19 FEBRUARY 1831, Page 9

The brightest of the "occidental stars" has set—SimoN Bora-

, VAR is gone to that resting-place "where the wicked cease from IP troubling, and the weary are at rest." The news of an event which will clothe the New World in mourning, and will impart a pang Wherever there is a heart that sympathizes with genius and patriot- ism, was brought by the New York papers which arrived on Thurs- day night. Baum is said to have died on the 17th December. He had been for some time indisposed ; and his indisposition is supposed, not unnaturally, to have been aggravated by the conduct of the men whose freedom and independence he had so heroically vindicated. Like HENRY and ALFRED, BOLIVAR " — closed his long glories with a Sigh, to find

The unwilling gratitude of base mankind."

We have no space to dilate on the character or history of the Libertador, as he was worthily named; and we fear that while England is so busied with matter that comes home to every man's bosom, a panegyric over BOLIVAR'S virtues would address itself to careless ears. No small portion of the frailty of angels was doubtless mixed up with them—he was an ambitious man; but his ambition was perhaps purer from stain than that of any great general and statesman of modern times.