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KING'S THEATRE. vitp SIIENINO will be performed llosAlai's Opera Soria. la Two Art•. entitled OTE I.LO. The prinelpal Characters by blaiame Parra (her 2d apperrance this sea. son;. Madame Castelli, Signer CartenL Signor 'rota, bignur Shia or Porto. After the Opera the new Mythalogical Haller, LA NAISSANCE DE VENUS. ae• No Orders will be adueltted, and the Free 1.14 is su.rended. A t..2w Ballet, and the Opera of "Huse Blanes rt Ruse 1t.,,5a," by Meyer, are le rehearsal, end will be epterily produced. Application., Ac. as uetal. • dleeilllen toad • ' s bi,limits or roiutioN t =abßonds 44 lit i ele (1824) Gl4 3131 it' MUD Acct. 4134 I 1 2144 et $4 Danteb Bonds (1825) , "*. PIM Acre. 33 el Freed% Routes 3 per Cent. s4f. 7k. !Se. rzobange 2Sf. GOc. Greek Bend* 131tw Bun& , Hai) 12 14 STOCKS iesTuDAY. Math:Ws Hoots llezieast South 66 `'Dltto Anti*, Ditto Bonds ;1826) 646 st 6/ 41 Ditto Acct. AO 4 31 4 32 44 Peruvian Ponds 81}1111 Prussian Ronde Roudan Bondi 771 Ditto Acct. 77i a Spanish Duo& 7; 8 Ditto Houck (1823 , S 1 PRICES OF SIIARES YIPSTERDAY. a s oisis. Sbare. Pell. General Mining Aseeciadon ...... ........ lOU 6 if ors . ...... .......... 41:0 00 6pm United Mexican ............... ............ eit 20 ej AS4 Weigh Iron and Coal ............. 21 95 IS die COMPILVIRS. _ . Airman and FOrvign Geoidlan Prutectur Fire 100 10 13 dli 100 10 • tym 20 1 j dl. ...... . ......... MISCICLLANVIC•. Mexican............ ....... New Corn Exchange 09 15 10 Ns so S dis thr lUritilsit 30-rna. DltUfti - - LAN E-7THEATRE. %is Evening, TUESDAY, April 14, will be performed the Comedy of WILD OATS. Sir George Thunder, Mr. Dowton ; Barry Thunder, Mr. Penley ; Tbrer, Mt. Kinston, , John Dory, Mr.W . Bennett , pbreirn Smooth, Mr. Brun ue , Sim, Mr. J. Hassell. lady Amaranth. , Jane, X 1149 . . Atter wtotetr the new ()rand Tee of OBERON ; or, Tile: CRAIIMED HUHN. the principal Character , by Alt stn. 0. British, Bennett, Brnwae, T. Blanchard, VT.., lluwctl, Mercer, lounge, W. Bennett, and U. Stnilb ; Meow Smltttedn, Viticent, and 31acdonald; and 11n. COVENT-GARDEN 'fit EAT RE. Thie Seining, TITINDAV, April 2S, will be performed the Grand Romantic einl Fairy Opera of ORICRON s or, THE RI,F-KINO'S OATH. _ . The Overture stud the whofe v oithr Mule Vas Weber. The principal Characters by Mews. Brabant, Cooper, llaramtat, C. Bland, .1. Isaacs, and Tinney; Hlisn Paton. Lacy. and L. Cawie; Madame ':earls, and Mrs. Davenccrt. To concittite with the Farce of RAISING THE WIND. linniq Welt% Mr. Pialowa'', Mr. Blanchard: Falnwou . d, SD% Meadow , . ; dam, Mr. Scats. Lamella Durable, Mrs. Daranpert , Yam. lava Loire. Tha.Barrism PRESS commenced publishing yesterday morning at tire o'clock. LONDON, TUESDAY, AVAIL 25, 1594. IVe have received the French Papers of Saturday, and the Eloile, dated Sunday. The Parisian Journals are at issue on the merits of the Bishop of STRAsnuRG as superintendent of the education of the Duke of BORDEAUX. We certainly agree with the Constitutionnel, that the character of a man who is appointed to form the character of a youthful Prince, destined to reign over France, is a fair subject for public animadversion. The Chamber of Deputies was occupied on the vist of April with the discussion of the law to prevent D.putiLs from reading their speeches. Only two members sup ported it, and it was rejected without a division. The' Chamber then proceeded to consider a project of law for assigning the proceeds of the sales of c.rtain houses occu pied by different members of the administration, to he dis posed of, for constructing other hotels for the use of these persons in future. The sum required for the new buildings is 600,000 francs. It was objected to by M. LABIEV DE Post et ERRkS, on the ground that the measure tended to an annual increase of expenditure, to the amount of 525,000 francs, and to alienate at the lame time a capital of 170,000 francs. V11.1.1:1.6 and CORBIERLS replied, that the new buildings would produce a saving of the rent which was now paid by the Treasury, the present Govern ment builtlinga not being adequate for all the purposes of administration. The law was adopted by a majority of VIS to 12. The Bordeaux papers attach more importance to the disturbance in Madrid, between the Spanish and Swiss troops, than our contemporaries felt disposed to attribute to it. The report of its being caused by the Apostolical party is repeated, and thirty men are said to have perished in the quarrel. The Queen of PORTUGAL, whose principles are well known, is supposed to exert a very considerable influence cot the Regency of that - kingdom. It is by her means that the Baron de RENDUFFE has been dismissed from the superintendency of police, and M. Asa' AGA Bat N DA SILVEIRA appointed in his room. The same influence, it is ad&d, has given rise to the Cordon Sanituire on the frontiers of Spain, and tile withdrawing of the regiments or the line from Lisbon. where they are replaced by the provincial militia, supposed to be more favourable to her party. It is possible enough that hopes may be entertained by the Qu ERN ' S party of her obtaining an influence in the Government ; but we cannot believe that they will be realized. The French, German, and Italian papers are all equally silent respecting the fate of Nlissolonglii. The Gazette D'Augsburg has an article from Constantinople, by way of Bucharest, in which it is now stated that IBRAHIM has received orders from the Porte not to admit the Greeks of Missolonghi to any capitulation. It is suggested that the expected successes of the Turks will probably render the Divan less inclined to listen to the representations of the English Minister than might otherwise be expected. The following are extracts from the French papers. (From the EtsMe, dated Sunday, April 23. J PARIS, Aria 22. The last letters from the lonian Islands are of no later date than the 2fith of .larch. According to these letters Ibrahim Paths made on the 19th another attempt to storm 3lissolonglii, which was no more fortunate than the preceding. Ile afterwards offered the garrison four millions of crowns and a free retreat, but his offers were rejected. The Observer of Trieste of 11th April contains no news from Greece. Accounts from Duefinest, of SthA mil, say that a r-port prevailed at Constantinople, that the Editor of the OrieNtal Sprat:tor had been assassinated at Smyrna. An the letters which mentioned the Yet related no particulars, we can only corjecture the causes of this event. This mcrning a volume, called HistoriralS;witelariticsof Paris, extracted from the great work of M. Dulaure, was sequestrated in the shop of Messrs. Baudouin, brothels. PROSECUTION OF THE ABBE DE LA 31ENNAIS. (The rimming papers of the 22d give the close of the public proceedings, by the defence of Al. Berryer. The Etude gives the sentence exclusively.) AENTLNLE IN TIM AFFAIR OF THE AIDE DE LA DENNAI9. (Audience of the 7241 April.) * 4 With respect to the accusation of excitement to disobedience W' the laws. " Seeing that the Edict of March 1402, registered In the Parlia ment of Paris the MI of the same montn, pet claims the declaration of the Clergy of France in IGI2 to be a generti law of the State, and that the four propositions which it lays down Ann the fundamental Wail of our political institutions and of our public law on this bject ; that this declaration constitutes the liberties of the Galli c-An church and States in its Ist proposition; that St. Peter, his successors, and the Church itself, have received no authority from God except over things spiritual, and not orerthings temporal and civil. and declares in consequence that Kings are not subject to any ecclesiastical power by the order of God, in things which concern tso•poral matters ; that they cannot be deposed, dirccly or indi. THE BRITISH PRESS rectlYN by the authority of the headvg the Chascht and that the', subjects cannot be exempted front subinission *nil obedience which they owe them, or be dispensed from their oath of allegiance. " That the execution of this declaration and of this edict is com manded by :he decree of the King's Council 24th May 1788, which forbid, all the King's subjects to maintain, write, or print. any thing contrary to the maxims arid principles of this declaration, and which may tend to renew disputes or give rise to different opinions on this subject. •• That this edict and this declaration have never been expressly or legally revoked, or fallen into desuetude. •• That, on the contrary, their execution has been ordered in divers acts of the legislative poier and the judicial authority, and that even at this day the Bulls are not published in France, except with the thieve of the maxims, franchises, and liberties of the Oallican Church. That the question is not to examine the propo altions laid in title declaration, and of which the clergy of France was the only judge, or to decide on any dogma or article of faith, but merely to decide whether the edict of 1632, relative to the de claration of the clergy such as it exists, has the tone of a law. which forms a legal question within the competency of the judicial au thority which is especially charged with the execution of the laws. '• Considering that the work entitled, 'On lleiigion, considered in its relations with political and civil order,' of which the Abbe de la alermais has acknowle.lged himself the author, presents in several tempters the character of a direct and formal attack on the decla ration of 1682, and the edict of 23.1 March the seine year, which constitutes the crime desibmated by articles 1,3, and 6, of the law of 17th May, 1819; that the Abbe de la 31ennais in two works, the one entitled • Some reflections on the trial of the Coualliotionnel and •lie Courrier ;' and the other—' Aphorismata Acijuniores Theologos,' has professed the same principles, and attacked the /time edict and declaration; " With respect to the accusation of attacks on the dignity of the King, on the order of succession to the throne, or the rights which the King derives from his brth ; and others mentioned in Art. 2 of the law of the 2ath March, 1822; . • Seeing that the passages inculpated are rather an nttack on the .eclaration of 1462. and a discussion of the find proposition contained in that declaration, than a direct, positive, and actual attack against the King, the rights he derives front his birth, and the order of succession to the throne; " That the character of the Abbe de la Mennais, Ilia relig - nus and monarchial opinions and sentiments, do not permit even the suppo sition of the Intention of inch a crime—Acquits the Abbe de la Mebnaia of the charge contained in the second count of the indict. mem, deciding on the first count. " Considering that t h e passages inculpated form a very small por.. tion of the work, that the remainder is devoted to the examination of theological questions, on which discussion and controversy are permitted, and not within the resort of the tribunals ; and that the work of his composition can be read and appreciated only by well informed and enlightened persons ; that the respectable character of the Abb.; de la Mennais ought to be particularly taken into con sideration ; applying the Articles -1 and 3 of the law of 17th May, 11119, and of Act 26 of the law of 26th May, NM condemns the Abbe de is illcnnais to a fire of thirty franca, or. dere that the work called, `On religion considered in its relations with political and civil order,' by the Abbe de la 31ennais, shall be seized, whenever it may be necessary, by all officers of judicial po- lice, legally required by virtue of this sentence. " Otders the destruction in the office of the Register of the Court afthe copies whith shell be seized. •• Orders that the present sentence shall be made public, Con formably to Art. 26 of the law of 26th May 1819. " Condemns the Abbe; de la 31ennais in the costs." FRENCH FUNDS.—Pants, APR 11. 22.—Five per Cents., NW. 85c. ; Torre per Cents., 115 f. 15c.; Ilank Stock, 9.,010f. ; /lento; de Naples, 7tf. 3. - IC.; Royal Spanish Loan, 44sf. ; Hay than Loan, 7656.—Exchange on London, ore mouth, 251. 60c. ; Three ditto, 25f. 30c.—C'etirs Anthent;que. Every successive account from Batavia, anti the other Dutch settlements in the East, confirms the view we have taken of the precarious tenure on which the Government of the new kingdom of the Netherlands holds its possession of those important Colonies. We were quite convinced of tire truth of this when we found, by recent accounts at Batavia, twat General LE Kocs, who was said to have been successful in putting down insurrections in Borneo, Celebes, &c. had, on his return to Batavia, been amusing himself at a public dinner, instead of taking the field against the Javanese insurgents. By the following extract of a letter, received yesterday at the North and South American Coffee-house, it will be seen that the Dutch troops cannot cope with the natives, and are therefore obliged to confine themselves to their garrisons. BATAVIA, DEC. 18. The affairs of this Government wear a gloomy aspect; their finances are in a distressed state, owing to large debts ; and the amount of paper money in circulation being great, and little silver to be had, as you will suppose, when silver guilders range in the several divisions of the island at from 35 to 20 ; they are bought by this Government at 20 to 22, to pay their troops. The policy pursued during the last five years by Government has brought this colony to the verge of ruin ; I should rather say impolicy ; the natives have discovered the weakness of the Dutch, and arc taking advantage of it in many of their possessions. In Java, the natives of the interior of Satamang have taken the field since July, and the Go vernment acknowledges that it has not power to put down this se rious rebellion. Many soldiers have been sacrificed, and with no other effect than teaching the insurgents how to fight, to retreat, and to undervalue the Dutch power; their leaders are getting bolder every day. The Dutch forces are now compelled to remain inactive in their several fortresses. I shall not be in the least sur rrised to learn that the rebels have carried them all by storm when the rains are passed. The object the leaders of the insurrection have in view is. to establish the native power, independently of Eu rapeGn cor.trol." It is easy to conceive that the West India proprietors must suffer considerably in their interests by the active and apparently interminable warfare at present carrying on against them by the abolitionists. An Englishman has an instinctive and inbred antipathy to everything that bears the name of slavery ; no 'suds arc so musical in his ear as Roast-beef and Independence, and from this eause it happens that his good feelings are easily taken advantage of. Put a pen in his hand, and a petition before him, and tell him that you are going to pray for the emancipation of the " oppressed and sufficing negro Are," and you get his name to it in an instant. Whether the negroes are actually oppressed, whether they really do suffer under the lash of cruel and inordinate task-masters, but very few of us have taken any pains to inquire. If we did, we should find abundant testimony that the general and in dividual condition of the negroes in the IVest Indies is such es to secure to them every comfort and en;oyment compatible with their intellectual and moral condition. We should find them amply provided, by the care of their owners (enforced by the authority of the law), with all the neeessarics of life—exempt from the care of providing for their children—having no dread before them of poverty and want—secure in the possession of their palm-thatched cottages, with no fear of ever being compelled to quit them from distress, because they are lodged, and clothed, and fed, r.t the cost of their masters, and at their cost provided for when old age unfits them for labour. Since the aboli tion of the trade in slaves, the proprietors have, manifestly, every inducement to enforce a system of kind and humane management among their slaves ; for as excessive labour is greatly unfavourable to population, it would necessarily tend to decrease their numbers, and there being no other mode of recruiting them than by the increase of a numerous and healthy offspring, the provident care of the parent stock is all the proprietors have to depend upon for the breeding up a Lace of cultivators, without which their estates would be of no value. Not one in a thousand of those,whose signatures are obtained to the petitions that are poured in upon Parliament, ever reflect on the incalculable advantages resulting from the discontinuance of that traffic in slaves which was formerly the great source of supply to the Colonists. Whereas, it is most trite--as one of the ablest writers on West India affairs has remarkede—thet " it is the cessation of this s*ppiy which constitutes the great era of improiement in the system of slavery. The two great interests concerned become thenceforth united. Among the Romans, so soon as wars began to he less fre quent, and opportunities to obtain fresh slaves diminished, we find that amelioration consatencetl." 'flte Colonial Legislatures have shewn themselves anxious to introduce every provision suggested by the British Parliament, that can be introduced, without imminent risk to the safety, both of the persons and property, of that great body of Colonists whose interests they are respectively delegated to protect. We close our remarks with a quotation from the writer just referred to:—" In arguing the question, it is uniformly supposed that the master is, by na ture or by principle, opposed to the emancipation of his slaves; and that, were the matter left exclu sively to him, he would never, through all time, suffer them to manumit themselves. This is quite erroneous. It is under ccrtain circumstances only that he is adverse, be cause he knows well that his interests would suffer. Those circumstances are the lowness of the cost of subsistence, and the paucity of the wants consequent on civilization, owing to which there exists no inducement or stimulus to make men work in a state of freedom. NVhat occasion, therefore, is there for compulsory manumission ? The moment Me slave is fit for freedom, not one oloection will be opposed to it by his master, lie would rather have freemen on his estate, if freemen would work, than he would have slaves; and in this situation, simply pursuing his own advantage, is it not monstrously impolitic• to take out of his bands that lever with which he so beneficially aids the interests of humanity, rewarding the well-dis posed and withholding reward from the undeserving. But it will be said that it will take a great period of time before this mode of establishing freedom can come into effect. What is the language of Mr. CANNING on the subject ? "fake time ! to be sure it will; to be sure it should; to be sure it must !—Time l—lVhy, what is it we have to deal with ? Is it with an evil of yesterday's origin ?—with a thing which has grown up in our time; —of which we have watched the growth—measured the extent, and which we have ascertained the means of cor recting or controlling? No; we have to deal with an evil which is the growth of centuries, and of tens of centuries; which is almost coeval with the deluge; which has exist ed, under different modifications, since man was man.' What then is to be done, availing ourselves of the lights of science, to abridge this time ? I affirm, to make it the master's interest to be the first to desire the manumission of his slaves. how is this to be effected ? By teaching the slave that a state of liberty is to continue a state of indus try. And what mode can be devised to attain this end A mode, in my opinion, so obvious, as to make it matter of surprise that it has not yet been tried. Establish a system of v eorraos : lit the Crown ti k e possession of the unoccupied land, and by exacting rent, compel the black, whether free or in slavery, to Labour. This may be pronounced impracticable. Should it prove so, then I boldly assert that nothing can be done, and you must allow to the institutions which have stood for centuries, centuries to terminate." • • The Vent India Legislatures vindicated. By Alexander M•Donnell, Esq. CITY, • i ff oONDAY EVENING. This, being the KING'S Birth-day, was a holiday at the Bank, and nearly so on the Stock Exchanges; at least, the business transacted there was limited in extent, and of an uninteresting character. Consols left off to-day better than they did on Saturday, improving from 79, the open ing price, to 794 buyers. Exchequer bills were 10s. Ils. pm.; at one time they reached Ms., but they did not long retain that price. There was very little doing in other English securities, the quotations of which did not vary from those of Saturday. The fluctuations in the Foreign Market were more ex, tensive than those in the English, particularly in South American Stocks. Colombian Bonds were 43k, 43; Mexican 6 per Cents, 631 4: Peruvian Bonds, 314; and Brazilian ditto 55. Greek Bonds have rather improved; they were firm this morning at 15; Russian ditto were 771 ; and old Spanish, 8. To-morrow, being St. Mark, is a close holiday at the Stock Exchanges as well as the Bank. There were a great number of arrivals this morning from all quarters, as well as several from India, but not of so late a date as the last arrival from Calcutta. The Royal George, a Chinaman, has been burnt, with a homeward cargo on board. _ _ . The letters that arrived from Jamaica this morning are to 17th March, but they contain no news of a public nature. The arrivals from the manufacturing districts this morn ing give little reason for believing that the distress of the working people is likely speedily to subside. In the cot ton manufactures it is unabated, or perhaps increasing. The prices of the principal articles of export, which some time ago slightly advanced, have been again falling. The species of cotton, which on the average of the five last years has sold at from Sid. to 1011. per lb., now sells at from S/d. to 70.; coffee, which sold at 88s. to 955. on the average of those years, now sells at .531. to SS:. per cwt., and a similar reduction has taken place upon ashes, dye woods, and many principal articles of export. The Malta mail that arrived to-day brought no news. His Majesty is expected in town to-day. Sunday morning early the Duke of York left town for Newmarket. The Duke of Clarence arrived in town yesterday, fr;nl his seat at Bushy. Ills Royal Highness returned to Bushy about four o'clock. On Sunday, Prince Leopold gave another grand and numerous dinner party. Among the company were the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Fcodore, the Duke of So merset, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdown, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis anti Marchioness of Clanricarde, Mr. Secretary Canning, Earl and Countess Verniam, Earl and Countess Darnley, and Lord and Lady Burghenh. It is expected that the Duke of Wellington will arrive in town on Thursday next. The Hon. Mr. Bligh, who ar rived on Friday, left his Lordship well at Riga. Fester , ' ly the Duke of Devonshire had a lung interview with Mr. Canning, at the Foreign Office. Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, summonses for which were issued on Saturday. The Council was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Har rowby, the Earl of Westmodand, Viscount Melville, Mr. Iluskisson, Mr. Peel, Mr. Canning, Earl Bathurst, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Wynn, anti Lord Bexley. The Cabinet continued sitting till nearly half past four o'clock, when the Ministers separated. Despatches were sent off' on Friday night for the Duke of Wellington, to meet his Grace at Brussels. . _ I)rvoNpoßr BANK.—An adjourned meeting of the creditors of the late firm of Shiells and Johns, hankers, of this town, was held on Wedneoay, at Elliott's Royal Ho tel, for receiving proofs of debts and declaring a first divi dend. The proceedings were continued through the fol lowing day, when the meeting again adjourned to Friday. The Devonport Tele,,Trnple says, " Th e amount of debts ready proved on the estate of Shiells and Johns, late a l iikers of this town, amount to €0,500 f., and the first evithmtl, it is supposed, will be Is. 9d. in the pound." CELEBRATION OF THE SINGS' BIRTH-11AI% The 23d of April, the day appointed since the accession of his present Majesty for the celebration of his birth-day, ' happeninf ibis year to fall ou a Sunday, was only noticed by the ringing of bells and the display of flags on the churches. 'Yesterday the different guards assembled in St. James's Park, in new uniforms, and three regimental bands attended. The novelty of hiving the three bands assem bled in the Palace-yard, at the same time, induced the Colonel to detain them near an hour after the guard had been relieved. _ The following were among the official dinners given on the occasion:— The Earl of Liverpool, to a number of Noblemen and Gentlemen connected with burn in the Treasury. The Chancellor of the Exclnquer, to Sir I.4eorge the Chairmen and Commissioner' , of the Boards of Ex cise and Customs, and other official Gentlemen. Mr. Secretary Peel, to the Judges, the Law Officers, the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, and the Recorder of London. Mr. Secretary Canning, to the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers. - - - Earl Bathurst, as Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, to the Governors and Deputy Governors of Islands, who are in Englamd, and to other Gentlemen con nected with the Colonies. _ _ The Lord Chamberlain, to the Gentlemen in his depart ment. The Lord - Steward, to the Gentlemen in his Department. The Groom of the Stole, to the Lords and Groom in at tendance upon his Majesty. The Master of the llorse, to the Equerries and Aids-de- Camp belonging to the King. The Mail Coach Contractors assembled at Mr. Vidler's manufactory for all the mail-coaches, in Milbank-row, where they were regaled with a sumptuous cold collation. On the King's health being drank, the guards of the different mails played " God save the King" on their keyed bugles. 'rhe coachmen and guards, in new clothing, were also regaled with a dinner ; after which they went on a grass plat, at the back of the house, and drank the King's health, and success to the wheels. The harness for the Gloucester mail horses was very superior, and probably such another collection of fine blood horses could not be got together. The ltrhrol sported some remarkably fine uniform greys. The Ports mouth alsohad remarkably fine horses,but they were all 001 d. The Edinburgh had a very good set out of bays. • Tliv Gloucester was a novel and remarkably fine matched set of piedballs. About five o'clock they started from the manu factory, in procession, in the following ord(r :- 1. Bristol mail—from Mr. Waterhouse's, Swan with Two Necks, frad-lane. 2. Bath—ditto. A horseman. 3. Exeter—ditto. iy --- . - Coventry—ditto. A horseman. 5. Liverpool—ilitto. 6. Alanchester--dam. A horseman. 7. Norwich by Ipswich—ditto. U. Ludlow by Worcester—trom Mr. Sherman's, Bull and Mouth, Bull and Mouth.street. A horseman. 9. Glasgow by Leeds—ditto. 10, }Ain - burgh by Boroughbridge—ditto. A horseman. 11. Edinburgh by York—ditto. Poole by Southampton—Mr. Fagg, Bell and Crown, Holborn. A horseman. 13. Louth by Boston—Mrs. Mountain, Saracen's Head, Skinner. street. 14. Dover—Mr. Eames, Angel Inn, St. Clement's, Strand. A horseman. 11 Portsmouth—ditto. Ilk Gloucester—ditto. A horseman. _ 17. Chester—Mr. Horne's, Golden Cross, Charing-cross. lii. Birmingham—Mr. Hearn, King's Arms Inn, Snow-hill. A horseman. 19. Hull by Lincoln—Mr. Chaplin, Spread Eagle, Gracechurch street. 20. Norwich by Newmarket—Messrs. Nelson and Co. Bull Inn, Whitechapel. A horseman. Two horsemen. ILLUMINATIONS. The illuminations at the West End of the Town, in ho nour of the Birth-day of his Majesty, were very general and brilliant amongst his Majesty's tradesmen, and the principal streets were thronged with spectators till a late hour. The King's Theatre mounted a large G. R. with a crown of variegated lamps. The Haymarket had the same device, with amber.colour lamps. Covent-garden had a G. R. in a black frame, with a crown. Drury-lane had a similar tlevice. English Opera-House—A v;:y pretty G. R. and a crown. The Adelphi mounted a large G. R. IV. Astley's Amphitheatre displayed the royal arms, with a splen. did G. It. and a very tasteful crown. The Coburg had a large G. R. and an imperial crown. The Surrey presented a similar device. Sadler's Wells—A G.R. and a star. ST. JAMES.S•STREET Presented, from one end to the other, one glare of beautiful de• •ice*. The Guards' Club House was one vast blrze. In the centre was the Order of the First Guards, a hand grenade exploding between a G. R., with the Orders of the Coldstream and Third Guards; the whole aurmcunted with a very large imperial crown. White's had a superb G. H. with a large crown, under which was a very brilliant star, with laurel leaves. Crockford's presented a very varied and tasteful device, which extended the whole length of the balcony. Brooks's mounted over a large G. H. a crown, under which was a fine star with laurel branches. Boodle's—Over a G. IL was a star, with an imperial crown, with diamonds of amber lamps and laurels. Cocoa Tree—exhibited a large G. K. with festoons. Arthur's mounted a G. K. and a IV. between, surmounted with a crown and with true lovers' knots. Union—A large G. R. The Royal Hotel exhibited a very beautiful star between his Majesty's initials. Thatched House had over his Majesty's initials a superb crown, with a IV. Messrs. Willis and Co.'s Royal Musical Repository, corner of Bennett-street, had a moat brilliant star of variegated lamps, which emitted a glare of light or bright effidgence, and which was per ceptible from the commanding situation of the establishment (it being situated opposite to Jermyn-street) even as far as the Hay market. ALI:SENA/ILE-STREET. The Alfred Club-house was the only exhibition in this street over the balcony was • G. R. with a IV. between, with laurel leaves. This device was lighted with 2or 3000 studs of gas, and had a very pretty acct. NEW AND OLD ROND•BTREETS. Walker, Ooter, and to. purre)ors of fish, bad a beautiful G. R. and a crown between. Chamberlain's i►'orceater Royal Porcelain manufactory was the ninst splended device in the street, composed of an imperial crown surmounting his Majesty's initials. Cadbury, cheesemonger, corner of Conduit-street, displayed a magnificent crown. Steward, dairyman, mounted a (1. R. surmounted with an im perial crown. Over the entrance were rows of festoons. OX FORD•ST REE T. Baker's patent mangle and press manufactory displayed an im mense G. H. with a crown in the centre. REGENT-STREET. The Argyll Rooms—A transparency, representing his Majesty on the throne, attired in his coronation robes, with O. H. on either side. Fogg. chinaman, displayed a beautiful star, with K. G. on either side. Thompson, saddler, mounted over the royal arms a star, sur. mounted with an imporial crown and his 31aiesty's initials. PALL-MALL AND PALL-MALL EAST. Hancock, Shepherd, and Rixon, the furnishing ironmongers, displayed, over the royal arms, a G. R., standing at least 13 feet high, in the centre of which was a star. c The United Service Club House mounted a splendid G. It. on a large black frame, with a crown. I 'lliversity Club House displayed a large G. It., with a star and crown, and laurel leaves. Colnaghi, the printseller, a G. It., star and crown, with laurel leaves. Tr..vellers' Club Ilouse—G. IV. It., and an imperial crown at top. with laurel branches. COCKSPUR-STREET. Colnaghi, printsellcr, mounted a verylarge star. PICCADILLY AND COVENTRY-STREET. Tiercelin, razor-maker, had a G. R. Swain, whipmaker—A G. R. and an imperial coronet. Robson and Co. paper-hangers, had his Majesty's initials, with I%'. between and a beautiful crown at top. Barfield, Wardour-street, Soho, printer to his .Majesty—G.R. a very splendid star, laurel branches, and the whole surmounted with a most magnificent crown. STRAND. Mr. Ackermann's Repository had over the myal arms an arch, with stained glass, whereon was painted the rose, thistle, and sham. rock, surmounted with a brilliant star. LUDGATE-111th. ' • Sherwood., the paper hangers, displayed a G. R., between which was a star with a crown. Neale and Bailey, glass-sellers, St. Paul's Church-yard, had a similar device. Rowland, II atton-garden, had a G.R. with a star, and the words " God save the King.". FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. terdsThe H atop. Lady Smi li t Piccad h entertained a distinguished party at dinner y es. y, ber.honseilly. 'Arthur Stanhope, Esq. had a dinner party yesterday, at his house in Tilney-street. The following diatinguished pe onage gave grand dinne r parties yea. terday, in honour of ht. Majeaty birth-day —The Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Secretary Canning, the Chancellor of The Exchequer, Mr. secretary Peel, the Duke of Dorset, and the Earl of Westmorlaird. Chtintelis SL - Ardoula•enferfalned a distlngpielsed party . at dinner on Sunday, at her bou.e In Hanover-square. In the evening her Ladyship had a Concert of Peered made, at which Madame Pasta and most of u principal performers of the Opern-house attended. Among the nomerous !taut tun present were—Prince Leopold, Prince Ederhazy, Prince PO4. oar, and must of the other Ambit...actors and their ladle. ; the Marquis and Marchioness Palinelia, Count and Countess Ludulf, the Marron, ur.d Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hertford, the Marchioness'of Westmeath, the Earl and Countess of Sefton, Lord and 'the Ladles Mrilyncitx, the Earl and Countess of Chulcvillr , the Earl of 'estmorland and Lady G. Fane, the Earl and Countess Cowin'', the Earl and Ladies Grey, L'ird and Lady flurghersh, Lord and Lady Tutia more, Lady Stracban, Lord and Lady Wm. !Lomeli, Countess Liver'', Lady Farquhar, Sir John and lardy Murray, Sir Charles and Lady Gale - Sir Gore, batty, and Misa Colonel and Mrs. Miss Arbuthnot, ear. Mr. and Alra:Tynte arrived yesterday at their IV '10" In L. L vemor-street, from II tour. Sir Julia Sebright, Hart. arrived yesterday at id , Ito Int In r ..k .t. from his scat, Beachwood, netts The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. •f. Coventry errlved yesterd^.y v t k Upper Brook-street, from their seat In Kent. H. Beekford, Esq. left town yesterday, fee his seat, Ml•' •!! The Hon. William Powlett left town ye.terdar, for Nev . Mr. and Mrs. Prendergut arrived yesterday at Her— :! • street, Gain India. . . _ Ur. and Mrs. Angerstein and family arrived yesterday at , St. Jamea'a-square. for the season, from tinir seat at Itu o .ss,"o., Mr. and Mm. Drummed arrived In town ye•ittriluy. from M.., borough. Esq. left hie house In Regeut•street yesteeeloy . tenham. Jam e s Daly, Evil. M.P. Mrs. Daly, and fahilly, h.ise a house in Green-street, Orosvenor-square, from Cheari Thomas Whitmore, F:si. M.P. arrived yesterday a: St. James.a.stieet, from Si ighton. Ashton, 1 q, arrlsca ye,.terclay at Jordon'. Ilm. street, from Ills seat firm. I,!,erpool. Arrivals at humu-'4 Hotel, Berkeley—rto Heating, from Ireland; and the Count an from Portugal 'are Arrivals at Read's Hotel, lower Grosvrnor-street Honourable Mrs. Howard, from Ireland; Captain Rind, horn Inds; lion. Frantic Ky re , f rom Derby; Colonel Homer, from a tour. Irepartthe:—Charier Lyon, E.g. fur his seat, Berkeley Lir(lie, Southampton. Arriva:s at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork •streeta : The Marquis and Marchioness of Ormond, from Soutinimpion sir Ed. ward RD - tar-ton and the two Mrs. Kyi;ristoti, from Suffolk : mid Mrs. ct'ard, from the Continent; Lady Waltnile and the two \Val:pole, from a tour; Lady Stewart and fairliy, from Fag Coombe ; t sptkilt Mitchell, from Y.dinbnrgh ; Moore, E-q. from a tour. Departures : —Sir Joseph and Lady Ratcliffe and family, for the North ; DI,. donalo, for ditto; J. Ramsbottum, Esq. for Kent ; Lieoteriatit R.N. for tliiff ilk; Colonel Stewart, M.P. and Putter, Fol. for South. atairtun ; French, E-q. M.P. on a tour. Airivais at the Bath Hotel, A r:lngton-street :—Mr. Mrs, and th e M k ,. Partirk-n, from Bath; Mr. and Mrii. Broughton, from Driret ; Li.dy Smirk and family, from a tour. Departurea r—llktor and Mrs. Marsh, fur tbsir snit, near Southampton. Mrs. Prothoroe and MPIS Waterhoure have arrived at the Prlnswida Hotel ;late Blake's,, Jermyn-street, from Gadsden. Hertfordshlrt. MASQUERADE. The Argyll /looms were last night thrown open to all those who were willing to celebrate tile Anniversary Birth day of his Majesty en maser?. There is so much matter of fact in the character of John Boil as to render him an uninteresting and rather awl ward personage at such enter tainments. Last night's Masquerade and Carnival (a word which, by the way, has deviated strangdy from its original meaning), was well attended, and as gay as the ta lents of the motley groups which - composed the company could make it. Those assemblies excite much more le terest on the Continent, where the character and ge nius of the people better accord with such aniusemen - ta, and where, in the absence of any other medium of re proving the malvi rsation of despotic power, a kind of political Saturnalia is established, during which the slave is licensed to remind his Lord of those political sins, the existence of v hich he dare not elsewhere even hint at. Among the masks which attracted our notice was a well dressed itinerant fiddler and dancers. Ile played as well as he ought; his performers " on the light fantastic toe" made their steps in good style. The fiddler was, however, more modest than most of his trade, for, with great naivete, he assigned his Leine unable to bear as a reason for not having his instrument in tune; be had not an car for music. There were two Paul Pqm, whose com parative merits it would be difficult to define, one being bad and the other worse. There were Turks well dressed, Dragoons well spurred and booted, Amazon , . Cowes, &e. but none of them possessed any claim to notice, We fel foul of a sailor who lid shipped himself as an able sea tnan, hut who did not know the topsail halyards from the maintop howling, and who would - have Leen a more appropriate inmate of the cook's galley than an aspirant to a station, in the top. An Irishman, from the coun try, gave eccaaional scintillations-of Honour, and seldom allowed his numerous interrogators •to go off in bia debt. Judging of beauty by the brilliant ey es and elegant figures last night displayed, we should say that rarely have we seen a more fascinating assemblage. The beauty of English women would redeem the dulnesa of any as sembly ; but it is not in the Masquerade their coun trymen exhibit those powers of humour or wit which they display on other occasions. Geoff Crayon would not, we presume, select such an assembly as we beheld last night as a favourable, or indeed a fair specimen of English character, notwithstanding the majority of the company felt highly pleased; and, as far as mirth and good humour could give evidence of enjoyment, they testified their satisfaction by the most unequivocal and joyous de monstrations. Ve understand Mr. llraham has just renewed his en gagement at Covent-garden Theatre on advanced terms, Oberon having proved so attractive. The proprietors of the new Theatre now building at Paris, in the Rile Vivienne, have applied to M. Weber to compose a new opera, which it is understood at present ha has declined. Saturday Aladdin, which has been in preparation since last June, makes its long-promised appearance at Drury lane theatre. Miss Stephens has allotted to her some of the most beautiful airs that ever were composed; and her niece (Miss Johnson) is to make her Mint on the same occasion. Of the voice and figure of this young lady re port speaks in the highest terms of panegyric. Signorina Marie Feleiste Garcia, late of our Italian Opera, was married at New York, the latter end of March, to M. Malibron, a French mere...ant, who settled 20,000 dollars on his fair bride. Mr. James Morrison has withdrawn himself as a candi date for the Parliamentary representation of Dover. R. A. Slaney, Esq. has announced his intention of be coming a candidate for the representation of the borough of Shrewsbury, in Parliament, at the next general election. BOARD OF CE STOMS.—We understand that Sir Ml liam BUothby, Bart., Deputy Chairman of the Board of Customs in London, and for the last year acting as resident Commissioirer here, has completed the period prescribed for his servicett in Scotland, and has been succeeded by Mr. Richmond, lately employed in a similar capacity at the head of the Board in Dublin.—Ediabargls Evening' Courant. The Minerva, which has been some time expected, has just arrived with the official despatches of the affair with the Burmese. She left Calcutta the Gth January. The general result of the affair being already known, the only interest which can be excited about the details is mainly because they may enable us to form an opinion whether the army can be expected speedily to advance. We are informed that the Gloucester, TS. Captain Joshua Sydney Horton, at Sheerness, is ordered to be fitted out, to take his Grace the Duke of Devonshire and retinue (above .50 persons) to the Baltic. The Gloucester is to be ready for sea. in ten days. His Majesty's steam-vessel Lighthim; will ae.lompliny the Gloucester to Cronstailt, to convey his l;race, and the noblemen and gentlemen of the mission, thence to St. Petersburgh. Co Lost 01.5.—CA WI AG I. SI A, Ft:IL 21.—.1 considerable improvement has taken place in the society of this place within the last twelve months. A meeting of the abitish residents has lately been held, the object of which was, (0 raise funds for the establishment of a place of worship, and the purchase of a piece of ground for a burial place. The British Government is to contribute one halt• the expense. • NEW YORK, AERI I, I.—The packet ship James Crep• per will sail this day for Liverpool, and leave us without a single London or Liverpool packet in port—p state of things never before known, and which will probably never occur again.. The Edward Bonaire, one of the Havre Whets, will also sail this day, leaving two in port—being the only vessels of the twenty-nine packets trading bettveen this ell and England and France. coopoonimat sumo{ one I committee 0 idditional ii ilia 107 81 :—. ri Pesitivet( their p o f the 7th lost deep r egret t i o as of the u held. (tot of the his been pleat in h i, s ame t into et :quail y nt , se e, tl gracious inter London bank, b .p l td, it sh Tito& B°' This morni o f reivileFee. The eviden or dered le be 0011,e1 W gal bead (in Saltier, who pukes. The arguwi further mutt Giancellor, a The Earl co wive Peers Hence• Adjourned The folic March 1821 the Nations The Karl i been addrebe O. Beaumon mantling tha fiseehus Christ a , Bar:char should be pu demanded b Board to pur My I,lrds curing these be purchased " Fieml3 betty, it is sent state o to those int thing migh the comino " Believ most nowtr log the civi that our be and permai of my firs which I co feel with other, and country, al Catholic r courage tiv tieil .o.isqu " Enterl pnwerful e this °ppm one of the moos unsh apt that 1 ciples skit feet aecurl civil and r ruth, At of fine 14,636 t This, known height, ; town rei reached furnish gaieties At II the elm nister of on whi After tl the Fre, A voi of jealo ;umber ikerjAlF Our exc el/ entitisd u People. C°l sits in this 110 C