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London, England, 1821-01-10 00:00:00

TI-114.; 13 PR ESS.

PRESBYTIIIitY OP
At the meeting of the Presbytery
•ry 5, Dr. luaus brought forward
e Ler3•l Address to the Th•oue, expresep
of the Presbytery im the prestos me
had prepared so Address which he
posing.
It was seconded by Dr. GRANT.
Sir HARRY Me/mature, rose, soil
of the Address, as far as they imput
gime snd disaffection, to the inhabit
sufficient to atithurise the present Address.
lu which opposition the Hon. Baronet •
speech of considerable length end
Thosescrit, who also contended, that,
commencer, when the objects pursued
werc, simply to yule fur the dismissal

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, Limu,tar io, ten.

Some further accounts relating to the state of the
revenue for the year and quarter just closed will
he found in our Paper this day, They of course
offer no difference in the genera/ result from these
which we have already published, but they mark
the distinction between the produce of the total re-
venue .atid of the consolidated fund, and also elan-
bit a comparative statement of the income and
charge upon the consolidated fund for the whole
year, and for the quarter that closed 03 the sth of
this month. IVith respect to the account of the in-
come and charge of the consolidated fund only, we
find that there is a deficiency in the income, as com-
pared with the charge, to the amount of 844,429/.
which, added to the deficiency iie this fund of nearly
8,000,000 f. subsisting at the close of the Octo.
her quarter, leaves a sum of 8,814,000 i. to be pro..
tided for by an issue of bills charged on the grow-
ing produce of the consolidated fund. This state
of deficiency in the income of the consolidated fund
has now continued for some years, and must be
attended with considerable inconvenience to the
public service. Formerly the income so far ex-
ceeded the charge, that the excess of the consoli-
dated fund formed on important article among the
ways and means, ainourning usually to the sum
of 3,000,000 f. disposable in the hands of the
CN•NCILLOB of the EXCHIQUER to meet the
expenses of the current year. But really there
is no part of our . financial system at present
that is not in a strange and unnatural state,
the accounts are every quarter becoming inore
and more embarrassed and confused, there is
a growing complexity of charges and counter-
charges, one branch balancing another, which
can lead to no useful purpose, and would not be
continued for an instant, did it not contribute in
some degree to conceal the patch-work system of
temporary expedients in which the Ministers have
been so long struggling. The only means by which
the Ministers can hope to restore the consolidated
fund to a satisfactory state would be, to annihilate
a sufficient quantity of stock standing in the name
of the Commissioners for liquidating the national

debt. This could be attended with no greater dis-
advantage than is at present caused by the appli-
cation of a certain portion of the sinking fund to
meet the current expenses, while it would disem-
barrass the public accounts of much of their
present complexity, and relieve the Treasury from
the inconvenience of an accumulating armor upon
the consolidated fund.
Did not the question relating to the proceedings
against the QUEEN press with paramount interest
upon the instant attention of Parliament, and were
it not of s nature too extensive to admit a hope
that any other subject can be entertained during
the next Session with ■dvantage to the public, we
should trust that the moment had at length arrived
when the wisdom of the Legislature should be di-
rected to the framing of a new system of financial
account,. The first step we should hope would be
to reduce the nominal sinking fund of sixteen mil-
lions, which is applicable to any service but the one
fur which it was created. into ■ real sinking fund
of such amount as the state of the public revenue
should admit. The present overgrown miss of
stock i- the hands of th-

dent.ltis could tie attended with no °c,
Tester dis-
advantage than is at present caused by the
aitii the coioaod Li
toe of those
Address. wh
was desirable, and that this
the conduct of Ministry. cation of a certain portion of the sinking fund to
ed on the other side? As meet the current expenses, while it would dtsem-
, him agreed to give op their
barrass the public accounts of much of their
Iddress of the Vice-Linde.
c, as they did, of thestate. present complexity, sod relieve the Treasury from
Gentlemen, as soon is this the inconvenience of an accumulating arrear upon
y those as loyal to the Con-
idling fur it, but to admit the consolidated fund.
t the intention of the meet. Did not the question relating to the proceedings
'Moos were hollow and in-
seeded, that it most be against the QUEEN press with paramount interest
aderstauding, that this and upon the instant attention of Parliament, and were
country were called by the .
se name was st the tup of it not of nature too extensive to admit a hope
? The Vice-Lieutenaues‘ that any other subject can be entertained during
the county, and holding a
the next Session with ■•dvantsge to the public. we
removeable at pleasure.
red in other counties with should trust that the moment had at length arrived
e verily believed, that not when the wisdom of the Legislature should be di-
called for auy purpoat but
liieb had no reeling in corn. reeled to the framing of a new system of financial
berefore glad that his Hon. account,. The first step we should hope would be .
raw n his amended Address,
iheir real sentiments on the to reduce the nominal sinking fund of sixteen mil- I
the more incontestably to lions, which is applicable to any service but the one
iad no object but the stip•
fur which it was crested, into • real sinking fund
fire o'clock, p.m. for the of such amount as the state of the public revenue
dress as amended by Mr.
should admit. The present overgrown mss of
0 fur the original Address,
majority is favour or the stock in the hands of the Commissioners is peach*.
ad received • paper signed live of nothing to the country bat embarrassment
▪of Paisley, who protest- and expense ; it is a vast encumbrance, N great
field to convey the sense of bubble, but without boyancy, • political paradox,
itutioaally limited nature
by its magnitude, bat ridiculous from
erecoduhniyi,sebelf thebjs R
settpureseation.
tsitilerpfruisgtlinlily or its operations. We should, however.
ave done his ditty if he had
not desire to be thought to speak slightingly of a
•
nded the reception of the sinking fund conducted upon the principles on •
nerally protested, for him-
which the present sinking fund is founded, were
ecisiou of this meeting be- theism principles suffered to operate. It is not to the
of the sentiments of the
system we object, but to the manner in which the
t, that the thanks of the system is pursued. The Ministers of the Croati
d was about to be tarried, have established an expenditure so vast, that tht y
e called out, " Not avant. can no longer respect the sacredness of that fund to •
which the Statesmen of their own party had empha-
EDINBURGIT. tically bestowed the epithet of 66 sacred." They
have encroached upon the capital of the country in
•ry this day, Friday, lama- drawing present taxes, and it could not he hoped
.;
••1 hi• promised onetime for
expremive of the opinions that they would abstain more carefully born the
slate of the country. He hopes and resources of our posterity. There err
he took the liberty of pro-
Mill means in the power of Parliament to save the
present capital and future resources of the emptte
117,,..1°5ray deig,„„, of
sedthtir
allegationsrel, from the ruin that threatens them, but it will re-
habituate this country, quire a strung effort of virtuous patriotism to give
t Address.
daronei was en pportrd, in a them effect. Nothing can save the country but to
nd ability, by the Rev. A. pursue earnestly a principle of strict economy; to
that, uuder the present eir- enforce it iu every department of the Stale; and to
mewed at public meetings
lima! of Ministers, and fur reduce the expenditure of the Government at least
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eight millions a year below the estimates of our pre-
sent Ministers.

The Bank of England commenced paying the
dividends yesterday, amounting to about ten mil-
lions sterling. The gloomy state of the revenue
for the last quarter has produced such an impres-
sion upon the market, that not even so large a sum
of money coming into circulation had the power of
producing a favourable effect upon the funds.

The negnciation to obtain Marlborough House 1
for the QUEEN'S residence is not likely to succeed.
The Duke of Maausoaouoit has au interest in it
for 20 years to come, subject to a lease to the
Prince of `AXE COBURG for • term of years, of
which there we five unexpired, at an annual rent
of 3,5001. We understand that his Royal High-
'Jessica's ready to transfer his interest in the premises
to her Ma.oxire ; but it is said. he has recently
received an intimation that the arrangement, if
carried into effect, would be attended with incon-
venience and dissatisfaction in a certain quar-
ter. Wishing to accommodate on the one aide,
fearful of offending on the other, and standing in
the same relation to both, the situation .of peculiar
difficulty and delicacy in which he is placed must,
in every just and liberal mind, acquit his Royal
Highness of all blame in this transaction.

It will be seen in ■n advertisement in front of
our Paper that the Duke of PORTLAND, •s Lo►d
Lieutenant of the county of Middlesex, hag, in
pursuance of a reqnisition for that purpose, fixed
Tuesday the 16th instant for a general meeting of
the Freeholders of that county, at the Mermaid, at
Hackney, for taking into coosiderution the pro-
priety of petitioning the House of Commoos for
a cosistitutional Reform in the representation of the
people in Parliament. It is to be hoped that the
Freeholders of this great metropolitan county will,
on this occusioii, set •n example worthy of them-
selves, and of the imitation of the country at large.

We have received Hamburgh Papers to the 49th
last. The following is uu extract :
Twit*, DECIMBEIL 2H.
♦Ve have received news by express, that his Ma..
jest). the Kicg of the Two SICILIFS left Florence
us good health, arrived yesterday at Bologna, will
beat Modena this evening, and at Laybsch on the
4th of January.—(Goxette Piedmoniese, I)ec. 2).

The Paris Papers of the 4th and sth instant
have arrived. It is How certain that the Con-
gress will be held at Laybach. The King of
NAPLIS was expected there on the 4th inst. The
two Emperors were also expected at Vienna Isom
Troppau on the 29th last for the same destination.
Male proceedings at Naples there is no Liter intel-
ligence than that which was given in THE BRITISH
Pittss of yesterday. The domestic news in the Paris
Papers is scanty and uninteresting. The Chamber
of Deputies did not sit on the 4th. Oo the sth it
«as occupied in discussing the Report of the Corn-
inittee on the pmjet of the law authorising the
collection of the six first 12th. of the taxes of 1821
on the rates of 1820. At four o'clock the further
conviderstion of the Report was adjourned to Mon-
day.—The following are extracts from the Paria
Papers :
PARIS, JANUARY 6.
Letters from Naples of the 15th state, that the
ferment which had prevailed for some days in the
public mind had begun to subside. The assemblages
of the populace upon the public places, which in-
spired so much alarm, had ceased.
The Countess of Gothland (Queen of Sweden),
waited on the King on Saturday to congratulate
him on the Hew year.

LATBACH, DECEMBER 19.

There is no longer any doubt here that the Con-
gress will be continued in our city. Our Autho-
rities have been for some days officially charged to
select lodgings for the Courtsand their suites. All
the proprietors of houses have beep, in consequence,
requited to declare what part of their habitations they
wish to devote to this purpose. An Officer of the
Austrian Court arrived here yesterday, and a Rus-
sian Officer this day. to prepare the ludgings fur the
tern Cowls. The suite of the Austrian Court will
Ire composed of 120 persons. It is not yet known
when the Congress will commence.
The Five per Cent. Consols were. on the 4th, 80 1.
flank Actions. 1,460.--Five per Cent. Consols on
the sth, 79f. gsc. Bank Actions, 1,457 f.
A report of the proceeding at the Berks County
Meting, held oil Monday ut Reading, is given in
routher part of our Pipet'.

A Itteciiog of the county of Renfrew was held
on Thur•d+y at Renfrew. for the purpose of voting
Loyal Ad Tress to hiss MAJESTY. J. MAXWELL,
M.P. moved an amended Address, con-
demning the conduct of Ministers. This the
Himouroble Gentleman consented to withdraw,
sud expressed NI assent to an amendment•to the
original Address, moved by Mr. STUART, to the
following effect :--'• We do not mean to convey to
)smir MAJESTY any expression of approbation or die.
upprobatton of the conduct of your MAJLITY'S
Misii.terp."—The original Address was carried by
" majority of Pi; the numbers being, Ayes, 60—
Noes, 44. A full report of the proceeding is given
111 another part of our l'sper.

It IS Pnioi that Mr. Ito AGO 6 ISAITHIIII3T is 10 be
rill)frost4tl to the Board of Cuotrul.—(Evening
Paprr.

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COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

The new tragedy of Mirandola, which has been
so long announced, from the pen of BARRY CORN-
WALL, the well-known author of Marcia* Co/onan,
and several other poems, was performed last night
at this theatre, for the first time. The merited
popularity of the author's former works, together
with the, iu some degree ostentatious, manlier in
which this piece was avowed and proclaimed,
and the favourable report of several of the
author's friends who had read the play, con-
tributed to mire the public expectation to an
exalted pitch. A crowded house was the conse-
quence, and we are happy to have it in our power
to say, that, contrary to the usual result iu such
cases, the merits of the production did not fall short
of what had been anticipated, and that complete
success crowned the work. Jealousy of the must
tearful kind, working upon a strong and generous
spirit, and hurrying it to the commission of a most
atrocious act, under the semblance of justice, is the
passion on which the action is mainly founded.
Guido, son of lbe Duke of Mirandole, unknown to his
fattier, lures and is beloved by Isidore, the niece and ward
of a subject of the Duke's. Being called to the wars, at a
distance from his paternal home, his aunt Isabella, the
sister of the Duke, who has conceived the ambitious pro-
ject of securing for her sun Hippolilo, the succession to
the sovereignly of Mirandula, causes rumours to his
dishonour to be eitenleted, for the purvise of alienating
from him his father's affections, but without effect. Guido
is wounded iu battle, and reported as dead; and Isidore
mourning his lost., is seen by his father in her tears,
who, becoming enamoured of her beauty, demands her band
of her guardian, and obtains her in marriage. Father Gi-
reldi, the family confessor, under the influence of Isabella,
conceals from Mirandula the mutual passion of his son and
Isidore' and intercepts Guido's letters from Naples to Isidore
and his father, and those of fit irandula to Guido' one of which
was intended to convey to him the information of the kneaded
nuptials. Guido recovering from his wound, and surprised as
well as grieved at the lung absence of intelligence from his
father and his beloved Isidore, pewits to Mirandula, and
on his arrival first learns their nrisreiage frum the Friar.
He is of coarse greatly agitated, and successively re-
proaches the Friar, the Duke, and IssiJiara, with their
cruelly towards bum, and at length resolves to subdue his
unhappy passion, and they each, after some conflict
with the feelings which their respective situations awakes,
determine to fulfil their relative duties to each other with-
out recurring to the past, which they all seem to think per-
fectly feasible. Isabella, in furtherance of her still cherish-
ed design of producing an open rupture beiweeu the Duke
and his soil, determines upon provoking the former to
jealousy of the latter, for which his former knower pas-
sion fur Isidore furnishes ample mesas. With a min_
tare of seeming friendly violence and compassionate en-
treaty, she forces from Isidore, as a token of friendship
fur the disconsolate Gliillll, a favourite ring of the Duke's
which he had givens her, and presents it in Isidora's name
to Guido. At a bouquet given in honour of his son's re-
torts, he misses the ring from laidura's finger, aud chides
her for not wearing it ; and presently afterwards in the
warmth of reviving patents' affection, which their tom-
rel on the subject of the marriage had sinothcied fur
a time, he seizes Guide's bend, and finding un hie Sager
the ring, is seised with a frantic St of jealousy, breaks
up the feast, pours maledictions on all urouud him,
and is a freusy of passion hurries into the privacy
of his library. He is there found in • state of bewildered
exhaustion by Isabella, who at length succeeds iu arousing
him. Guido enters, sod after some time explains the ring
. to have been given him as a token of pure friendship by lei-
dors; and shales his determination, in order to avoid future
unpleasantness, to depart instantly os his travels, sever to
return to Mirandula, and sets out accordingly; his father,
by degrees bccoming pacified, consentiag to his departure,
and at length throwing himself into his arms, overcome
by affection to bid him farewell. A hired of Guido's
being prevailed upon by Isidore to procure her a parting
interview with him at night in the garden of the castle, her
intention being to prevail with him to return her the
ring, as a meows of removing the Duke's displeasure, seeks
Guido for that purpose in the cell of Fattier Gsialdi,
where be enters while his friend is inquiring fur him of the
Friar. Wishing to bare no witness to the purport of their
conversation, they burry the Friar out of his cell, a
bundle of letters falling unperceived from under his habit,
as they erne him along. Guido having agreed to return,
and meet Isidore In the garden at night, departs, leaving his
hired in the tell, who picks up the letters which the Friar
had dropped, and finding them to be the intercepted letters
of Guido and the Duke, accompanied with a letter from
Isabella to the Friar, which discloses the whole of her perfi-
dious machinations, he hastens to acquaint the itijored par-
ties with the discovery. The time appointed fur her meet-
ing with Guido having arrived, Isidore frames ass excuse
fur leaving die Duke, and repairs to the rendezvous.
Isabella having discovered the assignation, informs the Duke
of it in such a way as to arouse his feelings to an alarming
pitch. He rushes into the garde. with the moat awful de-
nunciations of vengeance, aud surprises them together at
the monseet when, overpowered by her feelings, and nearly
fainting, Isidore is reclining on the arm of Guido. Convinced,
as be imagines, of their guilt, his passion becomes ungovern-
able; be calls in his guards and attendants, and seating him-
self or a garden chair, as on • throne of justice, he dooms
his son to be shot in the castle yard. Guido goes 10 meet
his fate with fortitude and magnanimity, and Isidore, on her
knees, declares hiss innocent, and implores the recall of his
sesteuce ; but übtsiniog no answer, she swoons at bee hus-
band's feet. She shortly recovers, and rises; but upon her
return of her recollection faiatly articulating " Merry!"
she falls deed in the acme of as aUeudast. Isabella now
enter', and as she is about to speak to the Duke,
Goido's friend, whom she supposes to be confined
its the castle by bee order, but who has escaped, rushes
in with the letters, which be presents to the Duke, who,
agonised by the esstendine emotions which this discovery
excites, orders Isabella and the Friar to be cunfioed, nod the
lion of Guido to be stayed; but the last larder is too
late : scarcely has the messenger departed, when the fatal
shot is heard, and the frantic Duke, upon hearing this fatal
result of the perfidy which had bees practised upon him,
falls dead."

Of these materials the author has made a judi•
cious and skilful application. The tragedy abounds
with interesting situations, the action is powerfully
wrought, the dialogue is easy, the composition
excellent, the thoughts in general natural and
appropriate, and frequently elegant and imagine.
tire. Some few of the scenes are rather tedious
from their length, and the action in some
instances unnecessarily protracted, which weakens
the interest considerably. A few judicious
curt• ilmenta, however, will remedy these de-
fects, and secure it a ruceessful run. Jr was
given oat for repetition this evening, amidst
the most enthusiastic cheers and plaudits ; not
entirely without opposition, but who could hope
for an unanimous approval of a tragedy in dime
times ? We never remember to have witnessed
more complete success on a first representation.
The exert of the performers entitle them to
the author's warmest acknowledgments. and to
our unqualified approbation. Mr. MACREADVI
Duke was a grand and powerful display or his.
triouic talent. Mr. C. KsiesLit's Guidocxeceded

every former effort of that gentleman's which we
have had the pleasure of witnessing. Mr. Au-
ROT? and Mr. EGERTOK gave full effect to
their respective parts. Mr. Couuoa had very
little to do. but that little he did well. Mrs.
FAUCIT gave a vigorous portrait of the wily
and ambitious Isabella; and Miss Foote pl-y-
-ed the tender and interesting Isidnra with
taste and feeling. Every opportunity which the
piece afforded was liberally seized fur presenting
some of the most beautiful specimens of scenery,
which even the highly-finished state of the art
at this theatre has as yet exhibited. The ban-
quet scene at the close of the third act, was truly
splendid, and the arrangement of the orchestra
tasteful and well imagined. Mr. Bishop availed
himself of the opportunity for the display of his
skill in musical composition, afforded by the intro-
duction of a triumphal ode, to treat us with a de-
lightful chorus.
The Prologue was well spoken by Mr. CHIP-
MAN, and the Epilogue was gracefully and play.
fully delivered by Muss FOOTE. ,o