Star. — London, England, 1824-04-20 00:00:00

~ l• ~,r big S to keep the king in the same mind for six days together, that he may enter into their views, and order the adop tion of their measures, and not be interrupted by any groom or lacquey, whose advice he might ask and take. Of the servitnts, high and low, only two of each depart ment have IlecoiriOnied the Royal fimily ; and none of the Camanillai nor priests or friars are allowei into their presence. Time will shew us what will be the end of these proceedings, for really there is no divining it at present. At Toledo, all who scent of Constitutionalism have been turned out, and the friars are making great prepa rations to receive the King for the Holy Week. NEW COLOMBIAN LOAN. The amount of the Loan is £3,750,000 stock, and it has been contracted between Dun M. At-rub a:ld Don }"Vancisco Montoija, Agents of the Republic of Colom bia, and the house of 13. A. Goldschmidt and Co. in virtue of full powers and of the decree of Congress of the 90th of June last. A general pond, pledging all the revenues of the State, generally, and specifically that of tobacce, will be deposited with these powers in the Bank of England. The interest on the Loan is 6 per cent. payable half yearly in London,without deduction; the first dividend is payable on the 15th of July next. The whole Loan is to be redeemed within thirty years, and a sinking fund is established of £47,5 00 per annum, to be employed in purchasing up bonds in the London market. The price at which the- Contractors have issued the stock to the Public is 88} per cent. payable as follows: 15 per cent on Wednesday next 10 May 21 10 On which a discount of four per will be allowed June 17 cent. per annum t '' July 11 for immediate payment. Sept. 40 from 12th July next. Aug. 18 With interest at four per cent. 13} Oa. 15 3 The Loan bears a premium in the market of 4i 5 per cent. TI I 14 - : EVENING STARS. LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1824. BASTia TUISDAY.—HoIiday at the Bank. THE FUNDS. CI ry, Tw EINE O'CLOCK, This is a Close Holiday in the City. The Bank, Stock Exchange, . and Foreign l‘larket, are all shut. Some few respectable Brokers have assembled on the Royal Exchange, and bargains have been made for to-morrow, in Consols, at 96, which is much the same as . they left off yesterday (for Money). AS yet there does not seem to be any business of consequence going forward in either the Na tional or Foreign Securities. Columbian Scrip has just been done at four premium. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. VIENNA, APRIL 6.—Five per Cent. Metalliques 97. 7-16. 13k. Sh. 1051. 9-10. This morning we received the Arabian Observer to the Bth instant. It contains no intelligence, hut gives the follov.ing obet vations on the French El& c!ivirs, which the Editor states has been " sent lot inset Lion": " A Parisian correspondent of the Allgcmcine 2ci- Lung (No. S 4, of 24th March) endeavours toexplain the brilliant result of the late Elections for the Chamber of Deputies, by the bolditerrs with which the Ministry dis regarded the political consciences of these electors, who at the same time held offices under Government, and to whom nn alternative was left but either to declare in favour of the Royalist candidates, or to lose their places. —While any Minister that should act otherwise, and really allow the tender political conscience of a servant of the King, to decide in favour of Messrs. Manuel, Lafayette, and Co. must be accused, to speak in the gentlest terms, of a treasonable negligeace ; this Cor respondent of the Allg,emeine Zeitung endeavours to represent this conduct of the Ministry as a sliilfally executed matazuvre of the predominant corruption, and even to put into the mouth of a French Minister the foolish words—'When the business is but accomplished, success makes everything forgotten: " We should have paid no attention to these expres sions of a sit:gle discontented straggler in the train of the Revolution, were it not worth while, on this occa sion, to call to mind that, with the other political dis crders in Ent ope, the difference has ceased which had crept in between the service of the State and that of the Sovereign, by which it was allowed to serve the King with the hand, and at the same time the King's bit terest enemies with heart and lips ; and that, besides the - religious conscience, there is henceforth no distinct ten der political conscience, the freedom of which Go vernments have to respect in their servants. Even the British Ministers themselves, however free they may be in the exercise of their functions, mast make innume rable sacrifices and concessions of their private opinions before they enter on their office; how, then, should an unctaiditional liberty of political opinion be admis.ible in the monarchically constituted States of the Continent? 4 , In times when moral and honourable sentiments predominate, a man who had taken an oath to serve his master, would think it an in,ult to his honour if a second were required of him, by which he should bind , himself to serve, Or to pay any imaginary being, whether it were called state, vitas publica, or public opinion, Rather than his master. But we were so dishonoured and deluded by the equivocation of the revolutionary k loctrines,that the dignity of the public servant appealed precisely to consist in that double dealing. Ni) reproach can be trade to the French Ministry, except that it did not by a Royal ordonnance at once proclaim, as of ge neral application, the important principle on which it par tially acted in the Elections that have just terminated." We have received the Paris Papers of Sdturday, with the Erode,. dated on Sunday. In the Chamber of De. puties ou Satur lay, the only subject of interest was the Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the project for reducing the interest of the National Debt. his of no interest to the English reader. The conclu sion is t that " the Commission propose the adoption of the project without amendment." A letter was read b) ' the PRESIDENT from M. BENJAMIN CONSTANT, stating that he was compelled to be absent from the Chamber for.three weeks, for the purpose of procuring the neces sary documents to prove the validity of his election. It is announced that Lieutenant-General KmAtm DE LA RAFFINIERE having refused the command of the Army of Occupation, it is the Viscount DIJEON who will replace M. DE BOURNIONT. It is also said that General MouToN will take the command at Cadiz of the second brigade of the Army of Occupation. Ge- neral DESPERAMONS has the command in Madrid at this moment. General CLOUET, who spitted the capital a shot t time since, is gone to Valencia with his brigade; a battalion of Swiss troops and artillery are gone to Toledo, where his MAJESTY was to pass the Passion Week, and then return to Aranjuez. Five hundred horses are to be sent to Xeres. The first division of Spanish prisoners passed through Perpignan on the ith instant, on their way to Spain. The Marquis of MATArLoiIiDA, President of the lte• gene) , of Urgel, quitted Burgos on the Gth, on his way to Tunis, where he is appointed Ambassador. It appears that the Spanish Government has not thought it sufficient for one Agent of Finances to go to Paris; therefore it has sent M. BURGOS, whose principal mission is to examine what means of credit the Spanish Government can obtain there. The following are er- tracts : LINTZ, APRIL 7. Prince Metternich accompanies the Emperor to Prague. We du not, as yet know, it his Majesty will go to Berlin, to be present at an important Baron de Kriegelstein, our Miniver at the Court of • Portugal, has sent to our Court a declaration of the Cabinet of Lisbon, relative to the affairs or the Brazl;s• Our Court,. notwithstanding the interest it ta!-..e, in the Prince Royal and his august wile, daughter of oti: Emperor, is decided not to acknowledge, in any si..ye, the independence of the Brazils,.and will pursue the system adopted by the other great Powers forming the Holy Alliance. • We rejoice to see that the subscription in aid of the Distressed Settlers, at the Cape of Good Hope continues to meet with encouragement. The accounts received from the New Colony since the publication of the Re• port by the Committee, add to the afflicting mass of intelligence aheady received. They announce the failure of the finial] year's crop, and convey the most melancholy details of The effects of the late inundation. The brief summary of the disasters which have befallen the unfortunate settlers, contains a powerful appeal to the best feelings of our nature. Among the sufferers are Officers on the Half-pay Ust of the Army and Navy, who have been induced to emi grate, in the hope of obtaining in a new country those opportunities for exertion in support of their families which did not present themselves in England. Alter tour years of toil and privation, not only have these un happy colonist , : been miserably disappointed in their laudable exertion!, but they are now reduced to such a state of destitution as to become objects for the com passionate aid of their fellow-countrymen. We are c( nvinced that a general knowledge of the facts is alone wanting to call forth such an exertion of public benevolence as the urgency of the case.demands. WINDSOR, APRIL 19. The v eather being remarkably fine this morning, the KINU rode out in his phzton, to, the Royal Lodge, and other pat is in \\lnds°, GI eat Palk. nince PouGNAc, the French Ambassador, arrived at the Castle this day;un a visi,t-to his MAJESTY. • The Princess AucusTA and Prince LEOPOLD dined with the Duchess of KENT yesterday, at her apartments at the King's Palace, Kensingten. Yestes day the Duchess of GLoucesTEß visited the Princess A UGU,TA. Accounts were received yesterday in town from Bath, stating that the E trl of Ltek:arotn. had derived much benefit in his health front drinking the waters. The CHANCELLOR I,f the EXCHEQUER and L tt3y SA RAH ROISINSUN are ou a visit to Lady BIJEKINGHAIISIIIIIE, at Chad. ton i ,_in Kent. Yesterday, his MAJESTY S bounty, called the Gate Alms, was distributed to a number of poor men and women at the Almonry office, in Scotland-yard, by Mr. Harsv, the Secretary to the Lord lligh Almoner. Lord and Lady BosroN have left town for their seat, Iledsor Lodge, lucks. Yesterday being Later-Monday, the boys of Christ's Hospital went to the Royal Exchange, where they waited for a considerable time WI the Lono Mavou and Corporation were teady to join them, when they returned iu lung pi ()cession to Christ (';;anal, where the I.lmaal Slsital sermon was preached by the Bishop of FILETCR. The proposal ef Mr. Hest,: SSON to permit the Fo reign wheat Low tenter t and to he converted into flour, upon tepi:Lioz I or; u f fl"ur fur every -ix bushels of wheat so removed, c..nnot tad to hive a 11:4(Cliai inflsence upon the price of Dtitish wheat; for, as the flour produced items the foreign wheat is only allowed to be exported, it necessarily follows that an equal quantity of British flour will be housed; and thus an increased - value given to British wheat by the increased demand for it, which will be tic casioaed by the exchane. The quantity of wheat in the ware. houses on the sth of January last was 401,591 quarters. DESTRUCTION OF A PAINTING BY RUEENS.—A very extraordinary event is this day the subject of general conversation; all the details hav, not yet reached us in such a manner that we can give them positively; but the fact is too real, and the following particulars may be relied on. Some days ago M. de FuttioN, the Director of the Museum, received an anonymous letter front au individual, who said that the Government having caused him to sustain a loss of ..:0,000 francs, he would destroy, one atter the other, all the pictures ill the Museum, if the sum in question was not brought to him at an appoiuted place. M. FKANCHET, of the o received a similar letter ; hut, thinking it the act of some sin importance was attached to it : but on Friday, a person employed at the Museum ran to the Director of the Police, and informed him that one of the finest of Ruarss's pictures had been torn to pieces. The author of this act has not been disco vered. The doors of the Museum were instantly closed, and we understand that a similar precaution has been adopted at the Luiembourz.—Fresicli Paper. The drawings of SALVATOR RosA are extremely scarce. The value placed even on his most careless sketches may be judged by the following anecdote t—calling one day on Lormas LIM, at Floren ce , be was detained some time waiting for his friend, and to beguile his ennui he took up a card and made a sketch on it. This card has reached posterity, and is now carefully preserved in the lid of a snuff-box, in the possession of Prince ROvieeMorillu• a Russian Noble. THE THEATRES. DRURY-LANE. • • Last night, after the tragedy of Virginias was admi rably performed, a new Pantomime was produced, en d tied &roaster ; or, The Spirit of the Slur, The chief merit of this performance, according to our judgment, consists in the effort to make mete pantomimic exhibi tions subordinate to dramatic compositions. Mr. MoN• GRIEF is, as w e understand, the author of the piece, and it is but justice to him to say,. that he has done some thing for the regular drama by asserting its prerlomi• trance in cases which the Managers pretend to direct under very different circumstance. The plot was very simple, though laid in Egypt, the land of hie roglyphic+. Tile hero of the piece, Gebir (W ALLAcr) is a youthful shepherd, in which state he becomes enamoured of ronsina (Mrs. WEst), a shepherdess, who, though at the time unconscious of her high descent, the rightful heiress to the throne of Egypt. Gebir is a favourite disciple of Zongtster, the High Priest of the Magi, who conft.rti on bins the miraculous power of obtaining every ob ject of his desire. The shepherd, in consequence of this wonderful gift, soon becomes a powerful Prince, and in his elevation forgets his plighted faith to the humble Pamina, whom he spurns. In the progress of the story, Pantina ascends the throne of Egypt as the rightful heiress, and in her turn rejects the ungateful Gibia, whose love is then ttkindled by ambition. But as woman's heart is formed to forgive, like heaven, on repent:mei., Poneum, having assured herself of a bir's sorrow for his treason to her love, pardons the penitent ()[fender, and makes him the partner of her throne. Such is the story which the author has availed himself of, evidently for the purpose of bitroducing splendid scenery, accompanied with all the charms of music, both vocal and instrumental.. This is dex terously done by the tact of Gebir's miraculous power, who places himself in the centre of the earth, and calls before him the wonders of nature and art. In this way the audience ate presented with the Great Desert of Aiabia, by twilight—an Arab encampment —a caravan of merchants—the. Egyptian Pyramids— colossal head of the Sphynx—the Innis of the Temple of. A pollinopolis Magna—the Colossus of Ithodes—the Bay of Naples, with Mount Vesuvius—the Falls of Tivoli—the city of Babylon io all its splendour, it , brazen wails, massy toss el s, and wondrous hanging gai.dens, and final &sr' uttion; • The scenic exhibition is entitled to the hi,;liest piiiise,..and the dialogue was Ind as well conducted .as in cases.wliere music and ex hibition folni the vein objects we • - liave reason to ex pect. IVith respect to the-mmici alreiselections were judicious, an.l where-an of i k ;inaleffoi t vras . thatle, it was svoithy of tl:e able. composer, Mr.. epi.?KK, whose talents were exerted on the occasion. 1114erfoimers exerted themselves with zeal wad ability, and sevei al 01 the songs and chmusses produced the in.st striking effect. The piece .coMpletely sue= cessfui, and must have a good run. COVENT-CA R DEN. The company at this Theme we:e somewhat more select - in appealance, and less noisy, than might be usu ally exr'ected on the first night of- a holiday-season. The Sc/roe! of Itetin in went through with . little. or .no route, except of the pertot mance of Ae, by Mr. ItAyNen, who acquitted himself respectably, though he could never make us forget poor EMERY. • • • - The holi.!ay entertainment was a melo-dramatic tale, 'l4^ Oil its thp Mook; or, The of the. ile ; consis•ing. ut the usual appeals to enchantment 'O; the plot, an.' to scenery for the gratificati.us of the The former is tit conne, on these occiisions,,little attended to, an.1..0n t,.e peseta it was utiu,,ually void of interest. It was f articled on the usurpation by an Uncle of the Tin one of his Nephtsv ; the exettiols ot . a Githful friend of the later to re t•tore him to his ri. hr. ti r g!Vt.ll qnantity of &Inter, almost the proper number. of. itair-hre..thit es:Ape-, and nyintLite success.-. 1.:;,1pt was the scene of Jci:da, , tnl the Moon was the fund from which al! the materi.ll; of enchantment week drawn; and these con bistetl. of course, of flying little Buys and Alissbs. - The scenery appealed to us to be gotten up with par ticular taste. It was rich without being gaudy ; and therefore id net fatigue the eye. It was well vatied, without losing that connection which should be pre-. served even in a piece of this description: 'The first . scene opened with a reptewntntion of the reflux of the Nile, when the moon is at full, and the watets'are re tiring from Egypt. It :td a good elrect; atid was fol 7. lowed by ninny otherF, we'presurne, as much lei>, esentation of :gyp{ a s can be extracted from the marvellous t+•/irk of the Jan:rent travellers in that direction, ani which are remaikably favout'able for stare effect. There was a " hall of Statues," which b • was particulirly imposing ; but there Was a - display. of a Caravan of Merchants (called by a 161 1 / 4 fOolish name) which was particularly dull, and May well he dispensed with, especially as a little cut taihnent may bidesirable: With this exception, all the scenes are:deservilig of praise; and the piece, in which a fair proportion of fighting, singing, atyd dancing, was intetspersed, went off with universal approbition. EN er LISII OPERA-M . /USE • M A TIIEWi was never more happily At Hornethan.last night ; when he seemed to revel in the uncommon de light which his Trip to America universally afforded to a very numerous and most elegant audience. ADELPHI THEATRE. _ _ eye. We have visited this little Theatre, to witness Mr. HENRYS performance in the black art—when, after a variety or ingenious tricks, far exceeding anything we had every previous:y wi:nessed, a small balloon was filled w ith hydrogen gas, and, in mimic grandeur, al lowed to mount to the ceiling: its ascension was slow and majestic, and had it flown far enough, would cer 7 tainly have astonishe I the Lilliputians, as it again landed on one of their heaven-kissing hills ; the gases were finished by a display of the effects of the laughing gas, which has so long brea known and talked of. The' whole per formince concluded by a very well managed Phantasmagoria, in which some admirable portraits of Miss STEPHENS, MACREADY, YOUNG, KEAN, and others were exhibited. Nor should me forget to notice the beautiful manner in which Mr. HENRY executed several airs on musical glasses. In short, the whole perform ance was highly interesting; and we should recommend those who are fond of the wonders of nature and art to pay their devoirs to Mr. HENRY, at the Adelphi. DAVIS'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Theatre re-opened with a Grand Antazonianl Entre, which was wail conceived and much admired. A Military Spectacle, called the Battle of Waterloo, WAS perfor med the first time, and had a most interest ing effect, as the infantry movements were performed by picked NVaterloo men, and the cavalry evolutions by the grand united troop of the first English and Foreign Equestrians in the world. Great attention has been be stow ed on the scenery and machinety, which is on a very extensive scale. The views of the scene of action are painted with great fidelity, and the whole of the performance, in which fifty fine well trained horses were engaged, was received with unqualified approbation by a crowded audienCe, and cannot fail' of being emi nently attractive. SURREY THEATRE Last night this Theatre re-opened. The decorations which have been added to it during the recess, are of the most splendid description. the first piece, vt!lieh was taken from Mr. Mooße's beautiful Poem " Lalla Rookh," was called The Fire Worshippers, and abounded with magnificent Eastern scenery and procesiion s ; during one of the latter, a camel on which the Arab Chief rode, having walked on a trap doer in the st.age, which was not ptopeily seemed, tivfmtunxely fail through, and was killed: his rider, with great presen t . ; of mind, threw himself on the stage as the animal son falling through, and escaped unhurt. The piece %en: off with great applause, and was announced for repetit Lion amidst loud plaudits. A new melo.dtame, The Beacon Light, followed, and was very well receive!. SADLER'S WELLS. This Theatre opened last night, aqd Wit! ustrtl thronged at an eatly hour. The house has been ttinC : implored as to decoration and ornament since last son; aid from the patronage and favour aiwa %s coo _ terred. by a certain portion of the Public upo!, Sadtel'i Wells, we feel confident the Manager will have no rea son to regret his expenditto c, or to complain of the Ur. kindness of his friends. After the Caledonian diver:ise ment, called the Birth Day, the melo-diame of ti lt , ilfrican Slave was .performed. The great ate action of the night was of course - the Pantomime, which ahoLatied in Clowns and Columbines, there being no fewer thin six of these active and necessary character s. The scenery was excellent, and exhibited many well-known view s o f London. The audience manifested their apiaobation rf the night's entertainment in the most unequivocal manner. ~:W COBURG THEATRE. This Theatre, which has been elegantly embellished, opened yesterday evening, with a new piece, under the title of " An entirely new Historical, Romantic, Cale donian Melo-drame; with National Music, Local an..l Ilictuiesque Scenery, characteristic Dre-ses, entitled, The IVeird Woman of the Isles; or, Scotland's Ancient Days. It is the production of Mr. H. M. MIL NEH, and is principally founOcd on historical fact, al though some scenes are borrowed• from Mr. GaLr's excellent.and intetesting novel of the " Spae %fr."— The plot of the piece is. entirely made np of the " high vaulting" ambition of the Regent MURDOCK, Duke of Albany, of his sobsequent disgrace, and the final esta blishment of .sees, King of Scotland, on his Throne. The het oine, of Spae Wife, was sustained by Mrs. STAN LEY, who gave a fine portrait of that exti aordinary being. There were several new scenes introduced in the cows,: of the piece, amongst which .a View of the River, and the Highlands, wide . distance .by moonlight, and a bird:seye view of the town.of Scone and surrounding countiy, weirs peculiarly beautiful. Au entire new Fat cical Butletta, called Nothing like Luck, excited the risible faculties of the holiday visitants to a considera bledegree, and the performances concluded with the favourite Spectacle, called The :north Pole, svlrch has been revived, after having lain by fur five years. • The hue ems well tillii r considesing the various points of attraction which the'fine. weatber presented to the v - •taries of pleasure out of doors- s'• THE LATE ELOPEMENT. The Lady is the daughter of the late Sit. George Beath w aite Boughton, of Poston Hill, lierefdrckshile, and had been residing for some time With her mother at Brussels, where the acquaintance between her; and the young Gentleman commenced. His name is Alex- 1 ander Robinson, the son of a Gentleman of small for tune, who formerly t•esided at Kensington. The plan of elopement was so•well formed,ahat not the ilightert suspicion was entertained of any intention of that kind untiLthe?tbsence of the parties led to inquiry, the re sultefavhich was a discovery of the truth. Pursuit was msLantly - cos.tmenced, and on the arrival of the pursuers ittf.?mclon, they 16St all trace of the fugitives. The conjecture however was, that they were gone to Giewi, and application was made to the Magistrates of a P,;- lice Office far the assistance of their officers. Two at tire men were oideted to ploceed•to the Not th with a:1 possible dispatch: This was oklast Friday se'nnighi, about•one o'clock in the day,.and; before two, the 01E ceri were on the road at full speed, in a chaise -and four. They proceeded without a mdment's delay until they arrived at Huntingdon, where, tor the first time, trey gained certain - intelligence of the objects of their pur suit, but learned fiom the same source that they had so much'advantage in point of time, that it would beut terly impossible movertake them. The officers, how everoecollecting the " mutability of human affairs," as *rink Mitckleihrift has it, thought it possible that -some accident might occur to delay them, and thr.y went on to Gretna. On their arrival at the far-famed l• spot. they found their informant' at Huntingdon to have .• been but too correct in his judgment. They drove up to a public-house in the village, 'about four o'clock in the morning, and all was soon bustle and.glee in ; the expectation that another match was abode to take place. The " good wife" war soon afoot, and " Davy Laing," the worthy pastor, was sent for, but on his at rival, he was hugely disappointed at learning the nature of their errand. He, however, took a " stoup o brandy' with them, and having given them a certificate, they paid him the necessary fee, and departed. On reaching Carlisle, in their journey home, they learned that the fugitives had stopped a night at an inn there ; and they also found stopping at the inn, a man, who stated him self to be a soldier, and who had been left in the care of some luggage by the bridegroom. lie boasted to the officers of having been the projector and manager of the plan of. elopement, and taunted them upon their failure. He stated that he and his wife accompanied the youthful couple from Brussels. The officers, when they reached London, which they did very speedily, were employed to trace the parties, in order that the bridegroom might be served with a citation from the Lord Chancellor, the Lady being a ward of his Lord ship's Court. They succeeded in doing this, and one • of them served the young Gentleman with the legal process on Wednesday last. He was dreadfully agi tated at receiving it, but of course obeyed the mandate, and on Thursday the matter was heard privately befc , e the Lord Chancellor. The case was not pressed si:l3 severity against the offender, and the further hear , ..g was postponed until the return of the Lady's mot;:e,., who, we understand, is now on her journey to Engla.l , -• The bride is 18 ycars.of age, beautiful, and' highly ac: complished; her husband is 24., and by no means cient in personal recommendations. The flattering and distinguished patronage D;;' and Co. have secured to thewelves by the production o. -• merous Novelties, induces them to call the attention of ": an entireli New and Elegant Dress, adapted for Court and live , • ,,, L , Attire. 1: cl.tims a decided superiority over the French 'l . - I .` Dresses in style 4.. d durability, and cau only be seen at their 1. blishme .t.— A si.perb collection of Blonde and Chantilly Fele) inch Veils, and Laces just imported.-1137, Regent-street, facing ta e Argyll ;tcoms. fe he re b 1