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This Evening. T MORROW. April 211, will be performad
• TIIE BELLE'S STRATAGEM.
Dorteoart, Mr. Vining: Hardy, Mr. Dowton: Flutter, Mr. P. Far.
Letitia Hardy, Madame Vestrisi Mrs. Reshot, Mrs Glower.
• After which, IN ra:GUE.
Tune, 11r. J. Hanel': Ellen. Madams
To conclude with TOM THUMB.
SIM Arthur. Mr. DoWton; Lord Grist/e, Mr. J. Ruseell: Queen
Dolialoia, Mrs. Humpy.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.
MR. MATHEWS AT HOME.
'Lids Evening. THURSDAY, April 48, and on Saturday and Monday,
MR. MATHEWS. MEMOR ANDUM.3OOK
of Pseuligritles, Characters, and Manners, collected during Ala vartous
Trips.
Somas—. Memoranda In Confasion"—" Night Coaah"—" Rubbles."
eapira: Song--•• Sailing Match-'—"old and New Times"—" Hablie
(rake, Howatreet."
PACT I►l.—A Mounpolylogue. to be tealkd
Tllle CROWN IN', DANGER..
Doors open at Seven: the Performance to common(' at
Cal note.—The new Entertainment will nut be printed : and all
%WOO yrofesell IR to contain any parts of It are gruel impositions and
smuts on the

TAB APOLLONICOIV.
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On 9 %TOMMY NF.XT.at Two o'Clock.
The following SZLECTION M MUSIC will be yerforripg by Mr.
PURKJ4 on the APOLLONICON, a Orand Studies! le.atunant.
=tad and eonotrnetod by Messrs. Flight and Itubouu, Organ
era, 101, St. Martin's lane:— _

PA RT I.

Overture, Idomenen Vaghi IWinterl—Glee,
•Tha load stars' (Shield)—Alt, • Sweet home' liillettri—limiting
estattur, ilurynntb• (Welter).
PART
oesetupe. preciosa(Weber)—Air. ' If a youth should meet a maiden'
ffeeberl—lioutlo itduzarti—Air, • When the gentle eve descending,'
necloss ilVeberi—lllinting Chorus. Der Freleeluitz (Weber).
N.B. Mr. Forth'. Performances will be continued every katiarday
diving the Sea.al.
The • Mechanical Powers of the Apollonleon are exhibited Daily,
from One till Four (except during the time of Mr. Porkies attendance'.
katonithig Beethoven's celebrated Overture to Proniethetw. Meaart's
overture to yauherilote, and ilayin's (Irani' Military Movement
from his Twelfth itymphrway, in the execration of which It has been
int,o,vited with the sanction of the meat eminent meehanical and
musical man of the age, and Is allowed to possess a grandeur and
variety of eßbet, with a precision and a delicacy of expression, loupe-
:got to any other limn ument in Europe.
The finale arranged for and eat on the Cylinders by Mr. Flight, Jun.

The 81111,11 Pazes commenced publishing yesterday
at seven o'clock.

LONDON. THURSDAY, AMT. 2S, 1815.

- - -
Tim Paris Papers of Monday contain no domestic news
of any importance. The intelligence from Spain is rather
unerosting. M. UGARTE arrived on the evening of the
17th at Bayonne, where he twat to remain for some da. 1.
It is said he still possesses the entire conFdence and affect-
tan of the Ktso, who was induced to send him away only

in consequence'of the eamest representations of the French
and Russian Ministers. FIIDIN•ND is living on the
bounty of the priests. He has been with Prince M•: 1-
Lux on a visit to Toledo. The Cardinal Archbishop pre-
sented his CATHOLIC MAJESTY with a considerable sum
of money, " for the purpose of relieving the wants of the
State," and the Chapter made a similar present to the
Prince, his father-in-law. The Et-Minister CRUZ has
been honourably acquitted. The Spanish Government has
ordered the formation of a Junta, consisting of all the
Generals who have had commands in South America, since
1810. This Junta is to make a report to the KING on the
causes which have so decidedly alienated the minds of the
American people from the authority of the Mother
Country.
The narrative of the escape of the brave VALDES and
the other Constitutionalists from Morocco, will bs read
with great satisfaction. We have given the particulars in
another column.
The Etuile of Tuesday has an absurd article on the
second reading of the Catholic Relief Bill, which the
French Royalist considers or pretends to consider as " a
homage rendered to the Catholic doctrines."
Among the laws officially promulgated in the Moniteur,
as having received the Royal sanction, is the horrible law of
sacrilege. That law alone would justly prevent the people
or Parliament of England from rendering any homage to
the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church.
The ordinances in the Muniteur are published in the fol-
lowing order:—
I. Law relative to the farming, for ninety-nine years, for the be.
nefit of the Treasury, the mine of rock salt discovered at Vic.
2. Law for the safety of navigation and maritime commerce.
3. Law against sacrilege.
4. A Royal Ordinance, declaring, that claimants, on account of
ships and cargoes captured by the Spanish cruisers in the late war,
are not to be allowed to make any new claims after the Ist October
this year, and that no document in support of the claims already
made, or to be made in the sequel, will be received after the lit of
January, 1820.

Among the notices of motion on the Order Book of the
House of Commons for yesterday, was one by Mr. Pzrza
Moons, for leave to bring in a Bill for the amendment
of the Bubble, Act, and for the prevention of frauds in
the establishment of Joint-Stock Companies. The draft
I of the Bill proposed to be introduced by the Hon. Gentle-
man has been printed; and as it relates to a subject of
great interest at this period of general speculation, the fol-
lowing abstract of its provisions will not, we dare say, be
unacceptable to our readers. The preamble begins with a
recital of those clauses of the Bubble Act by which all un-
dertakings by subscription, having transferable shares, or
presuming to act as Corporate Bodies without legal au-
thority, are declared to be public nuisances, and the parties
concerned in them liable to a prcemunire. It then pro-
ceeds to state, that various Joint-Stock Companies have
lately been formed upon just and equitable principles, and
for laudable and beneficial objects ; but that, in conse-
quence of the obscurity of the preamble of the Bubble
Act, the persons who have engaged in these Associa-
tions are in doubt whether they have not incurred
the severe penalties inflicted by that Act. The Bill
therefore proposes the repeal of the recited clauses ;
but as it is desirable that the Shareholders in all
Joint-Stock Companies should be protected by law,
and as it is also necessary that the public should be pro-
tected against fraud, the Bill enacts that the parties who
may for the future bring forward any Company, shall be
deemed the projectors of it, and shall be answerable per-
sonally and individually to the original subscribers. If the
parties establishing a Company shall have required a de-
posit from the Shareholders, they shall be responsible for
the return of the whole sum, unless the deed of settlement
shall have been executed within three calendar months, in
which-case the projectors shall be no longer liable. If the
money should not be returned on demand, the offender shall
forfeit treble the amount, to be levied by distress and sale
of his goods and chattels ; and if the distress should be in-
adequate, he shall be committed to the common gaol, to
be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding twelve
months. The Bill then settles the mode of proceeding
against offenders, and the form of conviction. By the
concluding clauses, the Act is restricted from applying to
Partnerships or Joint-Stock Companies formed before it shall
be passed, or to Companies established by Charter, or by Act
of Parliament. As there was no House yesterday, Mr.
Terra MOORE'S notice is of course dropped ; but we trust
he will renew it this evening for the first open day. Those
clauses of the Bubble Act which relate to Joint-Stock
Companies have been, we know, virtually repealed by the
spirit and enterprise of the commercial world. Numerous
Associations have been formed, in contempt of the severe
but obsolete penalty denounced against them. A judgment
in prirmun ire, so called from the words of the writ, yuod
prirmuriire fizeias, is thus described by Sir EDWARD COKE :
" From the conviction the defendant shall be out of the
KING'S protection, and his lands and tenements, goods
and chattels, forfeited to the KING; and his body shall
remain in prison at the so's pleasure, or (as other
authorities have it) during life." By the common law,
it was not murder, or indeed any offence to kill him ;
but by the .sth Eliz. c. 1, protection was so far extend-
ed to persons atrainted in a prtenzunire, that it is no
longer lawful to kill them. " But still," says Butes-
gross, " such delinquent, though protected as a part
of the public from public wrongs, can bring no action
for any private injury, how atrocious soever, being so far
out of the protection of the law that it will not guard his
civil rights, nor remedy any grievance which he as an
individual may suffer; and no man, knowing him to be
guilty, can with safety give him comfort, aid, or relief."
We think there can be but one opinion as to the propriety
of immediately abolishing the applicability of such a pe-
nalty as this to those whose offence consists solely in their
endeavours to promote and extend the prosperity of their
country. If it be objected that the repeal is unnecessary
because the penalty never will he applied, we answer that
no penalty ought to remain on the statute book which
should not at some time be enforced. Some general Act
of Parliament is, however, necessary for the regulation of
these Associations, and without giving any decisive opinion
at present upon the efficiency of this Bill for the preven-
tion of frauds in the establishment of Joint-Stock Comps-
' nice we shall be glad to see it introduced into Parliament,
in order that some legislative measure may be passed upon
this important subject, and the doubts and anxieties of a
large portion of the public filially removed.

CiTY, ‘VgDNESDAT EVZXING.

Considerable languor still prevails in the money markets, not.
withstanding the recent favourable news from India. The reasons
that arc current on 'Change for this depression are, the renewed re.
port of a Congress of Sovereigns at Milan, and the apprehensions
that are entertained for the tranquillity of Ireland, in consequence
of the rejection of the Catholic Relief Bill by the House of Lords,
which is now considered in the City as certain. Consuls fur the
Account were done at 91 j, and for money at 92i
In the foreign market, Cheek Scrip was somewhat better. At
one time it was done at 41 4, and left off at 41 4g. The Bonds were
at 51g 52. Spanish Bonds drooped in a very trifling degree, owing
probably to the non-arrival of any intelligence as yet respecting the
contract for the Loan being completed. The Old Bonds were at
23; 21, and the New at 18; 19. South American Securities were
also languid. Colombian Bonds were at Ng 1, and Mexican
Scrip 4 discount to par. Brazilian Scrip likewise declined ; it was
at 2. Danish ditto was done a, 211 discount.
In the Share Market there was also great tininess ; so much so,
that, with the exception of the new Potosi ihares that came out
to-day, and were done at 4 premium, we can make no quotation of
real business prices.
Th,re were but fiw trassarions in the R;•gar Market this morn.
in.'. but the prices of yoioerday were sic.al.ly man:wined. The
Coffee Market was also tutu.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

FRENCH PAPERS.

From the CoarriCeirnicais of Monday.]
GIBRALTAR, APRIL 4.
(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.)
Two days age there arrived here a vessel from Tangier, with
English colours, having on board the Constitutionalists Valdez,
Fries, andLinares. Being Informed that the Government of Morocco
intended to confine them within the fortress of Arachs, and sus-
Scting that it was with the design of delivering (bent up to the
panish Government, they had taken refuge in the French Con-
sulate. There and with his consent they had been conducted by
the Consul of his Britannic Majesty and the Barharesque Authori-
ties of the place, to the English vessel, which has landed them
here. The escape of these three Chiefs of the Constitutional Party
has put an end to a nagociation, for which wine thousand piastres
had been already paid, by the means of Jewish Bankers, in order
to have the pleasure of shedding the blood of some men who can
no longer do any injury. It is to be observed in this affair, that the
Consul of his Britannic 21ajesty at Tangier, before he interfered,
came here and had sonic conicrences with Lord Chatham and that
it was immediately after his return to Tangier that the embarkation
of the Constitutionalists took place. These three unfortunate indi-
viduals have been very well received here, in spite of the remon-
stances of the Spanish Consul, and their arrival has caused great
offence at Algasiras.
[From the Journal dcs Debuts of Monday.l
CADIZ, APRIL a.
(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.)
Sines the arrival of the last letters from the Havannah, which
are of the 24th February, it is reported that the General Vines had
received very disagreeable news from Pent; in consequence of
which his Excellency had adopted such rigorous measures that
they had created general discontent at the Havannah, from which
port the frigate Fama was to sail immediately for our city.
According to the same letters, there was no notion at the
Havanna of sending front that port the expedition front Corunna,
which had arrived there a long time before.
The trade of Cuba suffered severely from the Colombian pi-
vateen, which the day before the departure of the letters had cap-
tured, in sight of the port, the frigate La Vigarenna.
[From the Etoik, dated Tuesday.]
Pants, APRIL 25.
The Catholics have just obtained a complete triumph in the
House of Commons. The Emancipation was voted by a majority
of 27. There were 514 members present—the greatest number that
ever was present when the great interest of the Cathohm was di,.
mimed. Never was more striking homage given to the Catholic
doctrine, and more retraction heard of persons who had had false
notions of the Catholic Faith. Mr. Canning delivered a speech
which is worthy of the highest attention. Though the Catholics
had only gained the advantage of lacing their Faith revenged of
all the false imputations spread in England fur these three cen-
turies, they should be satisfied.
FRENCH FuNDL—Partis„ Aram 25.—Five per Cents opened
at 102 f. 00c., closed at 1021. 15c. Bank Stock, 2.123 f. Rents de
Naples, VOL tic. Rente d'Espagne, Ilia. Royal Spanish Loan,
1823. 5J+. Exchange on London—One month, 24f. 22c.; three
months, 241. 00c.—Cou re Authentique, Aprit 25.