The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-05-11 00:00:00

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KING'S THEATRE.
This Evening. TUESDAY. May 11, will be performed
If. DON itiltriltAlNl.
In the finale of the first a.:t,Monaleor Vestria and Madame Ronal
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V. Ho will duke l'es de Deux.
End of rile opera the favourite linnet of
LE SONIA I)tLSSIAN.
Applications for Boxed and Shone Subseriptione for the Sewn t 0 be
made to Mr.seguln, Opersoolnee. 114 quadrant, Regent-nreet.

NEW THEATRE' RIWM., DRURY-LANE.
This Evening. TUESDAY. May 11, will be performed
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.
Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Dowton; Master Slender, Mr. Harley; Yard,
Mr. Terry ; Fenton. Mr. Horn. Mn,. Ford, Miss Stephens; Mrs.
Page. Melanie Yestris. .

eistelude with
ZOROASTER ; or. THE SPIRIT OF THE STAR.
To-morrow, The Hyy.write, with My Grandmother. and Zoreeeter.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
This Ermine. TUESDAY. Nay 11. will be performed
NATIVE LAND; or. THE RETURN FRO!, SLAVERY.
The Principal Character* by Mewing. slnclalr. W. Parrett. Cooper,
Paweett Mimes Paton and M. Tree.
To conclude with
TIIE SPIRITS OP THE MOON;
Or, THE INUNDATION or TIIE NILE.
To-morrow. Pride Shall Hare a Fall.

The Elm i sit Pass' coonneneed publishing yesterday morning
at fee o'clock.

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAt• 11, 18g4.

The last Bayonne letters state, that the report was pre-
' 'talent at Madrid of an approaching change in the Spanish
Ministry ; awl that the Duke of San Carlos, some time
'since Ambassador from Spain at this Court, and now in
the same rank at Paris, would be named Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs; the Monk Saez be again called to the Cabi-
net as Minister of Justice; D'Eroles or Campana to fill
the place of War Minister ; and Vincente that of Finance.
This would be completely a Royalist Ministry. The last
is certainly at present the most arduous office in the Spa-
nish Cabinet. To find funds for endless applicants, from
lan empty Treasury, is a difficult undertaking. The sum
of five millions of francs, part of the produce of Gueb-
hanl's loan, had, however, it is said, arrived from Paris at
Madrid, and were deposited in the bank of St. Carlos.
This sum will go but a short way to supply the numerous
and craving demands on the Spanish Treasury. The
amount, it is stated, was to be applied to defray the ex-
penses of an atusjunent, consisting of three frigates and
2,500 men, now preparing at Cadiz for South America.
Foe ourselves, we do not believe that any such expedition
is really contemplated, however confidently announced ; or
that Ferdinand and his followers can spare the awn in
question from their own pressirg wants. Besides, our
Cabinet has declared, that any expedition proceeding
against America, from a Spanish port, while a foreign
force controls that country, would be considered as
French, and followed by an instant recognition of the un-
qualified independence of the Spanish Colonies; and will
Spain tempt such a result ? The latest accounts from
Madrid state, that Ferdinand had returned to Aranjuez on
the 2sth of April, and that the French troops wto ac-1
companied him resumed their cantonments on both banks,
of the Tagus. The despot was to return with his family
to Madrid by the 15th of June, after visiting the Escurial,
and the baths of the Sacedon. Letters from the Spanish
capital to the 26th, talk of a levy of 56,000 men in Spain,
a part to be employed in attempting the recovery of Peru
or Mexico: to defray the expenses, application was
to be made to the Philippine Company, and their
coffers were to be unlocked and plundered. But if this
Ccmpany can contribute so largely, why were they not called
upon in place of having recourse to foreign loans ? But the
latter Ferdinand can get rid of by a simple decree whenever
he chooses. The work of terror and proscription still pro-
ceeds in Spain. Thirty of the principal inhabitants at Vit-
toria had been suddenly arrested, and the Corregidors of
Madrid, under the Constitutional system, who have been
in dungeons for months, have been apprised that they will
not be released until they refund the sums expended by
them under orders from the Constitutional Government.

Such an intimation amounts to a sentence of perpetual im-
prisonment. The first column of the reinforcements from
France to the Army of Occupation within the Pyrenees,
was to pass through Bayonne on the 4th.—Letters from
Alexandria of the Sth April have been received by way of
Marseilles. They state the arrival at tbat port of the 'I
Capitan Pacha, with part of the Turkish fleet destined for
the conveyance of troops to the Morea, and that the re-
mainder of the Ottoman naval force was speedily expected
to join him. From an occurrence that took place, either
through accident or design, at Cairo, this expedition is not,
however, likely to sail for some time. It appears that the
grand arsenal at the latter city, in which gunpowder and a
large quantity of military stores were collected, to ►he value,
it is said, of ten millions of Spanish dollars, was destroyed
by fire, and 3,000 Egyptian soldiers are said to have pe-
rished in the explosion. The Greeks will receive the intel-
ligence with shouts of triumph, and think that a powerful
Providence watches over and protects their great canoe.
This occurrence must cripple the resources of Mobanied
Ali, and the next campaign of the infidel is likely to close
as disastrously as all the preceding ones, in which they
whitened the Mores with their bones, and achieved nothing.

Mr. Moberly brought forward, in a speech of consider-
able length, his motion last night, for the repeal of the
Assessed Taxes. It was opposed by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, principally on the ground that such a
repeal would nearly destroy the Sinking Fund, to which'
Parliament had given its solemn sanction, and which now
supported so strongly public confidence and credit. The
motion, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said, was in fact
only a repetition of that brought forward previous to the
recess, by Mr. Hobliouse, fur the repeal of the House and
Window Tax, only that the present motion went, by a
sweeping proposition, to repeal all the Assessed Taxes;
and the arguments he then opposed to Mr. Hobhouse's
motion were equally applicable to that of Mr. Moberly.
The motion was also opposedby Alderman Ileygate and Mr.
N. Calvert, who :stated from the opposition benches, that
he would prefer giving his support to the repeal of any
taxes that would tend to raise the general price of labour.
Mr. Hume supported the proposed repeal ; but Mr. Mo-
berly's motion was ultimately negatived in a division, by
a large majority.

On the second reading of the West India Company Bill
being moved last night, Mr. Huskisson entered into
a full and satisfactory detail of the objects and principle of
this important measure. The Right Honourable Gentle-
man supported the Bill warmly and most ably. The
Company in question (Mr. Huskisson said) was not formed
with a view to a monopoly of the West India trade ; its
capital was not to be embarked in the market ; they were
merely to act as an ageney.house in this county, to receive'
consignments to sell on commission, and advance money on
the security of West India estates. It was thought by some
t the Right Honourable Gentleman stated) that the distress
of the proprietors in the sugar islands would be available
to the amelioration of the condition of the shires. He
(Mr. II uskisson) was quite of a contrary opinion : the
fact was, that if the urgent distress of the planters was
net relieved, they would he driven to despair, and then