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London, England, 1825-04-02 00:00:00

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STRAND.
NR. MATHEWS AT HOME.
Oz. MONDAY NEXT. April 4, and every Monday, Thursday, and
Saturday.
MR. MATHEWS' MEMORANDUM-900X
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rot Peal ar, Cbaraetest, and Manners, collected during MS various
Trips.
flegoa—.• Memoranda In Confusion"—"Night Coach'—"Bubbles,"
a eliHsit Sorg—•' Sailing Mateb"—'• Old and New Tinsee"—'• Publie
SieSte, Sow-street."

Pear 111.—A Monopolylogue, to be called
THE CROWN INe DANGER.

Doan open at Seven; the Performance to commence at Eight.
Cs.vricor.—The new Entertainment wall not be printed; and all
Huck, professing to contain any parts of it are grow impositions and
ffliada 411 the

ADE LPH I 1"H EA i'Rli, STRAND.
POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGH f.
Tait Evening. SATURDAY. April 2, If2S.
11 HENRY announces, that in euneequenee of numerous inquiries tot
THE LAUGHING OAS!
He will Exhibit It on the above Evening.
Alban he will repeat ha SECOND ANNUAL LECTL RE, under the
title of
TABLE-TILE; or, SHREriS AND PVICHES,
Introductary of his new and uncommon Illusions, wonderful Met&
itimphoses, Musical (Hanes, die.. In the course of which he will intro.
lnt• several new Deceptions, which have never beau performed.
In the course of the evening M. Henry will attempt several Melodies
on the Musical Glasses.
conalude with Optical Illusions, and the Flying Heads and Dante
of Witches.

••• The Seventh Lecture of Dr. Spur:heim on Phrencdopy is
again unavoidably postponel.

Tt.Batiitx rain commenced publishing yesterday mortis(
at five o'clock.

LONDON, SATURDAY, Arm 2, 1813.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday contain a good deal of
news, but it is of very little importance to us on this side
the Channel. The Chamber of D. puties on that day was
c::upied with the discussion of a proposed law for the re-
galation of nunneries. The Coronation, we are now in-
ttrtned, is positively postponed to the 12th of June. The
reason assigned for the delay is the length to which the
%salon of the Chambers will probably be extended. The
mcnth of June too, it has been lately discovered, " offers a
lc VIM chance of fine wcatlwr both for the solemnity and
:he fetes that are to folios it."

The Oppuition Pap: give a translation of the Bill for
r-rrcving the disabilities of the Roman Catholics, and con-
t:e.st its provisions with the new law of sacrilege now
before the French Chamber,. The two Goverrments are
certainly conducted on very opposite principles. In Eng-
larel legislation proceeds in conformity with the changes
required by time, circumstances, and public opinion,
übek in France the welfare of the people is sacrificed, and
their feelings disregarded, if not outraged, by almost every
fresh act of authority, whether legislative or executive.
The health of the King of the NZTHERLAND• is still
represented as in a very precarious state. Prince Far-
antes, his Majesty's seemul son, was rent for by express
frean Berlin, before the Prince of ()sauce set out fur St.
Petereteirgh.

the lodieateur de Bordeaux publishes a good exposition
of die late mode of fabricating American news in the
Madrid Gazette. A schooner from the United States
arrived at St. Sebastian ; immediately the Commandant of
the Mariam writes to the Ministry that the Captain of the
-*boater had brought information confirmatory of the total
c'eftot of &Liras, and the pretended news is then sent
f:rth to the world on the authority of the American
mariner, who, however, has since thought it due to his
ecwroit to deny the statement attributed to him. It is

hardly worth while, perhaps, now to expose these wretched
artifices; but it is right that it should be known what
takes place where the liberty, of the press does not exist.

Fa/NCH Fur/Ds—Pears, P.l *arm 30.—Five per Cents. 102 E
bbc. ; Bank Stuck, 2,032 1.60 c. ; Rents de Naplee, Ceredicat. lel-
connet, 90f. ; Revue d'Eapag. 19f. ; Ruyal Spanish Loan,
1823, 11011. Recharge on London, one mouth, 26E ; three ditto,
24f. 86e.—Corry Arthetitiqbe, March 30.

The Cunstitutiornel has a private correspondent in Lon-
don, from whom that paper professes to have received the
following article, which we pricer to lay before our readers
without any observations of our own:—

The following fact, the authenticity of which may be relied
on, will not appear, perhaps, without interest :—Mr. Canning.
who takes pleasure in openly declaring his policy, in order
to offer a greater contrast to the obscure system followed by
other Cabinets, speaking of the last despatches received from
St. Petersburgh, and the departure of Sir Charles Stuart for
Lisbon, made at a party the fullawing remarkable observations :
" We are reproached," said he with warmth, " with having
been too complying towards some friends on the Continent.
We have not interfered in the least, perhaps too little, since
181 i. The result is known to the whole world. It is, in short,
time for Great Britain to endeavour to exercise, at least a part. of
that influence which was heretofore so useful in maintaining a just
equilibrium, and putting an end to the oppression and subjection of
the minor powers. With respect to the Old Spanish Colonies, we
have done nothing more than acknowledge an existing fact, after
haring had our mediation, cffered at different and proper times,
haughtily refused. It is the counsellors of Ferdinand IV., and not
England, that has pushed the quarrel of the Mother Country with
South America to the present extremity. .The example of what was
done to the members of the national representatirn, and the heads
of the principal civil and military administrations of the state, as-
sembled in 1823 in the city of Cadiz, with the royal family and
court, has produced the effect that might hare been anticipated
on the minds of the men alto are at the head of affairs in the
different states of South America. Regrets are Dow too late, for
the die is cast."

The intelligence respecting the Greeks, in the foreign
Papers received yesterday, is decidedly favourable to the
cause of independence. The reports of the fall of Patna
seem to have been premature, but that place is invested so
closely that the news of its surrender may be expected
every day. It is known to want provisions; and unless it
can be relieved very shortly, it must capitulate through
absolute distress. It was reported at Constantinople, when
the list advices left that city, tfiat the Greeks had carried
the outworks. The Anglo-lonian Government had ordered
the fugitive rebel Stamm to leave Zante, where he had taken
refuge. The Greek Government had resolved to punish
the insurgent generals with severity. LONDp and the others
at Anatolie° were to be removed for trial to Napoli, where
proceedings had been actually commenced against CoLoco-
TRONI and DSLCJANT. These steps manifest vigour and
firmness in the Executive Authority of Greece ; and we
observe with satisfaction that there is a corresponding
spirit of confidence and union among the people.
Greet preparations, it is reported, are making by the
Turks for the approaching campaign ; but in the very out-
set the SULTAN finds himself unable to procure seamen in
sufficient abundance for the projected expedition. How
could it be otherwise ? The Greeks formerly constituted
the strength of the Turkish navy ; and the few other sea-
men that remained in the imperial service have been nearly
all destroyed during the four last campaigns. An open
quarrel a:-r nu about to break out between the SULTAN and
the Viceroy of EGYPT, who is suspected, and we dare say
justly, of having fomented the insurrection in Syria.

We can positively assure the holders of Spanish bonds
'lst the negociation for a new loan is not at an end; and
we understand that there is every probability of its having
a successful issue. The French Government continue to
take great interest in the negociation, in which they have
used their good offices to the utmost to re-etablish the
public credit of Spain on the most sure and honourable
foundation, by the full recognition of the bonds issued '
under the Cortes. The Times of yesterday has another
of that strange series of articles by which it has either ig-
norantly or wilfully attempted to mislead the public with
respect to this affair. This day fortnight it asserted, that
a communication had been received from Madrid, in which
it was stated that FERDINAND had reiterated his former
declarations never to acknowledge the bonds of the Cortes,
eves for the value of paper on which they were printed.
On the Tuesday following the Times announced that
another express had arrived from Madrid, confirming,
" almost to the letter," what it had stated on the previous
Saturday. On the next Friday, however, only two days
intervening, it observed, as if for the first time alluding to
the subject, and then as if merely repeating the current
rumours of the city, that it was " said" that attempts were
making to renew the negociation between FERDIYAND and
certain great capitalism During this week the Times has
deemed it advisable to be silent, until yesterday, when it
put forth an article in which, in substance, it affirms
that, " according to letters received from Madrid, dated
the 17th ultimo, M. Gatooste still remained incognito
in that city, and that all chance of his success in
any mission for a loan was considered at an end
(we beseech our readers to mark the reason) through
the secession of his relation, UGARTE, from then
Spanish Cabinet." The Times adds—" M. GREGOR' E
is we believe the brother-in-law of the Minister Uc Aare,
those gentlemen having married two sisters," and it sub-
sequently declares its doubt whether " to adopt or reject
an insinuation that the extraordinary exertions of the
Mi-
nister and his relation had been stimulated by the enor-
mous commission which, in so large a transaction as
that proposed, would have put them in possession of half a
million sterling." To waste a word for the purpose of

showing the gross inconsistencies of these several state-
ments—which all remain without the slightest explanation
—recorded in the leading article: of the " Leading Journal,"
would be a pure work of supererogation. The statement of
yesterday fully admits the fact of the negotiation between
the Spanish Cabinet and the English capitalists, which a
fortnight ago die Times absolutely denied ; but now it
user's that " all chance of success was considered et
an end, through the secession of UGARTE from the Spanish
Cabinet." The writer proceeds, in his own felicitous
style, to express his belief that M. Gar:come (as lie is
pleased to call that Gentleman—his name is Ga►conv)
is the brother-in-law of 1.70.111 TL, because of the fact
which he adjoins, of their " having married two sisters."
This cautious writer, however, who only " believes" that
the husbands of two sisters may be brothers-in-law,
is so careless in other respects, that after putting an end to
the negotiation, " through the secession of UGAkTE," he a
little further on remarks that " it is evident that the
rupture of the negociation was owing to the fortunate in-
flexibility of FERDINAND on the recognition of the Spanish
Bonds." How, we ask, is this evident ? If the Times
wan worthy of belief, Me reverse u•as evident, for the
rupture of the negociation was said (only nine lines chore)
to be through the dismissal of the Minister, who, with his
relation, was to make half a million sterling by the con-
tract. But here again we have another instance of the
regard to be paid to the former statements of the Times on
this subject. In the article on the Tuesday, to which we have
before referred, it declared that the amount of money offered
by the English capitalists was " five millions." We de-
nied that statement the mat morning, and affirmed that