The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-04-21 00:00:00

COLOMBIAN LOAN.
THE FOURTH HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND on
this LOAN will be paid on the let of 3IAY next, and on
every succeeding day, between the hours of ten and four, at the
°Mee of Messrs. Herring, Graham and Fowles, No. 3, Freeman's
court, Cornhill. The Dividend Warrants are to be left for inspec-
tion one day previous to payment, accompanied by a List, in nu-
merical under.
April l, 1324.

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Rotte;dato - 12 1
Antwerp - - 13 4
Hamburgh - 37 5
Alton* - 37 6
Paris, 3 days' sight 36 46
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NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-L.4NE.
This Evening. N !MIES!) April 41. will be performed
THE lIVPOCRITS.
Doctor Cantwell. Mr. Dowton ; Maw-worm, Mr. Liston ; Charlotte,
Mrs. W. West.
After which.
MY OR lIMMOTHRR.
To conclude with a new Oland EsTptlan Tide of Enchantment, called
TORDASTER t or, THL SPIRIT OP THE STAR.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
Thies...nine WEDNESDAY, April SI, will be performed
PRIDE SHALL HAVE A PALL
Count Ventoso, Mr. W. Faire,: Stefano Mr. Egerton ; Lorenzo. Mr.
Coowr Grand Wt. Jones. Vicioria, Miss Harnmershry.
After which a seMelo-Dramatic herptiaa Romance, called
THE SPIRITS OP THE MOON;
Or, THE INUNDATION OP THE NILE.

ROYAL COBURG THEATRE.
mM Evening, WEDNESDAY. April 21 land during the Week). the
Mein-Drama of
Tilt 11111 RD WOMAN OF THE ISLES
Or, SCOTLAND'S ANCIENT DAYS.
After which,
NOTHING LIKE LUCK.
To conclude with the lielo-Dranta of
THE NORTH POLE.
NEW. SURREY THEATRE.
This evening, WEDNESD AY, April 21 land during the Week), a new
Spectacle. called
THE FIRE-WORSHIPPERS; or, THE PARADISE OF THE PERIS.
After which, a new Burletta, called
PLOTS IN MADRID; or, THE PAINTER'S STUDY.
To eonclude with anew Melo-Dttune. called
THE FLOATING BEACON; or, THE NORWEGIAN WRECKERS.

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The approbation manifested towards the Perron:lancet of this House
was, if poesible, more enthusiastic last night than on the night pre-
vious. Immediately on the opening of the doors, the Pit and Gal-
lery were almost Instantly overflowing: and the Boxes, before the
Mush of the First Aet, welt well and fashionably filled. From the
plea lure excited by "The illrrlstlay," the unceasing applause at-
tendant en Ora, ar the African Slave," and the roars of laughter
occasioned by the Comic Pantonthue, the whole will be repeated
*yeti evening during the present week.
SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.
This Eveni, WEDNF.4DAY, April el.
THE WIRTH-DAY.
After which a new grand romantic Melo-Drama, called
ORA: or, THE AFRICAN SLAVE.
Cato, Mr. 11. Kemple.
With the new Comte Pantomime of
TfUl EASTER OFFERING ; or, HARLEQUIN'S GOLDEN HARVEST.
Three Harlequins, Merits Auld, W. KUM, and Bartlett; three Pan-
taloon% Mews. Blsnehard, Jonas. and Henderson ; three Clowns.
aisasrs. Harthoid, Kirby sod Waltiourn ; three Columbines, Misses
Atleock, Kirby, and M. dieri.
Places and Private Boxes to be taken of Mr. Parker, at the BOT4IMCS.
Stage Manager. Mr. Vining.

Tits Daman Palm commenced piti—tlMMg yesterday morning
at a Quarter past Five o'clock.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APIIL 41, 182,1.

The Ottoman empire is every day tumbling to its foun-
dations. The dynasty of Othman, within the Bosphorus,
will aoon be no more. That barbarous dominion, still
spread over the fairest portion of Eastern Europe, which
has existed for more than five centuries, maintaining its
rude encampment on the classic soil of Greece, and holding
in basest vassalage the city of Constantine, and the sur-
viving remnant of the Roman empire, is now pressed by
the triumphant arms of its Christian subjects, and the
threatening forces of the Russian Autocrat, and destruction
hovers over the towers of the Seraglio. This Power, which
once menaced all Europe with subjugation, when the
haughty Bajazet threatened to feed his horse with a bushel
of oats from off the altar of St. Peter's; and the Grand
Vizier Kuperli, little more than a century since, in 1683,
poured his whitening tents around Vienne, which was only
rescued by the valour of the chivalrous Sobieski, has long
been suffered to exist solely from the rival jealousies of the
other European Powers. But a domestic enemy is now
pressing its ruin, while an ambitious foe hovers on its
frontiers. The fine city of Constantinople was taken by
assault, by Mahomet the Second, in 1436, when Constan-
tine Paleologus fell on its ramparts. His heroic valour,
aided by that of the Venetian, Justiniani, long withstood
the attacks of the fierce barbarian ; but Byzantium then
contained little more than a crowd of enervated and
tresabling slaves. The towering walls of the great
capital of the East had long bid defiance to the as-
saults of the infidel.s who thronged around it. Timour,
who overran all Asia with his Tartar cavalry, was pre-
cluded from further conquest in Europe, because the
mighty master of the East had not a single boat to float his
innumerable " 'forums" of horse across the Bosphorus;
and the fierce Bajazet, surnamed from his fury " Ilde-
rim," or the " Lightning," after vanquishing Boucciault
and the proudest chivalry of France before Nicopolis,
sunk in his subsequent contest with the victorious Tartar.
The Turk still includes within his desolating dominion in
Europe the wasted provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia.
and the fine and fertile countries of Bulgaria, Servia,
Basal*, part of Croatia, and Dalmatia, Romania, Maoc-
donia, Albania, Thessaly, Livadia, and the Morea, with
the Islands of the Archipelago. The latter have been the
principal scenes of the revott of the heroic Greeks; and for
the last three years the tyranny of the Moslem has been
almost unknown in the Mores and throughout the Grecian
Isles. The insurrection of the Christians has now ex-
tended to 'fhesaaly, and the warlike Albanians are in
arms against the Porte. The barbarous Turks were
or pally a Tartar or Scythian nation, dwelling
between the Caspian and the Black seas, and first became
kooWn in the seventh century, when Herodius, the unwar-
like Emperor of the East, took a body of them into his sa-
vior. The Saracen Caliphs subsequently employed these
`wiles, when they became enervated from long success,
mail these barbarians at length revolted against the feeble
authority of the Bagdad Caliphs, and usurped from their
auperior valour the dominion of the East, in 1214.
adlyman, Solt of Nera, a town on the Caspian Sea, passed
Mount Caucasus, with !..'o,ooo of his armed followers, and
tozAde himself master of several countries and cities in
Leaser Asia. Ilia victorious grandson Othman, from
whom the Turkish dynasty dates its name, assumed, in
1300, at the city of Karahissar, the proud title of Emperor
of the Othmans, and premed the Eastern Empire with
his arms. Among numerous other conquests, be took,
in 13Q8, Press in Bithynia, now called Bursa, which
Qrchan, his son and successor, made the seat of his
dipire. The two sons of Orchan, Solyman and
Anituntb, pushed the conquest of the Turkish arms in Eu-
rape. The former reduced Gallipoli, and Tyrilos fell to
the lstf. Amstrad' succeeded his father Orchan, in 1360.
and subdued Ancyra, Adrianople, and Phillopopolis. The
body of Janissaries, under the suggestion of one of his