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I From the Alaik dated iVednestlay PARIS, Now. 29. is said that, to meet the urgent wants of the state, the Spanish eitru have just made an offer to the Government of the suut of 25 gni:Dona of reale. General Foy 1 Nleximilian Sebastian) died yesterday at his house . • Roe de la Chausse d'Antin, at two o'clock. of an aneurism of the bean ; hi. age was fifty. The malady of which he died, and under which he sulfered for a long time, did not prevent him from per. suing his usual occupations ; but for the last eight days the heart was so much expaoded, that it was only when lying on his back that "he could respire. General Foy has left a widow and five children, all under age. • Hoe hound will take ghee to-morrow (Wednesday). 11. Benjamin Constant is seriously indisposed with a bowel corn plkint. Sit Stratford Canning ( Mr. Stratford Canning) Ambassador from Entered to the Pore, left Rome on the 15th inst. for Naples, where be was to embark on board the Tbetis frigate, which will entery him to Constantinople. nis Excellency 61. de Schrant, Privy Counsellor to the Emperor efAuetria, and his Atubsonadoe Extraordinary and Minister Plc. bipotemiary to the Confederation, died suddenly at Berne on the Alch inst. The evening beim M. de Schrant had returned to the d.ty from the country, where he had passed the summer. It is said he was ihl years of age, during 20 of which he hail filled the situa nun, which he had held in a manner which makes his loss the sub. sect of general regret. Yesterday, at the retwesentation of Leonidas, in the box of the .11 it it of Orleans, a young Greek was noticed, who was stated to be the son of the brave (length,. 134 Trieste Gazette, of the 12th November, contains the fol. tetwin* 1 esterday, a vessel, coming direct from Alexandria in twenty-' two days. entered our part. Tie Captain states. that the Turco. Pgyptian fleet, a hundred ail strong, consisting of 45 transports, Amenean. English, Austrian, Neapolitan; and Sardinian, sailed maths 15th of Oct. five days before his departure. It carried 12,t1(10 troops ; fifteen tire ships and two steam-boats accompanied it. The same Captain saw it again in the waters of Candia, and sailed with it till November 3, when he left it off Neutrino. lip to that time the Turee.Egyptian feet had not met with the Greek squadron." Letters from Alapeadria, dated October 19, state, it was on the 17th mat the Turde.Egyptian fleet left that port. It carried eight thousand infantry, and nine thousand horse. It consisted besides et 65 Alps of war, great and small, 13 brigs, 40 Christian trans ports, 10 fire ships, and one steam-boat. It is therefore one of the most formidable armaments that the Porte ever sent to sea. It is supposed to have already arrived In the Mores, as a great number et Ottoman sails have been seen in its waters.—. 4 ugsturgh Gazette. (From the ("merrier Franceirof Tuesday.l We !Give received the following from Marseilles, dated No ember M : A person, who arrived the day before yesterday from Alexandria, souse that the Turco-Egyptian fleets, which sailed on the 17th, Itch, and 19th of October, consisted of 60 armed vessels, frigates, vorretter, brigs, and Ure.ships, 10 Turkish transports, and 40 Eu ropean transports, which had been chartered at a very low rate. There were on !maul 0,000 infantry, and 1,500 cavalry, disciplined in the European manner, and according to the French method. The staff is composed entirely of European officers, of whom the „greater number are French. The plan of campgign had been re. teiveld a few days previously from Constantinople. The French sffieers did not dissimulate that It bad been furnished by an Euro. •,..tan Ambassador. It is said, dist after the debarkation of the troops, the squadron, with the fire.shim., will proceed to Hydra, to burn the slops which are span the stocks. (From the Quottd:tant of Tuesday.l PARIS, OCT. 21 • The fall of the Funds continues with frightful rapidity. All turd' Stocks feel the deplorable effects of the system. The creation of the 3 per cents. bears its fruits—it acts upon all the Funds, not only of France, but of Europe; the 5 per cents., that old stock which for this year past remained almost invariably stripped of the •nfortiesestmt, in contempt of the solemn words of 31. De Villele, yield to circumstances which want of foresight has created yet it intuit Le said, and repeated without ceasing, the emission of the 3 per cents, has produced or accelerated all these results. It is in vain to tell us that the fall is common to all Europe; but this is taking the effect for the cause. Since what moment does this fall appear in its terrible rapidity ?—and what is there in common be tween the slow and insensible fall of the Funds of Europe before the system and the immense decline of them all since the unhappy conception of the French Minister? Twenty.four mil . 113os of rentes, at three per cent. endowed with the atiortiszement tall in precipitate ruin, the 6 per cents. follow, and perhaps the slightest action of the amuftissolent would have arrested the fall. Thus our gloomy predictions are acromplished—thus Royalist opinion has the pain to see the grand idea of restoration put to the honed. How ill have the Royal intentions of the Monarch been accomplished by those who hare precipitated our beautiful country . into new misfortune. ! Vet let France and the emigrants take courage ; the throne, the source of all good, the hope of the on. fortunate, will repair our distresses ; let us address our prayers to it; it will comprehend the wants of France devoted and supplicant, and Which is in vain calumniated to deceive it. The Chambers . will second the royal thoughts of the Crown ; let our King say a word, and many censeimices, long repressed, will freely express the wish of a whole people. For the rest, the time foe argument is past. Opinions hive be. come facts and arguments, arithmetical figures, and these facts and figures accuseff the adMinistfation which has prepared eo many misfortunes and committed so many faults. Let 31. de Villele lay his head on his conscience; let him see there where is the cause of the decline of our creilt P—let him ask himself whether it is in his poser eo deliver us from the abyss which his imprudence has dug? In our present critical situation we have reason to wonder at the Mena of the Moniteer and the Emile, lately so fertile in words, to tice the creditors of the State to a fatal conversion, which now do not even deign to calm the publi: alarm in the name of this minis try, which appears on this necasimi to employ the organs of its aaghta only, to mislead opinion. PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL. IFrom the Lisboa Gesette of November 15.1 OFFICIAL. DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. 1. Set,—His Most Faithful Majesty having, by his letters plasm of the 13th 111 p (this year) erect yd and recognised Brasil as on. Envies independent of the kin ms of Portugal and Al presdMg sad transferring from that tiros the Sovereignty of that pin MMs august son the Prince Don Pedro, and in cos tummies, of a Trent y of Peace and Alliance between the two beaks having been concluded on the 29th of the month of Au gust (this rear), and - ratified by his Most Faithful Majesty this thy, his Majesty is pleased to order, that vessels, as well men. • ofwar al machaninien, bearing the (*seinen (lei, shall be ad. witted from this time forward into the ports of those kingdoms, sad of tie mikeies. This I communicate to your Excellency f=u l x ., information, and the due execution of the same. Ood your Excellency. Palace, Ilith Nov. 1826. CONDE DE PORTO SANTO. To Pasha Joaquin Jose Montalto Tortes. 11. (Wind for word the same, addressed to the Conde da Bar. boosts Fiantleco.) (Addressed to Don Miguel Antonio de klelho) after the same prethable' prisoseds":—" His Majesty bas been pleased to order, lieselssmisethethed the ships and merchandise of Brasil shall be ad • aniilid iota the ports of those kingdoms ; the former being eons'. thrill se Portuguese, and the latter paying for the present a duty M II per cent ad weleretus; the duties on transshipment and re. remaking the same as before the separation." I. (Addressed to Seabee Jose Manuel Meld° de Biomes for the infeematies of the Beard of Commerce, is weed fee word Amman as Itfo. S.) • 6.* It being Mad by the Bth article of the Treaty . concluded he• tussle hemp( and Brun, that a mixed Commission shall be formed to estimate the losses warmed by Portuguese subjects since Braid eswethweed hostilities against Portugal, sod though the place for die meming of the Commission, and the time for the causmasemasir Of us labours, are not yet fixed, it is however necessary tbat the reenact*, documents thould be prepared, since, awarding to the said snide, no claims will be reputed valid, 'thieve math Atkin a year from the installation of the said Com. His Majesty orders that the Royal Board of Commerce *A take the necessary measures, giving notice, at the same des,, that ill persons who, in consequence of the events which kith takes place, have lost °Sees which they held in Brasil far aft, bake • elght to address their claims to the said Com. stiwilea, those excepted who left Brasil accompanying his most litsidebal Majesty by his order, who are to be indemnified in a dif. heath lIMMUW. . Th. Supplement of the Lisbon Gazette, Nov. 15, contains along ',Defec t by which, after stating his remnant endeavours to promote the welfare both of Portugal and Brazil, and the signature of the Treaty between eke two countries, he announces, that from this day, he avittine•the title of `• Emperor of Bring,' in addition to &bother tides of his Royal Crocn. DEPARTMENT OF FOREMN AFFAIRS. —.. ............. ..----.....______ J‘Jk,;„li.,hti:by the Grace of (iod, Emperor of Brazil, and King d Portugal and of the Algarve' on this side and the other side of Ike sea in Africa, Lord of Guinea, of the Conquest, Navigation and Ontweserce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, India, ike. make known to all rote shell see these letters of ratification, that, on the 29th of li evt. in t Rio ebea Janeiro,presnt y b e f a t r w , e t e h n er m e e w e n n s d eo t ;: e el m ul s ed t s a e n r d en si e g i t ee in i p m e ro, my dearly beloved son, by the re.pective Plenipotentiaries, a treaty of race and alliance of the fiillowirg tenor : 'Mere follows the Treaty, with the Ilatificatioo of his Majesty 'abetted.) OFFICIAL. Nov. IG. Ills Majesty having received the tows of the happy conclusion of Oft Treaty of Alliance and Friendship with his Majesty the Em. pryer of Brazil, Prince Royal of Portugal and Algarve, his much need son, has been pleased cep determine, that on the 15th, 16th, sod 17th of thls' month, there shall be a grand Drawing.room at Court, that there shall be a general Illumination, and that the tri huh ahAll be shut ; and oo the 17th Te Deem shall be celebra:ed fie Patria•chal Church in hewer of this agreeable and interest. rp . t, which r.b is , to d t e ret ae b trroicat d ed n in i t o be usual s:i form n to t. the ii gsits, e the n P u r:l a st i el of the :egu ° tri n srdera ls , ' „r; the e (!'eham e b e era t of e Ine title. and towns of the kingdoms; and his Majesty, nntwith. eleielirs the severe pain which ke still suffers In hi* legs, and which loill Of* allow him te come egg **of with his people in his es- Aft • .mss.: pital en this happy occasion, will, bowcrer, receive, wit h his mew corned benignity, o n t h e 17 t h i nst . at two o'cloek in the afternoon, in the Royal Palace of Matra, all those who shall desire the honour of complimenting hint, and kissing his Imperial and Royal hand on this joyful event. LT9IIIOII, Now. 18. By letters, worthy of credit, from Rio de Janeiro, we know that commercial negotiations were on foot with the Members of France and Austria residing there, and the treaties were expected on the conclusion of the treaty cf independence, by which our august Sovereign conferred on his august son the rights of sovereignty osier that vast empire; and the genie letters give us every reason to be lieve that the just and paternal sent intents of friendship which fr. dissolubly unite Brazil and Portugal are there considered and tended to, in order to give the produce and manufactures of our country the preference and advantage in the duties which were to be expected, which the public will have the pleasure to see in due time. And we hope that the Portuguese will readily understand that oar august Sovereign, even when the urgent circumstances of the times oblige him to measures of the highest importance, never neglects to procure his beloved subjects all the means of promoting their advantage, it being unnecessary that we should pretend to anticipate the wise designs and measures which he endeavours to adopt for the general good of his suites. Exchange on Loudon, Nov. 18.—.05 PRICES (W BRITISH STOCKS YESTIMDA Y. Bank Stock 114 210 Long Ann. 193 I I' per rent. Red. 81j 823 India Stock 2.18 i 3 per Cent. C ons . 82; ; ; 83g I India Bends 16 dig 82j 83{ South Sea Stock Ditto A Ccct. . 833 Alij 84 83j Ex. R i lls lid. 1,000/. 15 14 17 3 p l per ent 903 Ilda 3 per Cent. Red. 893 903 Ditto, 500/. 1;e 14 17 11 dig ew 4 per Cent. 991 100 j 993 Ditto, Small )5 14 17 11 die 101 I 1001 Lottery Tickets 19/.195. PKICF:s I IF ILIIEIUN Brozillan Bonds 88 Ditto Scrip 136 dis Ditto Acct. 14 dis Buenas Ayres Bonds 76 73 Colombian Bonds Ditto Bonds (1824) 63 n 3 i 4 3 3 Ditto Acct. 62i 3i 3 4 31 2i Danis Bonds Ditto Bonds (1825) 39 38 Ditto Acct. 391 1 French It en tes 5 per Ct. 941. 30e. Exchange 23f. 10c. French Renters 3 p.r Ct. 64f. 50e. Exchange 25f. 10c. s'l't WKS VEST/Lil/A . Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds (1826) 18 171 19 Guatemala Bonds Ditto Scrip 12 14 124 12 di. Ditto Acct. 11 dir Nlerietes !Santis Ditto Bonds (ICU) 634 41 4 j Ditto Acct. 634 41 43i4114 Peruvian Bonds 46 46 Ditto Acct. 47 Portuguese Bonds 83 Rus.ian Kinds (11122) 861 74 Snaniali Cons. 131 4 Ditto Cons. (182 ) PRICES OF SHARES YEST&RVAI • NUM*. Share. Pala. Premium per Share. Anglo-Mexican £lOO 33 22; 20 Bolivar Castello& P;spiritoSantoßrazil 100 6 Haytien lOO 6 ills Potosi, La Paz, and Peruvian 60 6 2i 24 dia Rio de la Plata lOO 5 i I4 Tlalpux4hua 4OO 20 414 United Mexican ......... 40 20 8 Ditto New 4O 10 7i • Wash Iron and Coal 23 13 Ci i dig •eauaANC CCIIPANIES. Alllaneeßritishand lovely:— 100 10 Ditto Marine lOO Palladium N 2 /die Protector Pk. MISCILLANEOUS. - Australian British Iron lOO 25 10 %die British Rock and Patent Salt 10 6 3 2 British and Foreign Paper BO 3 11 d general Steam Navigation lOO 5 1 3 d is Honduras lOO 5 2 ills Imperial Plate Glares Metropolitan Alderney Dairy 25 4 jdis par Rio de la Plata Agricultural lOO i 4 dig liritiOtt apreoo. DRURY-LANE 7'IIEATEE. This Raining, FRIDAY, Dec. 2, will be performed the Romantic Drama of FAUSTUS. ►austus. Mr. Wallack : Wasne;,l4;.Wrleyt Mephlstophfles, Mr..l Russell. Itosell►, Mlu I. Paton; Adlne, Mies Graddon. After which the Comic Opera, ( THE WAGER; or, THE MIDNIGHT HOUR. The principal Characters by Menus. Dowton, Horn, J. Riessell, Hoe% . rcyleure, and Bedford i Mime Kelly and Cubist; and Sire. C. J•nws. Tu•aiurrow, The School for Scandal, and The Spectre Bridegroom. - •- - COVRNT-GARDEN THEATRE'. Thh Evening, FRIDAY, Dee 1,1111 be performed the Tragedy of HAMLET. _ _ Hamlet, Mr. Serle (from iiie . " - F.ngilsl2 Theatre. Brussels. hie IM appearance In this eountry): Potonius, Mr. Blanchard: Lune., Mr. Cooper. OptieHa, Miss Hammersley. After which ftlth time) a new Piece taped THE SCA PE-00AT. - _ _ _ _ _ The Charaeteni by Stevan. innieliarii.Fonper. W. Farm, and Meadows: Misses Junes and A. Jones. To.morrow, • 1, The Scene-Gnat, and Aladdin. ADELPHLTHEATRE, STR.4ND, This Evening, FRIDAY, D♦e.2. will be presented the Nastteal Melo-Dramatie Burietta of THE PILOT; Or, A TALE OF THE SE A. The princiral Characters by Bruer& Terry, Yates. T. P. Cooke, aid J. anti After which the favourite Ilitrietta of ALL AT COVENTRY ! Timothy. Mr. Wrench; Lively. Mr. J. Reeve. To conclude with the Comic Revile Operatic Tragic Pantomimic Burlesque Burletta Spectacular Eitravilganza of DON GIOV %NISI ; or. A SPE C T RE. ON HORSED WK. Don Giovanni, Mrs. Fltzwllllatns Don Guzman, and Ghost of h!rn self, Mr. T. P. Cooke; for. Octavio, Mr. Foster; Leporello, Mr. J. Rears. Donna Anna, Wu Roden. NEXT TUESDAY, Four of £30,000, and other IW:es, exceeding a Quarter of a Million in Sterling iloney. All NEXT TUESDAY. The BRITISH Pares commenced publishing yesterday morn ing as five o'clock. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEcsmeEß 2. 1821. The Paris journals of Tuesday have arrrived, with the Etoile dated the following day. The morning papers are almost entirely all filled with reports of the speech of M. ME RI t.II ots in defence of the Courtier Francais. We gave a summary abridgment of it yesterday from the Ftuile. The death of General For, the eloquent leader of the liberal opposition in the Chamber of Deputies, is an nounced in these papers. It is also stated that M. BEN J•MIN CONSTANT is dangerously ill. Several accounts are given of the sailing of the Turco- Egyptian armament from Alexandria. They all agree in representing it as of fearful magnitude. According to the lowest estimate it consisted of nearly 10,000 disciplined troops, commanded, we repeat it with pain and indigra lion, by European officers, principally Frenchmen. The plan of the campaign, it is stated, wu transmitted from Constantinople, and the base renegades in the Egyptian service boasted, we trust falsely, that "it had been fur nished by an European Ambassador." It is useless, how ever, to indulge tither in lamentation or invective. The patriots will soon have to encounter dangers far more formidable than any they have yet had to contend with. If they can maintain themselves against this attack, they will be safe. It is not in the power of the Paths of EGYPT to fit out such another expedition. We do not despair of the cause of Greece. We have extracted an absurd article from the Quotidiettne, relative to the decline of the French funds, as a sample of the shallow and factious style in which poli.ical subjects are treated by the royalists opposed to M. de VILMA. The writer of the Quaidienne pretends that the whole depression is owing to the creation of the three per ants., and gravely asserts that that disastrous measure, extending its effects across the Channel, has been pro luctive of the fall of stocks in this country. The decline in Paris on Tuesday was very great The five per cents., which closed on Monday at 93 f. 90 c., were reduced on Tuesday to 91 f. c., and the three per cents. suffered a further depres sion from 63 f. to 61 f. 25 c. Faexcrt FUNDS.—PARIS, Nov. 29.—Fire per Cents. 91f. 60c. ; Three per Cents. 61f. 26c. ; Rente sle Naples, Certif. Fal. connet, NC; Royal Spanish Loan 18M, 471. Exchange on Lon. on—one month, 21f. 95c. ; three months., 24f. 74c—Castre Ai:then:Nue. By the Lisbon Mail yesterday letters and rapers were. received from that capital to the 19th ult. Tile &wile of the 16th contains the official ratiacatiou W.' the •ttesty, with Brazil, and several decrees for carrying its stipula tions into execution with regard to the losses sustained by the Portuguese during the hostilities between ti.e two countries. Ilis Meat Faithful Majesty has, according to the terms of the treaty, assumed the title of Emperor of limit. Ott the 17th 7`e Deem was celebrated at the Patriarchal Church, and public rejoicings were ordered in all the cities and towns of the kingdom. It appe-,;rs that commercial negotiations have been opened by the Erni linn Government with the diplomatic agents of France and Austria now at Rio de Janeiro. The apprehensions with regard to the safety of public credit, the solvency of country banks, and many other topics, appear now likely Eon to subside. Nothing 1 is more alarming to many minds than an indefinite and shapeless evil, because there is no state under which the fears of mankind can be so easily worked upon. We re gret to observe with what malignant pains some of our journals bay- strived to create this overwrought excitement, merely to serve certain temporary and stock-jobbing pur pose:. iYe had intended to have remarked at some length on the system which has been pursued on this occasion, but we are obliged to defer the subject. CITY, THURSDAY EVINING. When we state that Money was comparatively plentiful, and Money Stock scarce, we need hardly add that confi dence is in a degree beginning to revive. Tie New Four per Cents. and Consols shut to-day, preparatory to the payment of the Dividends, and some very large purchases (in many instances by orders from the country) were made of Money Stock. Consols for the January Account closed at 83: 4, having improved during the day above per cent., and at the conclusion of it they hall a very firm ap pearance. Exchequer Bills left off at 63. Zs. discount. The Foreign Market had not a great deal of business transacted in it, and prices did not materially vary. Co lombian Bonds were 62 3; Mexican Six per Cents. 64j; Guatemala Scrip 12 dia.; Brazilian ditto 13', 13 dis. ; Spanish Bonds 131, Greek ditto IS 20, and Danish ditto ..S8 60. The Sugar Market is still in a very deprevAud ware.— There was no public sale of Coffee, and Ruin was but little inquired after. The letters that were brought by the John, from Ja maica to Belfast, have arrived in town. They are as late as the Bth of Oct. and represent the island in a very satis factory condition. There have been fine rains, that have had a most beneficial effect upon the crops, and the negy —s ore contemed and happy. Letters from Madrid of the 17th November, have arrived; the following extract is taken from one of them :—" 1 am sorry to say nothing is decided upon with respect to the new Tariff; some thinking it too high, and others too low ; so that, for the moment, there is a stoppage in the making of it. The reductions are chiefly in favour of the Spanidt flag. Every thing is quiet here, and the came I hear in the country generally. The government feel daily more and more the want of money, and this, in time, will bring about an amelioration." The Ekile states, that in consequence of the urgent wants of the state, the Spanish clergy has just offered the Government the sum of twenty-five millions of rcals (abcut 250,0001. sterling.) Should this offer be accepted it may be considered a further proof of the determination of Fer dinand not to comply with the recommendation of these who advise a change or system. for it can hardly be sup posed that the clergy would makes° great a sacrifice except with the certainty that it would tend to confirm their own ascendancy. According to every account the Spanish Treasury must be in a desperate condition, so much so in deed, that it is stated in a letter front Madrid, which ap pears in the Journal des Davits, that when the revolt in the garrison occurred at Valencia, from the non-payment of the troops, the Treasurer-General, who was ordered under any circumstances to send money there, was unable to make up the sum of 100,000 reals (about 1,0001. sterling), without drawing upon his private purse. The accounts from Vigo Bay reach to the 10th ult. The stormy weather still prevented the further progress of the adventurers in searching the vessels already discovered. No attempt bad been made with the diving-bell. The new Tariff of Austrian Custom Duties has just been promulgated. It is uniform for all the Austrian States. Thus the Customs of the Tyrol will in future be subjected to the same regulations as those of the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom. By the Turkey mail letters were yesterday received from Smyrna to the 20111, anti from Constantinople to the 27th of October. They mention a report that part of the Egyp tian fleet had arrived at Navarino. The Greek Authorities are also stated to have lent in their submission to the Pacha ; but both rumours, we suspect, want confirmation. The mercantile letters, however, go into details as to the prospects of the consequent trade in the Mores. The German journals contain the following article:— " An English merchant-ship was recentiy met off Candia by two Greek vessels. Having come from Alexandria with 600,000 colonatis on board for Ibrahim Pacha ' the Captain was summoned on board the Greek ships. He con - plied immediately, and produced his bills of lading made out for Candle. The Greeks 'aid they would examine the cargo, and, detaining the captain, steered towards his vessel. Some Turkish passengers on board the English ship, upon seeing the Greeks coining up, fired upon them, by which one man was killed and three wounded. The Greeks, enraged, and not knowing that there was money on board, sunk the ves sel, With all its crew and passengers. A single Turk and three sailors were taken out of the water, and conveyed to Napoli di Romania with the Captain. Upon arriving there it was known that there were troops and money on board, and that Modon was the place of their destination." Accounts were yesterday received from Demerara to the 2lst.of October. The excessive drought continues, and , the distress for water is severely felt. The destruction of the crops is now represented to be very SeliOW. • Letters from Port-au-Prince to the 16th of October mention that the new tariff, by which the duties on Eng lish goods and shipping were augmented, went into opera tion on the 14th. A severe gale occurred at Aux Cayes on the 28th of September. Two American brigs, a schooner, a Danish galliot, and a number of small Haytian craft, were destroyed by it ; the only vessels that escaped were the Charlotte and Hope, English brigs. Letters were yesterday received from Mexico to the 2d October. The sickness lately so prevalent on the coast had reached the capital; the letters state that one thousand people were buried in one week, chiefly from the measles. Trade was in consequence very dull; exchange with Eng land nominally 61 to 66. The letters and papers from Batavia state, that an escort with treasure, consisting of' 40 soldiers, and with 200,000 silver rupees (about 20,0001.), proceeding from Batavia to Souraba, had been attacked by the Raja of Soloo. livery man was filled, and the treasure seized by the insurgents. Des AAAAA r. A 1413 FATAL Du et.—A letter from Mayence states that the 16th instant furnished a duel which offers an extraordinary example of animosity. A Prussian officer and a student were at a ball at Wisbsden ; the latter trod unintentionally upon the foot of the former; when the ball was over the officer expressed his anger to the student, who replied that he had already begged his pardon, and now renewed his apology. The officer, not being satisfied, pro , posed a duel, which was accepted, and pistols were agreed upon. The officer stipulated that the combat should not terminate without a serious wound, or the death of one of the combatants ; he fired first, and missed ; the student had the same fate. They loaded again ; and four or five times the event was the same. At the fifth discharge, the officer having missed his aim, the student fired, and stretched his adversary upon the ground, the ball having passed through both temples.—Etelle. Au error has generally gone forth on the subject of Sir Hudson Lowe. That officer is not appointed Governor of Ceylon, which situation is now held by Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Barnes. Sir Hudson Lowe is appointed second in command, and is a llinjor-General on the :Rad the above Island. THE BRITISH PRESS. DRURY-LAVE TeIEATRE. If there were one circumstance indicating more than anothrr the decline of a theatrical taste among us, it might he found in the very thin house last night assembled to witness the performance of Sheridan's Srhovl fur Scandal, at this theatre. However, truth to say, the fault was not entirely with the audience; the actors also bore a share in the blame, and doubtless contributed their modicum to wards "causing this defect." for, with the exception of one or two characters, the play was miserably performed, and had performances will induce bad houses. If Mr. Wallack has discovered his own capabilities for the due representation of Charles, he has considerably the advantage of us in perspicacity, and, as it would se:m, is more cleat-sighted that way than the bulk of the spec tators who last night attended the theatre. The game remark will apply to Mr. Archer, in the sentimental Joseph. They were indeed " Par mobile frstrum," anti every way worthy of one another. Mr. Browne plan' Sir Benjamin Backbite, and looked the very pink• of fashion, seeing he was dressed in tele colour from top to toe, (queue, coat, hose, and inexpressibles, inclusive), and seemed for all the world as if be had been immerstal in a vat of red lead, or like one of Karon's's light horse just escaped front the Red Sea. Williams's Sir Oliver Surfirce verified the title: it was indeed superficial and wanted all the depth and energy which Terry and Dowton were wont to infuse into the character. It is painful to observe that excellent and once most pleasing actor, Knight, still suffer ing under the effects of indisposition, and to Lear those tones of voice formerly irresistably quaint and comical, now deteriorated and nearly destroyedfrom the same cause. To turn to the more agreeable shades in the picture, Dowton's Sir Peter was, as it always is, excellent in its way. So good indeed, as almost to cause us to cease te!yet tiug he no longer plays Sir Oliver, although the latter has faHen into the hands cf a successor every way so inade quate as Mr. Williams. With abundant spirit and anima tion, fend more intellectuality titan is usually bestowed upon the part, Miss Kelly'e-Lady Teazle is not altogether what we could desire. The actress does not look the cha racter well, and even she has failed to convince us that the piquante wife of Sir Peter is best when converted into a hoyden. Miss Kelly has too much of nature in her com position to admit of her becoming a fine lady, anti we are not sorry for it. Her's and lter's alone are the forward chambermaid, the sublimely pathetic of melo-dra me, and the artless country girl—domains wide enough, one would think, to satisfy an ambition more than ordinarily great. Her performance of tad!' Teazle had, as we have said, a multitude of good points, and the actress did not fail to do many things which no other female but herself now on the stage can effect. But, on the whole, it was inferior to what we have before seen and what Miss Kelly owes to her own reputation. It was not sufficiently lady-like, and, at the best, was only a kind of High Lye below Stairs. Mrs. Davison's Mrs. Candour was all we could wish. FASIIION4BLA INTELLMCNCE. Lord and lady F. L. Gower arrived yesterday at their Some b Albemarle-street, from a tour. _ Lord 31olynenz arrived is town yesterday, from Croxteth Sir %1 rn. Scott, Ran. arrived yesterday at the Royal Ilotel, St. inme‘'s.s:reer, from his seat in Scotland. ii'ill Egerton, Esq. M.P. arrived yesterday at his house in St. James's-square, from his seat, Tattoo Park, Cheshire. The Earl and Countess of Jersey have arrived at their seat, :Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, from a tour. Don Manuel Saucier haa arrived at Warren's Hotel, Regent. street. Sir John and Lady Marchbanke have left Cook's Hotel, Albe marle-street, for Paris, Sir William Abdy, Hart. has left town on a tour. Earl Vernlam has arrived at his seat, Gorhambury, Hats, from a tour. Departures from Long's Hotel. Bond...street t--Captain Lindsay. for Chchenhatn ; J. Owen, Esq. for Bath ; and J. Garth, Esq. on a tour. - - Arrival. at Fenton's new Hotel. St. James'a.street :—Sir Wm. Parker, Hart. from his sent in Suffolk; Major Graham. 10th Dragoons, from a tour; James %Vest, Esq. from Warwickshire; and Captain Wollaston, 11. N. from Suffolk. A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday af ternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing -street, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, the Earls of Liverpool and ilarrowhy, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary Canning, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Wynn, Lord Baxley, &c. The Ca binet broke up about four o'clock. Afterwards the Eatl of Liverpool transacted business with the: Chancellor of the Exchequer. _ _ _ Miss Wilson, the singer, who created a powerful sensa tion at Drury-lane Theatre a few years hack, and who has since been exercising her talents at Florence, in die great theatre, at Milan, and at the St. Carlo, at Naples, as Prima Donna, is recently returned to England, accompanied by Mr. Welsh, her original master; and, we understand, is in treaty with the Committee of Alanagement at Old Drury. THE ITALIAN OPERA.—The negotiation between Mr. Ebers and Madame Catalani to sing lathe King's Theatre is still in progress. Pasta enters upon her engagement early in the new year. Madame tle Ilegnis will remain in Italy during the winter ; this lady's health is reported to be already improved, and her voice in part restored. Ma dame Fender is returned to her native country. This (I.:- lightful warbler is engaged at the Salle Favart, in Pat is, which has been newly decorated, for the performance of Italian Operas. Madame Fealer is to receive three hun dred thousand francs for five years. a prodigious sum for a singer on the Continent. Donzelli is engaged as tr;ino tenure at the Favart. Barhaia, the purveyor-general for most of the Italian Operas, both in Italy and in Germany, has engaged Lablache for five years. to sing alternately at Naples, Milan, Verona, Vienna, St. Petersburgh, and ner haps at Venice. The highly-esteemed David has likeivise been engaged by Barba's, and is at present singing at the Theatre St. Carlos at Naples. Charles and Madame Ves- Iris are now datzeing at Naples, where Albert, from Paris, is engaged for a limited period. Signor Ambrogio Minoja, director of the musical con servatory at Milan, died a short time ago in that city. Minoja, who studied composition under the celebrated Sala, at Naples, produced several operas, which were performed successfully at Rome and Milan. He alsocotnposcd several pieces of church and chamber music ; among the latter are four quartets, known by the title of I Dirertimenti dellq Campagna. In the year 1796, Minoja obtained a gold medal, worth one hundred ducats, which Bonaparte awarded as a prize for the best Funeral Symphony to the memory of General Hoche. When Napoleon was crowned King of Italy, Minoja composed fur the occasion a Veni Creator and a 7e Ileum, which were executed by two hundred and fifty performers in the Cathedral of Milan. A cantata, of :his compcsition, was also pt rformcd at La Scala, at the time of the marriage of the Vie:sroy of Italy. Minoja was the author of several letters on singing, which were printed at Milan in It IQ.—Parthenon. Tux (Milton DON.—This title or epithet is given, in Ireland, to a gentleman of moderate fortune, in the county of Roscommon. It occurs frequently in the de bans of the Catholic Association. The real name of the gentleman is Owen O'Conor—but he is denominated Den, which signifies a Prince: and the simple translation of " The O'Conor Don," is " The Prince O'Conor." It is supposed that lie is descended from a family who, shout the period of 317, or some such early time, Fettled in Ire land, slid enjoyed the principality of Connaught. The title is one of mere courtesy, which his neighbauis confer upon him. A correspondent desires us to correct an error in the name of the late Mr. Chinnery, whose decease we noticed on Wednesday. Instead of George Rose Chinnery, it should have been George Robert, he having been so chris tened after his god-fathers, the Right Honourable George Rose ar:d Sir Robert Preston, Bart. Mr. Chinnery died after an illness of three days, at Madrid, where he had been residing for the last two years as Chief Ccromis.sioner for liquidating the debts between this country and Spain. WESTERN LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. —A detailed account of the late proceedings at this Insti tution, and some interesting observations on such Esta blishments, are given in the 78th Number of The News Literature and Fashi2n, which is published to-morrow at No. 7, Brydges-street, Covent-garden, and may be ordered of all Booksellers and Newsmen. " GIIAMMATICAI. SENSIBILITIES" OP Tia MORNING HERALD. The character of Mr. O'CoNxrtt for diteretien ar i d sound judgment, as a party leader, does certainly not stabil very likh ; but. as an eloquent s?ettker, he cosk,,,, to praise which we never yet hearth disputed. The dfor:. img Herald, however, for tl•i• better inqrtielion of public orators as to the lwaid,',A $11:le, preound achulargiip upon the Irish Orator• of vesterday we have the following learned eri:iaue:___ 4. ‘ In alluding to an electioneering spereult of Wilk,e. a candidate for Sudbury, who made rather fre.! with tLp infallibility of Ow Pope, Mr. O'Connell said, at :ht la tt tneetiAg of the Asscciatian,' of which we pave a full rt• port yesterday, his speech was poor enough. but same Smate=house to which be aspired, he would til4 tto many bad speakers as ever yt t were collo ctt d togeth.. r . He nevi:r yet saw so many men rho were cnall o to ex. press the sitnplest ideas in a cons:cadre or gramiastlezi manner.' " " This sentence," adds the Herald, " is worthy of Dr. SYNTAX, in the most unhappy cap:lit ion of his sensibilities." We would defy Dr. Syntax. en. any nt h; Doctor, to equal this sentence. Btt " 'tis thes aspirirg DULNESS ever shines." It is important, lirraiever, a s e i,: s great QUINCTILIAN has begun to give his Institlies Eloquence, that we take a sample of his own s:3le, said after his best manner too, that we may dria the pul -1 stream of eloquence from the fountain bead. L est w ; might be supposed to:select a specimen invidiously, we w il l take it from the very same column cf its jetirrial shirt tronounces its critical sentence on the style of .Jr. Descanting with most learned ignorance on the sulj T e the funds, the public are presented with a summary o f queries in the following clear and (lass/co/dialect " We saw land tumbte from the extravaannt pitch i!hd been got sip to by laud-gamblers ; why, therefore, st su i d not funds experience the same reverse? If so/id land, b e . cause it had been got to an extravagant price by spcculaicrs, fell in price as rapidly as it rose, why not "IMPS in fall in value ? Why should names in Looks riniain at try high a rate But while all this is going on, what twat be thought of the original holders of five and four per ceri• stock; who were bamboozled into the lakinz a less intcrist fit their money? At that time we . recollect recomme n di rg them not to be h u mb ugge d, for sue said Mc thing n• 01;1'4 t o sure to have a turn like ail other Wort." There is no mechanic in these times that would not be ashamed of such a coarse and vulgar style as this. It is a style worthy only of the Cockney, who, being at alas, to find his chapeau on the breaking up of a et/oiling surietsi, exclaimed, in the warmth of eloquence, inspired by a (tail less search—"l say, waiter, has nobody not seen never a but nowhere ?" GIF'E NAPPECoM PANT. TO THE EDITOR OP THE BRITISH PM& Si it,-1 1 1. you have admitted into your report of the hirer. ing a personal attack made upon tne during my unavoidable absence. by a person or the name of Smythies, 1 appeal to your impartiality and justice to allow me to request tl:s public, through the medium of your Paper, to suspend their judgment until an action of defamation, which I have this day instructed my aolici.or to commence against him. shall have been tried. In the mean time the subjoined certificate of Mr. Dawson will tend to show the unfourakd and malicious nature of his assertions. I am, Sir, Your most obedient servant, London, Dec. 1,1825 li . PRIM " Mr. Oeorge Dawnon was prevent at a conversation no ‘Vednet. day hint, between Mr. Price and it man rf the name of Sraphies. Mr. Price appealed to him. and said, • This person makes a claim on me which I do not owe,hut sooner than be any further annoyed by him, if he will call at my bona and conduct himaelf with decorum. I will make him a present of live pounds ;' and that nothing lerthet passed.—London, De:. 1, 826." TO THE EDITOR OP THE BRITISH PRESS. Sia,—Obaerving in one of your late cumin an so count of a meeting of the Magistrates, relative to Peckham and Camberwell fairs, I beg to ofrer some observations thereon, and to correct some inaccuracies therein, as well -as in the statement in a subsequent number. In the first place, the measure for simprming the above fairs certainly did originate with the Vestry in 1543, and that on the motion of Mr. H. Gooch, who also gave evi &rice on the late occasion. pour sratemetit inentioes that several of the most respecta'lr inhabitants of Peck ham came forward to testify to the great annoyance of the fair, while the fact was, that no it.habitatie of Peckham. except Mr. George Haywood, was examined relative to Peckham fair, and his evidence only related to tolls ; and very many of the Longest resident and most respectable inhabitants of that place would have proved, had they been called on, that that fair hes been well coutlucted for several years past. With respect to Camberwell fair. Mr. Gooch proved that ten or twelve thieves were pointed ou: to him at the Lord Wellington public-house, Kent-road, about two miles from the fair; and that Hunt some years ago held a meeting at Kennington Common, on the fair day ; the whole of which has nothing to do with the question. Mr. Walsh certainly proves a nuisance, but that only a plicate one. The expense occasioned to the parish is also complained of; but perhaps some of the persons examined could hoe explained whether a groat part of that expense wra ect casioned by eating and drit,king. They could have it:- . formed the Magistrates who presided un those jelly occa sions ; and if one of the gentlemen had explain. el that one of the late parish-officers mounted u lamp-post to deliver a speech, at a late period of the night, they would have judged whether the parish fu-:d: bed net grea: l 4 cente buted to the eloquence displayed on the occasion. It is rather remarkable that Mr. Jackson corroborated the testimony of Mr. Gooch, although not in his eampar.y on the several occasions referred to. Upon the whole the evidence of the witnesses reminds me of the story of the thief who could bring twenty persons to prove he (lid no: steal the shovel, which was equally satisfactory with tiee . proof on this occasion, that the witness, did not Loon e: any charter to hold the fairs. The services of Mr. Wissett, a late highly respreed Magistrate for the county, are also mentioned, but I am able from my own knowledge to say that he was far from inimical to the fairs. One point more and I have dote. It is ol•served, that the claimants to the right of bolding the fair did net shun their title ; it would certainly have born most i.epru,lL:n in them ao to do, when the Chairman of the S,:ssions hal front the Bench, only a few months befcre, calied urn Grand Jury to declare the fairs a nuisance, nt;tl which the majority did do, and that, as appears by the r.cwspnl'! l reports, without any evidence whatever—how corrit • done I cannot say. A NEW SI:DSO:HIER. The citizens were yesterday amusing theinvilves xah the lamentable detail in a morning Paper (the Herald) of the amount of Exchequer Bills to be exchanged mpg' ~ on the 19th instant. The sage writer states the =oar; sc fifteen millions, and is sadly alarmed at the idea that if th half, which he discovers is 7,500,000, be called f,;r. Governmett must atop payment. It will relieve the fen; of the writer, for they have yet reached no other to know that the amount to be paid off' a: prt sent is m• four millions, two-thirds of which are held by re... bodies. The amount that can be demanded dors not e ceed one million. The notice in the Gazette is rai7l.y the routine of official advertisement, and we might mislead a still better informed, and a MON periencol person. titan the author of the mcst aiattwx, paragraph referred to. . . MAKING PINS DT STE AM !—Considerable ctirrict. !• excited by the appearance or a n iinmense structure r‘nr ,p by Mews. Taylor and Wright, of the Borough, for tae trano!!. titre of pins, in the Bornugh.road, close to St. George! , Alan' the weal side of which faces an opening to the I.crcion.rowi : dimensions of the building are in length 1115 feet. i t w:001 40 !., and in height 50 feet, and contains upwards ul I'2o chinery, to be worked by steam. at the rate of 10,0 0 aides loopholes. The pins a ce to be made by one blow of th ,, : 0,., chiefly for the export trade. The stcam-erc,! . .e iltinintS is 1.;.' feet high. but it I;th ought must come down. foul:,:1;:rn hating sunk so IN to cause it to incline on the els: a?... at h two feet from the perpendicular. F ~.. OM