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London, England, 1824-08-26 00:00:00

NEW SURREY THEATRE.

:T:it new; grand ITlne•eMelo•Dranne of The Minting !Wee," with
13e superb *entry and gorgeous Decoratlons, conthodur to le
reseived with rapturous applause, It will Ye repeated every Evening
Itll hollier soaks.
This present TIICRSDAV. Anctist 401, and every livening during the
Week, w El be presented the celebrated Chinese
Ilelo•Drame. In Three Acts. called
TIIE BURNING BRIDGE:
oe, THE SPECTRE OF THE LAKE.
Principal CharaetaTs by Messrs. 11. Kerble. Rowhot ham Milk liar-
Venni. and Iletninlince; Mrs. Loveday, end Neal 4.41111 t.
In the course r f the Mare a Itrand Itallrt, culled "The Festival of Lan-
tetna,,tv Feast of Tunica.' Principal Mincer. Mlos Adcock.
After which a favourite s.dig by Mr. Gibbon.
To r ..... dude with a new mrio-nrams. railed
AVERIEV: r. bINTY VEARIC SINCE.
With new allude, Scenery Orestes. and Decoration&

ROYAL. IPAi;XITALI,.
Y-morrew Evenine. FRIDAY. A4ust
A SPLENDID GALA FETk.
Under the eq.celal Patronage of his Majesty.
Thewhok of t
.f var'ed and popular anitteements.whleh have been
the sidnalra, ton .many thousand visitors nightly, will be riven on
Vts mime magnificent wale as usual. Including a Grand Concert of
Yard and Iv nruwental Musk. and a succession of Entertainment.,
frank EWA t.!: Twelve ,flocks to conclude with a brilliant
Irlee.Works, In the midst of which the Voting American will wake
Ina heti& AWVI:t and Dewent on the Tight Rope.
Dos open at Seven.-Idtoiltaion 3a. 134.

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I INS SiIITIIIII Pans COIIIIIIOICCII fiublisltinc yesterday marl:fug
at a quarter past five o'clock.

LONDON, THURSDAY, AuGusr 26, 1623.

We have received the following letter from our Paris
torrespor‘lent. In another communication he informs us
Vint his Must Christian Majesty is in a very alarming state
of health, and that every precaution is used to conceal the
fact from the knowledge of the public. So many and such
et:Tartans results depend on the life of Louis XVII!. at
Ws critical period, that it is difficult to anticipate the
cousequences that wottldl follow the event of his decease.
TIT fall of M. de Villcle would most probably be the first.

PAILIS. Arc. 23.

Vern' lay Louis XVIII. received, at eleven o'clock, Count
Ardigne, nn his appointment as First President of the Cows
cd'Amnrs, and 3lonsicur Desconles u Fint President of
Court at Poitiers. After Mare, his Majesty received the
utistna State, Prince Talleyrand, the Grand Dignitaries, the
Marshals, Lieutenants(lucre's aril other Military Officers. the
Pope's Nuncio, and the Neap 1.-. a Ambassador. Ilia 3lajesty
r.lt ride out.

Tbe Duchess of Derry is expected to return to limy to-morrow,
1.-cm her journey through Normandy.
Oa Wednesday, the tsth, the floe of Saint Louis, the usual
distr'.',ation to the populace. of wine and eatables, will take place
C:amr, Elysk-s, for which great preparations are maLirg.
Hands of music will he asseitiblvil in different parts. to accompany
the different Sp./ler/et and other amusements which will he pre-
par rd for the celebration of this grarule fife. The gardens of the
Tore:aim, and the Ci.amps Elyst"tes, an well as all the public build-
imss i Paris, will, in the evening, exhibit a splendid variety of
co, tared lamps. A general illumination by the inhabitants will
ids" 11i! place. At nine o'clock, esaimiticent fire.worke will be
displayed at the entrance of the Champs Elysties.
Vetlerday Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg visited the grand gal.
,irthr Louvre. and the Saloons prepared for the exhibition of
r t.atic;:s of living artists, which will be opened to the public on
Plc tlrb. His 'Royal Highness was accompanied by Count Ler-
Itenov. Governor of the Palais des Tuileries.
The Ccurt of Assizes at Versailles has lately condemned a man
st.mard Combos, a native of A veyron, to eight years' imprison-
ment in irons, and to be branded with a hot iron, for having been
fa::tab in possession of a forged diploma, constituting him Doctor
to' Medicines and likewise for assuming, without authority, the
e'en of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour. He was
farmers; a Priest, but left the Church for the Laboratory.
Tisc Cicerone, a new literary Jenrnal, was so mutilated by the
tk.atare on Saturday, that it was impossible it could make its ap-
p:srarce. The sentence which gave offence was the following,
caotaitad in a critique on the new tragedy of Edon a Cyntostoein,
rawer:log in Paris :—•• To understand this piece, and the emel-
t' ra committed by the Infidels, we must forget the martyrs a barn
Cidstian Cherub has sacrificed."
The Lo-grette, Poodore, and Corwin, have each becci fined,
for artizles respectively introduced into them, and a long trial has
hoe:• c-rrying on a,,ttainst the if t ;Atypic, far the political offence of
b tying employed illusions, dashes, stars, &c., but • judgment was
Lawn a few days ago by a Jury of Not Gritty. This unpalatable
V.TIIIA so irritstedtbe Ministry, that the Censure was innnett,,telv
r since' in all its rigour. and titeir destructive scissars have now no
mercy on those who fall undo their non lie. r. Thor decision is
witiltut aprcal.
.t re?rity raniphlet called Cie PJffOrTM4, oa Notujejuf a p,.
containing a table of discoveries, inventions, curiosities.
e ,s I.:crary and scientific. &e. appeared yesterday with ten blank
psi" The whole itnpression should have contained thirty-two.
.‘ mast st•tguiar and distreasir.; Areumstanee occurred yesterday
Para. The son of H. le Tillers, has ing had occasion to go to St.
I ecormlo rnm mercantile concerns, returned, after a long absence, to
Ibranze. On entering his paternal roof, he New to his father's
arms, when his feelings were so suddenly and so strongly over.
;$ tweed, thet he fell at his fiat and instantly expired.

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We subjoin, from private correspondence of the
t'Airr:er Fr.,oesis, an interesting account of the present
state'or Spain. and particularly of the landing of the t'on-
sttitionaiists, under Torrijos, at Tarifa. This affair seems
to excited consi&railc alarm in the Spanish Govern-
ment. The feelings of the population may be aacertaincil
the fact, that no opposition whatevir appears to have
h.ocn offered to Torrijos. It a•as nut judged safe to em-
ploy the Spanish troops at St. Ruch to suppress the it:sor-
rel:dim. The only native soldiers Torrijos met with joined
Ws. If there bad been no French garrison at Cadiz,
another revolution u:ight have resulted from the isms-

sion of this handful of men. It bat at any rate eh...!
cided the absolute and immediate dependence of Fen
li-
nantl's authority on the presence of the French army. The
Constitutionalists, or malcontents, are evidently the im-
mense majority of the population, no part of whom can to
trusted with arms to subdue an insurrection, though the
country is garrisoned with French troops. A rumour is
mentioned of a Congress of Sovereigns at Milan, at which
Ferdinand is to be present in person. The subjugation of the
American States still swims in the heads of the Allies, and
fills them with desire. That some plot is hatching we have no
doubt ; and that the French Government is either partici-
pant or cognisant of the meditated attempt, we have as little
hesitation in of inning our belief. There has of late been a
mysterious activity in the French navy. The pending
cc-
gociations for the new Spanish loan, the known and avowed
feelinp,s and wishes of the French Ministet ial Papers, and
the projected Congress, seem obviously to point at the
same conclusion, which will be prevented only, if at all, by
the failure of pecuniary ability in Ferdinand and his royal
and imperial friends. We hope and trust at least that no
Englishman will be found to take any share in the raising
of a loan intended to be applied to the injury of the com-
merce of his country, to the destruction of the liberty
and happiness of a vast continent, and to the renewal of the
atrocious cruelties and massacres perpetrated by the blood-
thirsty Morino in his Venezuelan campaigns.

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M ADUID, AUG. 12.

The approaching departure of the Royal Family for one of the
royal residences in the provinces, and the disembarkation of the
ex-general Torrijos, at Tarifa, are now the exclusive subjects of th
conversations in our saloons.

I The day before yesterday orders were ser.t to make preparation
for thejourney of their Majesties and the Infants to the royal Tali-
: dence of St. Ilidelphonso. The day of their departure is fixed for,
the 17th. The Royal Family will sleep the first night at the Es-
curial, and on the morrow at their journey's end. Their Majesties
will rest some days at La Granja, and from thence, accompanied
by a small number of attendants, they will proceed to Burgos.
The Infants, with their consorts, will remain at St. Ilidelphonso.
Our politicians are busy in forming conjectures as to the journey
to Burgos. Some say its object is only to have an interview with
the father of her Majesty the Queen ; others pretend to know from ,
good authority, that their Majesties will undertake • journey to
Milan, where • congress, it is said, will be held, at which severs I
European Sovereigns will be present. We are fathom presuming!
to guarantee the truth of news of this importance ; we only state ,
the fact of the journey to Burgos, which, to judge from the pre-'
potations made in that town for the reception of their Majesties,
will, in all probability, be undertaken with the shortest delay.
As to the enterprise of Torrijos, the following is all that we can
state positively r---" For four days past we have observed that the
government has receives, couriers from Andalusia, and despatched
others to that province. Within this short space of time, four privy
Councils of Ministers have been held, over which the King in per.
son has presided, and at which the Governor and Fierals of tha
Council of Castile have been present. The cause of these meet-
ings and of the movements of the couriers, is certainly the landing
at Tarifa, and on sonic other points within the lines of the camp o
St. loch, effected by eight hundred officers and soldiers of the dis-
banded Cjnstitutional armies, having at their head the ex-General
Torrijos, who was lately ;at Gibraltar. This handful of men have
attempted to excite the inhabitants to insurrection against the
existing Government. In some villages in the mountains of
Ronda the Constitutional stones have been again erected, and
Torrijos has distributed 3000 muskets among the people. The
silence of the Journals as to this event has not a little aintri-
-luted to exaggerate its importance ; but the contents of two letters
from respectable and trustworthy persons will give the best idea of
the truth. The first, dated from Cordova, says—" General Torri-
.
jos, with 1,800 men, recruited at Gibraltar, has landed at the camp
of St. Roch. These troops are well informed, and in no want of
arms. Torrijos has with him the Ex-Colonel of Artillery, Gidwitz,
land an Ex-Poiitic.il Chief called Lechuga. In the first village
((Emma) into which these troops entered they killed three monks
and two priests who unfortunately fell into their hands. Their fits*
object was to set up again the Constitutional stone. From thence
this band proceeded to Tarifa, where some soldiers of the garrison
joined Torrijos, who traversed the country, and laid the villages
under contribution. The news we have received to-day informs
wa, that the measures taken by the General Commandant of St.
!loch, O'Donell, and the intelligence given to Torrijos, that the
French troops sent from Cadiz were rapidly approaching him, had
induced 'aim to take the resolution of re-embarking. This body has
everywhere spread their proclamations, and we are told that the con.
spiraey had ramifications not only in several parts of Andalusia,
but even at Seville. Some persons have been arrested on suspicion."
The other letter, which is from Carmona, and of a later date than
the preceding, announces that " the expedition of Torrijos con-
lusts of COO men, who have with them upwards of 2,000 stand of
arms. The machinations of this Chief still continue, because his
hand has been reinforced by • great part of the garrison of Tarifa
wbo have ranged themselves under his standard. A considerable
number of malcontents have also landed on other puha' of the Camp
of St. loch, and in about forty villages in the mountains of Ronda,
the Constitutional stone has been replaced."

The dissolution of the Royal Guard is expected to tako place in a
few days, when it will be re.urganised on a new plan. A Royal
decree on this subject has already been prepared. The Duke de
l'lnfantado is discharged from the general direction of the corps,
and General Zambranu has been named as Commander of the in.
Pantry of the New Guard ; General Tours has received the
command of the cavalry of the sante corps. In a few days, a Junta
of Generals are expected to submit to his Majesty the alterations to
be made in the regulations by which the guard of Charles 111. was
mg./MA.4I, and the New Guard wl3 be furrow! on a revel plan.
Though the Ministry of War, M. Cruz, transacts business daily
with the King, it is generally believed that the Captain-General
31. Carvajal, will ere long receive the purileoille of die Wu De.,
pigment.

On depriving the Duke dc Plnfantado of the. command of the
Grard, the King raised him to the rank of Captain-General of the
Royal Army ; the Duke, however, considers himself disgraced,
and has retired into private life; be is no longer seen at the Pa.
lace, where he wu accustomed to be daily near the King and
t Royal Family. It it rumoured, that (tilers have been given
to arrest the Count d'Ofalia; but the cause of so rigorous a mea-
sure is rot stated.

The report is repeated, that It has been resolved to vise dun
regiments of rrotrincial Militia, in addition to the tire regiments
which hare already been armed arid equipped.

The Royalist Volunteers, with several tlelil-picces, set out lately
from zieville, pursuit ef some considerable bands of utaleort-
contents, which oremsn that province.

The Pope, moved by the extreme state of misery and total depri-
ration in which the monks who secularised themselves in Spain are
now plaeol, has ordained that all those who desire to retake the
and reel= to their original convents, tnay demand a Bull
for this purpose, which will be granted to then,. At the same time,
his ih invites the Bishops and Archbishops to point out the
i churelnx in their dioresoi into which those who desire to contLue
in the same state of secularisation, may be admittcil. The Apos-
tolic Nuncio in Spain is also authorised by the Holy Father
to mini azil dispel the differences that have arisen h::t wee'
the Government and the Bishops of Canhagena and Astorga.
These Prelates were appointed to their Sons during the Constitu-
tional Regime, and roecived their bulls from Rome. The ex-
isting Oovarnment enjoined them to cease their functions in
the mintinirration of their dioceses ; and the first was sent
to the Penitentiary San Pedro, and the second to • convent in
Galicia. On rceciving this order, they addressial their complaints
to the Roman Pontiff; and in consequence the Pope, as I hay.
before stated, has charged the Nuncio with they arrangement
of the affair.

An in, has been whipped by the common eaccutkir.cr, fur
the crime of blasphemy.

fly &dykes received yesterday from Ccpenhagen we
learn that s commercial convention between Crea: Britain
and Denmark was concluded on the IGtl► of June, by
Count Molkc, the Danish Ambassador in Loudon, and
Mr. ('arming, by which the ships of the two nationa will
henceforth be treated on the same footing in the ports of
the two S:ates c.'spectively. We congratulate the cotn-

mere:. %vatlJ. or. the inmasii:g spread of liberal, princ:ides
in the intercourse of nations. The part taken by his Ma-
jcLty's Government, in the practical introduction of these
' mutually benelleis. measures for the regulation of f reign
trade, entitles them to the praiso and gratitude of all man-
kind. When a great and jealous power like England is
thus found ready to dispense with her exclusive advan-
, tags, in order to throw open to friendly States the full
benefits of a direct and unshackled exchange of commodi-
ties, we might reasonably expect to sec what we are now
witnessing. Minor and less wealthy nations could hardly
hesitate to follow the example which it was. by the intern-
, gence of this ccuntry, considered safe to set.

The Chriniefe, which for some time has Leen bolding
only the lan;ttage of despair with respect to the Colombian
army in Peru, begins, we observe, to be ashamed of its
alarms, and yesterday published to the world the impoi taut
discovery, as a part, we presume, of the early and exclu-
sive infer:nation belonging to that journal, that " the
'situation of General Bolivar in April last does net appear
to be so desperate as the anxiety of some Englishmen for
his prosperity has induced them to suppose." We know
not what " Englishmen" the Editcr alludes to, for we
really have not heard of any of our countrymen who have
1 considered the situation of Bolivar as in any respect " des-
perate." Why is this desire manifested to shift the absurd
apprehensions of the Cl,r.nicie on to the shoulders of
" some Englishmen ?" The fact is, that the fears of the
Editor of the Chronicle had been worked upon by an artful
supply of documentary matter, accompanied by specious
reprcacntations at a moment of some uncertainty. The
victory announced in the " noted Guayaquil letter" had
turned out in his judgment to be a fabrication, and he was
with little difficulty iuditoed at once to exclaim :—" The
truth is, Bolivar's position In Peru is precarious, and tha fact
cannot be disguised, nor ought it to be withheld from the
British public." And in furtherance of this supposed duty of
making known dangers and dissensions which never existed,
he also announced that " great clamour" bad been raised
by the relatives of the Colombian officers, and men who,
were sent " on this distant service ;" and on the authority
lof the Marquis of Torre Tagle, who, baying just be-
trayed the high political trust reposed in bins by his coun-
i trymen, by joining the Spaniards, had the assurance to
call upon them to " fellow the example of an honourable
citizen," the Chronicle undertook to give a f•ithful version
of the feelings and sentiments of the Peruvians, which
were accordingly alleged to be decidedly hostile to the in-
' terference of Bolivar. The Chronicle, however, has now
found out that the authority of a notorious and self- I
acknowledged traitor, is net the soundest test to estimate
the disposition of the people whom he has deserted, and
that Bolivar's position, far from being perilous, was power.
ful and commanding over the territory of which the
royalists, by the treason cf Torre Tagle, had obtained
temporary possession. The last accounts left the Colom-
bian Liberator advancing with a veteran army of 10,000
men upon the Spanish General Canterac, whom, It is very
probable, he has surprised and defeated, by one cf those
expeditious movements for which this able commander is
celebrated. The Colombian army was in the best state,
both as to zeal, discipline, and equipments. The next
'advices will probably inform us of the final downfal of the
Spanish power in Pert:. If, however, we are too sanguine
in our expectations, aiul if yet some further time should
elapse without the confirmation of our hopes, let not the
Chroniel• again fall into one of its fits of despair, and
prognosticate disaster because success is not immediate;
and above all, never let it again libel any portion of the
South American people, by suffering itself to be per-
suaded to represent a public traitor like Torre Tagle,
as " a man of the greatest influence among his cowl-
trymen."