Star.
London, England, 1827-02-19 00:00:00

MR. CANNING.

The latest accounts from Brighton received in Down-
ing street, this morning, state, that Mr. CANNING is a
good deal better.
A Cabinet Council is summoned to meet this afternoon.

We are quite sure there is not one of our Readers,
who will not learn with ,profound concern the severe
affliction with which the Earl of LIVERPOOL was vi-
sited on Saturday last, and which, it is much to be
feared, will deprive for ever the country of the aid of his
Lordship's talents. On that day, about noon, the Noble
Earl was seized with a fit of paralysis, which, from
the first, exhibited symptoms of the most alarming de-
scription. It will be seen from the particulars of this
melancholy occurrence, which we have given in another
part of our Paper, that his Lorthhip was alone at the
time,and that the visitation was so sudden,that heltad nut
time to ring the bell. We ate sorry to add, that he con-
tinued throughout the whole of yesterday, in a state
which iaspired his personal friends with the most seri-
ous alarm, and the public generally, with the most un•
affected concern. Under any circumstances, and at any

time, this occurrence would constitute a just subject of
national regret ; but. at the present moment, k is para.
cularly to be deplored, when another most efficient, and
most popular member of the Cabinet, is incapacitated
from attending to his duties. In the meantime,speculation
is already on the alert, as to the effect which this unex-
pected occurrence may have on the solidity of the present
'Administration,as well as upon the character dour future
poliey. • Some of these speculations are in the highest
degree extravagant, and have their origin in a morbid
feeling, rather than in any real anxiety for the public
interests. Though the political talents, ass ell as the
public integrity of the Noble Earl, who is the sub-
ject of these temaiks, are of a very high order, yet
they are not of such a transcendant descriptino
as would leave a vacuum, should the country, as there
is reason to fear, be entirely deprived of their use. We
are sure he would be the first to lament himself that
such an idea should gain ground, or that the nation, in
paying the tribute due to his virtues, should think so
meanly of itself and its destinies, as to imagine that they
depended on the life of any individual, however highly
gifted. We should blush for ourselves, were we capa-
ble of entertaining such a thought for a moment; and
should it please that Pow an, who has so long, and
it may be said, so specially protected this great, free,
and, indeed, glorious country, to deprive her for
ever of his Lordship's abilities, the loss, inconvenient
as it might be, would not, we thank Gon, be an
irreparable one. How many great, as well as honest
men, have not the public lost in the last thirty years,
without having any other effect on its concerns, but such
as the fall of a stone into the smooth bosom of a lake
would have in ruffling it for a single moment.—

The death of Mr. PITT, almost transcendant as
his genius is admitted to have been, did not pro.
duce a greater effect than we have described; and
the same may be said with equal, if not with
greater propriety, of the other illustrious men, who
were either the rivals or friends of that extraordinary
man. The tenure of a nation's prosperity would be
brittle, indeed,if it depended on the life of any individual
or even if its interests could be disturbed for any con 7
siderable time by the loss of any one of its rnemberi.
We thought it necessary to make these remar&s,
in order to meet at once, and effectually repel, those
gloomy presentiments, in which some of our contem-
poraries will be but too prone to indulge at the present
moment ; whilst we de not yield to any one of them in
unaffected regret at an event, which there is not a
wise or good man in the country that will not, in com-
mon with ourselves, most sincerely deplore.

Two Dutch Mails arrived this morning, one with
Papers to the 14th, and the other with Papers to the
17th; we have also to notice the arrival of two Ham.
burgh Mails, bringing Papers to the 9th and 13th inst.
From the first set of Dutch Journals we learn that there
was an arrival on the 19th at Amsterdam from Batavia,
by which intelligence from the 9th to the 1341 Sept.
had been received. It announces, however, nothing that
was not previously known ; but, news of a marl recent
date by several days has been received at Rotterdam,
Igiving an account of the installation of the SULTAN of
IDjocjocarta. It also gives the substance of three reports
from Gen. Vaa GemN, dated Soeracarta, the 9th and 13th
of September, giving an account of various actions, of
more or less importance, which had taken place since
the 2d of September, and in which the Netherlands
troops, and those of their Allies, are said to have be-
haved with great bravery; and after repelling the
attacks of the insurgents, to have pursued them in all
directions. But none of these actions were decisive;

from which circumstance it may be inferred. that the
Ditch had not so much reason to boast of the results.

We learn that the wreck of the Wauenaer, from
which as much had been saved as was possible, went to
pieces in the night of the 15th. A great many casks
with provisions have since been drifted on shore in
various places. It is rather strange that there are no
accounts in these papers of her consort, the Waterloo,
which the previous accounts bad left at anchor, in the
dangerous toads of Heligoland.
From the Hamburgh Papers we learn, under the
head of Frankfort, February 10, that the Diet would
shortly take op the important question of the mtviga-
lion of the Rhine, and that hopes were entertained that
the discussion would lead to a favourable result.-
1 The same article mentions, as a report, that Austria
has recently concluded a Convention with the Papal
Government, stipulating a hee passage for her troops
through the Papal territory, in case of any manifesta-
tions of revolutionary movements in the kingdom of
Naples.
We learn from St. Petersburgh that the Court has
gone into mourning for a fortnight for the late Duke of
YORK. We also learn, that Vice-Admiral Mou.mt,
late Military Governor of Cronstadt bas been se-
verely reprimanded for I, unpardonable disorder,
manifest heglect, of duty, and illegal proceedings
in the administrqtion of the Marine ur.der his direc-
tion." The article adds, that it is solely in coati*.
ation of his long services, that he is relieved from the'
judicial proceedings that had been instituted against him;
he has been dismissed, however, from his office; whilst
Vice-Admiral SARUTSCHEW I. of she Baltic Beet has
been appointed to succeed him in the Military Govern-
nicht of Cronstadt, and Admiral KOSODKA is to be chief
of the marine station at that place.

There is no other news in these Papers worth noticing.

We have received New York Papers to the 14th ult.
but they do nut contain a single line worth transcribing
The following extract of a letter, received this morn-
ing at the North and South American Coffee-House,
will, no doubt, be' read with a couaidetable degree of

interest, as it stews the profound impression which
first intelligence of our armed interposition in favour
Portugal produced amongst our Yankee fiends:
4, Nzw Yona, JAN. IS.

" The account of the declaration of war by England
reached us yesterday; it created an uncommon excite.
mesa in this city ; ♦arious descriptions cf merchandize
have experienced an advance. The London accounn
indicate that the war will not be of long continuance,
but this does not tend to diminish the anxiety of the
public generally. The great talk of the day is the pro.
bable fate of Cuba; the people of the Gaited States
look with the greatest feelings of jealousy to the object,
of England in that quarter : it would not be a mattes
of surprise if the American Government, which is in
want of something to create a feeling in its faioso
(meaning the administration of Mr. Adams),-shoui4
take some decisive steps in that question,

" The great b, dy of the people blame the late rejection
of the Colonial treaty by Mr. Canning; there is no de.
pendence to be placed upon the sentiments proceeding
from the sea ports, they do not in the slightest degree
indicate the feelings of the country. It is said that the
tradebetwist the United States and the Btitish Caudian
Colonies will be interdicted by Congress; this is rather
to be doubted, now that the English Government hie
taken such decisive steps with Spain. After all, should
a war break out in Europe, the sympathy of the United
States will be altogether on the side of England, so long
as the Island of Cuba does not intervene as a bone

contention.

ii Broad Stuffs have been principally affected ; dealer,
will not sell at present."

The Paris Papers of Saturdaj, and the Etoik, dated
yesterday, which have reached us this morning,
contain, with the exception of an exaggerated sra•ement
in the Quotidienne, of the late events near Opnttn,
a word of intelligence of any moment. The contents
will be found under the customary head.

The Doke of WELLINGTON transacted business
Saturday with Mr. Secretary PEEL, at the Office of
Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Count LupoLe, the Sicilian Ambassador, transacte
ibusiness on Saturday at the Foreign Office.
The follow ing is a Copy of the ICING'S Answer to
Address of Condolence of the House of Common.:

I thank you for this dutiful Adrift.* —The assurances of
sympathy with my present affliction, and of your respect for
memory of my lamented Brother the Duke of York, are most
solatory to my feelings."
Accounts from Hanover of the Ist inst.state that since
Idle beginning of last month the mild weather has brat
succeeded by violent storms, which came from the Alps,
and not from the sea ; they at:ained their greatest height
on the 14th ; they rooted up trees and even threw down
houses, but do not appear to have done any damage
to the sea dykes, though the town of Embded
ieundated.—.Violent storms, especially that of
14th of January, have also done great damage
the Silesian mountain. The snow especially in
willies of the province of Glatz, is deeper than
was known. A private letter says: " The hon,
are entirely buried under it, and the inhabitants •
have made some passages, like tunnels, through
snow, are obliged to burn candles all day long.
Neckar and the Rhine are so full of floating ice,
we expect every moment to see them quite frozen
We have not had so mach snow for many years,
the cold increases every day."
Letters from Moscow of January 20, state that
the commencement of the winter there had been three

thaws, succeeded by returns of frost, of the wen*.
which some idea can be formed from the fact, that
moon and in the sunshine, the thermometer of Reaui.
was at fifteen degrees below Zero (the freezing point'
Letters of the 29th of January from Leghorn
seance that the English ship, the Lord K onaird, wh'
kad a cargo of balls and other military stares for
Viceroy of Egypt, was totally lost off the Isle of Gig.
The same letters mention that the Russian Amba,sador
bad set out from Bucharest For Constantinople.
.Yesterday the Melville, 74, Capt. Hanaz Hiu.,
turned from Lisbon, after a long passage of 21 da'
baying had to contend with contrary winds during
whole of the time. She was towed into the hare
ibis afternoon, to resume her station as one of the guard-
liar at the port.—Hampshire Tekgraph.
We have been obliged with the following extract
from a letter received this morning from Lisbon, dated
,the 6th instant: " The ASIA, 84 (Vice-Admiral "
Edward Codrington), arrived here this morning •
but Spithead on Thursday noon the Ist instant ;
mining she lost sight of England, being about
Lizard: on Saturday noon, she had advanced to
middle of the Bay of Biscay; Sunday noon, was
Vigo, and had a delightful view, sailing along
coast, and was off Oporto on that evening. Yester,
by dawn of day, she had passed the Burlings, when
wind altered, otherwise she would have reached
Tagus by 10 A. m. yesterday, and have completed L
passage in the space of four days, short of two hours.
Reckoning yesterday's foul winds, the ship sailed at
rate of 200 miles per day ; her greatest run was about
WO miles. In the Channel they bad the misfortune'
km a man from aloft, when the ship was going at
rate of 12 miles an hour, and was unavoidably at
a distance before a boat could be lowered, that the
fellow bad sunk before it could reach the spot. 1%.
Codrington was on the deck when the accident ha
paned, and it must have affected her, and all the lama
as forming such a ct incidence with her brother's dear
We have Just heard that the rebels have advanced .
within five leagues of OportO. The last of our force
except two regiments, left Lisbon yesterday, to take
'a position between this and Coimbra : the staff

leave to-morrow. The rebels are a contemptible
scription of enemy—sot worthy of a moment's %meat,
ness. The SPANTIATZ (Lord Amelius Beaucler!
GENOA, and ALatow, are the only ships of war
herr."—Hatwpshire Telepaph.
This day Mr. SHaCIAN WAS sentenced to

months' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of ten marl
for an assault on Mr. O'Coloratt.; the particulars
which has already been laid before the public.—
nearer Justraol, kebruary 17.
MR. O'CONNELL AND MR. SH MN A N.,--WE
authorised to state that Mr. O'CorrNaLL, on his r(

from Court, tramoitted a memorial to the Low)
Tamar, praiius a tetutbsi.o of DQr. Suasuazis