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Elie Nritiolt

771E.ITRE ROYAL, DRURT-LANE.
Tomorrow Evening. SATURDAY Feb. 19. selll be performed
THE FALL OF SATURDAY,
The Prmelpal Characters by Mears. Say., Terry. Horn. Harley,
Caw,. Browne. Mercer, and 0. Smith ; Master Edmunds; Mesdames
stsphsas,Uraddon, Novi, and Carr.
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MY UNCLE tSABI.
Gsl.7l•lom :urn. Mr. (Attie; Scrip, Mr. R ELedford: Lleut Sutton.
bra; TUai .I.lClt, Mr. Knight; Jack Ready, Mr. Harley. Salsa,
SU" P.roY; Mrs. 1., Mrs. Urger.

THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN.
Tt'zuenvw Evening. SATURDAY, Feb. IV. wlil be performed
THE IMC'ONSTANT ;
Or, THE WAY TO WIN lIIM.
" 11r. M. Farrel.; Voting Mirsbel. Mr. C. Kenible; Duet.
tern. Mr. Jones. Bitsrre, Mrs. Chraterley.
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THE IRISH TUTOR; owhirc NEW LIGHTS.
Terry tritourke, Mr. Connor.
To conclude with.

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FranciSlsco,ViT Mr.Y Farley l Michell!, Mr.
blvirtiani seams. Miss Jmes Flametta, Mrs. Daveuport.
ou 31'"'laY. Der Vreisehett. and the Pantomime.

THEATRE RorAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE,

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Tie BRITISH Pat's commerical publishing yesterday morning
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reposefully on this statesman, whose ability and expe-
rience are known to be considerable. It is expected also
that the promises made by his Most Faithful Majesty, in
May, 1923, will shortly be fulfilled, and teat some sound
and liberal system of government will bk? instituted. The
Special Commission, to which the task of suggesting the
political reforms which time and circumstances had ren-
dered necessary, had completed its labouri in the August
following the counter-revolution;
,but by the influence of
the French Government, then paramount at Lcrbon, the
Report was suppressed. The Kt sic is now deifirout that
no time should be lost in carrying this good work into
effect.

The Eltnie, of Wednesday, confirms the accounts of the
feyness of the Pilgrims who have repaired to the Holy
City on the oecasion of the Jubilee. "It is only by the
ettraortiinary selemnities that we are remindLd that we
ate In the Holy Year." This is a gratifying proof of the
decline of superstition. We know of no cheat more gross
and palpable than that which pretends to sell the absolut
tion of sin, by contributing towards the revenues of a
petty State in Italy. It is creditable to the Catholics that
they have begun to despise these fraudulent appeals to
'weir credulity; they can show no better argument in
favour of their re-admission to the full enjoyment of their
civil rights.
The Etaiie also contains some ridiculous Anse of the
/nglish Government, for " unfurling the flag of civil and
religious liberty before the lio millions of subjects over
'Whom England reigns in Asia," and sonic abusive ridicule
of the " good Aldermen, who, after turtle soup, venison,
' clatet, tad champagne, drowsily listen to the sonorous
periods of the orator (Mr. Casts/me:), and think, always
supposing them to be capable of thinking, that the only
liberty worthy to be desired by man, is that which gives
rise to such dinners." If the French Ministry hope to
excuse their delay iu recognising the new States of America
by such wit and argument as this, we fancy they have
much miscalculated the temper and knowledge of the com-
mercial interests of their own country. England has only
done what France herself must do at no very distant day,
whatever may be her reluctance to the measure. The
independence of South America is a fact ; and though all
the powers of Europe should refuse to acknowledge it, the
fact will remain as true as ever.
The /if unitevr of Tuesday contains nothing official.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Pnats, FED. 15-5 per Cents. 1031.110 c.;
Bank Stock. 1935 f. ; Rents de Naples, ialconnet Certificates,
831. 80c.; Renee d'Espagnes Rif.; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823,
677—Exchange on London, 1 month, '4l'. Sc. ; 3 months, 241.
Autkottigut, Flt'.,. 15.

Last night we received the Brussels Papers of Wednes-
day : they are filled with details of the ravages it the
inundations in Holland. The King has given the sum of
100,00.0 florins, besides some other charitable donations,
to the sufferers. The subscriptions on the Exchange of
Amsterdam have produced a million of florins ; a single
house is said to have given a quarter of that amount. On
Tuesday a project of law was transmitted to the Second
Chamber of the States-General, for a vote of credit to his
MAJISTV, the maximum of which is fixed at eight mil-
lions, for the reparation of the disasters caused by the
inundations.

Last night we receivtld New York and other American
Journals to the 25th ult. brought by the Meteur, whicb
Las arrived at Liverpool. They bring no later intelli-
gence froria the seat of war in South America. The fol-
lowing is extracted from the New York Mercantile Adrer-
titer :

IMPORTANT AND LATEST FROM PERU.
General Cortez, who mine passenger in the schooner Lewis from
Alvarado, has kindly favoured us with the following authentic in-
telligence from Peru :—Mr. Santamaria, the Colombian Minister
resident in Mexico, had received accounts from C'allao of the 3d of
November, brought to Acapulco by. the brig Pallets, Capt. Henry
Bennor.d, from tivanchacu, a putt in the province of Trujillo. Bo-
livar's bead.quartms were xt A ntlaguailas, on the trawl to Cuzco, on
the 16th of October, having defeated Contarae in Guanianga and
Rio Pempoa. Of 6,000 men that composed Cantarac's army,
1600 had united and were retreating towards Cuzco, to join the re-
mains of La berna's forces, who had been defeated in the neigh.
bourhood of Charms by the army of Buenos Ayres. This army
bad taken possesivion of the provinces or Potosi, Cochabamba, Oru.
do, Punt", and Santa Cruz de la Siera. Bolivar himself writes to
Mr. Santamaria, assuring hint of the speedy temiination of the
campaign, ass Chilton army was marching from Arica to join that
or Peru and Buenos Ayres. The reinforcements from Carthagena,
St. Martha, and Puerto Cabello had arrived at Goad' a from Pana-
ma, whence also had been shipped a million and a lialf of dollars
for the army in Peru. Lima was occupied by the Patriots, and
Callao was blockaded by sea and by land, by the combined land and
naval forces, the latter being under the command of Commodore
Blanco. of the Chilian service.
The Spanish ship Asia. and brig of war Achilles, had made an
attempt to escape frum Callao, but being pursued by the Peruvian
and Chiliati squadron. returned to port, which so exasperated the
Cotnrnantiant of Callao, that he opened a fire on them from
the batteries, wishing to force them to s decisive engagement.

It was reported yesterday, that the Spanish Minister in
this country had recched despatches from Madrid, an-
nouncing that his CATHOLIC MAJESTY was :•cry danger-
ously ill, much worse than any statement that had been
suffered to transpire. His late attack was represented to
be of an apoplectic character, and not gouty, as the French
Papers had alleged. The Constitutionnel of Tuesday, it
will be seen by our extracts in a subsequent column, con-
firms the fact of the King of SPAIN'S serious illness. It
was believed, the Correspondent of that Paper states, that
FIRDIiAND was in his last moments, and all the Court
hthl already abandoned hhh, to pay their homage to the
Infant lion CARLOS. Another expedition against South
America, as we mentioned a few weeks ago, is getting
ready at Ferrol or Corunna ; and in order to furnish the
means of equipping it, there can be no doubt that a
negotiation is in progress at this moment in London,
for a new Spanish loan. At Madrid, it seems, people
suppose that the sense of justice belonging to the Spa-
nish Government, will not miter them to do more than
receive the Constitutional Bonds at a noininal value of to
per cent. We do not believe that any capitalist in
this city will listen to any such proposal. He must know
that he and his loan together would be hooted out of the
market, the instant he had the assurance to declare its
terms. The Bonds are now bought by somebody, for
some purpose, at 29. Many of them have silently been
withdrawn at much lower prices; we suspect that the
buyers, whoever they are, understand well what they are
doing. We have always held and published the opinion,
that, sooner or later, the loans of the Cortes must be re-
cognised. The malice or fatuity of the present Monarch
may, should he live, defer somewhat longer a measure
' which, of all others, except perhaps the limitation of his
sovereign power, he most heartily detests; but, in the
present state of Europe, in order to reign at all, he must
yield both points, hard as it may appear to him to be
obliged to concede either. The Spanish Government,
whosoever may be its head, will, in the end, be Com-

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from whatever rause, whether conscientiously or
from prejudice, shrink with dismay from the supposed
conatquences of admitting them to n certain share of the
governing lower, would any one, desirous of canveating
tbem to different sentiments, by convincing them that
their fears were without foundation, urge the following in
•
the way of persuasion?
. ,
`• The conviction that their debasement is the consequence of:
English ascendancy, is in truth mrivoe.r.Bl; and this conviction
binds them firmly together in opposition toile irthiwity of Cavern.
ment and of the laws. From the era of the Whieetiny Associatiou,
in 1760, down Welk present hour, insurreetion has-followed insur-
rection in one uninterrupted scrim Laws of the Most unbeard-of
severity have been passed to repress these disorders.; but, as 110
attempt has been made to take away the causes whence they
sprung, this severity • has only given them a darker shade of ;
atrocity. It is nut to Parliament, but to their own efforts, !fiat the
mass of the Catholic population look for 'emancipation. They
consider the Government at ci hostile power, NJ they lissitzte not
to embrace event opportunity to wreak their vengeance on all :rho
are either dfre:tiy or indirectly invested with authority."
If any one were desirous ta fortify the prejudices which
exist against the Catholic body, anti to confirm the fears
which those prejudices in'olve, lie could not, in our opi-
nion, attempt It more suect2ssfully titan by this represent-
ation. If the Orange faction wish to discourse publicly
on the danger of making any additional concession to the
Catholics, they cannot readily find a better text.
••• What are the evils," the Ilevienier ask*, " to be apprehended
from complete and unqualified emancipation ? What imaginabte
danger could result from admitting, at most. twenty Catholic
gentlemen among the sic hundred and fifty-eight she compose
the House of Commons, and some half dozen Catholic Peers into
the House of Lords ? But settiog these dangers in the most
trisggcrated point of view, are they to he compared, even for one
stogie moment, with the danger resulting from the determined
hostility of the whole Catholic population of Ireland ?"

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We answer, without hesitation, that no danger would
result from the admission of, at most, twenty Cathclic
Gentlemen into the House of Commons, or of some half-
dozen Catholic Peers into the House of Lords: but will not
the enemies of the Catholics—taking ground on this writer's
own statement—will they not contend, that if the exclusion
of these two dozen of Catholic Commoners, and half dozen
Catholic Peers, from Parliament, is sufficicnt to create,
and, according to his account, does create, " the defer-
mined hostility of the whole Catholic population of Ire-
land," that it behoves the Parliament of Great Britain
to take great care how they invest with politital power
seven millions of people, so susceptible of excitement u to
be roused to inveterate hostility by grievances, the effects
I of which do not even approach them ? for it is clear the
peasantry can suffer nothing from being ineligible as Mem-
bers of Parliament. To describe the whole Catholic popu-
lation as being willing to crush the system of the Consti-
tution, that they may remove evils which are never likely
to reach them, is certainly not the mode of argument which
a discreet advocate would have recourse ta, if he meant
effectively to serve their cam...
There is ample matter for further comment in this
article on Ireland, which is made to anticipate the appear-
ance of the Journal to which it of right belongs; but out
time and space are limited, and we have already assigned
to it as much of both as we can spare.

The principal attention of 'peculators seems to be turned
to the Foreign Market, and, in consequence, there has been
of late always more vivacity in it than in the English. It
was very brisk yesterday, and a good deal of business done
in it The new Greek Scrip fluctuated between ll and l.;
but it was extremely well thought of, and must persons
believe that it will be much better. Brazilian Scrip, 1823,
was firm at 4L New Mexican Scrip was done at 31 .1.
Spanish Bonds were in great request, owing to a strong
opinion prevailing that there will shortly be a new Spanish
Loan, one of the objects of which is, to buy. up the old
_Bonds. The best-informed persons, however, are divided
In their opinions as to the probability of this new Loan
making its appearance, and one of the parties to whom• the
report gives the contract, positively denies all know-
ledge of it ; however, notwithstanding these contra-
dictory reports, we incline to the belief that a new loan is
in agitation. The Spanish Bonds reached 9.5 yesterday.
Consols opened for money at 94 ; they afterwards declined
to 93i 4, at which price they closed. The account bargains
were also done on the latter terms.
The late proclamation of Martial Law at Caracas, it ap-
pears by authentic accounts received.yesterday, was a mis-
take. Some lawless depredators, consisting of runaway
slaves and other vagabonds had collected and seized some
muskets, but they were defeated and dispersed the first
body ofeegular troops that went against them.
The Buenos Ayres Argos to the 13th of December, was
received yesterday. The principal article it contains is a
diary of the operations of Olaneti's army in Upper Peru,
front which it appears that. lie has not thrown off his al-
legiance to the Crown of Spain. He styles hirns ••If a
Royalist, and makes war on the Viceroy Laserna, as a
Constitutionalist. Valdes, it appears, bad at the end Of
August retired, and left Olaneta master of Potosi and Chu-
quisaca, probably in consequence of the advance of Bolivar
upon Cuzco. •
The private letteis from ratis state, that the odium ex-
cited by the law of sacrilege now before the French
Chamber of Peers, is such, that not one Peer in twenty
ventures to speak in favour of it. It is generally thought,
therefore, that it will be thrown out.
Thc accounts received yesterday from Greece, via Corfu,
state that Patras was expected to fall every day,
Extract of a letter dated Batavia, 24th September:—
'` The Birman war is going on. Our troops have cap-
tured a part of the Royal Family, and seta then' to Cal-
cutta ; and it is reported that the country will be fully re-
duced in the space of two months snore.'
Capt. Franklin, and his party, fur the Northern Land
Expedition, sailed fsotn Liverpool on Wednesday, for
New York, in the Columbia. On leaving the pier lie was
cheered with three times three by the people on shore,
which was returned from on board. From New York,
the personi composing the expedition proceed to Upper
Canada, and then to Fort Chepewyan, on their way to
the Polar Sea, by the Mackenzie River. On reaching its
northern extremity, Captain Franklin and Lieutenant
Back, with part of the Expedition, proceed to the west-
ward, in the hope of reaching Behring's Straits; while Dr.
Richardson and Mr. Kendall, with the other party, pro-
ceed to the eastward, tracing the coast of America, if pos-
sible, to the Copper Mine River.
A NEW Me•'...ANit CiilEF.—ln the Urania, Captain
Reynolds, which arriiiel at this port on Saturday night.
front Buenos Ayres, came passenger a King, 'or Chief, of
one of the islands of New Zealand. The Urania, on her
voyage from Calcutta to the west coast of South America,
passed through Cook's Straits. A great number of natives
came of in their canoes to the ship, anti, headed by this
Chief, were permitted to come on board. The Captain,
not over-pleased with the conduct of his visitors, soon de-
sired the King to order his subjects on shore; fearing that
these cannibals might, if suffered to remain on board, tak,•
a liking to himself and his crew, overpower them, and
feast on the bodies of the slain ! They willingly obeyed
the command of their liege lord, and returned in their
canoes to the shore. His Majesty, however, when Captain
Reynolds wished hint to follow his subjects, expressed an
anxious desire to remain on board, and to proceed with him
to England, of which, he said, he had heard many won-
derful things, and was extremely anxious to see his
" brother George," our gracious 'A-Kinard'. Finding all
his endeaifouri to induce the King to return to his subjects
unavailing, and not wishing to employ force to compel his
departure, the Captain permitted him to remain. The
Urania then proceeded on a trsding voyage to the west
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