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Mr. Illanehisr.l; .1.. h Thsontierry. Mr. ritwertt ; Menu's U Meriplilery. Mr. iiiii f IMII. Mr. Itnytior. ladv rafloiille War •. Mr.. ilistterlo : Mary Thornberry, MIS Chester; o‘. uildery. Mr, bavehport. %/ter whirl. cF.NT. PKII CENT. Tome.rrhse, The Selsool of Itellowiti. with The Irish Tutor, and The Ilwarr h( the Alps. • • • TIIEATRE 11.11%11.111KET. TIP* F.venimr. FWD v, fit ly .ill IP• performed r‘P:nr ll.\ . Sir R"hert Ramble. Mr. V inimc: !P.M. , . Mr. I.ist.m: Ils.rmonv, Mr. M. Inure: Mr. Ire, in, Mr. Abbott. Ludy Fall lrvin, Mrs.Git.tcr 141pold. Mrs. Oiblra._ . %fter 'orb. A VEL,II IN AN Horn ; or, TIIK COCK OF TM: WALK. Hobby thorkhorre. Mr. I.L.tun. To i."111.11VIc N ith A tun, Vcl) Volt N 01.1VElt. Ile.Addlnt; ?Cm t I klrl o NtadaineVertrla. It. ‘va.,• to and Cu, and t.to Coact' t.thintent Tll A:AVM 110)".11„ AlyG LISII OPE RA-11017.5T, bI'N\VII. hr Public arc ttipr;tr.illy 114 . .1 . U:01ik4 that Hill Theatre will Open 1„r Idr Z . . .lout , ter . 4'1 4 01 T., 00000 rn,,,, v vrt , iii)%‘ , Jul) 3, 11 , M n will be peri.:r'se . u...d . t;illl . :;;li: , ;;ti;n . .....l6;4;‘ , lditiono the CJIIIIC I••r I , NLVII.I.F. I.lmat ha, Mr. Philipp.: i)....;•0r Mr. Matto* •. Firarn. H. ; yhorrlto, Mr. liroadharat ; T. 011.1..... Mr. Tatyleure. H .sq.a. by a yoloaa • wh Iri; a Dew C.,rAte I rrmuime, enllrd 11111.: MCA kEV Inl. t\1); Cr. 11%10.i:01'1N %%;) LutosTirs:n Roux. Mr. Clwrie, Mr. J. hilitnamn, Mr. • 11,4re10.: \li•• Itonwr. . . Hole% P;lTale I y • of Mr. Steven th, hull S: art:ter. from 12 till Mc. 11()Y..I f, (;.I 111)E XS. 1".1 U Xll.l I,l— the E.:wrist ih.tconase of Nlnjest y. Tills Evening, FRIDAY, July 2. the .linusestients wdl commence M it It A CR %NI) rtisa'YllT or Vorm ‘N other l'ontert. .110. V11111 . 4.11•iS1 'J . :iv ntij.K.l"rifl: N rlll . l vl. • HIK Twin' %ND si,lcK 1% till as. %NIP r ;tom.. •.. ramoi, ..‘pr,....•:mt a ninh to have the ..f Ti.• Chinese Wedding r whined. it is respect ! ,:l% 1111 l onticed it will he is, Yonisl f•ir a few es elites Isoilger, when a.uluri a w i t tie nt -,,,,, of the grand ilea' ihnitomleite. tvls:clA I.e. been all the wooer to ves:ici•loll. .anale •• i'..1; 7 " Joey of Von‘hall." to he lima ad t h e liar of 1 lo.• Cartl.•ll, Dor* open at seven. I ,oi:ert c , utoneuces nt Eight. Adinlution Cd. The BUITISII Pa r•ts vrinoipsno.4l publishing yesterday morning at a .11111'1cl . IMM lives ..'elock. LONDON, FRIDAY, Juts 2, 1921. Last :tight we received the French journals of Tuesday, with the and Pit,br of Wednesday's date. They are comparatively destitute of political interest, unless we consider as such the speculations of the Paris editors on the power ,of M. de %%Bele. Chateauhriand's paper, the J,ar.zul des Delarts, is stialfast in its attack on the Minis try, and is extremely a'xiuus to show that it is in a totter ing state. On Tuesday it contained a report that Baron de Dimas had tendered his resignation as Minister of Il'ar ; but this statement was positively denied in the Poite of the same evening. The French people, it may be remarked, take little interest in this party war, and appear to be perfectly indifferent as to whether M. Ile Villele keeps his place or not. 1:s the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday, the accounts of tf:e expenditure of the French army in Spain were dis c The contract made with the Intendant-General, M. 4 li:vrartl, was particularly remarked upon ; M. de Villele a hi•itted the biarthm-Jrnie nature of this bargain, but ob se:ved, that the Gover 1111 l ens were compelled to accede to Ow terms of Ouvrard for the supply of the army ; and that the complete manner in which the con tract hall been rrforined by the Intendant-General had greatly facilitated the termination of the campaign. It is , • t a ata o th a t M. ouvraed made a profit of nearly a mil -1 sterling. during the six months' campaign in the I'minsula. The advices from Matlfil, in the Freud' .1 Etrulls, come dawn to the Y.. 111 tilt. Valli:land returned to that city oil the 19th. Ainottgirt the most recent elta raewristie acts of th.• Stoutish government, find that Marquis dlc 4%1111p0 Verdi . , Prince Pico, 4 ielleTal birel need several other 011icers, who were included in the 11.italati.m of Ballaaterns. have been arrested, and thrown rot) pi ittott. The French fundsuu Tuesday wf re For the elid of ate month, 102 f. 75c New York papers to the Silt instant reached us last rii4t.t. racy contain a roo,l deal of speculation as to the r..salt of tit. Eleetion. and are quite amusing it the mutual reproaelies of the partits. have their L 1 es and th..ir radicals. flere the latter are all sunk into 417 u-roasters, blacking-in:ll:era, an.l grass-!ileaehers. The tollusing are the (tidy extracts of any inttrist in this part of the wo!hl: I Froth the :roe Vont Commercial .I.l.erti.,cr, Jane 7.1 J 4,14 4 .3 ;tarn lit the I Ith ult. mention th- introdu. !tail of the 11.0 i; VOX into that Island tnini this city, where it was reported to 1, , rwAirt.t. It wa. ruintior.sl at Volta, that Mato ribilla was t- Lt hlivekatleil. and a dowers) to be ntadr Ito Maracaibo. Antigua papers to May ill mention a long and stiere drought on that Island. which um, terminated on the 26th April, to qte great rate( and joy of the inhabitants. !Sew:6l.mo (ON PIRACY) DETECTED.—The Unitrit F.tates ! revenue cutter I. 'otitis has arrived at St. Augustine, from Key I West, with a Spanish SdiOniler. Kim to a Colombian privateer, b3ltest rot landing har mega oil Our short's, to viulation of our revenue laws, and we niny add, the laws rif nations. Without etitry at the f'ilitoni.house. and hetiwe trial and contleninaitun by y Court of Admiralty. or other competent triblinvt. This ! practice has been too long carriA on upon the coast of }lands • and it a hoped that our government will not Ms% in their measures in and of ('um. Porter to revint its con t;nnance at team if we wish the Spanish au:amities RI the heiglaboUrhood (nth.) to act with spine and cordiality in sup. praising the rolgiery and murder at our yrnaela and chums. Kline very important intelligence was n•crived yesterday front Trinidad, respecting tin. !unposed regulations fur the future treatment of the slaves in that colony. A general tise?ting of thc inhabitants, tuost numerously and respect attended, was held at Port Spain. on the ih of May, at which the following petition to the Ilivernor was carried, praying his Excellency to wasp:nil the pnimulgation of the lat- order in council : .• Te his Excellency Sir Ralph James %Vontifent, Ran (M -armite and Comma:Am in Chief in an 4 ore- the &IA is:and and its Dependencies, Viee-AdmirJ of the same. ate. " We, year ! Nutlimas, his Majesty's loyal =4 dutifal sult;i:ts, the flee inhabitants of the Island ef Tl;nidiul, respectfully approach your Excellency. • ii'e have read with 'grief and dilmay the draft of an order in council, laid by his Majtraty`s Ministers 'before both liftmen of Parliament, on the 170 h day of March last, and declared to be intended fur the improvement of the condition of the slaves In this colony. " We recognise, to the fullest extent, the power of the Crown, founded upon those principles of British justice which have se cured to the meanest subject of the realm the undisturbed color. merit and use of his property, until he has received full and fair ctonperaustion. " We are sincerely impressed with a grateful 'roan of our gra cimis Sovereign's beneficent intentions. We dutifully sympathize w:th his royal wish to meliorate the condition, and promote the moist improvement, of the negrnea. by adoption measures in which I due regard shall he paid to considerations of justice ; which, by tempering zeal with motion, May lead to practical good; which, without hazarding the fortunes and the safety of any elitism of his Majesty's subjects, may promote the welfare of the slaves and that of their employers. " We appcal f.litlerily to your Excellency to witting, that every 'mart iii this island 111 . at. in union with this his royal wish; that these his rival word, infused joy and gladness into the breast of every inhabitant of the colony. " Animated by loyalty and by gratitude, we feel it to be our first duty to aid in promoting these his gracious intention', and to oppose ourselves to every obstacle which may tend to disappoint his beneficent views. 'imitated by these sentiments only, we, the free inha'ii'ants of the colony of Trinidad, respectfully beg leave to express to your Excellency . our wilenin amviction, that the execution of the whole provisions and clauses of the aforesaid Order in Council will inevitably prove ruinous to the properly of the master, injurious and demoralising to the slave, peculiarly hazardous to the lire, of the free.colouml inhabitant. under hurt of the alith clause of that Order, and totally subversive of our Kenchma Sovereign's benign intentions. M'.. your petitioners, therefore humbly pray that your Excel lency wiU he graciously pleased, tinder the authority vested in you by the laws now in force, to stay the promulgation and the execu ! tion of the proposed Order in Council, until a true representation of its effects may be made to his Majesty's Ministers, to he laid at the foot of the throne for his 31ajesty's gracious consideration. " And by no doing your Excellency will avert that catastmphe which moat otherwise involve every etas* in this colony in one common ruin; and will deserve the sincere and grateful thanks of a loyal anti affectionate community. " And we your petitioners shall ever pray," &e. - • • A Committee W 39 nominated for presenting this petition, land it was signed by above 'too persons before the meeting 'separated. 'l•he Chair was filled by Mr. Catlett, a highly respectable colonist, who, previously to entering on the business of the day, made Kline sensible observations on the benevolent design with which his Majesty's Ministers bad framed the Order in Council. The Chairman expressei his confidence that this consideration would induce tit,: Cnle nists to adopt a becoming tone in the language they might use on an occasion so deeply interesting to them. This cau tion does not appear to have been given in vain. If we diflis. in some respects from the argue entsof the Colonists, we cannot too much applaud the tourr with which they con ducted their pioceedings. The princi pal speaker was the Hon. Mr. Manley, who, in an address of great force and ability, entered into the general question of colonial slavery, and criticised with great severity the applicability of the Order in Council to the present condition of . the population fur whose improvement it was drawn up. This gentleman's speech was temarkable for an entire abstinence from all personal reflections upon the " abolitionists." Under the 'trying circumstances in which the West Indians have lately been situated, and knowing how illiberal mixed bodies, possessing a common interest, usually arc, we con sider these compliments not more honourable to those on whom they are bestowed, than to those by whom they are given. One fact connected with the abolition of the slave trade was brought forward by Mr. Burnley, and com mented upon with great effect. Common justice to the colonists requires that it should be stated in his own lan-, guage— " One circumstance atten!leil this final act of abolition, which nail much surprised him. Three month had been allowed to elapse after the p v sin g the Hill in the Ilium of 1 rolls. during which time slave ships hail been allowed to dear nut from England to .11r;ra, and the West Indies. without limitation us to number or tonnage; the coasentience of this had been a glut of slaves in this unhappy I ',dolly, which none could credit but those who had wit nessed it. Their numbers fir exceeded the wants or the means of the inhabitants to pay for. They were forml upon them by the slave dealers nn any terms.—• Take them at tine, two. thr.r years' credit t—pay for them when you please, and how yrai 'dense and numbers of them had not been pant fx to the present day. as Gentlemen present could testify. Thus had the British nation evaded her own act—and thus by commercial finesse and iaintense capital had the slave trade been virtually continued in the island of Trinidad even up to the present day ; fix it might safely be said of every African who yet remained unpaid for, that he never would have been dragged from his native shores, had that Act limited, asi it ought to hare done, the final supply to the actual demand ; which might easily have been erected. by declaring the sale of every negro slave, for an extended term of credit, illegal." It is singular that this fact, which must obviously have produced ronsequeuecs so disastrous both to the slaves and their masters, should not have been noticed by any of the writers on the subject. We blame nut those who express their enthusiastic indignation against the oppression they believe to be practised upon the unfortunate negroes in the West Indies. Every man ought to raise his voice and his hand against injustice ; but before we condemn, we ought to he sure we have the guilty in judgment before us. If the distress of the slaves in our colonies has been greatly a : Nravated by the extravagant importations made during the three months allowed by Parliament, is it fair there fore to condemn the colonists, who had no share whatever in framing the measure by which these importations were allowed? Ought not we, the people of the I nitial King- ' I don, rather to take to ourselves the moral responsibility of i forcing on the colonists an immense supply of slaves beyond the natural and ordittary demand ? Mr. Burnley then proceeded to argue the validity of the titles of the slave holders to their property. Ile adverted to an Ordinance promulgated on the :loth of June, lt4oo, by the late Go vernor Picton, declaratory, in the minutest details, of the terms and conditions under which the planters were to hold, treat, and employ twgro slaves for the future. To this Ordi mince as their indefeasible charter, he advised the colonists to adhere. Ile then referred to the more recent proclamations of the sth Ike. 181.5, and the 7th Nov. Isl 6, by which the holders of crown lauds were compelled to employ a • certain number of negroes on every allotment in propor tion to its him!, and by which, if the slaves were by plague or pestilence reducAl below the requisite number, the planters are compelled to replace them under penalty of confisca tion. The lien. Gentleman then directed the attention of the Meeting to the peculiar condition in which they were placed as residents in a t7olony in which the Crown was allpowerful. In Trinidad there was no interference hos tile to the improvement of the slaves by a nicked Legisla tive Assembly. Tht re the British Government haul, by I their own act and deed, open, 11 wide the !sins fur the iatrothiet• ai of slave", when they might have 11(111 closed ,fir ever; had si n ce solhouly , ,Tes.-ntetl the conditions under 1 which the slay, s were to be purchased, hell, and employed ; and had compelled time planters, unit, r certain circuit). s:anus. to purchase thou trzainst their inclination. lie ask. d whether a single line tf the:se conditions co u ld now ! with justice be altered by the very party who had imposed! them, without a previous assurance to the planters of fair, full, and immediate compensat lint for the losses the% might sustain by the change ? Th, Ilan. Grnticu cn tlica ad ver hal to dn• pi csent ihhninistr.ltunt of justice aintiag the • • staves. which, he contended, wits the best adapted to their ! capacities. As agriumitoral slaves there existed in that co. I.)ny about 1)4,000 human befogs, distinct in colour, face, habits, awl manners, with very little setis.• of morality - or rel(4ion, and speaking a confused jargon of tongiica, gene rally rihdering the sill of an interpreter necessary when they appeared hi a Court of Justice. 11. - retotere, the, owners of estates, Axon 4 . 20 in number, haul cartels:ll the :authority of NlagiArates on their respective estates, except ill serious and capital vas • The:e weighty duties had V`Cllttli I VIM lion to many negative Itr.ViS . to which M r. Burnley alluded, he cited the positise prom, that sin.. the arrival of the pre, emit Governor there ; haul been I .too manumissions, One-twelfth at least of the whole adult slave population, who. during that short pe,ioul, Lad, by thvir o'sr. exertions, er thu bounty to - their inas ters, acquired sums of money equal to SOL and 100/. •strr-' ling each. This speech is certainly deserving of serious reflection, if not decisively convincing in every argument. At any rate it is of great importance as evincing the dispassionate judg ment formed by the colonists of Trinidad on their own situation, and the claims they conceive they possess on the justice of his Majesty's Government. Every intelligent well-wisher to the improvement of the negroes must be aware of what infinite importance is the concurrence of the I planters in the measures pursued with that design. We shall therefore, in conclu4ion, only call their attention to the fact, that the shave trade was not the crime of the colonists, but of th., Mother Country, and that slavery has in all instance:l been established with the • consent of the Mother Country, and in many, as at Trinidad, for example, it has been forced upon the co lonists, for the supposed interests of the Mother Country, without reference to their wishes or their will. With these considerations on our mind, we shall ho disposed to listen with more patience to the representations of the co lonists, on whom it is now too hastily proposed that the whole burthen of loss should devolve, for continuing a sys tem which we compelled them to continence. We understand that Mr. Gazelee hm received his ap pointment as one of the Judges of the Court of Common Plear, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Justice Richard sun. The Lord Chancellor communicated to the Learned Gentleman yesterday, that he had been raised to the Bench. 'rite Duke of York visited the King yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cuinberiand is gone to Carl bad. _ _ _ 11 NUVE 11, Ji: N E 18.—Ilis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will leave this place on the 2lst, to proceed by relzen. Luneburg, and St ode, to review the troops as sembled at the latter place. Ile will return hither on the 27th. Prince L-opold honoured the Chain:llor of the Excite pier and Lally Sarah Robinson with his company at dintur yesterday, at their residence in Downing-street, where there was a solect party to meet li:s Royal Ilig Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was field at the Secretory of State's Office for Foreign Affairs, in Downing-street, which was atkiiileil by the Lonl Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, the Earls of Liverpool and ‘Vestinorland, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Se cretary Canning, the thane.llor of the Exclierpi..r, Vis counts Melville and Sidinotith, Lord Bexley, Mr. Wynn, &c. The Cabinet sat in deliberation till a quarter-past five o'clock. _ _ esterday the nano* rian Minister, and the Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot, had audiences of his Majesty. The American Ambassador transacted business with Mr. Canning, yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Portuguese Minister also transacted business fur a considerable time at the Foreign Office. Prince l'aul Esterlrtzy, the Austrian ambassador to the Court of London, arrived at Frankfurt on the 21st ult. on his way to Johannisberg. llis Majesti's Ministers, and other official persons con nected with Government, to the number of sixty, dined on iredinesday at the Crown and Sceptre, Greenwich. The banquet comprised all the delicacies of the season, includ ing of course the far-famed while bail, and another dish peculiar to the neighbourhood of Greenwich and Blackwell. Their Graces the Duke nrul Duchess of Athol and suite landed at Dau,7,las, Isle of Men, on Monday last, from on board the Majestic, royal mail steam packet. Sr; William Curtis arrived off ltainsgate on Wednesday, in the nnina, front the Mediterranean, but as the vessel was placed under quarantine, the worthy Baronet and " rathcr of the City" will nut be able to visit his family so soon as his frientlq would wish. We understand that the vessel whielt brings home the hotly of Lord Byron has just arrived at one of the out ports, and hist...on:tins will b • immediately conveyed to town with tl . :0 solemnities due to his rank and talents. We understand that the prays-r of the Memorial of the Inhabitants of liridee-stre..t. Chatham-place, &c. against the exklision of the Ititle4 of the Fleet to those places, has been refused by the Chief Justice ^f the Coil - noon Pleas. SOU TII AM i.n c.t N NOE P N NC li.—Tumilay, a Meet ing of Merchants and others Mterested in the trade to SAW) America, convened by the Mayer, was held at the Court house, Leeds, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioningliis Majesty in Council to acknowledge the in dependence of Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, and Colombia.—Thomas Tennant, Es 1.. the Mayor, having taken the ('hair, said he haul convened the meeting in con sequence of a requisition (which he read), signed by a number of most respectable mercantile firms, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the King to ac knowledge the independence of certain States of America, lately under the dominion of Spain. The meeting was net numerously attended. A petition to his Majesty, in simi lar terms to the requisition, was agreed up m, and left open fur signature by such persons as were favourable to it. Ma. Rornscu en's litio s.—lntelligence was received by express from Paris yesterday of the arrest of Mr. llolo rk by the Tuilice is the French capital, and Mr. Rothschild had at the same time thu• satisfaction of rm.-icing back all the bills of which he had been defrauded. The French police acted with such decision in this uffair, that even the Niqipolitatt Scrip, which was in the possession of Mr. Dulo ret, was seized as well as the bilk, and forwarded to Mr. Rothsch:M. MrAtothschild having heard that Doloret had an amiable and deserving wife and two children, inter ceded with the police for his enlarement. We under stand that Mr. lkuloret is highly conneqed, and that h e has a cousUn a Duchess and the wife of a French Marshal, Pasts, Just W.—Steck Exchange, June ' . .]?4, five o'clock.—The following notic_ was postA on 'Change to-dav:-- " 3ietairs. Rothschild Brothers have the satisfaction to infirm the bankers and merchants. that the holder of roar bills, amount ing together to 9,7641/. sterling, of which the pul.lic were warned, being convinced that the pretext upon which he relied for not iris, , rig made the payment in Loudon wns unfounded, and having this day provided Tor payment, the drawers cal do no other than recognise as legitimate the negotiation which he may make of them." _ _ Private intelligence from Paris says there is no founda tion for the rumours which speak of a change in the French Ministry. A private letter from Paris, dated Monday, states, that a Commission has been appointed to investigate the plans submitted to Gover 1111 l en t for rendering the Seine navigable to large merchant vess,ls, as far as the capital. There is, Buenas, a general feeling in favour of this vsst and im portant unelerta!,ing. Inspectors have been appointed by the Minister of the ?uterior to report upon its practicability, and the plan of the deceased Minister of Marine, Fortlvit, is much referred to. We yesterday received accounts from Mexico, of the loth of May from the city, and of the 1 tth from Alvarado. The country is represented to be in a perfectly tranquil state. The convoy of specie, consisting of 1,200,000 dollars, had arrived at Jalappa, on its way to its ultimate destination. A schooner. named the Constitution, had ar rived at Alvarado with '27 pass..ngers, who are said to be Spanish refugees. The schooner lteguala sailed on the Nth of 3lay, for Campcachy, with the new Governor of Yuca tan, (Lateral Santana, and suite. Limit have been re ceives! by the Coutrgetors for the Mexican Loan, from Al varado. dated May It. Their contents are stated to be, generally speaking, satisfactory. Mart:Nee. Just: '2l.—M. de Manclere, Wurtemburg rof State, and M. de Trott, oirtister of the same power to the Diet, the first coming fr m bhannisherg, the second from Franefort, passed throng! thi ; place yesterday, to retuni to Stuttgart!. Friar: roar, Jesk: 23.—Arrived here, Prince ^iota tale, Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Naples to the Court elf Denmark ; General Ilmckenelortf, Russian Plenipotentiary at the Court of Rohm ; Count Woronzow, Russian \! mister at Munich ; and Baron Waletstetit. Se cretary to the King of Sweden. It is thought that Prince Esterhary will go as Ambassador from his Court t • Pa ris, and that. he will be su:ce...l,ii at Le :boa by Cce.:t. AliPc",• PASMOVAaLI? IVTELLIGENCE. A IMACIL * S.—The ball on Wednesday evening was nearly as Cully attended as any preceding one this maow. There were pre sent about 5010 of the /mat mom, among whom were— Priores—Leopold, Gortchsco , and beiningen. Drkea—Wellington and Leeds. Derliessrs—lßeds, Argyll, Smiteraet, and Richmond. Afurywiser—Lontlondary„ Salisbury, and Hertford. Alurchiumerses—Londonderry, Salisbury, Huntley, and Win chester. Earls—lirevemorland, Bristol, Denheigh, Ilchmter, Leitrim, Grey, Clonmel, Kinnuul, Jersey, Cowper, and Sefton. rnuntessts—Man.flAtl. Jersey, Cowper, !Avert. Sefton, liar. rowby, Abingdon, Morley. Euston, Denbigh. Leitrim, Clare, Clonmel, Aboyne, Belmore, Strstlhrooke, Cathcart, Dartmouth, Haresood, and Mulgraye. Lords—Clive, Clement, A. Hill, H. Thynne. Aukland, Syd ney, Andover, Porcheater, Herbert, Valletort, Byngliam, Ellen borough, Gulley, Palmerston, Ravemworth, Stowick, Tulla tttore, Ternpletown, Petre, Dynevor, and A. Hamilton. Lodier—Graves„ Murray, C. Sefton, Macfarlane, G. Fyne, Sey mour, Clive, C Pmtlett, A. Cnoper. G. Ryder, Ileryey, Fores ter, E. Posey, H. Mitchell, J. Fitzroy. Gage. A. Beckett, El letborough, Lowther, Clement, Ramsden, Fitzgibbon, King, Lennox, Dynewor. C. Plumy, A. Poulett, J. Peel, M. Ikrkley, 11. Scott, Andover, Bantam, E. Finch, H. ('lair, Greyille, C. Dundas, C. Gordon, E. Maraham, Iklickleworth, Cathcart, C. Grey, G. Grey, Tullamore, De }tom, Poweratourt„ Pringle, Palk, M. Ross, Legge, Ameland, J. Petre, F. Last-tiles, two Phipps Petre, and Ilermrord. Greville, J. Johnstone. R. Ill'Farlane, St. V. Cotton, W. Elliot. J. Copley, and H. Willoughby. Counts—St. Antonio, ('icoyna, Salagar, Lieven, Vendramine, Gersdortt Levitzky, and Paul Lieren. General Nigh. Colonels—Elphinloone, Allen, Brand, and Leitrim. C'optuies-31eldmey, B. Hall. Phillemore„ and Peel. 211frssrs.—lion. A. Cooper, W. Taiiple, G. Phillips, and T. Nicholson. Mn. U. Phillips. 3liss Eden, ecc. &c. The Earl of Darlington gave a grand dinner on Wednesday to the Duke of York, the l) u' :e of 'Wellington, the Duke of Leeds, the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Rutland, Lord H. Fitzroy, Lord G. Cavendish, Lord F. Bentinek, Sir John Shelley, Colonel and Lady E. Lowther. Mr. and Lady C. Powlett, Mr. Milner, Mr. Leigh, Mr. Thornhill, he., at Cleveland House, Se. James's square. The Doke of Beaufort had a dinner party yesterday, at his house in Graziv,nor-seluare. The Duke of Grafton gave a dinner yesterday, at his house in Clarges-street. Sir Thomas Lerman', Wert.. entertained a large parry at dinner yesterday, at his house in Camberland•strcet. The Duke of Gloucester had a grand dinner party yesterday, at Gloucester house. Park-lane. The I)nwager 3r &Thinness of Exeter had a dinner party yester da at her h •use in Privy.gardens. The 1/awager Countess of Stamford had a select party yesterday evening. at her house in Charles-street, Berke.ey.square. The Earl of Roslyn, Lord Alvauley, and Lady Elizabeth Palk, had dinner patties yesterday. Count and Countess Lieven gave another elegant entertainment on Wednesday, at Ashhunrham House, to a distinguished party ; among whom were the Prussian Ambassador, the Doke ut Imrser, the Earl and Cluntess Cowper, E Gower, the Earl of Lauder ' dale, Baron Fagel, Lnrd Palmerston, Mr. and 31ra. Agar Ellis, Lady E. Conyngliam, Mr. !An't, &rt. Mr. and Mrs. George Byng gave a graml dinner on Wednesday to the Earl and Countess of .I , ,rsey, 1,1,1 and Lady Duncan -lon, Sir James 31aekintosh, Mr. Tierney, 31r. Searlett, Ilan. 31r. and Mrs. Robert Smith, 31r. Weston, Mr. 11. Greville, &c. at their houseiin St. James's-square. The Earl and Conntess of Bristol gave an elegant entertainment on Wednesday to Prince and Princess Prdignac, the Duke and Duchess de Gniche, Emily 31archinness of Londonderry, Lord George Rentinck, Mr. and lady Caroline Wortley, Mr. Seymour Bathurst, &c. at their h ouse in St. James's-square. The t.,:ountess Bathurst has issued cards urinvltation for a rout on Monday nest, at her house in Stanhope-street, Ma -fair. Earl(Malow has Jett town for his seat tlan . don Surrey. . . . . hoed and lady King and family have left town fortheir s e at in Surrey. Lord and Lady Eastruw have left town for their seat, nyegate Priory. The Bishop of Ely and family hare left town for Ely Palate, Cambridgeshire. T. O. E3SECOLITt, Esq. has left town for his s.:•at, New Park, Wiltshire. Sir lidwitril Blount, Bart. has I'ft .311 Ber's Hotel, Jermyn street, for his seat, M.iieley, Shropshire. Arrivals at the. Waterloo llotcl, JermynAtireet Price, }.q., from finfird ; J. Iteaumnn Esq. and family, from Ireland ; and Mr. Kennedy and family from ditto. Mrs. Teasdile has lett the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Brighton. Arrivals at the Royal lintel, St. Jamees-street :--Mr. and Mn.s Lewis, from Somerset; J. 11. Vivian. Esq.; Sir 11. Vivian. from Beachwood; 1.. Edgewmth, Esq. from a tour; and Sir H. Fane, from Lincolnshire. Arrivals at Matte Hotel, DaverAgreet:—The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Dell and family. from Kent; D. Charlton, Esq.; I. T.' Mott, Esq., and hiss 3loit, from Norfolk; Mr. wol Mrs. Parker, from Barn. Departarus :—Tht• Right Hon. Lord Staffonl. bad, Stafford. and the Hon. 3liss Jerningham's, fur Catetey Hall; the lion. Mr. Jernirgliam, for Cambridge ; the Rev. Mr. and 3lrs. Roe and family, fur Bath. Arrivals at Fladong's lintel, Oxford-street :—Edward Protheroe. Esq., front Daddenlen, Harts; Mr. and Mn.z !LW - tart, from a tour; J. A. IP-nation, Eaq., from Wilford-park, Birks; John Hodgson, Esq., (ruin Chigwell.place. Essex ; Rev. 31r. Preston, from Norfolk; Tyrrell, Esq., and Bridges, Esq., from Oxford. Wparturea:—.Sir 'Albert, Captain, and Miss Blair, fur Sctnland : Sir 11. Fitriterhot, Bart., for Detbeshire ; Rev. Mr. and tars. Philpot and tantily, for Suffolk ; W'rn. Tatnall, Esq. and Mr*. Tatnall, for Satinundhant ; Mrs. Mackay and fur Bath; R. O. Powell, Esq, for Wales; General Molyarailx, for Worcestershire: Eurster, Esq.. on a tour; Nesbit, I.tsq., fur a tour; and Captain Disney, for ditto. Departnres from Blake's Hotel. Jernlyn.atzeet :—II. O. Warr, Esq., for Bucks; Colonel Edward. for Bath; Marquis of Tweed. I dale and Lord John Hay, on a tour ; 3lrs. Green ; Sir Davidze and Lady Gould, for Herts. MR. MATHEWS. This gentleman, whose efforts to please have been 53 abundantly SUCCI.ISNI, closed his season last night at the English Opera !louse. For several months Air. Mathews, by the force of hi: , extraordinary and versatile talents, has drawn crowded audiences, who have invariably acknow !Aged his surprising powers. Mr. Mathews delivered the ' following farewell address, in his peculiar and characteris tic stile : LADIES AND (text mutw—in once more taking my leave of you tire a SeltV/11. 1 116S11 I could think on something to say which would entitle you to exclaim with our lute fri.nd 31r. )tray,-_ " Well I never heard that before ;" but the language of grateful acknowledgment is soon exhausted, however unbounded luny be • the feeling that prompts it. To say that lam proud of your ar. pfause, and grateful for your kindness, is a " twice told tale." which has been more titan thrice repeated. but be:mound that the undi ttt inished favour I have experienced has year after year M- I cr.aried my anxiety to merit your smiles, and will leave an inde libie recollection tia my heart when I and my bumble allots to amuse you may perhaps be forgotten. Whit:: Mos encoura;,ed it would be affectation if not ingratitude to talk of retiring fro 1, pub lic life ; while I continue, therefore, to receive your approbation, shall continue my endeavoues to (testa% e it ; and hunt I shalt next year be able to present you with something, at If•ist as well deserving )our attention as anything I have heretofore had the pleasure and honour of submitting to your notice. With this hope, and the gratifying anticipation or soon meeting you again, I ttttt st rem. c fully and cordially bid you Colwell. Mr. Mathews retired from the stage amidst a loud and cordial burst of applause. We arc authorised to state, that there is no truth in the report of Mrs. Edwin's having quitted the state ; what or- I elisions her present banishment from the London theatres. where talent like hers is so much wanted, has become a sobject of gellel al regret and imptiry. Rayuer and Mr. Cooper will have their benefit at Covent-garden Theatre on Tuesday next, when Morton's ' comedy of Town sad Count'?" will be revived, in which Mr. Cooper sustains the part limy. a nd MI. Rayner that of Ja.;4.11/ /law.'n , ../.% The talents of these L zentlemen are well kniwn and appreciated, and it gives us . pleasure to tind that already a coosiitt Table mill cr ut th e boxes arc taken for the night of their Ihmetit. Mr. Rayner - has hail comparatively but few opportunitities ut dis playing his superior powers as an actor since his connec tion with Covent-garden ; and it is, therefore, with addi tional pleasure that we look forward to his appearance at the English Opera House, where we had fiist the gratifi cation of witnessing his natural and pow:I-fill acting. Mit. Roo ru.—We regret to learn that Mr. !both, the actor. who has heed min. , some nights at the Pat k Theatre, in a state of mental iferangemeut, on Saturday made an attach upon Mr. Wallack, of the Chatham Gar den Theatre, with a tlager, and being foi:ed, made an at-1 tempt to destroy himself, but 'v apt s:eurol, cud court yed to the house of a friend. We hope he will soon recover. it he has net already.:anrl n,ver again use his dagger but in mimic scenes. This hit might have been tao palpable. • —American r. A cotrespondent at Paris says—" The iranslatien of the new novel of itedz.ninikt, by SO- Walter Scott, has justt been published here in four volumes, at tell francs ; it apwats to be translated with much ability. It is to be hoped the novels of the Northern Bard, which at all trans lated into French, will prevail in correcting th,• vicious tiste of th,- day, for midnight speettcs and tales af atr;city, with which Paris kis ingthlat th- CAMBRIDGE MUSICAL FESTIVAL. _CAMBRII76E, .11./.v I The preparations for the grand Musical Ft stival. commences to-morrow evening with a IlliMllaneous cert, are on the m o at liberal scale. Among the vocal p er . cormers engaged are Jladatne Catalani, Culbran, Rossiiii, Miss Stephens, and Madame Pasta ; Sapio, Kellner, a ir i Signor I'lacci. Rossini presides at the piano. The bai,.l premises to be very complete. Spagnoletti, Lindley, Willman, Nicholson, and Dragonette, arc 'ma i , the leading names. The whole will be conducted by P," fcsaor Clarke iVhitfekL The engagements have all Ike made under the directions of Madame Catalani, who, it .; understood, bears the responsibility, and very liberal!. secures to the fund for the support of Addershroke's vital one char fifth of all the monies received. The arrivals arc by no means so numerous as was ant. ciliated from the attractive announcement. The fluke Wellington has excused himself from his pledge of atter:- ing, on account of serious indisposition. Ills Grace ti 'Puke of Rutland and the Earl of llardwicke are expect] at Mr. Sergeant Flere's, Downing College, this day. A grand rehearsal will take place to-morrow morni: in the Senate House. The Festival will cotinnetice concert in the evening (as above) On Saturday m'liin.• a grand selection of Sacred music, in St. Marys Chiir c . from Ilanders Judos 21forcnbrus ; a ( 'one: rt in the lug in the S.-nate II IUSe ; and on Monday another performance in the Church, and an evening Concert ti.e Senate House. THE FETE MEL: Stxn.sy, JUNE 97. This day being remarkably fine, all Paris was in motei at an early hour, to prepare for the religious pror.ssions of the principal I arish churches of the metropolis. Ey tea o'ckek the bells of different churches announced the rc,/,. of the list, with the Curate and officers of the establit!. merit, escorted by a band of music and a company of National Guard. The principal streets through which tl,e I rocession pass: 11 were lined with spectators, and thwiels of reporw were crcend at stated distances, which were or. namented with much taste. The promotions from the churches of St. Germain, St. Reque. St. Eusmche, and Notre Dame, were the most rernaikable. A rnpany the National Guard, wilt a band of music, precede a; next followed a Numb( r of youths, with henget( v; in iLe r hands; alder whom. more titan a hundred It males in w lf.tr dresses, and veils hanging down to tin it waist ; Etuntrs of infants from live to seven yt ars old, with chaplets fl twerp, walked by their sides; next followed the pritcs; and lastly, a magnificent canopy under which walked t! high Priest with the Host. Several baskets of flown; carried in front were spread in the way, which rendetel 'or a few moments the filthy streets of Poris in at la arm: a garden; Rowers were also thrown from the windous, which were lined with elegantly-elle:said ft maks ; the 2r was really etnballm•d with the perfume of ten thourn I times ten thousand roses. The effect of this ceremony honour of the Fee Dien, or what in our calendar is called Coe pus Christi, is solemn and impesing, particteaely th e (haunting of canticles by the virgins who have just per. i . orered their fiat erniimunion. ; •t . . Another fete took place, a league from Paris, at the in.. auguratien of a new village, which is marked out on a large plain beyond the Champs de Mats, to be called the Village de Grinelle. The Prefet and Municipal Acidic riti. s, with the Bishop, who performed a solemn Mess, proceeded in grand proet salon along the liner, wh'cit de noted the different streets, e.hose names wise fixed ou paus; and at each of which he bestowed his baaec Ltion, and prayed for the prosperity of the rising village. In the centre an immense square was railed in, for the exeinsite enjoyment of those of the bon lon who had letters of invi tation, and the tnilitary in uniform. Tables of 500 hun i!red dishes were served to near three thousand persons. The awnings were tastily ornament:A with wreathe flowers and appropriate mites. The centre of the tables was spread with flowers, and the sides embellished with hair's tine and well-dressed females, aceintipanied with th...ir (wait?. Jerre/der. The ruby wine flowed in abort dance, and gaiety appeared to mark every countenance. Not a restaurant in the neighbourhood but was Med. Towards eight o'clock Bacchus resigned his reign to Teri • siehore, when nothing Wile heard but the animating sounds of music, or the voice of hilarity. In every direction were arties of peasantry, and artizans, who felt themselves re paid for the labours of the past week, by abandoning them selves to the full enjoyment of heartfelt and innocent mirth. At ten o'clock a superb firework, of beautiful el, vices, closed the cu. [nutty. In the centre was presented a device, formed of various • fireworks, which commenced by throwing cut stars, nit a rising sun, in the middle of which was a transparency, with the motto, " Success and prosperity to the proprietors of the new village of Grenelle ;" this gradually increased in splendour till it represented a meridian sun, of seven or eight feet in d ameter. The rockets 11111 i Boman candles were magnificent ; after this exhibition the dance was re newest, and several thousand couple distributed on tly plain, kept up the village jile till Plicebus warned thorn to seek repose. To-day (Monday) the . file will be renewed, and a hi- Icon is to be set oft' at five ; it is to be hoped the it/70sta; will be nu re successful than the unfortunate hero of the Champs de Mars. 3h r r than a hundred gendarmes, in horseback, were stationed to keep goed order, wiance: having, occasion to c sercise any rigorous measure. Such the tut bulent charceter of the French, %viten in the arms ef Bacchus, that it is Aso:lit:ly necessary that the Gee., Ti• none should take the precaution of providing a tniiitary police to maintain traiiquillity. An atrocious act was committed by a well-dressed rutaan, who had a young and beautiful fimale by his side far advanced in a state of pregnancy, with whom he ap peared to be in dispute, when on ti sudden he gave a violent blow with his fist in her side, she fainted, and on recovering xedititned, " I hope you are content, you have at last ac complished your purpose !" But little indignation was ex !r. se-1 be the by-stamlers. She was obliged to he led to a cab' jolt t is waiting, declaring site allot-. benled the futuni con.rg emcee of the wretch's brutality if left alone with hint. Oa being advised by one of the crowd to retina home with her husband, s i te burst into tears, and es elai•neel, " Ile is not my husband " S,) much for the boas:eel gallantry of 1112 cher unties of Paris. I pointed him out to the agent of polio', requesting him not to lose sight of this monster, who hod in all probability gieen l!eAtil-blow to th:s unfortunate creature. I Colonel Sir Hugh (lough, of the ?Al Regiment, ha latey purchased an estonsire esh..te in the county of Tipperary. . . a ihe e:tate of P'Lr Holmvs, Esq. in the county of Tipperary, including the town of Net agh, comprisio4 eight hundred housi s, is advertisal to be sold, for p4q ntent of ilehts.—lrish Paper. In :laid in to t t, oth.r publi: improc-Inents in Leeds. a handsome large square, called Llano-it-square, and not inftrior in its area to the London resort of fashion of that name, has just been laid out at the North-west end of the lawn of Ltedt, in Mr. Major's best styk of landscape gar dening, and ailZirds the site for a gnat number of deligh:-, ful residences, within ten lid:lutes' walk of the centre et tls•—///.1! I. Two young gallants passing the other day by the side et a young Parisian, one of them exclaimed - , ' Thu most handsome woman I ever saw in my life. — The lair um., turning her head, and finding him very u„ 1y reCi,t!, " I wish, Sir, I could say as true!' of you.' " dame (retorted our spark, piqued at the rt ply), ...erne: youttell a tib for met., as well as I ?" _ _ FLATTI.I.V.—!t 15 rt'Lltetl of the Ihike de Gran to `nt. one ut the mist liar hid courizans of his day, that hap pening to enter the Cabinet of tile l'arilinal de Richeliyc, without I - cing announe...ll, lie discovered his Emineme amusing hi!nsdf l,y way of distraetion, witlaiumping dos , - legged against the wall of his chainher. The Duke tut the danger ut having surpiiseil the Pi nue :11iniettr in so childish an occapation. A fool would hate retiruil tt stammering out an excuse, for n Nell his ilis•trat , wan have been an 1111SWCZ. dint the liakk courtizart, far frcti lcommitting this milt. clin.-ied with p 'eip ta.ion, out. " I will lav a finnan-it crowns t . 3111. I ittillp )1104 1 i than your Einiacence. - His Crae: aril Lis Eminency • gait to leap wits ail their utirlu. The Duke took citri: to jump ten inches lowa. titan Monsiegneur, and lost I's wager. Six imonlis after this arrair, he was wade Nian.t ehal (J. )