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London, England, 1825-04-18 00:00:00

HAYMARICE7' THEATI2E.

It Is own ntvpectfully announced Qui thif Theatre will be Opened
fur the Season
Tthis
(Invent HONDA% April In, with Shakspeare's
Comedy (Inters with Music) of
E MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.

Falstaff, Mr. Dowton; Master Slender. Mr. J. Russel;
!mattes Shallow. Mr. Younger; Ford, Mr. Yining ; Sir Hugh Evans,
Waarri; Fenton, Mr. Melrose; Dr. Cams, Mr. W. Nest. Mrs.
eotd. Madame Yestris; Mrs. Per!, Mrs. T. Hill; Anna Page. Muss
Glare,: Krt. Qulekly, Mrs. C. 'oriel.

After wh.ch (drat time) a Pnatnral Ballet, sailed
LOVE ANT) MADNESQ
Tl.: Principal Characters by Merars.Walbourn, 'Sullivan, Connie. and
Cuataa; Mesdames Colson and O'Brien; and Madame Bosse.

To conclude with the Musical Ent.rtainenent of

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Kr. .1. CON slip Mrs. liu /rib} (fru.: the Theatre }loyal.
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DWI r* ap•rearanee fa Lundun. T
3.raro:uw. The Itch at Law. and h:Mpaull wd Cp.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.
MR. MATHEWS AT lIOUK.
Thic firming. MONDAY. April Id, and
and Saturday,
MR. MATHEWS' MEMORANDUM-7300K
of Ptouillitit.ea, Characters. and Manners. collected during his various
Trips.
Sexpa-"Ketnoranda in Confusion"-" Night Coach"-" Bubbles."
a NOW Sorg-' Match"-'• Old and New "fltnet"-" Pub
OlMes.Bair-itioeL*
PALT M. -A Monopolylogne. to be cailed
THE CROWN INN HANGER.
Doors open at Seven: tha Performance to commence at Eight.
Cauetorc-The new kntertainn .nt will not be Pr'ltted : and en
again professing tot:octant any parts of It are gross Impositions and
gligligg on the Puolle...

The Ant trim Pangs commenced ottbibihing on Saturday morn.
ing at balf•pe+t eve o'clock.

LONDON. MONDAY. APRIL 18, 11116.

By the Pazi,, Papers of Friday we learn that the first five
artrcies of the atrocious Law of Sacrilege have been adop:ed
by the Chamber of Deputies without amendment. In the
Suing on Thursday it WM': oppwed in a vigotous speech
by M BEI4J• KIN Con:is...kir, in the course of which he
appropriately illustrated the danger of the proposed law, by
referricg to tea mischief self-indicted by a student of Dole,
in order that he might represnit himself as an object of
hatred to the enemies of the Jesuits, amongst whom he
was dnirous of entotht.g himself. " Could it be doubted,"
the Deputy asked, "that a fanatic of the same stamp would
commit an act of profanation in urder to charge it
upon a heretic 1" This speech, however, made no im-
pennon on the Chamber, by which the only disposition
manifested with respect to the project, was an attempt to
iceman its sanguinary severity by expungitot the qualify-
ing words which require that the act of profanation should
be committed, not only voluntarily, but through hatred and
contempt of religion. The Keeper of the Seals, in op-
posing the amendment, asked emphatically, supposing;
an overt act, -committed even voluntarily, on the sacred
vessels or their ccnallerated contents, and yet clearly not
committed through hatred or contempt of religion, what
j.idge or rather what emattioner would date to pus
wmtassee upon the oniding party ? The intolerant orders
lately Motet by Ste new Valhi al us Cpsff, the Arch-

bishop of Roues, were also cited in the discussion as another
proof of the danger necessarily resulting from this law, of
giving to dogmatists the power of applying the penalties of
criminal law. The proposed indemnity to the emigrants
is still under discussion in the Chamber of Peers. On
Wednesday the Duke DE CDOISEUL delivered an address
which has produced a deep and general sensation in
France. The following are the amendments be has
moved :

Art. I. Thirty millions of rentea, constituting a capital of NO
millions, shall be allotted to those Frenchmen who have cape-
, tienced losses in consequence of the Revolution.
2. Of this sum fifteen millions of renter shall be appropriated to
those Frenchmen who were proprietors of funded property, or of
estates situated in France. or in territories belon*ing to France, on
the lit January 1792, and which have been confiscated or alienated
lo execution of the laws respecting the emigrants and persona exiled
by the Revolution. This indemnity shall amount to the third pert
of the value of the confiscated estates ; it shall be definitive; and
in no case can there for this purpose be appropriated a greater bum
than the one mentioned in the present Article.
3. The remaining fifteen millions of rented shall be distributed
to those Frenchmen who have experienced losses in La Vendee, at
Lyons, Toulon. and other places. in proportion to the losses of
each. The Government shall, at the approaching Session, present
the statement of these losses, and propose the division of the in-
demnity.
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The Etoile of Saturday reports that Lord STIANCITORD
will attend the conferences at Milan respecting Greece,
ani that the Duke na L'l Kr...wrap° will also be there, as
Ambassador Extraordinary of the King of SPAIN ! The
presence of a Spanish Minister to discuss the Greek ques-
tion would be highly diverting. Of course his Catholic
Majesty could not deny the Sublime Porte to reciprocate
the compliment by sending a Minister to debate the re-
cognition of South American independence.

FR LIMN Fu DS.—Pant s. Aral L 13...-Five per Gate. opened
at 191 f. 90c., closed nt 10If. 80c. Rank Stock, 2,00 f, Neapolitan
Fivo per Cents., Certif. Falconer, 89f. 6k. Rent. d'Es
Royal Spanish Loan, 1023, itia..--Exchanp on onLOno
month, 24f. 9k.; them months, 24f. 80c.—Cortrs Arthentique,
April la.

In the German Papers which arrived yesterday, we have
some very interesting, though not very recent, intelligence,
relative to Greek affairs. The Egyptian Admiral. last•at.
GIBRALTAR, died on his return to Alexandria, and it ap-
pear that his master, the Viceroy of EGYPT, is not disposed
to make much exertion in aid of what he doubtless regards
as a hopeless contest. The troops landed at Motion are
stated to be only two thousand in number ; but it is
resolved by the Turkish Commanders that the Mores
shall be invaded, provided, we suppose, that no obstacle
shall again frustrate their intentions. We have no ap-
prehensions for the issue of the campaign that is about
to commence. But the most interesting part of this
intelligence consists of two Notes that pasta at the
close of last year between EODIOS, the Secretary of the
Provisional Government of Greece, and Mr. CANNING, on
the subject of the insolent Note issued by the Russian
Government respecting the brave efforts of the Greeks to
conquer their independence. The letter of M. RODIOS to
the British Minister is written in that high and eloquent
strain of heroic patriotism which has distinguished his
countrymen during their glorious struggle for deliverance
from the detestable yoke of the Ottomans. Contrasting
themselves with the people of South America, the Greeks ,
justly pretest against being "excluded from the list of
civilised nations, and delivered up to the caprice of either
Russia or Turkey ;" and certainly, if the exertions of the
Greeks and South Americans be comparatively considered,
there can be no doubt that if tee achievements of each
people were the proper criterion of their claims to recog-
nition as an independent Power, the former are tenfold
more entitled than the latter to be deemed and constituted
a free nation. The Greek Secretary nobly vindicates his
compatriots, and therefore we quote his own words: "They
have impressed the stamp of disgrace on Turkish weakness;
they have proved that they are worthy to be free; they
do not contend against their Mother Country, but against
a foreign people that occupied their country (by the right
of brute force alone) and treated their children as slaves.
The Greeks, to the astonishment of all nations, suddenly
shook off the yoke of the barbarians. They commenced
the war without means to carry it on, convinced that
they could not assert their independence without innume-
rable sacrifices. They conquered fortified towns, and a
number of posts which were in the hands of their ferocious
despots. In several actions they have defeated the nu-
merous cud formidable fleets of Turkey with small mer-
chantmen. They have established laws like those of civi-
lized nations. They have formed a Government, and sub-
mitted to its commands. Can it then be doubted that the
Greeks are worthy of independence ?" We might go on
and transcribe the whole letter, every passage of which is
equally eloquent and impressive. Mr. Caesteo's answer
is that of an enlightened and liberal Statesman. In a
document, such as he was at that moment writing, it was
his duty to explain his views as a politician, not to express
I his feelings as a man. If he had had only to give utterance
to his ardent aspirations for Greek liberty, no task would
have been less difficult or more desirable to him. The
earliest labours of his pen were devoted to the regeneration
of Greece, and we are sure that no pulse beats more
truly in her cause titan that of our accomplished and
eminent Secretary
.for Foreign Affairs. In delivering his
sentiments, therefore, as the Minister of a great Power,
bound by the sacred ties of alliance not only to the State
of whose interference the Greeks complained, but to that
against which they are struggling, we observe him
anxious only to manifest equally his sense of the political
obligations imposed upon him by the pre-exigent treaties
between England and the other Stews, and at the same
time his determination to secure Greece all her belligerent
rights. Mr. CANNING laments that the opposite extreme,
of the pretensions of the combatants almost precludes the
hop of acceptable and effectual mediation. In reply to the
solicitation of aid from the British Government, the Right
Honourable Gentleman refers to the strict neutrality
observed in the contest between Spain and her late
American Colonic, and he assures the Greeks that
they may depend upon the continuance of the same neu-
treiity during their war with the Turks. Ile adds, that
1" Great Britain will take no part in any attempt to impose
upon Greece by force, a plan for the re-establishment of
peace contrary to its wishes, if such a plan should ever be
proposed ; but," he continues, " should the Greeks think
it advisable to ask our mediation, we wig offer it to the
Porte, and if it is accepted, we will neglect nothing to
make it effectual."" Mr. CANNING says truly, that this is
all that can be reasonably required of the British Govern-
ment, connected as it is skit the Porte by ancient treaties,
which that Power has never riolati d.

CITY, SATURDAY EVENING.
Consols were steady at yesterday's ;,riecs at the opening
of the market, and they afterwards improved. The Ac-
count bargains were dune at and those for money at
944 towards the close of the day.
The Fortign Market was tolerably firm. Sandi Ame-
rican Securities were a shade better ; Colombian Bonds
were at 99? 90 ; and Mexican Scrip t 4. Spanish Bonds
were better. The Old were at 2311, and those of 1823
at 184 t. Greek Scrip drooped a little :it was at 4 all day,
and the Bonds at L 2. Brazilian Scrip was get and Danish
ditto sal discount.

Theii is but little variation in any of the Shun, except.