Star. — London, England, 1829-10-13 00:00:00

I THE PORTUGUESE MONARCHY. We extract from a rece7tirt—unber of the Constitution nel the following forcible observations upon the present state of PORTUGAL ; and in calling the attention of our Readers to the clear and comprehensive view which the writer has taken of the question, particularly as it in volves the integrity of the Crowned Heads of the Con tinent, we feel, more poignantly than ever, the deep and hitter humiliation to which ENGLAND has been reduced by the pernicious impolicy of a Cabinet constructed upon military principles : LISBON, Sam 17, 1829. " Amongst theonany extraordinary events of our time,the occur rences now taking place in this couctry will undoubtedly afford to history, matter of the deepest reflection; since we can no longer be deceived as to the important results that the calamitous affairs of Pessimist must produce in the political world. " A momentous question presents itself to the consideration of the European Cabinets, on which they must ultimately decide : whether, under any circumstances. State policy can require that these Powers, after having unequivocally recognized the legitimate rights of a Princess, should suffer her Crown to be usurped by an individual whom they enabled to effect such an usurpation by their conduct towards the Sovereign who had abdicated in favour of that Princess—his illustrious daughter? Such is truly the state of the Portuguese Question. We do not think that any political emergency can call for such roacriice on the part of the Crowned Heads of Europe; for, assuredly in abandoning the rights of the young Went of PORTUGAL, they must sacrifice their own interests; by destroying the sacred confidence which the people should be taught to repose in the promises of Sovereigns. Bat bo► are we to explain the indifference with which these Powers have regarded the usurpation of Don Mount.? it may, perhaps, be said that all Foreign Cabinets have established for themselves a principle of non-interference with the internal affairs of any other country— hut we have too lately witnessed the existence of a contrary spirit, when AVARUA sent an army into Italy, and PRANCE into Seam, to upset the Constitution of the Cortes : and we might also cite the example of ENGLAND, who, though influenced by the very opposite desire of upholding a Constitution, sent an army into Pormuoar., in 1526. And although the British Minister declared that the object of that expedition was to prevent an aggression on the part of Sears, yet it is well known that such a declaration was but.a vain pretext for that wretched country having neither soldiers, nor vessels, no money, could not undertake any enterprise against Poszooax ; and all she could accomplish was to encourage, by false promises, the intrigues of mocks and fanatics. " Does net the conduct of these Powers, in favour of the Gams, afford a decisive proof that Policy sanctions such an interference whenever Humanity requires it? And, assuredly. the Gams were not more unfortunate under the yoke of MAIIMOUD, their legi timate Sovereign, than the Pommes under the yoke of Don Mom, the usurper of the crown of Donna Mazza. It follows, therefore, that the supineness of the Cabinets cannot be ascribed to the principle of noninterference ; must it then be said, that they fear to behold Liberty re-established in Poamaz, whenever the crown of that kingdom shall be placed upon the bead of the young legitimate Queen? " It is difficult to conceive how FRANCS, ANTRIA, and Emmaus, who have recognised the legitimacy of the Charter granted by Don Pm" and who have repeatedly recommended Don Moines. to uphold its institutions, should now appear opposed to its re-esta blishment.—lt cannot, surely, be the interest of these Powers that PORTUGAL Should be blotted out of the list of nations ; and yet it is certain that the continuance of the ruinous system new followed in that country, must incalculably promote the ambitious views of STACK upon Pozmat. On the other hand, is it not evidently the interest of these Cabinets to adopt measures for preventing such an explosion as most burst forth in the PINDISULA under the reign of oppression and tyrumy now prevailing there ? And has not cape denim roved that the means of prevention are not to be found in scaffolds anipersecutions, but in laws which protect the life, the honor, and the property of the people ? What effect have the fre. quart executions in Srmx and Ponxuoaa produced, except, indeed, to exasperate the people ? And if an explosion should take place, and they should be driven to the commission of excesses, on whom would the responsibility fall, if not upon those who possessed the power of averting such a calamity,—but who would not exercise that power? " Whatever the absolutists may say, the people are tired of revo lutions ; and therefore they demand wise laws, and guarantees against the ambition of factions opposed to the civilization and prosperity of the nation. We should only insult the policy of the European Powers by supposing they desired to deprive our be. loved country of the institutions which Doi Plume htd generotu granted : and we .till cherish a hope that the sovereigns, in adopt ing a resolution 4tortby of themselves, will fulfill the promises they have made to guarantee the rights of the Emperor's illus trious daughter, Dorm Mama. to the crown of Portugal ; and thus justify the admirable sentiment of the King of France, who said, " When truth shall be banished from all the world beside, she will find an asylum in the breast of kings." " Lissom now resembles a conquered dty. The troops ate always in their barracks ; the battalion of the military police had doubled the number of their coup-dela* and strengthened their patrols% The lfiguelite Minstar* of the Duna on Cassavas : watch night and day ; and no person is allowed to go out of his house after nine o'clock in the evening. If any noise be ►eard in a private house, the volunteers enter, and accuse the master of rejoicing at the de feat of Terceira." THE COLOSSEUM. The ascending room of this place of wonders is at length completed. By this ingenious contrivance visitors who choose it may be raised to the first gallery without the labour of ascending the stairs and, indeed, without any exertion whatever on their parts. Besides this convenience, the invention itself, we understand, is a very extraordinary effort of mechanical invention. The first idea was imagined by Mr. Horner early in the progress of the Panorama, but it is only lately that he has been able to carry his design into complete execution. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, and Prince George. with a numerous suite, were the first to be raised by it on their visit to the Colosseum on Saturday week, and numbers who had previously visited it, have since returned in order to be raised in a similar fashion. Great improvements have also been made in the Panorama of the Me tropolis, which is now considered to be perfect in every respect. Paddington Church, having been under repairs for some time past, was re-opened on Sunday last, for Divine Service. While the repairs were going on, the amiable and venerable Dr. Cam's, the Pastor, was called to his Fathers! On this mournful occasion, a funeral sermon was preached at the above church, by the Rev. Dr. Rictuses, Rector of Saint Martin's, front these words—. When all she congregation saw that Aaron mis dead, they mounted for Aaron thirty days, even all the house "'lsrael. Num bers, is. v. 29.--From this very appropriate text, the master mind of the Preacher was most eminently displayed in delineating the virtues of the deceased ; and, in him, the beauties of holiness. By a letter received from Reviere du Loup, it appears, that the surveying party under Capt. Bayfield were at that place op the 3d inst. having returned from the Gulf. Late accounts from the South East frontiers have been received, confirming the melancholy intelligence men tioned in our last. The apprehensions we then ex pressed respecting the fate of Lieut. Buriton, we lament to say, are too well founded. Letters from Bordeaux of the 6th Oct. state, that owing to the continuance of the bad weather great damage has been done to the vintage ; and the quality of the wine of 1829 will not prove good. Rajah Teerut Singh, after the massacre at Nunelon, in which between thirty to forty men wee killed, in cluding two English gentlemen, moved southward in hopes of overpowering the rebels ; but was completely frustrated by the prompt operations of the political agent, who called to his aid the Sylbet Light Infantry Battalion, and directed them to proceed against the insurgents. THEATRICAL PORTRAITS. We reeume our Extracts from " The Cheltenham Mail Bag," and w•e shall be mistaken indeed if our readers do not pronounce the Second Sketch in our selec tion of this day, a faithful likeness. MACIIRADY. —Thus too MACIIMADT'S fame had been Solid as marble—perfect—whole— Did not some lashes caught from Kraw. Break through the murky clouds that roll, Awfully grand, round Passion's goal, But, wrought by rage, with breath held hard, — Fierce as the tiger or the pard,— With stiffened sinews, boiling blood, And eye in fury's fiercest mood, With dreadful aspect, teeth set close, Distended nostril, spirits bent To their full bright,— klaeacsor glows In his own natural element. Thus, in ' Tirgiwius, and in' Tell.' Let him all art beside excel, But never may he ►ope to claim Sakespeaven honours for his name. Watts): Faaaatt. With gleeking glance, and tottering pace, The oldest youth of all kis race, "Sir Peter" F bobbling bows, And thundering plaudits shake the house. Asthmatic cough, and watery eyes, " Shrunk shank," bent spine, and spindle thighs The palsied bead. and trembling taugue, Proclaim the youth was never young ; But, by some comic freak of doom. Had cut his wise earth in the womb! Nay more, I've heard the midwife say Was severstrmine Isis fa birth-clay ! His manners too his age bespeak, Crusted all o'er with vend intrigue, And, tinged with art's mimetic glow, Seem practised centuries ago : His formal bow and stiffened skirt Equal antiquity assert. — The courteous smile—the ruffled hand— Laced salt—deportment high yet bland, — The golden dignity of mien— l'be marks of times that once have been, In FAIMIUI happily revive, The best " old gentleman" alive ! Complete is gesture and costume, Fresh from an ancient drawing-room, The stripling fairly might be reckoned A stale old beau of Ganeon THI StCOND Descending to a lower grade Of life's still varying masquerade, His mind displays her wonted powers, But weeds are mingled with the Sowers ; And scarcely can we fir his claim 'Twizt censure and the mead of fame. His genius oft, by Nature's dint, Strikes sparkles from the coldest Bin ; To life, and sense, and manners true, His pictures charm the critic's view. Craft, meanness, age, with thrift combiti'd, The dotage of a vulgar mind, Gain, from a master's hand and art, An easy entrance to the heart ; And in his "Mine" we behold A mine of intellectual gold. But oft we find each varying print Tinged with one individual tiut : In mirth or woe, in good or ill. His features shrink and shrivel still ; And his dry, thrifty smile appears Squeezed from his eye-lids,—like his tears! Yet, let him curb Ambition's rage, Confine his powers to polished age, And, in his own legitimate sphere, Reign gloriously without compeer!— aßgsrmatanumam , DOVER, October I'2. Arrived the French mail packet, Captain Sour ma:, with his Excellency Le Prince Duc de LAVAL MO\T• MORENCV and suite, Ambassador from the Court of France. His Excellency was met on landing by the Vicomte D'AUCIIALD, Colonel GOSSET, JOHN WARD, Esq. and Officers of the Rifle Brigade, and greeted with the national air of " GOD save the King," by the very excellent Band of the Depot. The Duke went to Wuto lIT'S Ship Hotel, where a sumptuous dinner was prepared ; after partaking of which his Excellency and suite started for town in two carriages and four. The customary salutes were fired on arrival and departure. Lord GEORGE BERESFORD, Lord RIVERS, and Mr. PITT, Mr. BEAUMONT, &C. &C. arrived at WRIOIIT'd Hotel this day, by the Royal George, from Calais. RECORDER'S REPORT. Yesterday, the Recorder made his report to his Ma jesty at Windsor, of the prisoners capitally convicted at the last Old Balky Sessions, •is : Richard Chick, 28 ; John Wilson, 40 ; John Roach, 16 ; Josiah Nathan, aloe Joseph Latham, alias Josiah Jones, 27 ; and Robert Cross, 13, housebreaking. Richard Gif ford, 26 ; James Suffolk, 52; and Thomas Thomas Maynard. 36; forgery. Thomas Walker, 24 ; Elisabeth Swiver, 16 ; Wm. Spong, 26; Henry King. 20; Charles Wilson, 27; and Mark Joel, 59; stealing in a dwellinthouse. Wm. Carrington, 20 ; James Charge, 52 ; and John Hill, 57; horse-stealing. Timothy Driscoll. 22; John Boyce, 30; and Michael Duff, 24; highway robbery. Wm. Newitt, 56; Robert Dennington, 21 ; and Win. Williams, 25; sheep-stealing. Henry Duffey, 20; and Thomas Edwards, 18; cattle-stealing. When Richard Chick, Josiah Nathan, alias Joseph Lathan', alias knish Junes, and Richard Gifford, were left for execution on Monday next. The cases of Thomas Walker, Wm. Newitt, Robert Dennington, Win. Wilk Rams, Thomas Thomas Maynard, and Mark Joel, were not re ported ; and the other prisoners were rapped during his Ma jesty's pleasure. His MAJESTY left the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park shortly before two o'clock yesterday afternoon, attended by the Lord Steward of the Household and the Lord and Groom in Waiting, in two carriages and four, and proceeded up the Long Walk, escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards to the Castle, which the KING entered by the private entrance. So on; after his arrival his MAJESTY held a Court, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign and Colonial Departments, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chief Justice of Fngland, the Treasurer of the Household, the Re corder of London, Sir Brook Taylor, Mr. M‘Lean, &c. The sales made on account of the Savings Banks, which have been considerable, have been met, and no depression, or at least no permanent depression of the money-market, has been the result. These sales speak volumes as to the existence of distress among the lower and middling classes; and, added to the defalcation of the quarter's revenue in the article of Excise, must shew forcibly that poverty is rapidly spreading its pernicious influence, that industry is palsied, and that the savings intended, in all probability, for old age, have become necessary for the support of the present moment. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. His Royal Highness the Duke cif Sussex, on a visit to Colonel and Mrs Hughes, at KinmeU Park, St. Asaph, on Thursday last, frost a tour ; the Marquis of Bute, from Charles-street, Berkeley aquare• yesterday, for Luton Park. In Bedfordshire ; the Earl and Countess Bathurst, in Great Cumberland-street, from a tour ; the Earl and Countess Ferrara, from Harley-street. for Staunton Harold, in Warwickshire; the Countess Beauchamp, in Portman square; Viscount Maynard, for Easton Hall. Essex; Surgeon Goss, from Dublin ; Hon. Colonel Russell, for Newmarket; Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart. in Park-place. St. James's; Lady and Miss Grant, in Gloucester-place, from Paris; Mr. Nathaniel Bland, for Randall Park ; Mr. Robert Munro, from Ramsgate. for Bus. bridge Park ; Mr. James Blackburn.. M.P. for Hale Hall, near Warrington, in Lancashire; Sir Edward Plackett, Bart. for Mat fen Hall. Northumberland; the Hon. Edward Clive, for Here ford; Captain and Mrs. Appleby. in Mount-street. from Paris; Mrs. and Miss rinulleigh, for Brighton ; Captain and Mrs. Ben nett, from the Netherlands, for Ramsgate; Mr. and Mrs. Ames, fur Rodney-place. Clifton; Sir Edward Hales. Bart. for Rams gate; Captain and Mr.. Lake, for Brighton; Mr. Augustus O'Neill, from Cheltenham. for Dublin; Lieut.-Colonel Grant. for Brighton ; sir. Lyndon Evelyn. for Kynsham Court, Hereford; Capt. and Mrs. Douglas. in Park -street, from the Hague; Major and Mrs. Glynne, in Conduit.street, from Dieppe; him. Pascoe Grenfell. M. P. in Belgrave-square, from a tour ; Sir John Halkett, from afford -street, on a tour ; Major and Mr.. Ellison, in Picca dilly, from Florence; Capt. aid Mrs. Loftus, in South Aadley- Street, from Rome; Lieut. Colonel and Mrs. Long. in Piccadilly. from Naples ; %Ir. and Mrs. Manning, from Grosvenar.street. for Brighton ; the Hon. John Morten:. in Gloucester-place. from a tour; Gen. Sir Hussey Vyvyan, Bart. from Surrey, in St. James's street ; Capt. and Mrs. Langton. In Clarges-street. from Dublin ; Capt. and Mrs. Law, in Piccadilly, from Paris; Major Maurice, at Hatchett's Hotel, from the lonian Islands; the lion. Henry Cavendish, Master, and the Misses Cavendish, in Old Burlington. street, from Compton-place. Worthing ; I.ieut. Colonel Scott. fur Paris; Sir Charles Scudamurr, M. D. In Vimpole-street, from Dub lin ; Colonel Walker, for Brighton ; Sr Gihert Stirling. at Bryant's Hotel (late 'Warne's). Conduit-street, from the Continent ; Wm. Andel!, Esq. Mrs. Andell, and family, at ditto, from a tour ; Ar thur Welsher, Esq. Mrs. Webber, and family, from ditto, fur South Wales. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. LISBON, SEPT. 26. Our situation is becoming hourly more deplorable, and, from the effect produced both on Don MIG t: et., and those who still support him by the event at Terceira, there is no excess of folly or tyranny which may not be anticipated. A few days ago the monks of Alcobaca ap plied to Mto t:EI. for a party of the military police to pur sue the Constitutionalists. The request being acceded to, two parties, one of cavalry and the other of infantry, scoured the country, plundering and ill treating all those who were suspected, after which they returned to the convent to report the result of their mamnding excursion, and receive the congratulations of the brotherhood. On this occasion, the inhabitants of a large town called Corvilhao 'deserted the place, which still continues in a state of complete abandonment. As to MlGer 1. himself, b. is almost continually shut up at Queluz, which is surrounded with a cordon of troops to prevent surprise, or suffer any person to ap proach. This residence has all the appearance of an en trenched camp, in the presence of au enemy. As if con science had began to produce its effect, the despot is subject to frequent starts of horror, like one wh imagines himself pursued by spectres. Being at the arsenal a few days ago, he approached the door of a store house, as if intending to enter, but suddenly fell back as he crossed the threshold, and exclaimed to the Minister of War, who stood near him, " Oh ! it is dark in there : let us go back !" Frequent Councils are held, but nothing decided. Most of the members have, however, recommended that the system of terror should be continued, as the only means of sustaining the tyrant. In pursuance of this, the Commission established at Oporto for trying the re bels has been ordered to condemn all those patriots who had disembarked there from the Belfast steam-vessel, during the effort made to resist the faction last year.— Among those condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quar tered, are the Marquis of PALMELLA, Count VILLA FLOR, CORM de SAM P YO, Baron RENDUSTA M. Generals SALDAND A, STUBBS, and AZEREDO ;M. D'HOL STEIN , Z.% V I ER, and Ca move°. Among those to be hanged, alone, are Major MENDES, M. SAVEDRA M. BARRETTA FEW, Marrs PRAgA and ZA VIER, M. de SAMBA YO, and Lieutenant D'AR.INJ E. The Count de CALHARIZ, a minor, 15 years of age, and M. ALEX ANDER D'ALvA, aged 19, are condemned to perpetual exile, and their property confiscated !—After the copy of the last named decree had been sent to be printed, it was withdrawn by the judges who dreaded the ridicule it might bring on them from the condemnation of two boys, and confiscation of property which really belonged to others. There is not a farthing in the Treasury. All the Re ceivers of Taxes having been a few (lays ago ordered to pay their balances into the Public Chest, the sum brought from one of the most considerable, la mesa da cowl encia, amounted exactly to 6/. 4s. 6d. ! A bankruptcy is premised on the Ist of January, after which all pay ments will be made by bills on the Tobacco Contract, which is, however, already anticipated till the end of 1831 ! We have just heard that an American squadron has made reprisals for the seizure of their ships, b y the rup ture of a frigate and some smaller vessels, at Terceira. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Diana Awns Tins Dar.—Dublin I—Waterford I—Swe den I—France I—Holland I. DIAL, Ocr. 12.—Wind W.—Arrived the Fanny, Sprigger, from Quebec ; Clio, Hopper, front Sierra Leone ; and Vestal, Taylor, from Richibncto. Arrived from London, the William, Royce, for Constantinople; Isabella, Nlelville, for liominica; Pro tector, Thomas, fur Swan River; James Cruickshank, Young, for S. Vincent's ; and Thos. King, Williamson, fur Demerara. Poiersiourn, Ocr. 12.—Wind W. PLYMOUTH, On. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived the Kate, Maddon, from the Mauritius—rtailed the 28th June. The Elpbinstone, Mi randa, and Integrity, had arrived front London ; KersweU, from the Cape of Good Hope ; and the Hehe, from New South Wales. The Anna, Robertson, arrived there from Calcutta—put in leaky, and discharged part of her cargo, and stopped the kale, as they supposed: took all on board again, proceeded to sea, and after being out nine days returned, making 12 inches per hour. 'lb. Winscale had arrived from Calcutta, and was discharging. The Betsey. of Leith, sailed. for Calcutta with troops. A small aqua dron of French men of war had caused a little anxiety at the Mau ritius, until their destination was ascertained to be 'against Mada gascar, to take posses ion of Tuntatane Feu!, Frouset. Port Dauphine, and Isle St. Maria, places which they rornierly bad in possession. BaisToL, Ocr.ll.—Arrived the Wakefield, .--, front Quebec, and Emma, Bowen, from Bilbao'. Layman, Ocr. 11.—Arrived the Attaliah, Lotherington, from Macao ; Dido Tobin, from Africa • Scotia, Simpson, and Tl:omas, White, from Q uebec; Atlantic, Donald, from Gum ; and the Entuont, Long, from St. Joker's, N.B. HaavricH, Ocr, 13.—. The Wilbelmine Emilie, Mans, from Li verpool to Dantsic, has been assisted in here by a b oat's crew, having been struck by a sea on the Bth inst. on the Swart Bank, which carried away the mate and carpenter, bulwarks to the com panion, and nearly cleared the deck. Letters ftom Egina of Ist Sept. state, that when the President was passing Spezzia, on his way to Poros, Ad miral Heyden was off Port* with the greater part of his squadron. Count Augustine Capo d'lstrias left Egina for the continent, with a large sum of money to pay the troops of Eastern Greece, who had revolted from not being paid for some time past. By accounts received from Brussels, it appears that the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia with his suite had arrived there. THE NEW ARK OF LIBERTY. FOR THE %TAIL When over Freedom's Island home We see Corruption's deluge rise ; And whelmed beneath the treacherous foam, Our Country's boasted glory lies ; Who but the base, the willing slave Casts not to earth his patriot fears' When, proudly stemming the wild wave. The Naw-Aar of our Hope appears! Oct. 10, 1820. DRAMA. As winter approaches, we naturally recur with interest to the subject of our evening amusements &rim; that period of the year, when the long nights and inclement skies compel us to seek recreation under shelter. We must not always depend upon the conversation of friends, and plea.iiires of the table, for the means of cheating ennui ; for even these require change to give zest to their charms. In summer we enjoy our rides and promenades, when the mind, relaxing from intense study or business, revels in the sunshine, and finds ample entertainment in the enjoy ment of nature. But in winter we have no such re- source--short days, obscured by storms, drive us within doors, where every means of supplying our lost pleasures in open air, become matter of real importance. It is for this reason, with otl.ers less generally felt, per- haps, that we contemplate with something like anxiety the precarious state of our theatres, languishing in con tempt, and menaced with final ruin, reduced already, is one instance, to depend on public bounty even for the funds requisite to defray tha expence of representation. Such a necessity in so vast a capital, where two great tholtres alone are regularly licensed to exhibit the national druma, provokes serious reflection—those, considering it in a mere literary point of viay., conceiving the subject, compared with other daily interesting matter of political magnitude, scarcely words a thought, will retract their error when they sufficiently reflect on the public utility of the stage, universally pro moted with zeal by every enlightened and polite peep!e, as a great engina of police, a source of public improve ment, an encourager of intellectual talent, and promoter of social happiness. It is incumbent on us, therefore, to give this matter• due attention, to trace the cause of the present decay of our Theatres, and admonish the Directors of these establishments, who have too long for gotten that they hold their patents merely in trust for the public. First, abusing a privilege granted to them in the infancy of the drama, when the art, yet unknown in all its variety, remained undivided into its distinct depart ments—they, like the dog in the manger, deny advan tages to others from which they cannot themselves reap benefit. The very monopoly which they so tenaciously grasp is justly carrying its own punishment, to defraud their benefactors, the public, front enjoying the art culti vated, as with other people, in its distinct branches, and proper theatres, they rebarbarize our stage in represent ing thereon every species of scenic bastardy, which ca price and corrupt taste have imagined for audiences of all descriptions. To prevent others front successfully exhi biting Opera, Melo-drama, Farce, serious -Ballet, and Harlequinade-pantomime, these universal showmen, in addition to the legitimate actors of pure Tragedy and Comedy (paid in rival opposition with p incely revenue) re thin besides, an army of dramatic variety, enoughto amuse us in their different lines in a dozen theatres—they have each an operatic company, a corps of ballet dancers, a suite of pantomime buffoons, with their numerous train of musicians, figurantes, mechanists, and painters, translating' valets, adapters, and song-mongers, who arc• all to exhibit to the detriment of each other, and exclu sion of Shakespeare and purity. The worst of all is the obstacle which this obnoxious and most de structive system offers to the genius of dramatic lite rature. Carry another Hamlet or a Cato, au " As you like it," or a " School for Scandal," to the theatre of our country, and a presumptuous stage-lumber-critic will arbitrarily reject your labours, to obtrude upon the public a" Devil's Elirir,—a" nu Ogr," some sing-song farago translation, rendered more paltry by the botched music of some orchestral apprentice, some dancing buffoonery, or " tours de force." Thus, debarred from the intellectual drama, the people of taste, trifle for trifle, prefer the more elegant pastime enjoyed with the Italians, and leave Covent Garden and Drury Lane, their devils and their d incais, their stave chauntcrs, and fire-eaters, to the lobby swaggerers, prostitutes, and rabble, who may have a taste for them ; and thus, after ruining themselves by extra vagantly upholding an injurious monopoly, thLy appeal to the public, whom they would continue to cheat of their pure drama, for assistance, to per, evere in their mistaken course. Would they be rescued, let them wisely relinquish their rapacious pretensions : per mit a national opera to be licensed apart, by which they will get rid of their expensive crowd of singers, melo dramatic gaggers, and others that pollute their stage. — Let them confine themselves to the sterling British tra gedy and the sterling British comedy : insure assiduity and docility in the actors, by reducing their exorbitant tala ries, supersede the sticks of the inferior walks by re spectable comedians, raise the dignity of the stage bv severe discipline, and abolish their infamous saloons— and the genius of literature and fashion of the country will once more resort to the national theatre. ••• * r The Mauritius Papers contain observations from a correspondence with the Secretary of the Royal Astrono mical Society of London, addressed to his Excellency the Governor by the Vice-President cf the Royal Asiatic So ciety, stating that the Isle of France seems to be anti rably fitted for a.tronomical ob, , ervations. The climate is healthy, and the sky at all times uncommonly clear and serene, excepting for a short time, when there a:e violent gales Accounts from Alexandria (Egypt) of the 30th of August, state, that there is a great misunderstanding be tween the Pasha of Egypt and the Porte, in consequence of the late demand of the Salon to send an army forthe succour of Constantinople. This disagreement seen.s to have alarmed the Pa-ha of Egypt, and he is pit:paling for the worst. His army is being completed, by new levies, to the number of 30 or 35,009 men, and 3,P00 cavalry, on the European principle. They are also going to send a corp of 8,000 men to Gan ison, a fortress situ ated at the end of the Desert, near Syria. The news re ceived there of the successes of the Illssilms had pro • duced little effect. We hear from Lisbon that official information had been received there, that the Pope refuses to aekticA ledge Don Miguel ; this has thrown Dun Miguel in the greatest rage as well as his mother. _ _ _ Calcutta Papers to the 22d of April, Quebec Papers to the 10th of Sept. and Mauritius Papers to the `2sth of June, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. 1