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London, England, 1826-10-11 00:00:00

• ADELPH I THEATRE.

This Evening. WEDNESDAY. October IL will be presented the Nautical
Melo.Dramatle Barletta of
THE PILOT: or, A TALE OF THE SF.A.
The Pilot, Mr. Terry; Lieutenant Permeable, Mr. Tates ; Long Tons
t...03a. Mr. T. P. Cooke. captain Bonrrougbalf, Mr. J. Reeve. Nisi
Katherine Plowden. 'Mrs. II u.theg , Cecilia. by a young Lady.
After which the new Ballet Divertis,!:nant of
LA FETE DES NATIONS,
Caasl.ting of

Characterhalc Mein's& (warmed and produced by
Moog. Hain.
To conchs& with the new Cootie !NOWA of
OLD LOVF. AND VOL NO LOVE.
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Went flunenberg. Mr. Elliott; Baron Roueobtrl
Mr:Value; De* Clumps, Mr. Wrench. Jul

t. 111 r. Terry , Frederick,
Mn.lelt t, e Hughes.

PoSITITF.LT NEXT WEDNESDAY ALL LOTTF.RIES END IN
:•:lIS KINGDOM. SIX DE 430100, &c. st&A..4ko, IN ONE DAY.

The Darnell PRESS commenced publishing yesteithy
morning at Ave o'clork.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, ()cum.! 11, 1626.

The Etoile of Monday states that the latellinister,
CZVA L LOS, liar obtained permission to return to Madrid.
It appears by the same paper that a curious incident oc-
curred at Cadiz on the 19th ult., has excited con-
c:dereble attention. A young baker ran through the streets,
for three quarters of all hour, crying " Live the Constitu•
Con !" followed by several persons, who did not, however,
lain him in his seditious cries. After considerable resist-
ance, he was at length arrested. On information of these
e'rcumstances being given to the Intendant of Police, be
listened to take the most severe measures to prevent a re-
currence of them ; and, at his request, come French patreles,
consisting both of infantry and cavalry, n er' dispersed to all
part" of the city during the whole of the night. The
police were doubled, and the Intendant himself was se-
t:rely engaged till a late hour in the morning. The Mi-
litary Governor, General AvorßlCti, has been directed to
prosecute an inquiry into this affair. What a sad condi-
t'on must that country be in which feels itself obliged to
resort to such extraordinary measures whenever some
rtanise break; from his keepers, and tuns loose into the
screen ! For it seems that this unhappy baker is a mad-
man, and has on other occasions given proofs of it. At
least so says the Mile; though we dare say, In the tapi-
r ion of that Journal, all men are mad who indulge in the'
cry of {'ice to Constindiun. No doubt a similar disposi-
tion to exaggerate (though from quite opposite motives)
exists on the part of many of the French Liberal Jour-
nals, and that their accounts of the situation of
Spain ought, perhaps, to be read with some grains of al-
lowance in that respect. The Arcadia Gez'tte of the Rltth
I,li...evinces extreme indignation at the representations con-
tamed in the Journal du Commerce as to the state of
tiling' in Spain, and particularly in Madrid. This Journal
had described Madrid as being most delolate ; that grass
was growing in the streets ; and that the public walks
were peopled only by prostitutes and Royal Guards. The
Ftoile is equally earnest in contradicting such report',
ard says that, according to the papers it received en
IVonday, neither the account given by the Journal des
Debate of rho affair which took place on the parade
whin a young of sainted Doty CA Ol.o3—lrtitliffr

standard (a compliment due only to the Kins), tag,
that- of the coatinuance of the troubles ti Cornea,
were at all founded in truth. It wholly denies that
any troubles had ever existed at Cornea. As to the
repeated interviews too, which, according to the JuNroui
des Drloafs, had taken place between FISDINAND and the
English Ambassador, the Mode entertains very crong
doubts; and observes, that it is not certain that our Itli-
n.ster bad a single private audience with the KING during
Cie whole time If.s MAJESTY was at Ildefonso; and that
one must be very ignorant, indeed, of the manners of the
:lowish Court, to believe that such repeated communica-
tions could take place between the KING and the Itepre-
scotative of any foreign Power.

It appears that a certain Member of Parliament, re-
markable for his accuracy in the lower processes of arith-
metic, has recently turned his attention to the subject of
Ilse Royal Palaces. Several arguments have been founded
on his calculations, both by the reputed friends and oppo-
nents of Ministers—with neither of whom we can, exactly
coioeide on the present question. We, should think it
Oar:Ter.—and t.ighly improper—to conne::his MaJarr v's

name with any expenses that could possibly he avoided at
time of national distress. ' With regard to the Palaces in
question, it will he oheerved that they were all undertaken
at a period antecedent to the calamities which have recently
overr.keti the country—at a period of national prosperity,
when the views of sound policy, and the almost unanimous
voice of the nation, concurred in the propriety of enabling
our Sovereigns to appear with as much magnificence, at
lea,t, as the highest of the Nobility. Our Royal Family,
it must be remembered, has been gradually stripped of all
its private clams' is, and has not been enalital to increase
its income in the sante proportion as that of the Nobility.
While the heir' of WILLIAM the Conqueror have lost his
forests ttad estates, those of his Barons have preserved theirs
till they produce revenues superior to the private income of
their SovereiAn. If we must choose between the Crown
and the Aristocracy, we confess that we should feel in-
clined to prefer the former. At all events it is our wish that
the Sovereign and his relative, should be lodged and main-
tained in a manner suitable to their rank; and, much as
we value the high feeling of our Nobles, we should have
more pleasure in contemplating the magnificence of Royal
equipages and mansions than we could have in admiring the
splendor of any Nobleman, whether Whig or Tory. Could
a descendant of the House of Russell stand up in the
House of Lards or Commons and blame the moderate ex-
penditure of our Sovereigns, knowing, as he must, that those
very domains which now yield his own family such princely
revenues were originally, in a great measure, the gift of
Sovereiens who might have added them to their own es-
tates, and who have since stripped themselves, on the faith
of national generosity, of possessions far Rose ample, se-
cured to them by rights of property at lessees inviolable as
those by which our Nobles hold their present estates? Our
Sovereigns gave up the Crown lan.ls in retcrn for a revenue
to be fixed by Parliament. The consequence has been that
every increase of income made by the • Crown has been
watched with extreme jealousy; while cur landed propri-
etors, by the general improvements of the country, have
tic:adict and quadrupled their revenues, and have come
up in many instances with their Sovereign. We
arc far from saying this with a view to cast odium
on tl,e Aristocracy. They are a part of the British
Constitution, as well as the Kixa himself; and the in-
crease of their revenues is not an object of jealousy, but of
caegratulation. Atl we wish to show is, that his NIAJESTY
ought not—as he is confessed to have done hitherto—to
continue to he worse lodged than many of his subjects; and
that neither a Duke of Bennie'', nor any of his family or
party, has a right to complain of the expenses of a King
of England.

Ss much for the mstter of right. We shall next say a
few words respecting the suppoed private feelings of his
Mature. IVe have to Mettle a Ministerial Journal
for fist misleading the public on this head, by an
article which we noticed at' the time, and from which
it was inferred that his I AJLSTY wished new plans
of building to be undertaken at a moment when the
country was plunged into distress. All the repairs of
Palaces were undertaken at a time when the nation
was considered in a state of the most unexampled pros-
perity—st a time, of all others, the most proper for
restoring his MAJECI' to that relative pre-eminence above
his subjects which i! ;a essential to a monarchy such as
ours that he should ressess. It would hardly have con-
tributed to increase the respect of foreigners for this nation
if our public works lust been stopped short by the same
mews which interrupted the exertions of private specu-
lators. It is a wise arrangement of our Constitution which
provides that our Sovereigns should not look to their landed
possessions for their revenues; though this regulation has
lkherto had an efltet almost always prejudicial In the in-
terests of our Kind. The Corn Laws afect his Majesty'
as much as they do the poorest of his subjects. Every
over-issue of Bank-notes diminishes the value of his an-
nual income ; every increase in the price of provisions
d:minishes his means of supporting the establishment proper
for his dignaal station. The KING and the people, in
this respect, are one. The latter cannot be benefltted with-
out benestting the former—and that not merely in the way
commonly understood, but more directly by increasing the
value of his private income in diminishing the price of ne-
cessarit s, and consequently augmenting his means of pro-
curing the indispensable appendages of his elevated office.
It would be paying a very bad compliment to the judg-
ment, not to speak of the humanity, of his MAJESTY and
his Blot Brothers, if we could for a moment suppose
them callous to the miseries of their countrymen. These
Royal Personages possess establishments, which, for the
credit of the nation, they must continue to support. Can
it be supposed that they arc ignorant how much an in-
crease in the price of provisions augments the expense of
these establishments ? The KING and the people, in every
I question for the alleviation of the distress of the country,
have precisely the same interest, speaking of his MAJESI v
even in his individual capacity. It is our decided opi-
nion that the interest of the Aristocracy, whatever
some of them may suppose, is really the same with
that of the KING and the people; for their rents cannot be
increased without increasing the expenditure in an equal
degree, whether that expenditure arise from the mainte-
nance of servants and equipages, or from the consumption
of agricultural, commercial, or manufactured produce. The
; Nobility have, in fact, already begun to entertain this opi-
nian. It would be some consolation to the vanity of
the poorer Nobles to see the highest aspirings of
their richest compeers, and still more of their city-bred ri-
vals, exceeded, and cast into the shade, by the unenvied
splendors of Royalty.

CITY. TUESDAY EVLIIINO.

The operations in the Home Stock Market have not at
all increased to-day. AU parties are engaged in prepara-
tion ter the settlement on Thursday ; indeed that of itself
troehl sufficient,/ account foe the inaction, at the same
time that there 'nay be etnnething additional arising out of
the question as to the state of the Quarter's Revenue,
which will be determined to-night. Consols have remained
stationary at 801 1 for Money and this Account, and at
tio; fur November. Exchequer Bills and India Bonds
are as 144.

The Foreign Market has, however, made up for the want
of action in the Home. The lately long-neglected Co-
lomLian Bondb have stole a march upon their neighbours,
the Mexicans, and have, for one day at least, eclipsed them
in the Market. At the opening they were 36i to 36, rose
rapidly to 381, suffered a reaction to 37i, and finally closed
at 391 to 39. The reason assigned is, that letters have
been received, via Port-au-Prinze. announcing the arrival
of upwards of 500,000 dollars at l'cra Cruz, for the pay-
ment of the dividends, and that a policy of insurance bad
been armed at Lloyd's on their shipment. The latter cir-
cumstance, however, is not correct ; but as the amount of
spade agrees with that previously said to be at Bogota,
some credence is given to the statement. Indeed, it has
been evident for some days that a movement was likely to

THE BRITISH PRESS.

take place: a more desirable

than that the

report should be well founded,can hardly be conceived. It is
necessary, however, to state that the last letters received
direct from Bogota are dated the With of July, and are
wholly silent on the subject. Atwater report was, that
Messrs. BA KING were about to accept the agency. If there
had been any evidence of money passing between La
Guayta and New York, some authority would have at-
! tacked to the report ; but as such has not been the case, it
is not entitled to belief. It is very probable that the divi-
dend now due may be paid, but not probably by those who
may be the future agents of the; Colombian Government.
The understanding dui appears to exist between Bot.ivsx
and l'aes is matter of considerable moment, and the
anxiety of the former to keep faith with England is matter
of notoriety. It is very probable that to-morrow will put
the question at rest, and Colombient Bonds will either ad-
vance to a much higher quotation, or fall to what latterly
has been their l'evel. This circumstance has assisted Chi•
lien a little; which were not purch able under 39. Mexi-
can Bends, for the cause we have steed in revect to Cllom-
hien, have been a dead letter: such is the mutability of
speculation in Transatlantic Securities. Greek und Spanish
do not show any alteration. The letters from Greece would
almost imply that this unfortunate people will lose that
for which they have so nobly contended, by the cupidity
and selfishness of the contending parties in the State.

In Shares, the Del Monte are now at only 40 discount,
while Brazil are at 12, and 'flak:oxalate at 530 premium.
The Colonial Market remains fit a very depre:;sed state.
Coffees
.have gone down is rr hundred weight, and
Sugar Is heavy, at a reductioni%of from GI to Is. on the
same quentity. Indigo mid Cottens are also lower.
Exchnuges are precisely the same, though there is more
doing, as bills on account of imported Grain arc coining
into operation.

The Post-office regulation for an additional packet for
Jamaica, Cuba, Hayti, and Mexico, has given the highest
satisfaction to the mercantile world. The persevering con-
duct of young Mr. FREE LING, in following the steps of
his father, deserves the highest commendation ; while the
system of the Post-office, as consummated by the industry
and talent of these gentlemen, will be a lasting monument
to their memory. Perfection in any system is hardly to be
attained : it would, however, appear difficult to itnrrove the
system of English letter-carrying, which is at once the
admiration, ■nd perhaps the envy, of the rest of Europe.
The peseta regulation, which increases the means of com-
munication between the Old World and the New, is of the
last importance.

The Duke of Wellington visited the Duke of York on
Monday, at the Duke of Rutland's residence in Arlington-
street. Viaccunt Sidmouth paid a visit yesterday to his
Royal ffighners.
The CommiEsioners appointed for building additional
Churches had a Meeting yesterday wonting, at their
Office in Great George-street.
Lord Bexley came to town yesterday, from his residence
in Foot's Cray, Kent, and, after attending the Meeting of
the Church Commissioners, returned to Foot's Cray in the
afternoon.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to town on Mon-
day from Wresthouse, Silsoe, Blfurdshire, where the Right
Honourable Gentleman had been on a visit to the Countess
de Grey, and after tramtacting business at his residence in
Downing-street, left towu in the afternoon fur his seat at
Blackheath.

A Board of the Lords of the Treasury was held yester-
day at the Treasury Chanibirs, which was attended by all
the Lords Commissioners in town. It was understood the
accounts of the Revenue during-the last quarter were laid
before their Lordships.
The Spanish Ambassador transacted business yesterday
afternoon at the Office of the Secretary of State for Futeign
Affairs.

Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Foreign
OMee to Mr. Secretary Canning-at Patin ; also to Sir Win.
A'Court, our Minister at Lisbon.

A King's Messenger was sent off on Thursday night
from the Foreign Office, with despatches to Mr. Secretary
Canning, at Paris.
The quarrel between Lord Ponsonby, Sir John Philli-
more, and Lieutenant Fitzroy, has, it appears, been made
up, and no Court-martial will take place.
.%dm. Monckton died lately at Havre, at an advanced
age. His funeral took place on the Gth instant. The fu-
neral honours were performed by a battalion of the Both
French Regiment.
NA PL ES, Szer.23 —Lord Cochrane has been same time
at Messina, under the name of Mr. Baring. His Lord-1
ship sails in the Hermaphrodite rigged vessel purchased of
Mr. Perkins, and there is every appearance of the latitude
of Sicily being fixed on as the rendezvous of the vessels
expected to support his Lordship and the Greek cause;
but, from all accounts, the differences and jealousies are
so great among the Greek Leaders, that no reliance can be
placed on their cooperation.
The South African Advertiser says, that of only two
articles have any complaints been heard—the prohibition
of voluntary field labour on Sundays, and the right given
to the slaves to enforce their manumission on paying their
value. The ordinance is in force from the Ist of August.
On the Slat June an ordinance was published at the
Cape of Good Hope respecting the treatment of slaves, si-
milar in most of its provisions to those already in force in I
Trinidad and Demerara. However, instead of prohibit-
ing
the flogging of females altogether, the Cape ordinance
prohibits the public flogging of them. Slaves are to be
allowed to purchase their freedom, on paying their ap-
praised value, on proof that the money has been acquired
by lawful means.
We find in the Jamaica Courant,, to the 13th August,
which have reached the Jamaica Coffee-house, the follow-
ing arrival tnentioned:—" His Majesty's ship Harlequin,
Captain Scott, in eight days, from Chagres, with 82 000
dollars, last from Cartbagena in three days, with 6,000
dollars." We do not know whether this specie has any
thing to do with the specie, the reported collection of which
at Carthagena has made some sensation in the Foreign
Market. Mr. Dawkins arrived at Jan.aica in the Harle-
quin, from the Congress of Panama, which was prorogued
on the 2.3 d of July, and to re-assemble in the city of
Mexico. The suspicions which had led to the proestna-
don df martial law at Panama, and to some arrests, bad
proved to be unfounded.
We learn frcint London that, on Tuesday last the Chan-
cellor of the Eschequer made" atki an important commu-
nication, in reply .to ara ' to take or the duly on
printed goods. lie amid that Ministers have resolved, in
the next Session of Parlismasit, to introduce some measure,
for the relief of the stomata illutturing interest, but that, to
prevent any improper use being made of it, they withheld
all statement of their views for the present. It seems not
improbable, however, that the duty on printed goods will
be taken off, ws it amounts to 1,500,0001. annually, of
which not much more than 400,000/. reach the Treasury,
so enormously expensive la the collection.—EdiaburgA
Observer.

ST•TIC or TRADE.-012 ibis subject we arc happy to
announce a continued improvement in almost every branch
of business. Our public works, with very few exceptions,
are employed on full time. The various culenderers are
busily engaged dressing Asa packing goods for exporta-
tion. The transit of commodities to and from all parts of
the country has considerably increased; and the prices
even of manufactured goods are on the rise. Every thing,
in short, indicates a steady progression towards our wonted
'prosperity ; and we flatter otheelves tltat henceforth our
meekly bulletin on this head May be altogether dispensed
with. Among the facts which we have ascertained to enable
na to make up the present notice, there is one which is
quite decisive: a very extensive Shipping Company be-
twixt this and London have Dearly trebled their ship-
mates both outwards and havrartieduriog the last fortnight.
—GAssirow Timer.