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7'IIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LA:I'F.
This Evening, TUESDAY, Feb.l, *Elbe perfuemed
DER FREISCHU rz. .
Gorton's., ege Prince, Mr. Sferrer: Bernhard, Head Hanger. Mr. Bed-
ford; Hermit, Mr. G. Minch; Adolph. Mr. T. Cooke: I.4tepar, Mr.
Horn; Killen, Kinsmen to trie Head niuisar. Mr. Fitserilllam ; Dmoon
Vase Hartz, Mr. Howell: Zamici, Mr.°. Smith; Witch qf the Glen,
Mr. Oigaehard. Linda. Miss tiraddou; Ruse, Miss ?owes.
After which,
HARLEQUIN AND TIIE TALKING BIRD.
THR SINOIBO TREES, AND GOLDEN WA I ERS.
Harlequin. Mr. Auld; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard: Clown, Mr.
Kirby. Coltithbble, bliss Barnett.
To-morrow, The Fall of Algiers, a new Ballet, and the Pantomime.
THRATRE ROYAL, COI-ENT-GARDEN.
This Evening. TUESDAY, Feb. I. will ha performed
NATIVE LAND;
Or. THE. turruitN FROM SLAVERY.
Aurelio di Montalto, Mr. Sracbslr; Guleeppo. Mr.W. &wren ; Tam.
troll. Mr. Cooper Percorino, Mr. Fawcett. Glynatute, Miss Paton:
Zualna, Mlles love; &outline. Was M. Tree.
After which,
HARLEQUIN AND THE: DRAGON OF WA'STLKT;
Or, MORE OF mink: HALL.
leatiloviln. Mr. War; Pen tel,on. Mr. Barnes: Cbrern, Mr. J. S. Gri-
maldi. t olumblne, Miss Romer.
Toeneerow, Uteri. Charles ties Second. and the Pentonfinnt.
• - Tde Barron reeks cotimeoced ptltTl7:itig yesterday amiss
at five o'clock.
• LONDON, TUESDAY, TEIRIJAAT 1, 11sito.
Thv Paris• Papers of Saturiley are the least interesting
we o'er received. They du not contain a single article of
o-ws from any quarter. The Etude announces, positively,
that Austin, Russia, Prussia, and France, are agreed not

to recognise the independence of any of the New American
taus. Though that paper is the organ of the French
Ministry., we can hardly believe that such a. resolution has
• been passed by those Powers, since the determination of
England has been known to them. There has not yet
• • Leen 41uo time for consideration. What the Etoile meant)
irobably is, that as they had resolved, if possible, to restore
the colonies to Spain, France will not, at least immediately;
depart floret the policy on which she was to have acted in
concurrence with them. It will of necessity be a work of
some time and difficulty for France to disengage herself
from her Spanish connection. .
Among the petitions lately presented to the Chamber of
Deputies, there have been several from the Vendeans,
. praying to be included in the Royalist Indemnity, nn ac-
count of the great losses they sustained during the war
that desolated their country. The Chamber, however,
rejected their suit on the ground that too many other
Frenchmen had suffered in a similar way, to render it
possible to indemnify them all. On this ground, surely,
none ought to be indemnified. The objection to the
p-aet to the emigrants is, that, it is partial, and that a
selection is made of those who least deserve compensa-
tion. The Vendeans fought for the same cause, and
with more bravery and devotion. The post they defended
• in the interieri was infinitely more perilous than that occu-
pied on the frontiers by the emigrants, yet the Vendeans
arc to have no indemnity while the emigrants are repaid in
fa'l! Oa Satureay the Report on the Law of Sacrilege
• sets to he laidiberoim the Chamber of Peers by the Baron
DE Bets-et at, wfio was api ointed to that duty.
- The accounts nom Spain represent the condition of that
country to be nearly the same as ever. What rational ex-
pectation of improvement can be founded on the disposi-
tion of Fe: ant: Ars u VII. ? As long as he reigns the eh-
solute King of Spain, he will govern it as be did from
1814 to 1820.
Pasts, Jaw. 49.—Fsewcw Ftsns—Five per Cents. opened
• len ; timed at lotus. elk.: Rank Stock. 1,98. M.; Rente de
Naples, certificate Falronnet. MIL 30c.; Itentes d'Espagne, 17i;
Reysl Spanish 1,-an. 1823, Mi. Exchange on London, one
e:onth, •25t. ; three ditto, 9.:f. Bk.—Comer Aothemaqi,e, Jaw. 29.

Mr. PLUNK ET T has been defeated again. Every appeal
tie keg made to the juries of Dublin, whether against
Orangeman or Catholic, has been rejected. If be sends a
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if Ee bring. the cases, ,:ner into Court, for trial by infor-
mrtion, the relit J refuse to convict the defendant.

Jury
This prossscution a•as against the Pd/,!in Star, for a very
• cress libel on the Luau LIMUTENA IC r. The trial lasted
(lose days. Ne end was left untried to ensure success,
yet the result was, that the Jury was diseharAvd by cos-
- sent without a verdict ! The DriLlia Star is the organ of
the ()range party ; and it was fully proved, on the trial,
that the columns of that paper bad teemed regularly, for
some time past, with the most scandalous attacks on the
chat acter of Lord WI LLEs ev. Still, we think, it is much
to be doubted whether it would not have been wiser, eon-
, sidering the present tsmper of the public mind in Ireland,
to have paused the low scurrility of such a paper over with'
canter:pt. All the slanear the Dullin Star could have
publish• d in a century could not have suited the reputa-
tion of so t'•stieiaishcd a public man as the Marquis
11;1 at.i S LEY. .11:e worst injury his Excellency has
sustained consists in the degradation of his having ap-
peated•in Court to vindicate his fame against so wretched
An a-sailaw. It seems, however, as if it were the fate of
Mr. PeoNsuva to bring discomfiture and disgrace on every
Cause he undertakes to ropport. The history of bit calm,
, as Acton.^►-General of Ireland, during the last three years,
• is, especiatty considering the universally-admired splendor
of his, tattnts, unparalleled in the grossness and number of
its binmb•rs and failures.

After the shameful insults offered by the Times to the
audience of Drury-lane Theatre, wha on Friday night I
would riot gratify its malignity by liooCiig Mr. lie.sw off
the stage, we wootkr bow the veracious historian of that
establishment, from whose pen that article proceeded, will
discharge his ditty with resret to what passed there last
night. Hitherto the Timms has represented the great ma-
-;exity of the public to be decidedly hostile to KEAN : those
who applauded him were a knot of bindery-lool.ing
wrete'-e;. sent in with f'ee admissions, to stitie the up-
roar of the "decent and repcetable part of the commit-

city." Ytste•rday sennight they were composed priu-
• civilly of journeymen tailors." On Saturday morning
the Muer ',pa -obliged to contradict this falsehood;
• init it persevered steadily M its malignant course
of mriulacity. bit Friday evening, the drilled mud
disciplined rioters wee put down, iotwithstanding their
orr,anirarion, hie Times accounted for the defeat of its
party by amertim that the pit was filled with stage-mach
droned in " Manket great-coats." The advantage of
this assertion was, that it could not be disproved like than
-retinglir. lirax's t•tilor; but, to all who were present
in the theatre: it is known to be without a shadow of
troth. Mr. Ft LIPTOX mate.% that on both those evenings
he had enspendAl die free list ; and, on the first, the money
zee:iced at the doors was larger io amount than any night
since the theatre has been opened, excepting once, when his
MBeare was l resent. The fact is, that all the noise was
the work of 'lemons' enmity to Mr. Kraw. This party, as
the ercnt liar, proved, was few and feeble. Fifty men, judi-
ly the largest assembly into
on the first night, this party
continued uproar through-
- czcond night it began
withdrawn, sup-
accomplished, Mr.

KaaN was called for by the audience, and heard
whit attention. The hopes of the faction were broken,
and last night it ventured not to make its appear-
ance. Two or three silly or mischievous persons endea-
voured to revive the discord in vain ; and at last, in
sheer spite, these champions of public morality tes-
tified their sense of decorum and gallantry by throwing
one .orange at Miss SMITHSON and another at Mr.
ELEISTON ! Oh, that the " Wolves" had done so!
What an article should we then have had in the "more dis-
tinguished part of the journal," from the pen which sent
forth the disgusting allusion to Calaban Will the Times
of this morning assert that the " cads" and " tailors" had
possession of the whole house last night ? Never was
there so flagrant an instance of ferocious tint] ob!:,:ne false-
hood as the narrative and commentary in that " journal"
on' Saturday. Never was falsehood more prom tly or per-
fectly exposed than by the clear 40 decisive manifes-
tation of public opinion last night. We could even
pity the Times, sunk and degraded as it is, if we
had any hope of its future reformation; but its habits
are inveterate, and it will go on, we dare say, in its
old course to the end of the chapter. It stands, however,
now, thoroughly exposed in all its meanie:and malignity.
It is shunned and deserted by iall but thitowardly maims
whom it excited, by the Calihan article of liatarday, to arts
of public insult and outrage against a 'beautiful and
interesting woman ! The only !siding of satisfaction we
have in turning from this " slt; is, the conscious-
ness that its power of misch for ever pasted
away. Its swaggering self-importance will in future im-
pose upon nobody, nor while the story of the " bianktt-
colited cads" is remembered, will its tales deceive any but
these who ip•hocire to be deceived, for it is no dote:t flue.'
that With some-
- " the plc./ante is as groat
01 being cheated as, to cheat."
To revert, however, to the real merits of this affair, in one
respect we regret its conclusion. It has ended as we pre-
dicted. KE•N deserved a tebuke, and he has gained a
triumph. But this is entirely the work of those hypecrites,
who left the public no other choice.

' Yesterday was a holiday both in the Foreign and Eng-
• - lists-Smelt Market, and consequently little business doing
in them, and that only for the account. Consols in Time
Bargains were at 93t ; there were sellers at d.. They left
(Mat j and o, while Pearls were done at four. Greek
Bonds were as high as 38. The Mines were all better.
It is not yet ascertained whether the state of his Ma-
jesty's health will permit him to open the Session on
Thursday in person. The Address in the Commons will
be movedhy Lord Francis Leveson Gower, and seconded
by Mr. Fleming, the Member for Hampshire. In the
Lords it will be moved by Lord Dudley and Ward, and
seconded by Lord Gort.
Mr. Vaughan, the English Plenipotentiary in Switzer-
land, went, on the 14th inst., to Lucerne, where he com-
municated to the Government of the Presiding Canton,
that his Court hail recognised the States of Mexico, Co-
lombia, and Buenos Ayres. It is believed that the
Government of Lucerne will make a cortenunicarion on
this subject to the twenty-two Cantons. After inaking this
communication Mr. Vatighan returned to Berne, whence he
will set out on his return to England. He will go by way
of France.—Braisels Paper, Jan. 29.
There are letters in town from Pernambuco, dated the
20th December, which state that the most perfect tranquil-
lity prevailed there at that time.
Letters front Corfu state, that the Greek Government has
received from its secret agents at Alexaniria,positive infor-
mation that the Viceroy of Egypt has resolved to maintain
a strict neutrality, in the event of his being required by the
Sultan to undertake a fifth Campaign against the Greeks.
Letters from Gibraltar, dated January 10, state, that the
accounts from Spain were so discouraging that no ship-
men's to that country could ba advised. The hopes which
had been entertained that cotton goods would be admitted
into Spain upon payment of duty would not, it was thought,
be realized.
t?sancely A trace of thtlate inundations at SJ.Petershfirgh I
is 1 o4s, to be seen. "The shops and warehmmes are agate
completely furnished, and open as usual ; the bridges are
repaired, the streets cleated, it) short, every thing is in its
former state, and business goes on as usual. Provisions arc
as cheap as they were before, and the poor are properly
provided for. A private letter states the number of lives
lost to have amounted to 5,000, yet the writer regards the
catastrophe as a blessing to that city.
THE CoKMeacv or BRISTOL.—A communication, we
understand, has this week been made to the Chamber of
Commerce, amongst other public bodies, front the Com-
mon Council, inferming them, that they are willing to
bring a Bill into Parliament iu the ensuing Session, " pro-
vided they can do so without opposition, to relinquish the
Town dues hitherto -collected on the rish and Coasting
Trades, and gib to reduce and modify the remaining rate
of dues, for which latter purpose, they have prepared
graduated scales of Town and Mayor's dues, abolishing the
ad-valorem tate on Town dues, and substituting a package
or weight and treasure scale,- sm• the case may require."
And it is ordered, that this resolution " with the schedule,"
be sent to these bodies for their."- consideration: '—Bristol
Joereal.
The customs in the port of Newry have increased this
year in the sum of 5,615/. compared with the former.
CORNWALL COUNT% ELF Cl 10 N.—(From the Curnwall
Gasette of Saturday.)—The election of a Member to serve
in Parliament for this county, in the room of the late Sir
William 'Lemon, Dart. is over, anti Sir Richa:tl Rawlin-
son Vyvyan, Bart. heir to the noble patrimony of the
ancient and honourable house of Trclowarren, which has
given Sheriffs and Members of Parliament to Cornwall for
ages, is the successful candidate. In this gentleman we
have a Representative uniting in his otvn person fortune,
family, and integrity ; a Cornishman born and bred ; iden—
tified with the welfare of his native county, and possessing
talent and ability to protect and advance its great and im-
portant concerns. We congratulate the county on this
auspicious event—on the peaceable termination of a
contest in which the agitators of the party opposed to Sir
Richard aimed at nothing less than to transfer the guardian-
ship of the important interests of Faithful Cornwall into
the hands of men, comparatively of inferior consideration—
disciples of Burdett—and avowed enemies to that ad-
miralikir system of Government by which, under Provi-
dence, this gloriOus country has been raised to its present
pre-eminence amongst nations. We congratulate the
county on its escape, at least fur the present, from so omi-
nous a contact with the head of the radical party, obnoxious
AS they have ever been, both in principle and practice, to a
large inecjority of all that is great and respectable amongst
the Freeholders elf Cornwall, and we rely on the returning
good sense of the loyal yeomanry (many of whom we be-
have were tricked on this occasion into a promise of their
votes) that at the next General Election they will consult
their individual' interest, as well as the honour and ad-
vantage of the county, by coming forward in support of
Sir R. Vyvyan and Me. tremayne.
We understand (says a Dublin Paper), that George
Moore Ogle, Esq. Barrister, nephew of the late Right Hon.
George Ogle, has declared himself a candidate to repre-
sent Trinity College in the next Parliament, in opposition
to Mr. Plunkett, the sitting Member. Mr. Ogle, we hear,
has already canvassed the College, and received many
promises.
'l'lle well-known avenucof lime trees, which haslet long
ornamented the garden of the Middle Temple, and which,
during the summer, presented so pleasing a prospect from
the river, has been consigned to the axe, by the absolute
mandate of the Bmcliere, to the universal regret of she
other members of the Society. The reason assigned fur
this tasteless act of modern Vandalise is, that R few elderly
gentlemen will, for a few hours durine, Term time, have a
less confined view of the river front the banqueting-room,
which they have lately erected, for their own accommoda-
tion, at an immense expense, out of the funds of the So-
ciety. Whether this enlargement of a particular view will
contribute to the enlargctncnt of their views in general, 1
time only can discover. 1

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cloudy statist:Jet, may ilirrAv the larg
corfusion. Accordingly, on the first
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succeeded in keeping up a continued
out the perffmnaree. On the Ezconi
to be•citansted ; and when it bad
posing its purpose for the evening s
t