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

CHISWIQC, War. Noes.

The melancholy event which we last evening com-
municated as about to take place, was expected for
some hours by the Physicians, to whom it was a matter
of surprise thst the Right Hon. Gentleman held out so
long as he did. Mortification took place yesterday,
and extended rapidly to the vitals. Mr. CANNING was
at intervals sensible of his danger; but the few hours
preceding his dissolution he wandered occasionally.—
He was sensible of some ►light pain in his left side
about two o'clock, but this dissipated, and he was heard
to say be thought himself improving.
This change had been communicated to his MAJZSTIrt
the Ministers, and other persons is official capacity, as
early as twelve o'clock last night, by expresses; but
was kept so profoundly secret, that even the persons in
attendance at the Lodge of Devonshire House thought,
and acre instructed to say, that Mr. CANNING was not

any worse.
During the remainder of the night Mr. CANNING
was gradually sinking, until, about three o'clock, the
clme approach of his dissolution became apparent,
he became insensible, and the fatai-group of death-
tokens were gathering fast around him: • .
The Marquis of ULANRICARDE, Dr. HOLLAND, Sir
MATHEW TIERNEY, Dr. FARM, Mr. STAPLETON, and
two oilier Gentlemen were in the bed-room, and com-
munications were passed from thence to the anti.
chamber, where some of the Gentlemen of the office
in Downing-street were in close attendance.
Mr. CANNING about half-past three o'clock appeared
to revive, but in a few minutes after his respiration
became difficult, and he sank into a kind of slumber
and breathed his last, in a quarter of an hour after,
without the least pain of struggle of any kind.
The melancholy event was known to Mrs. CANNING
and her son, almost immedi stely, and we cannot attempt
to describe their grief at this melancholy bereavement,
which has plunged themselves and the nation in sorrow.
The official persons in attendance kept the house
closed fur above an hour, during which dispatches, with
the Bulletin, were sealed, and sent off as follows :—To
the KING at Windsor, to the Foreign Ambassadors, to
Kensington Palace, to the Duke or DKVONSHIRE, to
Lord GODIRICH, to the LORD CHANCELLOR, to the
Duke of PORTLAND, to the Duke of :minx, to the
Marquis of LA MOWN, to the Under Secretaries of S:ate,"
to all the Ministers, to Mr. HVEZIESON, and Mr. Siva.
ass Bowies, Lord DUIPLZT and WARD, &c. &C. •
The sudden departure of the messengers at five
o'clock aroused the village, and in a brief space of time
the melancholy news was well known. At this junc-
ture, several grooms of different Noblemen applied at
she Lodge, and obtained copies of the Bulletin then
issued, and departed at full speed to London.
The messenger to Windsor travelled post and four;
the others had gigs and single horses.
After an hour's space of time had passed, the Lodge
of the house became deter ted by enquirers, and the only
incidents that occurred sere the departure of the Phy-
sicians, the official personages, ea. which occupied until
seven o'clock.

ciiiswicK, Ors :Cum".

IZTRACT or A LITTIR.

The cause of the Itir,ht Hon. Gentleman's illness was
an it flsmmation of the intestines. Mr. CANNING had
been ill some time, and a variety of causes which may be
guessed prevented his enjoying that quiet tranquillity
of mind so necessary to his recovery. It was impos-
sible for a man possessing the activity of his enlightened
mind to keep from the arduous duties of his office,
which almost daily required his p:esence., He had
been a length of time suffering, and the anxiety of
his mind did not by any. means tend to lessen that
suffering. It is some consolation, however, to know
that the last moments of this lamented and distinguished
Gentleman were not embittered by bodily suffering.•
His faculties, I am informed, never left him, and his
end was marked by holy and magnanimous resignation
to the will of Heaven. During the hour or two before'
his death, he was visited by Mrs. CANNING, and his
youngest son, a tine youth, and the power of speech
having nearly deputed, he affectionately pressed their
hands, and motioned them away.
Mrs. CANNING has not left Devonshire House this
morning. _

A King's Messenger is in nttendnnce at the Lodge i

and as express has jest "arrived from Mahon which!
has been lot warded to Downing-street.
You cannot conceive the grief which this sadden ca
!amity bas excited in this quiet vicinity : every ioi-
•ideal expresses himself as it the loss bad occurred io
his own family.

HALT/ PAST OWE O'CLOCK.

Nothing further has transpired here since the date of
my last communication, unless it be the continued ar•
rival of distinguished persons paying visits of condolence
to the widow of this most lamented Statesman. At
this hour yesterday, the crisis commenced which we
announced in our Paper of last evening, as calculated
to prove fatal.
Several persons have been to Devonshire House,
which, it is stated, are connected with the preliminary
arrangements of the undertaker to the funeral.
Mrs. Cauntoo's health has suffered materially from
continued attendance night and day upon her husband,
and the shock of his death has so completely over-
powered her feelings, that she is exceedingly unwell.—
The Marchioness of CLANRICARDI is with her.

The King's Messenger, with the dispatches to his
MaJur:, reached Windsor about sis o'clock this morn•

ing, and has returned, but is gone forward to London.
Every thing here remains in the same state.
aIIAMISIL TO Two :ruses.
His MAJNITT may be expected in town to night. 1
have been just informed that a Cabinet Council has
been summoned., and that the usual escort of Light
Cavalry attending his MAJZIITT, are under orders at
Hounslow.

The inquiries at the residence of the Minister in
Downing-street, and the Foreign Office yesterday, were
very numerous throughout the day. The Duke of
Gr,oucerrmt sent to inquire after the state of Mr.
CANNING. Among those who called at the Foreign
Office were,
The Austrian ?nosier. American, Sardinian, Spanish, Ports-
gorse, Eason, and Wurtemberg Ambassadors and Ministers ; the
Rut of Westmorland, the Right Hon. R. Peet, Lord Nugent, VI..
client Weymouth. the Right Han. T. Wallace, Sr G. Warrender,
Sir W. Gordon, and Lord Bezley also called.
Ma D
LANTA. one of the Secret:sties of the Treasury,
and Mr. STAPLIITON, Private Secretary to Mr. CAN-
NING, were in almost constant attendance at Chiswick
House daring the greater part of his indisposition,
by which they best evinced their respect and attachment
for their long-loved friend and patron.
Summonses were issued by Viscount DUDLRY and
WARD on Monday night, for the Ministers to attend a
Cabinet Council yesterday, which were left at the resi-
dences of the Cabinet Ministers, and forwarded-to a 1
those who hid quitted London for their country seats.
The Ministers assembled about four o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at the residence of Mr. CAusurr. in Down-
.
ing-street. Those present were,
The Duke of Portland, the Mary& of Lowdown. the Marc&
of Anglesey, Earl Harrowliy, Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Dudley
and Ward, Viscera Godericb, Viscount Palmerton, Mr. Wynn
Mr. &urges Boerne, Mr. Tierney, and Lord Henley.
Tee Loan Cnosicer.Lost joined his colleagues soon
after five o'cleck. The Ministers remained in delibera--
tion till seven o'clock.
At one o'clock yesterday (p.m.) the physicians, who
still had some hopes, had a long consultation, not (or
the put pose cf issuing a Bulletin, but in order to resolve,
upon what mode of treatment would be most disirable
under the altered circumstances of their patient.- The
particulars did not transpire, but it is satisfactory to
know that the Right Hon. Gentleman was compara-
tively tranquil during the early p.rt of yesterday.
At two o'clock yesterday Mr. CANNING fell into a
sound, and, it is to be hoped, a refreshing sleep. His
medical attendants said that every thing depended upon
the state in which he should awake from it.
Mr. CANNING, junior, was sent for from York,
where he had been during the Eton holidays; he at,.
rived at Chiswick this afternoon post from York. Wet
was unable to see his father immediately, as it-Via
thought unadvisable to interrupt the state of quiet
repose into which the Right Hon.Lientleman had fallen.
Mr. CANNING died in the house in which, broken,
like him, by labour as well as illness, CHARLES JAAISS
Fox died.

We received this morning the Austrian Oboes ger to
the 28th ult. together with the Algemeiffle Zeihneg and the
Nuremberg Correspondent, both to the Slot, but they are
all silent upon the singlt subject, which bas some time
past engaged the attention of foreign politicians—
namely, the affairs of Greece and Turkey. -
It would appear from the following extract from the
Nuremberg Correspondent, that a report was pretty
prevalent of a great victory obtained by the Russians
lover the Persians, though if there had been any truth
in it, it would probably have reached us before now
through a less circuitous channel :
“ FROM THE FRONTIERS OF PERSIA, ins Ss.

" Reports ate in circulation of a great defeat said to
have been sustained by the Persian army under the

command of Prince Abbas Mime, in the neighbodrhood
of Erivan, which place the Prince had attempted to
relieve. As the report of the speedy conclusion of
peace with Persia is more prevalent than ever. it may
be conjectured that this event will tend to accelerate it:'

Prince ESTIRHAZI6 the Austrian Ambassador, had a
eaafereacegstetday with Viacom Draw Waaa, at the ,
Auriga oe.
A letter from Port-du-Petre, of 25tb June, says
44 Sugars have risen to 45 francs, in consequence of the
scarcity of the article, and of the pretence of numerous
ships, which cannot get a freight on any terms. many
have gone away half laden, and others are going AO
sail with ballast. A ship from Boursieaus now offers
to take goods gratis, to serve it for ballast, which is
very dear here."—French Paper.
A vacancy will shortly take place lithe representa•
tion of Lynn, in consequence of the appointment of
Lord W. BCNTINCIE to the Government of India.

The Juno, BETTS, arrived in Standgate Creek, on
Monday, from Malta, has brought a fine Cameleopard,
a present for his Majesty.
The Duke of Lerma* has purchased a plot of
ground where Carlton Palace stood, on which his
Grace i; now, erecting a mansion. Mr. Hunan*, Secre-
tary orthe Treasury, is likewise building a house upon
a portion of Carlton Palace-gardens.
EARLY HARYIAL—Oa Saturday several sample; of
fine new barley were exhibited in Canterbury market,
land samples of new outs also,

TUE KING.
WIN RS-017mm 7.

. This afternoon the Lodge at
half past two, and drove to Virginia Water, where his
Iltaiswre partook of the diversion of angling for Dearly
two hours; dinner was served up ender a large mar.
goes on the margin of the lake, the private hand being
in an adjoining tent. In the evening his Manarr re-
turned to the Royal Lodge. This evening the Quint
of WonTsassano, accompanied by her Royal &sten,
took an airing in an open- landau in the Great Park,
retuning to Frogmore through the town. Last evening
her MAJESTY gave a grand entertainment at Froginars
Lodge. At seven o'clock his MAJESTY arrived in an
open pony phaeton from the Royal Lodge, accompanied
by the Lord Steward, Bir EDMUND NADIA 'lnd the
remainder of his bdasnartla Suite. The banquet was
prepared in the principal dining room, fronting the
lake. the Duchess of Gramma:can and Princess Au-
GUSTIL. with the personal attendants of the Queen of
WURTEMSZEth being among the guests. His MAJUk
rea private Bend were stationed on the lawn, and
played select pieces throughout the evening. At hall-
past ten his"MAJIMTY and atteadants left Frogmore, and
returned by the Great Park to the Royal Lodge.