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NEW TIIEA7'RE !WEAL. DRURY-LANE.
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Gooier; 4 01,.nrl Piet mewl, Ir. AlPlpsott : \L\n•r tr+hannon. Mr.
Cmitior; t•urnet I. I Mr. Van•.; Sud., Mr. Uhtnet•ard.
bunts Winos°. Mr.. Dm ruport ; 1111 l ra. Mkt I..nt ;
Miss Paton.
After which. TOP Ili-NTrit op TOE ALPS.
on Monday. King Henry the Fourth, with time'.

THEATRE ROfiL,I•:NGLISH iiI'ERA-110USE.
MR. st.vniEws AT lIHME '
This Evening. nATUHD %V. May 2•2.
With hie ANNUAL i.,:c•rtio: on PEATLI tItITIE.s. CHARACTER.
and MANNEIOI;
Vueueled on ÜbeervationA and %drentores during hi. late
TRIP MENICA.
In Three l'art.
Phar Illonepolylogatr, ealled HA. WELL AT NAT( lIITOCHES.
All the C:tarsetersof the Eveilitner Entertainment to be repreaeuted
by Mr M %THEM s.
pours to be opened at Seven- Pettornsimee begins at Eight o'lloek.
Boxes to be taken of Mr. Steveue..n, at the Uoa Unice, ktritild En.
trance. How Ten till Five.

ROY AL GARDENS, trAuxn.u.r.
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The Public are respectfully apprised. that In t500...,0ct, of the
estenalve Alteratitnis and trrhintenstait• (or the I*f...befit ,•11..11 trot
beingentirely completed. the ttl'F' ISti of the 1.111.1k.:5h must be
POSTPONED to MONIFtV, the liist MstloA.

The BRITISH Paesa emitmeacett publiAhing yesterday morning
at a quarts ppm six o'clock.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1814.

be imprudent enough 'to sail without a force to assure theii
safety. This squadron had issued from Algiers more than
three months since, on the barbarian at the head of that
regency resolving to violate the treaty with this country in
1816, and re-commence the old trade of piracy. The Cot a firs
were sheltered until lately within the Dardanelles, and did
not show their flag in the Mediterranean, or our cruisers
would have long since seized on them. Their fate is now
certain, and their capture will be an important benefit to
the GrL.ks in the approaching struggle that awaits them.

Lord Lauderdale's Bill fur the regulation of the silk
trade was last night read a third time in the Upper House.
After a short discussion, the Peers divided, when sixty-one
voted for the 'till, and fifty-five against it, and the mca•
sure was thus carried by a majority of six. This Bill,
with very little variation, is the same as that which occa-
sioned so much agitation among the Kpitaltielils weavers
last Stvuion, and was then rejected by the Legislature. An
immense crowd was assembled in Palace-yard, and on its
being known that the Bill was carried, there was great up-
roar and hooting from the silk weavers ; but no act of po-
sitive outrage has reached us, and after some time the lin-
mense crowd, we understand, peaceably dispersed.

Gamut Papers, to a late date, maim' our office yester-
ekty. Accounts from 'Friesen., to the 4th of May, state,
that several vessels had arrived at that port from Egypt, in
twenty-seven days, and brought the accounts of the con-
flagration at Cairo, of which we were previously apprised,
and which appears to have been most serious in its conse-
quences. Whether it was contrived by the Pacha, to dis-
guise his plans, and enable him to withhold the succours
demanded by the Porte, against the ;reeks, or was pro-
dt,ced by other means, i■ not yet known. It appears it
first broke out in the Palace of Wilma Ali, blew up a
great part of the milazines of ammunition am! provisions,
and busied more than four thousand individuals in the 1
ruins of the buildings. Letters from Alexandria of the
Slat of March state, that the Podia's troops, which were
to compose a part of the expedition to the Mores, were
prevented by the plague, whi2ll hail broken out in Cairo,
front occupyit their quarters near the magazine, miler-
wise they must have fallen victims to the explosion. This
certaiuly appears suspicious, and looks as if the affair bad
been contrived, at all risks, but the loss of his troops, by
the wily Pacha. Cairo, it is added, was a scene of con-
fusion and dismay, and a great her of the inhabitants
had fled from the city. The Pacha was coolly using
every means to procure money, probably to make his
peace at Constantinople; and had sold, it is added,
thirty thousand bales of cotton to English traders. This
would be a terrible importation from a city desolated by
the plague. Subsequent letters from Alexandria to th,i title
of Aptil, which reached Trieste in twenty-four days, state
that a great part of the city of Cairo was destroyed by the
expiation, and that several thousand inhabitants, with tnany
foreign officers, among thereat the celebrated Ali Bey, who
held the office of Screw, or Sword lkarer, to the Pacha.'
had lost their lives. The streets of Cairo were said to be
covered with ruins and shad bodies. The loss sastainul
was calculated at the monstrous amount of sixty millions of
piastres. The result of the business, however, was what
the artful Mehuset AU probably anticipated, that no expe-
dition from Egypt for the Mona, it was thought, worth!
sail ; and up to the 14th of April no troops had been em-
barked at Alexandria. The aje,t of the Paella is not to
strip Egypt of all defenco, and whil:• his hands are in Syria
or Greece, snbj,•et himself to the mandate of deposition,
accompanied probably by the bow-string, from the Se-
raglio, without arty means of resistance. lle cannot as y. t
openly shake off all allegiance to the Sultan, or voiture to
deny the aid demanded against the "hristians ; but he
has no inclination for the unprofitable crusade in the
Mores; to him it could bring with it notlthig but danger,
and he has sought to accomplish, probably by deep-laid
contrivance, what lee could not venture to bring about by
undisguised rebellion. To the Greeks the consequences
must be most important ; Alt Wet Ali would be a dan-
gerous adversary, from his superior ability and resources.
TafESTE. MAY 4.

petition was ordered to he printed. We have the highest
respect for Mr. Sortne•s abilities and character, and think
it hard that either should be impeached, where the fault
may not rest with him ; but who can pass the new
buildings at Westminster, and consider them as anything
but a vile excrescence? Are they in keeping, in the
slightest degree, with the venerable structure that adjoins
them, and which has lat!erly been restored with so much
delicacy and effect? The Italian faSaile lately erected
does nut harmonize in any way with time fine Gothic of
IVestminster Hall. The front towards New Palace-yard,
containing three Venetian windows, is a complete excres-
cence, and, on the amended plan prepared by Mr. Same, is
to be taken down, and set back as far as the boundary
wall of the Court of King's Bench. However hazard-
ous a tad; it may be, to place modern Gothic by the
sidle of such a structure as Westminster Hall, we fully
agree with the Uunnatittec in their report, that the northern
entrance of Westminster flail should stand forward as the
principal and permanent object to all those who enter the
metropolis by %Vet:none:ter Bridge, or who approach the
Courts of Justice, the /louses of Parliament, or the vene-
rable Abbey; and coosequently that any new building to
be raised In its vieinity should be kept entirely subordinate,
both in height and alignmer.t, to that noble monument,.
and that therefore the dignity and consequence of the en-
trance to • e hall would be best consulted by making any
Ail:Cored buildings subordinate and dependent upon the
Hall, as their principal—thus preserving a general tone of
• uniformity mai consistency, which is visibly wanting in the
present elevation. The rele,,rt of the Committee also'
Liustly and ilieiiminatingly remarks, that whenever the
m can and dtesyirg odittts cf brick or plaster on the
eastern side of the Hall arc removed, such another fabric
as that now raised, tilled with Venetian windows between
the Hail and the rivt r, could only render the incongruity
and discordance still more glaring and unsightly ; and the
future building towards time river must necessarily conform
to the elevation of the new structure reported on by the Com-
mittee. The fronting this building with Portland in place of
Bath stone, which would a,similate so much more closely
to the colour of the t•ntrauce to Westminster Hall, was
also a fatal error, which we arc astonished Mr. Solute over-
looked. The fact is the respected Judges of the Land,
however deeply skilled in legal law, and profoundly versed
in the works of Coke, of Bruton, and the departed sages
of British isprudence, cannot be expected to know much
of the science of Bernini, of Michael Angelo, or our
great ILI ;onal architect, Sir Christopher Wren. 'fhe Lords
o! the Treasury are, from the it office, touch butter judges of
finance than of Gothic or Dieic architecture. The
great inhert•ot fault was in the orig:nal plan, which ought
to have been Imam worthy of Mr. Soave's acknowledged
talents. The simple truth is, as the report states, but too
justly, that large winks have been in some instances
undertaken hastily, and without due consideration ;
others have lwen committed to the persona who accidentally
happened at the time to be attached as Surveyors to the
several departments, but a general and superintentling eye
hss always been wanting to pervade, direct, and control the
I win le. The modern buildings of this great metropolis,
with a solitary exception or two, arc any thing hut credit-
! able to those who planned and directed them. It is cer-
tainly strange, that in a period distinguished by its progress
in improvements of so many kinds—.Crtile in such mime-
rons inventions—mine-A in the encouragement of all the
' arts which are denominated liberal, and active in the
difrusum of knowle:i7c and the extension of science,—
it is a matter at once of wonder and regret, that archi-
I tecture lies not kept i ace with our other advances towards
!perfection, and that we are still obliged to look for ex-
amides of excellence in th;f: art eitlier to titms long passed,
lur to other countries rather than our own. The subject on
which South. reminded his petition last night was origin-
ally brought forward this Session by Mr. It'ankes, and the
Report which be is said to have prepared is creditable to his
rulects anti his imiestry. The new building is a complete
excrescence on the venerable structure adjoining ; and the
pres-nt thief Jitstio• of the Common Pleas had scarcely
takot his seat, when it ,vmplaintsl of the incenveniencies
of that Cow t.

Several vessels arrived here yesterday from Egypt in 27 days,
and brought us accounts of a ilr.ialful cmitlngration at
afro on the 29th hlarcb. 4 tits: broke nut in *h.., palace of Alch-
met Alt, blew up greet part of the ninicines of ammunition and
provisions, andcost the hvis. its is %aid, cf4lMttl of the inhaintants.
There are rani nos ri tants in eireitlstion restive -Mg the cause of this
ndsfortime, which is particularly icioortaot at the resew crisis;
hitt Letters from Alexandria of tl.t tlareb, which give an account
of it, add, " The Vacha's troops, which are to take part in the ex.
pedition to the hli.rea, were tottimatcly prevent...4l by the plague
which has broken out in the city, from occii:iying their quarters,
which are near the powder tilugni ; ottierwilie they won'l
all hare fallen victims tat this disaster. (Inc large powder
tuagsaine has, however, t,t But dismay
and contusion mill reign id 'Aim on the :11st, and a groat
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ounaper or the i:ihAbitioit% had tl.d. The WWI irriiag
all hi, mows to pro.nre money, and haul just soh! 30,1M1 basks of
Auko cotton to the Erg
(Front alto her l'orrr.ponilent.l
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After we had ltar::Nl, sonic day, ago, by accintn.a from ('aim,
that extraordinary) ft partition. were making for the intended tt-
peJ.tion to the )lore. .we were inforn. I v,...tentay, by hi. from
A lexandria, of the li.lt of mil. which tee been twenty-four day.
in coming, that it:;r•-at ',art of tin: ci!v of Cairo was ite,troycil at
the end of March. by a are •0..1,•.1...1 of a rowit.l. magazine in
the arsenal. S.. voal i!!e ;en! ntany fo-
reign officers w'm mil tile ii;iyrat,es i^ the :trowliall, and the
celebrated Ali 11-v. who held th.• the icenl'a Srlictar
(Bond-bearer), lost their lives ‘m twea•ion. Tile street. of
Cahn are stated to 100 carered with roes and dim! bottle,. Even
the letters of Koropeais vstionve sikry of piastres the
damage done to public &like s. magas int.. 6/31%.111.11•41,, itc. and
add, that it is nut believed, ti•it confusiol which thi, di..
aster has caused. the V leen,y wt!; o!4: to let the expetlit'on nail
to the Mores. l'p to the 11th of .1 Aril at least no tr. matt hail been
embarked at A lexmalria.--..1:L,- ;tong, May I.'.

An Algcrine squadron, com;:stite.T of four fri,tates and
tire brigg of war, hail (we re:tret to say) appeared off the
harbour of Ale nandria on the ,27th of March, where seve-
ral British r -s.: to were tla n They formed part
of the squadron d stiued a ;:einst the Greeks, and
came :from nitsi hey were hovering off the
port OR the 26th, but a contrary w:ml then prevented the
pirates from :uttering the harbour. ( Li the 29th. it is stated,
they came into Alexandria, bea:.ing the flag of Tunis;
but one frigate suddenly heisted that of Algiers, and the
Corsair was observed to Is busy boring the British
vessels-Of whew' the pirat. s probably hoped to make a
certain prey. Two frigatea and a schooner, under the
Tunisian sag, had alga come Mtu the part of Alexandria
ou the 29th, and it was Sil:plSell an Algerine frigate and
three vessels, with the :lag of Tutus, were still in the
offing, as the pirates were constantly interchanging signals.
The British Consul had riportt their appearance at once
to the Almiral on the station, Sir Ilarry Seale ; and the
next accounts, we have little doubt, will quiet all np-
prehen&on about tiles.. pirates. Two or three of our yes-
setj: from Malta appcaring oil' Alexandria will soon quietly
dispose of the Algerines. They duce not attack our ship..
ping in the harbour, and the merchant vessels would not

The Duke of York MO Lie Duchess of Gloucester
visited his .Majesty yesterday.
The Prinevsm Augusta dined with the Duke and Duches.s
of l'laretsce on Thursday.

On Thursany evening. Prince Leopold honoured the
Marquis of Lanimlown with his compttny. _ _

KIN .'s
DRAWIX.; . the account of the
presentations at the Drawing Itgetn, which we pre yester-
day, we °init.:. d tl:e names of Lad/ Charlotte Osborne,
by her mother, the !tactless of Leeds ; Sir Walter Stir-
ling, Bart. ; Major Trevor, of the 'l,alfoadshire Yeomanry
Cavalry ; Lady I lainpson. on her marriage, by Viscountess
Ileladle ; and Ker. Dr. Prime, from Brussels.

flarstu.s, MAY 17.—Ilia Majesty has appointed Mi-
nister of Foreign A tnirs Major-I:eneral W. F. Van Recite,
hitherto Marshal of Majesty's household. Count
J. C. Van 'Wands miceecols C t Reede as Chamberlain.
The Holland man of war, Captain Delangc, sailed' on the
11th instant from the Texcl, for the Mediterranean, with
ltear-Athni:a; 11 Aurbcelt or. beard.

FOREIGN INTELLICEXTF.

FRENCH PAPERS.

From the Courier Praweais.l
We expected to find in the Ministerial Journals of yesterday the
entire texts of the amnesty granted by the King of Spam at Aran.
juts, but our hopes were deceived. It Is strange that this Act
should be known only by -ragments ; It hu necessarily arrived at
Pada, because the Juurnnl des Debuts has made known some of
the exceptions it contains. As a Decree of such high importance,
has it not ueen publi-Ned entire since received by the Minister
why then should he, after three days, offer only a few garbled ex-
tracts to the curiosity of the public, reported by the Journal des
Alm!, I It appear., however, that the provinces of Spein are far
t• nn expecting the promulgation of a Ihrree for an amnesty, which
may be proved from the following extract from the Meninriul Bor.
delals :
Tolosa, MAY F. I
By the last courier we received a letter from Madrid, which
assures us. that a Decree is atfout being published for etrobfishisg,
the intinhilion. We wait the nest courier of to-morrow to be cer-
tain on this head.
The same Paper contains, among other news, which may raise
the hopes of the exalted party, the folios ing
BUDOOII. MAY 4.
The Captain-Oeneral of this province has published a circular,
risking known the definitive organization of the limy, that the
Ordonnance relative to the royalist militia is annulled, and that '
they will continue to do duty, as they have done, since the restora-
tion. In consequence their arms have been returned to the royalist
volunteers of hogrono, the only force that were disarmed In this
province. It must be remembered that the Decree which is al -
nulled is the tut made by the King. prescribing the disarming the
royalist mihiti,t, fur the purpose of
_preventing the diserders which
they had too much naoured. This militia, by a refinement
A petition was last night presented by Mr. Littleton, from of euy.alism, refused to submit to the °niers the King. This
opposition, whose tendency was by no means equivocal, perfectly
Mr. Suane, the distinguished architect, comptaiaing that auccseded ; the absolute Government has submitted.
the course adopted by the Committee recently appointed The Toulouse Journals continue to give details of the passage
'
of the remelt troops on their way to Spain ; the Memorial Horde.
by the !louse of Commons to report on the new buildings fah: stated the nieutun of this reinfurcement at 4,600 men, but
at Wesfiniosb. r, while it redeem' untnetitedly on his qua- front r Echo d Midi the number fsr exceeds this statement, whn...l
the following report proves :
us an architect, interfered at the same time most he Division of observation has commenced Its entrance into
Spain ; the Ica and 2,1 battalion of the regiment plowed through on
essentially with the internal accommodation of the Law•
the 3th and tub. The lath, 12th, and 29th regimen:. of the line
Courts. Mr. Soane. s petition stater{, that his plan was passed throhgh Bayonet between the 6th and 12th for Sampan.
fwo detachments f artillery .net fix Spain on the 4th, nom.
submitted in the first instance to the Lords of the Treasury,
mud of 34 non-commissional= and privates, 24 Se-
and by them referred to the Judges, who approved of it, I, bunion, and ]u fur Vittoria ; a 'sent of the 7th foreme
nregimet of
and their approbation subsequently was cot:firmed by the i artillery left on the 6th hie tit° UPP:e Theta
The House of Deputies ant engaged in discussing the law re.
Lore., of the Treasury, who employed Mr. Soune. The lative to the present monopoly of the culture of tobacco in France.
respectable petitioner stated, that under these circumstances A motion MAX made by M. Wagon, for the monopoly being
prorogued till the Ist ofJaouaty 1827, then to cease. si. Cassimir
he conceived it hard that the whole weight of censure should Perrier, in a Beg speech, 1141 this motion. 31. Wilkie de-
he flung en hint. The Chancellor of the Exchequer shortly I shoudared
ld that Government w continue the monopoly until he
be able to 'rehire half thepratent produce of 411 millions of
expressed his concurr-tice as to Mr. Soatie's statements, to francs, which it brought into 'the treasurr, and which the Covets-
which no contradiction was 9ffered the House, and the ; mem would lose by allowiug the free culture and asanufeettne of
that article. General Foy strongly reprobated the principle of this'
monopoly in a speech of two hours, delivered with h:s taus'
energy. The particular article of the law runs thus—The title five
of the law of the 211th April, 1116, which exchisively invests the
regie des WWI ThllieONS indirect (Ex.ise) with the purchase and fa-
brication and sale of tobacco throughout the kingdom, and test
effect of which was continued b; the law of the 211th April, 111111,
until Ist January. 11211, is prorogued anew till the tat January,
1631.—This article was put to the vote and adopted.

YORTUG A I-

We are without any later intelligence from Lisbon ; but
tae following letter from Oporto, which we copy from the
Exeter Flying Post, contains some interesting particulars
of the late events in P.ntugal

"SECOND EDITION.
" We stop the Press to give the following extract of a letter. re-
ceived by a respectable merchant in this thy, from his brother in
Oporto.

". OPORTO, Mar 4.

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" Burin, itsre is at present extremely flat ; there is in fact, nothing
doing, for •:.e natives are afraid of a disturbance again. At Lis-
bon, on the 31kli April, the Infante ordered a company of soldiers'
to surround the Palace. and suffer no one to enter. lie then
issued several proclamations, calling on the people • tosamitice
those who, if th J had it in their power, would sacrifice diem !'
and stating that it was through the Freemasons that the fiovern-
sient was not better conducted. Lonl lien-n.14%1 and Sir E. Thorn-
ton a-, plied for entrance at the Palace, and were refused ; the whole
of the Anibassailnrs then went in a body to the Palace, and were
admitted. The king had not the least knowledge of what was
going on, but sent fsr lion Miguel r as soon as he arrived with the
troops, Sir C. Thornton said, be was commanded by the King of
England to offer cyrry istance which 111.! King of Portugal
might require to support his power. This cksiarision immediately
r:ttled the business: the troops quietly returned to their quarters,
and the city was tranquil when the post kft. Some of the 3linis-
tern are apprehended, others have iled. Who the new Minister
will be, is not yet known. All ptr.i:s illuminated bare lass
night."

SOUTH .4Afifile.l.

'EXTRACTS OF LETTERS RECEIVED IN GLASGOW 1

LIMA. IfEy 31, 11123.
" Since my last the inhabitants of this city have again heen in
considerable consternation, fearing another skit from the Spanish
forces, their troops having recently occupied lea and ham; but
the itiorements and position of the ("colombian troops, under 8011.
var, have oblignl them again to retire from Plato, and to relieve
the got minetit here from any fears on that point, for at least five
months to come ;11.f ire which time his expected Bolivar will hove
commenced active operations against them. The Colombian troop.
are now occupying, with three thousand men, the strong .htio.i of
'bantam, near Ilanja., the whole force forming a cordon to the
mirth of about ten to twelve thousand men. Two thousand men
more arrives► front Panama a fortnight since, and three to lour
thousand more are expected to arrive by the middle of February ; so
that, as soon as the season will permit, Bolivar is detennined to
commence offensive operations. The overthrow of Rive Aguero
was effected, without any bloodshed, at Truxillo, his troops having
all come over to Bolivar, and himself and his ministers made pri-
soners. Rita has been sent to Guayaquil fur safe custody."
" Bto DE JAN E I so, 31 A It'll 3, 111-2.1.
" By accounts from Bahia to-day, Pernambuco is again in $
state of distress. l'he local government have ordered all the Eu-
ropean Portuguese to deport the country within ten days, and they
comprise the principal number of the respectable shopkeepers.
Business, in consequence, is quite at a stand, and the eyisting
stwe of !Mop has induced the British merchants there to request
a frigate for their protection, and the Bois, we understand, has
gone from Bahia for that purpose. A squadron of• two frigates and
three smaller vessels have sailed front this port this niontin; with
a view to blockade Pernambuco, and the government here have
declutch it to lie in that state. Ott the evening of the ►9th
upsards of thirty individuals were taken up and imprisoned. They
are supposed to be connected with the Pernambuco interests. This
i..eusure has, however, excited no conimmion. Many evils are fore-
told as likely to Intuit, but we give credit to none."