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XXXV. of the ORIENTAL HERALD will contain, among other Original Articles, State of Society and Condition of the People in India—Ezcur sions in Switzerland—State of the Cape of Good Hope—Journey through France and Italy—Commerce between Russia and Persia —Relief for Distress in Ireland ; Corn Laws; and Emigration— Sir Charles D'Oyly's Views of Dacca—Law of libel—Bhurt• pore—Voyage from Asia Miaor to Egypt—Government Func tionaries at Bombay—Latest IntelAgenee from India generally— And a Verbatim Report of the late Thal in the Action for Libel brought against Mr. William John Bankes. The attraction of LUKE the LABOURER, being fully equal to any of the most favourite Pieces, it will be played every Even ing this Week, when, in consequence of the Production of a NEW SPLENDID COMIC BURLETTA, which has been long in Preparation, on MONDAY NEXT, THZ PILOT MUST 3E WITHDRAWN. t3r Fourth Night of a New Ballet. THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, October 26, and during the Week, will be presented an entirely New Do steak Burlens, of deep interest, in Two Acts, with New Music, Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations, called LUKE THE LABOURER! OR, THE LOST SON. The Musk composed by Mr. G. H lloowszt., Director of Music to the Theatre. Luke the Labourer, Mr. TERRY. . Squire Chase, Mr. WILLIAMS. Fanner Wakefield, Mr. ELLIOTT. Bobby Trot, Mr. SALTER. Charles Maydew, a young Farmer, Mr. S. SMITH. Michael, an old Gipsy, Mr. SANDERS. Philip, a Srilor (the Lost Son), hi Mr. T. P. COOK E. Landlord. Mr. Purwrs. Postillion, Mr. Lamar._ Reapers, Mr. Fast, Mr. Morris, &e. Villagers. Servants, Gipsies, &c. by Messrs. Buxton, Shaw, Taylor, Giffin, &e. &c. Clara, Daughter to Farmer Wakefield, by Miss BODEN. Dame Wakefield, by Mis. DA LY. Jenny, by Mrs. H. HUG I ES. After which, a favourite Comic Ballet, composed by Mons. HULLI/4, with new Scenery, Dresses, &c. called THE RUNAWAY; Or, LA FILLS MAL GARDE& New Scenery, painted by Mr. TOMICINS. Use, the Runaway, Madlle. HAWTHORN. &Mora, her Mother, 'Miss DAVIS. The Little Flower Girl, bladlle. ENGELLINA. Colin, the Lover, Mr. NIXON. Simphin, a Comic Lover, Mr. J. RIDGWAY. Thomas, his Father, Mr. K Ell R. A Pas de Deux, by Misses HAWTHORN and DAVIS. Pas Seal, by Madlle. MELANIE DUVAL. Pas de Trois, by Mr. NIXON, Misses HAWTHORN and DAVIS. Pas de DM, by Madlle. HENRY and . Miss KERR. Comic Pas de Deux, by Messrs. KERR and CHICHINI. To conclude with the celebrated Nautical Melo•Dramatic Barletta, called THE PILOT; • OR, A TALE OF THE SEA. " List ye Landsmen all to me."—Sea Song. The Pilot, Mr. TERRY. Lieut. Barmtahle, Mr. YATES. Lieut Griffith, Mr. Wn.Luipts. Mr. 'Merry, Mr. RAlrr. Long Turn Coffin (the (7ockswain) with the original Hornpipe, Mr. T. P. Coons. Captain Boroughcliff (a genuine Yankee riglar), Mr. J. Racy& Colwiri Howard. Mr. EuJoTT. Captain of the Alacrity. Mr.S.SiartW. Serjeint Drill, Mr. &stomas. British Marines, Bailors, &c. &e. Messrs. SHAW, Balmy, Prtu.urs, &e. &c. Miss Katherine Plowden, Mrs. H. HUGH}, Cecilia. Miss BODEN. Irishwoman, Mrs. DA LY. In the course of the Riviera will be exhibited a Fore and Aft Vireo of the Schooner ARI RL, at the point of Time she is at tempting to claw off a Lee Shore. and endeavouring to pass the Bight of a Shoal, in a Tremendous &orm, surrounded by Rocks and Breakers. Boxes, Is. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. Doors open at Six, and commence at a Quarter bdore Seven. Half-price at Half-past Eight. NEW PUBLICATIONS. THE following INTERESTING NEW WORKS will be published In a few slays, BY MR. COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON-STREET, LONDON (removed from Conduit•street). The TOR HILL. By the Author of " BluiliaLrsiric Houtz." Three Vols. post Bvo. " Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Throe joy and thro torments, dins' glory and shame? I know not, 1 ask not, if guilt's in that heart ; I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art!" 11. Taos. klooaa. RECOLLECTIONS of the LIFE of JOHN O'KEEFE (the celebrated Comic Dramatist). Written by Himself. And comprising numerous very curious and original Anecdotes of dis• tinguiJ►e►l Persons in England and Ireland, from the year 1755 to the present time. In Two Vols. Bro. with a Portrait. 111. A SECOND SRRIES of TALES of the O'HARA FA MILY. Three Vols. post BTo. IV: MEMOIRS of the LIFE of Mrs. SIDDONS. 137 James Button, Esq. Interspersed with Anecdotes of Authors and Actors, and intended u a Companion to the Author's Life of her Brother, Mr. Kcaut.e. Printed uniformly, in Two Vols. Bvo. with a fine Portrait, engraved by Turner, [ruin a Picture by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Price Us. TALES of a VOYAGER. Three Vols. iost Bvo. VI. TRUCKLRBOROUGH HALL; a NoveL Ia Three Vols. Therm. Mungo, eau you be limiest ? blimuo. Vat you give me, Massa? VII. NAPOLEON in the OTHER WORLD. Editions in French mkt English. One Vol. two. VIII. The YOUNG RIFLF.MAN'N COMRADE; or, Narrative of his Military Adventures, Imprkoament, and Shipwreck.— Edited by Goethe ; and printed uniformix with " The Adven tures of a Young Rifleman ;" in One Vol. post Ovo. ts. 6d. IX. A SECOND EDITION of the ADVENTURES of a YOUNG RIFLEMAN. Doe VuL &to. is. 6d. LEAKE'S GENUINE PILLS, justly famous for curing, in all its stages, the VENEREAL DISEASE— One small Pill is a dose, and the taking of one Box, in a recent ezve, will soon convince the patient of the certainty of Ms speedy recovery. Nothing can, be better conceived, more safe, or more convenient than this Remedy, for such as are obliged to go journics or to sea, as it needs no confinement nor restraint of Diet; and sixty years experience (in an extensive practice) has proved that it will effect a Cure when repeated Salivation and all other methods avail nothing. 'For the Scurvy and other Chronical Disorders, this Medicine has not its parallel. Upwards of 40,000 persons of both sexes have been radically cared of the above cruel disor ders, within the last eight years. Prepared and sold by the sole proprietors, T. TAYLOR and SON, Members of the Royal Col lege of Surgeons, at their House, No. 9, New Bridge -street, in Boxes of only is. 9d. each, duty included.---N.B. Two back doors, and Lights in the Passages at night.—They are also sold, by their appointment, with copious directions, at the Toy-shop, 103, Oxford -street; Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill nearly opposite the Monument ; and by one Person in every con. siderabk Town in Great Britain and Ireland. Advice gratis to I' Toms taking the above, or other of the Proprietor's Medicines. FRENCH PAPERS. PROM THE ETOILE OF TUESDAY. NAUPLIAS, Aaaurr 30. The folloveikg letter is too honourable to the patriotism .of General Kat aiskaki, to be fora moment suppressed: " ELEUSIS, Au . oore " It.t.usTrttous BROTHER--I have received your let tel. 1 perceive what interest you take in the misfortune which has just overwhelmed me. I dotibt not that you' - have participated in the grief caused by the loss of my wife;. know, however, that, occupied as I am solely with the stfety of my country, I support with resigna tion all possible misfortunes; henceforth you, my friends, shall be my family and relations. I thank GOD that you are still preserved to me. Some unhappy circum stances, and, above all, the paucity of means which I possess of keeping up or augmenting my camp, leave Kioutaki still to waste the rerritol yof Attica. I shalt, however, employ all the resources in my power to ful fil the promises which I made before I left Nauplias. I should have a real pleasure in gratifying you in this re spect, for know your anxiety and the sacrifices you have made for the military operations in Eastern Greece. Some friends announce to me that I have lost all myi for one, apd call upon me to go to Calamos to take care of my children, who remain without support and with- out means of existence. I will do no such thing : I will remain here and shed the last drop of my blood for my ce .ntry, and for you. Do you also bear up ; let no mis fortunes intimidate you ;—as to me, my motto hence forth shall be—' My Country, my Friends.' " Your Brother, " KARAISILAKI." PARIS, OCTOSZR 23. The Journal de la Meditertanie states, that L rd Coduaae arrived at Marseilles on the 13th, in. a •chooner, from Malta, and that he set off again on Mon day for Geneva, where he intends to join his family.— The Gazelle of Lyons mentions, that Lord Cochrane spent the 19th at that city, i 3 his road from Mar seilles to Paris. FROM TUE JOURNAL DES DERATS OF MONDAY. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE• LISBON, OcToata T. Oar Gazette contains the following Decree: ‘. Being authorised by the Decree of my august 13ro• ther, puolished at Rio Janeiro, on the 20th August last, to order the first convocation and first instillation of the Coi tes—without following those regulations for the ordinary convocation and installation prescribed by the 18th Arc. Ist cap. title 4th, of the Constitutional Char ter-1 hereby convoke, in the name of the King, the said C ,, rtes against the SOth October cut rent, on which day the opening of the Session shall take place. The Secre taries of State, and others to whom it belongs, will at tend to this Decree, and cause it to be executed. " Given at the palace of Ajuda this 4tb October, 1826. (Signed) a The INFANTA REGENT. (Countersigued) "F.E.T. DE ARA GAO MORATO." In consequence of the above decree, letters of convo• cation have already been sent to all the Peers of the kingdom, and to all those deputies whose names are known. 1 It has been observed, that all the troops who go in detachmeats to the Palace of Queluz, where the Queen resides, return loaded with money, and imbued with principles contrary to the Government =principles which the soldiers manifest when drinking in taverns by sedi tious cries, which frequently occasion riots, followed by disagreeable accidents. These circumstances have de termined the Government to confide the guard upon the palace of Queluz to the merchant militia corps, which is composed of wealthy merchants, or at least per sons in easy circumstances, not likely to be seduced by the agents at the palace, whose political sentiments are opposed to the Constitution. The 7th regiment of infantry of the line has marched to garrison Almeida. The disposition of this regiment, which at one time was rather unfavourable to the Con stitution, has completely changed since the Government replaied their chiefs, and the majority of the officers who commanded them. This disposal of the regiment does. not, however, appear to be a very wise one, because, independent of the natural levity of the soldiers, which may lead them again to entertain those feelings which they manifested at Fort St. George, after they took the oath to the Constitution; in addition to this, the dangerous precedent of a desertion en masse, by the former garrison of Almeida, indicated the propriety of sending to that fortress, a regiment of tried fidelity.— The 7th regiment of Cavalry of the Line have been sent to garrison Campo Mayor, a place of considerable ins portance on the frontiers. Orders have been sent to all the Monasteries to hold themselves ready to yield up a part of their respective buildings, wherever it may be judged most proper to quarter any troops. The report which had got abroad, that English troops were to be quartered in the Convents, arose out of these orders. (Note of the French Editor.—We were informed by our Corres poedents at Madrid and Cadiz, in their last communications, that a report was current in these two Cities, that English troops were to come from Gibraltar to Lisbon. This report, which seemed to us exceedingly insprobAde, we did not then publish, and we publish it now, less from any belief of its truth, than from a wish to com municate to our readers all that is passing abroad.] PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. MADRID, Om 14. Not only has M. de Sousa obtained restitution of the arms and accoutrements of the Portuguese deserters, but he has prevailed, moreover, upon our Government to give satisfaction for a kind of triumph exhibited by the Pottuguese deserters at the depot of Villa Nueva, in honour of the anniversary of the Infant Don Misuel, by carrying round his portrait in triumph, with cries of " Long live Miguel, King of Portugal!" General Silveira quitted the capital on the Web, in the direction of Palencia, that is to say, by the road that leads to France. The order, by virtue of which the General quitted Madrid, enjoins hip to leave the kingdom a 3 soon as possible. It even appears that police agents were sent after hub, to watch him, and compel him to continue his journey, should he attempt to stop any where without reasonable cause. Mr. Lamb sets out to-morrow for the Escurial, ?long with M. de Souza, who still continues to negociate, although not invested with any political powers. As to Mr. Lamb, it is asserted that he goes to the Escurial to press for an answer to the last Notes which he gave in to Mr. Salmon, to which the latter is in no haste to reply. This report does not appear devoid of all found ation, for the English Embassy has four couriers in waiting, to set out with di.; atches. • MOSCOW, SKr: 27. The supper given on the 22J, by the Duke of Devon shire, at which the rmperial Family were present, sur passed every thing of the kind rreviously given. There were s'reen tables, at each of which there were five different courses fur four hundred peop'e. They were decorated with flat% ers arid figures formed of sugar, which were changed at every enurse, for others equally elegant and curious. The gold and river plate orn I mented with the arms of E 'gland, on which the supper was served, and whose elegant workmanship was con formable to its intrinsic value, is estimate] at more than a million of silver rubles. On the 23d inst. the great theatre was thrown open, gratis, by order of the Emperor, for the admittance of all the military who are still here. The Imperial Family honouted the performance with their presence. The first and second tiers of hoses were. occupied by the Generals and StaffOlficets of the different Regiments, and s,ooo.soldiers were scattered over the other seats. The performance was the Cossack and the Pod, a vau deville, and the opera of the Polish Jew Tavern, com posed by Prince Tscher Knffskey, which, sixteen years ago had been translated into the German language, by the Secretary of the Theatre, and was then performed at Peter sburgh. This opera goes now by the name of anoth : •r author abroad, who has probably imported it. ' The Emperor had fixed the 25th of this month for a popular Entertainment, for which preparations are making, at a vast expense. Rot so mach snow and hail fell on the preceding evening, succeeded by torrents of rain on the morning of the 25th, the people whe wete already assembled in the plain called the Field of Virgins, were obliged to return home without enjoying any of the expected sports and amusements. As these was every appearance of the continuation of much bad weather, the authorities of the police gave notice that the commencement of this popular fete should be an nounced by the display of white flags on all the steeples. At night their . Imperial Majesties and Highnesses went to the Italian o,,era at the great Theatre, where The Water Carrier was performed. As the rain and tempest continue toda y, the popular entertainment aforesaid was necessarily postponed for some days longer, as well as the grand fice-works fixed for the 29th, which were to be exhibited, gratis, by the Empe•oes command. ' PARIS, Orr. sm. On leaving the Assize Court yesterday, Mr. Canning proceeded to the Hall of the Pas-Perdus. He stopped before the monument erected to the virtuous Males herbes. M. B,sio, Sculptor to the King, by whom tt.e two statues, placed on each side of the port ait at the foot of M. Malesherbes, were made, was presented to Mt. Canning, who requested the statues to be uncovered, and addressed some very complimentary speeches to M. licsio. MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA. --iw-- By the late arrangement between the Turks and the Russians, the latter have obtained possession of Moldavia and Wallachia. These provinces are a valuable acces sion to the Russian territory, if we may credit the state ments of the best writers. According to them, Moldavia is about 230 miles long, and 200 broad, and is bounded on the north and north east by Poland and the river Dneister, on the south by Bessarabia and the Danube, and on the west by Wallachia, Transylvania, and branches detached from the Carpathian mountains.-- The surface of the country is finely diversified with hills and valleys, extensive forests, and numerous livers; Vie principal of which are the Pruth, the Sired), the Mohlean, the Danube, and the Dneister. There are also several small 'lakes. The climate is rigorous in winter, and oppressive in summer. The territory abounds in minerals. Gold is occasionally found; fos sil salt is plentiful, and nitre is exported in considerable quantities. The vaivode or hospodar, appointed by the Turkish Government, was obliged to send yearly to Constantinople a tribute of twenty-five tons of nitre, and a million of piastres. The Turkish navy was also sup plied with the finest oak from the forests, and with masts and cordage of native growth. The chief pro ductions are wheat, barley, oats, millet, and maize. Bees are reared in great numbers. The piincipal do mestic animals are horses, cattle, sheep, and goats ; great numbers of which were annually purchased by l the Turkish Government at a low and arbitrary price, and carried to Constantinople. The horses are much esteemed by the Austrian and Prussian cavalry. Some of the wealthy farmers are said to have 400 or 500 of these animals, which are suffered to remain without shelter in all seasons. The population of the territory is computed to be 500,000, most of whom inhabit mi serable villages, and wooden huts daubed with clay, having paper windows and open roofs. In winter, the tenants of these wretched dwellings descend into sub. terraneous cells, which are easily warmed, and there live promiscuously. The wretchedness of the inha bitants, and the frequent famines which occur, have resulted from the oppression of the Government, and not from the natural sterility of the soil. The capital is Jassy, or Yassi, which is situated on the lake and river Baklui, running into the Pruth, and occupies a great extent of ground, the houses being detached and surrounded by yards and gardens. The population is about 40,000. The city contains seventy churches, public hospitals, and schools for about two hundred pupils, who are instructed in the national language, ancient and modern Greek, writing and arithmetic. Education, however, is greatly neglected. The houses are generally one story high, built of brick, white washed within and without, and roofed with wood. The streets are floored with beams of the finest oak, which must be tenewed every five or six years. In rainy seasons they are covered with deep liquid mud, and in dry weather with thick black dust, which, added to the accumulation and stagnation of putrescent substances below, pr iduce numerous diseases.—Galati, ' the sea-port and chief emporium of the province, is situated on the Danube, 65 miles from Yessi. where the river is navigable, by vessels of 300 tons. The popula tion is about 7,000. Moldavia is part of the ancient Dacia, whose inhabitants resisted the progress of the Roman arms. The King of the Visigoths, lung com pelled to retreat hither in the fourteenth century, erected a wall between the Pruth and the Danube, where various antiquities of a remote era.are still to be seen. In the thirteenth century it was occupied by a new tribe, under their leader Bagdan, who assumed the Sclavonic title Voivode or Voivode, equivalent to a reigning Prince, and from .him the country received the name of Bdg diana. It became tributary to Turkey in 1536; and since, having been the theatre of sanguinary warabe tween that empire, Russia, and Austria, each has alter. nately held the sovereignty. At length tin growing power of Russia obtained the cession of the best portion of the province hetween'the Ruth and the Dneister, in the year 1812. The anchor from whom we quote, anti cipated, in the year 1817, that this wolld be the pre cursor of a final cession of the whole t' Russia ; and his anticipation has been-fulfilled. The general account of Wallachia is (imilar to that of Moldavia. It is 280 miles long and 150 broad; and is bounded north by Moldavia and Transylvania, east by Bessarabia, and West by Transylvania and the Da nube. The capital town is Tergovists or Trrvis. The inhabitants of both provinces are of the Greek Church, and in general very ignorant. The priests have very little more information than the laity. Their at tainments consist chiefly of reading and tinging, audio acquaintance with the ceremonies of the Church. PORTUGAL. The following letters from Lisbon contain the only authentic intell i 4ence of the late revolt in Portugal, which has yet been published. • Our Readers may rely on the acceracy of the statements which they commu nicate: LISBON, Omuta 13. EXTRACTS FROII PRIVATE. LITTIRS. The General of the Algarves communicates from Villa Real, that on the tit triztant, at five o'clock in the morning, there appearel before him a deputation of three Officers of the 14th Regiment, intimating that the Battalion of Casadoter, No. 4, had arrived at the town of Tavira, where a Regiment was already formed to proclaim the Infant Dun Mguel King of Portugal ; that the General was invi t ed to take the command of the troops, and he refu , ed ; that the sad Battalion at ast arrived, and its Commandant again invited the Ge : ?"' neral to do the same thing, and that the General diem,' i formed the resolution of retiring on that city. 'lris - to be observed that the plan is to remain in that kingdom (the Algarves), and to form a Regency. It appears that none but the troops have taken any share in the movements. 0,1 the 9th the same General states, that the junta of the intrusive Government in Tavira had ordered the Governor of Villa Real to take the oath to the new King; which was done; that at Tavira the greatest tranquillity reigned, without ary enthusiasm at the change of the political system; that the tegiment of artillery, No. 2, did not wish to join the factious, on which account all the infantry was preparing to march for Faro, to force it to join them. The Marquis of Abrantes had arrived at Sagres, and had disembarked. On the 10th the General communitates that he had arrived at Mertole, which be had occupied as his head quarters. The General who commands in Tras-os-Montes,wrote from Chaves, on the 6th instant, that on the sth, at six o'clock in the evening, he had received notice that the Marquis of Chaves bad matched from Villa Real, at hale . - past six in the morning, with the greatest precipitation, and that in that city the alarm had been sounded. In consequence, he took the precaution to order Officers in his confidence to observe the destination of the Mar ,quiss and sent a strong detachment of the 15th Infantry towards Villa Ponca. On the 6th, at seven o'clock in the morning, he received a dispatch from Major Menezes, commanding the detachment of Cas ►dores 9th, in Villa Real, in which it was stated that the said Marquis endeavouring to sedate by promises the principal guard commanded by the Serjeant Domingo Bernardo, to proclaim the Infant Don Miguel King of Portugal, was repulsed and charged at the point of the bayonet. On this he retired, leaving the town in quietness. On the 101 h, in the morning, I learnt that the traitor had effect ed his escape into Spain, accompanied only by an Ensign of Cavalry (the 9th), and two peasants of mean condi tion, entering Spain by Galicia. The General issued proclamations with this news to the towns of the pro vince, and apprised all the authorities of the fact. COPY ow A LETTER !ROM AK ENGLISH MERCHANT, COMMUNICATED FROM LISBON. Sra—l have received a letter from Mr. James As worth, a British merchant, established at Braganza, in which he complains, that on the 20th of September, a party of Spanish troops entered the Portuguese town of Quadramil, and forcibly took possession of four bales of merchandise of his, that he had sent there under the care of two Spaniards, named Francisco dos Santos and Francisco Romeo, conveying the two men at the same time into the prison of Puebla de Senabria. In the hope of these goods being restored to him, he requests me to deliver to you a copy of his application to the Portuguese authorities, in which (leaving to others the political question that the violation of the Portu guese territory involves,) be entreats them to take those measures, which the honour of the Portuguese nation, and the treaties existing between Great Britain and Portugal, as well as those between Portugal and Spain, must dictate, to obtain the restitution of his property. and the release of the two Spaniards from prison. I beg leave to enclose the aforesaid documents, to which is also annexed a copy of a certificate, granted by the Judge of the Custom House of Braganza, toaa the same Francisco dos Santos and Francisco luau°