The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-01 00:00:00

the StitfOlt Virtoo.

KING'S THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING will be performed Zingarellre Opera Serie,
In Two Atts,
ROMEO 1.1 MULIETFA.
The principal Characters by Madame Pasta. Madame Caradod, Madame
de Aimed, Signor Destr, Signor Porto.
After the Opera the new Mythological Ballet. to Two Acts, composed by
M. L'ermille,
LA NAISSANCE 116 CRNUS.
No Order: will be admitted, and the Free Llet is suspended.
A new Ballet is in rehearsal, as well as RosslnVir Opera of L'Aurellano
In Paimirs, and that by Meyer, entitled Medea.
A Masquerade is in preparation fur Monday, May 13.
Applications, kc. 44 usual.

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DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
This Craning, MONDAY, May I, will be performed ltd time' a
Grand Romantic Opera, called
ALADDIN.
The principal Characters by Meson. Sinclair, Horn, Browne, Bedford,
G. Smith, and Harley ; Misses Stephens, Cubitt, and Furey ; Mn. Davi.
son, and a young Lady.
To coached, with the Farce of

THE DEVIL, TO PAY.
Jobson, 11,. Dowton; Nell. Mrs. Davison.

COVENT-GARDEN T lIEATRE.

This Evenhag, MONDAY, May I, will tw performed the Grand
Romantic and Fairy Opera of
OBERON ; or, THE. ELP.IiING'S o►tTif
The principal Characters by Messrs. graham, Cooper, Durdset, C.
!Band, J. Isaacs, and Baker; Misses Paton, H. Caws,; Madame Vas.
Iris, Mrs. Vining, and Mrs. Davenport..
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i..;;;cluda with the llilo-drnaatic Romance, called
ALADDIN.
Alwidlo, Mrs. Vining.

ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.
MR. MATHEWS AT HOME
nip Events', MONDAY, May 1, with an entirely new Entertain-
memo to Two Part 4„ founded on hi* Obeervations on Characters.
Manner% and Pecullaritiel, entitled
MR. MATHEW:4' INVITATIONS.
?SAT Monopolyrogne. to be called
THE CITY BARGE I
Seven Characters by Mr. Mathews.
Doors open at Half-part Seven sinitead of Seven, as heretofore); the
Performance begins at Eight precliely.

NEXT WEDNEsDAV. SIX PRIZES OY +Y21.000, &c. Ike. BEING
Till LAST LOTTERY BUT ONE THAT WILL EVER IIE DRAWN
IN ENGLAND.

If we cannot notice Om we are inclined to do), the several monthly
publications with which we have been favoured, the overwhelm-
ing interest of all that relates to the disturbed districts must be
Our CYCLIZe.

The Barium PnEss commenced publishing on Saturday morn.
ing at rive o'clock.

LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1826.

The French papers announce another repulse of the
Egyptians before Missolongbi, on the 29th March, in
which ISRAHIM PACHA himself was severely wounded.
The account of the combined attack of FABVIEa, GOURAB,
and KARAISKAII, requires confirmation. It is no doubt
the apparent practicability of such a manoeuvre that has
led the correspondents of the French journalists, as on
former occasions, to conclude that it has actually taken
ph ar.

In Spain, the party opposed to the Council of State has
succeeded in procuring an order from the KING, which de-
prives it of the initiative in all public measures. This
seems to be a decisive blow to the Duke del Is FA STA no
and apostolical influence. The Minister has also been
foiled in an attempt to procure an essequatur to a bull, re-
establishing the Spanish clergy in the privileges which
they had lost under CHARLES 111. and CHARLES IV. Rv-
CACHO had taken care to show the KING a copy of it be-
forehand, pointing out the inconveniences that would result
from it; and the KING, on receiving another copy from
USL Itirsicrano, made no observation, but put it in his
pocket. The Apostolical party ate suspected of projects
of revenge ; and it is said they have procured the
removal of Ric:solo and his agents from Aranjuez,
during the residence of the Royal Family in that palace.
The Chamber of Deputies continues to be employed in
discussions respecting the expenses of the war in Spain.
The memoir of Ouvaaan, according to the French Jour-
nalists, spews clearly that Ministers are the greatest defal-
cators in their accounts on this head. The whole amount
of the embezzlement is 76 millions, of which El millions
only fall to the share of the contractor. The following are
extracts :

[From the Alonitrar of Friday, April 28. j
(Official Part.)
ORDINANCE OF THE KING.
Chad's by the Grace of God.—We hate ordained and ordain as

I. A monument to the memory of boob XVI. shall be erected
in the centre of the Place, situated between the Tuilleries and the
Elysian Fichte, which shall henceforth take the name of " Place
de boui% XVI."

2. The first stone of the monument shall be laid and blessed in
our presence, on the 2d of May next.
3. We shall determine ata luture time the spot where the roues-
tri in statue of Louis XV. shall be placed, according to the Royal
°Miriam' of the 14th lebraary, 11118, which shall continue to be
executed in every thing that is not contrary to Use present rcgu.
,
4. Our Minister Secretary of State for the Home Department Is
charged with the executiontof the present ordinance.
Given in our PaJac, of the Tuillcrics, the 27:h of April, 1826,
and the second year of our reign.
(Cy the King) CHARLES.
rise Minister Secretary of State for the dome Dvartment,

CoHBIEIiE.
• (From the Piker.]
Paths, Arm 26.
A litter Arm Venice, of fifth April. announces, that 'remote
received from Prevesa, Mattra, Ithaca, and Corfu, of 2;th,
2Hth.nod ifith of .alaroh, confirm the brilliant victory gained over
ILrahitn by the garrison of Missolmight. The Paella. we are told,
to encourage the troops by his example, advanced, sword in hand,
towards the town, as far a the place called Dngitra. He was
there seriously wounded. The garrison of the place. taking advan.
tags of the confusion into which this event threw the enemy, and
seconded by the corps of Generals Fabvier, Gouras, and Karaiskaki,
which hastened to its succour, fell upon the Egvptions, who made
thvir retreat to Naas, carrying with them their Commander, whose
wound is mortal.

Letters from Zante, of 29th Match, pay that the Egyptians have
been beaten, and their I;cneral wounded. It is also paid that the
fleet wait to ad! in the nth April fin Hydra to repair to Mispolonghi.
The Constilkti ernvaina the whole of this letter from Venice,
which is very lung, and of which this article of the Piloie is the
summary.
[ nom the Quotiditanr.l
TRIERTE, APRIL 18.
. . . . . . _

Scarcel7 had the lam packet-boat fron;ZWin;ncl;reei-inOnr
port, when, acemding to custom, a mass of false news was cir-
culated in the city. It wassaid that the garrison of Missolonglii
had mode a sally, whir Colonel Fahvier attacked the camp of
Ibrahim in the rear. This double Ansel' had caused the besieger
to suffer great loss. Ibrahim himself had been dangerously wound-
ed, and messengers had been sent to Preveaa for physicians.
Lastly, the Greek fleets had anchored in the gulf of the besieged
town. As anon as the letters brought by the packet were delivered,
hU these delusions were dispelled.- It is difficult to conceive the
mania of the Greeks living at Trieste, to publish continually the
successes of their countrymen t to do their utmost to give credit to
accounts, which are manifestly false, and which are contradicted a
row hours afterwards. The spreading of these fables has one in-
convenience, which we perceive vibe-, we resat the French and Ger-
man Journals: we find in .tltem fragments of Intro containing

lies, which originated here, but which have only a few moments
existence.
Let 111 return to Missolonghl. The brave garriann which defends
it still holds out ; yet all letters received Kam differebt peas of the
Archipelago agree that it mns: soon fall
The latest letters from Corfu de of the sth April. They say
that, since the taking of Anatolico, Ibrahim had made several at-
tacks upon Miratolonglii, but without success. Nevertheless they
represent the besieged town as in danger of being soon obliged to
yield.
The accounts from the interior of the Mores are by no means
satisfactory. Ansoeby has reached the highest pitch. Every body
(oar a letter) wants to command—nobody will obey.
The Fluik of Saturday is not received.
FRENCU Eurms.—Pants, APRIL 28.—Five per Cents,
96f.lipe.; Three per Cents. 64f. 85c.; Bank Stock, 2020 f.; Remelt
de Naples, 74f. 2k. Royal Spanish boon. 44 I ; Bastian Loan,
760 f. Exchange on London—One Month, 25f. 55c.; Three
Months,2sf. 35c.—Coerr, Authentipe.

Hamburgh Papers to the vat, April have been received
They contain some accounts of the finances of Poland, and
contradict the reported arrival of an Agent of the Puha of
lover at Stockholm. The Duke of WELLINGTON is said
to have affirmed at Berlin that the fall of ftlissolonghi
would not decide the fate of I:recce.

By accounts from Lisbon, of the 12th instant, we learn
that a panic, similar to that which lately prevailed in
London, had, for the six days preceding that date, spread
alarm among the mercantile interest in the Portuguese
capital. Before clay-break, all the avenues to the Bank
were crowded with persons anxious to change their paper
for money. The Bank increased this alarm, by gradually
diminishing its issues, and at length completely stopping
its payments. It even refused to discount several species
of Treasury paper. which it is in the habit of cashing.
The consternation had become general, though it was im-
possible to give any explanation of the cause of the crisis,
but by a reference to the uncertain situation in which Por-
tugal is placed.
We learn also from Portugal, that the preparations for
the voyage of the deputation to Brazil have been suspended,
in consequence, it is said, of despatches from London.
The present convulsed state of the manufacturing dis-
tricts is pregnant with consequences so alarming as to take
away all interest from every other topic. Never was there
a crisis more difficult for the Government to decide on the
measures most proper to be taken. In ordinary cases of
disturbance and riot there is no difficulty in applying the
public force to the maintenance of public order; because,
in ordinary cases, Government can estimate the nature and
extent of the evil it has to contend with. But the present
is a crisis of a peculiar nature. The disorders do not pro-
ceed from the excesses of an intemperate and disaffected
faction ; the outrages upon property—indefensible as they
are--are not committed with any view to plunder; there
is no excitement from political disloyalty, nor any feelings
of hostility to the State or its rulers. All this, we admit,
does not make it less necessary that these disturbances
should be put down, but it makes them infinitely mote
difficult to deal with. It calls for the utmost union of
humanity and wisdom to interpose usefully and with effect.
If the prevailing tumults among the working classes
arose from any temporary interruption of their industry,
the evil would soon pass away, and the consequences might
be provided against. But they sadly deceive both them-
selves and others, who would treat their distress as of easy
remedy, or who represent the danger involved in it as of
little account. We make this remark with reference to
the leading article in the Times of Friday last, which, ad-
verting to the disturbances of Blackburn and the neigh-
bourhood, says, " A mob that is dispersed in part by a
heavy rain, is either physically so weak, or mentally so
feebly disposed to mischief, that it should not need the. in-
tlietion of much severity for its suppression. In truth, we
are of opinion that if a party rushing forward with ever so
much eagerness to destroy a power-loom in one direction,
were suddenly to learn that a waggon-load of quartern
loaves were distributing in another, they would instantly
change their course."
The accounts which daily arrive are unhappily the re-
verse of every thing that should lead us to trust for tran-
quillity to the elements, or to look upon the insurgents as of
that description which can he " dispersed by a heavy rain."
It were a fatal error to act as if we supposed them to be
either mentally feeble, or physically weak. That they
would be quieted by the relief of their distress we readily
believe, but we should not much praise the wisdom of that
Statesman, who, in the present crisis, should advise the
protecting the power-loom machinery with a waggon-load
sy quartern loaves!" Such an expedient would be a very
unsure as well as unsafe remedy for insurrection, under
any circumstances. Under the present, it is the last that
should be recommended. It is neither fitted to the extent
nor to the exigency of the evil. The property of the
country must be secured against the wild and measureless
resentment of armed mobs, whatever be the grievance
which gathers them together.
An outcry is iNsome quarters raised against Parliament,
for not having come forward with any measure, either'
of remedy or mitigation. Have those persons who raise
this outcry, or who join in it,—have they at all considered
the causes which the misery of the manufacturing classes
grows out of? Those measures which in common
tress might he available, are in cases of deeper calamity no
better than playing with the evil. The warehouses of the
manufacturers are overstocked with goods, for which they
can procure no sales either in the home or foreign market.
Having already a supply greater than time demand, they
necessarily dismiss those workmen for whose labour they
have no occasion. If this were done only in a few in-
stances, the distress arising out of it would be partial, and
its duration short; but it is the case very generally, and
hence it is that so many thousands are without bread. The
charitable contributions of the more opulent might then
relieve the sufferers, till better times came round ; and
much might also he done towards it by the aid of Parlia-
ment. But this is not the situation in which affairs stand:
time workmen have taken other ground, and have placed
themselves in a very different attitude. They contend—
whether rightly or not it is beside our present purpose to'
examine—that the distressed condition to which they are
reduced can never be relieved so long as power-loorns exist;
and they have conspired together, one and all, to take the
remedy into their own hands, and to destroy every power-
lorm factory, and thus put an end hereafter to the use of
that species of machinery, which, as it enables the proprie-
tors to dispense with their labour, leaves their industry
without employment, and reduces their families to misery
and want. It is easy to perceive that this is a state of
things which neither the beneficence of Parliament nor the
benevolence of individuals can interfere to relieve. The
policy to be pursued is a question that cannot be lightly
discussed : all the leading interests of the State and of
property are bound up In it ; and those who would con-
demn Ministers for not having brought forward some mea-
sure of reli,f, appear to us to have very ill studied the na-
ture of that disorder to which they would have it so
promptly applied.

We give the following, as it has been furnished to us by
the Court Newsman, without any comment:—

On Saturday morning, a meeting of the Cabinet Itlinisters
took place at the early hour of ten o'clock, at the residence
of the Earl of Liverpool, on the subject of the disturbed state
of several parts of Lancashire. There were present Mr. Secre-
tary Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of liar.
rowhy, the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Melville, &c. They
continued in deliberation till half-past twelve o'clock, when Mr.
Secretary Peel retired to his office, where he was closely en.
gaged the whole of the day. Messengers were despatched from
the Home Office in various directions. The Duke of York arrived
in town, at three o'clock, from Newmarket. His Royal Highness
remained but a few minutes at his house in South Audley-street,
during which time he partook of some refreshment, and then pro-
ceeded with all speed to his office In the Horse Guards,
when Mr. Secretary Peel waited upon the Royal Duke, to
lay before him the information he had received from Lan.
cashire, of the riotous proceedings of the cotton weavers in
various parts, and also the result of the deliberation of the
Cabinet Ministers, which engaged their attention till past five
o'clock, assisted by Sir ff. Tayhar, Military Secretary to the Com-
mander.in.Chief. Among the military arrangements It was agreed
upon that the Second Battalion of the, Coldstream Regiment of

Foot Guards should leave London'at a late hour last night, or at a
very early hour this morning, for Lancashire. The Duke of York
proceeded .to the King's Payee in Nil-mall, to report to his :11a-
jesty on this subject. His Royal Highness remained with the
King till near seven o'clock.

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In the evening Mr. Bailey. the King's messenger, was sent of
with despatches to General Sir John Byng, to take the military
commend of the Manchester district. The messenger was to pursue
his journey with all possible speed, to find Sir John. It was un-
derstood he was to proceed to Rotherham, in Yorkshire; and
as it was not certain whether he had left Newmarket, as Sir John
had been there a day or two before, he was to go by Newmarket.
On Saturday morning early, the 0:1d regiment marched from
Chatham, and arrived at Dartford, where they were quartered
during that night, and marched early yesterday morning for
the metropolis. They entered St. James's-park at one o'clock,
and proceeded to Pimlico, Chelsea, and the neighbourhood, where
they were quartered during yesterday. This day they are
to embark on board fly.hoata at Paddington' to go by the
Grand Juncinn Canal, with all possible steed, to Manchester.
The 2d Battalion of the C oldstream Regiment of Guards are to
embark also. in fly boats. to he conveyed to Manchester. Prepara-
tions were yesterday making for their departure. at the Knights-
bridge barracks, where they were cooking provisions sufficient to
last them three days; they arc to travel night and day. Four tom-
panics of the 341 Regiment of Foot Guards are to march from
Windsor, to supply the place of the 2d Battalion of the Coldstream
Regiment of Foot Guards, in the Knightsbridge barracks, and to
be in readiness to proceed to B ackburn or Manchester, if necessity
should require it. .
Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, Mr. Secretary Peel received
an express from the Lancashire Magistrates acting in the disturbed
districts, which occupied the attention of the Right Honourable
Gentleman, Mr. J. Ilohlionse, the Under Secretary of State for the
Home Department, and several of the Clerks, for a great pan of
the day.

CITY, SATURDAY EVENING..

The distressing accounts that arrived almost every hour from the
country in the course of the morning, had a tiolent tendency to
create alarm in every quarter, and the Funds were strongly under
their influence. Every kind of Stock fell from Ito 14 per cent.;
the disturbances in Lancashire, added to heavy sales of Money
Stock, produced an almost instantaneous fall in Consols, from 7114
to M. On this reduction a great deal was done, but still the
market was deprived of all its wonted elasticity ; so much so, that
Consols, by one o'clock, were to be obtained at 78. when a re-
action of nearly one-half per cent. occurred. This improvement
was maintained for only a short time, the prices receding gradually
until Consols touched 774. The decline in the bargains for Money
has, throughout the day, preceded the speculations in time-bar-
gains, one of the strongest indicatio-s of a further depression, and
unless the prices recover, the dealers will have a very large amount
of Stock in options thrown on their hands, on or before the next
Reeling day. Speculation in the Scrip has been very much super-
seded by that in the Funds, and the total fall in it has been from
4 per cent. premium to A per cent. discount. We believe that little
or none of the Scrip has been paid up in full, as money bears so
much higher an interest, affording no inducement, t,6:refore, to
anticipate the instalments.

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There hss been altogether so much business transacted in Money
Stock, that the day has appeared more like an open day at the
Bank than otherwise. Monday (a Saint's day) will be observed as
a holiday at the Bank, but, owing to the violent fluctuations in the
Funds, both Markets will be open. Exchequer Bills were 95., 75.,
9s. pm.
The fluctuation in the Foreign Market to-day has been to a
great extent, but the Republican Securities have maintained their
ground with some firmness, and remained so up to the termina-
tion of business. Colombian, which bad been depressed in the
morning to 38, rose to 39A in the coarse of the afternoon. Mexican
Bonds opened at 62, and fell suddetfly to 60, but closed nearly 1
per cent, higher.
The sudden return of the Duke of Wellington, which was only
known this morning, has created much suspicion in the City ' • but
the decline in Itussian and other Northern Securities is the effect
of the depressed state of our own Fonda. Russian have been done
at 751, and Danish at 54.
After the statement we have given respecting the depression in
English Securities, in consequence of the unsatisfactory condition
of trade generally, and the acts of insubordination committed in
many of the manufacturing districts, it was not to be expected that
the Share l‘larket, which has been so long neglected, would be
otherwise than deserted to-day : scarcely any bargains were tran-
sacted in it.

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