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A rth is front the Continent (exclusively engased for this Night) will -Appear iii the Costume of different Nations. Several Protessional Gentlemen have kindly volunteered their Services on this occasion. The celebrated Signior ANTONIO and Mr. Wiesoir will exhibit their extraordinary talents on the Cordes Volante and Tendue. Te ROYAL FAN race' N I will likewise perform at different periods of the Evening. is addition to the above, a great Variety of Entertainnicnts Rill be introduced, b a style of Brilliancy and Novelty never at e-riled. Tickets One Guinea each, to include Tea, Coffee, Ices, Coafectione7 , &c. &c. &c. Ticliets for the Supper 7s. 6d. cacti (line not included), which will be furnished by Mr. Jartin, y a w l Confectioner, 133, New Bond-street (from Gunter':), in * wee of elegance applicable to the day. The %Vinci will be by hacks Wright, of the Opera Cidintadc, I lay starlet, which will he of the choicest quality, and in the highest condition, front an lc. , d Celi.ir under the Supper-room. Dominoes, &c. &c. to be had at the Rooms. Tickets tribe had of the Committee; at Mr. Clarks IVright's Opera thip l ude, Haymarket ; Messrs. Bats, Royal Exchange ; Cie reeti, ; Jarrin, Ncw Bond•strect ; and at all the prirripal :iv(' Club-houses. Dena to be opened at Ten o'clock precisely. Supper-rooms at Ore o'Clock. No person to he admitted to the Masquerade except in a Domino, Mask, or Character. The ruwt complete arrangement has been made with respect to the Police. lIETGATE, MAYOR. ACOMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chambet of the Guildhall of the City of London, on THURSDAY, the 17th day of April, 1823; Resotran, That it appears to this Court that it is the opinion d Thomas Telford, F.sq. Engineer, that the removal of the ex isting Dam at London Bridge, will occasion a most important change in the River westward of the Bridge, and may possibly aliect its navigation, and injure the property on both its sides, or Lank!, to a very serious extent; and that before he can give a utisfactory opioion on that important matter, he must make an accurate servey of the River, its Shores, and Banks, from Lon de@ Bridge to the Lock at Teddington, which it will take about a month to effect, and that he cpprehends that Westminster Bridge will incur the risk of being injured by the removal of the Dim it London Bridge._ _ _ . That it would, therefore, be highly dangerous to engage to oadertake a work of this tremendous magnitude, and one which may produce the destruction of property to an incalculable amount, without the fallest investigation of these important points, and the most mature deliberation. That the Bridge House Committee be instructed to urge upon the Committee of the House of Commons, in the strongest man err, the necessity of not malting any Report on the 13411 now peed. in: In Parliament for a New Bridge, till they have obtained a formal Report front Mr. Teliord on these mementous subjects; and that the said Bridge House Committee be further instructed ta examine evidence thereon, and report to this Court. That this Court are still of tyission, that whettsvcr th e sa id LII is proceeded with, provision should be made fur o'atainin l . line Million of Mtsney, at the least, beyond the aunt to b e' darged en the Bridge House Estates, to be raised only in case of seed, and to be expendedfunder such coot[ out as Parliament shall einct, inasmuch as no estimate has been made of a large portion of the contemplated charge, and past experience has shown, that to reliance can be placed on Estimates of Claims fiir utvm; and it is therefore the imperious duty of this Court to ram the fund.: of the Corporation front any deterioration arising from a measure which this Court conceives to be both useless sad Inexpedient. WOODTHORPE. SPANISH LOANS OF 1821 AND 1822. THE DIVIDEND payable in London on the Ist Nay next, on the Sl'A NISH FIVE l'Elt CENT. CONSOLIDATED ..1N L: ITI FS note• in Circulat;on of the Lacs of 18?.1 and 1822, ncgociated f Messrs. Aroota, lies. and Co. and countersigned by them and Messrs. J. Lay rrirs and Co. of Paris, will be paid at the Douse of A. F. Hat, :ream and Sons, N 0.24, Cateaton-street, on that- and evert utteedin% Day (Sundays excepted) between the Hours of Tun and Two. It Will be necessary to leave the Dividend Warrants, with Lists thrreof, in numerical oiler, for Examination, One Day pre-anus to the Application for P.syment. TEN POUND NOTE. A LADY, near Birmingham, has received an 11. Anonymous Letter, bearing the Oxford Post-mark, and enclosing a Ten Pound Hank Bill, which was requested to be acknowledged in the STAR. She will be obliged to S. B. to in form her, for whit purpose it wa/ sent to her, and in what man ner it is wished to be applied. A MARRIED and BEN EI:ICED CLERGYMAN, fmnerly Tutor to a Nobleman of the highest &ink, and sksequently.receiving a few PUPILS into his house, (.t mode rae aistallre from London), has now a VA CA N C Y.—Letters trtzted for Rev. A. B. Mr. Hayes's, Bookseller, 8, Henrietta "tt, Cavent-garden, London, will be duly fors 4rded to him. NEXT WEDNESDAY. .riARROLL is happy to announce the continuation of that great Success which has for so many years distin. Visbed his Offices. The First Day of the preseut Lottery he Shared and Sold TEN Capital Prises, viz. N 0.556 £20,000 3,057 £ 3OO 2 ,633 1,000 No. 891 200 3,846 1,000 1,719 200 1,649 500 1,931. • 1200 To. 30 SOO 3,631 200 in the last Contract be also ld TWO of L'20,0003 One of 41 ,2 40 0, besides many others of £l,OOO, £.OO, &a. &c. at his _vats, No. 19, C orn hill, an d 26, O x f o rd - strut . There .17e 0:.ly lvfo Days to Draw, viz. NEXT W E ONES!) iY, and the Bth er May. Th e Wheel contains Two of £20,000, Two of £5,000, _ 426 other Capitals of £l,OOO, £5OO, &c. Every Bank or Prize drawn Next Wednesday will be exchanged, gratis, Nt am Untitawn Ticket or Share fur the 80) 11-ty ; therefore an wholoy before Next Wednesday are if tl.ey do :1.): S et a Capital Prize on that day, of having an. undrawn Chance fnriatite Prizes the Last Day. SHAVING RENDERED EAFY by the con , tant use of RIGGE'S MAGNETIC E.TZOR TABLET, 'which, in its present improved cute. canshires all the properties of loth a (lone and a Strop, without the of Oil. To those lemiri who feel the inconvenivrce of a strong beard, and tender face, the MAGNETIC TA 13 LET is most invaluable; its Ste is particularly simple, and ha effect on a good Razor antlithing, price 71. 64. RIGGL'S AROMATIC SHAVING SOAP will oho, 'by a single trial, prov e t h e P ro p r i e t ors h a v e at l e ngth sue.vetted , r endering the operatior. of Shavirrg, hitherto painful and tw- Veasont, now easy and pleasing. Manufactory, (55, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1523. PAR LIA 111ENTA R Y PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 17. Petitions were presented against the Catholic Claims from the Clergy of the West and East Riding of the County of York, and from the Clergy of Litchfield, Gloucester, and Sarum, and one from the County of Kilkenny, in favour of the Catholic Claims. The Marquis of LA NSDOWN presented a Petition from Arran, and from the Western Islands orScodand, praying for a Duty on Barilla. FRANCE AND SPAIN. Lord KING stated, that from the Papers before the House, it appeared that the British Governinent had been duped in a most extraordinary manner.— The Duke of Wellington - had been ctoped, first at Paris, and then at Verona. It appeared that the 13ri. tish Ministers had been completely hoodwinked by the flattary of the French Cabinet. He moved for an account of the expense * of the mission to Patis, Madrid, and Vienna. Lord HOLLAND 'wished to ask the Noble Earl, if there were any stipulations, or articles, by which the Crowns of France and Spain mere never to be united in the same person ; also, if there was any treaty by v. hich Russia was to furnish troops to France; and, in the third place, in what capacity the Duke of Wellington appeared at Verona? Earl GREY considered the question put by' his Noble Friend relative to a union of the Crowns of France and Spain as one of great importance ; and he must say, that the answer of the Noble Earl was not at all satisfactory. From the answer of the Noble Earl, it appeared that he merely relied on the con struction of treaties, and not on any positive engage ment. Ile should now come to .the point on which he ished for information from the Noble Earl. It was stated in the dispatch of the Noble Duke, that his Majesty's Government would not be a party to any interference that might take place in the affairs of Spain. This was not satisfactory to him ; the Noble Duke at the same tune observed, that there had been no intimation that the affairs of Spain woult! become a subject of discussion at Verona. The Earl of LIVERPOOL interposed. He said his Majesty's Government had not thought that the affair s of Spain were intended to be made promi nent subject of discussion at the Congress. Ministers, hmvever, did expect that some notice would be taken of Spain at the Congress, and the instructions on that subject, m ith which his Noble Friend proceeded to Verona, were the very same which had been pre viously given to a Noble Friend of his now no more (M.irquis of Londonderr y ). Earl GREY p rocee d e d. In the treaty of Aix-la: Chai:elle there was an article stating that no discus sions respecting other States should take place. He wanted to know if any communication had been made to our Government on this important point?— It had been understood that Turkey was to be the prominent subject of discussion at the Congress ; this, however, was not the case, and after it had been an nounced by the French Government that the affairs of Spain were to be the prominent subject of discus sion, he wished to know what directions had been given to the Duke of Wellington on that question, and on what ground he was authorised to. appear as the Plenipotentiary from our Government? He wished then to know from the Noble Earl whether he could produce a statement of what had passed at the con , fe.rence, so far as related to the designs of the French against Spain? To strew that there had been indica tions of such a design on the part of France, there was a reference to a dispatch of the 17th May, 1820, in nhich an opinion was held out, that an interference in the concerns of Spain would be justifiable. He wished to know if the Noble Earl would have any objection to produce that document ? He understood that representations had been made to the French Government on the subject of interference ; but he could not find in the correspondence anything like a direct condemnation of such interference. Here the Noble Earl quoted passages from the Duke of Welling ' unit; dispatches, to shew that the Duke of Wellington had made no such representation to France, as the cha !racter and honour of his country required him to do. On . the whole, he must say, that the Noble Duke had not consulted the honour and character of his country.',, The other point on which he asked for information was this :—The Noble Earl statedthat he had always received the most amicable assurances from France; but so far from any assurances being made by the Frencfi Government, he found in every dispatch a' direct avowal of the Monarchical principle, by which people in chains and slavery were never to seek relief, except at the mill of their legitimate rulers. There was not, in the Papers, any expectation of peace held out by the French Government ; but the Monarchical principle was held out in all its odious forms, by the French Minister, in his dispatch to Mr. Canning. On the face of the correspondence it was evident that the Noble Dake was ' completely duped in the course of the negotiations that had been carried on. The E irl of LIVERPOOL observed, that if the Noble Lord had confined himself to a mere motion for papers, he (Lord Liverpool) would be able to pro duce them in less than twenty-four hours, if such Papers did exist. But instead of that, the, Noble Lard made a speech which embraced a &reat part of the question the House was to discuss on a future day. 1 Therefore lie felt himself in a state of embarrassment, because be could not let the Noble Lord's statements go forth without some observation. He must say, that he.ilever heard a more unfair representation of the conduct of his Noble Friend during the neg_ocia tions, than that which was just made by the Noble Lord. Nu mystery bad been observed by his Ma jesty's Government, either in their conduct or in the expressioa of their sentiments towards Spain. The first notice taken of the changes in the Spanish Go- vernnsent in the month of April 1820, did nut come' from France, but from Russia. Our negotiator was blamed for not having made strong remonstrances at Verona against the interference of France. But at , that time nothing was said but putting a question re specting the recall of the French Minister from Spain. The point was purely a contingent one, and his Noble Friend was not called on to go farther than he did; and the breaking off a diplomatic intercourse, he con ten.led, wa, no cause of war. At the time Alluded to, the interference by force of arms was not mentioned. He was satisfied that all the information which cool J be required was contained in the papers before the House, and that no man could read them N ithout feeling that everything had been done by Mi,listers which could be done to prevent the war betweca France and Spain. Here the Noble Earl read some documents, to shew that the British Government had ground to hope, some time ago, that the late nego ciations would lead to the preservation of peace be tween France and Spain. .As 'to the papers asked for relative to communications made previous to the Congress of Verona, he wished to have time to make an hiqUiry respecting them. There was another point. It had been the decided opinion of our Go vernment, that the Congress of Verona should not take tip the affairs of Spain at al'. But the strong case of the Sovereigns was, that the King of Spain was in a state of duress. The Congress, however, brokeatis without an engagement that any step should have been taken with regard to Spain ; therefore there was no necessity for our Minister to have made any remonstrance whatever. Lord HOLLANI) contended that Ministers had been completely duped in their late transactions. It was not enough that Ministers should be honest them selves, bin that they should have sense enough to suspect the honesty of others. The Noble Lord then proceeded to argue the necessity of an express stipu lation to prevent the union of France and Spain under the same Sovereign. The Duke cf WELLINGTQ N read several pas sages from hi s N ote to t h e Alli Ministers, to strew that he had carried the principle of non-inter Terence in the internal concerns Gf an independent State still farther than the State Paper issued in 1820, for hu had applied it even to the act of animadvetting upon those internal transactions, whilst the State Paper in question objected only to an armed interference. He did not think it possible to employ stronger terms. Had he known of any, he would undoubtedly have used them. Lord ELLENBOROUGH gave notice, that on Thursday next he should. Laing the subject fully be fore the House. The Marquis of LANSDOWN wished to learn the cause of the profound ignorance under which the Duke of Wellington . laboured from the 3)th of Oct< - bet to the 12th of Nov . ember, and how that ignorance had been afterwards removed'? lie would be satis fied with an answer to-morrow.—Adjourned. HOUSE. OF COMMONS. The Order for the Call of the House having been discharged, the gallery was opened at four o'clock, and the House was then occupied in receiving Petitions. The confusion caused by the crawl rushing into tie gallery rendered the proceedings at first. inaudible. Mr. DUNDAS presented a Petition from Edinburgh, pray ing for certain provisions in the I3iU for altering the Duties on Scotch Spirits.—Laid on the table. Mr. WODEHOUSE 4noved for certain Returns of the nnm. .ber of bushels of Malt upon which Duty bad been paid during the last year.—Ordered. Mr. MA RRYATT presented a Petition from the Island sof Trinidad; complaining of Distress.—Ordered to he printed. General. GASCOYNE gave notice that un Thursday, the 24th, he should move an Address to the House upon the sub ject of Officers upon Half-pay residing in Ireland being paid in; Irish currency. Colonel O'NEIL presented a Petition from the Merchants and Shipowners of Belfast, against the Stranraei Harbour hill. Ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. CATHOLIC PETITIONS. Petitions were presented against the Catholic Claims, from the Dean and* Chapter of Peterborough; from the Archtlea eonties of Wells, Taunton, and Bath; from the Clergy of the Cathedral Church of Winchester; from the Corporation of Dub lin ; from the City of Oxford ; from the Arehdeaconry of Col chester; front the Archdeacoury of Essex ; front the Archclea conry of Middlesex; front the Clergy of the Diocese of Glou cester; from the Archdakonry and Clergy of Hereford; front the Archdeaconry of Northumberland ; from the several Parishes in the City of Bristol; from the Deanery of Carmarthen ; from the Deanery of Litchfield ; from the Archtleaeonry of Stafford; from several Parishes in the County of Armagh ; from the County of Down; from the Archdeacon and Clergy of Coven try; from the Mayor and Corporation and Burgessas of Col chester ; and from the Inhabitants of Nottingham. Mr. Secretary PEEL presented a similar Petition from the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford, stating their alarm at the Bill about to be introduced to the House.— The Petition having been read, . Sir J. NEWPORT expr;ased his satisfaction that this body had now given credit for honesty of intention to those who op posed them upon this question. It was not exactly in the to lerant spirit fur which they were remarkable; and the spirit which they bad usually evinced was anything but consistent with their former conduct upon the accession of the House of Hanover to the Throne of thei.: Realms. He was, however, glad to see this Improvement in the feeling of the tinivcrsity, and he-hoped it would eventually extend itself to the general question which the Petition concerned.—The Petition was or dered to be printed. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE rose to present a Petition which had been placed in his hands from an indivil dual named Sir Harcourt Lees. He stated that lie had no acquaintance with the Petitioner, but that the Petition contained statements which he regretted had not been before in the possession of the House, since he understood it to be the intention of a Right Hon. Gentleman opposite to move that night for leave to bring in a Bill for removing the ,restrictions tinder which Roman Catholics were placed by the laws of this country. It prayed that the House would re ject such a Bill, as being dangerous to the peace and existence of the country. He would not read the whole of the Petition to the House as it was very long—( A /ou ght)—neither )—neither . could he answer f or th e truth of the allegations which it contained, because he was not acquainted with the basis on whi c h some of them rested. As far, however, as he could under stand the conclusions and the prayers of the Petition, they appeared to him to be very reasonable. It touched strongly upon the religious part of the ques• tion, which he conceived to be the essential pirt, and upon which all the other parts were founded. He !mew that Hon. Gentlemen who advocated the other 'side of the.question alwitys kept that part of it out of view;. but this, he, contended, was an unfair way of discussing it. The Petition stated that a Catholic con , :piracy had been entered into in beland to establish Pi: E :•EVE s PEN v the Catholic religion. This had been proved by the confession of persons about to suffer an ignominious punishment, from the sentence of the law—( Hear ). This bad been borne out by the Right Hon. the At torney-General for Leland in November last, at the tri. 1 of the Ribbonmen in Ireland, when it was proved that the object of the conspiracy was to overthrow the British Constitution, and to murder all the Pro. 1 1 te,tants. It stated one object of the conspiracy to be Ito make P•pish Priests the returning officers at elec tions—(A burgh).—lle saw nothing like a joke in this--(l.aughterj—he thouglxit a veryserious matter. He hoped that this was lint the way that those who taiked of Reim m were desitous of reforming that House. The Petition also prayed that the House •would investigate the inquisitorial acts of the Catho lic Monasteries, Nunneries, and Jesuitical Establish ments in Ireland. The mourable Baronet expressed his concurrence in the sentiments contained in the ! Petition , as to the dangerous nature of the Catholic doctrines. He also agreed with an Honoirrable Mem ber who spoke upon the subject the other night, that no Cabinet ought to allow this to be an open ques tion. It was understood that the object of the Go vernment of Ireland was conciliation. Was it con ciliation to put the lives and properties of the Pro testant population in the danger which would result from a removal of the laws which protected them against these danger; ? Ile thought the effect.which this system had already produced was to be seen in the state in which Ireland now was. Mr. WHITE stated his belief, that not one alle gation of the Petition was founded in truth, He, could Teak . from his own knowledge of the country, and of the people of Ireland ; and he only wished that Honourable Members knew them as well as he did. The Catholic population of Ireland would not then he calumniated a.s they were. This was not a Catholic cause, but the cause of the Empire. He repeated, that if the Hon. Member knew the parties who suffered these deprivations, he ssould not have said what he had done; he would not so cruelly ma lign a body of people who discharged their duty to the Empire as they did.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. Similar Pt titions were presented from the town of Newcastle under:Lyme, from the Archdraconry of Berko, and from the Parish of ilat6tll Mt. COKE presented a Petition, signed by fifty. five of the Clergy of the Diocese of Norwich, pray ing that the Roman Catholics might be relieved from the disabilities under which they had so long laboured. The Petition was then lead by the Clerk. Sir F. BURDETT iose, not only sto express his satisfaction at a Petition which was so honourable to. the parties from whom it proceeded, but also to state his dissatisfaction at the exhibition of this annual farce of bringing forwayd the question year after year, sowing the seeds of danger, by reviving and foment. ing all the oppressive passions, and feelings of - trio. lated rights, which were connected with its agitation ;. and that particularly, since they had heard, only two nights ago, from one who was formerly the eloquent advocate of the Catholics, now Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that he believed there was no chance of carrying the question in their favour. Thus it op-. peared, that after all the exertions he had made its the cause, he had only selected it as a theme for his eloquence, as a means of catching a little fleeting po pularity. And now the subject was again to to brought forward to hold tip to the people of Ireland all their wrongs and injuries,-fainted by the elo quence of the Right Honourable Gentleman in the brightest hues, to be followed by the assurance that they must have no hope of redress; and this, too, coming from a Minister of the country. It would• be far better to tell them at once that all their hopes were extinguished, and tbat they were never to- ex-, pect a restoration of their just rights. If the Right Han. Gentleman had always known that there was, no chance of success, why did he proceed in. this, , course ? Why were these unfortunate people so lan . g to feel the pangs of hope deferred, to end as lane it depair confirmed ? But the Right Hon. Gentle - man had said more than that—he had stated it to,. be his opinion that no Administration could ever. be found whose Members could be brought to agree upon this measure, which, as he believed, was abso.a lutely necessary to the peace and safety of the coun try. They had heard from the Right Honourable Gentleman that he was ready to-give up hisplace, if by doing that he . could accomplish the object for which he had so zealously and so eloquently pleaded. But it appeared to hint that the manner in which he had taken place was a compromise of that object. But there had been instances of Administrations who agreed upon this question—(Hear, hear, fro= Else Treasury beaches). '1 here was the Administration of Mr.FoA—(Clice7s of dissent from the Treasury benches). Undoubtedly there was at leasea majority in the Ca-. binet at that time iii favour of the question.. They brought in a measure in its favour--(Hear,' hear). — They could not cei tainly carry it, because they found deseiters in a gum ter where the present Government need not fear it. All the miseries of Ireland had arisen from the impotence and scandalous injustice of her Government, and she was now in a state worse than had ever before been known. The other night the First Law Officer of that Government was basely deserted in a case where he had endeavoured to make the law effective to the best of his judgment and conscience. And the teason assigned by the Right Honourable Secretary was, that •he would not do justice to either party, because he was afraid of giving a triumph to one of them. He objeoted altogether to ex qfficio informations; but if there was ever a case in which circumstances would justify one s it appeared to be the one in question. With the body who were concerned in that transaction, the question of the Catholics was not a matter of religion; it was not a political consideration which made theni hos tile? it was a calculation of arithmetic. They held all the places and the emoluments of the Govern ment, and they were determined not to let in the larger part of the population to share them. Hem- • I ..-••••• ~..~ ~~r