The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-03-24 00:00:00

NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
To-morrow Evening, THUR:4.I?.,V, Spyth IRS, will be yerfonned

IM.I('DFTII.

Macbeth, Mr. Kean; MaeAurt, Mr. Terry. H 'rate, Mr. G. Smith.
Lady Macbeth, ?An,. Bunn.
To conclude with the Melo-Draena of
TKKELL

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDE:V.
T.-morrow Evening, THURSDAY, March 2.3, will be perfurnbed
THE CABINET.

Prince Orlando, Mr. Ulmtale: Whltn ticub, Mr. Fawcett; Count
Curt °A n. Mr. Ilartley. Ilueetta, Mho Pukes.
To conclude with the Comedy a
SIMPSON AND CO.

KING'S THEATRE, OPERA CONCERT ROOM,

HAYMARKET.
i Now beautifully arranged as a Theatre, with Rosen, Pit, and Gallery.)
Mr. D. E. WALKER proposes his ASTRONOMICAL LECTURE on
the NEW EIDOURANION, LARDP: TRANSPARENT ORRERY,
THIS and every WEDNESDAY In Lent. The Phenomena of the
Heavens will be splendidly illustrated on this elaborate Machine.
Drewßoses is.; L)r ditto, ; Pit. *I.; Gallery, Is.
Tickets and Plates to be had of Mr. Seguin, at the opera Rug-office,
quadrant.
Doors to open at half-past Ste; Lecture to begin at half-past
Seven, and to cud at Ten.

TIIEATRE ROYAL, ANGIJSH OPERA-HOUSE.
On Wedneedaye and Fridays In Lent.
LECTURE ou ASTRONOII and the PIIENWICNA of the
HEAVENS and of the EARTH.
To b delivered by Mr. BARTLEY. THIS EVENING.
To begin at seven; and conclude at Ten.
Tlekets of Admission fur MuniHes to be had on moderate terms at
the Doi-oil:1m

THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.

R. M\T"EWS AT HOME!
To.rnotrow Evenin THURSDAY. Mereh ES,
And on MONDtVe. TI(URSDAYI. and SATURDAYS,
With hie ANNUAL LECTURE on PECULIARITIES, CHARACWAL,
wed WINNERS;
Founded ea Observations end Adventures during his late
A TRIP TO AMERICA.
In Three Parte.

Pear 111.—A Sl.ntopolylogne7e;leTAll WELL AT NATCHITOCHES.
All the Charnetersof the Evening's Entertainment to be regmented
by blr. Si %THEWS.
Doors lobe opened at halfesiit Seven—Performanee begins at Eight.
Boxes. Places, Tkket*, Private and Family Doges, 1.. he taken of Mr.
Stevenson. at the Box tienet. Strand Entrance. from Ten till Five.

•
THEATRE ROYAL, nitußY-LANE.
This Evening. WEDNESDAY. Earth Si,
A GRAND PERFORMANCE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN MUSIC.

rasa PIRACTION or NIL 1110CRAIA.
PART I.
A SELECTION of SACRED MUSIC.
Between the first and second Parts,
(Foe the last time) Fantasia, Lombardo Mandolin, Slpnsw Vinsereati.
Hoeft. et Ada, Miss Patois. " Tu eh' accendi,* by particular
desire (Rossini).
PACT it.
(For the first time)
. ____.._....

A Manuscript SACRED ORATORIO.-------------- THE PROPHECY;
the Words from Pope: the Music by an Amateur, by w hose permission
this Compositlen will be performed.
Between the menial and third Parts,
Causerie Clarinet, Mr. Williams.
PANT 111.
A GRAN? MISCELLANEOUS ACT.

Prineipal Salmon;Mi.. StepVhens.Miss Paton.
Miss M. Tree, Mir tmodall, Miss Tenes, Miss Melville (Pupil of R,gnor
Rossini since his arrival in this country); Mr. Brahana. Mr. Pyne,
Mr. Phillips. Mr. Hawes, Master Lonahurst, and Mr. Bellamy.
It Is respectfully announced, that the u hole of !lenders sacred
Oratorio, " The Mewsiah." with the additional Accoisitaniments by
Mozart, will be performed (by particular desire) on Friday next, at
the Theatre Royal, ('ovoid-Carden, being the only time It can possibly
be performed tido Serum
NEW ARG)7.I.-RUOM-S, RI:GENT-STREE7.

11161111 TIM IMPBCIAL PATINOTIAOI 07 and MAJWITY.
Master 0. ANPULL had the honour to announce that his First
CONCERT will take place at the above MAIM, To-morrow. THURS-
DAY. March 23.
Principal Vocal Performers—Mrs. Salmon. Madame Caradori, and
Wise Paton; Mr. Regret, Signor Plod, Mr. Welsh, Mr. Hawes, and
Signor de Segni*.
Master ASPULL will perform several admired Pieces on the Grand
Piano Forte, among which are, Himmel's Grand Brillion Rondo,
lip. PH, with Orchestral Aecompaninients (never perfor-ed hi this
eountryl ; Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prusida's Grand Quintets, Piano
Forte, Violin, Tenor, Violoncello, and Double Baas, Obligati I and
litircheleie Fall of Paris.
The Second Part of the Concert with a Grand Overture by
Musk. Clement'.
Leader, Mr. Mori; Conductor, Music Clement'; Harp. Mr. Chatterton.
The Performer. of the Orchestra will be selected front the Philhar-
monic and Opera Bands.
Principal Instrumental Performers—Violoncello, Mr. Lindley; Dou-
ble Bon, signor Dragonettl ; Flute, Mr. Nicholson ; tYboe, Signor Ceti-
trout; Clarinet, Mr. Willman; Ilsweism. Mr. Mackintosh; Trumpet,
Mr. Harper; Trombone, signor Mal Motto; Drums. Mr. Jenkinson.
The l'isicert will begin at Eight o'Clotelt.
eq. Further Particulars will be published In due time.
Tickets, Half-a-Guinea each, to be had of Master George Aspen,
t N... IS, Cork-street, Bond-street; at the Royal Harmonic Institution.
Regent-street; at the Music Shop%of Birchall and Coo Chappell and
Co.. and Addison and Beale, New Bond-street; Bounty, Holies-street;,
Cocks, Prinees-street, Hanoversquare ; Goulding and Co., Soho-
square ; Monson and Hill, Regent-street, Piccadilly; (lenient! and
Co, Chealstdst Ben., Royal Exchange s and Lacenu and Co., No. :N.
Edward-street, Manchester-square.
Parties of lax and upwards may be accommodated with Duxes by an
early application to Master Aston

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Sr Pilit3ll.l•loX or Till wan (31.%1IPIRLAIT.
WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS DURING LENT.
Yr. TIICLWALL'S ORATORICAL and CRITICAL LECTURES,
This Evening, WEDNESDAY. March Se.
SHAESPEAREN Historical Tragedy and COLLEY' CIIIBEICS 'neon-
gruoita Melange of RICHARD THE THIRD; and the successive
modes of Representation by Garrick, Smith, Henderson. Keinhl• ,
Cooke, Kean, Rooth, and blaeready. Rowe's JANE SlIoltk:: Dolt:
tat' . Plagiarists, and Emendators of Shakspeare. Recitations ur
the
On FRIDAY—The Romantic Comedies of Shakspeare and the Melts
Dramas of the present day • Melns..(Sar Walter Scott ; and ilistorks I
Novels of the sot [treat Unknown.
Further Particulars in the Theatrical Otwerver of the respective days.

11;xes Zs., Pit aw, Gallery 2..
BOX Subscription Ticket. for the remaining course. One Guinea,
to be had at Boyle'. Court Guide Office, I. Leicester-square; ausel of the
Lecturer, North Brixton t'uttage. where Instruction. are given, in
emirs of Impediment and in the Llueution of the Pulpit, Bar, gild
Senate.
Mr. Ilassingtuun attends at the Box °Mee, N'ednesdays and Fridays,
front Ten to Four.

Thal BRITISH Pa Los commenced publishing yesterday morning
at Ilalf.past Five o'clock.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1821.

Brasil Papers to the 16th of January reached us
yesterday. The Diurio do Gorerno contains several ordi-
nances of the Brazilian Emperor. One account from Rio,
under date of the loth of January, states that the ship of
the line, Peter the First, the frigates Peranga and
Nctheroy, and the Atlanta schooner, were to sail from that
port on an important expedition, under the command of
the Chief Admiral, the Marquis of Ilaranhain. The order
was given on the 30th of December. .Inother order directs
Lord Cochrane to send out the Atlanta on the 10th to
Bahia, with the Brazilian officer C'altleira Brant Ponies,
who was to be landed thcre with two English Officers of

(the brig Bahia. A subsNuent ordinance of the 13th
January, after a preamble, which states the desire of Don
I Pedro to avoid all causes of rivalship between the citizens
of Brazil, whatever may he the place df their birth, aid
that all may enjoy their rights, under the protection
of the law; and on the other, that the tranquillay of
the empire may never be diatnalstil by the influx of
persons, who,. under the name of friends, and on
pretence of desiring to settle, same with sinister in-
teutions to sow disorder, orders that the loteulant • G.•
neral of P.dice. 'proceeding to the most serupultius domi-
nation, shall cause immediately to quit Brazil all Portu-
guese who, having arrived since or during the time of the
decree of the 1 lilt January, 1823, hare not taken in the
Chamber of that city the solemn oath of fidelity to the
cline of Brazil and the person of the Emperor, and also
all these who arrived since the decree of the 20th of IlfoL
vember of the same year. Circular letters to the sant*
effect were lent to all the provineov. By a subsequent or-
dinance of the 16th, Don Petit%) restricts the admission to
holy orders, and orders the His not to admit per
hrEneti
without his special permission; pt's orders, ho ,
to be given to those already o in merle. i
restriction was necessary, from the crowd of Prig* and
Friars in Brazil. The decree states justly, " that the
" numbers of the Ministers of the Church ought not to
" be increased without real necessity, depriving the country
" of the arms of those who might defend it against its
" enemies." Other ordinances relate to delays in the
proceedings anti condemnation Of 'rises; and the
in these causes is ordered to give • nt, without4:7,
of the cases which have been d :n the first instance,
and of the causes which have mimed their progress. The
Emperor referred to the Board of Commerce the piititions
of Brazilian merchants at Rio, • ,com of having
paid higher duties than the Bel. • the M. Addresses
had been forwarded to Don Ped i various places, ap-
proving of the liberal (7onatitn il •.A • • -• by him, and
requesting that it 'haul(' be • •- "' ed as a law of the
empire, without waitinsafes. 'nen of a future as-
sembly. The conduct of the A 4111, - n Emperor appears,
on the whole, liberal and moderik end Brasil is rapidly
ncreasing in commerce and pow.%
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That ungracious measure, the Alien Act, liras brought
forward in the Lower House again, and revived last night.
We had hoped it would have been suffered to expire—that
Ministers, when they were pursuing a liberal and enlight-
ened course of policy, creditable to themselves and ap-
plauded by the country, would not have mixed up any Or
the bad leaven of other days with a better systemiLand
would have, at length, divorced the country altegeker
from any connexion with the circle of despots, who trample
on the fairest portion of Europe, and have extinguished
freedom throughout the Continent ; but we have been dis-
appointed : the Alien Act was again called for last night by
the Home Secretary. He founded his claims on the history
of past days: unable to reconcile a measure so illiberal and
despotic with the enlightened principles of the present
period, he was obliged to recur to the reigns of Henry IV.
(a usurper); of Elizabeth, despotic in her temper, and in
every act of her long reign ; and of James 1., whose quaint
and pedantic language was always full of the indefeasible
and hereditary rights of Kings; and whose principles, in-
stilled into the tender mind of his son, nurtured those
feelings that afterwards led the unfortunate Charles into the
contests with his Parliament, and brought the unfortunate
Monarch at length to the block. In those reigns, Mr.
Peel said, foreigners in this country were not allowed to
work at handicraft trades, nor g#l any articles by retail :
now, however, the liberality off our institutions had re-
moved such restrictions, and allowed them to do both.
But can Mr. Peel, with his discrimination, take this
period of our history as an example for the legislation
of the present day? The merest school-boy knows that
nothing like freedom existed in those reigns. Bo-
lingbroke was an artful usurper, who violated all his
professions to Northumberland and the armed nobles
who pavell his way to the throne, and when con-
firmed in power, thought of nothing but confiscation and
vengeance on those who opposed him. In that and the
subsequent reign a claim was set up to the French Crown ;
and his son, Henry V., immediately on his accession,
landed at Ilarfieur, to main his claim in arms. The
two countries ware Aben...in
and the manufactures of Englund were then in their most
infant state: those of Are oiothg, now the staple of Eng-
land, were not introduced into ship country until the reign
of Elizabeth. Would Mr. Peel *cur to any of the enact-
ments of the preceding reigns as a test by which to regu-
late our laws for manufacturers now? On looking over
the statutes of those days, we find one, in 1463, the 3d of
Edward IV., which enacts, "that no servant in husbandry,
" nor common labourer, nor servant to any artificer, inha-
" biting out of a city or burgh, shall use or wear in their
" clothing any cloth above two shilling! the broad yard."
If a sumptuary law of the same oppressive and impolitic
description were now proposed, would Mr. Peel stand up
in his place to defend it, because the barbarous legislators
of 1163 had put it In the statute book? A jealousy always
prevailed in this country against foreigners, and particu-
larly against France. That country had a considerable
share of foreign commerce near a century before England
was distinguished for any trade; the marine of France was
considerable, according to the notions of those days. Before
the expedition of Charles VIII. to Naples, England and
France were neighbours and rivals in power and in wealth.
England is now infinitely more improved and wealthy, and
this unworthy jealousy and proscription ought to cease;
but if the sanguinary and exploded statutes of early'
periods of our history are to be cited as examples for the
potent day, what a legislation would we tr)w be subject
to! In the reign of Elizabeth, to which Mr. Peel referred,
we find a statute (Bth Eliz. cap. 3), by which " the
" exporter of sheep, lambs, or rams, was, for the first
" offence, to forfeit all his goods for ever, to suffer a year's
" imprisonment, and then to have his left hand cut off, in
" a market-town, upon a market-day, to be there nailed
" up ; and for the second offence, he was to be adjudged
"a felon and executed." Would Mr. Peel adopt this
barbarous statute as an example for our commercial legis-
lation of this day ? or, because stockings were unknown
and not worn in England until the days of Elizabeth, who
received the first pair as a present from the Spanish
Ambassador, would Mr. Peel refer to the cloth hose and
rude luxury of that period as an example for this more
advanced age? If not, why should any other enactments
of that or any preceding reigns be cited as precedents to
govern Parliament at present in its regulations for indivi-
dual liberty ? Freedom was then as little understood and
enjoyed as domestic comfort or • luxury ; and the laws
of those days respecting one are just as applicable to the
present period as they are in the other. But Mr. Peel
took up another position, and argued that the Alien Act
ought to pees because its arbitrary powers were leniently
used. For the last ten years (he said) only twenty-three
individuals, out of the numbers of foreigners who had
crowded to these shores, hail been sent out of the country.
The non-exercise of any tyranny can be no argument for
its continuance: if originally evil or oppressive, it ought to
cease. We believe the Alien Act is seldom put in force,
and that Ministers are generally unwilling to resort to any
exercise of its powers ; but it may be made, by a bad or
arbitrary Minister, an engine of w:vere oppression. It is,
against the principle we contend—a principle sought now
to be interwoven with the law* and institutions of this
free country. One most objectionable clause in this Act
has been withdrawn—that by which foreigners who were
domiciled in this country, and had their property vested
here, were subject to its operation. That clause, as Mr.
Wynn stated, has now been omitted, and takes much from
the odious tyranny of this Act. Sir James Mackintosh, In
claiming credit for the abolition of this clause, took nothing
beyond his deserts : his enlightened eloquence and his
zeal were ceaselessly directed against it, and we are most
happy it exists no longer. We trust this Proscriptive and
illiberal enactment will not disgrace our statute-book much
longer. It is a part of the Castlereagh legislation, and
conceived in the spirit of the " Holy Alliance." With this
knot of despots we wish to have nu league or understand-
ing whatever : their proceedings are equally hostile to the
greatness and the character of this free country.

We understand the 10th Hussars, now quartered at
Portobello Barracks, in Dublin, are ordered on foreign ser-
vice. Though they contrived to exclude Mr. Battier from
their ranks, and would not suffer him to come between
" the wind and their nobility," they will not be let bully
" the people at the Horse-Guards," as they imagined, and