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IN PIDIDDIRODW OF Tae LORD rn torotatAisr.
Mr. THELIVALL'S ORATORICAL and CRITICAL LECTURES ou
SHAKSPEARE we. Wedneiodaye and Fridays during Leut.
FIRST LECTURE. Tills EVENING.
Introductory Address—Oratorical.
Melo-Mono-Drsunatic Prologue—Or'ginaL
CRITIt'AL DISQUISITION—on the general Characteriaties of the
Genius of Shakapinre. and hi.. Imaginative Faculty In particular.
RECITATIONS—The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet.—Midsum-
mer Night's Dream.
Mercutlita Queen Mab—Rnmeo and Juliet.
IFORialUnthe or supernatural Characters of Shakapeare—Witches lu
Macbeth- raffled hi the Midsummer Night's Dream, atc.
THE TEMPEST.—Prospero, Ariel. Caliber'. ter.
Imitations by other Poets.—Dryden's king Arthur, tee.
Dryden and Davenant's alteration of The Tempest, and the present
acting arrangement.
Digression on the Dramatic and Poetical Genius Dryden. and his
attempted Improvements on Shakspe.sre and Milton. To conclude
with ALEXANDER'S FEAST.
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 182.1,

The state of Spain at present is only what we anticipated
for that wretched and oppressed country, mouths since.
Tyranny and proscription have done their vile work.
Foreign bayonets now hold its provinces in thraldom, and
civil war is starting up, with armed bands in its train, in
every part of Spain, and from Arragon to Gallicia the
spirit of resistance is every day gaining ground, and un-
furling its standard wider. General hatred to the French
seems to be the leading principle of all parties : in that
both the Constitutionalists and Fanatics only agree; hatred
and discord divide them in every thing beside. In Segovia,
or near it, the Cure Merino, lately the partisan of
absolute power, is In arms against Fenlinand's Govern-
ment. In La Mancha, Ovello and another Guerilla Chief
avow Constitutional principles ; they 'sacrifice the friars
and monks—the enemies of liberty, and after levying heavy
oontribntiosw, retire into the mountains. Another strong
band of Constitutionalists has taken post amid the fast-
uessee of the Sierra Morena; their equipments arc all sable,
their horses of the same colour, and they wear the ap-
palling distinction of a death's head on their breasts. These
men seem devoted to free their country or perish ; the sta-
tion they have assumed is almost impregnable, and they
will not be easily subdued. Spain, the abode of supersti-
tion, bigotry, and tyranny, nursed and matured by ages,
can only be purged by a lengthened and dreadful ordeal—
by the work of time, and protracted and sanguinary con-
wet ; but the seeds are sown, and freedom ultimately will
triumph in that country ; the deadly nightshade of tyranny
will be cut down throughout the land. and rational religion
and liberty be dominant. This will take place, even though
France, with its new Chamber, be completely Royalist.
The present elections throughout that country appear to
have outgone the expectations of the very ministry who
promoted them, and Villele, as the result, already totters
to his seat. The Quotidienne even now anticipates •
triumph over the Minister, and looks for Royalist reforms
all through France. Attempts of this sort, however, may
shake the throne of the Bourbons to its very founda-
tions • deep discontents from the landed proprietors and
manufacturers would follow on the first symptoms, and any
further attacks on what the Revolution consummated, may
bring ruin in their train to the family who countenanced
them and their incorrigible adherents.—The Etoik of Mon-
day
state, that l'atras had not yet surrendered to the
Greeks; the place was closely pressed. The French pa-
per insinuates that division prevails among the Greek
Chiefs. This we should deeply regret in every way : it
would form the only bar that now perhaps exists to the
freedom of the gallant Christians ; but the French paper'.
'isto be little relied on. The first numbers of the Greek
Gazette, printed at Missoionglii, had been received at
Corfu, and created great interest. A French journal, it
is said, would also be printed there. The situation of
Greece will thus be fairly laid before Europe, and the
heroic achievements of her sons detailed. The slander, of
the Austrian journal and the Smyrna paper will now be
read no more. Lord Byron was still at Missolonglii, and
the rights of citizenship were conferred on him in full Se-
nate. 'Renew poem, The I'riamlhofllellay had been trans-
lated
into Greek. If the genius of Lerd Byron had not'
already immortalized him, his disinterested and generous
' patronage of the Greek cause would be sufficient to crown
him with lasting fame and glory. Liberty in Eastern En-
rope must now be triumphant. These delicious countries,
consecrated by every classic remembrance, and enriched
by nature with an unsparing hand, must now be free, if
Russia does not rush in with her hordes in the moment of
completion, and clutch the splendid spoil as her own. The
sabre of the Ottoman is broken, and he can no longt r
spread murder and violation through Greece with his Ja-
nissaries, or trample all justice and liberty beneath the
hoofs of his Delhis and Spahis. It is a glorious resurrec-
tion for Greece--an era that wilkilive in immortal history
for ever.

From the fflowilcur of Sunday, 7th March.]
The official part contains only a notice, that Count de Hauck,
Peer of France, intends to take the Caine of De Burgh, which is
that of the head of his family. The non-official part contains,
under the hcad of Vienna, a long report of the commissioners of
the sinking fund to the Emperor of Austria, which gives a favour.
able view of the operations of the Commissioners in reducing the
public debt of the r.inpire, during the ye:,r 13'23-
[Front L'Etuilc, Marc
Cont r, Frn.B.

Patras had not yet surrendered on the &h. It is feared that •
secret jealousy between the Greek chiefs has hitherto hindered the
pmgres• of the siege. ('olucotroni versists in waking this conquest
without the cu-operation of his colleagues. Ile flatters his troops
with the support a great Northern power.

M%atu 7.
BULLETIN OF TUE HEALTH OF TIM raiscrsil or CONDE.
.'March 7, Half-past Eight, A.M.
" Her Highness has had a very bad night,land this morning the
agitation increases; the head turns incesaantly front side to side.
Her Highness can distinguish nothing by the eye ; but she still
knows the voices of the persons who are usually about her. The
breast heaves in a terrible manner. In the midst of these bad
symptoms the pulse retains some strength."
V. liailli, the wife of General Mina, arrived at Ilavre.de-(irate
four days ago, on board a vessel for Lisbon. She is accompa trod
by her father. They will proceed directly to London by the packet
boat, without going to Cslais, as they at first intended.
The first numbers of the Greek Gazette, printed at 31issolorgbi,
have been received at ('orfu ; they arc read with extreme avidity.
It is announced that a French journal will be printed in the same
town. Europe will at length obmin information of what is pass-
ing, from other organs than those of the Turks.

The situation of Ireland end its people, which must
always continue a matter of first-rate importance, is again
pressing itself strongly on the attention of the Legis-
lature. Mr. Grattan presented a petition last night front
that most respectable body, the Catholic Bishops of Ire-
land, complaining, and we believe most jertly, of their be-
ing excluded from all participation in the nienagemcnt of
the fund appropriated for national education in Ireland,
and stating that at the schools established from this fund,
under the Kildare-street Association, proselytism was prac-
tised, and that Catholic children were in consequcuse not
sent there, and forfeited all benefits of the education they
might otherwise receive. The Secretary for Ireland,
Mr. Goulburn, opposed the reception of the petition, ar
contrary to the intention of Parliament, he said, when
that fund was established ; and the Right lion. Gentleman
argued, that the union of schools was favourable to the
general union of the country. Now, we know the situation
of Ireland and the disposition of its people, somewhat bet-
ter and more intimately than Mr. Goulburn, who is a com-
parative stranger to both, and we know that as this fund
is at present managed, it can produce no general good..
Neither the Citholic clergy nor Catholic parents will send
the children, born in that faith, to schools wholly un-,
der the management of those of an opposite perstiasion,
and where the Bible is circulated without either note or
comment. The Kildare-street Association is now in the
hands and under the control of individuals known for
their bitter hostility to (7atholica : their rage for pro-
selytism and their attachment to sectarian principles anklet
as public. The speeches of Mr. Sergeant Lefroy, and Mr.
Jackson the barrister, end others who take a leading part
at the annual meetings of this body, are full of the
spirit of proselytism and exclusion. The Duke of Lein•
ster withdrew from the Association, to mark his sense
of their intolerance ; in fact, the funds of which this
" national education" body have the control are in the
hands of a few bigoted sectarians : they go to sup.
port some schools, where scarcely any Catholic children
attend (and the Catholics form nine-tenths of the popula.
tion of Ireland). At these schools the Bible is circulated,
without note or comment; and to this not only the Catho-
lic prelates and clergy, bat many Protestant divines and
the ablest fathers of the clime)), are all opposed. The
Bishop of Peterborough has condemned the circulation of
the Scriptures in this way; and St. Jerome and many
other of the early Fathers as strongly reprobated it. That
the Education Society in Ireland only perverts the fan&
appropriated for a great national purpose, and die rising
generation in that country receive little or no benefit from
the Institution. Sir John Newport stated his intention to
refer the matter to a Committee, when the papers for
which he had moved relative to it should be produced
he thought some better system could be devised for the'
management of the fund; and he deemed it also bat fair
that the Catholic clergy should have some control over
, it. The fact is, that as this fund at present is managed,
it is a mere waste of money—a worse than waste—for it
goes into the pockets of a few individuals, who make it a
job of profitable intolerance and exclusion. The masters
of these schools are all Protestant or sectarians ; the
patrons are of the same character. Proselytism is univer-
sally practised, and the Catholic children, in canseqnence,
arc almost entirely kept away. There is not in Europe a
purer or more respectable body of men than the Catholic
Prelates and Clergy of Ireland; they are sincerely &-
voted to the welfare cf their flocks, and would not maker
complaints without the strongest grounds for doing so.
The benefits of education and instruction would be of in-
calculable benefit to the Irish people ; but, under the pro.
sent system of management, the funds appropriated for
that purpose are utt misapplied ; and unless the
Catholic Prelates and Clergy are entrusted with s
portion of the control over them, the Education
Society must fail in eve, y purpose for which it wco
originally instituted ; ard, as regards the vast majority of
the people of !retina, it will be productive of no benefit
whatever. It is melancholy to see the objects of tht Legis-
lature thus defeated by the interference of a party—a party
always opposed to every thing lace union or good of any
sort in Ireland—a faction the eternal enemy of the people,
and the opposers of every measure that can lead to their
amelioration, their happiness, or their union. Mr. Plunkett
knows these men, and their characters well; he ought lo
interfere and cut up their monopoly by the roots. What a
defence must they have, when they can find no advocate
fitted to undertake it but Mr. Dawson ! " Paarre Monsieur
Dawson ! "—nature over intended him fora parliamentary
orator, his smooth face was cast fcr other purposes beside
the cares of debate ; Philandering of any sort would be
much more suited to him ; in Parliament he is like a fish
out of water.

The Courier paper, which has latterly become much
; more liberal in its sentiments, has, in its Number of last
night, an article on the unfortunate Mr. Conolly, full of good
sense and good feeling. The fate of dila haplessgentlennua
is, indeed, a hard one. Ile is doomed to a felon'sgarb, and
deportation from his hr me, his friends, and his prospects
for life, for enact by which, it is true, an itrlividual loss
his life, but which was clearly unpremeditated, and the
impulse of self-defence at the moment, without any pre-
vious malice or rremeditation. It is now plain that be
was ignorant, when he ('red the fatal shot, that a Magis-
trate's warrant had been obtained against him ; he was
' resisting what he conceived only to be civil process, nadir
which the Constables had no eight to force an entrance
through the outer doors or windows. It was sworn on the
trial that the warrant was not read, and the unfortunate
. Mr. Conolly ccul I tot therefore have been aware of it..
We have said before that it never should have bests
granted with such post-haste precipitation, or, if conceded
by the Magistrate, he should either have attended himself,
or sent a person of conduct and intelligence to superintend
its execution, and see that Mr. Conolly was fully apprhr d
of its having been issued against him. The crime of man_
slaughter, until late in the last Session, was only punish-
able with 12 months' imprisonment: an Act of that Par-
. lkincnt, considering in many instances the serious circum-
stances of the crime, increased the standard of punishment,
and left it discretionary in the Judge presiding to inflict the
sentence of a more lengthened imprisonment, or transporta-
tion for any number of years or far life, should he think
the °fence such as to call for that visitation. Mr. ('onolly
is, we believe, the first victim to all the reverity of that
Statute, and we agree fully with the Courier in thinking
that he should not have been cast to such a fate. But Mr.
Justice Best is fond of extremes ; be likes to sit clothed
in all the terrors of tbejudgment scat. How far, on calmer
reflection (though he slept on the conviction of Mr. Co-
nolly, and pronounced his dreadful doom on the subsequent
morning), this award will satisfy his own feelings and a
higher tribunal, it is not for us now to pronounce. Tliejustiia
of the country, to be resper:ct I, ought to be calm, considerate,
and impartial. The.ludge, by ins very office, is considered
by the law almost counsel for the accused, where he hes no
other urfender ; and heavy and arbitrary sentences have
never yet tended to make the laws more respected, or e,