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Dvr.-1 Gotten liesgb-1 firma. ite rittolt - ft•too. • NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-L.4NE. This Evening. N !MIES!) April 41. will be performed THE lIVPOCRITS. Doctor Cantwell. Mr. Dowton ; Maw-worm, Mr. Liston ; Charlotte, Mrs. W. West. After which. MY OR lIMMOTHRR. To conclude with a new Oland EsTptlan Tide of Enchantment, called TORDASTER t or, THL SPIRIT OP THE STAR. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Thies...nine WEDNESDAY, April SI, will be performed PRIDE SHALL HAVE A PALL Count Ventoso, Mr. W. Faire,: Stefano Mr. Egerton ; Lorenzo. Mr. Coowr Gra n d Wt. Jones. Vicioria, Miss Harnmershry. After which a seMelo-Dramatic herptiaa Romance, called THE SPIRITS OP THE MOON; Or, THE INUNDATION OP THE NILE. ROYAL COBURG THEATRE. mM Evening, WEDNESDAY. April 21 land during the Week). the Mein-Drama of Tilt 1 1 111 RD WOMAN OF THE ISLES Or, SCOTLAND'S ANCIENT DAYS. After which, NOTHING LIKE LUCK. To conclude with the lielo-Dranta of THE NORTH POLE. NEW . SURREY THEATRE. This evening, WEDNESD AY, April 21 land during the Week), a new Spectacle. called THE FIRE-WORSHIPPERS; or, THE PARADISE OF THE PERIS. After which, a new Burletta, called PLOTS IN MADRID; or, THE PAINTER'S STUDY. To eonclude with anew Melo-Dttune. called THE FLOATING BEACON; or, THE NORWEGIAN WRECKERS. _ The approbation manifested towards the Perron:lancet of this House was, if poesible, more enthusiastic last night than on the night pre vious. Immediately on the opening of the doors, the Pit and Gal lery were almost Instantly overflowing: and the Boxes, before the Mush of the First Aet, welt well and fashionably filled. From the plea lure excited by "The illrrlstlay," the unceasing applause at tendant en Ora, ar the African Slave," and the roars of laughter occasioned by the Comic Pantonthue, the whole will be repeated *yeti evening during the present week. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. This Eveni, WEDNF. 4 DAY, April el. THE WIRTH-DAY. After which a new grand romantic Melo-Drama, called ORA: or, THE AFRICAN SLAVE. Cato, Mr. 11. Kemple. With the new Comte Pantomime of TfUl EASTER OFFERING ; or, HARLEQUIN'S GOLDEN HARVEST. Three Harlequins, Merits Auld, W. KUM, and Bartlett; three Pan taloon% Mews. Blsnehard, Jonas. and Henderson ; three Clowns. ai s asrs. Harthoid, Kirby sod Waltiourn ; three Columbines, Misses Atleock, Kirby, and M. dieri. Places and Private Boxes to be taken of Mr. Parker, at the BOT4IMCS. Stage Manager. Mr. Vining. Tits Daman Palm commenced piti — tlMMg yesterday morning at a Quarter past Five o'clock. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APIIL 41, 182,1. The Ottoman empire is every day tumbling to its foun dations. The dynasty of Othman, within the Bosphorus, will aoon be no more. That barbarous dominion, still spread over the fairest portion of Eastern Europe, which has existed for more than five centuries, maintaining its rude encampment on the classic soil of Greece, and holding in basest vassalage the city of Constantine, and the sur viving remnant of the Roman empire, is now pressed by the triumphant arms of its Christian subjects, and the threatening forces of the Russian Autocrat, and destruction hovers over the towers of the Seraglio. This Power, which once menaced all Europe with subjugation, when the haughty Bajazet threatened to feed his horse with a bushel of oats from off the altar of St. Peter's; and the Grand Vizier Kuperli, little more than a century since, in 1683, poured his whitening tents around Vienne, which was only rescued by the valour of the chivalrous Sobieski, has long been suffered to exist solely from the rival jealousies of the other European Powers. But a domestic enemy is now pressing its ruin, while an ambitious foe hovers on its frontiers. The fine city of Constantinople was taken by assault, by Mahomet the Second, in 1436, when Constan tine Paleologus fell on its ramparts. His heroic valour, aided by that of the Venetian, Justiniani, long withstood the attacks of the fierce barbarian ; but Byzantium then contained little more than a crowd of enervated and tresabling slaves. The towering walls of the great capital of the East had long bid defiance to the as saults of the infidel.s who thronged around it. Timour, who overran all Asia with his Tartar cavalry, was pre cluded from further conquest in Europe, because the mighty master of the East had not a single boat to float his innumerable " 'forums" of horse across the Bosphorus; and the fierce Bajazet, surnamed from his fury " Ilde rim," or the " Lightning," after vanquishing Boucciault and the proudest chivalry of France before Nicopolis, sunk in his subsequent contest with the victorious Tartar. The Turk still includes within his desolating dominion in Europe the wasted provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia. and the fine and fertile countries of Bulgaria, Servia, Basal*, part of Croatia, and Dalmatia, Romania, Maoc donia, Albania, Thessaly, Livadia, and the Morea, with the Islands of the Archipelago. The latter have been the principal scenes of the revott of the heroic Greeks; and for the last three years the tyranny of the Moslem has been almost unknown in the Mores and throughout the Grecian Isles. The insurrection of the Christians has now ex tended to 'fhesaaly, and the warlike Albanians are in arms against the Porte. The barbarous Turks were or pally a Tartar or Scythian nation, dwelling between the Caspian and the Black seas, and first became kooWn in the seventh century, when Herodius, the unwar like Emperor of the East, took a body of them into his sa vior. The Saracen Caliphs subsequently employed these `wiles, when they became enervated from long success, mail these barbarians at length revolted against the feeble authority of the Bagdad Caliphs, and usurped from their auperior valour the dominion of the East, in 1214. adlyman, Solt of Nera, a town on the Caspian Sea, passed Mount Caucasus, with !..'o,ooo of his armed followers, and tozAde himself master of several countries and cities in Leaser Asia. Ilia victorious grandson Othman, from whom the Turkish dynasty dates its name, assumed, in 1300, at the city of Karahissar, the proud title of Emperor of the Othmans, and premed the Eastern Empire with his arms. Among numerous other conquests, be took, in 13Q8, Press in Bithynia, now called Bursa, which Qrchan, his son and successor, made the seat of his dipire. The two sons of Orchan, Solyman and Anituntb, pushed the conquest of the Turkish arms in Eu rape. The former reduced Gallipoli, and Tyrilos fell to the lstf. Amstrad' succeeded his father Orchan, in 1360. and subdued Ancyra, Adrianople, and Phillopopolis. The body of Janissaries, under the suggestion of one of his • Dervishes, was creqta.m ♦typdiniporprci, ipAerefeers after ; and, with aairreskstibk pettier, littal man *re*. and overran all Macedonia and Albania. The haughty Bajazet was his successor, who defeated the united chivalry of the Christians near Nicopolis, but was him self, in 1401, routed and made captive by the victori ous Tamerlane. The Turkish power, though broken by the Tartar, was, however, far from being subdued, and rallied again on the death of Timour. Bajazet's son, Amurath, again led the Ottomans against the enervated Christians, and in 1444 routed the Hun garian forces, with great slaughter, near Varna. The destruction of the Eastern Empire was completed by Mehemet 11., who, in 14.56, stormed and took Con stantinople. The Turkish empire was subsequently en larged, both in Europe, Asia, and Africa, by Bajazet and Selim and Solyman I. In Asia, this barbarous em pire still includes the fine countries of Syria, Anatolia, Irak, Diarbeck, Kurdistan, Armenia, Roum, and Kara mania. In Africa, the Ottoman holds Egypt, part of Nubia, and Bares ; and the piratical states of Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers, are under Turkish protection. The empire of the Infidel, at least in Europe, will probably be of short duration : it is now pressed by the revolt of the Greeks, and the Russian is hovering in Bessarabia, ready to rush on this falling Power the first opportunity. Had Catherine and the haughty Potemkin lived, Constantinople would have been now a Russian city. The taking and sack of Oczakow in 1788, and of Ismailow in 1790, were only the intended prelude to the final destruc- I tion of this Power. But the French Revolution soon after bun; on Europe. Potemkin died on the road side in the midst of conquest, and the ambitious Catherine expired soon after. Russia subsequently had to contend for existence against the power of France, and the Ottoman Dynasty has existed through the jealousy of the great Powers of Europe. The spoil is too vast not to arouse general envy and dissension ; but the days of the Moslem at length are numbered; Greece must be free, and it is probable that Austria and Russia have already debated join the partition of the Turkish provinces, and will their arms for she conquest. Whenever they do, the empire of the Ottoman in Europe is at an end. The black banner of Mahomet may be raised, and temporary enthusiasm rally the followers of the Prophet around it: the horse tails of the Pachas may stream to the wind, and the sabres and ataghans of the Spahis and Janissaries flash in the sunbeams, but their tumultuous and undisciplined rabble cannot stand against the firm battalions of the Russian and the Austrian ; and the already im mense power of the former will be completed by the possession of Constantinople, and the command of the Black Sea. Russia is only waiting the opportunity, and maturing her strength for the fell swoop ; her eye rests on these provinces without sleeping. Great Britain and France united might protect the Greeks, assure their independence, and prevent this plan of am bition from being consummated. But without such a league Russia will not arrest her march, and we shall soon see her ravenous hordes burst like famished wolves from the Pruth on the provinces of Turkey, and swarm within the walls of Byzantium. That the Irish are, and for centuries have been, an op pressed people, no one who knows anything of their put or present history will think of disputing. The anxious care of our best and wisest statesmen of late has been, to adopt a.conciliating policy—to avoid irritating feelings, already in a too feverish state—and to introduce, by degrees, that sys tem of just and equal government, which tends, in its results, to preserve to the Protestant Establishment a measured and moderate ascendancy, while it restored to the Catholic his proper share of consideration and respect, and repossessed him of those rights to which he was entitled as a British subject, and which he could forfeit only by a breach of his allegiance. The present conjuncture of Okra is favourable to the introduction of a better order of things in Ireland ; it is rendered more favourable still by the known disposition of his Majesty towards this equitable and enlightened course of policy, and by the earnest wish of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to act upon it. Men there are, certainly, of great aristocratic lead, both here and in Ireland, who move in an opposite direction. It is, and it always has been, the aim and effort of this party, under an affected zeal for , the safety of the Protestant Church, to strip the Catholic of the last remnant of his rights; to exclude him from every place of trust, and to cut him off from all appoint- ment under the Constitution, to those offices of profit and influence, which, according to them, should for ever follow in the Protestant line of inheritance. That this descrip tion of persons, inoculated from their cradle with those selfish and narrow principles, which, for ages, have gone down with the family pedigree, from father to son—that they should put forth their seal for religion as their pretext for intolerance, is not wonderful. The condition and authority of these persons, though it aggravates their iqjus tice, serves to account for it. But that any of that class whose peculiar duty it is to conduct us from this world to another, and who should teach us so to worship God as to promote, to the utmost of our means, the harmony and happiness of his creatures—that a minister of religion, banishing from his mind all respect for his sacred station, should lend himself to the views of a party, and revive, from the pul pit, every bitter recollection which can tend to exasperate the Protestant against the Catholic, and to foment those unhappy divisions which every good man would wish to heal,—the guilt of such condueitts deep, and in its conse quences may be deplorable. The preacher whose no-popery harangues have assembled such crowded congregations at St. Peter's, had better never have abandoned his pursuits as a novel-writer, than to prostitute his talents to purposes so dangerous, and seek preferment through a course so un worthy. It is a trick of policy which every man of sense' and integrity must despise, and by which, should be suc ceed, he must surrender all claim to self-respect. A preacher of the Gospel Amulet be the hat to extinguish what. little of candour and good feeling had survived the rage of I party, but so it is—" That which the pahner-worm bath left bath the locust eaten." If this language of the prophet were mysterious, it could find no better expositor than Mr. Maturin. To go back to the darkest period of bigotry, for the purpose of bringing reproach, at this time' of day, on a particular sect, or of attaching discredit to their religious creed, is a dishonest and base expedient. We cannot search the records of past centuries for what any body of men were, and produce it in proof of what they are. Such evidence would be rejected as preposterous, by the lowest Court in Christendom. The proceeding only thews that those who resort to it have nothing left to reason upon. As well might we refer to the Popery Acts of KING WII Luta, as a sample of the reign . of GEORGE THE Forarn. The great object in recurring to these forgotten enormities of " the days of other years," manifestly is, to justify the Orange faction in refusing to accede to the adoption of any measures in the least conciliatory, and to work upon the feelings and prejudices of the more moderate of the Protestant party, by giving an artificial present exigence to crimes and horrors which exist only in history, and thus beguiling' their better judgment through the 'medium of a heated imagination. The author of Bertram is not ill fitted to make these experiments on the character of his country men, nor, so far as they open a road to power, is he un willing to profit by them. It is a perilous temptation to live upon the breath of an Archbishop, especially under a state of things in which there is nothing to be expected but from prostitution and intrigue. We cannot conclude without observing, that both Mr. MA'iuslM and his Mr r aoro Liras; would discharge much better their duty to their country, by striving to put an end to party hatred, than by adding to the oppreeslont which have pre. yoked it. TELLI&ONCE. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury are entertaining Ilsege party of distingui.Mal visitors e s their sea t, jj a •fi e hr, The Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley ertertnir.ed a distinguished parry at dinner yesterday, at Choltuoirdeley House, Piccadilly. The Earl of Arran had a dinner pal yestaday, at his house in Dover-street. in the evening her Ladyship had an elegant circ of fashionables. le The COUUKSS of Essex has issued cards of invitation fur a ball, on Monday next; and grout on the 341 of May. Lady Langford has issued cards or invitatation for two routs; the lOth and 24th May, at her house in Berkeley-square. Sir Abraham !tune, f o rt. has issued cards of invitation for a juvenile ball, opt Thursday, the :Nth inst. at his house, in Hill surer, Berkeley-square. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and family are expected in town on Tuesday next, ircia their seat, /ladrninten, Glouces tershire. Lord and Lady de 4'lifford and family arrived yesterday at their house in Bruton-street, Berkeley.squarc, from their seat, Kings. weston, near Bristol. Lord and Lady Dynevor and family are exported in town to morrow, from their seat, Dynevor Castle, South Wales. Lord Hervey arrived on Monday at his lather's, the Earl of Bristol, in St. James's square, from Brighton. Sir Edmund Hartopp, But. and his daughter, Mrs. Aderley, left Warren's Hotel, Regent-street. yesterday, for Cliftlen. Robert Vyner, Esq. left his house in St. James's-square, yester day, for Pans. Sir George Robinson, Bart. left town yesterday, for his seat, Cranford. Northamptonshire. The Bishop of Oxford and family arrived in town on Monday. The Earl and Countess Craven and family arrived in town on Monday from their seat, Hempstead Lodge, Berks. Lord and Lady F. llentinck arrived yesterday at their house in Charles-street Berkeley.square, from Newmarket. Earl Talbot has removed from Berkeley. square to his new resi dence in Bryanstom square. Lord and Lady Folkestone are on a visit to A. East, Esq. at his seat, Wesley Lodge, Berks. Arrivals at the St. Petersburgb Hotel, Dover-atweet :—Le Baron Kiltllolle and le Baron Wimmer, from Russia ; riga Mr. and Ales. Twiulen and family from their seat in Devonshire. WINDSOR, TUESDAY, APEIL O. This morning, between one and two o'clock, his Majesty took his accustomed ridein the Park. Yesterday, the Duke of Dorset, the French Ambassador, Marquis Graham, Lord and Lady Gwydyr, Lord and Lady Cowper, Lord Stratbaven, and the Russian Ambas sador, had the honour of dining with the King. The band of the 13th regiment attended at the Castle during the evening, and played some delightful pieces for the amusement of the Noble Guests. _ _ After dinner the French Ambassador took leave of the King, and left the Castle for London. Tli;s morning Lord and Lady Gwydyr, Lord and Lady Cowper, the Marquis of Graham, the Duke of I)orset, Lord Strathaven, and the Russian Ambassador, left the Royal Castle. Yesterday evening the Princess Augusta honoured the Italian Opera-house with her presence. Yesterday the Princess Augusta honoured the Vis countess Cremorne with a visit, at her residence, in Stan hope-street. Princess Augusta honoured the Earl and Countess of Arran with a morning visit on Monday. Her Royal High ness remained with them upwards-of two hours. The Duchess of Gloueester sod the Princess Sophia visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. The Doke of Gloucester is attended by Sir Henry Hal ford and Mr. Brand. Yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock, Prince Leopold, attended by Baron Stockmar, left town for Claremont. Yesterday Bit. Canningtransacted business at the Foreign Office. On Saturday the Earl and Countess of Clancarty, their suite and establishment, left the Clarendon Hotel for the noble Earl's mansion in Ireland. The extensive apart ments occupied by the noble Earl and family are preparing for the reception of the Marquis and Maichioness of Lon ' - donderry their family and household, on th e ir arrival in England from Ireland to-morrow. A Musical Festival is to take place in June at Bath, un der the direction of Sir George Smart. It is in agitation to establish triennial meetings in the county of Somerset, to commence with a musical festival at Bath, in the month of June next, for the benefit of the New Hospital. Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, the third battalion of the Ist regiment of Grenadier Guards wu inspected b) , I Colonel Woodford, the commanding officer, in St. James Park, who minutely examined the whole of their accoutre ments, clothes, &c., which appeared in very good condi iion ; and the discipline of the soldiers, who seemed all in perfect health and spirits, gave much satisfaction. The Duke of York will this morning inspect the same bat 'cation on the parade in St. James's Park. We see by the Paris Papers that Mr. Megaton, a young author, who several months ago was arrested for a lioel, and inhumanly marched along the public road, chained to a felon, has at length been released from confinement, on payment of the fins of 4,000 franca, which formed part of his sentence. A private letter from Paris, dated Saturday last, states that several German bankers hate lately arrived in that capital, for the purpose of selling out large sums which they had invested in French Renter. Among others are two eminent capitalists from Frankfort, who have a deep interest in superintending the operations which they feel it necessary to direct for the transfer of their property. This circumstance has, it seems, tended to depress the hopes of the French Minister of Finance in his proposed reduction of the interest, as it is believed that, when known, the con duct of the German holders will have many imitators, and consequently that all the exertions of AI. de Vilisle will fail to produce the desired effect upon the money market. The same letter states that several Parisian capitalists en tertain the project of establishing a National Trading Com pany on nearly the same plan as that of Holland, but that the Government, although very desirous of encouraging such a scheme, withhold their unction for the present, on account of the lasgu capital required, a peat part of which must be procured by the sale of llinded stock, and mast quently tend to impede the views of the Finance Minister. —Evening Paper. A telegraphic despatch from Toulon announces the launch of a new ship, the Formidable, of 120 guns, on the 14th inst. A vessel has arrived at Marseilles front Alexandria, which place alie quitted in the beginning of March. At that time every thing in Egypt was perfectly tranquil, and whatever might be the intentions of the Puha towards the Porte, he had refrained from any overt act of Mde dendence. Gibraltar Papers to the 30th of March have been re oeived. A lettecrilhoss Tangiers, slated March 21, states that Bcn Y'Show, the chief of the province of Garb, has bad an engagement with one of the marauding tribes of his district, in which he has lost3o men. hluley Sheid has given up the siege of Mequinez, and gone to Tafllet, having, it is said, secured in the Atlas mountains a safe place of re treat; while the Governor of the Black Ilonclays, at Me quinez, has sent to the Emperor a considerable remittance from the treasury at that place. One of the ik•rribbcr tribes have also submitted to the Emperor, sending their women as hostages to Fes. THE GREEIIO.—We learn by letters from Missolonghi that the Greeks, on hearing of the preparations at Constan tinople for the invasion of the Mores, immediately des patched European engineers to the north of the Isthmus of Corinth, to form an entrenched camp for the purpose of offering an effectual resistance. Engineers arc also occupied in raisme fortifications on the side of Thebes, and on all the principal mountains. By the same channel we learn, that upon the receipt of information that the Capitan Pacha was about to set sail from Constantinople with a large body of troops for the relief of Patras, the Greeks sent reinforce , mans to the blockading army, with positive instructions to carry the place by assault, in the event of the Turkish Go vernor still refusing to capitulate. Among these reinforce ments are soveral distinguished English, French, and Polish Officers. RANSCATI, Aram 18.—The King of the Netherlands steam packet, from London to Rotterdam, with passengers, put into this harbour yesterday morning at low water, on account of foul weather, and proceeded on her voyage early this morning. Some gentlemen have it in contemplation to establish a Steam Packet, to run from London to Sheerness, Southend, and Whitstable. To leave London one day and return the next.—Kent and Essex Mercury. 10REIGN pif l utetirr. Whiff - PA PERS. ABATEMENT OF PAUPERISM IN TILE CITY OP LONDON. 'Telleaswaraduerl:P:NlDe:ted of the Yesterday a numerous Meeting of the : C iau h le u . Yesterday we received a file of Clew Journals . The potations from the several parishes of the City of London, m et at Ash lan Miserrt r contains carn tio T w een t e p Arep iih o , ils. f t m athic t d h .: e luiti p ti,, u ica, rpo# :i i rt or ihse:.Hhie. recbitpictydinurth,othatetkßheVut i i:: , r e t con . French elections : " VIENNA. APRIL 7. IN THE C At* the petition of the several them without any adequa te a i m . The Ananias Observer of this date has the following article, which it mates to have been " sent for insertion t"— the heavy burdens impatod upon A Parisian correspondent of the Aggemeter Z.Sisaser (No. lid, of tage , the demand for further aid on account of the London W . k March 24th) endeavours to explain the brilliant rt suit of the late', house might be ado ed- nr ' cease, or Mlllelleee pt to reader the moire elections for the Chamber of Deputies, by the boldness with which . ou . the Ministry disregarded the political consciences of these elates more efficient mid beneficial to the pibhe—that a I 'ontnifttee I P i r the lamination was ',pointed to investigave die subject, en s who at the same tune held offices under Government, and to whom , reported so had been stated previously on the subject, i n arate d amm no alternative was left but either to declare in favour of the Royalist ~ I with the views of the extensive population of the city of . candidates, or to lose their places. ll'hile an Ali i - --a at" that I That the Sub-tammittoe from the conviction that the man should act otherwise, and really allow the ten der political con. i f the London Workhouse, and the pu rpos es to which it had hem science of a servant of the King, to decide in favour of Messrs. I a . __, ~ • the I Manuel, La Fayette, and Co. must be accused, to speak in . appr7noteo tor • great lonr m t io f s t ime, had not bent such staves • wen ed by the Act of the use, under which it mwarigi. gentlest terms, of a treasonable negligence ; this Correspondent of ra .. ii and ions in law s d id the All i rso-in- Zeilidsg endeavoure to represent this cooduet of the ' othe rs rcum constituted, stances, • that, from call had been alterat accustomed to she be made on the Minicry as 'skilfully executed manteuvre of the predominant , i parishes for pccuniasy support to an useless arid unneco. ex cor- ruptionfoolish and even to put into the mouth of a French Minister the • tent . the committee therefore ...redo f the foolish words—" When the business is but accomplished, suet sr I '. 1 reduce the expe nses of the setabLilanont ; that after defraying nrxtrnntetMat makes everything forgotten." I to resen outmoding Minis by one further rate only, sad .h a We should have paid no attention to these expressions of a single ! amounting to no more than one half of the usual rate or discontented straggler in the train of the Revolution, were it s w ot . menu on the parishes, a plan be carried into execution f or • worth while, on this occasion, to call to mind that, with the other political disorders in Euope, the difference has ce ased which had , the workhouse useful by means of itsown f independent uni i i, without any further claim upon the parishes ; that upon this'll., crept in betreen the service of the State and that of the Sovereign, , ce•ful result. to be justly attributed to the interference and exa m , by which it was allowed to serve the King with the hand, and st sion of the gamma voice of the parishes , the dub.( °Junin.* - the sane time the King's bitterest enemies with heart and lips ; and , eel it unnecessary to make any further comment than ston i ly t h at , / that, presidesthe religions conscience, there is henceforth no distinct congratulation, although, in resigning their trust, they cou l d a , tender political conscience, the freedom of which governments have • but tier the expediency of a steady 00-operasion amongst th e pa . to respect in their SCITJUNA. Even the British Ministers them- . Ashes to any future plan for rendering the workhouse us ef u l to the y selves, however free they ma be in the exercise of their functions, community, and improving the systems adopted with tepid to the must male innumerable sacrifices and concessions of their private poor, da. Ss. opiniotis before they enter oo their office; how, then, should an , A Alember of the deputation observed, that the Instit ut i on of unconditional liberty of political opinion be admissible in the ! the London workhouse could be adapted to admirable uses and monarchically constituted States of she Continent ? I supported by its own independent funds. He was conviomi du e In times when moral and honourable sentiments predominate • • eery extensive contributions Would be voluntarily made if it awe man who had taken an oath to Mve his master, would think it an to its original imentiou upon more comprehensive i. insult to his honour if a second were required of him, by which he appli ed es. The parishes were indelus to their chairman fee an on. should bind himself to serve, ise to pay any imaginary beings wearied e ff ort to effect this object. It had occurred to him that a whether it were called state, saws pahlkw, or public opinion, rather mineral d permanent good could not be accomplished without et. than his master. But we were so dishonoured and deluded by the .. termngth e advantages of a plan for the relief of the poo r s o i n . equivocation of the revolutionary doctrinist, that the dignity of the dividuals who had no resource whatever, either if cha rt erer, 01 public servant appeared precisely to consist in that , de detain& money, or friends. It was Mr. Bathe object to have a refuge for No reproach can be made to the French Ministry except that persons who had no work; for those who were released front . did not by a Rcyal Ordonrance at once proclaim, as of general are where they were confined fur offences of no magnitude, and ale )picadors, the important principle on which it partially acted in t 1 I might be brought back to a seised duty and of shame. (Applause.) elections that have just terminated. I In acting with the view of doing away an unnecessary expose, AUSTRIAN FUNDS, Aram 5--Metldliques 97 7- 16 ; Bank those who thus employed these Gee were likely abe the boulders Shares 1051 0-10. of a plan of the greatest public utility. At the present moment, it - -- -------- - would not be prudent to state the merits of that plan, but the tithe would soon arrive when it would be submitted to the consideration of the citizens of London. The object of getting rid of the expense attending the London workhouse had been completely accomplish. ed, and It was togillr. Hick the universal thanks of the City were , due. (Loud applause.) . The power over the Institution was now in the hands of a Committee of the Corporation, the Governors bay. tog resigned their trust for the geneses good. Mr. finesnEst moved that the Report should be received, and highly complimented the effbrts of those who had exerted them. selves on an occasion SO highly beneficial to the public and to the poor. Mr. Eeelorte seconded the motion, and expressed a firm hope that an asylum would spring out of their exertions. humanity had long celled for as institution of the description alluded to. The CHAIRMAN said, that the plan alluded to lay upon the Committee of the Corporation, and would be submitted to the pub ., lie when It was properly matured. Measures, he doubted not, would be proposed, which would probably meet the views of all parties. Not one parish should be at the least expense. The house stood now at the rate of 1201. a year, besides taxes. The in come was 2001. a year, so that a new plan could be adopted and acted upon, without the slightest demand upon the pockets of the parishioners. A Member of the Deputation stated, that fifty-seven out of the me hundred and live parishes had subscribed IL each, to defray any expense that might arise from the effort to get rid d the iii. Seventeen pounds, two shillings, and nine-pen, esly had t it n . expended : the ba lance nine - pence , remaiaieg in band was of come nearly forty pounds. Mr. BLEADEN said, the Meeting could set apply the balance to a better purpose than that of purchasing a piece of plate, to be presented to Mr. Hick, in temisuony of the gratitude of the several parishes, for his exertions on the ocmsioo. ( Loud applause.) A conversation took place upon the propriety of increasing the amount of this piece of plate to 1001.; and the meeting seemed to be unanimous upon the subject, when The CHAIRMAN interfered, and declared that be would not have taken the chair if he had supposed it possible that any proposition of this kind bad been contemplated. He had merely done his duty. There was one thing of which he could not lose sighs. Out of 103 parishes no more than 57 had come forward to subscribe the IL in defence of their own rights ; and he could not think of allowing those persons who were backward as to their own interests to sub. scribe for any other purpose. The proposition of Mr. Blandon was then put into Am, and unanimously agreed to. Mr. Bice, in returning thanks, impressed upon the filming the nesseesky of paying their poor on a stated day and hour, by which plan he expected the numerous impositions practised by their weekly applicants would be in a great measure frustrated. As it was at present, the poor were enabled to ',pear in different pavishos in time to receive money to which they were not entitled. It was their practice to apply in different names. Some time ago a fellow Howard, who had been in his (the Chairman's) parish, told him he would go and get a better parish. He went away, and in ac;= fixed himself St. Georges, Hanmensquare, which kept the man, while his wife was maintained in OM City. A fellow named Paterkin, who was a notorioas imposer, was convicted the imposture, had constantly meereed the sum of a guinea per week from parishes. Such parttime would certainly be much diminished, by obliging the poor to be present at a stated hour. The truth of excuses for obsesse would be easily ascertain. able. Ile believed that every man who undertook the office of churchwarden determined to do what be could for the poor; but the moment he began his duties, he was so overwhelmed with cases if imposition, that he became insensible to the applications of the molly distressed. The most cruel difficulties were then to be con- Seeded against. Bert the Chairman mentioned, amongst others, lbe case of a poor woman, whose husband was transported; one mu h would not have herself, and the parish that would have her d'( would not have her child. In this emergency she walked the Meets, bat being in a starving condition, she applied to him (the Chairman), and asked him whether she might get to Neergate. under the ears of Airs. Fry, by stealing a little something. One of the posies evils of the present system was, the bargain made between tbe t= Mficen and many of the paupers, that as soon Mt a pauper les an inmate, he is allowed Is. or 2s. a week. with liberty to go out and return to sleep in the house. From lab 10 30110 beggars were thus thrown upon the streets. The thanks of the Meeting were then voted to the ffatte-Com. • emitter, and to Mr. Attwood, the Honorary Secretary, to whom it WAS resolved the paper expressing their thanks should be inclosed in a gold box. The Meeting then separated. VAUXHALL GARDENS. Notwithstanding the large sums of money expended by the present proprietors of these gardens, preparatory to their opening for the last season, workmen have been busily employed during the winter in preparing new fasci nations for the frequenters of this popular place of amuse ment. A new painting by Thome, representing in the centre the Cave of Fingal, 84 feet by 2.5, is nearly com pleted; which is to be put up where the representation of Mount Vesuvius was placed last year. Two new galleries are erected for the better accommodation of the company ; one of which is opposite the theatre, and the other opposite the fire tower. The orchestra has been entirely repainted. The colours are red and white, relieved by very well ex ecuted gilding. A new sounding-board, in the fora) of a shell, has been placed over that part of the orchestra where the vocal performers stand when they are singing, We understand, should the weather permit, that it is the in tention of the proprietors to open the gardens about the middle of May. We had ahnost forgotten to entice a great improvement that has been effected in the Pavilion. The partition that separated the rooms in that building has been removed ; a new staircase has been erected, and a new gallery or supper-room hat been added at that end of it, towards the Kennington-lane gate. ON TIIR ORIGIN OF TRET. Tt is well known amongst merchants and wholesale deal. ers, who buy their imported articles by weight, that, by the custom of London, there is a deduction rustle in the weight of some of them, under the same of tret, of 41b. in every lotlb. of the commodity, after the allowance• for the weight of the package, called tare ; that for the deteriora tion of the commodity lying next the package, called elof ; and that for the turn of the scale in re-seWag it in smaller moods, called draught, have been respectively taken a& The nature and origin of this deduction, called tret, has either not been considered by authors, a has been =- founded by unwary writers on arithmetic, mostly school. masters by profession and unverawl an real blaiolll4l4 with ' tare, cloff, and draught. In a weft which Waif fell into my hands, containing, amongst ether dsisrge, a yeas deal of curious Information on the subject of the wetgb and measures of Eaglmid ; namely, Gray's Eleaseats °friar ' marl, I find the author has coatitiered this subject of net. He gives an historical account of the various kinds of weights which have been added to. our own original aveir. dupois, either by the political pre-eminence of foreigt ers, as the Tower or Saxon, and the Troy or Norman weights ; er the influence of commerce, as the foil or Venetian went: all of which are in actual use at present; although twa of them, the Tower and the foil, are not mentioned in modem works on arithmetic, which also omit the smaller divisions of the avoirdupois. The origin of tret he assigns to the difference between the Tower and the avoirdupois weight; and says, with much show of truth, that when this decrement was first allowed, it is probable that the Tower a Saxon weight, of 13 ores to the pound, was used at the custom-het:se ; and as 1041 b. of that weight are equal to 1001 b. avoirdupois, of 16 ounces to the pound, the merchants were in the habit of thus reducing the weight as taken at the King's beam used by the revenue officers, into the avoirdupois or commtreial weight, without the trouble of weighing the articles over again—an operation for which, it is probable, many were not provided with the necessary tackle. Since the disuse of the Tower weight, the same reduction has been conti nued by habit, and confounded the eloff and draught.— .ifeckanic'r Weekly • 1710 nu/. - It appears from a work just published on the cotton works in the west of Scotland, that in two of the prin cipal establishments, Saw Lanark and Catrine, the num ber of illegitimate children is as nearly eqnal as possible. The amount in both, from a comparison of three year.. does n-t amount iu the year to one in a hundred of the females liable to such a misfortunc.—Scotsman. BARRY, THE GREAT ACTOR. We extract from the interesting Memoirs of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, the following anecdotes of this great actor, once so celebrated, who to the finest figure and most interesting countenance,united the magic of that fascinating voice which obtained for him the name of "the silver-toned Barry." In parts of tenderness and pathos—in such cha racters as Jailer, Mark Antony, or Varanes, he was un rivalled. The same qualities followed Barry into private life ; he was destitute of principle, but gifted with great powers of fascination. In his day he was more known on the Dublin than the London stage; but be played here for some time with greareeffect, and is still re membered:— Towards the close of the year J5B, and the beginning of 1759, Barry, after Mr. Sheridan's d hit upon the follow ing expedient to oppose the benefits of the other house in Dublin. The same night on which there was to be the benefit of a pertOrmer at the opposite house, Benv used to apply to some female leader of the ton, and request her to bespeak a play, making an bow* foe all parts of the house, but more particularly with ha tradesmen, for the pit and gallery. In these nqiocisuons his tine penes sad insinuating manners generally rendered bin successful. Oo one of these occasions, the great lady of the night had, as was usual, sent out pit and gallery tickets to all her tredespeopl•:, ' with threatening, of the loss of her custom if they did not dis pose of them ea arriving MAY in the box-reosn to receive her company, great was her mortification to be informed that her orders bad bees vary ill obeyed, and that it was likely to prove but a thin house. The time approached for the thawing up of the curtain, and at the sight of a thin pit and gallery the lady was so much affected that she was ready to faint. Smelling-bottles and other restoratives were applied, and as soon as her ladyship reco vered the power of speech, she cried out " that she was ruined and undone; that she should never be able to look dear Mr. Barry in the face again, after such a shocking disappointment." At these repeated lamentations, the box-keeper advanced, and said—" I beg your Ladyship will not be so disheartened; indeed, your ladyship's house will mend, your Lstlyship's galleries will certainly mend before the play begins." " Nonsense !" cried the lady, " I tell you I am undone— ruined and undone, that's all ! But I'll be revenged ! I am re solved I'll pay off —no; I mean I'll turn oral my saucy tradesmen to-morrow morning." Barry was then in his prime, being scarcely turned of forty. As a contrast to the preceding anecdote. view him as be was seen in hoodoo by Mrs. 11. Lefanu, in 1775, broken down by infirmity more than by years, for repeated and severe attacks of rheumatism had deprjved his once tine and lofty figure of all its elasticity and grace. A chair, placed at the aide-scene, was in readiness to re ceive the exhausted actor the moment he went off the stage, and the part he happened to perfoem that night was in unison with the ruin time had effected, for it was that or Lrar. In the last scene of the fifth act, after smitching a sword from the officer, and striking down the two ruffians who had attempted to seize upon Conklin, the Slag says to one of his knights, who is relating the deed to Edgar— " Did I not, fellow ? I've seen the day, with my good biting falchion, I could here male them skip; lam old now, And these vile creases spoil me; out of breath, Fie, oh ! quite out of breath, and spent !" As the aged and infirm actor uttered the words "Jam old wow," some one among the spectators, equally devoid of good taste and good feeling, began a laugh, hi which he was joined by the un thinking part of the audience. Mr. Sheriaan was present with his daughter in the boxes, and could not refrain from an almost audible expression of generous indignation. DE•TU OF A WELSH 11ARD.— , 011 Sunday last, after! a short illness, Edward Jones, Bard to the Prince of Wales, breathed. his last, aged tt Mr. Janes was a na tive of Merionethshire, in North Wales. He published, about 30 years ago, a work entitled, Relics of the Rards,! which contains much valuable historical information ; also a collection of Welsh Airs, arranged for the harp, an instrument which Mr. Jones performed on after the manner of his forefathers, that is, he played the treble with his left hand, and the bee with the right. Mr. Jonas possessed a library of rare books, both MSS. and printed, many of which he has disposed of. Ile was • member of the Royal Society of Musicians, the Governors of which, on hearing that he was totally unable to fielow Lis profeesional pursuits, granted him an annuity of fifty pounds per annum ; but he only lived to enjoy the first payment of the Institution's bounty. New JAVFNTION.—IVe have seen Mr. Linnie's new invention. It is a curious piece of mechanism, com prising a complete fowling-piece; barrel 33 inches long, detonating lock, butt with proper angle, ramrod, &c. &c. a complete fishing-rod about 12 feet long, dog-call, looking-glass, and snuff-box with pen, in the small corn pass of an ordinary sized walking-stick, weighing about 3ilbs. When used as a fowling-rece, it contains a flask with powder and shot sufficient for 12 or 14 charges, and can be used as a walking-stick or fishing-rod, loaded and primed, with the greatest safety. Its portability is such that it can be transformed and re-transformed to all its purpeees, including loading, priming, and firing, in the eht. 4 space of three minutes. Mr. Linnie is a native of, Kirkwall, in Orkney, and is now on his way to Edinburgh and London, for the purpose of laying his invention be sore the Society for the Encouragement of Arts.—/neer nese Courier. L I 1 !~`. °~ I ~fF 4 ,