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THF:ATRE 710Y.41., COFT.VT-GARDEN.
Tt:t Elatning, WED VIC SHAN'. September gil, will be Pet furwled
PRIDE 51411. E U it F. rAu-
c,lnt Ventoso, Mr. W. Ferran: Lorenzo. Mr. Cooper: Torrent.,
Air J.nei Spado. Mr. blassehartL Counters Veneta., Mrs. Haven-
jue & I Vittoria, Mau Pawn; LeJtuora, Silas Love.
Alter which,
IHICITIIgit AND SISTER.
Don Cbristoval de Tormea. Mr. Fawcett; INni Splelo, Mr. Duruset
la-lisce. Mr. Meadows: Rartolo Mr. Blanchard. Donna Isidore. Miss
Pfsb.2l Rosanthe, Mist Love; Donna Camilla, Mn .fining; Agatha.
20:s :ones.
l'.,.merrow, Much Ado about Nothing. and The Hunter of Mae Alps.

THEATRE ROI Al„ HA).WARKE7'.
This Evening. W E DSF.sDA Y. September ?9. .4:lt 14 performed
KETHEARTS AND WIVES.
Adeottlii Franklyn. IN r.M. Futon; Charles. Mr.Vlnine: Sandford.
Wr. Melrose; lhlly Lackaday, Mr. Liston. Eugenia. M 1 Chester;
Laura, Madame Ve.tris ; SWUM, Mrs. Garrick.

After which.
'TWOULD PUZZLE A CONJUROR.
Peter. Cut- of Muteoey. Mr. Vining; Peter ,ttAiontts. Mr. Harley;
VIM ',under, Mr. Liston. Bertha. Mts. Lhattelay.

To conclude with
PAUL AND NIRGINIA.
PAW, Madame Vastrist V irainta. Urn T. NHL
To-morrow. The Young quaker, Dirds without Feathers. and
•^would Puzzle a LoiJurur.

THEATRE ROY IL, ENOZLiHOPERA-HOUSE,

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sretvD.
This Evening, WEDNESDA T. September EL will be performed
JONATHAN IN ENGLAND.
JortalieuW.Doubiltine. Mr. Mathews: Srl 1. catherliptlroasfeeder, Mr.
ilartle.,; Mr. I edger. Mr.H. Bennett: Mr. Orlopierre. Mr. Ilnieslburst:
hefty Larkwmr. Mr. Keeley; Jet aaaa sy Larkspur. Mr. Tayleure; Apt
essemseer, Mr. Sluman. Lady Grusaftedyr. Mrs. Glut e; KAM MIAs
Aluldaway ; Petty, Mad Henry.

After with,
THE B.%SIIVUL M.N.
Sir Thomas Friendly. Mr. W. Bennett Mr. Blulblngton. Mr. Ma-
Ehow•ss lrauk Friendly, Mr. Broadhurst, Doctor atorrh. Mr.
'll,o*.r,sre; Gyp, Mr. W. Chapman; Nkk. Mr. WOW/AL Mir Dinah
:'..;,417. Mlle Parry.
T.!cfmeludnrith

lIITOR
Dick rypher. Mr. Methews; Jerry Rt.emoin. Mr. Rev:aro O'Rourke
4.YDelsy. Mr. Power. Dolly O'l)•isy, Wes Porey.

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NEW SURREY TIIEATRE.
Under as entirely new Management.
This Mena WEDNESDAY. Sept. 119. will be prewnted an original
.101 elltreardinary Melo-Dranor, founded au a highly popular mid
ostareetin; German Stott'. railed
DE:It FitFISCIIUTZt
Or, 'PILE DL3IOAI OF *VIM %44•1. F m GLEN AND TIIE SEVEN
CHARMED PULLETS.
TM Mode under the immediate Direethm of W. Hawes. tsq. The
Neer tirritteu by Mr. Ball. Author of ThAlaba." "Floating Demon."
Ire. te: and produced by Mr. Mild.
Principal Characters—Simone. (Rant, iluwlwharn. Auld. Luveday.
Iterw,ud. Young. Hemmings. and Honor Mrs. ming. Mrs. Ten-
nant. and MrS.l.4.ffday.
To.)riprerede.l by t he eel. twitted and nuMimelyterrlde Overture ems-
posed by Carl Maria Von neher. aided by SA Increased orchestra.
The whole to conclude with the grand Chines, Melo-Drsune called
TOE BURNING 111111HiEt
Or. TIIF. crECTItE uF TISK LAKE.
With all Its splendid Sfrllery. superb Dresses. as.d gorgeous

The BiIITIIH PR Lai commenced ItunloMmg yesterday morning
at a quarter past live o'clock.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Strremunt 29, 1824.

We have received from a Correspondent at Paris, who,
we know, bad every opportunity to be acquainted with the
fac:s he relates, the following particulars of the condition
of Lucia XVIII. during his last illness and after his
decease :

t is not known whether any account of the state of Louse XN'l I I.
in his lest momenta will be made public, and the utmost precaution
Fs taken to prevent any information from being given through the
see hum of the daily press. The following details may be relied
upon :_-Four of Ida tons had fallen of from mortification, the lint
more than eleven months ago, from which you may form an idea
of the sufferings 1:e must have experienced. Ills legs were
su;te black at the extremity, and his beds were completely
wanted away. Les parties genitake ifsierst preppie sulks. The
upper pans of the body were ins healthy state, :thoubh the arms
were much fallen Tway; the skull was in some parts quite thin,
and in others of a remarkable thickness. It appears that towers!. the
Litter t Jays of the Ring be slept much, and often let bit head fall upon
the table whicit was before him. la this peskier% theirbellakil4
of his head was supperted by the nose. This posture had ma.
sinned a sort of ulceration, which was not mentioned in the proms
cwdavre exhalait sae :ramie i•ftcaos, but which was
entirely dispersed by the application of the oxide of soda, which
clime enabled the body to be exhibited to the public, in compliance
wt...., the ancient custom in Francs on the death of their Kings.

An absurd rumour was circulated on 'Change yesterday,
that SANTANA hail abandoned the Patriot cause, and
-united himself to that of FL not NAND. This rumour, we
ray, is absurd, because its only foundation is a paragraph
in a New York paper, copied from another published in
That an express arrived yesterday from Liver-
.. New York paper, vve are aware; but, if we
moment into the natore of the intelligence, and
• very circuitous route by which it has reached
at once perceive that the chances against
arc very great indeed, as it is highly
particularly as the document on which it was
- not even pretend to have a date, that we
possession information to a much more r-
a more direct line of communication.
that at the present moment of calm
jobbers in the funds are glad to embrace
ty by which they can cause the slightest
if the public securities were left to their
advance, without any serious change, their
would be gone. However this may be, the
effect, for the Mexican funds fell n:arly
the course of an hour. For ourselves, we
. the report, but look upon it as a r use, a!-
which was successfully practised last week as
fleet, of Lord knows how many sail, that

was seen in the South Atlant:e, threatening with destruc-
tion all the South American ltimblics, though, by some
unfortunate chance, no one could ever discover from what
port iu France these scowls sailed. list,said French fleet
is no other, u we believe, than the Asia, and certain other
old Spanish men of war, which were fitted out by the pro-
ceeds of a loan, raised, as we have understood, in 'Paris,
about the time of Ivenatus's evasion from England,
which loan, there has been some suspicion, either has been,
or Is about to be, in some shape, brought into the London
market.

We learn, by the arrival of a gentleman from York,
Upper Canada, that the first fourth of the sum of 12:0.000/..
procured by Mr. GALT for the sufferers in that province
during the late war with the Americana, has been paid.
We congratulate both the Government and the people of
Canada on this earnest of a highly praiseworthy munifi-
cence. No people on earth ever suffered greater privations
and hardships, without a murmur, in defence of their
country, than the inhabitants of Upper Canada; and
when we consider that the war was waged to support a
general principle, in tl.e decision of which they had no
immediate interest, and that to their share fell all the mis-
chiefs and evils of the contest, we arc convinced that there
is no cpe who will not approve of the conduct of his
MAlisrv's Government, in making good to them at least
some portion of the losses they have incurred.

Accounts in the American papers, speak or the co►ti.
nuance of the yellow fever at Charleston and New Orleans.
Letters of the 26th ult. were yesterday received from
Constantinople. They mention the deposition of the Aga
of the Janissaries, as stated in the foreign journals, but
contain no confirmation of the accounts from Setnlin of
the Greek Patriarch and his Synod having been put to
death.

The following is an extract of a letter from the agents to
Lloyd's at Constantinople, dated :tug. Q6:—" Ity an ex-
lress from the Dardanelles, of the 24th, ;just r!ceired, we
earn the arrival there of his Alajesty s ship Medina,
with William Turner, Esep,the Szcretary of this Embassy,

n board."

Extract of a letter from the agents to Lloyd's at Smyrna,
dated the 17th of August:—" There are many rumours of
hostile movements against Samos. to which we do not at-
tach any credit, but the Cation Paella appears to be in the
vicinity of the island, and making preparations for the at-
tack."

Accounts from Alexandria, to the beginning of July,
state that trade W.lll exceFsively dull there, owing to the
numbers of the military, who thronged the city, and greatly
impede.' business. Ibrahim Paths was residing at Alexan-
dria at that time, but observed a strict incognito. The war
with the Gretlja was by no means popular in Egypt.
Some reports of a new irruption of the Wechabites were
CUM n t.

Extract of a letter from Trieste, dated the 14th inst.:—
" According to advice' from Zante, received by way of
Venice, the Egyptian fleet arrived safely in the Morea,
where the troops were landed without opposition. We shall
now ace what they will he able to do. They write, that
the funds provided by the loan made in London were be-
ginning to arrive, and that they had raised dissensions
amongst the heads of the Provisional Government of
Greece, every one of them wishing (fur the good of the
country) to put the money into his own pocket; not trust-
ing to his neighbour. We are assured that the inhabitants
of the province called Braceio di Maina have rebelled
against the Grecian Chiefs, and espoused the cause of the
Turks, in consequence of the refusal to allow them to have
a share in the money arrived from England, and also on
account of the lauding of the Egyptian troops. The result
of the expedition against Saint's is not yet known, but the
silence of the Greeks here, makes us fear that the Capitsn
Pasha has succeeded in his attempts against that island.
All this may serve to amuse the curious, but you must not
consider it official information. A short time will make
everything clear."
The following is an cxtract of a letter from a gentleman
in C'artitagtna. to his correspondent in the city, dated
July SI :—" We had yesterday an arrival from Bogota,
bringing accounts from Pent, that a large part orthe
Spanish force had come over to Bolivar, and that he ex-
pect. d soon to terminate the net by liberating the whole
Continent. They have had a hard struggle for the cause
of independence. The Colombian Government was re-
("need to great poverty until a part of the ioau arrived from
London.'

An Imperial Ukase has been issued at Warsaw, by I
which Jews, who have hitherto inhabited the principal
streets of that city, are commanded to remove by the Ist
May, 15123 into the most remote streets, which ate assigned
them. This ordonnance will be enforced when the time
expires, witbcut any exception whatever.
An extraordinary deputation of the Canton of the Pri-
sons in Switzerland. is to go to %Ism as soon as the Em-
tilrof Austria shall arrive there, in order to ce2icit of
mperial Majesty the final adjustment of various points
in dispute between the Canton and the Kingdom of Lom-
bardy.
A law has been promulgated in Norway, consisting of
numerous snicks, fixing with great precision the limits be-
tween the civil and military jurisdiction.
' Faom GIDRALT AL—By the brig Minerva, arrived here
from Gibraltar, which port she left on the 2211 July. we
learn that two Spanish merchant ships had arrivtA there
front Havanna, after an engagement with a Buenos Ayrean
privateer, which they beat off with little damage. It was
believed by intelligent persons at Gibraltar, that Spain was
on the eve of another revolution.—New York Evening Post.
Our I apers are full of accounts of the damage done by a
dr:at:lel storm of thunder and lightning, which passed covet
, the provinces of North Holland, Z-aland, Friesland,
Groningen, Drenthe, eec., along the frontiers of Munster,
alnl which contiiined, without intermi.wion, from nine in
the evening of the 15111, till nine the following morning.
Several faun-houses were struck by the lightning sml
burnt, and numbers of cattle killed in the 11.:Ids.—Duida
Paper.

Tor NOlLTUrliff linctrairtox.--His Alajcsty's sur-
veying vessel Snap arrived at St. John's, Newfoundhmit,
on the inth ult., last from Hudson's Straits. where she
left the Griper with the Arctic Land Expedition, which
was prevented by the ice from proceeding further than
Cape .;ell'ey.

The site of the first fort erected in Maryland by the
colonists brought out by Lord Baltimore, in 1632, has
long been want away, and covered by the water. Four of
the cannon, however, that were mounted upon it, have been
found beneath the waters, embedded in mud, and taken
up. Two of them appear to have been partially burst, pro-
bably in self-defence aszainst the Indians. From one a
ball was extracted weighing eight pounds, another was
loaded with chain shot. The three largest were 10 feet
long, and the fourth six. On the tne which was least sur-
rounded with mud, a by-stander counted 602 oysters.—
Am, rico,' raper.
St t.a TH A DE.—The riband manufacture in Coventry and
neighbourhood, is in a more flourishing state at the present
season than has ever been retnetnbo ell ; an adequate supply
for the demand cannel be produc-d, which has caused a
general advance in wages throughout the trade, and a
trifling one also in manufactured stock ; but as silks have
risen very considerably in price, with an expectation of an
additional advance, in consequence of the unprecedented
consumption leaving the market unusually hare, a plopor-
tianate rise is now taking place. From the very general
and eratiling improvement everywhere visible in com-
mercial affairs, we sincerely hope this city will not for a
long time have to complain of any depression either in the
riband or watch departments; the latter of which, we arc
also happy to find, is in a flourishing condition, and that
ways have in consequence advanced cuusiderahly.—Cortn-
try Herald.
It' any Saving Bank in England or Ireland Auld have
neglected to change their Debentures fur money lodged in the
National Debt (Vice, for the receipts of the present form,
we advise them to do so immediately, u the interest ou all
Dzbenturzs will cease ou the 20th Nevembernext.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

EASHIONADLE INTELLIGEIVCR.

The Duke and Duchess of Rutland and Tamil arrived on Mon-
day at their seat, Cheveley But, Coo from Behalf
Castle.
C. Prideaux Dune, Esq. and family hare left Devosskire-place,
for Twickenham.
_

R. S. Keating, E. has arrived in Dover-sweet, from Doncaster.
Lad and Lady Folkestone have arrived at Longford Castle,
from Lady Miltimay's seat in Hants.
Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street Nel-
thorpe, from her seat in Lincolnshire; Mrs. Gore and family, from
her seat, Barrow Court, near Mind; Mr. and Mrs. Toke, from
their seat, Dunmow, Essex. Departures:—The Rev. C. B. Dan-
ville, for Portsmouth; A. Reymood, Esq. on a tour; and Thos.
Stewart. Esq. for the Continent.
Arrival. at Fenton's Hotel, St. Jantea's.arreet t—Mrs. and Mies
Fairfield, from a tour; and Thomas Page, Esq. from his seat,
Cliohltain.
Arrivals at the Landon Hotel, Albemarle-street I—The Earl and
Countess of Longford and fmily. front Brighton: lord and Lady
Compton and family, from Ashby Castle, Northamptonshire.
Departures :—Colonel and Mrs. Drake and family, for their seat
in Bucks.
Arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-sweet :—Leed Cranley,
from his seat in Kent; and James Muse. Esq. from the Isle of
Wight. Depotures:.-The Earl of Clarendon, for his seat in
Iceland ; and Lord Mtincaster on a tour.
Arrivals at the Bath Hotel, Arlington-street:—Mr. Matlock,'.
and Major Willis, from the Continent; and Mr. sod Mrs. Baugh-
ton, from lit.th. Departures :—Mr. sad Mrs. Vara and family,
for their seat in Deebushire.

The Duke of York left town on Monde, afternoon, for
the Lodge, iirindsor Park, where his Royal Highness dined
with the King, and returned to town the same night.
Ilia Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, gave au-
dience yesterday, at his Office, in the Hone Guads, to
some General and other Officers. .

Mr. Canning was expected to arrive last night at Glou-
cester Ledge, from lit.iyhead.
We understand that it was intended by the Canning
Club of Liverpool to have given a public dinner to the
Right lion. Gentleman, from whom the Club derives its
name, on his return home through that prosperous town,
towards which it is known the Right lion. Gentleman en-
tertains the kindliest feelings. The necessity of his imme-
diate presence in London will frustrate the intention of his
Liverpool friends.
Sir William and Lady A'Court, with the Under-Secre-
tary, the lion. Mr. l)undas, left Madrid on Thursday, the
9th instant, for Lisbon. _ _ _

Mr. Wilmot Horton is gone to Albury Park, near Guild-
ford, on a shouting excursion.
Sir Joh t Leach is entirely recovered from his severe in-
disposition.
The present King of France and the Duke of Bourbon
had a meeting, and fought in the Bois de Boulogne, a few
years before the Revolution. The Duke of Bourbon was
the challenger: his Duchess having complained to him of
being insulted by the Count d'Artois, who forced off her
mask, either through ignorance of her person, or mere le-
vity, at a Court hall. The Count d'Artois behaved with
gallantry, both in the field and to the lady. The duel over,
he apolug,ised to lite for his conduct.
We hear that the Princess of Coburg is gone to Gotha
with M. Limlenou, First Minister of Gotha, where she will
remain till the differences that have arisen are wholly ar-
r.inged.--ffainGargli Paper.
Count Fleming is appointed Marshal of Sweden, in the
place of the late Count Von Exam.
We are happy to learn that, when lately at Drumlanrig
Castle, his Grace the Duke of Ducetench and,Queensberry,
with consent of his curators, in the most generous ant/.con-
siderate manner, directed that a handsome abatement
should be made from the rents of several small farms
in the parish of Sanquhar, which had been taken under
rather peculiar circumstances.—Dentliies
IVe hear that the Right lion. the Earl of Rosslyn, Pro-
vincial Grand Master Mason of Fife, is to lay the founda-
tion stone of. the monument on Mounthill, to the memory
of the late Lord Hopetoun, on 'Monday, the 11th October
next. His Lordship is to be assisted in the ceremony by
the Lodge or St. Regulus, Copse, and some of the sister
lodges. It is expected that the Earl of Kcllie, the Proles,
and the greater part of the Committee of Subscribers,
and many of the Subscribers themselves, will be present.
The situation of the intended monument is peculiarly
adapted for the purpose, and will be seen at a great distance.
—File Herahl.
John Leslie Foster, Esq. M.P. one of the Parliamentary
Commissioners of Inquiry, is expected to arrive in our city
this day. The Him. Gentleman will remain only a few
days.—Cork Advertiser.
CIII,I.7ICNIIA M, BEPT. 23.—Aroonest the latent arrivals
are—Earl and C'ountess Cassilis, Earl Coventry, Lord
Deerhurst, lion. Mr. and Mrs. W. Coventry, lion. T.
Coventry, Bishop of Killaloc and family, Lord Henry
Thynne, lion. Mr. and Mrs. Butler, Sir John and lady
Maclean, Sir Byam and Lady Martin, Sir T. Dallas, Gen.
Sir H. Johnson, Lieutenant-Gen. Campbell, Major-Gen.

HuMane, Col. Brady, &c. &c.
There is a great deal of company still at Margate and
Brighton, as it it is considered very aqiuhiunable to be
seen in the month of September in town.
On ‘Vednesday last (the 2241 inst.) the Corporation of
Tomes unanimously elected Wm. Doidge Taunton, Esq.
to be Mayor of that ancient and respectable borough for
the ensuing year.
A bet of considerable magnitude, between Horatio Ross,
Esq. of Massie, and G. Fullarton Carnegie, Esq. of Charle-
ton, was decided last Saturday the former betting that he
would shoot as many partridges on his estate in the space
of five hours, as the latter would do on the estate of Ethic
in the same time. The day being fine, and the fame of
Mr. Roza as a marksman being to well known, a great
number of sporting gentlemen were on the ground. Mr.
Ross killed thirty-one and a half, and Mr. Carnegie ten
brace, the former gaining the bet by twenty-one and a half
brace.—Edinturgh Paper.
A handsome ship of the line, the Droning Maria, of
94 guns, was recently launched at Copenhagen, in the
presence of their Majesties the King and Queen of Den-
mark.

The Irish and some provincial papers will hay eit that
Parliament is to be dissolved next Spring, if not earlier.
We can state, upon good authority, that there will be no
dissolution of Parliament until the close of the next
Session.

CATIInt IC EMANCIrA TIC/N.—The Dublin Evening Pert
says—" It is now tolerably well understood that every
iudivhlual examined before the Select Committee of the
House of Commons has expressed a decided opinion as to
the necessity sod urgency of Catholic Emancipation. 1 t
is also under-stool!' thotoffie opiniefi of nine-tfftntoe
Committee is in %veer of theme/me, and it is expected
that the Report will strongly recommend its adoption.
But several other Witnesses will be examined on the
point. The publie may rely that the following will be
among the number:-1. The Mist Reverend Doctor
Murray, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. 2. The Right
Reverend Doctor MOovean. S. The Right Rev. Doctor
Doyle. 4. Mr. 0•Connell. .5. Mr. Leader. 6. Mr.
('Callaghan, of Cork. 7. Alderman King. 8. Colonel
Blacker. 9. Captain Venter. 10. Mr. Lidwill, and se-
veral Clergymen of the Established Church. Sir Henry
Yarnell is indefatigable in preparing evidence. It is un-
derstood, and our authority, we believe, is unexceptionable
that a considerable change has been a ireeted in the mind of
Lord Liverpool, on this vital question. As a fair and candid
man, Lord Liverpool could no longer resist the evidence
and the truth. Mr. Peel too, but we speak with less posi-
tiveness on this point, has been brought to reason. The
fact is, that the King says he w;il have peace in Ireland,
and his Ministers are commanded to make it. As, perhaps,
though we only speak this upon conjecture, the visit of
Mr. Canning may be connected with this subject, we have
some reason to conclude, that his object (whatever it has
been) has to a certaib extent been accomplished. We shall,
in truth, be much surprise'', if the next session do not open
a new era to Ireland and to the empire."
The parish of Dymock, Gloucestershire, like that of
Leominster, has come to the resolution of not relieving
paupers who keep doge.
In the course of last we4c a vast number of seals
made their appearance in the Frith of Forth, particularly
in the neighbourhood of L ith. At times a dozen of their
black noses might be seen at once above the aurfase of the
water, within a gnu-shot of the pier-head, and several had
even the boldness ert inter the harbour. On Saturday a
young one was shot, and brought ashore. These animals
have not been so numerous in the Frith for a series of
years„—Edifteriegla .vtar.

PARIS.

(raost ova mu

PAIIIII, SEPT. 26.

One would imagine, by the fulsome flatteries heaped on
the departed Monarch of France, that he had been " the
nursing father" of the political Zion, and was wholly ex-
empt from those infirmities which enter, more or less, into
the eharseter of sinful man. The Vicomte nv. CHATEAU-
IIRIAND is among the first to fling his load of incense into
the royal sepulchre, and to pour forth his devout aspira-
tions at the altar of Sr. DENIS. 'rids crafty pamphleteer
takes this mode of creeping up the sleeve of his successor,
whose virtues,—past, present, and to come,—draw from him
" hymns of praise," and make him deem life itself as no-
thing out of the spiritual presence of CHALLES X., the
expectant giver of all good things.
The shutting up of the places of public amusement in
Paris caused much more real affliction than the event which
occasioned it. You must count fur nothing the rhapsodies
which you read in the French papers about the grief, pub-
lic and private; there was no such display. The follow-
ing jet, cresprit, which is privately handed about in the
political circles, has as much truth as epigrammatic point in
it, and expresses the feeling of the majority pretty cor-
rectly :

lIVR L• MORT DI LOUTS LL DrAIREZ.
Batons nous tic rimer longue Is snort le frappe,
La funbre ()raison dun Prince rinbre i
Les Francais font aacr6 mieux que Weut fait la Pape,
Its le vegrettr ront, comme ils font desirie.

When we look at the ',regent condition of France, and
when we know the horizon of liberty has been darkening
daily since his restoration, we can readily admit the truth,
severe as it may be, that the French regret', d in the same
degree in wit:eh they desired him. Still Louis XVIII.
was a Monarch with many virtues ; and, hail the vigour
and intrepidity of his mind been equal to the natural
goodness of his heart, he might have been a great King.
and France a great nation. But the love of tranquillity
and good living had gained upon him by indulgence,
during the long suspension of his royal functions, and it
clung to him when the course of events gave him back his
throne. He was not in his heart averse to popular
institutions, but be was surrounded from the first by
men who looked only to the advancement of their own
sinister interests. The conduct and character of a Sove-
reign is controlled and modified by circumstances of which
his subjects have no means of judging. His best inten-
tions are often neutralised by the over-ruling influence
of those about him, and which he would fain oppose but dare
not. Government is a curious machine, and else main-springs
are not always where they scent to be. Louis XVIII. was,
u far as his own better judgment guided bins, tin .11,4C:so-
:Notion/tel. He was not, indeed, us Rui Rtfurmalear ; on
the contrary, he governed rather in the spirit of a Sovereign
who hail slept for thirty years, and waked unconscious of
the progress of public opinion, and the advancement of
knowledge which bad taken place in the interval. It
should be recollected, however, that he was placed in a
position that made it next to impossible for him to effect
his own views, or to follow the impulse of his own feel-
ings. Ile was so situated, that all the best dispositions of
his nature contributed to mislead him. Ile owed a debt of
gratitude to the emigrant Noblesse, who had adhered to
him in his hour of adversity. They had long looked for-
ward, as the reward of their fidelity, to the recovery of
their former station, and their former influence. They had
been always accustomed, in this respect, to identify his
restoration with their own. This was not unnatural ; and
Louis found it impossible not to yield to those feelings t f
personal gratitude which seemed combined, in ►o great
a degree, with the duty of political justice. He saw,—
for he was by no means deficient in understanding,—
the straight-onward course which sound policy dictated ;
but the emigrant influence from time to time over-
swayed him, and he yielded to it. Hence that imie-
cision and impolicy which mailed all the earlier
measures of his Government. Add to this, that the
emigrant party was strongly supporttni by the Conti-
nental Powers, to whom alone he owed it that he was
Lours XVIII. : and these Powers were not backward in
exercising and enforcing au authority in the French Ca-
binet, which he was not able, nor perhaps very anxious,
to resist. His obligations to the Allies bound him to a
compliance with their views, anti those views were hostile
to all liberal institutions. Ile could not but feel that his
subjects were dissatisfied, and in many instances he was
so himself ; but be was at the mercy of circumstances
which he could net control, and he had no choice but to
submit. hythe mean time, the spirit of discontent spread
itself fast among the people, who, judging from the acts of
his Government, which were in fact not his own, they
visited upon him that odium, which, personally, !redid not
deserve; but conceiving, as it was natural they should,
that he had identifiel his cause with that of the emigrant
party, and of the Continental Sovereigns, he lost, by de-
grees, the confidence of the nation; and the MURIONS
were never mentioned, nor are they still, but in language
very ditrerent from that which figures in the Paris Jour-
nals, anti which flourishes in the sycophantic pages of Le
VICOMTE DC CHATEAVCRI•ND.

iVith respect to the admission of the Dauphin into the
Privy Council, you may collect the public sentiment upon

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