The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-02-17 00:00:00

IRON RAILWAYS.

irondon and Dirming. ,
London and Northern 11

aI ISCE LLAN E 0 U S.
British Iron Company 74
Gen. Steam Navigation 104
Gold Coast AMOCMLOOD 84
Metro. Alderney Dairy 41
Metro Fish Company 14
New Corn Exchange 8 C
Pearl Fishery (Yellow) 17 18
Prov. Bank of Ireland 84 .5
Patent Bricks 21

nv Zrittisit alrtoo.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURT-LANE.
This Et ening, THURSDAY, leb. 17. will be performed (for
the first time) a new Historical Play, called
MASANIELLO.
THE FISHERMAN OF NAPLES.
Pr!nelyal Charasters by Messrs. Kean, Wallach, and Terry
Mesdames Ratan, W. West, and Yates.
After which,
H.tRLEQUIN AND "lIIE TALKING BIRD.
THE SINGING TREES, AND GOLDEN WATERS.
Harlequin, Mr. Nowell; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Blanchard: Clown. Mr.
barb). Columbine, Mlas Barnett.

THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN.
Thu Evening. TIIURSO LV. trek 17, will be performed
DElt PREISCHUTZ
Or, THE BLACK HUNTSMAN or BOHEMIA.
Ottnttar, Mr. Baker; Conrad, Mr. Egerton; Caspar, Mr. Bennett:
Wilhelm, Mr. reiIIIDASI : the Black Iluntsman of Bohemia, Mr. Evan*.
Dartha, Miss Paton; Lens, Miss Love.
After which,
HARLEQUIN AND THE DRAGON OF WINTLEY ;
Or, MORE OF MORE HALL.
Harlequin, Mr. Eller; Pantaloon, Mr. Barnes; Clown, Mr. J. S. Ge-
meld!. Columbine, Mies Homer.

ADELPHI THEATRE,
STRAND.

This Evening, THURSDAY. Feb. 17, will be presehted anew Com!c
Annetta, called
THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR.
The Principal Characters by Messrs. Wrench. J. Reeve. Wilkinson,
Power, Lee. Brown, Campbell. Salter, and Elliott; bliss Auden,
Mrs. Daly. Searle. Bryan, Ac. etc.
. .

To conclude with
MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE;
OR. THE IRISH VALET.
Larry Hooligan. Mr. Power; Louisa Locemore, Miss S. Booth.

THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE,

STRAND.
LECTURE ON ASTRONOMY!
It is respectfully announced, that Mr. RARTLEY will deliver thi
LECTURE on ASTRONOMY TO-MORROW, and on the WEDNES-
DAYS and ■RII)AYS during LENT.
The Scenery and Machinery, illustrating the Lecture, are upon the
grainiest seine.
ramilie• may purchase Tickets at the Bor.othee (when the party
consists of four or more persons) at reduced prices.

THE APOLLONICO2V.

txDsa rum IMMEDIATE! PATIPAMIAUI UV ru MAJBEET.

On SATURDAY NEXT, at Two &Clock,
The following SELECTION of MUSIC will be performed ty Mr.
PURRIS on the OPOLLONICON, a Grand Musical instrument,
Invented and constructed by Idesors. Flight and Motion, organ
Builders. 101. St. Martin's-lane:—
PACT I.
Overture. Taneredl Illoesinii—Canzonet. My mother bids me'
``Haydn)—Rongo (Mozarti—bong, Thee rionde by tempests may be
driv'n,' Der Frew:buts (Weber)..ol4l,l a, Figaru (Mozart).

Pair M.
Overture, Der Frelsehuts (Weber)—Cavatina, Pro Mind &names'
(Cararm—tilce, The Gypeey'd (T. Welsb)--.llrs ' Should a youth,'
Der Frelschutz (Weber)—La Chasse (Starkle).
N.B. Mr. Purkhes Performances will be continued everyllitirthii
during the Season.
The Mechanical Powers of the Apollonkon ars exhibited Daily,
from One till Four (except during the time of Mr. Purk is attendaneei.
performing Beethoven's celebrated Overture to Prometheus. Mozart's
Overture to Zaubernote, and Haydn's (Wand Military Movement
from his Twelfth Symphony, in the execution of wbieh it has been
humoured with the sanction of the Omit enthwtit mechanical and
musical men of the age, and is allowed to possess a grandeur and
variety of effect, with a precision and a delicacy of expression. supe-
rior to any other lust' muent in i:urope.
The Music arranged for and let on the Cylinders by Mr.Fllght, pun.

The BRITISH Pura' eommmeed publishing yesterday morning
at half-past eight o'clock.
LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 023.

The Paris Morning and Evening Papers of Monday ar-
rived last night. By the latter we find that the Chamber
of Peers is yet occupied with the consideration of the new
law of sacrilege. The Deputies were engaged with the re-
port of petitions, and some projects of little interest. On
Wednesday the report of the law for the reduction of the
Renter was to be presented by M. Ile ESNs DE POMM E risk.
At the same sitting, a project of law for the settlement of
the accounts of 1g23 was to be laid before the Chamber,
and the Budget for 1836.
According to the Caurricr Francais, FERDINAND VII.
is In a really dangerous state of health. Having by his
dishonesty, obstinacy, and tyranny, involved himself in
difficulties apparently insurmountable, he falls into a vio-
lent rage with all around him, and complains that they
abuse his confidence and mislead him. He now feels how
much more raily free and happy he would have been had
he reposed on the affection of his people, instead of calling
for the aid of foreigners to coerce them into submission to
his capricious will. To be an absolute King is not, he
has learned, even the best mode of insuring his safety.
Troubles and dissensions continue in every part of Spain.
In the Eloile dated Tuesday there is a paragraph to the
following effect :

" LiTctEar Illuaar (son of the Ex.liing of Nket-rs) was at
Gibraltar, on his way (as he said) to the United States of North
America. Being taken on the Spanish territory, he was arrested
and sent to prison in Algesims. On his arrival at Algcsiras he
was interrogated by General JOSE pit O'Dow mut-, who did not
conceive that he had received orders from Madrid to arrest him, if
he should set foot on the Spanish territory."

The Courrier P•ancais says, that LUCIEN Mutter was
enticed on to Spanish ground by a Spanish Colonel with
whom he had become acquainted at Gibraltar, and who took
him out on a sporting party ; but that as he had an Aus-
trian passport, granted with the consent of the Powers of
the Holy Alliance, and as he is an Austrian subject, it is
probable the Austrian Ambassador will interfere in his
favour.

The Journo/ cl,s 'Wats of Monday has not been re-
ceived, and the Monitclir contains nothing that we have
not already had through other channels.

FRENCH /URI/S.—PARIS, /Ell. 14.-5 per Cents. opened at
103. 75., closed at 103. 70. ; Bank Stock, 1980: Rents de Naples,
Falconnet Certificates, ne. 70. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 57j—.
Exchange on London, 1 month, 25. ; 3 months, 24. 85.—Coors
Autheutique, Fa. 14.

We had not space yesterday even to publish the official
report to the King of FruNee, respecting the contracts of
M. OVVRARD, who during the WI; ritiN's campaign in
the Peninsula, found means to provide the French army,
though at no very reasonable prices, with those supplies of
provisions which the regular Commissariat were, or pre-
tended
to be, unable to obtain. Our correspondent mentioned
some time ago, that the report of the commission would im-
plicate several persons standing high as Military Intendants
itethat campaign, and that an attempt had been made to:pro-
cure the suppression of the Report, by representing to the
Deceit►\ that it would involve in public disgrace some
of those who most largely shared his confidence. His Royal
Highness, it may be remembered, declared that he would not

interfere. "If my confidence has been betrayed," said the
Dan PH IN, " I am sorry for those who have abused it; but
I cannot prevent the truth from being :Wade known, nor hinder
the commission from discharging the duty confided to it?.
The KING, it now appears, has been governed by sentiments
equally honourable end praiseworthy. The Minister of
IVar prays that justice may be done, and his Most Chris-
tian MAJESTY answers, by referring the Report to the
Department of Justice, " to cause the laws of the king-
dom to be executed." M. Domains was arrested a few
weeks ago for debt, and after an ineffectual attempt to ob-
tain his release, committed the prison of St. Pelagic.
In the Etwie of Tuesday, it is stated, that against
Ouc—
aar.D, ROL LAC, and some others, inculpated in the frau-
dulent transactions of 1823, on Saturday last, a suit was
comineticed by the French Government. Distant has
been examined, and the seal put upon all his papers.

We have purposely abstained, for some time past, from
adverting to the affairs of Ireland. We felt the difficulty
of bringing them under discussion without introducing
the topic of the CAruoeic ASSOCIA T 1 s, and we felt un-
willing to 'agitate a subject which Parliament was so soon
to set at rest. Now that the public attention has been
drawn to it in all its bearings, and the line of policy to be
adopted towards it has been decided upon, it is still less
necessary to bring it inm controversy. 'We deeply deplore
the wrongs which Ireland has suffered, and still suffers,
but .we likewise deeply lament the imprudence of the
Catholic -Leaders in Ireland, who, when those wrongs were
in a fair way of alleviation—when the aspect of affairs was
daily becotning snit-ler—when their equal claims to justice
were beginning to be respected, with more of practical
sincerity add positive effect than they had ever hitherto
been—when he horiion was clearing up on every side,—
should imprudently call into action all those passions and
prejudices of their Catholic countrymen, which it was so
desirable to allay, and to rouse—as by this most injudicious
and ill-timed zeal they did—a counter-activity on the side
of the Protestant party, and thes fnrniihed a pretext—and
a plausible one too—to their inveterate enemies, for resist-
ing their claims, by referring to the influential dominion of
the Catholic Commanders, as a specimen of what might be
expected from the whole Catholic body. The error of this
conduct was fundamental. It had the appearance at least—
which for the purpose of evil was enough—of taking the
authority of the Government out of the hands in which
it was vested, and—what made it still worse—out of those
hands which had exercised it all along in the epirit of
equity, and with an equal eye to the rights Leith of
Protestant and Catholic. To suffer this usurpation on the
supreme authority was to sanction it. Government could
not have done this without abandoning their trust, and in
putting it down they have done well and wisely. But the
great question is still behind, that of CATHOLIC Ilst.izr—
we dislike the term EY•NCIPATION—we consider it at
objectionable, inasmuch as it comprehends much more than
either is or ought to be included in the subject to which
it is applied. It presupposes the Catholics to he slayer.
We talk of the emancipation of the Negroes. As applied
to their condition, the term may be suitable; but in its
ordinary use, as applied to Ireland, it not only carries all
our conceptions wide of the truth, but it mingles itself
invidiously with all those deliberations on the state of Ire-
land, from which everything of bitterness and exasperation
should be excluded.

The suppression of the CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION it a
tnesSure with which the claim of the Catholics to he re-
lieved from the civil disabilities to which they aresubjected
en account of their religious creed, stands entirely uncon-
nected. The justice of a claim is one thing ; the approval
of the mode in which it is asserted is another. That there
la much to be reformed as respects the Catholics of Ireland.
and much to be conceded, Ministers—Mr. CANNING
among The foremost—fairly and unequivocally acknow-
ledge. But Parliament demand that this reform and these
concessions shall 'be given iy, and not be forced fn
them :—that fully recognising the right, they shall be per-
mitted to decide on the time and mode of granting it—that
the power shall be lodged with them, and not with the
Catholic Association or with Mr. O'Coxxnt.t, to balance
the for and against in public opinion, and to relieve the
Catholics at once, or by degrees, from all the penal disqua-
lifications which attach to them, according as either may
be done without the risk of throwing everything into con-
fusion anti danger. Quid sit futurum eras, Age snserere, is
not the motto for a Statesman. That a mass of prejudice
exists against the admission of the Catholic claims there is
no doubt. That this prejudice is most unwarrantable and
unworthy is equally true; but still it exists, and exists in a
degree that may make it matter of prudence not to proceed
rashly in doing violence to it. If the exclus;on of the Ca-
tholics from the best privileges of British subjects, excited
everywhere—as the'y ought—the same adverse feelings
which they excite in Mr. CANNING, and in the minds of
the best-judging and most reflective men in the kingdom.
both in and out of Parliament, then to regenerate Ireland
and to do her justice would be no difficult task. But a
Minister, in whatever he is to provide fur, and in whatever
he is to provide agat`nst, in political institutions, must
watch the time and the season. Ile has to deal with man
as he is, and he must mike the best of things as they are.
Under the government of Lord Ws: Ltest.ny much real
and substantial good has been effected for Ireland ;
and these were only the beginnings of what was to
be done, and will be done yet, to secure to her the en-
joyment of her civil rights, and the franchises of the
British Constitution. The real friends of the Cat:iolic cause
have observed with great grief, that its leaders pursued a
course so impolitic and so impetuous, that none but their
enemies could be their advocates. It would be but candid,
however, to admit that their intemperance was not wholly
without a2ology. Their future course, there is every reason
to believe, will be moderate and dignified; persuaded as
they most be by experience, that any opposite movements
must thin the ranks of their adherents, and taking—as it
would do—from their corduct all vindication, would end in
leaving their cause without support. They have already
thrown many obstacles in the way of its advancement. But
we trust the epoch which is to begin the reign of equity
and justice in Ireland, is not far off; her immediate appli-
cations may fail, but her ultimate success is not doubtful.

The Money Markets were steady yesterday. During the
whole of the morning, Consols both for Money and the
Account were at the same prices, via. 933 91. In the
Foreign Market the various Securities firmly maintained
the prices of the preceding day. New Greek Scrip was at
If to 11; Spanish Bonds were done all day at :24,1. and a
good deal sought after ; Colombian Bonds were steady at
91 ; New Nlesican Scrip was at Si, and Brazilian at 11 ;
Mines were a little flat in the early part of the morning,
but they soon recovered, and maintained Tuesday's prices
to the close of the Market.

An express arrived yesterday from Liverpool. bringing
intelligence of the entrance of General Sucre into Lima
on the 4th of October. It is added that another division
cf Bolivar's army ras expected on the following (lay.