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Mr. TIIKLWALL'S ORATORICAL and CRITICAL LErTußcs on
and the DRAMA;
W:th CHITICISNIN uu the ACTORS and A lifiluitS of past and
prewnt Time..
WED'AF:SII%T. March 17.
First and Neeond Part, hf 11111411 Y 'TIE FOURTH t and the
Character .0 Sill LSTAFV.
1,141 D %V. Match 19.
The Three Putt" of 111,:AllA TUC !OATH. and the Character of
lIICOARD IWKIC OF m.osTrit.
Soleerription Ticket" h.he had of Mr. Fbers, illond-otreet s Mr. SWUM,
fail•Malll Mr ilidoot). Piccadilly; Mr. Hathiwytt. Newiptte-street;
llowder% .ulal I.cilby. and Mr. ileyll4.WS. OAClrord-striPel : Mr.
Fe• . a.)10. 4....11ft cultic. Lir!ecAter-
aqttart ; and of the LeWurer. North Brixton Vottuere. where Private
tt nwthno c.ostonwe n. he even. In elk.es4o. I 111 lAA uncut, and tu the
of 1.0111. t, W.f. and Senate.

The BRITISH PRESS CollllllenCed ptibluthing on Saturday morning
at Vivo o' :lock.

LONDON, NIONDAY, Mmicii 13, 1821.

Last n'glit we ricetvrit the Parin-Ymposa of Fritlay, with
the Eiale of Sstor.fay's date. The ifouilesir is thnititute of
intelligence. We timl in the Eta: another proof of the
vile spirit which minutes the Spanish Government, Fer-
dinand, it seems, having put the Marquis tie Casteleloarion
into confinement, for appearing at Court in the national
unifeirin. The mine paper has an interesting letter from
Port-au:Prince, which we subjoin :-
I:r.tatt the EtoiL• ut saturtlay, !larch 13.]

JIAIIIAJ4.I4; Fre. IR.

By the King's orders, Dun Gregoriu lAgurta, the Captain-Bye
nera! of this provi•:ce, has just arrested Lientenant-lieneral the
Narquiss da Csisteithe.rios, a 4; randee of Spain of the first class, and
cumbeelain in hts 31ajmoy. Ile has been confined und. r a strong
truant In tme•sf the large moms its the arsenal, the same in which

(ialeflll 142.411 r. 11411. it it WAS a tirM•mer dining the Constitutional
Ilhorernment. The Alarquis de Cast:lamina is treated with all Ow
attention due to his birth and high dignities.
The rause if his tli,grace it reported to be, that he was one of
the that to q.eir at (' ,nr• in the national uniforin—that the Mug.,
eutremely (dr.:tided, Id host it was contrary to custom, and desired
him to mum:. his Chatithirlain's habit ; to which he is said to
have replied, that the one he had on did him more honour
than any othi.r, and that he then began to ham the air Tragati
swallow it !
llowestr this it seems certain, that ia consequence of the re.
presentation of the Cr.n eh I 'minim:Act of the artillery in the place,
wishing the Arsenal to be ailehy applied to its roper use, the pri-
soner will be retnovcil to mother place, quite as suitable to his con.
vedettes% in Lis pre.ent stunt ion.
The Could ml :ilontijo, another (irandee of Spain, whq was
banishttl to is dangerously ill, in clew. tpterwe of a para-
lvtie stroke.
Coot* -au -I'n t NC r, JAN. 11.

When, on the lo of this, month, the 2lat year of the indepen-
dence of this ialand W:l3 celebrated, gcneral ourpriac was excited by

the hostile tone adapted by the President in his speech on the oe-
ea.ion :

"1f our emancipation, acquired by so many sacrifices and so
much blood shed by the heroes of our holy revolution, should be
again disputed ; and if it should be necessary to give in the field of
glory a new proof to the whole world of the energy which chaste.
{erica us, and of the tutu resolution which we all cherish, never to
depart from our institution—welt ; we have been long prepared.
Tbe worthy Chief of our Government will lead us to victory, and
the nation, at his powerful call, will rise spontaneously, to gather
fresh laurels on the field of honour."

On the 6th of this month the following proclamation was pub-
lished:—

'• Uoda these circumstances it isordered as follow. :
" 1. All the National Guards of the towns and the country shall
be completely organised without dclay. For this end they shall be
reviewed by the Commanders of the Districts, who, with respect to
their engagement, shall follow the special orders which they have
already received.
" 2. All the regimens of the line shall be kept up to their full
complement, according to the regulation of the 18th of Sept. 11128.
":d. All the arms, ammunition, and military stores in the arse-
nals, forts, and other depots, shall be particularly and often inspect-
ed, and I.ri.t in the best order, by the Commanders of districts, who
shall deliver an exact report of the result of their operatims.
" L. The said Commanders of districts shall be rexponsible to
the nation and the Government, as well for the execution of these
present injur :dons, as for that of the orders which have been di-
rected to then for the general safety.
" Given at Port-au-Prince, the 6th of January, 1104, the 21st

year of independence.
(By the !President) " DOVER.
(The Smretary-Oetteral) "B. INGINA(7."
EXCIWIGE or PARIS, MARCH 12.—The Remits opened, au
rampant, at 99f. The end of the month, our. 60e.

The party in favour of I /on Carlos, If we may believe,
the following letter from Bayonne, is increasing at Madrid,
where, it is added, the King is in great disgrace with the
Ultras, for his lenient policy. The illihrenicine Zeilung,
under date of Corfu, February 11, says, that since the 2uth
of January three ships have arrived from England at Mis-
solunghi, with arms and ammunition for the Greeks. (Inc
of the last numbers of the Hellenic Chronicle, published at
Nlissoloughi, the subscription to which is six dollars, con-
tains a justification of Prince Maurocordato, respecting the
affair at Ithaca, which may be recominended to all the
friends of the Greek cause. Lord Byron has written to
Colocotroni, and received from him a very flattering an-
swer, which leaves but little doubt of the approaching fall
of l'atras. Colocotroni calls himself in this letter a true
son of Greece. The Greek Smate has resided for three
weeks at Tripolisa.
11sirowits, 111*ae11

The accounts from Madrid of the 29th ult. state that the capital
is tranquil; yet it cannot be dissembled that a certain fernienta-
tion exists—that the party of l)on Carlow becomes daily stronger ; it
is even reported that letters received by an express announce that
the Swiss regiment has left Madrid for Seville, because, it is added,
Charles V. has been proclaimed in that great city, where the King
is disliked by the Ultras, because he has not been severe enough.
The accounts from Andalusia will be more interesting every day.

On the Nth two royal volunteers were hung at Madrid, being
convicted of having committed robberies and assassinations, both
under the present Government and that of the Constitution.
On the unto day, five robbers, who gave themselves out for an
alcalde and his attendants, entered the house of a holy, whose
emu and legs they bound, after threatening to stab her if she
spoke ; but while they were busy itt packing up their plunder, the
lady found means to crawl to • cabinet looking towards the street,
where she began to call fur help. The robbers, alarmed, fled with
what they could take ; three of them vanished, • fourth was
knocked down by a gendarme, and the other, thinking to find an
asylum in • church, threw himself at the foot of the altar.
The French gend'arme, without consideration for the place and the
privileges which crindhals enjoy, and to the great scandal of the
devotees, began by disarming this man, whom he then took to
prison with his comrade. Then, according to custom, the officers
of justice arrested all the neighbours of the house. It is said that
the people were much irritated at this event ; they would rather see
crimes unpuaislieJ than their privilege attacked.
Accounts from Utuliz of the 10th affirm, that according to let•
ten from Jalappa of the tith December, three Catalonian vessels,
one laden with paper and brandy, the other with divers merchandise,
bad been admitted into the port of Alvaredo, on payment of the
import duties. The castle and the city continued in • state of hos-
tility, but the six vessels lalen with men and a 1111 l iunition, sent
from the llavannali, hail already arrived. There is no more thought
of the departure of the garde* du corps. On the contrary, their
'stay is prolonged indefinitely. The amnesty will certainly appear
on the 10th of March.

The establishment of the sinking fund is going on, and hitherto
only a credit of twcr.ty millions of malt has been found to laj the
fOundation of it.

We regret to know that there appears to be a very gene-
ral alarm throughout the numerous Forty interested in the
silk trade, at the recent measures so deeply affecting that
interesting branch of our manufactures, proposed this Ses-
sion by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The important
changes introduced by the Finance Minister of this country,
and funned to affect the silk trade in particular, are
founded, we are convinced, on the best and soundest prin-
ciples of commercial and national policy. Yet, situate as
the silk trade now is, and with the competition and skill of
the French manufacturers at Lyons and elsewhere, before
the eyes of the manufacturers here, joined with the pre-
ference that notoriously prevails for foreign silks in this
country, w. are not surprised that the trade in general
have taken deep alarm, and deprecated, as full of danger,
the regulations in question. It must be always a matter of
doubt, and of serious deliberation, how far the free importa-
tion of any foreign goods ought to be restored, after the
interruption to them has long existed. When any do-
mestic branch of manufacture has, by means of high
duties or prohibitions upon all foreign goods which can
come in competition with it, been so far extended by the
home demand as to employ a multitude of hands,
hu-
inanity and policy both require, that the freedom of trade,
if again conceded by the Legislature, should only be re-
stored by slow gradations, and with the greatest possible
reserve and circumspection. Were the prohibitions and
' restricting duties, that fetter importation from France and
other countries, taken off at once, cheaper foreign
goods of the same kind would be poured into the
market, in such quantities as to deprive at once thousands
nf our most industrious artisans of employment and the
uu•ans of subsistence. The silk manufacture is certainly
that which would suriln. most by the repeal of those re-
strictions. The hum trade would he injured also, but
not :early so much as the silk; but those manufactures, of
which a large proportion is exported to other countries
without any bounty, could be little affected by the most
unlimited importation of the same fabrics from abroad.
Such manufactures, to command the foreign market, must
be sold as cheap as the goods of that country of the same
quality, and consequently they must be generally supplied
much cheaper at home; they would, therefore, still keep
pt11144.83i011 of the home market, and no sensible impression
could take place on the general employment of the people.
Our woollen and cotton manufactures—cutlery, hardware,
and other goods, are annually exported, in large quantities,
to other countries, without any bounty, and employ many
thousands. They staid nnnpletely above any competition
from abroad, and have nothing to fear from the most un-
limited freedom of trade. Consumption is, in fact, the
only end and purietic of all pro•luction, and the iuter-
ests of the manufacturer ought to be protected only
so far as they promote these of the consumer. In'

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