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London, England, 1826-03-23 00:00:00

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DRURY-LANI THEATRE.
Ow EASTER MONDAY, Meech 27, will be performed the new Operatic

Play of
BF:NYOWSKY.
Benyowsky, Mr. Bennett; Korasto, Mr. Horn; Stephanoff, Mr. Wal-
lack ; Trktram Stark, Mr. Harley. Athanasis, Mina Foote; Phedura,
Mk% Cubits ; Chri•tine. MSS Posey.
Aft,r wlitah time) a new Grand Romantic Fairy Tale, called
OFIF.RON ; or, THE CHARMED HORN.
Parlez—Oberon, Miss Vincent; Titania, Mi•• Macdonald. French—The
Dawn.. Charlemagne, Mr. 0. Smith ; Slr Huon of Guyenne. Mr. Ben.
nett ; Sltera•min, Mr. Browne; Sir Aubert, Mr. Howell. Arabians—The
14•1iph of Bagdad, Mr. Pope ; the Prince Itablkin, Mr. Penley ;
Mr. Fit:whiten) ; Writer, Mr. Mercer. The Princess Amanda, Miss Smith-
Sou Fatma, Mrs. C. Jones. Tunialans—The Sultan of Tunis, Mr.
Youngs; Kuluga, Mr. W. Bennett; Fisherman, Mr. G. Smith.

ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.
PASSION WEEK.
Thl4 Evening, THI'RSDAY, Starch 23, being poaltively the LAST
NIOIIT until neat Year of the LECTIJR/11 on ♦STRONOMY by Mr.
BARTLEY.

Door' open at Half-past 3is, end begin at Seven.

The BRITISU Patss commenced oubli‘bing yesterday morning
at a quarter past live o'clock.

LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1996.

The Etoile of Tuesday contains an account of BAZAN'S
rash attempt in Spain. The following are extracts from
the French Papers which have arrived:—
[From the Etoile, dated Tuesday. March 21.1
MADRID., 51ancii 9.
The papers seized upon Bazan and the persons of his band, con.
tain all the details of the extravagant plan formed by the Revolu-
tionists. In case of success, the Government was to be confided to
a sort of Regency or Directory, composed of Romero Alpuente,
and other violent Jacobins. A Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal
was to be erected in the capital, and subaltern tribunals in the pro.
vinces, to do justice on the enemies of liberty.
Models of lists of proscriptions were drown up, and they had
even been filled fur some towns in the coast of Valencia, particu.
larly for Guadamar, the place at which they landed. A woman was
condemned to a fine for having danced with Chambo (a Royalist
Guerillero).

The estates of the Clergy and of the Nobility were to be confis-
cated, for the two-fold purpose of remedying the penury of
the finances, and of destro►ing claws incompatible with the
new order of things. Minute regulations fixed also the details of
the intended civil and financial administration.

However incredible such mad projects may appear, the pre-
ceding conduct of Selles and Basin did mot permit any thing more
moderate or reasonable to be expected from them, or from those
who directed them. Accordingly the news of their defeat has been
received with general satisfaction.

It is presumed that such a result will cause the project of a se.
cond expedition, which was preparing at Gibraltar, to be aban.
Boned. It appears besides, that though formed for the same pur.
pose, the persons who were to make part of it did not partake in
their whole exrent the wicked and sanguinary plans of the com-
panions of Baran.

Several of the revolutionists of the band of Bastin have not ye
been shot. They have made important disclosures, which im.
plicate in their plot the name of Mina, and of a person of conse-
quence.

It is affirmed that the Spanish Consul at Gibraltar has obtained
a positive promise that all the refugees who are at all dangerous
shall be shortly expelled from the place, and even from the bay.
The Glverntnent has already recommended very strict vigilance to
the persons who are charged with the police of the road.
The most distinguished of the refugees lodged in the town are
forbidden to leave it; they are noted at the gates, and must be at
home at eight o'clock in the evening, to expect the pollee officers,
who will take a review of them several times in the week.
The Board of Health at Cadiz being informed that there are in
several towns of Morocco very destructive fevers, caused by the
extreme eistress, has just ordered that all persons coming from that
empire shall be subject to fifteen days' quarantine.
The Infanta Donna Louisa Carlota being in the ninth month of
her pregnancy, official notice of it has just been given to the Fo-
reign Ambassadors and Ministers, the Counsellors of State, the
Captains-General of the Army, the Chiefs of the Supreme Coun-
cils, and to the four Grandees of Spain, who, according to custom,
must attend at the presentation of the child Limmediately upon its
birth.

A great deal has been said within these few days of a duel be-
sateen two Garden du Corps, both foreigners. One of them, of
English descent, was accused by several of his comrades of a disho-
nourable action. As he could not be legally convicted of it, he de-
manded vathfaction for the Injurious suspicion of which he was the
object, and challenged his accusers. Three of them came forward
to settle the quarrel ; the first wounded him very severely us the
throat. lie is now under arrest, u well as all his comrades.

PARIS, MARCH 20.
A letter from Vienna says, Ills Majesty the Emperor had, in the
night of the 10th March, an alto* estiever, which. Heaven be
praised, was not attended with any Manning symptom. His Ma.
Jesty was much better the next morning, and there is every reason
to hope the speedy recovery of this adored Monarch. His Majesty
slept six hours in the night of the 11th, ar.d is now entirely con.
valescer.t.

It is affirmed that orders of the day, lately read to the troops,
dissuades individuals belonging to the army of the Netherlands
from taking part directly or indirectly in the Societies or Corn.
mitten, the object of which is to find aid or to collect subscriptions
in suppott of the Greeks.—Le Beige.

{From the Pilate of Monday.]
PARIS, Maslen 19.
Letters from Buenos Ayres say, that Bolivar was preparing to
Invade PurAguay, hecaur.: it was notorious that Dr. Francis, who
governs that country, has a secret correspondence with the Queen
of Portugal, with a view to Induce the King of Spain to send troops
to Paraguay, and to recomeoce hostilities In Peru.

It is added that Bolivar, who has an accurate knowledge of all
the projects formed against the new States of South America, hus
published in the Gazettes of Pent, that the pretended Colonists
who embark from time to lime, at Trieste, for Rio deJaneiro,
were in reality old soldiers, who go to increase the army of Don
Pedto I.

[From the Courricr Prostais.l
The King of Portugal in appointing his daughter to the Regency,
appointed also at the same time a Council of State to assist her.
This Council was composed of the following persons :—The Duke
of Cadaval, a Prince of the Blood; Doo Frey Patricio, patriarch
of Lisbon ; the Marquis of Valadea, a Counsellor of State; and
the Count of Zarcos, also a Counsellor. of State, and formerly tutor
to his son, Don Pedro.

FRENCH FIINDS.-PAillS, MARCH 20.—Fivo per Cents. 26f.
35e. ; Three per Cents. HU. 73c. ; Bank Stock 2.0001. i Ren!e de
Naples 71f. 20c.; Royal Spanish Loans 44i. Exchanges in Lon.
don ►nc Ilona' 251.55 c. ; Three dit:o 231. 30c.—Cunt Authrn•
ague, 41far ch 20.

It appears by the following extract of a letter from the
Agent of Lloyd's at Hamburgh, that extensive frauds
have been practised on the underwriters, which we are

happy to state have been recently detected. seven persons
were under arrest at Hamburgll, charged with these crimes.
and four at Oldenburgh. In the invt stigation that has
already taken place, it seems that a foreign vessel, from
Hamburg!' and Altona to London, was sunk by the Master
off Borkurn ; on board of which fictitious packages were
found, for the purpose of defrauding the London under-
writers, by whom policies to an immense amount had been
subscribed. There are few persons more liable to have
frauds practised upon theta than the members of Lloyd's
Coff.e-liouse ; and we should say, take them as a body,
there are none who less eh serve such treatment. In a large
corn, like that of the London underwriters, there must ne-
cessarily be exceptions to this general rule ; hut we know
that the leading members in the room, whose example is
followed by the great mass of the subscribers, not only uni-
formly show a most honourable anxiety to settle any losses
on policies that they may have underwritten, where the case
is clear, but even to adjust them under equivocal circum-
stances, when they can do so without grossly compromising
their own interests. We do hope that the Committee for
conducting this most important branch of our mercantile
system, now that they have a tangible case before them,
will thoroughly investigate it, and that the same energy
which has been so often exerted for national purposes, will
be now employed iu defending fbr the future the property
of the members of this highly important establishment, as
far as the punishment of the criminals who have recently
invaded it can effect that desirable object
Extract of a Letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Hambargh,
dated 17th March :

" In consequence of an investigation attending the loss of the
Frau Oretlia, Captain Evert Adieu, bound from Ilamburgh and
Altona to London, it has been ascertained ihat the said vessel was
bored and sunk on the 7th Dezember, by the Muter and crew, near
Borkum. It also appears that the cargo consisted of only fictitious
packages, whose contents were of little or no value. The various
persons here and in Oldenburgh, for whose account the insurances
were effected, were privy to and had concerted the business *hit
the Master. Criminal prosecution is now going on through the
authorities of police of this place, and seven parties have been ar.
rested as principals or accomplices. The Master of the vessel and
some others have also been arrested by the Oldenburgh Govern.
went. The investigation of the Frau Gretha's business has led to
a discovery of an arrangement for a similar fraud, but which, of
course, has been frustrated."

It is, we think, an admirably good sign of the times,
when even the renowned poet of Ma ahrros can dip his
classic pencil in all the hues of sedition, without exciting
the slightest alarm or creating the least symptoms of ill-
will. He had no doubt been whirled round on the wheel
of popular applause till he was surfeited, and was there-
fore anxious to get rid of so much of his reputation as
might bring him down to the common level. It is difficult
otherwise to account for his thus hiding his loyalty all on
a sudden under a bushel, and, like a recreant Knight,
breaking forth in the spirit of faction—turning short round
on all his former sentiments—and, in a word, appearing
in complete metamorphosis. On his Majesty's memorable
visit to Scotland, who poured forth an unction of flattery
more profusely than Sir WALTER? in° lauded that
UNION which gave one throne to both kingdoms more
loudly, or earned a Baronetcy with a better grace, than
MALACHI MAI.AGROWTIIER? How changed is that tone
from the one which breathes the following factious hints
and insinuations into the ear of PADDY, who, if perchance
he should hear the sound of ca ira from the North, is in-
vited to whistle to the same tune.
" Betwixt Scotland and England, Mr. Journalist, there have
been, as you are aware, antient causes of quarrel, lulled to sleep
during the last fifty years, until of late, when a variety of small
aggressions, followed by the present seven-leagued stride, show that
perhaps they have not been so fully forgotten by our neighbours,
as we thought In our simplicity, and that the English Ministers
may not be indisposed to take the opportunity of our torpidity
to twitch out our fang-teeth, however necessary for eating our
victuals, in case we should be inclined, at some unlucky moment,
to make a different use of them. Or, the line of conduct of which
we complain, may be compared to a well-known operation resorted
to for taming the ferocity of such male animals as are intended
for domestication, and to be employed in patient drudgery. The
animal becomes fat, patient, sleek, and in so far is benefited by
the operation ; but had his previous consent been required, I
wonder what the poor Scotch slat would linve said ?

" PATRICK, my warm-hearted and shrewd friend, how should
you like this receipt for domestication, should it travel your way ?
You have your own griefs, an .l your own subjects of complaint,—
are you willing o lose the power of expressing them wills energy
You have only to join with the Ministry on this debate—you have
only to show in what light reverence you are willing to hold the
articles of an Union not much above a century old, and then you
will have time to reflect at leisure upon the consequences of such an
example. In such a cue, when your turn comes (and come be
sure it will), you will have signed your own sentence. You will
have given the fatal precedent to England of the annihilation of a
solemn treaty of incorporating Uuion, ar.d afforded the Repre.enta.
tires of Scotland ♦indictive reasons for retaliating upon you the
injury which you aided England in inflicting upon us. Whereas—
step this way, Pat—and see there is nobody listening—why should
not you and we have a friendly understanding, and assist cacti
other, as the weaker parties, against any aggressions which may be
made upon either of us, for uniformity's sake ?'—Your fathers
are called by our Scottish Kings, their antieut friends of the
Erischerie of Eirland,' and for my part I have little doubt that
Malachi. who wore the collar of gold, must have been an ancestor
of my own. Now, what say you to a league grAissine and de.
fenthe, against all such measures as tend to the suppression of any
just right belonging to either country, in virtue of the Articles of
Union respectively?—You ate a scholar, Pat—