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Russian Bonds, 04 1 4 1 Ditto for Acct. 91j Russian Inscription 82 Exchange pa ruble 12 Spanish • per Ct. Cons. 21 r, 4 Dit A to for Account 24$ Ditto 170 414 285 Bonds, 25 Ditto 3 per Cents. (1143) 1114 Ditto l f or Acct. Anglo Mex. Mars United do. 99(. 54k. 25c. 75c. Ur. 1)o. Scrip, II M ilo. Ex. 251'. 141 e. gfte ilr ritiOti Fred. The Bll'7lllll Yaaaacommenced publishingen Saturday morning at hair pot Svc o'clock. LONIX)N, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1944. The Paris papers of Friday, and the node of Saturday reached us last night. They contain little of any import ance. The stales, imam' date from Madrid the 11th of February, that letters from Lisbon of t h u 4th announce an expedition was preparing in that port for Brazil, the troops fur which, amounting to twelve thousand men, were to be commanded by Lord Bereaford. We cannot believe this to be true : such an expedition, and under our would be every way unworthy of a British officer of rank, and could not he approved by our Cahittet.—The following fonn the hauling contents of the 111,mikur and (Frum tile Moulteu• of Friday, Feb. O. I Official Part. rants, Fmn. 19. In the Order of the Ilay of the Minister of War, in the official part of the Malibu , - of yesterday, the 6th Article should be as follows : " Article g. —Every ntilintry individual, and every person em ployed in the variant' offince belonging to the war department, who shall be found to wear the insignia of a foreign Order, without being able to promo a previiiiii permission, shall be liable, at the instance of the Generals c ttttttt 'finding the military disisions, to all the severity of the law." The Noo.olficial Pan contains, in Spanish and French, the Decree of the King of Spnin reistive to the commerce of the Spa nish Colonies. Roses, Fica. •. ills Holiness has appointed the Abbr.' Don Pietro Ihtini, his Internuncio at the imperial Court of Vienna. His Holiness has made several other norninst IMO!. On the let of February, leis Eminence Cardinal Louis Pandald, hiring just returned to his Palace, at half-past one o'clock (in the night), and standing before the lire to warm himself, was wired with a violent apoplectic tit. Notwithstanding all the assistance of art, which was immediately rendered him, he died, after having received extreme unction, and the .Ipostnlic benediction. From the of Saturday, Feb. ti. 1 Almikin. Fus. 11. letters from I.ishon of the Jth of this month, announce that an expedition is preparing in that port tOr Brazil. The troops, which are stated at 11,0011 men, sill be commended, it is said, by hoed Biresford. A roust:ran, Fru. It It appears certain that the Emperor and Liminess of Austria will sct out fur Milan on the 4th or 6th. Prince Metternich will not Ito there till the end of the month. The Archduke Louis will be cltargcd with the government during the obses's' of the Emperor, his brother. F a6)tcu FUNDIL—Pawn, FED. 20.—Firs per Vest. One& opened at 99f. lee. ; awed at 119 f. Ithts. e Nompihma Five per Cents. ; Renee d'Etpsits. Eselisage es labega— Om meth, 26t. lne. t there Months, 231: The following Bayonne letter, to the 14th of February, wilt he read with some interest, from the details it contains. The French tread on any thing but peaceful ground in Spain ; like those who walk on volcanic soil, the unseal fires of deadly hostility are everywhere around theta, and will probably soon break out is general hatred and &fi ance. Ferdinand's amnesty appears to be what we expected, a list of individual proscription, worthy of this con temptible tyrant, and the crew of infatuated bigots by whom he it mairtmed. !low long will all this endure! flavoiter, Fea. 14. It'e have received letters and journals from Madrid of the 9tb. The journals, or rather the oath• primal now published at Madrid, contains no news whatever front the provinces, and we ran there fore only speak of what passes at !Madrid, and the reports in circu lation. Ou the Bth two French soldiers and one Spaniard, who lad been drinking together, were passing through the Place de la Celtada ill at once the Spanish soldier drew his sabre, and aimed a blow at one of the Frenchmen from Iw hind , which nearly cat off' his leg. It is thought that this event has sonic other cause than the drunkenness of the soldier. flowerer, the whole quarter was la motion ; the guard of Spanish cavalry which ass posted opposite the spot was ping to take anus ; the troops wore, however, made to retire, and tranquillity was restored; bat it is to he regretted that similarslamis occur every day, and it may be apprehended, that ii the end the people will take part in them, which would place our troops in a very unpleasant situation. Among the reports in circulation, it Is woleitively affirmed. that at firmed& two Deputies to the Cortes were condemned to be hang. et! ; that on the day filled for their execution, and at the moment tl•ey were going to agreed the scafl'i ld. the people rose ; there was a minhat in the streets, which lasted several hours, and during this t•a•e imams were found to enable the two lkputies to escape. toned bands continue to traverse Andalusia and La Mancha, •Hurt• hut a feeble resistance is made to them. Tlivre are also wally disorders in Gunk-la. 1.. !amid that an estrsonlinary courier just arrived here, brings news that the decree or an3nritty is at length signed, hat that contains so many restrictions that it would have ban as well not to podoth it at all A gallant and successful attack on a earvette of the Par- Infirm of Algiets, who are the curse of the Mediterranean and the disgrace of the civilised world, that still suffers them to pursue their nefarious traffic, has been trumpeted I)) sonic of the Sunday papers as a most formidable occur ; as if a rapt tre by this great country with the pira tieal Regency of :llgiers couhl he thought of for • mo en:•et with alarm, or constrite.l as an interruption to the profound peace that Great Bri:ain otherwits• enjoys. Such A C Atiteld, even if necessary, call scare,: produce a ripple on th,• wide, smooth sea of tranquillity that everywhere stir mends a t. The Itarbarians, that make a desert of the fair est portion of the Roman world, int:at again be taught to ri.sp et the rights of justice and humanity ; they must be toils:Heil to adhere to the treaty they executed near eight wars sine. If we attack Algiers again, it ouglq. to b• .hulk• an full force ; a squadron should b e sent mt ifi c i ellt to la) the batteries and city in ashes. Algiers, for ages since it fell a prey to the Moor* and the Turkish power, has been the scourge of Christendom, and defied the resentment of the most formidable powersof Europe'. Thu coast, which in other days supplied the populace of lime with corn, and, fur fifty days journey, afferdill • succession of i>,tp•tluua cities, has fur centuries bream the newt of lawless pirates and barliwians, and the terror of peace ful traders. The Emperor Charles the Fifth lost a large fleet and army in an ill-concerted expedition against this place in 1341 ; a fleet from this country burnt the Corsairs' vessels in the harbour in 1033 and 1670, and the French bombarded it in 161411; in 1773, the Spaniards, with a large force, trade a descent near the city; and in Irmt a powerful Spanish fleet attacked the forts defending the harbour, but in cash instance failed with great loss. In NIG, the barbarian who rules this Regency, under the name of I)ey, amid the terror of a British fleet, concluded a treaty with Lord Plymouth for the liberation of all Eu ropean captives ; but having refused to fulfil the stipula tions, when our fleet had quitted the harbour, and mur dered several Neapolitan captives, the British squadron returned on the 47th August, 1916, and after a desperate conflict laid the batteries in ruins, and destroyed the ship ping in the harbour ; the Dey then agreed that all Chris tian slaves should be released, and piracy for ever aban doned. The barbarian has since been recruiting his marine, and pursuing the same lawless traffic. The next visit from our force will, we trust, be a memorable and de cisive one, and leave nothing to African faith : the " Prxica fdes" has been for ages justly distrusted. Algiers lies well; it is built on the declivity of a hill, and has the form of an amphitheatre next the harbour. The tops of the houses, as throughout a great part of the East, are flat, and the streets steep and narrow. The mole of the harbour extends about 500 pacts from the main laud, to a small adjacent island. The number of inhabitants, some few years since, was calculated at 100,000 Mahorne tans, 13,000 Jews (who monopolised the greater part of the traffic), and about 11,000 Christian slaves. The exist ence of this piratical Regency, and those of Tripoli and Tunis, are the disgrace of Europe. Sir Sidney Smith, soon after the Congress of Paris, endeavoured to effect a union of the European Powers, to extirpate these bar barians, but failed. Should the power of this country be' directed against Algiers again, we trust the blow will he effective and decisive. We should have a squadron and tire-ships in the bay, sufficient to level the pirates batte ries in the dust, to destroy the city, and fire every vessel in the harbour: ■n armed force ought also to be On board, sufficient to make a descent near the city, and co-operate fully in the work of destruction with the fleet. The punishment of the barbarians of Algiers would be a memorable lesson to the Turk, and serve the (irceka essentially. Nothing hut an expedition of this sort will stay the piracy of Tunis, Tripoli, and Algiers. The assertions of the shallow Courirr, in one or two late numbers, respecting the Catholics of Ireland, arc utterly untinuoled ; they betray a t.otal want of acquaintance with that country, and a complete ignorance of the present state of its population. The Courier appears tired of its pass ing fit of liberality, and has returned to its old trade of misrepresentation and bigotry again. "It is our firm be " lief (this Paper says), founded upon adequate means " for ascertaining the fact, that the instances in which " Catholics are educated arc, in proportion to their num " hers, u rare as those of Protestants who are not." Nothing can be more untrue; we know it to be so: a per fect acquaintance with the condition of the greater part of the Irish people enables us to make the assertion most unqualifiedly. The majority of the Catholic children in all great towns now arc educated—that is, they arc taught reading, writing, and accounts. In one city in the south of Ireland alone—that of Cork--there is a school on the lAncasterian system, supported by voluntary contri butions, with two most useful individuals at its head, where more than a thousand boys of the poorer order are annually educated. In Dublin, Limerick, Waterford, and the other great towns, there are also scheols on the same plan, where thousands of the rising generation ,receive the same great hcnedts. These excellent institu tions are only for the children of the poorest ordure, who cannot afrord to pay any thing, however small ; but in Imost every street of the leading towns, and in all the villages, there ire cheap schools beside, where, for a trifling payment, the children of tradesmen and the peasantry are taught the rudiments of education. In the same way, the female children, whose parents cannot pay for them, are educated and confirmed in sentiments of religion and virtue at the Convents, where thousands of them learn reading, writing, and useful plain-work. The fact is, the lower order of the Protestants in Ireland are the most ignorant and profligate pot nun of the community ; all the low Orange Lodges are formed and filled by them ; they are neither educated nor well conducted, and have no religious impressions whatever. So much for the " firm belief" and veracity of the Courier. 'the assertion of that paper, with respect to thu Irish oflieers in the army, is just as well founded : in opposition to w h a t the Courier states, we have taken up the Anny List Of the revolt and sonic put years, and can assert that one-third of the Irish Officers are Catholics, and we might go further. The corri,r might as well say, that not one out of fifty of the European residents in India are Scotchmen, when we know they fill almost every place of protlt. Of the medical profession in Ireland more than 4:lw-half are Catholics—we might safely assert two-thirds. 1 The proportion of Catholic Attorneys and solicitors is full lone-half : the liar is crowded with Catholics ; but the pro Portion we relieve not to be as great as in the former. IVhat does the Currier mean by inferior retainers of the law, in Irea L u nd? Is it the classical tribe of Iwilittr ? The I Catholic cannot gain much credit from wearing the badge of this tribe. Hut eves a number of what are not unaptly termed the " men of feeling•' are Catholics, and fill even the ranks of these jacialh of the law, from which honour aide distinction the Courier would exclude them. In Tti nity College, Dublin, there are now from 1,1100 to V,uno students, graduating for the different learned profesrions, and of these more than one-half are Catbolies. It is only within forty yawn that education has been dimwit open to the Catholics at all, and the liberal professions within a much shorter period. While the penal code remained un mitigated, no Catholic could keep a school, and the people of Ireland were driven to the Continent for e du ca ti on ; th e liberal professions, up to 1791, were all shut against Catho lies. The object of this infernal code was to barbarize as{ well as degrade. Na Catholic could marry a I'rotcstant ; he could not hold property that was freehold, or any to- tune for a longer period than 31 years; he dared not ride a home above the value of .51. ; and any Protestant who offered that sum might claim the animal as his own. The son' was cm-our:Ted to inform against his father ; and, by be-1 owning Protestant, he might strip him of his pmir:rty, and leave an entire family destitute. Since these abominable statutes have been repealed, education, intelligence, and wealth, hare been increasing rapidly among the Catholics.! the statements of the Curt r, therefore, are destitute of, all truth. hut immune theist for a moment to be founded— and that. with a population of seven millions in Ireland, more than six of which are Catholics, the army and the liberal professions were formed as this paper asserts—what a picture would it not present of the state of things in that I country ! what an illustration would it not be of the situa- Lion of the people generally, and the policy of the Govern mentl under which they live! What is the logic of the! Courier ? It eulogises that code of other days, a foul rem nant of which, after brutalizing and degrading the Irish I people for ages, still survives; and it then exults in the ef fects it has produced, and triumphantly paints to the mo nopoly it has given the few in Ireland, and the exclusion it has carried among millions. The state of Ireland is not what the C'uttrier would make it ; but it has not been the fault of that paper and its patrons that utter degradation has not fallen on its people. No country, or its history, can instance a more iniquitous code of proscription than that deviseel fur Ireland, and which, for more than a cen tury, swept the land like a pestilence. All the fell agents ! of moral evil followed in its train, and were let loose to , tyrannize and plunder ; the people were denied education ; they were denitel the solaces of religion ; they were stripped of their property, and forbade the common rights of sub jects; they could not acquire, or hold for any term ; they could not intennarry with the Protestants around them; every means was taken both to exterminate and degrade than. A better system now prevails;—the Catholic is protected in his property, and in the exercise of his religion ; education and the liberal professions, to a certain extent, are also opt 11 ; and in forty years the change that has taken plow is indeed very peas. The Courier may pick up from a stray informant the names of some two or three inilividusls who have held the situation of Secretaries to Grand Juripi in Ireland, and imagine the discovery so important as to be an answer to all the charges of exclusion of Catholics. It does not follow that the two individuals named by the Courier were Catholics because that paper states It ; and we happen ourselves to know that one of the* inns Vat. So much, again, for the information of this journal. But though half a dosen Catholics might have been admitted into inferior offices in Ireland, what does it 'hew; but, as the exception proves the rule, that in general they are altogether proscribed. The system by which Ireland has long been governed is equally impolitic and unjust. The present government in that country is tolerant and enlightened; but the Marquis Wel lesley has not the authority of the Legislature: he is fettered by a higher power, and cannot do what he would wish. The proscription that still affects the Catholics is every way unworthy of this great country. Discord and discontent will never erase in Ireland until these laws are blotted from the statute -book : they carry mischief in every line. The concession must yet be made, let the Courier write and misrepresent as it may ; and that, too, at no distant day. 1 111 dishir seCuolonfTihe;s.i;:ofl Internunciu at the , 8P; Uls Holiness has ps er made several other mightn't On the Ist of February . • , i. haring just returned to hi' • *TO, night), and standing heft with a violent apoplectic li art, which was immediate] received extreme unction, I I ' I IFrinn the I: t. .. i l • s 1 betters !lawn Lisbon of expedition is preparing in ate stated at 11,01.10 men, ' , i Iltresford. . It appears certain that t] i act out for Milan on the go there till the end of do i II cluagal with the goyemn his brother. rItESCIII FUND IL—PA ,! opened at ilef. lee. ; el 11 " Cents. 114,1 ; Ilente d'ls One month, 28f. 411 e. ; II • ' i The following Bayot wilt he read with some ; The French tread on I 1 Spain ; like those who firs of deadly hostility will probably soon brc . . once. Ferdinand's smut a list of individual 1 temptible tyrant, and whom he is env ironed. We have received letten The journals, or rather th contains no news whatever ! . lore only speak of what pi tattoo. Ou the Ittli two t 1 had been drinking togethe Celisda ; all at once the S a blow at one of the Frenc 1 ' his kg. It is thought the the drunkenness of the sol la motion ; the guard of Si the spet was going to take I to retire, and tranquillity that similar edam's occur et • I is die end the people will i troops in a very unpleasant Among the reports in ei at firmed& two Deputies is , I • et! ; that en the day fixed I il•ey were going to ascend I mitthat in the streets, whit t'a•r imams were found to t i .t nned hands continue t, •here Out a feeble resistan 4 'F]i.re are also many dirt t t . It !amid that an exinun th , news that the decree • . . . . it contains so many restrict 1 . to puttluilt it at all. —., I . A gallant and anecea barians of Algiers, who ' I and the disgrace of the: them to pursue their in Icy sortie of the Sunday r..ec.. ; as if a rope ire I • ; p tienl Regency of :llgiei nuct with alarm, or a 1 profound I mace that 1:r il a contest, even if nervy . t ) , di,• wide, smooth sea of maids 1.4. The Itarbai est portion of the Rout (Tsp. et the rights of ju r l t (impelled to adhere to year% since. If we am i Aunt* in full force ; a sq lay the batteries and est fell a prey to the Moor( I i tlic scourge of Christen she most formidable po iii other days supplied i and, for fifty days j populous cities, has THE KING. WI ?omens, Fes. Majesty has been closely engaged this dry on state business, reading and answering dispatches from his Ministers; also in receiving and giving audienvui to Foreign Ambassadors, which occupied a con siderable time. Their Excellencies were—Baron Forget, the Ambassathw from the Netherlands; Prince Polignac, the Fiend) Ambassador; and Count Lieven, the Russian Ambassador. Their Excellencies hail the honour of being inciter) to dine with his Majesty. The Princess Augusta dined with the king. There were also several other distinguished cluiractos. Lord St. /lelens, the Lord in Waiting, has arrived. Saturday the Duke of York transaetid business at the Commander-in-Ulnas:a Othee,in tho llorse Guards. Saturday morningfluke of Clarence proceeded from the the residence of Sir Richard Keats, at Greenwich, to Wool wich, where his Royal Highness inspected the corps of Royal Al arines, and returnalto the reanience of Sir Richard ' Keith, at Greenwich, to dinner. Yesterday, at three o'clock. the Royal Doke arrived in London, and a little before five o'clock left for the King's Palace, at Kensinr ton, where his Royal Ilialtuesa was accompanied by his Duchess, on his return to Bushy-park. On Saturday afternoon Prince Leopold arrived at the residence of his Royal Sister, the Duchess of Kent, in the King's Palace, Kensington, to dinner. from C Afterwards his Royal Highness accompanied die Duchess of Kent and flu' . duchess of Clarence to the Italian Opera. Yesterday morning Prince Leopold attended Divine Service, at the King's final German Chapel, and heard a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Kuper. Saturday the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a grand dinner to the Duke of York. The Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of I lvrtford, and Sir Herbert Taylor, were of the party to meet his Royal Highness. (In Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, k Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which was summoned on Thursday. The sitting of the Cabinet continuer) till a quarter past five o'clock. The Ministers present were—the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Westmorland, the Duke of Wel lington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Peel, Mr., ('suiting, Earl Bathurst, Mr. Wynne, /ix. On Saturday the Lord Mayor gave a grand dinner to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and a distinguished party, amongst whom were 4 knerals Mina and Quiroga, the Canon Riego, the two Greek deputies, Lord Nugent, Mr. flume, M.P., Mr. Scarlctt, M.P., Mr. Denman. M.P., Mr. Creevey, NIP., Mr. II ohlimand, M.P., Colonel Palmer, M.P., Mr. Ellice, M.P., Alderman Wood, M.P., and se veral others. It is rather a remarkable circumstance, that the contract for the loan, concluded with the (reek depti tation;was signed at the Mansion House previous to the dinner. STATUE OF TOE Du alt or KEwr.—Saturday, between ten and eleven o'clock, the statue of this lamented Prince and benevolent man, at the top of Portland-place, was formally thrown open to the public. General Wetherell, Compt; oiler of his Royal Highness's Household, the Com missioners appointed to execute the work, and several ! friends of the Duke, among whom were a number of Members of Parliament, met, when the cover which en veloped the swim was removed. The statu^ is of bronze, placed on a pedestal of granite, and his Royal Highness is exhibited in his full robes of state, leaning on a semi-co lumn. The attitude is highly characteristic of that dignity which the Royal Hoke always evinced. I.ieut. Church, R.N. arrived at three o'clock on Saturday morning, at the Admit:thy, with despatches from the 1114.- ! disarm...gm On Szturday, the despitelies were closed at the East India !louse, and delivered to the Pursers of the following shim viz. :—Canning, Captain Jaii:.% l lrad ; Balearrss, Captain Peter Cameron, for Bengal and China ; and Du nits, Captain Iliontgonierie Hamilton, for Bombay and China. Extract of a private letter. from Lima. dated Sept. 5, ltat:—" Bolivar is in Lima, and is now commencing active operations against the Spaniards. Ile is now press ing every horse he can lay bands upon to mount his ca valry. and other troops, for his march. lle levied a con tribution of lonmon dollars last week, to &fray the ex penses of the expedition; about one-third was voluntary subscriptions from the British merchants, which pleased hhn very much. lle is just the person for the Peruvians. lle is now styled Protector of Peru, and Generalissimo of the Peruvian army." A new Ordinance, published at Geneva, subjects fo reigners to personal appearance berore the Police on their arrival, and at the Alien Office if their residence should exceed three weeks. The penalties for nun-compliance are tine and imprisonment. -- ticat•:4. o►' me A►►RRIrAN NAVV.—A Bill has been reported in the Senate of the United States, for building ten *loops of war of the Brat class, to carry not less than It► guns each, and appropriating 550,000 dollars for the _ . . . S petition is in the course of signature in the town and neighbourhood of Uppinghant, praying the attention of the Legislature to the condition of the iVeht India Slaves, morally and politically considered.—Siamp.d Myr eury. iVe hear that the Cataract, and other entertainments, at Drury-lane, to-night, are by the special di sire of Prince Leopold, and other illustrious personages, who are most anxious to witness the splendid exhibition of the (.istarded, and the distinguished Stud of Horses. FASHIONABLE !NMI:LICENCE. The Duke of Sussex had a large party to dinner yesterday, it Kensington Palace. The Marquis of I.ansilown entertained General Mina and a large party of Noblemen and Gentlemen to dinner yesterday, at Lane down House, Berkeley-square. lord Carrington entertained his Excellency Baron Fogel and a distinguished party to dinner yesterday, at his house, Whitehall yard. The Marquis of Cholciondeley had a dinner party on Saturday at Chnlinondcley House, Pier:Ally. Lord Alvanley had a dinner and an evening party yesterday at his house in Park-place. The Bight Hon. ltoltert Peel has imam d cards of invitation for a gram) dinner party on the niii March, at his house in Great Stan. hope -street, May-fair. Lon! (iwydyr will have a dinner party on Wednesday next, at his j house in Piccadilly. In.d Berwick otertained s distinguished party to dinner on Sa turday, at his house in Grosventw.square. Robert Esq. M.P. entertained Viscount and Viscountess frirahville and a large party of distinction :•esterday, at his house, in Montague-square. Mr. Secretary Canning will have a grand dinner party this day at Gloucester Ledge. The Duke of Portland left town on Saturday fur Newmarket, on his way to his seat, %‘'elbeck, Notts. Lord Hervey has al rived at his father's (the Earl of Bristol), in St. James's-square, from Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Cassini; and family arrived on Satur day at their house in Privy-gardens, from their seat, St. Margaret's. The Earl of Pembroke ham left town for his scat, B'iltun 'louse, Wilts. The Earl of Fife has left the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street, for his sent in Scodand. The 31arquis of Westmeath has arfitul at Buckingham House, Pall-mall, trona his seat NI Ireland. Arrivals at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street :--Ilenry Gas Esq., from Salisbury ; Abraham Nunis, Esq. from his seat in Hama. Mr. and 111 m Hustler have arrived at Blake's Hotel, Jermyn street, from their seat in Yorkshire. Departures :-31r s. and 311ss Linter for Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy. The Bishop of J)mmore, the Rev. Mr. Saurin, and Mr. Rich ards, left Gould's lintel, Jerniymatreet, on Saturday, for Brighton. Mr. and Mrs. Smith Owen have lett the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle -street, for their seat, Condom. Park, near shrewsbury. Mr. Jeffrey and Mr. Russell left the London Hotel, Albemarle- street, yesterday, fur Semiand. Animas at ThomAiliglel, Berkeley-square:—Lord and lady Belhaven, from Scotlood ; Sir John Crofts, Bart. from Yorkshire; Mr. .4 Mrs. Thompson, from • tour • Mrs. Maitland; Tho mas Bomar, Esq. from Brighton ; Mr. a nd Mrs. Cresewell Baker, from Northuinberhuid :---The Earl and Countess Somers hare left ditto fur their seat in Herefordshire. KINGS THEATRE. The opera of II Barbiere de Sieiglia was repeated on Saturday evening to the must elegant and crowded audi ence we have seen assembled since the coininencenient of the present mason. This is an indication of the return of the fashionable folk to town, for the Opera is quite an aris tocratic piece of amusonent, and is the premier gaiety of the great. From so early hour the boxes were almost all occupied, which proves the high estimation in which the music of this chff (rarer of Rossini is held. On other nights, when the sylph-like and voluptuous movements of the dancers seem to have a prevailing attraction over musical compositions of mediocre merit, we notice the boxes tilling only at the approach of the ballet. Madame V estris again personated Rosin , * : she sang very sweetly and pleasingly,' . with much comic humour, and a fascinating archness, 'I that marks everything she says or sings upon the stage. Perhaps her style of singing is not so perfectly Italian as that of Madame 'lanai de Begnis, yet the music of Bar- Mere di Niriglia is well calculated for the quality of her voice it is generally soft anti sweet, and occasionally lively and joy ous ; seldom bold, grand, or powerful. It belongs more to the brilliant and adorned than to the lofty department of musical compositions. Signor Benetti, as Figaro, wain lively and bustling as the part required. Ills perfectly familiar acquaintance with the stage, as well as his quali fication of voice, person, and manner, render him a very pleasing representative of such a character. Garcia played with admirable spirit and effect; although his ornamental introductions are not always in the chastest keeping, yet his tine mellow tones, and his seeming self-enjoyment with his part, make it quite a pleasure to witness his diversified display of comic and vocal talent. The other characters were sustained, as on the first night of the representation of this opera, with excellent effect. Her Royal Ilighnessj the Duchess of Gloucester, and a select party, occupied a box on the ground tier. Madame Catalani makes her first' 'appearance, after a long and regretted absence , _ on Satur day next. We understand that almost every box has been fur a considerable time pro-engaged to welcome, ot It were, dm return et tits unequalled vocalist to " the Theatre of, Ivor early fame," THE I.IFE AND TIMES OF SALVATOR ROSA. BY LADY MORGAN. In painting, as in poetry, the minds of men of genius, born to excel in either, seem fitted by a peculiar organiza tion to strike out various am'. opposite paths to fame. The' poetical fancies of some, peopled only with forms of love liness, delight to wander over the still, melancholy, retired ; scenes of nature ; to indulge in feelings of a pensive and pathetic east; to repose in the moon-beams, and give up' their soul to mournful harmony. Their strains, full of beauty, deal only with the tenderest subjects, over which, they throw all the " rainbow hues" of a rich and exqui site imagination. Others there arc, framed in a quite dif ferent mould, who, apparently dis daining w:tatever seems to cheer the heart or to enliven it, delight to wander with their " mind's eye" over scenes and subjects of a wholly opposite character ; to track the dreary waste; to sit with the demon of the night, and watch " The lamp of some lone lamr-house :" . . who turn their eye from scenes of merriment, to watch the terrors of the sly and the ravings of the storm. Of this latter cast, in painting, was that extraordinary genius, SA c - V Aroß Rosa, of whom Lady Morgan has here announced herself the biographer. The task could not have fallen into better hands. 11cr own original, vigorous, and well informed mind, qua/if her to seize on the characteristic features of genius, wherever they are found. No ode is better fitted to estimate talent of every kind, and to as sign to it its discriminated and real value. On every subject she abandons herself with a careless indifference to the in ' Iluence of reason, and has no concerti but for the interests of truth. There is a forcefulness and spirit in her remarks, and a gaiety and freshness in her style, that always keeps her readers alive: they are to the mind what beautiful and brilliant mineral specimens are to the eye s --a source of va ried and perpetual excitement. In the biography,which Lady Morgan has here given us of , the life and times of this great painter, she his not con fined herself to a dry detail of dates and facts, or with the daily round of his occupations, till the relation swelled into the size, without bearing anything of the interest, of a history. She writes on this, aeon ether topics, with a phi losophic and discursive and proccees to develope the springs and causes of whatever events cross the circle of her narration. She brings the character of the age before us, as well as that of Sai.varoa, by whose genius it was adorned. We are instructed in the history and real nature of mankind, by which, more or lees, the character of every individual, if not crested, is at least controlled. A man who, like tiat.varoa, combined a mind of high intellectual powers with the unrivalled genius of his pen cil, and who added to these an inborn love of independence, and a spirit that could brave despair ; in a word, who was not a painter only, but a pultiol ;--161.1C11 a man was not likely to have his fame embalmed in Balg : the holy bro therhood, we may well suppose, wculd melt down, as speedily as they could, all the rugged metal which came from a man like this, and would efface everywhere its , ima,ze and superscription. This will sufficiently account for the following information which Lady Morgan gives us in her prefare Should it be deemed worthy of inquiry why I hail selected the lite of Salvat.ir 'tom as a aut jest of biographical memoir, in prefer ence to that of any other illtintrotta painter of the Italian schools, I answer, that I was influenced in my preference more by the pccu liar character of the man, than the extraordinary plaits of the artist. For, admiring the work. of the great Neapolitan toaster, with an enthusiasm unknown perhaps to the sobriety of professed oft la, I estimated still more highly the qualities of the Italian patriot, who, stepping boldly in advance of a degraded age, st in the foreground of his times, like one of his own spirited anti graceful figures, when all around hint was timid nntnnt risin rind ~r ovelling !subserviency. Struck, as I always had been, with the philosophi cal toticand poetical conception of Saleatm.'s greater pictures, even to the feeling a degree of al interest in frivour of their creator, I took the opportunity my :evidence in Italy to make some verbal inquiries as to the private character anal story of a man, whose pow. ful intellect and deep feeling. no less than his wild and gloomy itnaii, gination, came forth even in his most petulant sketches and careless design& nuns tradition, little is to be ebtaincd in a land, where it is equally perilous to indulge in the memory of the past, or the hope of the future ; but it was also evident, that over the name of Sal. vator Rosa there hung some spell, dark as one of his own ineanta. lions. For though, in answer to my apricatioes on this subject, I was, in one or two instances, referred fat ihfunnstioo to thePantesm Italiano ; in none was I directed to those contemporary sources from abeam the most impartial accounts were to be derived. The l'arnassa Italiatto is one of the few modern works in Italy sane tinned by the constituted authoritim, and published, u its licence asserts, " will, thr full upprulhatioN of the Brand Ingairitor of the llof' o . ffire." In its coesecrated pages I found sillyator Rasa de. scribed an being " of low birth and indigent eirroinstances—of a subtle organization, and an unregulated mind ; one, whose life bad been disorderly, and whose amociates had been thorn among musicians and bullion's." This discrepancy between the man sad bis :rotes, though authenticated by the seal of the " Holy Oiler." awakened suspicions, which led to further inquiry and deem re seuch.th was then I discovered that the sublime painter of the Saul and the Job was, in fact, the precise reverse in life and character. of all that he had been represented by the hired literary agents of those bad institutions which he had so boldly and so ably attacked both by his;peneil and hirepen, for he was not " subtle," but 'exempts). miaingt not " unregulated" but esecentrated ; net " one living with bit/loons," but with ages. It was equally evident that the cause which covered the memory of one of the mama painters and most philosophical poets of Italy with obloquy, woo to the vies of the man but e moral independenc e a n d political principle of th e patriot ! 'I found Salvino,. Rosa standing in the gap of time bee tern Michael Angelo, the patriot artist, and Ellice*a, the poet of liberty. The inheritor of much of the genius and e.ll the good mid Italian spirit of the first, he was also the precursor of the political free breathings of the last,—compared se whom he appears, like his own Desert prophet, in the Colonna Palace, lonely Indeed and add, but not uninspired. As I found, an I have represented him and if (led by a natural sympathy to m a ke common CMS! with all who suffer by misrepresentation), I have been the first (my only meat) to light a taper at the long-neglected shrine, and to raise the veil of calumny from the splendid image of slandered genus, I trust it is still reserved for emie compatriot hand to restore the memory of salvator Rosa to all its " original brightness," as when the muse of the Arno was exclusively occupied in singing his praises. Many minute details and interesting facts of this extra. ordimuy man may yet doubtless be obtained by a native of Italy, which It was difficult or imposeible for a foreigner. and one wru. ing at so remote • distance to procure. The verbal information whirl, I have crated, has been in truth but scanty. Of the number of distinguished friends I had made sod l e f t i n - that coun. try (the Inane uf whose blue skies hasten yet faded them my ima. gelation), few now reside there, and fewer still are in • situation to give me any assistance. Many have been condemned to death ; the greatest number have raved life by perilous evasion and indigert exile; and MOW, at the moment I write, uncertain of their fate, are wearing oat their prime of existence in solitary confinement, cut oft' froth all human intercourse, save what they hold (if that may he rolled human) with their gaolers and inquisitors. From the general intimidation which prevails throughout Italy, little was to be hoped front the contributions of mere acquaintances. The proscription of my work on that country by the King of San dinia, the Emperor of Austria, and the Pope, rendered it dangerous even to receive my letters or to answer them. An English lady, of high rank and unbounded influence in Rome. who, in any other cause but in that of two such t to:orients Carbeneri, must have been eminettly successful, exerted herself to the utmost for me and my Salvator ; all, however, that tier inexhaustible kindness (for such it has been) could effect, was to procure me a catalogue of Sabra tor's pictures now remaining in Route, and in thin catalogue " the Prometheus" (one of the most celebrated) was omitted. Gracious Heaven ! To think that prit !fly despotism should thus have thinned the ranks of man! That every drop of high and generous blood should be poured out like water, that a people may be made the readier slaves of bigotry. and a surer prey to imposture ! In her first chapter, Lady Morgan developes the influen tial causes of the progress and perfection of the art of paint ing, from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, and chews that it was not encouraged from any love of the art on the part of the patrons, but was made subservient to the spread of priestcraft, and the spiritual jurisdiction of the faith/n!. They assumed the prerogative of being the exclusive and universal teachers, and they made the art of painting an instrument in moulding the manners and sen timents of the people. The perfection attained in the art of painting during the middle ages, had its source in the political combinations of times when a predominant hierarchy held the ascendant, and the Church oar.. the State. Knowledge, which is supremacy as long only as it is a monopoly, was then the exclusive possession of the clergy ; and the intellec tual disparity, which existed between the many and the few, long continued to be the instrument of delusions, ot• which ignorance inevitably becomes the dupe and the victim. To support the powerful system of priestly domination, which for ages governed the nations of Europe and their rulers, the efforts of human intellect and the products of human genius were dis. carded or brought forward, as the exigencies of successive epochs dictated. The same hierarchy which, at one period, found its account In burning the works of CIENTO, and cuung the statues of Praxitelcs into the Tiber, in another restored the philosophy of Aristotle, and proposed the elevation of Raphael to the dignity of the Cstrellnahte. _ Tbe splendid architecture and elegant decorstions of the Pagan temples of Greece and /tome had been rejected by the racer.* Cribb. r reselling. through their associations, the doctrines and pe nation of that brilliant religion, which it was the interests of its rare asseereor to bury in oblivion. But, when the rude mots strosldes pictured on the walls of the ancient ecclesiastical edifice. of Lombardy, and the trnavailing crusades of the Iconoclasts =it the imaginative tendencies ofre Italians. exhibited the imptar of the people towards decoration, the Church, taught by experimental demonstration the difficulty . of securing tai gs: by abstractions, or of satisfying the passions with invisible *scot of adoration, wisely enlisted the arts in her service. Painting (which, in the progress of civilization, precedes music, a being Tag abstracted in it. principles, and more tangible in Its effects) was, even as early as the thirteenth century, adopted by the Church as a meats of riveting her power, by bringing over the senses to her interest. Its effects were magical : it personified the essence which thought could not reach ; it depicted the mystery which reason could not explain ; it revealed the beatitudes of Heaven, and the punishments of Hell, io imagery which struck upon the dullest apprehensions, and intimidated the hardiest conscience; and the Matto:meg of Cimabue, and the Saints of Oictim, were found to be no less influential in their calling, than the councils of the assembled Church, and the Bulls of use Lateran, Eyes, which shed no tears over the recited sufferings of the Saviour, wept gratefully over the pictured agonies of • selfwarrificed medlars,: and stubborn knees, unused to bend in mental devotion, dropped Involuntarily before shrines where • fair young mother and her blooming offspring, • virgin parent, and an infant Lod, awakened religious adoration through hun:an sympathies. The doctrines of a mystic creed thus enforced through palpable forms addressed to the affirtions, powerfully assisted to awaken faith through feeling ; tee that which is felt it is difficult to doubt, and that which satisfies the senses is vainly distrusted by the un derstanding. The people likewise, denied the use of the Scriptures, were now taught much of what it was expedient they should know, from pietures. The art, in process of time. became an acknowledged state-engine ; and the artists, virtually, if not noiniaaliy, meting as ministers, were soon subsiihrisl as allies. In Italy a public taste inevitably sprang from this poll. -a pedietiey, and habits of long-practised judgment, and well. discrimination produced the singular phenomenon of a of virtuosi. Towards the commenernient of the sixteenth century, the Reran and Tuscan people hat! become, with respect to painting, what the lowest of the Athenians hail once been with impact to language! The orators of a free government had made a nation of philologists; a Church despotism had created a population of dilettanti. For governments, in particular stages of society, make the people; in others, the people make the governments. The manner in which priNting was made to minister to the supremacy of the early church is here well set forth ; the concluding remark is impressive, and could only have been made by a shrewd and reflective mind. To attempt evoi the slightest sketch of the valuable and interesting matter which the*c volumes contain, %mild carry us far beyond the limits to which we are seessarily prescribed. Lady Morgag e zvutation is su ffi ciently es tablished to render any praise superfluous. Her merits as a writer will admit to be tried by any standard. On this head, therefore, we may be silent. The character which she has chosen as the subject of this first specimen of her biographical talents is every way worthy of them. The life of SAT VATOR, chequered with a variety of for tunes, could not but be full of incident. Like all men " Destinl to redeem our race from shame," he was crossed by partial Fate in every step of his progress through life. Ills jealous competitors in the race we ,•• always counterworking his exertions; and the envity... , spectators of his fame were perpetually striving to bar In: way. But, in spite of all obstacles, he struggled on, as genius always must and will do, through distress and diffi culty—throusli " evil report and good report; ;" but at length he carted out his path to fame, am engraved his name on her temple in characters that will bid defiance to Time and Fate. The works of this great master are the greater part of them in Great Britain. Lady Morgan had thus a ready means of access to the hest and most authentic sources of information. She expresses her peculiar obligation in this respect to the Earl of Darailoy, Earl Grosvenor, Earl ('ow- Per, Eail of Miltown, the lion . Wm. Poilhonby, Richard ower, Esq., General Cockburn, Weld Ilartstrong. Esq., Ileley, Esq., her (race the Duchess of Devonshire, the Marchitnuss Dowager of Lamslown, and to the Baron Denon. We shall take an early opportunity of reverting to these voltuues, that we may do justice to the scientific and lite rary accomvlirliments of this most extraordinary man, who was born with talents fitted to regenerate the age in which be bved, bad Fortune borne h;s standard, and Lail his rani egnallal the elevation of his mind. DRCLARATI In aonsequeric the Mediterranca Majesty's Gover Regency of Algit In Saturday's G fused to make red Consular Flag, i recede from the i himself not to nation, in a sta against him. We understan vide due convoy 1 Mediterranean. The news was which arrived at Capt. 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