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DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
TU. Evening. FRIDAY. N0v.19. will be performed the
Romantle Drama of
FAUSTUS.
►austus. Mr. WILMA ; Wagner. Mr. Harley; Meoblitophllea. Mr. J
Russell. Rosoll►. Mhos I. Paton g AQine. Mm tiraddon.

After which the Pastoral Ballet of
THE RoSsIDNOL.
The principal Characters by Mr. and Mrs. Noble.
After which the farce of
LOVE, LAW, AND PHYSIC.
Flexible, Mr. Harley; Andrew-, Mr. Knight; Lubin Log. Mr. Parry
tali lit appearance on this Stage).

Tomorrow, Clu;-111annertng, and Do La Porous,•

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COVENT-GARDEN TIIF:ATRE.
"fide Evening, FRIDAY, No►.lB, will be performed the Comedy of
THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM.
sir George Touehwood. Mr. Cooper; Doricourt, Mr. C. Kemble;
Hardy. Mr. Fawcett; Flitter, Mr. Jones. Letitia Hardy, Madame
Vestris , Mrs. Racket, Mrs. Gibbs.
After which the 'felo•Drama of
JOCKO, THE BRAZILIAN MONKEY.
Joeko, Moncleur Mazurier.
The principal Characters by Mere. Connor, Meadows, and Keeley;
and Misses Gardner and J. Scott.

To-morrow, Lore's Victory, and Joeko.

ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAND.
This Evening. FRIDAY, Nor. IA. will be presented the Nautical
Melo-Dramatic Barletta of
THE PILOT;
Or, A TALE OF THE SEA.
The principal Characters by Messrs. Tarry. Yates, T. P. Cooks, and
J. Reeve; and Kra Fitzwilliarn.
After which the favourite Burlette of
CURIOSITY CURED.
Mr. Curious. Mr. Meredith; Eltty Curious, Mrs. Pltst►lUEam.
To conclude with the Barletta of
THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR.
Peregrine Proteus. Mr. Wrench; Delawhang, Mr. J. Reeve.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
An ErrocrertstAw is mistaken in supposing that the correction of
the errors of a Jury has any tendency to undermine the value, or
impair the excellence, of that admirable institution—Trial by
Jury. The practice of granting new trials, on sufficient grounds,
is one of the most useful and important functions of the High
Courts of law.

The BRITISH Parss commenced publishing yesterday morning
as five o'clock.

LONDON, FRIDAY, Novixsta 18, 1821.

Yesterday we received the Paris Papers of Tuesday,
with the Etoile dated Wednesday. The opposition jour-
nalists notice the current reports of changes in the French
Ministry, but only for the purpose of saying, that, unless
the domestic system of government is to be improved, they
are utterly indifferent as to the removal of any particular
individuals. The wonder, indeed, is, as the Constitutionnel
remarks, not that changes have occurred so frequently in
the French Cabinet since the restoration, but that any
Minister has been able to remain in office, even for the
shortest period, having to serve and satisfy such a confused
multitude of parties and interests. There seems, however,
to be no reason to believe that AI. de VILLF LE is at present
in danger, or soon likely to be so. The course he has fol-
lowed is one that will gradually obtain for his adminis.ra-

tion more public confidence than any of those that have
preceded it. Already the Journal des Debits, the organ
of the factious Royalists, complains of the support given
by M. de LA 'ITT E and the liberal papers to some of the
recent mearures of foreign policy adopted by the French

Government, especially the recognition of the independence
of Hayti. The Journal des Debats may rail as it pleases,
but while the Minister can thus make conquest of his po-
litical opponents on principle, he may defy the impotent
endeavours of his personal enemies to dislodge him.
The advices from Madrid arc dated the 4th inst. The
Duke del INFANTADO has, it is said, entirely lost the
favour of the Apostolic party. Ile has resolved to continue
the sittings of the Consultative Junta, and he maintains a
friendly intercourse with M. ZEA, who is still visited and
treated with distinction by the Court and the Foreign
Ambassadors. The Junta instituted for classifying the
rark and regulating the promotion of the officers of the
Army of the Faith, has been dissolved. The French
Ambassador, the Marquis de Mouartsa, had arrived at
Madrid.
The observations we have given in another column, from
the Alov'e, on the commercial system of Great Britain, will
be ream' with considerable interest, It is gratifying to find
such liberal sentiments in a Paper which is known to pub-
Hal only such articles as are in accordance with the views
of the French Government.
The following are further extracts:—
(From the Etoile, dated Wednesday. Nov. 16.1

ODESSA. OCT. 26.
We have received letters from Constantinople to 19th October.
The Turco-Egyptian Beet, under the command of the Capitan
Paths, has appeared in the Rhodian Seas. On the 13th October
it anchored at DI armatissa, where it is observed by the Greeks. It
seems to intend to steer to Candia, though Ibrahim Petite in in
on little want of the troops, which it in to bring him, after the con-
siderable losses which be ta said to have suffered near Maine.
The Greeks of Constantinople now flatter themselves that the
Americans will afford them assistance; they chiefly found their
hopes on the stay of Commodore Rogers in the Archipelago. after
tits valutal be has received from the Porte relative to the navigation
of the Blac& Ses. —Argebwrek Game.
Prom the Journal de Paris of Tuesday. I

Leottnam, Nov. 5.
We have jai inapt that the American squadron which had
quitted the diode. ataa has melted before Tunis, to signify to the

Bey that he must give speedy satisfaction for the damage
which his cruisers have done to several merchantmen of the
United States. In case of a refusal the Commodore declared that
be would bombard Tunis.

FRENCH FUPDII.—PATUB, Nov. 15.—Fire pa Cents. at 981.
We.; Three per Cents. opened at 6111. loc., closed at 671.
90c.; Bank Stock 2120 E; Rente de Naples Certif. Falconnet,
841. ; Rente d'Espagne 1041. ; Royal Spanish Loan 4941. Ex-
change on London, one month, 251.; throe ditto, 241.130c.—Coare
A rahentiqks.

CITY, THURSDAY EVINING.

Scarcely on any former occasion was more extensive
business transacted in the British Funds than took place
in them this morning. The Consols Market was a scene
of the greatest confusion, in consequence of so many
brokers buying and selling at the same moment. The
prices improved at the close of the day, 851 being the last
quotation for this account, and ssif, 56 for that in January.
In the course of the morning the bargains for the present
account were done as low as 83, and many and great fluc-
tuations occurred before Consols reached their closing
price. Exchequer Bills were 2.1. premium.
Considerable agitation was prevalent amongst the specu-
lators in Foreign Securities in the fore part of the day, and
a very general decline, particularly in South American
Stocks, ensued. The business at that period was very active,
and almost every bargain was made at a lower pike, until
Colombian Bonds were at one time as low as 60f. However,
this market afterwards rallied considerably, and these Bonds
left off at 643. Mexican Six per Cents. (this Scrip is now
converted into Bonds, all the instalments having been paid
up) were 701. Spanish Bonds were 151, Danish ditto,
623 3, and Brazilian Scrip, 121 dis. The present state of
I the Foreign and Share Markets, we know from communi-
cations that we have received from the country, has pro-
duced the strongest sensations in every part of the kingdom,
and, as is always the case, bad news, the further it travels,
becomes the worse. The reports circulating in town are ex-
aggerated to such a degree as to represent every temporary
difficulty and untoward circumstance as evils of the most
disastrous and permanent nature. A gentleman just ar-
rived in town has declared to us, that from the reports he
had heard in the country he expected to find half the mer-
chants of London suspending their payments. This state
of things, we are convinced, has been greatly aggravated by
the mischievous industry of several of our contemporaries,
whn have lost no opportunity of misrepresenting facts, and
publishing false statements respecting the present alarm
in the Money Market. This sort of conduct cannot
he too strongly condemned. It is too frequently rank
dishonesty, and proceeds from the most base anti corrupt
motives. Every day shows more clearly than its prede-
cessor, that the present depression of the money markets
derives its existence from no political or external causes
whatever. We firmly believe that, in great measure, it
arises from the members of the Stock Exchange holding
foreign stocks and shares so largely that they have not
capital to meet all the demands Intl continue their invest -
ments. Some securities are held almost entirely in the
Stock Exchanges ; the last Greek and Guatemala Loar is,
for instance. Much private distress and embarrasm ent
might, however, have been avoided if the professed cb an-
nels of public information had not, in many instal ices,
been so strangely perverted to the dissemination or mis-
chievous falsehood.

There was scarcely a bargain concluded in Sugar to-
day; Coffee was steady in price, but business in it was
not brisk.

A Curacoa paper of the Ist of October mentions a re-
port that Rodil, the Commander of Callao, was., preparing
to capitulate.
The last accounts from Bogota mention the death of
Matthew Macnainara, Esq., formerly Comm;ssary-General
of the Irish corps in the service of Colombia. He was
drowned near Runde. His MI, a boy ar,ed fifteen years,
was inhumanly put to death at Maractabo, by Morales,
some years since.
A letter, dated Napoli di Romania, tiept. and pub-
lished in the Austrian Observer, contains the following
passage:—" The well-known Commis is now here. Some
days ago General Roche gave him a grand entertainment,
at which he presented him with a souvenir, with a Greek
inscription, from a female friend of the Greeks at Paris,
who was enraptured at the exploits of the Ilydriots. It
was accompanied by Canaries portrait, and an account of
his life. The lady is said to be of high rank, and one of
the handsomest in Paris. As a proof of his gratitude Ca.
naris presented to General Roche his old tobacco-pipe,
which the latter promised to preserve as a relic."
The Etuile speaks of a new discovery having been made
in France, of a mechanical Ere-ship, which it says is
of far greater importance than all the congrere rockets in'
the world ; but from its description, it appears to us that
it is nothing but a species of the infernal machine disco-
vered by our countryman Fultoa. It is said that its
effects are first to be tried on the Turkish fleet.

By the Agnes, arrived in the Clyde, letters awl papers
have been received from Demerara to the 28th September.
We regret to perceive, by the following extract from a
private letter, of the 27th of September, which we copy
from the Glasgow Courier, that Demerara continues to
suffer from a severe drought. Its continuance at that sea-
son of the year must injure the crop on the ground past
remedy :—"this dry weather is really most alarming; I
see nothing near but ruin to our planters ; their prospects
for this and the next year are nearly blasted. The coun-
try exhibits the most miserable appearance ; it is extremely
melancholy to see it. At Essequibo they have bad the
same distressing dry weather, and the bush on the back
lota being on fire in many places, requires great caution in
preventing communication with the canes."
Miaanieni SUFFERERS.—On Saturday last a meeting
was held in the public Sale-room, in the Exchange-build-
ings, for the purpose of extending prompt relief to the suf-
ferers. Mr. Alderman J. B. Ilollinshead presided on the
occasion, and in opening the object of the meeting, made a
most energetic, feeling, and able appeal on behalf of the
unfortunate colonists, who have been involved in distress
and ruin by this awful visitation of Providence.—Liver-
pod Courier.
CONFLAGRATIONS IN THE AMERICAN WOODS
.—The
American Papers received yesterday give frightful reports
of the fires in the woods of the northern provinces of the
United States and the neighbouring British settlements.
A dense fog, which seriously affected the lungs and eyes,
and prevented navigation on the rivers, was simultaneously
felt at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and
Washington ; and so alarming appears to be the extent
and power of the conflagration, that the effects about the
same date were experienced in the British provinces, par-
ticularly at York, Montreal, and Quebec. The accounts
I in the Canada Papers state great fears were entertained,
from the dense fog having continued for several days, that
the fire was raging also on the north of the river St.
Lawrence.

Drarauertvc WIIIILWIND.—EarIy in the afternoon of
Friday last, the farm of D. Harvie, Esq. at Little River,
was visited with a destructive whirlwind. For several
hours previous the sky to the north-west had indicated a
thunder-storm ; some men working in a field adjoining the
river were suddenly alarmed by an uncommon agitation of
the water, which, together with leaves and sticks that were
floating down the stream, were quickly seen to whirl round
with the greatest violence, and, ascending in the air to a
considerable height, began to move slowly to the south-east,
in the direction of a range of buildings situate about five
acres from the river ; when about half way to the build-
ings, the column of water fell to the ground in a great
quantity, supposed more than a tun ; instantly about half
of the roof of the buildings was carried away with such
violenee, that many large pieces were blown to the distance
of from three to four acres. The most astonishing part of
this disaster is, that the middle part of the roof, about sixty
feet in length, should have been carried away, while the
two ends, of front It; to 20 feet each, were left standing,
and one of them without the least injury. It was a very
fortunate circumstance, that although there were both men
and animals close by, yet none of them were in the least
injured.—Qv disc Mercury, Oct. 11.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

The Duke and Duchess of Rutland and family left their seat,
Cheveley Park, Cambridgeshire, yesterday, for ltelvoir Castle.
The Marquis of Titchfield and Lord George Bentinck left town
yesterday, for their father's, the Duke of Portland's seat, in Not-
tinghamshire.
The Hon. Captain Henry Molynouz left town yesterday, for his
father's, Earl Sefton's, Croxteth
Lord and Lady Granthiun and family left town yesterday morn-
ing, for Paris.
Arrivals at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington-street :—The
Marquis of Hastings, from Paris, ; Mr. and Mrs. Smith, from a
tour: and Admiral 31 °arson, from a tour. Departures from
ditto :--Viscount Kinnaird, Hon. W. Eyre, and Upton, Esq.
on a tour. _

The Earl of Orford arrived yesterday at his house in Berke-
ley-square, from his seat, Woltenton, Norfolk.
The lion. George and Lady Charlotte Grenville arrived in tern
yesterday, from their seat in tiomersetshire.
Earl Gower has arrived at the Earl of Groavenor's, Eaton hall,
Cheshire, from a tour.

B. B. Philips, Evq., M.P., has arrived at his seat in Hants.
from a tour through North Vales.
The Earl of Besborough left Itoehampton yesterday, for Camas-
ford Houve, Dorxetshire.

The Earl and Counters of Jersey and family left town yester-
day, for their sew., Midaseen Park, Oxfordshire.
Departures from thy: London ❑ntel, Albemark.street
and Mrs. Hammond, from their seat in Hants ; and Thomson Bo-
ner, Esq.. for Kent.
Arrivals at Gordon's Hotel, Albemarle-street :—Powager Lady
Stratton, from her seat in Yorkshire ; Josh. Wells, Esq., and the
Hon. Mrs. Wells, from their seat in Hants.
Mr. and Mrs. Watson Taylor hare arrived at Warren's Hotel,
Regent-street, from their seat in Wilts.
Mr. and Mrs. Polhill, and family, have arrived at the St.
James's Hotel, Jermyn.street, from the seat i Kent.