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TH RAVI E ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
This Evening. %V ‘y.,..l.,fervesbei Mk will Le lw•forrwwi

earn,. Mr. VOUIZIPS: Mr.Wallark : Atoms.. Mr. Arms. 0131 f;
Ort."o,ltro. Mr. Ter. y; las Clisss. 11r. Pope. ta•ra. Mrs. W. prat;
11cu s. Mrs. II .

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To-morrow. Per Fre',chute. aust the new l'antomlnte.
lu trolorqurive, of the severe I.l.l:4p.osltivn of Mr. MacresJy. The
Paul I:visr) b deferral for a few eon.

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Mlles.. Mr. ?....nimos : .11,trk 11toOonwo of 1301.ensia. Mr. F.Valll/..
tri!!as. Ml,. 1.3t..11: 1. MR. INNS I.rwc.
Aft-, w tinsel ■ new C..eale Pantomime. railed
t. 1:U.N.:1 IN AND THr. lilt ‘4.ltN OF DANILLY;
or, MOKE t•F M•IN1: HALL
l'..rirtitt!n. Mr. 1:I:Art I•aata:a..n. M. Darner: Clown, Yf. J. 11.011.
Co:lt:7,lAnr. M:mt !turner.
rom.urr tw. The Merchant e: Ventre. and the new Pantendme.

The DPITI3II Psl[sl 00ifl,C.PCip.-I.ll.blishing yesterday swain

LONDON, IVEDNE:W V. DLC aaaaa Qs, mg.

:,'rerch P.:pers arrived last night. Thcy were not
fcb!khell on Sunday, on account of thc preceding clay hay-
ie7 :wen the festival of Christmas.

Among the acts which have lately much increased the

I,:?teazity of CHARLIE!' X. with the Royalists, the pen-
t., c *anted to the family of the Vendean Chief Ca-
r r AU stand format. The following sketch of this
prr;on may therefore prove acceptable to our readers :

Jatitirs Cathelinean„ a °ennui in the Vcndcan army, eras born
17,;:l. On the 20th rebruary. 1793, the National Convention
coders.%) a levy of 300,000 men: the lOsh March was fixed upon for
sirsa!g the lots. The young coon of St. Vincent, who were op-
posrd to this measure, drove away the gens.arannes and pillaged
the lintel tie Ville. l'athelmmu, bearing of this affair., harangued
hrt neighbours, and placed hintsrlf at the head of 100 men, and
vale,: the villagers to arms. At Jallais he repulsed a larger force,
u-d took passmion of a siz.pounder, the first piece of artillery in
Jove. of the Vendtuns. /11 the 13th 31arell he took posses-
sor ef the silage of Chemille. and made many prisoners. On
I.lth he :masked Chollet, and defeated a force of gee hun.
t.-... 1 men, and took several picres of artillery. Cathclineau,
w was but a simple peasant, ruse to the command of an army ;
• it is somewhat rentarkahle, that at this period the Royal
I'atholic forces in La Vendee were led by a man born in

ice obscurest clam of sochty, while the descendants of Wren were
te the bead of the Republican army employed against them. On
the l'Jth of June, Cattlelineal' sttacked the city of Nantes, but was
reptised ; and on the 10th July he received a ball which fractured
F's leg ; * gangrene anceeeded, which occasioned his death. The
teasarts he command:a called him the Saint of Anjou, from his
viety. and they supposed him to bo invulnerable. The Govern.
ittent of Louis XVIII., in :11ay 1816, granted a pension of 1,500
t73ncs to his son, and MOO francs to each of his daughters; these
; r.sians hare been ?aimed 1:7 Charles X. to 8,000 francs each.
ere is a fine painting of this ‘'‘ndean chief, by Girodet, DOW
exh'bited iu the Louvre.

In a South American journal, which, according to the
Sp: :.:11 fashion of long names, bears the title of the Al once
w .•reo d A:iroveo, we have a journal of the military
• !ations between the Vie.?roy Lass as A and the instal-
ANET•. It will be found to arc in substance
sy:th the accounts that have reached us through the Buenos
Actes Argos. In this last statement, however, we have
a•. estimate of the numbet of troops under OLANETA and
1 'lite force of t'le former is represented to be
cl.vett .%ono men ; that of the latter nut more than
4 axs. The threat cf Vs, nit is again reported. It is as-
• d that hia vanluard was .:-.trpristal at I.•:nas, and that
Xer AT A who commanded it, was made prisoner.
'rigs General leas been 33 often killed and capful...al before,
that we trust yet wait sort.. time patiently, before we give
crederm to this new version of his misfortunes.

At the Kingston Assiros yesterday, in giving Ii charge
to the Grand Jury, Mr. Justice Beastor.iii alaia adverted
strot: terms to the brutal and mercenary practice of
i7--fgliting. In the film plum, his Lordship inquired
ol.ether tit: constables of Mulesey w:re in attendance?
I: appers, 11.un the explanation of the Under-Sheriff,
rct to be customary in Surrey to require the personal
:,79n.rance el the mistabbs in Court on the opening
cl the Assizes. 'lle Learned Judge intimated that it
• hi: intention to have fir.aa the constables of Mole-
• y an admonition reN•ecting the scandalous display
• they lat:dy sel,liyred to talc place immediately under
t..t.'r out's. Ili* Lordship then whiten...ll the Grand Jury
✓ 'great emphasis, ur:;ing Ow propriety and necessity of
.:y st•ppressim-, th:se tl:sgracclul pew's. With that

, he r.-co;mn.ented them m find bills for assaults against
• rt nous ithem they could ascertain, by evidence, to
hot: beet tabby, part in the Irroceedings, in what-
ever capacity they 'night b.. trAing the violation of the
p. pcac... Mr. I!. Sc at s La, the Foreman of the t :rand
Jury. 3tfterww-as reties nl that the constables of Molescy
r' .o atteml before th it body ; and we may, therefor:, we
k, roason.‘l:ty evreet that same of the " gentlemen
t.:e faricy- wad be &stilted to consummate t heir attach-
r- in the I...::emage and customs of thieves and sharpers,
t: few immix; residence in their company at the ordinary
r.nr:iaer:,r: of their rrofonaunai education. We co:tress
v.:- ire glad that it is intended at last to put the law in
fmc: s;:aitist the Lours by trade, and their associate
kesves. th.o. we :re (Irsiruns to witness the inter-
ter lace of the putl:c agthuritit.a b: every common matter
ei petty reglery. 1: the carciequences of a prize-fight
• red on': the gamblers concerned in it, we should,
Illiowevcr tM...itt reprobate the practice, certainly not call
fv)r of Or law to put it dorm ; but every one
• these transactions itiVOIVCI 2 public tumult, and affords
a pretence for drat` itu; tmethrT a great number of ilia-
honest and prettil:ste men. At the pleasure of acme half
itj fellows of this stamp, a vira is fixed upon for
s 1 oxivg-iratcli : the decision is privately iiiiii uni-
tated through the channels by which there parties
mate Immo :he r movements to each other ; and sud-
denty, on the day appointed, the peaceful am( imstts-
rering ricighbourthm I thus selected is tilled with a
tvsgeniblige, comprising nearly all the men of
desperate and doubtful character iu the kingdom.
Vet, we deeply regret to say m, these proceedings have
been tolerated by the co :::: ivance, and sometimes almost
ender the sanction, of the Magistracy. Henceforward,
however, he hope we may consider the debasing sport of
boxing as abolished, at heist as a public exhibition. If
-- fools who would still bet on the molt of a
after what they have recently sew, the peace

and decorum of society will not be outraged by the bullies
and blackruards of the ring; and we trust the " historians
of the day" will not in future deem it part of their duty
to dive in: the recesses of this low-minded and revolting
gratification, in order to render their columns" interesting
to all classes of readers." _

The disturbed state of public feeling in Ireland, owing
to th proceoUngs instituted against Jr.: O'Con NELL,
seents,—we lament to say it, likely to precipitate that
crisis, the approach of which many haul looked forward to
with so much fearfulness. If we were not among the
number of the alarmists, it was not from an unacquaint-
ancc with the peril to which the public quiet was exposed,
but from an inward IBllltfilllCC that no circumstances were
likely to arise which Lord EST.EY was not prepared
to meet, and that no danger would present itself which he
hail not both OM ability and the means to overcome. if

we arc now among the alarinkts, it is because the step
which has created so much ferment, justifies alarm ; inas-
much as it involves a train of consequences against which
the country may well despair of providing any adequate
security. Artifices, we know, hail ken employed to excite
unnecessary apprehensions, but it were much better so than
that the aspect of affairs should be as now they are,—fraught
with painful anticipations, and full of real peril. What
will be the issue of all this ? is a question which every one
asks, and no one can answer. The A TTOINEY•CENEIit
we think, has given a decisive advantage to Mr. O'Co N-
L t.t. ; an advantage which we are sure he did not look
for, and which we are sony lie has obtained. The wiser
and more reflective class of his Catholic brethren, did not
take part in Isis petulant and intemperate feelings: they
did not, indeed, openly disavow him, but they in their
hearts regretted that he had brought discredit on their cause
by the indiscreet fervour with which lie supported it. To
our ears, on this side the water, his language was too au-
thoritative and his tone too peremptory : all this bad a
tendency to call forth old fears, and to revive expiring pre-
judice e If any attempt at usurpation had been mani-
festnl by any of the C itholic Leaders—if their fol-
lowers had any where proceeded to open outrage—the
instant application of the public force for the public secu-
rity would have met approves everywhere; every one,
both bete and iu Ireland, would have felt that the Govern-
ment, in the prompt exercise of its power, had done no
more than the occasion called for and the safety of the
State justified. Mr. OVONNII I. would have had no pub-
lic sympathy to which be could have applied—no feelings
of justice to which he could have appealed. Ile would
have been cast away upon the storm lie had raised ; and
probably without much lamentation for his fate. As it is,
his condition is entirely reversed. The occasion on which
he is prosecuted is strikingly inadequate and ill-timed : the
offence charged,—looking to the expressions which consti-
tute it,—is felt to extend itself much beyond the personal
case of Mr. O'Cornreet.; it is felt to involve the privi-
lege of public remonstrance, and the freedom of political
discussion. Many interests of infinite magnitude, dear,—and
justly dear,—to the whole British people, English as well as
I Irish, hinge upon its result. No man,—throwing aside
his predilections and prejudices, and feeling as he ought to
feel,—eau wish well to such a prosecution. It must fall to
the ground: it cannot be otherwise. From whatever point
we look at it, our view is the same. There is an alliance of
feeling and reason that constitutes the nature of than;
the occasion chosen for the attack of Mr. O'Coaazet
has given him wherewithal to appeal to both ; and it re-
quires no gift of prophecy to predict that he will do so with
success. In the !seeders condition in which Ireland is at
this moment—and by this measure—placed, it will be
greatly owing to his moderation and good sense if she is
not convulsed to the very centre. What could the Cabi-
net propose to itself by such a step? Is it wise at any
time to seek repose through hostility ? Was it to be ex-
pected that the agitated state of Ireland would be
calmed down by furnishing this new, and, of all others,
most irritating source of outrage ? Lord We tees r. a v Wag
proceeding well and wisely in his course. Ile knew Ire-
land—be knew human nature—his reflections on both had
'aught him that the sure clel lasting repose of the kingdom
he was dehe,ated to govern could only be brought about by
the quiet and peaceable means of legislative improvement.
Instead of any spirit of disobedience or rebellion appearing
that called for any strong measure, the policy of Lord
WELL/sexy bad in its salutary operation so soothed the
di:turista:l districts, that the insurrection .4els had been
declared no longer necessary, and hail accordingly been
taken oft The prospect which had been so long overcast
was every day brightening. The leaden of the Catholic
lolly,—Mr. Ol'ox xte e among the foremost,—had in all
their speeches at the :association spaken of the administra-
tints of the Luau LIEUTENANT, and its important be-
nefits to Ireland, in terms of the most sincere and cordial
praise ; but it did not suit the Orange faction that the great
enticel division in that devoted kingdom slieu!d be
thus healed. ...ley spared tin effort of art or in-
' fiuence to excite in the public mind an apprehen-
sion that the Catholics were secretly preparing for revolt.
To a certain—indeed, to a very great extent—they suc-
ceedel. Tuty found many who believed—and many snore
who sheeted to believe—that the strong arm of authority
could aLe quiet these apprehensions ; and that, without
that, there could be no peace for Ireland, nor security for
the Protestant Establishment. The present rash pro-
ceeding against Mr. O'CoNNEI.T. has grown out of this
palicy, and of this representation. The footsteps of the
Orange Leaders may be traced on every peat of the ground
that is now going over. The LORD LIEUTENANT is not
fitted to follow in such a track ; he is eat made to bc an
in:strut:sent ; his mind is that of a master: but he may,
for an instant, be turned aside,—for this has happened to
minds of the first ordere—froin the prudent, straightfor-
ward course of his own policy. There are among his
steer'ne, friends,—many of them the moat forward, and
apparently, zealous supporters of his aystem,—who would
joy to see him thrown moue the wildest !bangs of time
people; after their counse% had thresses the Cetholie
multiteile into a estates of dangerous motion, they would
next excite a elegueur for his recall. They have at this
hour an indevideal in their eye ready to vault into Isis scat.
If his Lordship withstands,—as we trust he will,—this
curly conjunction of ()range influeuce and Court intrigue,
be fling owe his triumph to his own firmness and his own
foresiiht. The misehievous i nergy meat to be feared is
that which works unseen. Ile has a spirit callable of ee-
leisting the deem ; the danger is from the under-eurecne

A rumour. wholly groundless, was spread yesterday. on
the authority of a private later, from Lisbon, dated the
loth Iheenther. tha vemse misunderstanding hail taken
place between Cr William A'Court and the Portuguese
Govertunent.

Is► c arc sorry to state, that lettcrs from the Isle of
France announce ibc death of Commodore Nourre, at
Madagascar, of a fever. lie was the Commandant on the
Cape of Good Hope and Isle of France station.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

PARIS.

Irsox OVZ COARESVONDENT.I

Nits. Pre. .2a.
It is generally believed that M. de Poa.io N AC COW return
to London in a fcw days after the opening of the Chambers.
Ills friends Lave foolishly civm too much importance to
his refusal of the portfolio of th-.• !ittister of Foreign.% fiiiirs,
and the pretended difficulties he opposed to the aect•ptaneo
of it ; it is, however, the opinion of the hest-informed
among them, that this proposal was never seriously made
by M. de VILLELE. M. de I)OI.I6NAC is by far too closely
connected with those persons who immediately surround
the KING, and too intimately identified in politics with M.
de Fitz.; AMIs and others, who at Court form a party in
direct opposition to him, for M. de VI t.tri.E to bacve he
could without danger admit him into the Mini:dry, or even
permit him with safety to continue for any length of time
in Paris.

At the last reception at the Tuileries, M.dc COMERS:
complained very much of the had state of his health ; that
the weight of his duty was by far too much for his years ;
that his infirmities rendered hint inadequate to the longer
support of it ; and that the greatest benefit that could be
conferred upon him would be to relieve him from it.
Those to whom he held this language consider it as sound:
ing the note of preparation to his adherents for the change
which he anticipates, and by which he will cease to form
a part of the Ministry.
The approaching departure of M. de PO/JONA(' has
greatly diminished the rumens of the dismissal of M. de
mAs ; it is also said that that Minister is strongly
supported by M. Pozzn di Boauo, the Russian Andras-
udor.

Private letters received from St. Petersburgh, emtain all
the dreadful details of the melancholy deluge which bap_
petted in that City ; but the Rusaian nobility, who are at
Paris, endeavour most strenuously to weaken the belief of
its extent ; and they pretend that it has been gristly ex-
aggerated, but the rerersa of this is well known to be the
truth.

The enmity which M. Pasxcurr has excited against
himself at Court, will pmbably be more dangerous to him
than all the revolting abuse of power by which he has so
notably signalized his administration ; his reneci is regarded
as certain. His nether-in-law, Madame Ft. Lees:, has
reported in the circles, for some days past, that her son-in-
law is tired of his post ; that its nature was never much to
his taste; that he cl,sir,:s nothing so much as to be em-
ployed in some other functions snore congenial to him; and
that he had already had the offer of an embassy: .hose cir-
cumstances arc well calculated to conf. no the report of a
resolution, said to have been made to suppress the Haute
l'oliee and the Direction General of that establishment.
1 Licntetant-General of Police will then be chosen from
among the Presidents or Counsellors of the Corr
(Royal Ccurt). The new appointmcut will not ditir
materially from that which exists nt present, if the person
who is chosen to fill it should chance to be like M. k's.sx-
T, a Jesuit of the short robe (n Je:uit Jr rrl,e rorrh•).

The project
,of changing the law respating tile civil
ceremony of inareage is not abandoned, but as it is con-
sidered likely to create much discontent among a numerous
class of citizens, it is intended so to modify it as to render it
less objectionable ; it is therefore proposed, as an amend-
ment, that every citizen, des:rous of marrying. shall present
himself at the c'.turch before going to the municipality, and
that the muncipal ef:icir shall not proceed to perform the
marriage ceremony, till the bridq.-reon delivers him a cer-
tificate of the religious e..l...bration, or the declaration of a
priest, attesting that itc Ole priest) had refused the sacra-
ment of the bridegroom. You must foresee how many
digiculties lie in the way of obtaining from a priest a decla-
ration of this kind, ant how many quarrels and scandals
such a document would generate; but when a law is bad
in its principle, it is bard;y possible it should be otherwise
than absurd in its details. Many eminent persons in the
crdrejudkiuire loudly complain of the project of changing
the articles of our code relative to civil acts.

M. de 31ArrtoNac, who was charge4l with the thawing
up of the law for the indemnity, complains bitterly of
the inextricable difficulties of the duty imposed upon him.

M. Ourrard, the Contractor-General of the Army of
Spain. was arrested on Christmas Ere, between one and
two o'clock, in a fiacre, in the Rue de Pw, at the suit of
one of his creditors. Ile required to be conducted imme-
diately to the President of the Tribunal of First Instance,
before whom M. Cuttinet, his Advocate, centended, that as
M. Ouvranl had already sufibred five years' imprisonment,
at the suit of the Minister of the Public Treasure, in Isl 1,
he could not now be imprisoned for debts which had ac-
crued previotnly. M. Drouin, the Counsel for the enalite.r,
by whom he was arrested, argued that M. Ouvrard hail not
suffered the five pates' imprisonment which were e of,
and even were it so, that was for a public debt. M. Moreau,
the President, directed that M. Ouvranl should be detained,
and he was forthwith conducted in a hackney-coach to ttt.
Pelagic, where he was handed over to the jailer.
Letters were received yesterday from Madrid, dated the
Isth inst. At that period the capital was perfectly tranquil,
and it was understood that the French troops were let con-
tinue to occupy seven unfortified towns, in which they are
to appoint the authorities, and five fortresses. Sor.e sem-
salient had been excited in Madrid by the arrest and im-
prisonment of an Ex-Political Chief, San Martin, who had
been for some time living in an obscure Spanish village, upon
a posh ive pledge of safety from the Government. The Ma-
drid Gazeite contains a decree ordering the different Muni-
ei;‘alities to use the funds which they may bare in hand,
from whatever sources, for the equipment of troops. Many
of the Regidors had arrived iii Madrid to remonstrate
against this decree, and amongst them the Regidor of Se-
ville, who stated that that. gam opukut city was scarcely
able to bear the expense. of $0 to 100,000 francs per annum
already imposed upon it for the support of the Rivalist vo-
lunteers, consequently that the equipment of regular troops
from the municipal funds would be impossibk...
. _ .

'There seems to be no doubt of the extraordinary fact
that the capital of Peru is in the military occupzion of
the British. It appears that on the approach of Bolivar,
General Roth, who, with the Spanish troop., garrisoned
the place, expressed to Captain :doling, of his Britannic
Majesty's ship toe Cambridge, his inability to hold out
long against the I'atriot forces, and that he had solicited the
aid of the British ship's c‘inpr.ily to protect British pro-
perty during the reign of anarchy, which, from necessity,
lanai precede the restoration of the Indepoulent Govern-
ment. Accordingly, 100 maniocs were lanikil from the
Cambridge, a►nd were marched to Lima, for the purpose of
guarding British intererts, during what may be termed the
interregnum. Mr. Rowerott entered the city at their head.
This event is considered Ls the precursor of the entire
pacitication of Peru; fdr the latest whims from the head-
quarters of General &diver, dated :21 tlt August, cominu-
'Uwe the important intelligence that I►e bad again opened
migoeiations with the Spanish Om issue of which.
it was expected, would had to the acknowledzineut of
Peruvian independence.
The independence of Brazil has been teem, ii7e4 by the
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg!) Schwerin. The territory of
Nlceklenburgh is bounded by the Baltic, and the expecta-
tion of deriving some exclusive commercial advantage,' 'Cr
his subjects, is said to have dictated this step. A Consul-
General was appointed on the "Al of November, who is to
reside at Rio de Janeiro. _ _

Two balm in the Baltic trade, in the City, suspended
payment on Friday.

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