The Sun. — London, England, 1821-07-26 00:00:00

anxious to correct abuses in office, and to prevent corruption in the Boroughs of which they are the Patrons, as well as to obtain a rational Reform in Parliament, they were using every exertion in their power to perpetuate and increase the in fluence of the OLIGARCHY of the country, whose sole object is at all times to obtain possession of the Executive Government, that they may more effectually controul the Monarch and the People. We are induced to throw out these hints at the Present moment, though we do not credit the rumours to which we have alluded, and we think it equally improbable that the recent extension of the Knights of the Order of the Thistle was determined upon without the knowledge of the distinguished and disinterested individual at the head of his MAJESTY'S Government. We received this morning the Paris Journals of Monday, and we have the satisfaction of in forming our Readers that the town of Smyrna has not been burnt, as was reported in some of the. Morning Papers. The greatest disorders, however, prevail there, and such was the terror excited by the insubordination of the Janissaries, Ivho have massacred several of their Chiefs, that all the Franks who were in the town have now taken refuge on board the ships in the harbour. We extract the following statement from the Moniteur " The Gabarre La Nantaise, commanded by Couhitte, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, - left Smyrna on the 17th of June, and arrived at Toulon the 17th of July. At Milo, on her pas sage home, she was informed that a corvette, a schooner, and another vessel, had sailed by that island, proceeding to Smyrna, to reinforce the trench squadron there, which was to be joined b3' several more vessels before the end of last month. " When the Naidaise quitted Smyrna, the Dacha had in vain endeavoured to maintain his authority : the populace commanded ; they mas sacred the Greeks, and the utmost dread was en tertained that the news of the loss of the Turkish li ne-of -battle ship, burnt by the Greeks on the 7 th or Bth of Juno, near the Island of Mitylene, and the crew of which had been put to death, Would still further exasperate the populace; and lead to the commission of greater excesses. " It also appears, that the quarter inhabited by the Franks, would have been burnt in the be ginning of June if it had not been for the firm ness. of M. Da v id, th e F renc h C onsul-General, rd Captain Kerg r i s t, th e comman d er of the conch squadron. 4 1 , - . 0n th e i r sid e tile chiefs of th e G ree k fl ee t, e- 1 Y fitted out, at Hydra, Ipsera, an d Sp ec i a , an 4 ,, ve manifested the intention o f go i ng t o S myrna , ,", makin g th emse l ves masters o f t h e town. t - The Franks, f ear f u l th ey s h ou ld b e place d be twteen two fires, have abandoned thi s t own , an d c a ,hen ref uge on board the ships of war and mer chant vess e l s i n th e roa d stea d , at the risk of suf fering all the inconveniences and misery conse (tient on th e want of provisions and the means o f tr an s port to oth er places. cc tbi Lvstep, and the C onsu l s h ave b een o bli ge d to take a s st e , and th e f o ll ow i ng i s an extract from jP t ain Ker gr i s t' s repor t, d ate d t h e 17th of on e The massacre of the Greeks continues; hut u a pto th e p resen t moment t h e F rench are es I Pected at Smyrna, and all ou r coun t rymen the safe, thanks t o th e goo d or d er preserved by aa e , officers o f th e squa d ron i n t h e i r armed boats, sio t 4 tG the g enerous co - operat i on o f the Engli,,h m e • I al) Melina, Captai n H oc ki ngs , w h o ass i sted c o i n all th ese per il ous c i rcumstances. The tisuls of every nation are on boa r d s hip s i n the „ ri harb our and under my protection.' aptain Delueil, c omman di ng t h e F rench Ajorette L' Arrzeg-e, cruizing on th e coas t s o f t h e t}i e a and th e Isle of Candia, has recently had thei,atisfaction of receiving on board his ship ta le b„ csr eign Consuls from Patras, at the time of C , Lir o rt, on l o ng of that town. ', 4 4d ir : the 18th June Captain Couhitte, corn ;",otit-"g the Arantaise, met at Ipsera and Chio n 'lie s for ty Greek vessels laden with fa -41 had fled from Ivalia, which 1 - , 4 ,tat „*",' had just burnt; and this Officer ''e of "` that a boat dispatched from the 4) ad 43 as sa , . s so had brought word that the Turks tk 'Ube ', s triat e d all the Greek sailors at Rhodes." N l ,:e Tistrian Observer contains accounts of "feat of YPSILANTI and the Greeks in avi l I nate r i ap ` and Walachia, but they do not differ Pahli s a from the accounts we have already tat e '" derived from other sources. A pri m ett e , .e /fen_ Says, that the courage with which ene s a . still, fought the Ottoman troops, forms -Ain g !Nuts contrast to the cowardice of the rst 4. and Walachians, who fled at the 10 40 1 , 1° ' and dispersed. The Sacred Legion th with 4 ,ey a bravery worthy a better fate; . 4 nner e d i s is a great loss, but it is not true stat ed completely destroyed. YPSILANTI %l a, ,still to maintain the position of Ko ti hi s ythich lie retired with the remnant 4t 'v s forces. Nothing positive was known th e 'lu b l on the 12th inst. respecting the march 4 '14 Russian troops towards the frontiers of (4 gt? ofand a ship which arrived at Trieste on st the month, confirms the report of the th r tiction of a Turkish line of battle ship by e T C4 I r et'ks near Mitylr-n iNt leVa_drid Journals:Of the 19 announce N th `n KIN G set out the day before for the 4 t)h a e f Sacedon. The Spanish Provinces are i t ll iv v t i l ;_ntl.,v quiet, and MERIN O has been so ac _ Pursued, that with difficulty he succeeded 14);'!caping and embarking a .4ts ca Y, on board a small at the port of Ilea, vessel which sailed immediately for France. lie is daily expected at Bayonne. Spanish Papers, up to the 15th, have been received at Paris ; but they do nut contain any news of importance. Intelligence from Constantinople, up to the 2-4th of June, has been this day received, which paints the state of affairs i❑ the Ottoman capital in the most gloomy colours. The destruction of the. Turkish fleet by the Greeks had still fur ther exasperated the Sultan and the people; the houses of the Greeks were given up to pillage, and the Jews acted as spies and guides.; and the women and children were assassinated or made slaves. The Greeks, natives of the Morea, were the first delivered over to the fury of the popu lace; they were all massacred, with the excep tion of about 300, who were sold for between 20 and 25, piastres on condition that the purchasers should transport them into Asia. The Alba n►ans had so enraged the people, that several rich Turks went to the slave-market, and each pur chased a Greek for 25 piastres, that they might have the pleasure of killing them. One hundred and fifty Greek virgins, whose parents had been previously assassinated, and who were sprung from the first Greek families (among them were two Princesses MoRUSI and one Princess MAuno- JENE, niece of the Ottoman Charge d'Affaires at Vienna, who has just been recalled,) were aban doned to the, brutality and lust of the Turks in the open bazar, and the greater number fell vic tims to this atrocious treatment. Ildron STno- GONOFF is said to be a close prisoner at Bayukdere, and not allowed to send or receive any letters. He succeeded in embarking his fa mily for Odessa, but they were insulted by the populace as they were embarking, and several guns were fired at the ship. A few Greek families have also effected their escape. Spanish Papers to the 13th July arrived this morning, which contain the following Bence " CADIZ, JULY 4.—Letters have been received from Lima to the 12th of February, and all con firm the statement of the inexpressible enthusiasm which animates the people and the army since the valiant Luserna assumed the command. They do not mention the defeat of the rebels spoken of in the letters from Corunna and Gibraltar. We have received among other accounts from America, intelligence from Mexico of the 15th of March, with a proclamation of the Vice Roy of the 14th of the same month, to the faithful in habitants of that city, on the discomfiture of the project of Iturbide, who is stated to have placed himself under the protection of the insurgent Guerrero. " MEXICO, MARCH 21.—The traitor Iturbide had scarcely heard that the vanguard of the loyal Spaniards under the command of Colopel Marquez Donallo had entered Cuernavaca, when he raised his camp at Iquala and marched to join the factious Guerrero, who is in the Sierra, and to whose custody he committed his plunder. The desertion continues and is considerable. Yesterday 300 men of the regiments of Mercia Tres-Villas and Celaya entered this city, having left that Rebel, an evident proof of the disquiet with which they follow him, in spite of the good pay and allurement of promotion.—We do not know whether the Prueba and Veuganza frigates' which arrived at Acapulco mad themselves masters of the Castle. The Corps of troops which we have in the neighbourhood is not less than 9 or 10,000 men, ready to proceed any where they may be necessary. We have just learned that our vanguard has entered Aguala. " Powro BELLO, APRIL 25.—We have news from Lima in fifty days, by way of Guayaquil, which are not bad. It seems that San Martin had retrograded from his positions and sought to avoid any formal attack or general battle. He however had lost 400 men in one action. His army suffers from the vermin (bicho) and scurvy; he is in want of resources, and especially of money, and all the assistance which Torretagle de Valles I has been able to send him is 100,000 piastres. The Sub-Inspector of Lima has been displaced as well as Pezuela. " MADRID, JULY 12.—Our Papers contain very long extracts from accounts from Vera Cruz, from the 26th of March to the 23d of April. The general result of the statement is, that the insurrection continues to make consi derable progress. The following are some of the principal particulars, under their respective dates : " MArtcH 28.—Letters have been received to day from Jalapa, of the 26th, announcing that 68 Dragoons, Lieutenants and Ensigns, and eight or 10 Serjeants, who had hitherto remained faith ful, had joined the rebels; that Atlexco, Izucar, and other Places of the Intendeveia of Puebla, had declared for independence; that Linan had retired to Mexico after a conference with Iturbide, and some add, after an action, in which the former lost 600 men. " Arai r.l.—Lautu Aua, or Orizaba, capitulated on the 23d, and it was thought that Orizaba had surrendered to Herrera, who had 400 foot, and 600 horse. " APRIL 3.—Cordoba surrendered to the Inde )endents, on the Ist. The whole province of 'uebla, except the capital, has joined them." The French telegraphic account of the de struction of Smyrna by the Turks, and the other atrocities perpetrated by them, have increas ed the universal feeling of abhorrence and indig nation against those barbarians, to a degree of intensity which is almost intolerable. It is impos sible, in reading the details of their bloody proceedings, not to feel that impatience which arises from strong and painful sympathy with the suffering Christians subjected to their bru tality and violence, .and from the ardent de sire to protect the oppressed, and to hurl ven geance upon the heads of the barbarian op pressors, which not even the consciousness of in dividual weakness can restrain, without an effort almost agonizing. If the Greeks, who are doom ed to the actual endurance of so many wrongs and calamities, are stung with but an equal sense of abhorrence and resentment to that which is agitating the rest of Europe in their behalf, it will require gigantic power indeed to extinguish the spirit of resistance, and to paralyze the efforts for emancipation which have so mobly burst forth in their desolated and unhappy country. A feeling is aroused in England, and a spirit is awaken ing, which cannot fail to be highly bene ficial to their cause, if they are but true to themselves, until the influence of public opinion in England shall have had time to develop itself in action. That opinion, in the mean time, should be manifested in every possible way,—by the press—by public imetings—by petitions to the Legislature when it re-assembles—by ad dresses to the Executive Government—and, we would fain hope, and we humbly suggest, by the contribution of pecuniary aid from the British nation, raised by voluntary subscription. Let us, at this period of urgent demand upon our best feelings, sympathies, and principles, as men, as Britons, and as Christians, for a moment forget our domestic dissensions, and lose our petty party animosities, with which we have too long disgraced ourselves, in one combined and gene rous effort worthy of our real character and great ness. In addition to every consideration of what is due to the cause of outraged humanity, what advantages even may we not expect to derive from the gratitude of the Greeks, from their de votion to their best benefactors, when they shall see the English press advocating their emancipa tion from the despotic dominion of a power, whose perfidy and "ferocity are a disgrace to hu man nature, and when they shall see the British nation steppinr , nobly forw ar d t o a id th em i n t h e mighty effort of throwing off the iron yoke to which they have so long been subjected. Nor must it be supposed, notwithstanding the debase ment of the national character which the baleful influence of their tyrants has effected, that the Greeks are so fatally demoralized, or that their intellectual energies are so totally subdued, as to have rendered them incapable of feeling the great moral influence which the friendly aid of the British nation would exert, or of entering upon a course of glory and improvement worthy of their country and their name. Mr. ETON, who resided a long time in Turkey as a Consul, who was concerned besides in mercantile affairs, who thoroughly understood the language, who as a traveller had visited most parts of the Em pire, and who possessed the best opportunities of observation, as well as of public and pri vate information, says of the Greeks, in his " Survey of the Turkish Empire, 3d edition, 1801," that cc it is rather astonishing that they have retained so much energy of charac ter, and are not more abased ; for like noble coursers they champ the bit, 'and spurn indig nantly the yoke."—" When we view the Greeks in their more comprehensive character as a na tion, their superiority over the Turks in know ledge is surprisingly great ; they possess a great degree of genius and invention, and are of so lively an imagination, that they cannot tell the same story twice without varying the embellish ments of circumstance and (fiction. ** * No people are such natural orators. * * * All have an activity and sprightliness which strongly con trasts with the stupid and pompous gravity of the Turks. An European feels himself as it were at home with them, and amongst creatures of his own species. * * * The more intimately he knows the Greeks, the more similar does he find them in habits and manners to other Euro peans. * * * In general they are an agreeable and a serviceable people, but they are much given to levity, are immoderately ambitious, and fond of honourable distinctions ; but this very ambition, now a weakness, when they have nobler objects to pursue, will lead them to greatness. * * * They bear the Turkish yoke with greater impatience than other Christians. * * * Their ancient em pire is fresh in their memory ; it is the subject of their popular songs, and they speak of it in common conversation as of a recent event."— What should render the English press the more active in behalf of this interesting people, is the injurious influence produced by the censorship in France, and by the distortion of every fact relating to the actual condition and progress of the Greeks, in the various media through which the different accounts respecting them have to pass. It is very natural, or at least it may be very politic, in the present financial circumstances lof France, that every effort should be made by 1 that Gover nmen t, th roug h t h e me di um o f a restricted pr e ss, t o i n d uce t h e wor ld to dis credit the actu a l s t a t e o f t h e . re l at i ons be tween Russia and the Porte, and the pro bability of hostilities between them. If the press in France were free, and not under the controul of the P u bli c Censor ) o f w hi c h Iwe have had recent evidence in the case of " The Constitutional," which was not allowed to publish the private intelligence it had received from Turkey, there can be little doubt that it would be powerfully excited in favour of the Greeks. The conduct of the French Govern ment has been altogether• with a view to the new loan, which they are obliged to negociate, and which compels them to resort to every arti fice to keep up the present price of the French Funds. For this purpose, every effort has been made to disguise the actual state of Europe, in order that they may with the greater facility in duce the credulous people of the Barrisu ME- TROPOLIS tO venture on this SECOND FRENCH - - LOAN, which, it is now understood, can wily be raised in London. In alluding to this circum- stance, it is far from being our wish to depress that fair spirit of enterprise which the monied interest have shewn in their engagements with foreign Powers ; but oar object, next to accounting for the present policy of France re specting the Greeks, is to prevent INDIVIDUAL and LIMITED speculations in . the FOREIGN funds, which we know have entailed on many persons in private life residing in this country great diffi culties and severe loss. The great commercial louses may indulge in these foreign affections till hey become weary of them ; but the mass of he people of the UNITED- KINGDOM should pre fer the securities of the British Funds, or of ;heir own reciprocal conveniences. Th e decrease of private confidence, and of loans to private in dividuals, is a national evil, the magnitude and injurious consequences of which cannot well be estimated. Thejare felt and acknowledged every where. The redundant capital of the country should be employed AT HOME, or in drawing forth the rich capabilities of our invaluable colonies. We possess an unemployed capital, which, if put - in activity, would create .employment in all branches of trade, stimulate industry in every class, and give energy, spirit, and feeling, -to the increasing population of the country, which, on the other hand, by the withdrawing of the capi tal, or, by its inactivity, must 'be depressed. It is surely unnecessary to enlarge upon this point. Every honest national mind must feel it. For the future the common cry ought to be " Doman, duke domuin .1" The Cortes of Portugal have again increased the IMPORT duties on British goods to 30/. pet cent., notwithstanding all our sacrifices in their favour; and as Mr. MARRYATT has justly ob served, so have all the Members of the Holy Alliance !—What say our theoretical advocates of a free trade, to such facts as these ATERCAM'ILE SHIPPING. DEAL, Jr 25.-Vind S. w.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Hannah, Webber, from Quebec ; and Sisters, Bishop,, from TenerifFe. Arrived and remains the Venus, Curtis, from Bremen for Baltimore. Sailed the Rapid, Storickcr, for Am sterdam. Came down from the River and remains the Venus, Candler, for New Yolk. JuL;23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Job.. son, Evans, lam Annapolis Royal, in 35 days. Sailed th, Alcona, Lloyd, for Londonderry ; and Shamrock, Holmes, fo; London. CARDIGAN, JULY 24.—The Natitilus, Dodds, from Mira. arrived yesterday ; grounded on the Bar, but expected to float ofF to-morrow. VA It MO IT T 11, JULY 23.—The Rochdale, from Hull for London, carried away her topmast in a storm, in the Cockle, yesterday. E Y otr TIT, r. - ir 25.—Wind S. W. blowing very b ard.— About 20 sail of vessels are lying in Portland Roads, bound to the Westward. COWE s, Ju LA - 25.—Passed through the Roads for Holyhead yesterday the Prince Regent yacht, Capt. Sir Michaol Seymour. Pon T S3lO U T n, J u 1. Y 25.—Wind S. W.—Sailed the L'Aigle, Sharp, for London ; Indus, Wright, for Antwerp; and Hussa ren, Gibson, for St. Petersburgh. Came into Harbour the Albury and Importer transports to dischaige troops. Haim C IT, .Ir,n 25.—Arrived the Lord Duncan packet, with a mail, from Cuxhaven. Sailed the Lady Nepean packet for ditto, and Lord Nelson packet for. Holland, each with a mail. PLYMOUTrr, JULY 24. --Wind ‘V.S.‘v.--Arrived the Thomas, Ciarness, from London for Prince Edward's'lsland ; and Torri Bowline,- Laughton, from ditto for Jamaica. Ar rived off Plymouth t'ae Palmyra, from London for Havannab. DAVIS STRAITS FISHERY. The Lady Jane, of Neweistle, is arrived oil' Peterhead from Davis Straits, with 1.6 fish,, and about 2(h) tons of oil. She brings the following account : Ellison of hull - 10 fish, 523 d June. Eliza of Shields, - - 9 fish, ditto. Granville Bay (Shields) - 8 fish, 17th June. Princess of Wales, Aberdeen, I fish, 2d May. Letitia - (Aberdeen) - clean. FROM A Conar.sroNocsT.—A Gentleman just arrived from Ireland brings the intelligence that a great quantity of his MAJESTY'S baggage is-ar rived at Dublin. Preparations on the grandest scale are making to give his MAJESTY the most splendid reception. He can have no idea of the uproarious joy with which he will be received by all classes and all parties : they look forward to his MAJESTY'S visit as a panacea for all their suf ferings, and trust it will effect that anion and fusion of parties, that hereafter the diffef efice of Creeds will have no other effect but that of ex citing a rivalry in loyalty and patriotism in all his MAJESTY'S subjects.—l am sorry to add, that with the baggage is arrived numerous workmen, such as smiths, farriers, harness-makers, tailors, C.c. The Irish very naturally ask, does his MA-. JESTY's Household Officers think we cannot shoe a horse, mend a harness, or make a coat ? His MAJESTY will have a grand dinner party this day at Carlton-house.—llis MAJESTY'S es cort to Ireland will, we understand, consist of a couple of frigates and two or three sloops. Yesterday forenoon, between thirty and forty chests of plate were forwarded from Carlton house Palace to the Paddington Canal, to be con veyed to Liverpool, and from thence to Dublin. The QUEEN, accompanied by Lord and Lady Hoon and Lady ANN llAmtrirox, was present at the review held yesterday on Wormwood-scrubs. Amongst other distinguished personages present, we noticed his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK and Prince EsTEEtIAZY. Letters from Constantinople of the 21st ult. state that Baron STROGONOFF, at that period, continued in his country seat at Bujukdere. This intelligence is supposed to be more recent than any received at Paris, and consequently falsifies the account of his imprisonment in the Seven Towers. A reverse has been sustained by the Patriots on the Spanish Main. After remaining. in pos session of the cit.y . of Caraccas only 12 (lays, they were driven out of it on the 25th of May by the Royalists, who also succeeded On the following day in regaining possession of La Guayra. This intelligence is communicated in letters from St. Thomas's of the 13th of June, received yesterday. The principal force of the Patriots is stated to be in the interior, the Presi dent Bolivar and Gen. Paez having formed a junction at Varinas, from whence they medi tated an attack on St. C ar l os . I n consequence of the re-occupation of Caraccas and La Guayra by the Royalists, the usual convoy was expected to arrive at St. Thomas's in the course of the month of June. It appears by accounts received from New Brunswick, that eight sail of fishing vessels from the United States, were captured in the Bay of Fundy by a British sloop of war and a gun brig, from Halifax ; and on the 31st of June four others wee taken possession of, for fishing within the British jurisdiction, and in defiance of the treaty. It will be remembered, that more than twelve months since, not less than 30 American vessels were seized by British ships of war Sunder similar circumstances, and the case came before the Admiralty Court at Halifax. It was de cided that the fishing vessels then captured should be released, but notice was given to the owners, that in future lenity would not be slie:vn to any that might be captured. It is therefore concluded, that the vessels now taken for breaking the Commercial Treaty will not be given up, but considered as good prizes. The Ticket, No. 1,235, drawn last Tuesday a Prize of 3,000/. Consols, was sold by RICHARD-. soN, GooDLucK, and Co. in one Fourth, one Elghth,`atid ten Sixteenth Shares, at their old established Office, Bank-buildings,Cornhill. NEW ARGYLL ROOMS. , These Rooms, last night, drew a very nume rous and elegant audience, from the united feel ings of admiration for the pre--eminent talents of Madame CATALANI and the imptilse of Benevo lence. The extraordinary powers of this Per former appeared to great advantage, and perhaps never can be excelled, if they are again equalled. Her first Song, La to vedrai chi sono, was a new air, but the name of the Composer" was not announced. It was a composition admirably designed not only to bring forth the wonderful powers of CATALANI, but to afford ample scope for her taste and imagination to indulge them selves in full luxuriance. She gave this air with so much brilliancy of execution that she was loudly encored, and she complied with cheerful promptitude. Her second song in the first act consisted of Italian words adapted to RODL 4 3 violin variations, and if the violin were sus ceptible of feeling, it would have heard itself equalled by the correctness and ra pidity of the human voice. This air also was demanded again by the general admiration-of the audience, and again CATALANI complied with ready acquiescence. Her third performance was a Scena ed Aria, Di lanti palpiti, given with such exquisite taste and feeling that she was obliged to repeat it, though the humanity of part of the au dience opposed their own wishes. Her last air . was La placida compagna, to which no panegyric can do justice, and she concluded with the first verse of " God save the King." This air also, as well as all the former, she was unanimously re quired to repeat, and she did so with such ani mation and fervour as evidently resulted from a feeling in sympathy .wit.;l the audience. The whole performance of this unrivalled Singer was the triumph of 'CHARITY, as well as of G Emus, and excellence in Art, for it is understood that she devotes the whole profits of the night to the laudable purpose of rebuilding the Westminster Hospital. The other vocal performers were the Misses CORRI. who acquitted themselves very ably in a duet of PAEn,and were deservedly applauded. 'We could not help observing, and we take pleasure in noticing the attention which CATA LANI paid to their performance, and the warmth with which she applauded it. Theinstrumenta 1 per formances were alantasia on the Grand Pianoforte by M. Pr uClANcnETriNr,compos e d 'by himself and well executed, and an Adagioand variations for the Harp by Dim, performed with great skill and expression. The whole was so delicious a treat' that as CATALANI on this occasion acted from the pure impulse of benevolence, we hope she will repeat it with the same success, as a due recom pense for her wonderful abilities and liberal dis position. The Hon. Mrs. WEDDELL, on Tuesday last, gave a musical treat to several of her friends who are particularly the admirers of Aricient Music. Mr. CHARLES WESLEY, on this occasion, per formed some of HANDEL'S, CO RELLI'S, and PURCELL'S finest compositions on the organ, concluding with the grand CORONATION ANTHEM and GOD S kVE THE KING, with his own Varia tions, as he performed them before their late MAJESTIES and the Royal Family at Windsor Castle. REGISTER. OF FASHION. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. The Marchioness of Londonderry's Fete at North Cray, on Monday last, exceed e d even th e f ormer. one in the splen, dour of its appointments and the number of the p - uests ; and notwithstanding the heavy rain which deluged the Me:. tropolis on that afternoon, the sun shone there with unremit. ting brilliancy, so that her Ladyship was enabled to fulfil her intention of makirg her Fete altogether a pastoral one. There were nearly four hundred personages present, including, ally, ALL the Foreigners of d is tin c ti on . he Earl and Countess of Blesinton gave an elegant enter, tainment on Monday to his Royal Highness di& Mike of Sus, sex, the Earl of Belfast, general Wood, Admiral Halliday, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Tollemache, and several other distinguished, pen , anages, at their house in St James's-square. The Marchioness of Salisbury had her last whist party for this season, last night, at her house, in Arlington-street, which was very fashionably attended. AT. MAC X'S.—An extra ball was given at these elegant rooms on Tuesday evening, which was attended by nearly 400 distin guished fa.shionabres. .4)ancing commenced about II o'clock, and it was half-past four yesterday morning before the whcle of the company had retired. - AnnlVALs.—The Duke of Norfolk and the Earl anti Coun tess of Surrey, from Farnham, Suffolk ; Sir David and Lady Gould, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Hens; Admiral West, at ditto from a tour ; G enera l Si r %% Minn Cockburn, Bart. a t HOdg,son's Hotel, Dover-street,, frpm Brighton ; William Circus, at ditto, from Ivarwickshire ; Mrs. General Churchill and Miss Churchill, at Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square. DErmyriritEs.—Sir G. Nugent, Bart. and the Iron. Mr. Nugent, from Ileddish's Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Bucking_ hamshire ; Major and Mrs. Stewart, Mr. and Miss Tyrone, and Sir F. Heniker, Bart. from ditto, for Essex. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHELMSFORD RACES,—WEDNESDAY. The Cold Cup of 100 gs. value, by subscription of 100g,s..cach. Lord Clarendon's Antiope, 4 yrs. Bst. 41b. 1 Mr. Wright's Tipsey, 3 yrs. 7st. - , - 2 Mr. Rush's Romp, 6 yrs. 9st. 21b. - - . 5 to 4 on Tipsey, 6 to 4 agst. Romp, and 3 to 1 agst. Antiopc. Romp fell in running. Match for 1001. Mr. Meux's ch. f. Miss Flirt, beat Mr. Farrel's Mengel Worzel, 6st. each.-6 and 7t04 on the loser. Won easy. , Marquess of Exeter's Augusta walked over for the Sweep, stakes of sgs. each. The Town Plate of 601. did not fill. - The course was thronged with beauty and fashion ; and the Bail at Brook-street was numerously attended. THE THEATRE.--Mr. KFAN drew a numerous audience to Drury-Lane Theatre last night; in the character of Skylock, in which he first ap peared before a London audience. His perform ance was, of course, well received. Mrs. Eor.::- TON was Portia; and well sustained the part, particularly in the more serious - passages. Mrs. ORDER was lively and unaffected in Nerissa ; POPE was affectinc , in siniolliO, and CoOPEtt easy and impressive in Bassanio. ELECTION AT BASSISHAW WARD.--At the close of the poll yesterday themnikbers were— For Mr. I [eery _Hughes - - 11; Mr. William Lister - - - 14 Majority - - 2.- His Majesty's ship Creole, Commodore Sir THOMAS HAnnY, arrived at Valparaiso, front the River Plata, on the 18th of March. The Owen Glendower frigate sailed from Valparaiso on the 96th of March, to relieve the Andromuchr, at4Callfb, which was to proceed, on the arrival of the former, to Rio Janeiro and England,