived too
late, acted with relucance,and finally deserted he town.
Still there retnained one last thiow for their freedom.-..
It the time could have been protracted but for in hour
and a h ail, Bouille would have been before Vat enne,,
at the head of such a body of faithful and rt scrplined
troops as might easily have dispersed the National Mi-
litia. He had even opened a correspondence with tl.e
Royal prisoners through a faithful emissary who ven-
tured into Varennes, and obtained speech of the King;
hut cool.; obtoin no answer In ire decided than that.
tying a prisoner, Louis declined giving any orders:—
Finally. almost all the troops of the Marquis de Boodle
declared against the King and in favour of the Narions
wading to strew the little chance which existed of a ft-
vourable issue to the King's attempt to create a Royalist
force. The Marquis himielt made his cicalae with utffi
culty into the Austriiii territories.

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