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NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
TM* Even:ne. FRIDAY, June 4, will he performed
ROB ROY MACI;I:EtiOR.
Rob Roy, Mr. Maereudr ; Ruin* Janie, Mr. Liston: Mans Vernon.
Miss Po% ry ; !Wen Meenregor, Mrr. MUM.
After which,
ZOROASTER; or, THE SPIRIT OF THE STAR.

TREATIIE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
ThO Evening. FRIDAY, June 4, will be pert...railed
CHARM.; Till: SECOND; or. THE MEHRA MONARCH.
King Charles the Seemid. Mr. C. Kemble Lord Ituehester. Mr. J.Deg
Captain Cupp, Mr. Fawcett; Mary. Miss M. Tree.
Altar which 'first time; a new MelmOrama. called
THE. CASTELLAN'S OATH.
To conclude with FORTUNE'S FROLICS.
Rubin Ruughhead, Mr. Rayner.

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NEW SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING. and To-MORROW, the Melo-Drama of
JOHN Or LORNE AND HELEN OY ARGYLE.
After which.
ZULUCA AND THE RIVAL WARRIORS; or,r The TIGER HUNT.
To conclude with
HATE; or, THE CATARACT OF THE MOUNTAIN.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, .1::Nz 4, 1824.

The last acclunts from Madrid represent the Royalist
volunteers as deeply discontented with the proscriptive De-
cree called an Amnesty. They wished its multiplied ex-
ceptions to be more numerous. The individuals allowed
the means of " epuration" under it, have had the intima-
tion made to them that their claims must be laid before
the competent authorities, within fifteen days from the pub-
lication of the Amnesty, on pain of forfeiting the provisions
which include them. The Decree against the press was
in full activity, and a Committee composed of former mem-
bers of the Inquisition, was busy, night and day, in mak-
ing out their lists of prohibited books. Madrid, to add to
its miseries, was menaced with a scarcity approaching to
famine ; and our Bayonne letter of the '2sth states, that
no grain of any description was allowed to pass the gates.
An order had been issued, obliging all individuals formerly
employed under the French Administration, and then
without commissions, to quit Spain instantly ; even those
who had obtained civil employments were, this letter
asserts, to be escorted to the frontiers by gens-d'armes, if
they disobeyed the order. The fact is, the French think
land speak too freely for the present order of things. A
despotism more odious than that of Turkey now prevails
throughout Spain—tyranny and superstition are arrayed to-
gether in their worst forms. How long this dreadful sys-
tem will endure depends altogether on the stay of the
French troops ; it is supported sod ly by their bayonets.
None but the monks and rabble, and a few fanatics among
the Spaniards, can sanction the utter degradation of their
country. The Infant Pon Carlos is asserted to have been
connected with the late disturbances ht Portugal. Dan-
gerous intrigues against the independence of that country
have latterly been hatching between the French and Spa-
nish Cabinets ; but Spain is too feeble now to carry these
views into execution of herself, or to accomplish plans, in
which the merciless Philip the Second, with all his power
and resources, was ultimately foiled. There can be no
union of the two Crowns; and Great Britain is bound by
treaty, as well as inclination, to defend her ancient ally
against any dark attempt on her independence.

The following intimation of hostilities between the
United States of America and Spain was posted up at
Lloyd's in the forenoon of yesterday, and excited a very
strong feeling:—
" Pains, 31 AY 30.—8 y advice' from llladrid of the 20th instant,
the Spanish Charge d'Affaires in the United States has informed
Government that fourteen vessels, under the American colours, have
sailed to cruise against the Spanish trade."
The following paragraph on the same subject appeared
in the Journal do Commerce, a well-informed Paris Paper,'
particularly in all commercial affairs:—
" The Spanish Charge d'Affaires at the United States has
informed his Government that fourteen privateers, under the South
American flag, had sailed on a CTIIiSC against Spanish commerce.
This information was immediately communicated to the Maritime
Commandants of the Peninsula. It was probably one of these
priva•efis which at the beginning of May, so ill-treated a Spanish
vessel off Gibraltar."
We believe the alarm excited at Lloyd's to have been
ill-founded. No sudden reprisals of this sort would have
been adopted by the United States, without strong grounds
for war; and we know of no existing dispute of any
moment between the two nations. The phrase used in
the Paris Paper ( pavilion Americaine) refers, we are con-
fident, to South America, and not to the United States.
Sonic South American privateers had probably been
armed, and sailed against Spanish commerce, from some
of the ports of Colombia, and thus the report may have
originated ; but there is no existing quarrel of any sericus
nature between Old Spain and the United States of North
America.

Brussels Papers to the 29th May came to hand last
night. They contain the opening and sitting of the
Second Chamber of the States General, at the Hague, on
the 27th, 28th, anel 29th of flay; but they possess no
political interest beside. The Spanish Amnesty had been
receivetl at Brussels, where a number of hopeless refugees
had found a shelter, and universal dismay was created by
this Act of infamous proscription amongst thorn. The
Brussels Journal speaks in the highest terms of praise of
the conduct of these unfortunate exiles.
BRUSSELS. MAY 27.

We learn from Lille that • soldier and a drummer of the pr.
neon of t.lat city having cried •• Vice l'Empereur." have beta
tried by the First Permanent Military Tribunal, at d condemned,
the first to ten years, anti the secor.d to six months' imprisonment,
and both to a tine of sixteen francs, and the expenses.
MAY 31.
Vocal Highness Prince Frederick of the Netherlands arrived
in this city the evening before yesterday, on his return hum Paris,
land set out yesterday for the Vague.
The Decree of Amnesty granted by the King of Spain contains
I such a number of exceptions, that it beeomes almost illusory. It
has tilled with consternation many Spanish refugees, who have
sought an asylum on the hospitable soil of Belgium. ICe think
this a proper opportunity to observe, that the conduct of the Spa-
nish refugee*, whom adversity has brought to Mussels, is a model
of prudence, circumspection, and the strictest propriety.
TIIE 11AGUE. MAY '2 fl.
SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES-tIENEK.II..
The Sitting opened at half-past ten o'clock in the morning, and,
after the preliminsry business was gore through, the Chamber pro-
ceeded to the order of the day, which was Mr. Bartbelemy's :no-
tion for an Address to his Majesty on the distressed state of agri-
culture.
Baron Htunart, t`vie first whose name was entered to speak, painted
in strong colours the tliitressed condition of the landholders and
fanners, and *hewed the absolute to:cosily of restricting the un-
limited freedom of the trade, unless we would see die entire ruin
of agriculture, which must be followed by the destruction of the
nation. He voted for Cie Address proposed by 3lr. Barthelemy,
without any alteration.
Count Hugendoep did not deny the distress of agriculture, bat he
did not think that restrictive measures would remedy It. lle spoke at
great length on the defects of the English legislation on this subject
but be said that the English waned at present inclined abolish the