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MR. MATH( W:4' INVITATIONS.
PART lII.—A Monopolylonise, to be called
THE CITY BARGE
Seven Characters by Mr. Mathews.
Doom open at Half.pa4t Semen (Instead of Seven. as heretofore) ; the
Performance begins at Eight preci>ely.

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The BRITISH razes commenced publishing yesterday morning
at five o'clock.

LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1826.

Parliament met yesterday, for the first time since the
Easter Recess, but no business of public interest occurred
in either house.

The lateness of the hour at which the account of the
Quarter's Revenue was made up, prevents us from giving
the details as we had expected ; but this we can confidently
say, that, taking the existing circumstances of the empire
into consideration, the financial statement of the last three
months will be by no means uniatisfaetory. Some of our
contemplraries appear quite out of their element when
they cannot find an opportunity for censuring the Govern-
ment, or foreboding evil against the country, and the
finances they deem at present the best point for attack.
The late Quarter's Revenue presented a fine subject for
them, and they boldly ventured an opinion that a defi-
ciency would appear in it. This may or may not be the
case; and, therefore, we will not argue upon probabilities,
when we shall so soon have facts before us ; but we cannot
refrain from remarking thus far upon the anticipations of
the Opposition Journals, that if no deficiency should exist
under the present commercial embarrassments, it would be
matter for extraordinary congratulation, and if a decrease
in the Quarterly Accounts should appear, even beyond the
sum that has been so industriously bruited about by the
contemporaries we have alluded ta, we can steno reason for
gloomy forebodings ; because the financial system has been
seriously affected by recent circumstances, and that system

it is fair to infer requires time to recover itself, as well as
the other great interests of the country.

In the letter of M. EYNA/ln to ►he Duc de CHOISEUL,
in the French Papers received last evening, mention is
made of attacks on Missolonghi on the 25th and 48th of
February, which, on the authority of a letter of the 25th
of March, are said to have been repulsed with considerable
loss. If we can suppose that the remainder of the letter
refers to the subsequent attacks on the 28th February.and
the 2d of March, the evidence of the late successes of the
Greeks will be complete. KitoaF.n, the Capitan Pacha,
and REDSCIIID PACIIA are marching towards the north,
and it is supposed they are proceeding for the frontiers of
Russia. A letter from Corfu of the ith of March contains
further intelligence of the successes of the Greeks, and
confirms to a certain extent the latter part of M. Ev N•kD'S
letter. Time Duke of WELLINGTON, it appears by the
Petersburgh extracts in the French Journals, has frequent
interviews with the French, Austrian, and Prussian Am-
busailors, at the hotel of Count NESSFI.RODE. The
private letters state that the Great Powers will menace the
Porte, if that Cabinet will not consent to put an end to the
war in the Morea.

[From the ',toile, dated Tuesday, April 4.1
PARIS, APRIL 3.

A letter from Corfu of the 7th of March says--" NVe have re-
ceived from Zante, Santa Maura, and Prevesa, the news that on
the 24th of February the Egyptians began to cannonade Miss°.
longhi. According to the Journal of that place the enemy were
to the number of 25,000 men, of whom 111100 were regularly orga-
nised, 6450 irregular troops, and 10,000 of those of Redschid
Paella. After three days' constant firing the besiegers supposed
that they had wearied out the Greeks, and proceeded to attempt to
carry the place by storm. But the Greeks repulsed them with
their accustomed valour, and they sustained a severe loss. Two
other attempts had a similar result. On the 3d the Greeks made
a sally, pursued the enemy to the foot of the mountains, made
themselves masters of their batteries, spiked the mortars and
cannon, and took a great quantity of booty. The three attacks
succeeded each other in the space of nine hours. Ibrahim had pre-
viously offered large sums to the Governor to surrender the place,
promising to let him carry away the guns and &lithe moveable pro-
perty. His proposals were rejected with contempt. It seems that
the retiringof Redschid Pacha was not in consequence of a mis-
understanding, but a stratagem concerted with Ibrahim to throw
the Greeks off their guard, but the project failed. The loss of the
enemy is estimated at 6000 killed."
The Gazelle of Florence contains a letter from Santa Neon, of
the 4th of March, which confirms almost all these details, and
adds that the Greeks also lost many men.

[From the Journal de Paris of Mooday.l
FRANKFORT ON THE ODER, MARCH 25.
(Private Letter.)

"The last letters from Petersburgh say that Lord Wellington and
the Ambassadors of France, Austria, and Prussia, continue to
have frequent conferences with Count Nesselrotle, at the close of
which their Excellencies alternately send Couriers to their re-
spective Governments. Great activity prevailed in the of for
Foreign Affairs. It is affirmed that a plan is preparing there, the
result of which will be to put an end to the war which ravages the
Peloponnesus, by means of conciliatory proposals, which will be
made to the Porte in the name of the Great Powers. According to
persons who are well informed, the plan is to establish the indepen-
dence of Greece, founded on a system of Government like that in-
tended for Moldavia and IVallachia, if the Porte at length conforms
to what in the treaty of Bucharest was formally stipulated, with
respect to these two principalities.

[From the Pitote of Monday.]

PARIS. AWL 2.

Letters from Port-au•Prince of Feb. sth says, that several rich
inhabitants of that colony have offered to President Boyer to sub-
scribe the 120 millions still remaining to be paid to France, in
order to participate In the advantages which must necessarily accrue
to the Indent.

Letters from Berlin inform us that Austria requires of the
Congress of St. Petersburgh, that in conformity with the stipula-
tions of the Treaty of Chamont, or of the defensive alliance of the
five Great Powers, measures of precaution shall be adopted against
revolutionary principles. England, it is said, refuses all co-opera-
tion in this respect, fearing that these measures may be of such a
nature as to injure constitutional liberties, and to sanction the prin.
ciples of foreign interference in the internal affairs of representative
Governments.

The Afasheim Gazette states, on the authority of private
letters from Russia, that arrests continue to take place in several
provinces of the empire, but that St. Petersburgh, Moscow, and
the other great cities are perfectly tranquil.
FRENCH Ft/NM-PARIS. APRIL 3.—Five per Cents., 97f.
25c.; Three per Cows., 66f. 85c. ; Bank Stock, 2,000 f.; Writes de
Naples,74f.3oc. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 48A f.—Exchange on Lon-
don, one month, 23f. 70e.; three ditto, 25f. 45e.—Couss Autlien-
ague, April 3.

The policy of the Law of Primogeniture continues to be
strongly contested among the French politicians. It is
quite natural that the Royalist party should be anxious to
restore the old feudal principle.; of succession, since the
abolition of entails is decidedly unfavourable to that con-
centration of wealth which is the soul of family influence.
The fears of the Aristocracy are, in this respect, well
grounded. The endless subdivision of the landed property
is essentially democratic. The principle was well suited
to the republican era in which it was introduced; it was
fitted to work out the designs of the Revolutionary Govern-
ment; but as the basis of a restored Monarchy—that is
quite another thing. That it may be favourable to general
industry, and to the improvement of the soil, may be
true; but that its effect will be to form, upon the whole, a
more enlightened and independent population, is yet to be
determined. The progress of improvement is retarded at
present in France by so many causes, that it becomes im-
possible to ascertain the exact effect produced by the re-
publican part of its constitution. One thing is certain,
that the equal distribution of landed property will not
necessarily produce an equality of rank. Opulence may be
gained in a nation like France, without those liberal en-
dowments which generate genius, and talent, and know-
ledge; and the more, in other respects, men are on a
level, the more must wealth make the scale preponderate.

It is not a little singular that we should be indebted to
foreign writers for the most correct arrangement of all
the ditTerent sources from which this country derives that
wealth, and power, and greatness, which place her at the
head of all the nations in Europe. Pre-eminent as our own
authors are in every branch of Literature, it is, neverthe-
less, not uncommon to find those who wish to acquire a
knowledge of our form of government studying its con-,
ifilrtiun in the pages of De LOLIIE. For the most
useful digest of every thing relating to our naval and mili-
tary system, we are indebted to the laborious inquiries of
BARON DVPIN. In a work by the same writer, lately
translated from the French, and exhibiting a complete, iew
of all our public works, our Streets, Roads, Canals, Aque-
ducts, Bridges, Coasts and Maritime Ports, we have a mass
of intelligence brought together, that prevents the clearest
view that ever yet was given of the exhaustless wealth of
Great Britain, and the solid and indestructible basis of her
commercial power. But the labours—themostcxtraordinary
of their kind—towhich our merchants, political economists,
and public men are, beyond all others, indebted, are those
which have been given to the British public by M. Mo-
iteAu. The progress of our commerce—and the com-
parative advancement and decline of those manufac-
tures which commerce produces—is detailed with an accu.