Star.
London, England, 1827-08-09 00:00:00

M BRUSSELS, Acs. 7.

" The health of hrr Majesty, the Queen, continues to
be satisfactory. As the slow junction of all fractures
does not permit the progress of it to be noted every day,
the bulletin will henceforth be issued only once in three,
days. Mined) " D. rvEnAnD.

" J. B.

" Lades, Ith Asps% $ sass,"

We likewise received this morning the Noirtaberg
Correspondent to the Ist. inst. The following is the only
article worth extractint;
« BERLIN, Jinx tit.
" A report is in circulation on our Exchange, that a
new plan of finance will shortly be published, the object
of which will be an effectual improvement of the public
credit. Though no particulars are knots n, the paper
currency has already risen; the circumstance that
the plan is the conception of the able Minister of
Finance, M. Von Mots being sufficient to give the
public a favourable opinion of it.
" Several duels having lately taken place mow(
the students here. the Authorities have been induced
to adopt very rigorous measures against thicabuse.
" It is a matter of Musts twee that suicides ate now
more frequent in this capital than ever they were be-I
fore. This is ascribed partly to the increasing distress
of the labouring classes'and artisans, and partly to their
constantly increasing desire for the enjoyments 'and
comforts of life, which, in many instances, have risen
.
in price."

As several incorrect accounts have appeared re.
spewing the persons who attended Mr: CANNING in his
dying moments, we are authorised to publish the fol-
lowing :
Mr. CANNING was not attended during his residence
at Chiswick by Mr. VANCE; nor did Mr. VANCE see
him for the fortnight previous to his death.
The medical Gentlemen who attended him were—Sir
MATTHEW TIERNEY, Dr. PARRS, and Dr. Homatass,
together with Mr. SHUTER, the Apothecary,
The persons preens when he died were, Mrs. CAN
NINO, Lord and Lady CLANRICAEDC, Mr. STAPLETON,
Sir M. TIERNEY, Dr. EIeLLAND, and Mr. SAUTE*. •
The Duke of PORTLAND, Mr. CANNING'. brother-in-
law, came from town as soon as he heard of the fatal
event.

Mrs. CANNING, in the present period of her sufferings,
derives great consnlation from the affectionate atten-
tions of her amiable daughter, the Marchioness of
CLANVICARDE, with whom she has taken up her abode,
at the Marquis's house in St. James's-square.

Sir Marrnew 'Nance and Dr. liou.ama were present with
Mr. Camiguin When he breathed his last. Immediately after the
Right Honourable Gentleman's decease, Mr. Sraesercot,'his Pri-
vate Secretary, issued a Bulletin, which appeared in the Sven of
yesterday, announcing the melancholy event; a copy of which was
immediately forwarded to the Marquis of Lawanowe, as Principal
Secretary of State for the Home Department. Dr. Fauns was
not present at the time of Mr. CANNING 'S decease, having been
obliged to leave Chiswick for London on Tuesday evening. imme-
diately after signing the Bulletin.
Messengers, with dispatches containing the account of the dan.
gerous state of Mr. Casento, were sent off on Monday night to
Viscount Gaanviu.s, our Ambassador at Paris, and to the Marquis
Wattestar, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Viscount Duster and Wass ordered suns
fur the assembling of a Cabinet Council
Viscount GOOBllOl left town about half past two o'cloek, in his
carriage and four, (Sr the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, to attend
the KINGs having received his Maaerres commands for that pur-
pose. The Right Hon. Braman &masa left town at the same
rime, having also received a communication from his Masan to
proceed to Windsor, to attend his MAGGOT.
The Marquis of 4ANADOWN returned to town about four o'clock,
from the Royal Lodge.
At four o'clock the Cabinet Ministers assembled at the residence
of the late Mr. Camino, in Downing-street. Those present were
the Duke of l'ortland, the Marquis Art Lansdewn, the Marquis of
Anglesey, the Earl of Harrowhy, the Earl of Carlisle, Viscount
Dudley and Ward, Viscount Palmerston, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Tier-
ney, and Lord Bexley.
The Loan CM/OWN/ILO& arrived at the Council at five o'clock.
The Ministers continued in deliberation till hall.past sir o'clock.
Viscount Goosaimt, after having a long audience of the Km; at
the Royal Lodge, returned to town yesterday evening.
Mr. HERRItir was to have emhatked on Tuesday for
the-Continent, but in consequence of the too certain approach of
that sad event which has now taken place, the Hon. Gentleman
suspended his departure. A Neesenger was sent down to him yes.
terdaYiPictlliflis at his country nub and he arrived in town in the
'course gtheday.

to be issued

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Tll2 KING, &c,
wir".
Wartime, Aprt.;B.—sb NINO continues to dine
laity er Virginia Wataths aid jtoy his aquatic neut.
sions with the museum= of angling. This forenoon
the Queen of Wwitareallf, accirnpanied by her
Royal sisters, left ?lognaore Lodge in a double bodied
phaeton, drawn by four of bis MA.iiraffs ponies, and
driven by two portillhavin the Royal lively, in which
were Sii THOMAS HAMMOND, Madame pit ROEDER,
Baron GiIibIINGEN, and Count GOERLiTZ. On leaving
Frogmore Lodge. the Royal party proceeded to Reis,
Where they were met by Mr. Arrow, with whom they
inspected the la hole of the Rotanic Gardens, after which
the Royal party partook of an elegant cold collation,
forwarded trom Frogmore on she occasion, when they
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returned to Frogmore Lodge. Early this morning
messenger arrived at the Royal Lodge with the news
of the death of Mr. CANNING. This morning the
and Marquishad a ofl
his MA,TISTT did not visit Virginia Water.
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CHISWICK, W
ZDNIIHHAT NIGHT.

The feverish excitement which has prevailed in the
immediate neighbourhood of Chiswick for some days
past, has terminated with the mortal c eer of the cele.
-braced individual whose unfortunatec4dition was the
origin of it. The village has almost r gained its ac-
customed tranquillity. In most of the houses in
Chiswick the shutters were partially closed this
morning, and the inhabitants on all sides were heard
expressing their sorrow for the deceased Minister.
Although Mr. CANNING'2 last moments were apparently
free from pain, for several hours previously he suffered
the most acute torture, which was produced by the
dreadful nature of his complaint, and no doubt the ex-
cessive pain which he underwent wascaused by the
Gemination that was rapidly extending itself. It may
be easily imagined that such violent and almost constant
suffering was calculated to harrow up the feelings of
all those who witnessed it, particularly those of the
family and relatives of the deceased. Notwithstanding
the torture which Mr. Caesium eadured, he was per-
fectly sensible to the last moment, and about a quarter
of an hour before his death, the pain be suffered seemed
to subside. ite then appeared quite tranquil, sad
breathed his last without pain. It would be impossible
to desei ibe the anguish and mental agony into whisk
this melancholy event has planed Mrs.Caassia. ahn
is so ill that she requires the utmost care and
but seems almost unconscious of what is passim
her. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ct4eascaszt
have been in constant attendance, and their attentions to
Mrs. CANNING have been unremitting. About en boat
and alai( alms: Mr. CANNINO% decease, the Duke of
PORTLAND Sniffled at Devonshire House, and was mid
the first to whom the melancholy intelligence was con.
munieated. Mr. Cessation has left three children—tee
sons, one a Captain in the Navy, and the second a youth
about 14 years of age, and a daughter, the Marchioness
of Cza ItICAIUM. Capt. Camellia is not eipresent in this
country,bawith his vessel in thehiediterranean.fdr.Cau
NINO, a few days before his decease, ordered one of has
confidential servants to be dispatched to York for hb
youngest son, who went there farm Eton to spend the
vacation. He arrived at Devonshire Hens; on Monday
e!:.17. qinur ga. terbefore three in the afternoon Mr..la Ruts. th
saideetalser, arrived froni London, end after a delay
of three quarters of an hour, for the purpose of
giving the necessain (*dies and directions relative to
the interment of mr: CANNING, hi Peterned to town.
During the afternoon several Noblemen and-persons of
distinction called at the porter's lodge, and they mare
particularly anxious to know how Mrs. Canwino
The Brazilian Ambassador we: one of those who called
to make inquiries.

Aceounts from San Lucar de Baraiseda, to thenill
of July, state that the Army of the Tagus has bre
disbanded, and that 4,000 men of that atm! age going
to Catalonia. General Count CASTZLLANE had passed
through San Lucar, and visited the Ften:h siritary
post established on the coast.
The following an extract of a lever, received th's
morning from Madrid, and dated the /6th
" It la now stated that Count ptALIA has so far 500.,
seeded in his usissien to London, as to obtain the tarp
telling of the Treaty concluded at Paris with the Eng.
lisp creditors. -It i; added that a rieWarranaernent will
be immediately made with the said creditors, and that
two persons have been already appointed for this pve•
pose by the Spanish Government, who ire. ill proceed
without (nether delay Fn the French capital.",
Canada and Montreal rapers to the 3th July, arrived
this nv)rning. The Provisional-Parliatment, it is aide
to be dissolved, and it is understood, that the Genets!
Election will take place the end ef nivit month.
Prince LBOPOLD came to twine on Tuesday monks
from his seat at Claremont ; his Royal lifighases.meaodetl Ben,
&ornate a, returned to Careworn ha the atiir r
• ' •
The Right Hon. W. HILL, our mister at Naples,
arived at the Foreign Office a few days since, on leave of absean.
The Right Hoo. Gentlentan has taken up his residence at Wares.'
Hotel.
Viscount Pat.stensvon held-a Levee yesterday, al
the Commander in Cbief's Mee, in the Home Guerds, at slier
General Sir Hasse WAIRD• the Commander of the Forces In °I
We.t Indies, was presented to his Lordship on his ream bat
Barbadoes (of which Wand Sir HINKT was Governor essiGes
Sir EDW*RD Panne, Commander of the Fwiees le- ;oda, wa
presented on his r.turn to Eoeland,
Dispatches sere received at the Foreign Office yes•
terday, from the Marquis of HISTrOItI).
The Marquis of CAMDEN visited Mr. Pin 'este! d iy•
Mr. TIERNEY left town this morning foe Cldrinblitf.
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE made his Report of the State
'of the Police In the Metropolis, on Tuesday, for the first time, 10
the Marquis of Lamar'', as Secretary of State for the Root
Department. •
THE MISSION TO RUSSIA.--.Lord MARCOS HILL er"
rived on Tuesday night at the Marchioness of SALIP
JURY'S, from St. Petersburg!). It will be recellected
that this young Nobleman accompanied the Marquisvf
Hcaveonn, on the mission to present the Order oldie
Garter to the Emperor NICHOLAS. His Lordship all
accompanied overland by Sir Guiana N4YLBU,
the
Garter King at Arms. They ;embarked at Calais, el
board the steam-boat, for Londo t ; and the vessel is
its passage, landed Sir GEORGE at Gravesend, where If
will remain until the attival of the frigate, which c 3
lied out the Suite. The Marta is was It at Brrliai.
and intended to visit the Court at Vienna, previcus rai
journey to Paris. Lord Hitarroan proposed emba4*
ing at Boulogne about the end of the nest month (Ser
tember); but the demise of Mr. C-ddiNIIIG, may, pelh'(nt
alter his elm.

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the deep and general anxiety which prevails at
this moment, upon every topic ce•nnecred vetch the life
or deed] of t e late Prime MINISTER, the foil.iwing
hasty ne nee of his personal and political career may not
be unacceptable.
Mt. George Canning, the father of the suhject of the
Pr sent memoir, was an Irish barrister of respectability,
who was related to the family of Garsagh ; and having
displeased his wealthier relatives at an early age, by
what they considered an imprudent marriage, he came
beer to this country, where he entered himself in the
society of the Middle Temple, but died soon after
he had been called to the Bar, and without having
bail an oppottunity of distinguishing *himself in
hit profession. * The Garvach family, though deeply
displeased with Mr. Canning s marriage, relented so fat,
at his death, as to take care of his son George's educa-
tion, and the flume Prime Minister was placed-at Eton,
where his progress was so rapid- as to obtain him
I ditiguished rank among his contemporaries. From
two Mr. Canning went to Oxford, where he studied at
Christ Church, and distinguished himself principally as
a Latin scholar, ga:riing several prices. And; from
thence, coming to London, he entered himself a mems
ter of Lincoln's Inn, and proceeded in due course, with
a view to being called to the bar. At this time, how-
ever, the friAidship of Sheridan, who was then in his
zenith, suggested ant:Atter career to him—ihe career of
P°•
-s z and at 23 years of age, he took his seat in Par-
balmier, as member for the borough of Newport, in the
lie of Wight. Prior to the commencement of his poliii-
ol prospects, and while he was studying for the bat,
Mi. Canning, at several initiate societies, had acquired
considerable reputation as a speaker. So much so,
indeed, as to induce Mr. Pitt, to offer him the post
if Under Secretaryship of State, which lie accepted
in 1;96. and was accordingly returned for the Trea.
arty Uorough of Wencliever. But he was some time
in the Hots e before lie assumed courage to speak,
al h ash so strongly supported ; for lie was returned
to p IliAment in 1793, and his first effort was the speech
ire I tenor of the subsidy proposed to be granted in 1794
ro the King of Sardinia, which was not at all io his best
sole, and met with a reception more favourable than
he intrinsic merits, perhaps, deserved. About five years
afterwards, too, in 1799, the young orator married Miss
Scott, the sister of the Duchess of Portland, with whom
he obtained such a fortune as gave him more standing
in the country than he had heretofore possessed ;and he
sentineled a vehement supporter, and occasionally an
Ora one, of Mr. Pitt and his measures, until the latter
sent out of office in the year 1803. The short ad.
ministration of 'Mr. Addington and his colleagues
was determinately opposed during its whiile existence,
y Mr. Canning, whose talents. for ridicule exhausted
itself upon the Premier's person,while the political mea
earn of the Ministry were assailed by his logic and his
oratory. At this time he sat for. the borough of Tralee ;
and as he had gone out of s ffice with Mr. Pitt, so he re-
turned with that Minister in the new situation of Trea-
eater of the Navy, which office he continued to hold
evil Mr. Pin's death in Ido6. On the death of Mr.
Pat, Mr. Canning went into opposition again; 'but his
telents rendered him invaluable to any Ministry which
could obtain his assistance ; and it was not long before
he found himself again in power with an accession of
task, having joined the Duke of ,Portland, as Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs. It was in this capacity
that he made his famous speeches upon the bombard-
roent of Copenhagen and the seizure of the Danish fleet.'
And be also fought a duel, upon a dispute arising out
4.1 the conduct of theWalcheren expedition, with the late'
Marquis of Londonderry, then LordCastleteagh,who wasl
the Secretary for War and Colonies, which terminated in
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Mr. Canning's being wounded, and in both parties going
rot of office. It was Lord Castlereagh who gave the chal-
lenge; and at siz o'clock on the morning of the 21st Sept.
1809, the parties met near the telegraph, Putney•heath.l
Loud Castlereagh was attended by the present Marquis
d HertfoisS, and Mr. Causing by Mr. Ellis. Atter
taking the j groOnd, they fired by sigma', sod missed ;'
beano esplamation taking place, they fired a second time,
'hen Mr. Canning received his adversary's ball is his
thigh. He did not fall from the wound, nor was it
known by the seconds that he was wounded, and both
parties stood ready to give or receive farther satisfac-
tion, when Mr. Ellis perceiving blood on Mr. Canning's
leg, the seconds isiterfered. Mr. Canning was conveyed
to his house, lilocestersiodge, at Bromp:on, where he
was for some time confined; but as the bone of the thigh
was not ft actured, he recovered sufficiently to attend the
kree on the lich of Octobers and resign his seals of
bfics, as did Lord Castlereagh also.
'the qua ref eat iced a considerable sensation among
the fieends id both parties at the time; and it was under-
gobd that his lase Majesty expressed his strong disap-
Irobstion of the practice of settling Ministerial disputes
by sword or pistol. Mr. Canning addressed two letters
to Earl Camden (which w ere published), defending the
Put which he had taken in the affair; but the result
"II his separation from the pasty with which he had
acid; and not long after he made that which may Iss
insidered as his first demonstration in favour of popular
Pociples, by offering himself as a candidate for the
relirtentation of Liverpool, for which place he was
teted in 1812. Mr. Canning stood lour times for
L'esrpool, and was each time elected, but never without
s toot% opposition. On the first occasion he bad four
antagonists, and his majority was 500; the numbers
being for Mr. Canning, 1,631; for General Gascoyne,
the se and member, 1,532; for Mr. Brougham, 1,131 ;
for Mr. Creerey, 1,068; and for General Tar leton, 11.
The second election took place after Mr. Canning's
embassy to Lisbon, and very great exertions indeed
s ere made to throw him out ; but he was neveriheless
returned, alter a snuggle of three days, by the retire-
rnt of his opponent, Mr. Leyland; whose name, in-
. ed, had been set up by the hostile party, in spite of
" Mutual declaration that he was desirous nut to
7"ei The third election, of 1818, was distinguished
ley at estraordinery quantity of electioneering ma-
-Icoste, eighteen nowsinot candidates having been set
_ on one side and the other, in addition to the foul
tli 'mos ; the majority, however, of Mr. Canning,
piss greater than on any occasion before. The last
e ection of 1820 was less warmly contested, his chief
°llament being a Gentleman of the name of Crompton.
who succeeded only in obtaining 345 votes. During
the latter years of his life, the termination of M..
Ca
'Ming Political auras seenied problematical,
thought low persons, even but a short time since
"mild have anticipated its Coming Si) early to a
elute. 11l 18; Pr he came into office as President
'll4 Board of Control ; but lett England an
strandut,kd .
i.lacc, rn preference to taliog pao.

sin the proceedings against her Meje ty, the late.
Queen. Subseq.sently, in 1822, he was named Governor
f India ; and was on the point of Ugain quitting the coun-
try, having actually taken leave of his consti:nen:x At Li.
verpool, for the purpose of pro :ceding to Bengal. At
that very moment, ho ever, the death of the•bl srq•ris et
Londonderry suddenly opened the situation of Se. tetany
f v Foreign Aff airs to Lim, a o t wn.cti hr acceptes+, and
held until the change e.•mequent upon the recent illness
of the E rl of Liverpool, when- it was his fortune to at-
tain that high station to which his talents pre•erniasenti
entitled him ; and in which a long list of valuable
services to his country, have, we f;el lit.le doubt,
been cut short by his premature and regretted death.
It is a curious circumstance, that Mr. Canning died in
the same house in which Mr. Fox breathed his last ;
and, like tisk distinguished statesman, but a few montbs
only afteP his last acceptance of office. He has left two
sons alive, and a daughter. The latter is the present
Marchioness of Clam icarde ; the elder son is a Captain
in the navy ; the younger a lad still at school, who was
brought from Yotk during his father's illness. As Mr.
Canning has been repeitedly attacked upon the subject
of the pensions granted to other members of his family
—to his mother and sister--it becomes fair to add
what be has said in his d fence. His answer to this
charge was, that when he fist in 1803 from
.the office of Under Secretary of State. I e was en ided
to a pension of 5001. a yeas ; and that, instead fif taking
that sum himse 1, he request •d to have it se.ticd upon
his relations.
MR. FOX AND MR. CANNING. _

Some curious coincidences mat k the latter days of
Mr. Fos and Mr. Canning.
About the nuddle of June, 1806-41'w months after
having (turned an Adm ni,ti awn , of which he was the!
the head—Mr. Fox made his 1.44 appeataiice in Parlia-
ment. I 1 August he was v:ith diffi ulty removeJ to the
villa of the Duke of Devonsline, at Chiswick, where,
after und -rgoing sundiy oper thins, he swat • alter
breathed his last, aged .57 years some months. He
was buried in a vault in Westminst r Abbey, near the
remains f his great rival hit.
At the latter end of June, 1827—also a few months
after having been appi,inted the tic/Ad Of the Adminis•
tration—Mr. Canning made his last appearance in Rai-
liAment. Illness assuming a sill more serious aspect.—
(he had not been well since the Duke of York's funeral,
and his agitations wee e increased hit becoming Premier)
—Mr. Canning was invited by the Duke of Devonshire
to reside at the fine villa, Chiswick, in the hope than
change of air might renovate hi alth. He also there
underwent several operations: but soon afterwards
breathed his last—about Mr. Fos's age, dying, it is
mentioned, in the saute loom in which Mr. Fos es-
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plied.

THE LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.

PORTSMOUTH. Aco. 7.

. .
Last night there was a ball at the Royal Clarence
• Roomi, Southsea, under the patronage of its Royal Highness the
Loses Hems Anntaat. and which, we at. happy to say, was at-
tended by all the respectability of the neighbourhood, including all
the Navy and army. It was so full (between four and five hundred),
that it was difficult to keep a quadrille going. Soon after eleven
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Clarence eta.
tared the room, sad continued epwards of an hour, occasionally
geing sat to the beach, to view the fireworks on the land and water.
—Several of his Majesty's cutters had been (tor the =earn))
moored directly off the Rooms, under the command of that
valuable Officer Lier,tenant Hough, of the Cracker, and were cond..
nually, from 9AS 12, firing guns and letting off rockets and Mlle
lights, which was also done from the top of the Semapbors, from
which frequently 12 rockets were sent into the air at the same instant.
Several royal salutes were fire/ from the French 56-pounders on the
King's bastion. Two grand fire barns were let off-hy the hremaster
on Soutbsea Beach. The town was beautifully it uminated in con-
sequence of the arrival of her Royal Highness th Duchess. The
night was altogether the must magnificent that Purtmiouth ever
witnessed. This morning, at nine o'clock, the troops formed on
the ramparts; at ten o'clock her Royal Highness embarked on
hoard the Royal Sovereign yacht, when a royal salute was fired
from each of the batteries—viz. Platform, Spur Redoubt, and King's
Bastion, as well as from all the ships at Spithead and in the harbour.
The yacht proceeded to Hyde, Isle of Wight, where her Royal'
Highness disembarked, and wee received by Lord Darnley. She
then entered the carriage of Karl Spencer, and proceeded to his
Lordship's house, to spend the day. At IS a.m. the Lord High
Admiral iespected the Royal Marine Artillery, in disembarking a
gun and carriage from a boat moored about 100 yards from the!
share on Southsea Beach, on a new principle. He afterwards pro-
ceeded to Cemberland Fort, to witness mortar and shell practice
of the same corps, after which he dined with the Lieutenant Go.
vernor, Sir James Lyon.