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Portugal Gold in coin 5 17 Foreign (*old in bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New 1)ollan 0 4 9/ Silver in bars 0 5 0 iirittOtt Pregg.. NEW 7'HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Erinlng. WEDNESDAY. April 2A, will be performed THE HYPOCRITE. Doctor Cantwell. Mr. Dowtus 8 Maw-worm. Mr. Liston Charlotte, Mrs. W. Neat. After whkh. MY GRANDMOTHER. Dicky Go/alp, Mr. Harley; )I°Tel:it. Madame liestrla. To conclude u itk ZOROA , TER ; or, THE SPIRIT OF THE STAR. To-morrow, The Lord of the Manor. THEATRE AWYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. "'his Evening, WEDNESDAY, April 21i, will be performed CLARI. The Duke Vivaldi, Mr. Abbott ROl4llllO Mr. Fawcett ; CIMI, Miss M.yawns. sass Love. After which, THE HUNTER OF THE ALPS. Felix. Mr. Joins ; Rosalvi. Mr. T. P. Cooke; Jeronymo, Mr. Meadows Helena di Rosalvl, Mrs. Emelt. To conclude with THE .IPIRITM OF THE MOON: Or, THE INUNDATION OF THE NILE. TeMaorrow, Ivide shall have a Fall. The Barrisn Purse commenced publishing yesterday morning at half -past fire o'clock. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Arott. 28, 1824. His Majesty, who otherwise enjoys good health, expe rienced, we regret to state, before his return to Carlton Palace yesterday, a casual return of his too constant enemy, the gout. The attack, we rejoice to know, however, is not at present severe, or cxnected to be of any long continuance. The King's physicians, under such circumstances, how ever, have of course dissuaded his Majesty from at present attempting the overwhelming fatigue of a crowded drawing- 1 1 roiri, at which the presentations were expected to be more numerous than any that have occurred for years. The drawing-room is of necessity postponed to the 13th of May, when his Majesty's health, we trust, will be fully re-esta blished, and equal to the fatigue of that splendid ceremony. The Court will be held at St. James's Palace, which is now magnificently fitted up, and the state rooms more brilliant than any other in Europe. His Majesty's birth-day will be celebrated on Thursday by the dinners of the Ministers and Great Officers of State, originally announced for that day. The most anxious inquiries and visits ware made through the whole of yesterday at Carlton Palace, by the molt distinzuished of our nobility, after his Majesty's arrival. A few days, we trust, will restore his Majesty to perfect health again. Frankfort Papers, to the 21st of this month, reached our iosce yesterday. From accounts they contain from Switzer land to the 17th, it appears that some popular discontents have broken out, which will probably soon become general throughout that country. The disturbances took place in that part of the Canton of Appenzell, called the Rhodes Interior. On the let of April, while the Great Council was assembled, it appears that a considerable number of country people proceeded to the town with a petition, de manding admittance. They were received, to the number of forty-one, and their petition was read. It required, in the name of the people, that the two Councils should carefully examine the new Decrees issued by the Govern ment—the rights of the people, the rights of the magis trates, and, in short, whatever might seem advantageous to the general prosperity,—and that the result of their labours should be laid before the sovereign people. The peti tioners added, that if, contrary to all expectation, this desire were refused, the Landegemend (a general assem bly of the people), should be immediately convoked. ',;:he Council, after a long debate, required that all the articles which the petitioners had in view should be distinctly specified ; but the petitioners, referring to their application, complained of the innovations which had taken place in the Administration, desiring that the various Ordinances relative to them should be ex tracted from the protocol. The Council then appointed the zth of April for the petitioners to appear before a Spe cial Committee, and declare their grievances—the Com mittee to consist of impartial men, chosen from each distriCt of the Canton. On the 6th, it seems, the omplainants appeared, and pointed out the innovations introdaced since 1614. The Committee, adjourning its decision, ordered, at the same time, that the new institutions should be printed and distributed among the people. It is yet to be seen whether these disturbances sprang from real untutored dis content satong the people, or were fomented by Austrian agents as a pretext for the armed interposition cf the latter Power. Switzerland, within the last ten years, has lost almost every trace of its former independence. Menaced by the residents of the Confederated Powers, and by Austria in particular, foreigners who had found re fuge for years within its territory, were suddenly exiled, and new restrictive measures of police adopted, totally inconsistent with all past principles that influenced the policy of the Cantons. We shall soon bear of some remonstrance by Austria on the subject of these disturb ances: she only wants a pretext to march her forces within the Republic. Though centuries have primed since the Swiss shook off the Austrian yoke, former domination has rot been forgotten by this Power ; and Switzerland has been stripped of all independence, and politically degraded, only as the prelude to her subjugation by military force, if France and Great Britain do not decisively interfere, to prevent this unprincipled outrage on the liberties of the Swim nation. The latest letters from Leghorn and Genoa state, that our shipping in the Mediterranean had proceeded to their destination in safety, without meeting a single Alge rine vessel, from oar strict blockade of that port. The commerce of other powers, Spanish and Italian, will ex perience the full benefit of our protection. We shall thus, without the loss of a single man, annihilate the pursuits of these barbarians; not a ship can quit or enter Algiers but with a certainty of capture, and the Pirate of that Regency must of necessity submit to any measures we dictate. Whether any new outrages may oblige us to attack and bombard the place, and again lay the defences of Algiers in ashes, we cannot now anticipate; but such an attempt cannot be made but by a powerful fleet, and at great loss, and every purpose is accomplished by the blockade. The Corsair can now despatch no aid against the Greeks, and the Egyptian Pacha will pause before he forms an expedition. No half measures with these barbarians would accomplish anything; they must be taught to feel the consequences of their outrages before they will re linquish the perpetration ; and our blockade, at present, is annihilation to them. The entire Mediterranean at pre sent appears free from them : and if any of their cruisers are abroad, they must ultimately fall into our hands. This nest of pirates has for ages been the curse of those seas, and the terror of the neighbouring coasts of Spain and Italy. The Powers of Europe ought to unite, and by a decided expedition render them utterly incapable of any further outrage. Sir Sydney Smith, gime years since, with the chivalry that marks his character, attempted to form such a union, but failed. But for toe interposition of this country the Mediterranean would be impassable; these pirates would swarm in every part of it, and make descents on the unprotected coasts of Spain and Italy, carrying away whole villages into slavery, as they did in past times, and inflicting incalculable miseries on the wretched inha bitants; but this horrible traffic is now annihilated by our blockade. We are afraid that the West Indians, while they arc complaining of the crusade raised against them by the abolitionists in this country, are themselves, with fevered' minds, far outatepping the bounds of prudence and rea son. Lord Bathurst's communications with Mr. Hibbert never should have been published, or the admirable letter from Mr. Huskiason to Mr. Gladstone of Liverpool put in print. Both formed an outrageous breach of all confi dence. The agent for Jamaica and the other representa tives of West India interests in England, have thus cut themselves off from all further confidential communication with Ministers, who cannot subject themselves, in every casual conversation, or unstudied private letter, to the or deal to which both have been lately and improperly ex posed. We will do both Mr. Hibbert and Mr. Gladstone the justice, however, to express our conviction, that when the one communicated the substance of his conversations with Lord Bathurst to his constituents in Jamaica, and the latter gave Mr. Huskisson's letter to his " principal attorney," or correspondents in Demerara, neither in tended that what they thus communicated should be made public. The fiery zeal, however, of the Jamaica and Deme rara planters, led to a different result—with what benefit to themselves or the cause they advocate is now but too plainly seen. Lord Bathurst, in common prudence, has been obliged to restrict all further communications with Mr. Hibbert to such as cannot he misrepresented, by limiting them to writ ing; and though Mr. Huskisson's letter is one that does equal honour to his talents and his feelings, yet, as a Mi nister of the country, it cannot be grateful to him to see unreserved communications of this sort appearing glaringly in print. While Mr. Huskiason, in this excellent letter, was regretting the unhappy effects of the unreflecting zeal of Mr. Wilberforce, and his pupil (Mr. Buxton), on this question, it ought to have been an impressive lesson to the West Indians themselves to avoid such an example, to limit their feelings within the bounds of prudence, and not, by violence and the most incautious conduct, defeat all the objects they had in view. " I am sure I need not tell you," Mr. Huskiason says, in his letter to Mr. Gladstone, " that the Government did every thing in its power to pre vent Buxton's motion altogether, and that Mr. Canning In particular exerted all hit personal influence with Mr.lVil berforce and others for that purpose." Though so much was stated to Mr. Gladstone, it was not intended for the general eye. It was impossible that Ministers, in the last Session, could have favoured Mr. Buxton's motion ; they must have in a great degree anticipated the melancholy re sults to which it led. A discussion so brought on and con ducted could have produced nothing but agitating hopes and fears among the save population and the West India residents throughout those Islands, and the cos sequences have unfortunately more than justified all the apprehensions of Ministers. Nothing can be more just than Mr. Huskisson's sentiments on this im portant question, as conveyed in his letter thus unad visedly made public. " I perfectly agree with you (Mr. Iluskisson says to Mr. Gladstone), that, in a matter of this portentous difficulty, it is only by gradual ameliora tion—by moral and religious improvement—by humanity and kindness—by imperceptibly creating better domestic habits and feelings amongst the slaves—by countenancing and encouraging all that can have that tendency in the conduct of the owners and white people—by repressing with the strong arm of the law, and stigmatising with the moral power of opprobrium and disgrace, whatever leads to an opposite result—that we have a chance of ultimately, and even then remotely, providing for the termination of so great an evil, moral and political, as the existence of a large population in a state of chattel possession and personal slavery." These are axioms of truth and po litical wisdom applicable to this question, that cannot be controverted: they are the principles on which we have argued the subject all through ; nothing could be thought of as regards the African population in the West Indies in any other way. Sudden emancipation would be destruction both to the negroes themselves and to the white inhabitants, and entire property committed in tilos., islands. One thing is now plain, from this letter, that Ministers have all along entertained the best and most humane feelings on this question : and it will now, we trust, be prudently left in their bands, and be no further agitated for some time to come, by the injudicious zeal of either party, West Indians Or abolitionists. Du liE OF Yoas's LE VE E.—Yesterday afternoon, 500 D after four o'clock, the Duke of York, as Commander-in- Chief, held a Levee at his Office in the Horse Guards, and it being a fortnight since his Royal Hjghness held a Levee, it was very numerouly attended, thete being between fifty and sixty officers present. Among the principal Officers were-- The Marquis of Carmarthen, Marquis of Londonderry, General Drummond, General Loftus. Lieut.-General Sir Robert Holton, Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Cockburn, Lieut.-lien. Sir R. 11.Shia9'e, Lieut.-Gen. Lord Blarney, Lieut.-Gen. Stevenson, Sir John Oswald, Lieut.-Gen. Pye, Major-Gen. Sir William Hutchinson, Major-Gen. Sir George Airey. Alsjor-Gen. Stuart, Major-Gen. Peachey, Major-Gen. Patteniion, Majoe.Gen. Mac. quArrie. Major-lien. Hill„ and Major-Gen. Vincent. MARQUIS IVELLISLEY.—A respectable Cork paper has published, on what it deems authority, that his Excellency, after a short tour to the South, proposes embarking from Cork in the vice-regal yacht, for England, on private busi ness, but to us it appears not probable that there can exist any such intention. At the present moment his Excel lency's presence is of high importance to the country.— Dub/i.l I'utt.:44. eurT. KING'S BIRTH-DAY. --••••••••-- [FROM A CORDE3rONDEXT•i The Drawing Room, which was to have been held at St. James's Palace to-morrow, is to be postponed. This will, no doubt, occasion disappointment to many, and inconvenience to more. We have heard various surmises as to the occasion of this postponement, and different causes were rumoured yestatiav, none of which have any foundation. The real and only cause is, that it was found impossible, notwithstanding the strenuous exertions that ! have been made, to get the new apartments properly pre pared and in readiness for the purpose. It was the carrot wish of his Majesty that it should be held on the `29th, and the fullest expectation was entertained that, by the / increased exertions of the workmen, and of the different artists and tradesmen employed, the whole might have been finished and prepared for the occasion by to-morrow ; but it was yesterday reported to his Majesty that it was found impossible to accomplish it, and the Drawing Room will therefore, of necessity, be deferred. His Majesty, it is understood, intends honouring the 1 Royal Theatres and the Opera with his presence this week. l The Princess Augusta honoured the Italian Opera house with her presence last night. Yesterday, the Duke of York, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia, visited the Princess Augusta. The Princess Augusta honoured the Viscountess Cre morne with a visit yesterday, at her residence in Stanhope street. Mr. Canning transacted business at the Foreign Office yesterday. We have authority to state, that the Dinners of the Ministers and Great Officers of State, in celebration of his Majesty's Birth-Day, will take place to-morrow. The late Bishop of Bath and Wells educated the pre sent Duke of Gloucester, anffesid that attention to his distinguished pupil which se c ured him the patronage of the Royal Family. His firs t dignity was that of Arch deacon of London : he was,' in 1789, installed in the See of Gloucester; and in 1804 translated to the Bishopric of Bath and Wells. It appears that Mr. Stafford Cooke is not the only person in pursuit of ancient title and large possessions; we un derstand that Mr. R. 11. Kelham, of Chelmsford, has laid siege to the title of Courtenay, and the more valuable ap pendage of one of the finest estates is Great Britain. — Essex Mercury. We have heard, with considerable regret, that the black f.'ver, which was brought with a cargo of rice from Sierra Leone, has made dreadful ravages at Antigua. We are, however, happy to find, that Sir Benjamin D'Urban, whose hospitality is as proverbial millis bravery, together with his amiable Lady, have escaped the dreadful contagion. Sir Benjamin has proceeded to the government of Demerara, ' and is succeeded in the command of Antigua by Sir Hud son Lowe, whose meritorious services have been thus strik ingly acknowledged by his country. Lady Lowe has not accompanied Sir Hudson, but remains in the neighbour hood of Windsor, where she is esteemed not less for her personal attractions than for her liberality to the poor. We hope her fair and accomplished protege is likely, at no dis i. tant period, to quit her prestnt retirement, and give the world, the benefit of her cultivated taste and many acquire ments. Of this young lady we may say, in the words of the , I Poet— . . " That delicate rose, hsa you shaken it len, N i blight have bloomed with ts owner a while ; As the tear that is wiped with a little address May be followed again by a smile." DINNER AT THE CASTl.E.—Yesterday the annual dinner to the Lord Mayor and Corporation of Dublin took place at the Castle. A numerous concourse of the nobility and gentry attended. The dinner was given in the grand presence chamber, with a royal inag,nificence and hospi tality ; and nothing could he more striking or imposing than the spectacle altogether. But the important, chief distinguishing fixture of the entertainment, in our view, is to see men of hitherto discordant principle and politics, sitting down at the same festive board together, in homage to the genius that presides over the destinies of Ireland, and who governs for the public good only, without regard ing the views of individuals, of sects, or of parties, unless when they accord with the general interest of Ireland. This appears to be the first instance of an entertainment so attended at the Castle, in our history—tray we not, then, augur that times of unanimity—happier times—are ap proaching? The band of the 10th hussars attended, and added much to the pleasure and festivity of the scene.— Dublin Patriot. On Monday, the 12th inst. the Earl of Roches returned to Scotland from his studies at Eton College, when a num ber ! I of the servants immediately connected with the estate,' were assembled at Leslie House to welcome the young nobleman to the ancient seat of his illustrious forefathers. Upon this happy occasion mirth and joy abounded, and the meeting was farther enlivened by the presence of the Bal 1, birnie band, who played some beautiful slow airs and reels. The dance was kept up with great spirit till a late hour, and the bumpers were respectively drained to the health of Mr. Leslie (to whose cheerful disposition the meeting owed much of its hilarity) and to the young Earl, mixed with many good wishes for prosperity to the house of Leslie.— Edinburgh Paper. The conversion of the late Rev. Dr. O'Meara to the Catholic faith was denied in the Limerick Chronicle of IVednestlay last. In allusion to this denial, the Rev. T. Therry, R. C. Curate of Nenagh, published a letter in the Dublin Patriot of Saturday last, in which he says—" On the day previous to Dr. O'Aleara's dissolution, I was sent for, with his consent, and by his directions; I attended him; and he made a profession of faith, and received the Sacraments according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church. Ile was then perfectly collected, and his intel lects were quite unimpaired. I feel that I owe it to myself to publish these facts. It has been stated that Government has resolved to change the station for the departure and arrival of the foreign packets from Falmouth to Crookbaven, on the southern extremity of the county of Cork. The objection to Fal mouth as a station is, that the packets are frequently pre vented from sailing, for several weeks, by contrary winds. But, were they despatched from the south-west point of Cork, they would immediately get into a clear sea m anv wind. It is further silt], that a survey of a road to Crook . - haven has been ordered, and a spacious hotel will be built for the accommodation of passengers; the plan will also require the erection of a convenient harbour.—lrish Observer. _ The most pleasing subject, for our readers as well as for ourselves, are the projects for improving the town and the river. We have given a sketch of the new street from the Cross to the Calton-green. This magnificent undertaking will be by far the greatest improvement ever made in Glasgow, or probably in any town except London.—Glas- A rnw Chronicle. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York and Glou cester, the Duchess of Kent, Prince Leiningen, and Prin cess Feodor, were among the many hundred visitors last week, to see the Swiwi Giantess. _ . The Presbytery of Forfar, at their meeting on Wednes day week, unanimously resolved to petition Parliament, that in the ecclesiastical establishment to be given to the colonies in the West Indies, provision should be made for ministers of the Church of Scotland.—Caledonian filer- _ 'Phe valet who assisted in the elopement from Brussels had 1001. a-year promised him by the adventurer if he succeeded, which has since been settled upon him for life. The lady wa.g so strictly watched, that she could only com municate with her Adonis through the medium of her pa per curls, pen and ink being denied her. ller apparel was taken from her when she retired to rest at night, and the valet received her in her only clothing (her chemise), and speedily transported her to the arms of her anxious lover, who impatiently awaited her arrival.—Carlisk Journal. The Hopctown prize was shot for yesterday (Friday) in Hope Park, by the King's Body Guard, the Royal (.7om pany of Archers, and won by James Tod, Esq. IV.S. The day was fine, and a number of genteel spectators were on the ground.—Edinbargh Paper. EDI N )(IRON, APRIL 24.—Yesterday morning two com panies of the 94th regiment marched for Greenock to em bark for Gibraltar. The men have not yet received their full clothing and accoutrements, but the drills have been very strict, which have greatly improved their appearance. They were accompanied a short way by Sir Thomas Brad ford, Lord Robert Kerr, and several other military oticcrs of distinction. The Countess of Essex's ball on Monday evening, In Hill-street, Berkeley-square, was attended by about ISO distinguished fashion. , abler, including the Dowager Duchess of Richmond, the Ladies Lennox, the Ladles Paget, Lord and Lady 3lorpeth, &e. The spacious suite of drawing-robin' were elegantly fitted up for the oc casion. Dancing commenced about ten o'clock, and finished past I four yesterday morning. H. Peters. Esq. entertained a large party at dinner yesterday, at his house in Park-street. Grosvenor-square. John Weyland, Eq. had a dinner-party yesterday, at his house in Clifford-street, Bond-street. Lord Sherborne I a select party at dinner yesterday, at his house in Lower Grosvenor-street. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell will have a dinner-party to-morrow, at their house in Charles-street, Berkeley-square. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are expected in town this day, from their seat, IVoburn His Grace the Duke of Wellington left Cheltenham on Monday, for Windsor, mutt", improved both in health and appearance. The Marquis anti Marchioness of Salisbury.arrived in town yes terday, from their scat. Hatfield. The Marquis of Chandoe is expected in town this day from his seat, Wotton, Bucks. The Marchioness of Lansdown is expected in town this day, from .1 Hastin, Sussex. gs The Bishop of Ossory and the Hon. Mrs. Fowler arrived in town , yesterday, from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. George Byng, at their seat, Wrotham Park. The Earl and Countess Cowper arrived in town yesterday, from Brighton. lard and Lady King arrived in town yesterday, from their seat, Ockham, Surrey. Honourable Mr. and Mrs. Agar Ellis arrived in town yes terday, front Lord Robert Spencer's scat in Sussex. Lord Dynevor arrived in town yesterday, from his seat, South Wales. Lord Boyne left town yesterday, for his seat in Shropshire. Lady Caroline Waldegrave has arrived at her new residence in Curzon -street, .Mayfair. Arrivals at Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street :--Sir Thomas Winnington ' Bart. yesterday, from his seat, Stamford Court, Wor cestershire; Mr. and Mrs. Hall, from Scotland. Arrivals at Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street r--Smyth Wyndham, Esq. from the Continent ; two Messrs. Micklevaite, from Bath. Sir George Warrender, Bart. arrived in town yesterday, from Paris. Arrivals at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street r—Colonel Clif. den, from Yorkshire; John Doherty, Esq. H.P.; John Caroll, Eek.—Captain Markham has left ditto, fir his seat in Yorkshire. 1 The Earl of Arran left town yestertliy, for his seat in Sussex, for a few days. Arrivals at FLulong'a Hotel, Oxford-street :—Mr. and Mrs. Shute, from Ilaileyhury, Heats; John Hodgson Esq. from Chig well-place ; P. N. Roberts, Esq. from Esher. Departures:—Lady and the Misses Fremantle, on a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Tatnall. for Cheltenham ; William Higgins, Esq. on a tour ; Sir Charlie Blair, Bart. for Cochtield-hall, Suffolk. Arrivals at the Bath Hotel, Arlingtciatreet :—lllra. Blunt and Miss Harrison, from Brighton; 31r. 1 1IInt. and Miss Eagleton, from Bath ; Sir Walter and Lady Robert and family, from their seat. Devonshire. Departures :—Mr. and Mrs. Caley, for Bees ; Col. on Winslow a tour. CHELTENHAM, APllll.24.—List of arrivals to this date r— ' Duke and Duchess of Beautirrt, Earl and Countess of Darlington, lard Fitzroy Sontereet, Lord Apsley, lady Hereford, the ladies Sinner/ie., the Ladies Vane, the Ladle§ Turnout, lard Chief Jus , rice and Lad! Best, Mr. and Lady Louisa Lambton, Sir F. Bur. . deft, M.P. Sir IL Donkin.—Rev. Messrs. ilinekes, Stratton Captains Blair. Dalrymple, Sely ; Captain and Mrs. Lcwis—Mr. t an d M. Forbes, Gillet, 31• Neil, Phillips, Wallace and family, &c. &e. /cc. I ()REIGN I NTE L LIG E ATE. FRANKFORT PAPERS. We received Frankfort Papers yesterday to the 21st inst. and extract from them the following account of a miniature insurrection in Switzerland : SWITZERLAND. APRIL 17. ... .. There have been some disturbances iu that part of the Canton of Appenzell, called the Rhode's Interior. (In the Ist of this month, while the tirrat Council was assembled at Appetaell, a pret'y considerable number of country people_pro- ceetled to the town with a petition, demanding admittance. They were received to the number of 4!, and their petition read. It re quired, in the name of the people, that the two Councils should carefully examine the new decrees issued by the Government, the , rights of the people, the rights of the magistrates, and, in short, whatever might seem advantageous to the general prosperity, and that the result of their labour should be lai d before the sovereign people. The petitioners added, that if, contrary to all expectation, this desire were refused, the Landegemeind (a general assembly of the people) should he immediately convoked. The Council, after a long d,bate, required that all the articles which the petitioners had an view shook' be distinctly specified ; but the latter, referring to their application, confined themselves to complaining in general of the innovations which had taken plate in the a4ministratlon ; desiring, that the various ordinances relative to them should be extracted from the protocol. The Council then appointed the sth of April for the complain ants to appear before a Special Committee, and declare their grievant-ex This Onninlttee was to consist of impartial men, chosen trum each district of the Canton. On the 6th the complainants appeared, and pointed out verbally the innovations that had begun to he introduced in 1814. The Committee adjourning its decision, ordered, at the same time, that the new institutions should be printed and distributed among the people. So stands the affair at present. HANRURGII, APRIL E. The Number (for March and Apvii) of the magazine of Foreign Liferatn,c, just published here, contaitis the lint official account of the appcalance of the cholera morbus, last autumn, at Astrachan, and of the atop put to its progress by the judicious and vigorous measures of the Russian Government. The most sanguine expectations are encouraged by the success of these measures against a disease, which, since the year 1817, has been incessantly advancing from East to West, and, in the apace of three years, has carried off throe minims and a half of people in India alone. Letters by the French Mail, yesterday, state the arrival of San Martin. from Buenos Ayres, at Havre. Letters from Paris, received yesterday, state that Sir H. B. Neale had arrived, in the Revenge man of war, at Mar seilles. All negociations with the Ley of Algiers had failed: the port was strictly blockaded. Extract from the Demerara Gazettt of the 27th of February :—" Dominica is in confusion and uproar. The Earl of Huntingdon, who dissolved the House of Assem bly a short time ago, has refused to issue any new writs for the re-election of Members until his Majesty 's pleasure be known regarding the issue between them. ' Letters have been received from Leghorn and Genoa in twelve days. They state that our shipping proceed to their des:inations without meeting any of the Algerine cruisers, as the coast was strictly blockaded by the Englitli squadron. There is no political information from the above p:aces. A private letter from Nuremberg, dated April 20. states that the Porte had received an intimation through a foreign personage (probably the French Charge d'Afiains), of the instructions given by the British Government to t he new Governor of the lonian Islands, and that the Turkish Minister had signified to Lord Strangford that the Sultan felt great dissatisfaction at finding them so favourable to the Greeks. Letters have been received from Lord Byron, dated Miasolonghi, March 16. At that period his Lordship ha I perfectly recovered from his severe indisposition, and was taking an active part in the affairs of Greece. We are happy to state that his Lordship writesin the most glowing terms of the fair prospects of the Greek cause, and cautions his friends against attaching any credit to the disagreeable accounts which have been published in the English papers. At the date of these papers no intelligence had been re ceived of the fall of L:•panto or Patras; but, from the extent of the preparations made for the storming of those fortresses, little doubt was entertained of the result. A letter from Odessa, dated March 31, states that ad vices had been received there front Constantinople of the sailing of the Turkish fleet from the 1/ardaneUes, having under its protection two Algerine vessels. According to this. account, the fleet was met by two English ships of war, and the Turkish admiral required to deliver up the Algerine vessels ; this being refused, the English Captains commenced a regular attack, and took possession of the objects of dispute. The writer of the letter coannuni eatinr, this intelligence is an English gentleman at Con startmople, too respectable to repeat the mere silly rumours prevalent in the Turkish capital. This news, therefore, was probably well credited there; but there are many reasons for disbelieving it; one of the strongest of which is, that if such a circumstance had occurred, we should have heard of it by some other channel than 'Odi sea. The Camden Halifax packet, respecting whose safety much doubt existed both here and in America, has at length arrived. The cause of her delay originated from the state of the weather on her passage out with the Decem ber mail, having been 92 days, during which time she ex perienced most bois'erous weather. On her return she completed the same passage in 21 days. LIVERPOOL, APRII. 25.—The Laurel, Barber, arrived here this day from l'ara with her outward cargo. She was obliged to leave the port in consequence of the disturbed state of the country. Ile British Consul had embarked and oiled for Barbadece, with a number of Ea:epees*, on board the Mary Eller.. ITALIAN OPERA-HOUSE. Last night the serious opera of dtello was again repeated at this theatre, and received with a degree of enthusiasm seldom exceeded. The Marquis Berio, who has fashioned one of the most splendid creations of the British muse to an opens. must have had no common effrontery, especially when he seems from this effort to be totally unfitted even for the humble work of translation. Shakspeare's Othello set to music! There's an absurdity about it;—our associa tions are so destroyed, our recollections so puzzled and astonished by it, that at the first mention of such a thing, we scarcely know whether it is intended that we should be considered as dunces or insane, to listen to it with an or dinary degree of patience. What ! the generosity, the love, the jealousy of the noble Moor—the tenderness, the affec tion, the devotion of Desdemona—the cunning, the envy, the duplicity of that arch-fiend logo all pictured in an opera, and developed in song! Scarcely a man in his senses would have dreamt of making such an attempt; mid yet Rossini has succeeded to an extent greater than we ever remember to have witnessed. The music of Melo is sin gularly characteristic, and richly deserving the study of those gentlemen who compose operas for the other theatres. 'f he passion of the poet is generally diffust d through sh e music : the strains of pity or of love subdue and thrill us ; while the fire of rage burns on,—and the annoyance of disappointment lingers in the severe and yet dirge.. like tones here put together by this eminent eompeem The intensity of Othello's suffering is marked with a mas ter-hand ; and we derive from this performance a pleasure only inferior to that afforded us by the unmatehr d plow ings of Kean. We have not, it is true, his eagle eye, searching with a power of unmeasured capacity into the treachery of his friend, while he still deceives him ; and then lookine; inwardly on his own folly with a glance of mixed tenderness and reproach. Weser not his convulsed countenance indicating the storm of feeling. and the con flict of passions which rage within his bosom. Our sympa thies are unengaged for the fate of opera heroei and h e . roines, for they seldom exhibit passion : and the ext.res sion of music, though conveying sensations of pleasure or of pain, of merriment or sadness, is unequal at all titres to that of the human countenance, aided by the use of language. We have not clearly articulated to us the gradual growth of Othello's jealousy, until at last it choaks up his utterance; nor that heart-rending regret so beautifully and so natu rally wound up in the little speech beginning " Farewell the tranquil mind," and ending with Othello's occupa tion's gone." When Kean repeats this passage, there is no sensitive mind but participates in his wrongs, and no feeling heart that would not share the punishment which his misplaced jealousy has heaped upon him. Othello then stands in the most favourable view. He is too generous to doubt the man he believes his friend, and yet too fond of the gentle Desch-mune, not to receive with trembling and anxiety the slightest breath which would speak of her defection from him. His life, his hope, his all is identified with her honour, and once that is tar nished—" Othello's occupation's gone." Hence we pity the victim of lors's treachery, and while heaving a Bleb over the fate of Desdemona, we cannot conceal the affection we feel warmly circulating through us for her betrayer' de stroyer. Divested as Otelle is of those enchantments which the great magician has so profusely spread around the drama of that name, it is highly creditable to Rossini, nay, we think it must be one of his proudest boasts, that he has, from whatever causes, been induced to translate Shakspeare into the eloquent language of "sweet sounds." Shakspeare cannot suffer by any translator; for though curtailed of all his fair proportion, by the unhallowed knife of the Marquis Berio, sonic atonement is made by the eloquence and excellence of Ressinfs mcdulations. Rossini, if lie have read Shakspeare, must see his genius for music ; and to do Rossini justice, lie seems in this case to have r. paid the glory of British verse by the triumph 00. Italian song. The principal attraction of the evening was Madame Pasta, of whose first appearance and reception we spoke with the praise she so eminently deserved. Mad ime Pasta's style of singing may be properly called peculiar, inasmuch as she seems to avoid that studied ornament which is the characteristic of all our modern singers. She is not as brilliant as Catalani, nor perhaps as melo• dious as Fodor. She does not luxuriate in difficulty, but she masters it without any visible exertion, and runs the scale with precision and remarkable clearness of articulation. Her voice is tolerably flexible, decidedly round, and of considerable compass; but not equally powerful in her upper and lower notes. She never for sakes her subject to hunt after ornament—while the ores ment she does use seems to he past, and necessarily part, of the melody itself. This is a rare qualification, and evi dr ntly the result of profound science and refined taste. Madame Pasta's style may, in coieradistinction to that of Caudell, Miss Paton, and, we may aav, all the principal artists of this day, be called easy anti 'unambitious. In almost every other singer you can tell the particular note, whence they start to make a flourish, and display ostenta tiously what they conceive to be their astonishing faculty • in M. Pasta you have the author's meaning conveyed so forcibly as to arrest your judgment, and lead your feelings captive. There were passages in her Desdensuna which spoke is melting tenderness to the soul, and awoke the most un adulterated compulsion. The simplicity of her style greatly aided the effect of a part which is certainly no masterpiece of our immortal hard's; while her chiding of the Moor exhibited a combination of energy and affection not to be found in any but the first-rate performers—per formers who bring science as well as genius to their labo rious occupations. Madame Pasta is not only a singer of the highest eminence, chaste in her style, and powerful in her exprssion, but also an actress of considerable merit. She treads the stage well, seems thoroughly acquainted with the useful and necessary art of by-play, and erects by attitude all that song, however sweetly and seentifi cally given, cannot produce. Perhaps she uses her heads too much, but in the ensemble we have had no such i'eirne Donna for many years. Her person is prepossessing, her eye intelligent and dark, and her bust not unlike that of Marie Antoinette, which Burke has almost immortalized, and Lord Byron has not thought it beneath him to filch from him, and render into verse. We sincerely congratulate Mr. Ron nelli on the splendid acquisition of Madame Pasta. Her first song, the air of which is taken from La Donna del Logo, was a sure precursor of her suet e, from the manner in which it was given; and it cannot aid a little to her fame to say, that in the hands of Madame Catalani the beet judges considered it a failure: that lady's redundancy of ornament completely spoiled its effect. The song in the third act, Aasisa a pie, was a delicious more -eats, though not encored; and there was a fervency and sweetness in the air, Deh cansa o ciel, which (deepite of the thaw back of not being accompanied by this gifted vocalist on the harp) could not tail to call for a re petition.— Garcia's Otello was even more thin we expected, con sidering the mutilations and distortions of the part com mitted by the Marquis Berio. He has left us nothing of the high honour, the intense love, the warm generosity, of the noble Moor—a man whose very colour heightens cur admiration of his qualities. He is shorn entirely of his splendor, and is only left to play the paling lover, who, dezeived by his mistrem, becomes her sudden and wire lentil% executioner. What was left to Garcia he per formed well, and nothing more cook! be expected fricia him. Ile evidently laboured under severe indisposition, but still acquitted himself like a mutter of his sit: he has no equal at this day. Porto was in excellent voice, and sustained his part, at the conclusion of the first act, wit:: great power and spirit. But the whole effect is dreadfulle marred by the thin and reedy tones of Hewes: if Curie' i were well enough he should have sustained the part, sad then our satisfaction would have beets complete. A Mons. Ferdinand appeared in the Divertiesement for the first time, and obtained some applause. He is small in person, but elastic in his movements : he is more agile than Albert, but not so quick as Vestris. We honestly confess we are not sufficiently skilled in what the French now call Curographie ' to discuss the excellence of his designs or the perfection of hisfirouetler and we are therefore compelled to drop the subject. The house was crowded in every part, and the boxes were filled with an array of fashion, beauty, and title, which forcibly reminded us of some of the brightest nights at this theatre. We hope they may continue • and that the active and meritorious exertions of Signor B enelli may meet that reward which Englishmen never deny to merit, from whatever quarter it may come. Palmam qai mend! feral. Madame Caradori's benefit is likely to prove an over flow ; and we trust that, during the remainder of *e 'season, Mr. Ilenelli may reap that harvest which bib exertions merit. Mr:Afoul ?Ng CELEIRRATEII ♦CCOU [Continued fro We next proceed t pressioh still eaten tural rights were t rn ; they suffered em no relaxation, utity. 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As Er this visit is sadly us massy petsons, in all nevolmce, lose both bargain, when any the subject of discus calmer reflection mu and our better feeli Irish have shed their turn we make her is and to withhold frolic sdtution in defence t Who can read tht lions practised tots stigmatizing the auto most execrable of all Under the pretence of system of spoliation we and the possessions of e tore of tae Crown, who —to ensure the certain, find a title in the king, committed to prism. Iu one case a whole c " In the year rottr:hen, upon a Col to the county, the jury limes title, the Comm jury to appear before the live of them still refuset goners committed theta tire, six entire counties racy, which (for once, * at one swoop" to the It would certainly perimenta upon the i but certain it is, the it, that the spirit of this excitement. 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