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DRURY-LANE; THEATRE. A neW 11 itorind play..fountled on the well-known story dale patriot of Switzerland, William Tell, whose name it k w, was pertilled at this house last night. 'fhe author s t r ea t ly given us proofs of his p3wers, by his Yirginies ol his Gahm G racehu s, and the present production does std soy way lessen our estimation of his qualifications,' s lob, although by no means of the first rate order, are, In t lig present dearth of dramatic talent, very reputable PSI i bie possessor. The story of Tell is so familiar to every o der, that a very brief sketch of Mr. Knowles's version 0 ( it is all that can be required of us. The Ken* of the play is laid in and around the town of Altar. ,ar the Austrian Governor, Gelder (Mr. Archer), tyrannise* jo ithe :igloo till they are goaded on to league against him. Ted ithskeder of a few chosen ones, who have agreed to assemble ma may, and waylay the tyrant. The play opens with i t s= Rothe Calde of Abort', into which a guard of Austrian io /me nunibd of Swim primulas. Tell at this moment mem, Aged' Blicbaet (Mr. Wallath), %merry mercurial Swiss peasant, on the words of his father, who bad just told him to serious, and go take Gesler's Castle as a feat worthy of !, po ming at the guard, exclaims to Michael—" How whose reply conveys an idea that Michael no lees was a hater of tyrants, but they part without furthest he Second acne introduces Tell solos amidst the rock romantic scenery of his beautiful country, where he a‘ s prayer to God to' crown his and bis compatriots * regain the liberty of his native land with stars then arrive, and their plot is arranged for taking (haler on the hills while he is hunting. The a of this act is occupied with some small-talk be (alis Poveyi and Agnes t Mee. Yates), 4 winch is Imre. The second act opens with a WIN S& present lag to us Tell's cottage on the masessio. wife of Tell (Mrs. Bunn), is observed contemplatisg ipostrophising therecnery around hes, and pathetically lemmata enslaved ookdition of beg country. Her son (Alias Chia paten, and modoes from her mime very good ad viewable.' and contented ; to Which the boy (saving die tub tbat s• a man may lack content, and yet be Albert's skill at sheeting at the target is no effbrts to stithe the mut, Tell himself attire; son to miss, ha gives him some good counsel lo Yon said one due, that if you were a man, you would • live : noir, look at that mark—that's Gelder ; new - Mt to the :pant's heart I" sad he hits it. " Wefl _ :informs his wife of the plot to take the life of Weld ; and in some very good language, almost , encourages her to prepare for the Worst. The fseher to the mountains, to bear his dagger to his friends, which was to be the signal of attack. The father e cf those friends having been seized by murmur the Austrians attempting to defend his son, his eyes art put out. In this "t he comes before Tell, at the sight of which the patriot shud • rousing up his courage, d•nermines on instant revenge. de Tell's son proceeds to the mountains, and there he finds separated from his guards, and lying exhausted on the The boy rouses him, and offers to become his guide: demands his fatiaer's name; but the lad refuses. 't. ‘Vbsn arrived at the Castle of Aloof, Geller alibi name of the boy's father, but the latter persists in his after various ineffectual attempts to make him comply, orders Man to be em•fined. The tynu:, foreboding that s men as the father of this Loy lived on the mountains, not safe, gives orders that his cap should be hoisted the market-place, to which every one was to bow in submission to the Governor. With this mandate peasant refuses compliance—the Seneschal orders the setae him ; but 'fell, alto had witnessed the scene, .and disarms the Seneschal, strikes down the poll, the symbol*, as he terms then], of tyranny. The seism Teli, who is taken before (tester. This ,sUillagotie of err finest in the play, affords Mr. Miteresdy opportunity •to display his powers In an eminent degree, , c must not anticipate our critical remarks. Order demands ' what and who he is ' and learning that he haa a son, it • tyrant that the lad who is in his power is that son, and ly orders him to be brought for h. Albert (true to the . of his father, as we dare say the author meant It, somewhat too sage and forethoughted for a boy,) resolves • 07111 his father. Grater then orders Tell to be taken into and there let the headsman do his Ace: this is to try was observed to start at the hard decree, but he soon .e courage. Tell then craves leave to address the boy, does in a strain of the truest pathos, telling him, " You oat, but I have a son much like yourself, and should you .c freedom, tell him how I blessed him,"—and so on. cling in his object of betraying the father, it is suggested Seneschal that the boy should also be beheaded. This is adeci, and then the father's feelings can no longer be sup l. The name of Tell being now made known, Gerber, in the :newt of his tyrannical will, gives him and his son life, upon on that Tell shall shout at an apple placed an his son's head. red is done, and Tell and his son are liberated ; but the se. arrow falling from his bosom, causes Gesler to ask why it • "To shoot thee, tyrant, had I killed my boy !" Tall In chains, sod the fourth act ends, 'l el! escapes, is rider with bit arrow, the Castle of Altorf is take°, ' is flee." is a mere common-place about love, and sake of the main story, we could wish, if to be expunged, at all events cOnSiderably cur its dialogue. We see no necessity whatever for who is an insipid lover, and nothing more. obvious that here are materials for a good acting we mast in justice hay that the author has done .4 them, although, perhaps, a inure diversified character might have been given, when we consider ;tended is the field which the ttulsject of the piece Tyrants, slaves, and freemen, with all the various that actuate these most opposite and discordant were within the scope of the author's plot, and we only two other characters, besides that of Tell, r minds can at all fix on, and those are delineated miniature-like manner. Gesler, the tyrant, is a and acts cruelly ; M ;churl is a light cheerful Ind, when time serves, acts like a true patriot. the sentiments of Tell *MI his wife are good, env are all as old as the subject of them. Liberty theme that of all others leavts the imagination of • almost hopeless of a new idea. In every age every clime, liberty has been the favourite subject s, till nothing new can be said about it. We do t . larrel with the author, therefore,- for repeating in and harmonious language the thoughts that have -liner to us from our boyhood. We have scarcely select ; but the follOwitig passage °veers to us as ce ry fair picture of the blighting effects of tyranny lard once free : IV 11 Leen ! %%Mem !—O ! be the parents of a boy like that ! • hy speak you not—and wherefore du you sigh ? .s . hat's in your heart to keep the transport nut That fills no twine, when looking on our child, ' - '1 it u'etilows mine eye / Now. Emma, I will answer you • , I not love you ? Du I not love our child not th.it cottage dear to ine, where I •as bom ? How many acres would I give "Ist little vineyard for, which 1 have watch', ltd tended since I was a child ? Those crags I peaks--what spired city would I take lire in, m le:change for them ?--Yet what e these to me ?—Vi hat is this boy to me ?-- 'l.at art thou, Emma, to me—alien a breath (jester's can take all ? (I, \Valiant, think tow little is that all to him—ton little tr Getter, sure, to take. Bethink thee, • have no treasure. • V.* wished Ise there—the thought that mine was free chock'd that wish, and I have r4is'd my head, _ cried% thraldom to that furious wind, Blow on ! This is the land of liberty The performances were in every respect favourable. Mr. Macready showed, throughout his part,•thejustest conception of his character, and performed it ir. a manner equal to that conception, and worthy of his high histrionic fame. The scene where he tramples on the cap of liesler, and that oue which we have already mentioned, where he appears in chains before him, were, in our judgment., two of the best in the play. The full gush of a patriot's heart, panting for liberty, was shown in the one, and all the emo tious of a parent about to be torn from his chill, for lov ing freedom and detesting tyranny, were pourtrayed in the other. The struggling commotions arising from the con sciousness of his being, as be thought, about to suffer for such a cause, with the lingering wish of nature to live and che rish his wife and child, were most painfully wrought up by this excellent actor. He was warmly applauded throughout. We had no conception that Wallack (who was always'our favourite) could cast off the gloom and soletnnity of tra gedy, aud with a light heart and a lighter lied frisk through such a character as AI iehael. Ile was particularly good ; and his cheerful chat and smiling face were in true keeping with the unsophisticated honesty of a Swiss peasant, such as he was before his country had felt the overreaching power of Napoleon. Mrs. Bunn had but little to do, and with somewhat less of a " drawl" (as a gentleman who sat, behind us called it), she would have done that little well. The character, though dealing in heroics, was not so tragi cal as to need the solemn emphasis and minute-lasting pause with which some of her speeches were given. As to Mr. Archer's Gelder, we dare say it was quite beconling is st tyrant to be full of fearful apprehensions himself, and to be particularly disagret able to all about him. We know not that it is at all desirable that the character of an Austrian timpot should be rendered amusing; so that Mr. Archer may still continue the same awful enunciation and pompo sity of voice with which he offended us last night. There was a little music scattered through the pikee, but of no particular merit. When the curtain fell the applause was loud and long continued from all parts of a very crowded house; and upon the whole there is a chance that William Tell, although not the first of that name on the English stage, will be a very welcome companion for some time, especially if the author should deem it prudent to curtail some of its parts. In the scene of Albert shooting at the target, and that where Tell accedes to the dreadful alternative of shooting at the apple, and even in the scene where the trial takes place, some shortening might be judiciously made. Why the ladies should be intro duced in order to faint at the sight of Tell shooting at the apple, we cannot divine. Such a conceit is too ridiculous and absurd to be tolerated in a country barn. We hope these fainting ladies will stay away on the next occasion. The play was announced by Mr. Macready, who was loudly called for, to be performed again on Friday next. . Tit i; all that can b The scene of the plow die the Austrian U ii ir the liaise till they - *pleader of a few el A , - agu, and waylay t Itre the Caysle of Alt ins numbs! of Sine o il finds Michael (Mr. el/Noising on die wo wine serous, and i wit. Tell. Po owl I , sits you that;' whose ses Tell was a hate fent. The aecond s d rettaantic scenery pain a prayer to ista ra c is regsin the Its then ant is life 'ef °ester c seal scene of this ac meet two ladle}—Ar n de tha of wilich is I f end scene, pretend Nis, the wife of peapetrophitting the Naassisted owed inters, and Ye WI I and cot that " • ' ' Albert's sk # efibrts Ills son to l echery. " Yen end an let Gesler live : n ..10 liberty I—right t done !" Te l nor in ilit tyrant indeed ; a sz oontiog to poetry, 1 boy is sent by his lath bad of friends, which o' one of those friends far attempting to d i l egit he comes before 11 en; but rousing up Meanwhile Tara son desist, separated froc ro ve. The boy ro Healer demands his is rough. IVben • ' moires the name of el :Ann, and after yam order orders him to 'hilt such men as the la life was not safe, aq a pole in the markt wkse of his subtilise ka:harl the peasant 1 riliers to seise hint tithes forward-and die 1L...1:n.1406 00 the s) I rate mates and nisi ore, whielt.ls one of rr, opportunity to di iiit we must not antic ' of Tell what and wt, niter the tyrant tha Otiat)0110gly orders I sole spirit of his ts `it • somewhat too tai eat to 01/11 his tither. tat Coart, and then I re hey, who was obis !named his courage. ataiii be does in a stn i - ist me not, but I h.l r;vc your freedom, Osier failing in his o tt :lie Seneschal that toeintanded, and the, possect. The name o vrior.ness of his tvr volition that Tell eh The deed is done, an, cited snow falling I its there : " To shot a again put In chain paroled, kills Gelder iIL" Ids payout!) , is ft The underplot is Isbell, for the sak possito!e. to be ex . Li:ed in its dialogs J,zielli, who is an l; is obvious th thy, and we must inch with them, tie of character In: bow extended is t tads. Tyrants, s lesions that actu tizacters, were wi not we have only t ilich our minds 0 r. a very miniatift toward, and acts runt, and, whi s'ahough the seal tit they are all 11 a theme that I the poet almost 1 sod in every elite cf genius, till no no; quarrel with risooth and harm been familiar to i time to select ; b king a wiry fair p ever a land one, ft L4llli. • To be the Put Why speak yi What's 10 yea That fills up r Till it &ado* NI. ! Do I not love Is not that cot Was bom ? That little sir And tended si And peaks -1 To lire in, Tii Are these to r ll'i.at art tho Of Glister's Eats. How little is Fox Geiger, 1 felt Wit have no , No treasure ? Hare we nut That pearl, t Yet can't enj His coffers DI Yea, makes Goes without Frets till the Forgets both The wearer a. And that's et For deKription vire, just prey in blling the tyrant The land es, To walk the' And bless hi From end to Free as our t And plough Or asour re In very press slow happy le very stun 1 In my boot 1 The seats we The wind ca The thunder To see him i ;in,: think 1 s'ini know tl I p htther a 'f o such any Par two obit BALLOON ASCENT. flare we not ? treasure? How ! No treasure? What, ace we not liberty ? that precious ore, 'hat pearl, that gem the tyrant covets most, • can't enjoy I self—tor which he drains coffers of their coin—his land of blood ; ea, makes a pawn of Ilia own soul—lacks ease— kw% without sleep—pines !dimwit' sallow, paha.— 'lvy till the hile gnaws rppetitc away— ;farts both heaven and hell, only to strip .ie wearer of it! Emma, we have that, oil that's enough for (haler ! description we give that part of Ten's address to his ivat previous to his revealing to her the design of to tyrant: — When I wedded thee, to land was free! Heavens, with what pride I us'd I walk these hills, "and look up to my God, td Wes* hint that it was so. It was free— rum end to end, from chff to lake 'twas free ! ree as our torrents arc that letup our nicks, id plough our valleys, without :taking leave asour peaks that weer their caw ut snow, very presence of the regal sun." us happy was it then ! I heed very minim Yee, Emma. I have sat my boot at night, when, midway o'er the lake. Is Nan went out, and down the mountain gorge he wind carne roaring. I have sat and eyed 'he thunder breaking from his cloud, moiled se: him shake his lightnings o'er my think l had nu master save his own. 1 ou know the jutting cliff round which a track I p hither a Inds, whose base is but die brow To such another one, with scanty room fur two abreast to pass? (retaken then ty the mountain blast, I've laid me flat alerts, 1 , ,d while gust followed gust more furiously, ds :t to sweep me o'er the horrid brink, And I hare thought of other lands, whose storms vtiinier Claire to those of ruing, awl ;oat Mr. firaliam, the aeronaut, once mo►e made an ascent in hi■ beautiful balloon, from the gardens of White Conduit House, Pen. tonville, yesterday. The notice given of his intention to ascend was very short, so that the number of visitors was comparatively small, but there was sill a tolerable sprinkling of respectable company to be seen in the gardens ; and on the outside the lower orders mustered in pretty good force. A good band of musicians was stationed in the gardens. and contributed much to relieve the tediousness of the process of inflation.- At half-poet four a signal-gun announced that the preparations were in a forward state; and at the same time a small pilot balloon was .ent off. . . Several offers of money were made to the aeronaut in the course of tic day, by gentlemen who were anxious to share with him the pleasures and perils of the aerial voyage; but no proposition which was thought worth accepting was made until late in the afternoon, when a gentleman, who stated himself to be the editor of a forth coming work-on astrology, tendered a sum of money (we under. stood 301.) and seemed particularly anxious that the bargain should be struck. While the negotiation was still pending, however, another candidate presentee, himself, in the person of Captain Currie, of the &I Dragoon Guards, who without ceremony ex pressed a desire to go up, and put into 111 r. Graham's haft's a cheque for 401. This was accepted; and from that moment Captain Currie took an active part in the preparations for the ascent. At twenty minutes before six, Mr. Graham, who, with Carols CUM., had been for some time on the platform on which the bal loon was placed for the purpose of inflation.iiintered the me milt the cheers of those in the gardens. and vas followed in a second of two by the Captain, who first took off his hat, and bowed with great good humour to the spectators. He stepped into the car and took his seat with the moat perfect ease and self-possession, and when the signal gun was fired to " let go," he again bowed smil ingly to those around. The balloon was at length entirely released from the platform, bat was still held by the managing men, with a view to wait until a favourable opportunity . presented itself of letting the machine go so as to ensure the clearing of the trees and the adjoining houses: but they committed a singular error, for in stead of dragging the lailloon to the windwusl side of the gardens, they suffered it to drag them (which could easily have beep avoided) to the lee side, and then were obliged to let go. The ma chine, however, was so well filled that it ascended in an almost per pendicular direction, and the aeronauts escaped with a mere brush against the trees. The balloon rose above the houses at exactly a quarter before six, and took a north-westerly course, the aeronauts standing erect in the car waving their flags, and receiving in return the hearty cheers of those below. The spectacle at this moment was truly magnificent. In about a quarter of an htrar (coin the time of ascending, the balloon suddenly took a direction almost due North, and in about ten minutes more was seen bearing as near as possible E.N.E., in which course it continued perfectly visible to the naked eye for nearly an hour and a half, when it:disappeared. THE DESCENT. At half . ..past two o'clock this morning Mr. Graham arrived in town, hav ing descended at Mr. Askew's farm near Waltham Abbey, about half-past seven o'clock. Mr. Graham and Captain Currie, when they reached terra firma, proceeded: to Epping. place to dinner. Mr. Graham smite, that after his ascent / * tont the ground he experienced the most extreme cold, and that at one time it was so intense as almost to deprive him of sensation. The extreme height of the balloon was two miles and a half. Mr. Graham brought his balloon safely with him to his house in Poland-street, and was cordially greeted by his friends alio had as sembled there to meet him. POWER OF °m.o. . Ould is so ductile, learned chemists say, That half an ounce rill stretch a wondrous way ; The metal's base, or else the chemists trr, ! .—Last night late, arrived at the York de Frederick Lamb, Ambassador from ies's to Madrid. His Excellency ern /clock this morning, on board his Ma- Fury, which was lying in the Roads, and ander a salute from the guns at the heights. Passed kw to the Downs, the Earl Camden and another East Indianian. Ito sir An CATHOLIC RELIEF BlLL.—After the main question was carried, and the Bill read a third time yester day morning, three amendments were proposed ; one to insert the words, "not to sit in either House of Parlia ment," which was negatived without a division. The second was similarly disposed of; but the third, which was merely a verbal correction, was adopted. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Lieutenant-General Sir George Walker, K.C.B. appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Company's forces at Fort St. George, was appointed Second in Council at that Presidency. Yesterday a ballot was taken at the East India House on the following question ; viz.— " That this Court confirm the Resolution of the Court of Di. rectors of the 30th March last, whereby the Commander and Owners of the late ship Kent are fully acquitted trona all imputation of neg. lett or misconduct in respect to the lots of that ship." At six o'clock the glasses were clostd and delivered to the scrutineers, who reported the question to be decided in the affirmative. We hear, from good authority, that the expectations d the brevet which was on the point of taking place a few weeks since, will not be disappointed, but that a brevet will certainly appear in a few months ; the ob jections raised in Council lately, by a high personage con nected with the Admiralty, being now removed.—)forn:ag TIIE BRITISH PRESS. QUARANTINE LAWS. • , —amr.---- . - REIrATIVE CONSISTENCY OF rHE CONTAGIONISTS AND NON-CONTAGIONISTS. • [TROY A COXIESPONDILIIT.I The eontagionists assume that plague, and other epi- ' demic diseases, are prod a'specific contagion person to he non •contagionists al- , lege, on o the co ntrary, that t .' no proof of the existence 'of such a virus in regard to any epidemic: that, as the lawi.of epidemic and contagious diseases are not only dif ferent but opposed, it is impossible their causes should bd. similar ; that, in point of fact, the pro ufa of the non-effistepec of a specific virus in these discascsarc direct, numerous, and conclusive; and that these proofs depending upon pgueral and incontrovertible priwipke, all testimony in favonrof a contrary ielult, in respest is particular cases, tnnitt deemed ,to be founded tnillllacy qr .delusion. As stance in point, it is confidently asserted that the l e was introduced into Malta,: ib , 1819, by the ship T • it ,colo. h u g e existen of contagion in plague bet to be impossible, it follotris of course that all such facts must be untrue ; and it itoebt he a.work of supererogation to disprove them severe*, - To .show, however, the sort of bases upon which such allegations invariably rest, it may be observed of this ease, that the San Nicolo arrived at Malta in March, was ?reht away early in April, and that the disease did not manifestitaelf as an epidemic *KR the 1 3th of May. Another assumption, not only neatened ) hut palpably contiary to the truth, is, that theplaapne in Malta, in 1 813, was extinguished by the operation of the ,aarritary laws. In the towns and villages generally, accord ing to the official returns, it ceased in Se bur or Octo ber, the usual period of the cessatian of , demise ies 'in that island; but, in era! Currni, laws were pushed to the - bt r, the disease was re Inani baYersl elm; period, or to the • of Mora, 11314. Now it must appear to non-medi loans a curious species of induc tion, by which it is inferaed that restrictions, which for wise months were unable-to produce any favourable effect Upon the disease in any of its milder stages, should all at mice have had the effect of arresting it after it had arrived la its utmost intensity! These cases, together with that ill the ship Theorem, In the evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons on the contagion of the plague, ' in 1919, will be said . Wltrate this • . proposi tion, exempting ns f 4-lie.. . 1 11; to it, upon the recurrence • , .. . .at passing assumption for fact. - • ...tr.r..- It may be proper, .P"" • • • • on, to ad vert to the relative •• • , . y , some . er respects, of the conclusions of the opposite parties. The contagionists, professing to believe that a specific virus is the cause of epidemic diseases, which may exist, in an active state, in goods, for months or years ; and that, to prevent the spreading of this contagion, sanitary laws are the necessary and efficient remedy, one would think that the inevitable nee of this opinion would be, a recommendation Aar these laws should be augmented in duration, increased in rigour, and universally extended. But what is our surprise, to find the implicit believers in these doctrines , asserting, in the same breath, that the existing restrictions ' for preventing the spreading of a specific virus which may exist in goods in an active state, for months or years, nay, in certain cases, be with safety diminished to a few days, and, in others, wholly abolished ! The non-contagionists, believing, on the contrary, that peetilestial contagion has no existence; that sanitary laws have consequently neither foundation sow ; and that they are not only useless, but highly, upend, with perfect consistency, that ' should be wholly abolished. With respect to the in which it may be proper that popular should be deferred to, by not abolishing dr ess ' thillpiestrated evils at once, it is wholly another question, et which Ministers and the Legislature are the fit judges. We shall, et a future opportunity, take occasion to examine Isfro mfge of the absurdities with which the doctrine of austagils, and its advocates, abound ; including the ex travagances of a person who designates himself, in respect to this matter, " An experienced physician," without hay ing ever seen a case of plague. CATHOLIC EM A NCI PATIO.V. It. is mated amitosis, ' est a crisis like the preient, to turn hack to the history of our fathers, and to mark the condition of the public mind, and the progress of public opinion, as it respects our Catholic brethren, since the im portant era of the abdication of JAM ES 11. We make the following interesting extracts from the LONDON Mx Revert -i newspaper of December the 12th, in the year 1688 : " Loeno e, Drees( BIER 12.—N0 sooner was the King's withdrawing known, but the mobile consulted to wreak their vengeance on Papists and Poper. - ; and last night began with pulling down and burning the new-built Mass house, near the Arch, in Lincoln ; thence they went to Wild-house, the residence of the Spanish Ambassador, where they ransacht, destroyed, and burnt all the ornamental and inside imit of the chappel, some cart-loads of choice books, manuscripts, &c. And not con tent here, some villanous thieves and common rogues, no doubt, that took this opportunity to mix with the youth, and they plunder'd the Ambassador's house of plate, lisiggis, money, rich goods, &c.; and also many other whiz And sent in there for shelter their money, plate, Sze. ; among Which, one gentlewoman lost a trunk, in which was 8001. in money, and a great quantity of plate. Thence they went to the Mass-house at St. Jones's, near Smithfield, dernolisht it quite; from thence to Blackfryers, near the Ditchside, where they destroyed Mr. Henry Ilills printing house, spoil'd his forms, letters, &c. and burnt R or 300 reams of paper, printed and unprinted ; thence to the Mass house in Bucklershury and Lime-street, and there de molisht and burnt as before ; and this night they pulled down the resident of Florences Chappel in the Haymarket, where a company of the Middlesex militia, commanded by one Captain Douglas, a cheesemonger, was killed as thought ' by one of his own men, whom he commanded to fire upon the rabble; thence they went to the Nuncio's, and other places at that end of the town ; but finding the birds flown, and bills on the door, they drew off; thence they went into the city, threatning to pull down all papists houses, particularly one in Ivy-lane, and the market-house upon Newgate Market, for no other reason hut that one Be RD LT, a papist, was one of the farmers of the market ; but by the prudence of the citizens and some of the trahred bands, they were got off without mischief doing any where. - " Tuesday night last, and all Wednesday, the appren tices were busie in pulling down the chappels, and spoiling the houses of papists; they crying out the fire should not go out till the Prince of Oraii7,e came to town. There were thousands of them on Weinestlay at the Spanish Ambassador's, they not leaving any wainscoat withinsidc the house or choppy!, taking away great quantities of plate, with much money. household goods and writings, verifying the old proverb, All fish that came to the net.' The spoil of the house was very great, divers papists having sent their goods in thither, as judging that the securest place. " Then they went to the Lord Powis's great house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, wherein was a guard, and a bill upon the door, ' This house is appointed for the Lord Dela sneer's quarters and some of the company crying, Let it alone, the Lord Purvis was against the Bishops going to the Tower, they offered no violence to it. " Afterwards they marched down the Strand with oranges upon their sticks, crying for the Prince of Orange, and went to the Pope's Nuroio, but finding a bill upon the door. ' This house is to 1w Id,' they desisted. Lastly, they did some damage to the house of the Resident of the Puke of Tuscany in the hay market, carrying away some of his goods, when one Captain Douglas, coming thither with a company of trained-bands to suppress them, a soldier unadvisedly firing at the boys with ball, shot the Captain through the back, of which he lyes languishing. They also went to the houses of the French and other Ambas sadors, but finding them deserted, and the landlords giving them money, they marched off. "On Thursday, an order of the Lords coming forth, warning all persons to desist from pulling down any house, especially those of the Ambassadors, upon penalty of the utmost severity of the law to be inflicted on them ; since which they have been very riet." " The Prince of Orange is said to have gamed in pub lic at the Groom POrters soon after his arrival, and hod the good fortune to win .500 guineas, one hundred of which he immediately presented to -- Neale, Esquire, who held that office, placing the remainder in the custody of the firer Bentiock„ So Li applied to charitable purpeers. ~' .... .. - I W , Fur now.a- da p s our Suirreigur wont go far ! ' ro : • •—... e Id ? ".--- , -ne Duke of York transacted military business with the . .. ing yesterday. • r 144 j 4 rince Ltropold dined with the Duchess of Kent yester - „ r -j: t her apartment at the King's Palace, Kensington. ray t -se lie - 1.4 , 0p0hl honoured the Prince and Princess Ester- nat Vi a' , . • • y evening. ath . •fr In illf • • the Duke of Wellington had an audience of ok . 2 • ri' • t 1111 •p of St. David's (Dr. Burgess) will succeed, William, -% • " to Ow wee of Salisbury. Have .;,, .i . Vey, Many 10.—Last night late, arrived at the York hat, Hot , Ole Honourable Frederick Lamb, Ambassador from the Coen of St: James's to Madrid. His Excellency cm- ost, batkitkolb..eleven o'clock this morning, on board his Ma- ns jestyso puska the. Fury, which was lying in the )(nada, and ; ; I.tiletl for Calais under a salute from the guns at the heights. INDIA. [From the Sapplcment to the Calcutta Gocerounext Gazette of January 3.) Private letters from Rangoon of the 17th say, that the enemy's loss has been very great. The Chuekia Woonghee, one of the Ministers, was killed in the attack upon Kemmen dine ; and 3leela-Woon, next in command to flundula, fell into our hands, mortally wounded, on the Mb. This man was also Minister to the King's only daughter, and married to a niece of hen. Several others of minor note had also fallen in the late en- gagement. Prisoners and deserters state, that the General and Minister, Muunshooeta, had arrived, at no great distance, with powers to en ter upon a negotiation for peace, on the 3d of the ensuing moan, should the result of the engagement prove unfavourable to the Bur mese arms. [From the Calcutta Gazette, Dec. 30.) .: 'We understand that Captain T. Alexander, Gil of his Ma- jetty's ship Alligator, will proceed immediately to Rangoon, in command of the naval force in that quarter. By the Davie Clark, from Rangoon, we learn, that Captain Hardy had gone to Cheduha, to take charge of the Honourable Company's frigate Hastings, in consequence of the death of I;apt. Runes. AFrom the Supplement to the Government Gazette, Dee. 21.1 iornoow.—By the last accounts from Rangoon it will appear. that the Reports of the Revolution at Ave were incorrect. The fallowing paper of intelligence was given in a short time before the departure of the Nereide : " The King of Ara having placed his son. Prince Chukismen, on the throrte,lnertly for the purpose of dispelling the predominant influence of IlLiaok, went himself to.lasgine. Consequently the present war with the English is carried on in the name, and under the auspices, of the said temportisl King. " Bata il'oongliee is dead. Sykia Woonghec has been dis graced, teed stripped of all his titles and dignitie,i, in consequence of his cov.ardiee at Thauttabain, when attacked by the British forces. •`' " The grand army of die Bu'rmese consisted, before the action, of from forty.seven to fifty thousand men, also one thousand io valnerables, armed with swords, and decorated with silver g°rlreto and modals, conferred on shear by the Regent, Cholla-Men.' TRH INDIAN ARMY. VICTORY AT RANGOON. • [From the Supplement to the Calratta GovernateC Gazelle of Dec. 27.1 GENERAL 0 1 RDER, BY THE RWHT NUXOUBABLE THE ooviotwon.ozsimAL IN COUNCIL. Secret Department, Dec. 24, 11124. The of f icial despatches already published in an Extraordinary Gazette having announced the late brilliant achievements of the British arms at Rangoon, the Right Honourable the Governor in Council now proceeds to the discharge of a most gratifying duty, in signifying , in the most public and formal manner, his high ad miration of the judgment, skill, and energy manifested by Briga dier-General Sir Archibald Campbell in directing the operations of the troops under his command ou that important and arduous ac cretion. The Governor-General in Council requests Brigadier-General Sir Archibald Campbell to accept the cordial thanks of the Govern ment, and to notify tq.lhe brave officers and men under his coin. mend the ieutiincnts of admiration with which it regards the gal. !entry, spirit, and enthusiasm evinced by them throughout the severe and protracted conflicts with the enemy, which terminated in his entire rout and dispersion, with great slaughter, and the loss of 260 pieces of artillery and most of his military stores. His Lordship In Council has remarked, with particular approbation, the recorded instances of meritorious conduct displayed by Lieute nant-Colonel Miles, second in command„and Lieutenant-Colonels Parlby, and Brodie: Illajors Evans, Sale, Frith, Yates, Dennie, Thornhill, Gore, ‘Vsbab, Farrier, and Basden ; and Captains Piper. Wilson, and Ross. The Governor-General in Council entertains also the highest sense of the efficient services and honourable exertions of Captains Murray, Russell, Thnbrell, and Alontgomerie, of the Artillery ; of Captain Cheape, Com manding Engineer; Captain Wheeler, of the Madras Pioneers; Lieutenant-Colonel Tidy and Major Jackson; Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster Generals; and of Captaint Snodgrass and Campbell, Personal Staff to Brigadier-General Sir Archibald Campbell. • • The Governor-General in Council seises this opportunity of ex pressing his warm acknowledgments to Captain Chads, of hie Ma jesty's ship Arachne, the senior Naval Officer at Rangoon, and to Captain Ryvea, of his Majesty's ship Sophie, for their distinguithed personal exertions; and requests the former to convey to the officers and crews of his Majesty's ships, of the Lion. Company's cruisers, as well as the officers and men of the transports who volunteered their services, the sense which Government entertains of their gal lent conduct in the several actions with the enemy's war-boats, when they so conspicuously displayed the irresistible and character istic valour of British seamen. On these occasions his Lordship in Connell observes that Lieutenant Killet, of his Majesty's ship Arachne, and Lieut..9oldfinch, of his Majesty's ship Sophie, par ticularly distinguished themselves. The high encomium bestowed by Brigadier-General Sir Archi., bald CamOeU on the conduct of all the troops under. his emetenend S.—in whit* he states that their valour was only equalled by the cheerful patience with which they bore long and painful privations. and that whilst his Europeans fought like Britons. and proved themselves worthy of the country that gave them birth, the gallant Sepoys successfully obtained the palm of honour in rivalling their European comrades in everything that marks the steady, true, and daring soldier—has been perused by the Governor-General with peculiar gratification; and his Lordship in Council requests the Brigadier-General to take the most effectual means of making known to his iron's at large the high estimation in which their valorous deed. and exemplary fortitude arc held; and especially to mark the admiration of Government of the heroic manner in which the Native troops have so nobly sustained the long and well-earned fame of our Indian Army. The Govornor.General in. Council deeply laments the loss of Major Walker, of the 3d Madras Native Light Infantry, emphati cally styled by Sir Archibald Campbell "one of Indla's best and bravest soldiers :" of Brevet Captain and Lieutenant O'Shea, of his Majesty's 13th Light Infantry ; and of the gallant soldiers who have fallen in the service &their country. His Lordship in Coun cil trusts that the brave officers who have been wounded in the I actions with the enemy may soon be restored to the public service. By command of the flight Honourable the Governor• General in Council. GEORGE SWINTON, Sec. to the Govt. From the Government Gazette. Dec. 23.1 GENERAL 011DEII SY TNT RIGHT HONOURABLE THE ROVERNOIL.GENTIIAL IX COUNCIL. Fort William, Dee. t 3, 1824. A royal salute and three ,oldies of musquetry to be tired at all the stations of the land forces serving in the East Indies, in honour of the signal and decisive victories achieved at Rangoon, by the British forces under the command of Brigadier-Gen. Sir Archibald Campbell, K.C.8., over the Grand Army of the Burman Empire, in the several successive actions fought between the Ist and 9th inst., in which the enemy were completely defeated and dispersed, with the loss of 9,000 men killed and wounded, of 250 pieces of artillery, and the greater part of their military stores. By command of the Right Honourable the Governor-General in Council, GEORGE SWINTON, Sec. to the Govt. Fort William, Dec. n, 1824: The Onvernor.fiencral will attend in mate that evening. at five o'clock, the parade of the Royal Regiment, when a fru di 'joie will be tired in honour of the victory at Rangoon. THI. ARMY. GENERAL ORDER. flortss; GUARDS, HAT 2, 1825. His Majesty having been graciously pleased to approve the accompanying Regulations for the sale and purchase of Commis. aims of unattached retired full and half-pay Officers, they are now promulgated to the Army t and his Royal Highness the Com mantler-in.Chief enjoins the strictest compliance therewith. By command of his Royal lliFhness the Coar.ander-in-Chief, HENRY fORRENS. Adjutant.GeneraL REGULATIONS TOR TILE PALE OF RETIRED FULL-PAY AXIS lIALF-PAY CONIMISSIONS. APRIL 25, 1825. Half-pay Officers, and those on retired full pay, shall be per mitted to dispose of their Commissions as unattached half-pay Com missions. in the mannet and upon the terms hereinafter described. To include the Officers actually serving in the Veteran Batta lions who may be considered as belonging to both lists, but who cannot now sell ; as also (Cenral Officers, who may be in the receipt of the half-pay only or that regimental rank on which they retired. That the Officers on the retired full-pay, and those serving in Veteran Battalions, shall receive the prices for their Commissions, established by his Majesty's regulations in 1821. That the Officers who were reduced to half-pay, having put. chased or served twenty years, nod the Officers obliged to retire upon half-pay, in consequence of wounds, or health impaired by climate, shall also receive the same price for their Commissions. That Officers having retired to halt:pay at their own request, not in consequence of wounds, or health impaired by climate, although they should have purchased, shall receive only the old price, as established by the Regulation in force previous to 1821. ACTUAL. PRICY. Lieutenant-Coloneley £4.500 Lieutenantey Majority . . 3,21.10 Second Lieutenantey Company - 1.880 Ensigney OLD PRICE. 1:700 . bW 430 Lieutenant-Eolonelcy 11.600 I Lieutentuttey £650 Majority . • 2,600 ; Second Lieutenantcy . 460 Cotrpany . - 1.800 I Ensigney - 400 The Officers selling out shall receive the sum to which they niay be respectively entitled under these regulations, is may be directed by the Commander-in-Chief. And is order to avoid the possibility of communication between the parties, the purchaser will be directed simply to lodgshis money for his promotion to the higher Commission, the seller being atter. warJs selected by the l'ommander•in.ebief from the lista rogistrred in his Royal Highness's OM, ; nor will any other than ea uncoil ditiowal resigns:top, nor any application which adverts to any ea ; pec:ed vacancy, be admitted. The surplus. if any, will. in all cases. be hitl,l at the disposal .. :~.. .f the Lords Conuniasionen of his Majesty's Traastry, fur the public use. 'the price paid and received shall, in all cases, be that of the Tr. fantry Commissions, as in the cases of unattached Commission. which have been hitherto sold, whether the individual selling shall be on the half pay ofiCavalry or Infantry, and the purchaser shall, in all cases. be placed on the half-pay oflnfantry. The individuals disposed to avail themselves of this arrangement upon the terms specified, shall make application to the Coot. mender-in-Chief, through the Military Secretary, when their claims will be investigated and determined upon, and their names Will be reeideved accordingly . 'Fbe purchasers will •be recommended to his Majesty by the Commander-in. Chief. from the lists kept in his office. The sales took place under the following restrictions No_ peeson to be allowed to sell at either rate who has passed the rigs of sissy years, or who cannot prodnce the certificate sd the Army Medical Board t if in a foreign colony, the ceettficett of a Medics: -hoard; or, if no Board can be assembled, of the ''izenior Medical Officer, showing that his retirement does not result from impaired constitution. threatening earlier dissolution than a person of his apemay exneet in the common course of nature, • No Offeer to be allowed to sell, unless he shall have ptochassd his commission, or unless he shall have served twenty yeses an Coe whole, if a Lieutenant-Colonel, Major, or Captain. Fifieen years if a lieutenant. - Twelve years if an Ensign, of which, at least, one half cm fulV ray, or in the discharge of active professional duties, elect he should have been placation half-pay in consequence of ineareity, from wounds or infirmity, not Dow greeting his general heath and constitution. Those having purchased, whose services do not amount to the above periods, or who have not been placed upon half-pay en ac count of incapacity, produced as above stated, to receive tnc value only of the Commissions they may have purchased at either rate, according as they have been reduced, or have retired at the.: own request. Those who have taken the difference. and who may be 011-.•wwiae circumstanced as above stated, to receive the value of their Com missions at the old rate, minus the amount of the difference pre viously received by them. Those who have been placed on half-pay in conscquenu - of the sentence of Courts-martial, 9: of circumstances prejudleial to their character, to be exclededeern the benefit of this arraogemerts; or, if it be thought fit to retiree the flalf-pay List from them they cannot be called into service.) receive a sum not exceeding value of their annuity. It Is tube understood, that no Officer on the Retired or Ref -pity Litt, who may hold a garrison situation, will be permitted to retatn it, if he should sell under this arrangement. Further, that the general arrangement shall be limited tit those actually on the Ilalf-ps• or Retired List; and the time allowed for its operation shall be limited to one year for Officers at tome. and to one year and a half for Officers residing in distant color.:ts or countries. Those Officers who have purchased Half-pay Cormnissiotte„ ae unattached Commissions, would, after serving on Full-psit the rank so purchased, be as admissible to the permission to sell what they may have purchased.as any other Officers on Full-pay, ar ger his Majesty's Regulations. The purchasers of the Half-pay Commissions, above the rank of Ensign, shall be invariably Officers on Full-pay. No Officer shall be allowed to purchase two steps on Half i .pas,, without having served in the intennediate time two years on Full, pay. it being of course understood that his general period of service wtrild otherwise rrititlk him to the promotion. LIVERPOOL, r'- CESDAY EVENING. Wind N.ll'. to N.E.—High Water TO m. past S. Arrived. the Lisette, Bayer, from Rostock ; Ann Dorothea, Davis, from. ditto ; Frantz, Zeplin, from ditto ; 'Winona, 1 ity m 4on. me from IVestport ; Helen, Brown, from Sligo ; Lindsays, from New Orient! ; Bibby, King, from Dublin ; E Gillis, from Newry; Catherine, Quirk, from Strangford ; - g leg a k:- rine and Margaret, 111• Can, from Killala • Jessie, Hutchinson, from liallina; Jason, Jackson. lino) Drogheda; Tiger. Boehm. an, from Glasgow ; Brothers, C.:cat. from Dublin 3iLdespes,, from Lea • City of Glasgow, Carlyle, from 011111 PW Isle of Man; William and Henry, „„ Sligo; Peh""• from Drogheda; Conway Coad My, athews, from Dublin ; lITRtr Ellen, Porter, from Killough ; Venus, Roe, frem'Charltoa, clay . ; James Scott, /11"Giae. from Dublin; Fisher, Radley, Belfast ; Margaret, Jones, from Newry; Liffey, Bibby.. tun Dublin ; Sally, Taylor, from Lancaster; Osprey,. Scott, fawn Killala ; Oliver Neale, from Newport; Active, Riehie, from Killala ; Ann, Thompson, from Ballina ; Atalanta, Kerrisort, from Rostock ; Balance, Newman, from ditto ; De 'Lowe, Erick, from Anclarh ; Louisa Augusta, Kilcher, from Donnie; Herman, Fetu, from ditto; Mentor, Schultz, from ditto ; Neptunta, Arena arils, from \Vinton.. The William Galt, Walsh, from St. Domingo, has arrived off Falmouth. Jessie, lallom, from 1 2 ahia, has arri,ol at Macao,. Jean Stewart, M`Kenzie. from Liverpool, Phienix, from Hamburgh, has arrived at Pernambuco. Dorset, —, from Alexandria, has arrived at MiKod. Prince of Sase Coburg would sail from St. Dnednp about the Ist week in April, and the Sylph, .11arsou, had wiamoneed load. ing when the William Galt sailed. Crosthwaite, Wilson, from Liverpool has arrived at Permam buco. The Marmion, from 1 4 crnlimbuco. sailed April Z. The Peterel, for London, sailed.slarch 22, On 17th April, in lat. 26.51. long. 19.10, spoke the ship Farah , from London t. forVera Cruz. , • OLTIIZAD, MAT 9. I,iteht breeze from N.N.ll'. Two p.m.—A sloop is now off, homeward bound ; she has a flag up 11'.R., if belonging to our code of Bags, must be No. 2; she has yellow sides and a bend, bat supposed to be smaller than No. 6. The ship Bolivar, from St. John's, New Brunswick, is now under way. Note—No..6.io the Lindsays, from New Orleans. Silted, May Io.—Corsair, Petrie, for Java; Manhattan, Hack staff, for New York ; Montezuma, Potts, fee Philadelphia—towed out by steam VbSehl. Our Cotton Market has had a little more life in it yesterday and this day, and prices a little better. About 9,900 bags changed hands In the three days. LIVERPOOL MARKETS, 3IaY 10. Since Tuesday last the transactions in Brain ban been very li mited, and prices lower. This dullness may be attributed to tho favourable weather for growing crops, to the expected import from Canada, and the contemplated release of old groan, bonded previous to May, 1822, on paying a small duty thereon. These ideas seemed to operate on the minds of the buyers at our market to-day, as few sales could be made even at a reductior. of 6d. on IV heat and 2a.. a sack on flour. Oats in limited demand ; and the last quotations may be considered nominal, or nearly so. The market, upon the whole, closed heavily foe all articles. W heat in bond less inquired after, and flour undet lock without any change. GRAIN. a. d. a. d. Wheat per Bushel 70113.—English . 9 9 a 10 9 scotch 10 3 a Ir 6 9 Irish . 9 3 • 10 5 Bantsie - 7 6 . a 9 0 Petersburgh and Rigaf 4 8 a 3 3 Oats per Btillaßl of 451b..--Irish Potato - 9 4 a 3 8 English,Seotch&NVelsh 8 7 a 310 Common 2d. a 3d. lower. Barley pet 601b.—English 5 3 a 6 G Irish. . 3 0 a 5 3 Malt per 9 galls. (old) . - 9 0 a 9 3 Ditto (neal y6a 10 0 Oatmeal per 2401 b.— English - 3U 0a32 0 Dish - 23 0 a 31 0 Flour per 3001b.—English - - 62 0 a 33 • Irish . . . .11 U a 64 • American per 1961 b. (in bond) 24 0 a 26 0 Dantzic . 0 0 a 0 0 Foreign, fres II 0 • 0 0 Beans per Quarter—English . . 42 0 a 44 0 Irish - 40 0 a 41 • Foreign - 0 U a 0 0 Peas per Quarter— English, White . 0 0 a 0 0 Ditto Grey - 0 0 a • Foreign 0 0 a 0 0 IMPOIITSD TROY ?NZ 3D •PITI. TO TtIL 9Thl MAN INCLUSIVE. Barley : Foreign . 2,335 rt. Ireland 210 Wheat : Foreign - 5.5441 qrs. Ireland - . 3,067 Coastways - 479 9,086 Flour : American . 4.000 brls Europe - 1.931 236 qrs. - 79 5,931 Ireland - 618 aka. Coastwaye . 10 62U Oats: Foreign . 1.500 qrs. Ireland . 19.513 loastways . 292 21.303 • Bonded before \l•e, 1822. :.:.~ Coastways - 197 2,802 Beans : Ireland Coastways 315 Peas: Foreign - 38 VI- Coastways - 6 44 Oatmeal : Ireland . 4:;% Ids. Coutways •. 4itt t Ditto, Rtibsequenti). We understand that a dinner is intended to be given by the Catholics of Liverpool, to Mr. O'Connell and others of the Irish Delegation new in London, on their return to I relauil. The young gentleman, whose mysterious disappearance . had recited so much apprehension for his safety, it appears rec ipitately left l,iverpool on the F r iday evening in the Bi r mingham mail. The first information of him was re aired on Wednesday evening. lire understand letters have since been received frein him at Portsmouth.—Liner. pool ildrertiser of Tuesday. I I ~ e Y +~ 1 7 ~~ ,~ , I iI 1 , 4, .., 1 i I t .., I I: ‘ .l i . • i ) f 1 v i, , s, 1 ~ ~ , 1 i , , , , , 'lt] 1 ~ 1 ( A ; i