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London, England, 1825-02-22 00:00:00

fficaritioll Siress._

AtinT je()T,4
This Stelling. TITESIS.‘V, Feb VP. will be pinlarihrd
THE VALI. OF Al.olFllq.
The Prlnc:pal ChuartersSteesra Sarin. Tern', Horn, Hark".
,Gattio. Browne. Merv*, ani o. Slottii; Idastir Ldniondt; bisehau.es
Stephens, tiradd.ni. Nicol, end Corr.
After which a new Pastoral Ballet, Galled
RoSSIONOI.:
Or. THE PIED IN THF i11'.14.
The Praulpal Chanute= by Kr. and Mrs. :Ville, de

To e..nrqudis with
OLP 4ND VeIJNO.
The Four doss brays by LW Clara Fisher.
On Thursday, per Freisehutz, and the Pantomime.

7.IIFATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN'.
This Evening, TUESDAY, February 42. oin be performed
TIIE BELLE'S TRA TAGEM.
glr Georg, Torelissood, Mr. Cooper; Ddrieotirt, Mr. C. Kemble;
Hardy, Mt. Fawcett: nuttbr Mr. Jones. Letitia Ilaray, Mies Fonts;
Lady Frances Tuuebwuod, Miss F. H. Kelly ; Mrs. Racket, Mrs. Gibbs.

After whit
THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
arindolt Mr. Farley; Earl, Mr. Blanchard; Lotbalr, Mr. Cooper:
Claudine, MraVinina Itarina, Mrs. Fatten.
On Thu/edgy, A ItJland fur an Oliver, Cl arlet the Second, and Dl^
Pantomime.

THEATRE ROPAL,FIVOLIgH OPERA 11017 SE,
*STRA MD. •
To-rnorrrow. WVONESDAY, February 22,
I.F.t: Plitt e ON ASTRONOMY
And the PHENOMENA of the HEAVENS and of the EARTH.
To be delivered by Mr. BARTLE'. on the 11EDNESDAVS aud FRI-
DOES LENT.
The Theatre will be cur tautlywarmed by large Stoves in various
parts tne tiouse.
T.ekete of Aduiliietn.: for Facilites to be had on m Iderkte Terms at
the Bnx-otlice.—Doors to be overlaid at half-past Six, and Mein st Seven.

The Barrieri Clue ecinineneed publishing yesterday. moming
at tit e o'clock.

LONDON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 1823.

The Paris Papers of Saturday, like those of the preceding
day, arc filled with the debates in the Chamber of Depu tie&
on the propsed indemnity to the emigrants. In another
column we • bare given an abstract of the discussion on
Friday. Many speakers yet remain to be heard. M.
GlllaiunN, who was not 'allowed to address the Chamber
on Thursday, has published the speech he intended to have
delivered. His object was to 3tave pointed out the
coney of the emigrants voting in favo,4r of a project in
which they are, as individuals, so directly and deeply in-
terested. It appears from his calculation, that there are, in
the .present Chamber of Deputies, 320 members of the
old privileged classes, 184 of whom belong to the ancient
nobility; besides which there are 260 public functionaries.
_ _

The Law of Sacrilege has passed the Chamber of Peers
by a majority of 127 against In the present temper of
the Deputies, there can be no doubt it will be carried
triumphantly through the Lower Chanabcf. The only
question with them will be, whether, in accordance with
the wishes of the clergy, they ought not to render its penal-
ties more sanguinary and revolting. An amendment was
moved by M. DE BASTARD, to sutstitute the punishment
of hard labour for that of death, and supported by M. Dr
CIIATCACDRIAND. It was rejected by a majority exceed-
ing the minority by only four votes, Cr numbers being
108 against 101, The Peers were *Pens/ads occupied
with the consideration of a law agaimit piracy.
The President of Hayti has ordered the Legislative
Body of that Republic to be convoked for the 10th of
January, on account of urgent circumstances.
The Moniker contains an official ordonnance of the
KING, appointing a special commission for investigating
the public accounts. Of the dangerous illness of FER•
DIN•ND VII. there can now be no doubt whatever. The
Etoile of Sunday announces that" the state of King Fey.-
DINAND'S health causes general alarm ; the gout has taken
the direction of the stomach." His death, at this mo-
ment, would be attended with many important political
consequences. His brother, Don CARLOS, would most
probably disengage the Spanish monarchy from some of
the principal difficulties in which it is involved. He has
had no personal share in bringing them on the country; and
having witnessed their mischievous effects, he has no false
pride to deter him front adopting a sounder and snore
liberal system of Government,

From the Erode, dated Sunday.i
Pants, FCB. 19.
The state of King Ferdinand's health causes general alarm.
The gout has taken the direction of the stomach.
The Duke de Montebello arrived on the 13th at Frankfort, from
Dresden.

M. Van Brienen Van de Goote Limit. Member of the First
Chamber of the States, has given 100.000 florins (nearly ten
thousand pounds sterling) towards the relief of the victims of the
inundations in Holland.

A law project has been presented to the Second Chamber of the
States' General of the Netherlands for a grant of eight millions of
florins to be placed at the disposal of the Government, for the pur-
pose of repairing the disasters occasioned by the inundations
and high tides on the 3d, 4th, and sth instant, preventing others,
and relieving the sufferers by that terrible catastrophe.
FRENCH FCNDS.—PARIS, FEB. 19.-5 per Cents. 104 f. 20c.;
Bank Stock, 1990 f. ; Rents de Naples, Falconnet Certificates,
RV. SSE. ; Rente d'Espagnes 19191 f. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 11123,
84—Exchange on London, 1 mouth, z.za. sc. ; 3 mouths, 24f. 90c.
—Cours Authrufigus, Fes. 19.

The Bill for suppressing the unlawful Associations now
existing in Ireland was read a second time last night, after
a discussion which, in point of length and interest, fell
much below those which have preceded it. Indeed, the
opinion of Parliament has been so clearly expressed as to
this question, that there remains only the consideration of
the means to effectuate the object in view. Some of those
minor Members of the Opposition who could not obtain a
bearing on the previous evenings of debate, raised their
voices last night against the Bill, but on the division the
majority of votes was greater than ever. For the second
reading there were 253, against it only 107, leaving a sur-
plus majority in favour of the Bill of 146 Members. The
call of the House was postponed for a week; but it will
be noticed, by the numbers, that the House was much
fuller than on any previous evening during this Session.
The result is, that the more the friends of the Catholic
Association call for the opinion of Parliament and the
country, the more decidedly it is expressed against them.
We observe that Mr. GRENFELL thought fit to repeat
the bold, loyal, and patriotic sentiment to which he gave
utterance a few evenings ago, viz. that " his dying prayers
would be, that, if the Irish Catholics resisted, they might
be successful." If any speaker or writer, out of Parlia-
ment, were, at this peculiar moment, to endeavour to in-
flame the Irish Catholics to rebellion, by preaching to
them the sacred duty of insurrection, he would certainly
and most deservedly be prosecuted for sedition. Such an
incendiary would, however, expose himself to some risk
in the act of scattering his firebrands ; and, though we
should eihor the atrocity of his design, we could nat entirely
despise him as a cowardly instigator of others to mischief, in'
the dangers of which he dared not himself participate.
But if there were a Member of Parliament, who, forgetting
all that he owed to his country, should take advantage of
the shelter given to him by the law, fur purposes of a far
different character, to incite a misled and ignorant popu-
lation to the resistance of the King's Governtnent and the
authority of the Legislature, and to offer up publicly his
prayers that the empire might be torn to pieces by internal
dissensions and civil war ;—if there were such a Member;
we say, as this, to be found in Parliament, in whit terms
ought we to describe him ?

It 2 ppeate by the Army Estimates for this year that the
intended augmeotgioa of our military force wi2l sought