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Mr.TIiELW'ALL's ORATORICAL and CRITICAL LECTURES on
sliAlisPF:Alik: and the IYRAMA,
This Evening, WEDNESDAY, March 17,
PRELIMINARY RECITATIONS, with Criticiszus, from Burns,
Churchill, and Darwin.
LECTCIIE.—On Shakspeare's HENRY IV, and HENRY V. and on
the Characters of 110TsPUR and PALSTAEF in particular; with
Stricture.' on recent and contemporary Actors—Holman, Kean, Wal-
lin*, be.; Henderson, Cook, Downes, ae.
itieciTATinNs—pect of the First Scene between the Prince
and Falsaue—paland's Ragged Itellothlit—Henry the Fitch before
Hargrur, Re.
After which Iby particular desire) will be repeated, with Preliminary
Obiemations, historical and rhetorical,
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AIARoi 17, 1824.

A letter from Madrid in the Etude of M3ntlay, informs
us, that Ferdinand has re-established the Junta of 1815,
for organizing a plan of public instruction. The members
of this Junta are of course perfectly well-disposed towards
the absolute Monarch, and their labours will be particularly
directed to the regulation of the Universities and Colleges
of the Peninsula, which, if possible, will be so framed as
to prevent the spread of liberal and enlightened doctrines.
The same papers speaks of the state to which Vera Cruz has
been reduced ; and observes, that a force of 8,000 men
would be though to put down the Constitutionalists of
Mexico. We copy the following articles from the
if unitenr and Etude:—

[From the Mon Ito& of Sunday, Itlarch 141
Nothing official ut r public nature.
Ni on-Official Part.]
IWe lIEFORT, MARCH 8.
The Lyonnaise sloop, commanded by Lieutenant Hamon, an-
chored yesterday in the roads of the 131 e 01 Aix, on her mum I
trout Senegal.
On the day that she left that colony, the Ilcire cor•ette, the

brig, and the Breesane gun-boat, had tuv.red dime. Three
were to proceed a few dar afterwards to the lake Game,
the central station of the squadron kept on the extrema ceast of
Africa to retreat. the slave trade.
From the Etuilc. dated Monday. March 15.}
MADII9, MANCH 4.
The King has signed a decree re-establishing the Junta erea,.,l
in 11:15, to draw up a general plan of public uormetion. l'hi ,
Junta was engaged in the Organisation of the Universities and
Colleges, when its labours were interrupted by the molt in Ilt-'lO.
The 'Government has received chapatti:es fear the
dated January 11.
The day before these had arrived in the port, thsee armed sloops
sod a Catalonian brigantine, which had been sent to the kJ- ftla:..
quilla, a league from it. Juan de 1:1Joa. These vessels had lita—
ed all the ammunition they had on board, and brought back son.e
.passengers who had taken refuge in pun Sr. Juan. Others *ill
come on board the Maria am: Isabella corvette.
These passenger,. must of them merchants, girt a frightful de.
acription of the state to which Vara Cruz, is reduced. There ts nut
a house into which same bombe have nut
Some mercharts have also arrived front the United States, wi..
!had settled in Mexico. and whom the intestine ahoeliskins have in.
dated to leave it. They unantrintisly state, that all the respect-
able inhabitants are so weary of the revolutionary troutlos, that a
cape of 8,0 IN. Europeans would be more than sufficient to disperse
'infectious and restore the legitimate suthorit y.•
P.S. There are lettern from the Fon of St. Juan d'Ulloa : they
are of the 111th Decenthiir. It is stated in them that foreigners
who landed at Alvarado and Tampico, on pretext of .comnt
busineas, excite the 3lexican people to indepet.dence, but.tbetr de.
claniations produce little effect.

• It h curimts to compare these Rh:anent, with the assertion of
the English Courier, •inch prcteods that all J.:mope would ::ut
able to swbdue the insurgents (see the article London.) Note ut
the Editor of the Doilr.

Though the retreat of Santa Cruz, in Peru, appears, am
far as concerned his division, to have been disastrous, and
attended with great loss, we are convinced it cannot save
the Royalists from ultimate defeat, or avert the liberaticu
of Peru. The movement of Santa Cruz was impetultut
and unsupported ; the force he pouessed, of native Peru-
vians, wail physically weals, and every way inferior to that
opposed to him. lint though the Royalist army in this
distant province wily have been successful in a single
instance, it Is wholly unequal to maintaining an ascendancy
by force of arms throughout Peru. Spain can afford no
aid, and id Semi and Camerae will soon be pressed by
superior forces, directed by all the energies of Bulirar.
The great strength of the latter lay between Lima and
l'isco, consisting of 6,000 Colombians, 2,000 Buenos
Ayreans, and 1,000 Chilians : 2,500 of the latter were
further expected, who were to leave Valparaiso on the 15th.
Three thousand Colombians, from Panama, were also on
their passage. Rive Aguerro, the Peruvian Chief, who
had yielded to the mediation of Bolivar, had also 3,00;A
armed 'Peruvians attached to him in Truxillo. Bolivar
had also 2,000 men in Moquehua, under the orders of
Santa Cruz, and was further supported by General Lanz4
with 1,500 men. The heroic Liberator would thus have
au effective force of more than 20,000 men, directed
against La Serna and Canterac, by his vigour and ex-
perience ; and the Spanish Viceroy and his followers taust
he overwhelmed, should an armistice not immediately take
place. Bolivar was prepared to push the war resolutely,
and free Peru with his whole force. This is the last
expiring effort of Spain for dominion in tl. New World—
a desperate and a hopeless exertion, by a power who can-
not send a single soldier across the Atlantic. Southern
America, with toe magnanimous Bolivar at its bead, has
wisely leagued its forces on this occasion, and sent a con-
tingent to Peru, from almost every province. The cause
of one is in fact the cause of all. If Spain surceedett in
Peru, she would soon extend her tyranny to Chili end
Colombia, and make the La Plata feel its heavy alit's:
The policy of our Government towards South America
has latterly been marked by great firmness and wisdom ; ba
enteringour powerful protest against an armed confederation
or attack on these provinces by the Continental Powers,ao
opening our ports to their flag, re baie at once ensured
their safety, and virtually acknowledged their hatiotal
independence. The great and last concession eten front
enfeebled and jealous Spain must now soon Sollow; it will
be beyond her power to refuse it much longer: it is but a
name, and she must make the grant, of absolute necessity
her despairing struggle in Peru will very soon close, and
not an armed follower of her supremacy will the remain
through the wide extent of South America. These great
countries must, in the possession of freedom, rapidly in-
crease in wealth, in population, and in power, and present
an immeasurable field for commercial intercourse with this
country, to whom they will be equally bound by ties 61
gratitude and mutual interest.

The great question involving the gradual amelioration
and emancipation of the African race in the British Wtitt
Indies was brought forward last night by Lord Bathurst
In the Upper House, and Mr. Canning in the Lower. The
propositions submitted by both Ministers were the same.
Lord Bathurst's speech was unreplied to, except by a few
passing renna_its from Lord Holland. The address of the
Foreign Minister on this agitating subject produced a more
extended discussion. Mr. Canning rose at six o'clock, and
concluded a mot able and convincing speech by half-past
seven. The measures proposed by him and the Colonial
Secretary were moderate, and much below the fiery zeal of
Mr. IVilberforce, Mr. Buxton, and the Abolitionists. They
are formed, in fact, on the resolutions of last year. They
propoie that the painful and degrading punishment of the
cart-ship should no longer be applied to females in any
ease; with males also that it should only be urged as an in-
strument of punishment, and not as a stimulus to labour :
the evidence of the negroes to be received in Courts of
tice, under certain regulations; and, as a means of strength-
ening their moral character and feelings, education to be
diffused amongst them as widely as possible ; churches
throughout the islands also to be generally established, and
regular marriages encouraged. Another object of the pro-
positions made by both Ministers was, to favour the ma-
numissions and gradual emancipation of the Negroes a•:
much as possible, bj giving them a right to the purchase
'of their own liberty and that of their immediate kindred ;
securing to them also a legal right to the enjoyment of all
property now possessed by them. These propositions, 11r.
Canning stated, would be embodied in rn Order in Coun-
cil, and first tried in the colony of 'Trinidad. Instructions,
Lord Bathurst stated, had gone out to St. Lucie, Flerbic-,
' and Demerara; and when communications in reply wee
received from those islands, that measures conformable tit
the French laws would be adopted, and an Order in
Council to that effect would be drawn up anti submitted to
the House. Mr. Canning, in the course of his speech, was
very pointed in his allusions to the violent resolutions ne
some of the Colonial Legislatures, particularly those of Ja-
maica: they certainly were in the irost furious spirit of
exultation, and betrayed a violence that went far beyonl
any real danger then existing around them. Idle menace
from them to this country never coubl be ;•ttentled with
any good effect. In the progress of his eloquent spreels.
Mr. Canning made a most important communication to ens
House, namely, that a treaty had been signed by our
Minister to the United States with that country, h 7 which
the mutual right of search was conceded, and the Foreign
traffic in Slaves by both countrles would henyvforth be
treated as an act of piracy, America having already put it on
that footing. Contin sits I cheering from the House anti galleries
which were crowded, attended Mr. canning's speech all
through. Mr. Buxton, however, was not satisfied ; he went
through a muster-roll of N•tst-India cruelties ; his speet•`t
was stuffed with the " falsis term-ars." Mr. Wilbtaivroe