The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-03-02 00:00:00

lINCS THEATRE.

This Evening, TUESDAY, March 271;11 be performed
IL FANATIC° PER LA MUSICA.
Principal Peefornans—Madame Catalani, Signor Curioni,
nom Caradmi, Signora Besichi, Signora Oraziani, Signor Frau.
etathi. and Signor De EteLmi,
Between tbe Acts, the Ballet Divertiavernent Petuvien,
L'ADORATION AU SOLIEL.
To conclude with
_ _I.A NINE pu VILLAGE.

The Free List Will positi•.ely be suspended on aU occasions of
Madame Cata/ani's perforniAree, and no orders admitted.
Applications for Doses and Single Soboerivtions for the Sea•
son to be made to Mr. Seguin, Opera Office, In, Quadrant,
Regeot-etreet.
11. The Opera will begin on Tuesdays at I,alf:past seven, il4
on Saturdays at seven o'clock prei•ely.

NEW THEATRI? ROYAL, DRURY-LANE;
RE SPECIAL DESIRE.
This Ever's& TUESDAY, March 2. will be
nit. MERRY WIVES OF WlNDSOrrign44.
Fenton, Mr. Drahant t Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Doe. ton; Mrs. Fort,
Miss Stephens; Mrs. Page, Miss Collin.
To conclude with
THE CATARACT OF THE GANGES. .
To-morrow there will be no Performance.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN'.
This Evening, TUESDAY, March 2., wiil be performed
MAID MARIAN.

Richard the First. 31r. T. P. Cooke; Friar Michael. Mi. C.
linable. Lady Matilda Fitzwater. 31isa M. The.

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Atter which,
THE POACHERS.
there win be no Performance.

Vie nrittsl3 rtoo.

The BRIT I sit Poles commenccd publi.hjeg yeste;Jay mothirA
at half-pact five o'clock.

LONDON, TUESDAY, Maincit 2, 1824.

The great majority of the next Chamber of Deputiee
in France, like that of 1815, will in all probability be
Royali:t. Beery effort of influence, corruption, and me-
nace, has been put in action, by the present Ministry, tee
secure tire return of such a (71181111va., and Villele and 'his
party are likely M be successful. Of one hundred and
twelve deputies already returned, 103 are Royalist, and of
the returns, nine only as vet contained the names of de-
tided Liberals, including Generel Foy; who has been re-
turned for three separate arrondissements. The *ell-know:l
bankers who stand so high among the liberal party, Messrs.
Lafftte and 1k Lassert, have lost their election; but Cu-
simir Perrier, Benjamin Cens.ant (so formidable in the trie
bane) and Foy, hare been elected, vnel will had the Con-
stitutional party. The venereble 4.a Fayette has lost his
election at Meaux, in despite of Ills high character and hie
early service, to the cause of liberty in that country ; but
the rejected patriot is about to revisit Ameriat, for whose
freedom more than forty years since he fought with Ro-
chambeau and Kosciusko, in arms; and his reception there
will more than compensate his present rejection from the
French Chamber. hut the Lieetone as yet; through event
department of France, have leen carried by injestice and
corruption. The C'onstieeien'ed of Saturday, shackled at:
the pleas of that country is, yet conteine several striking
instances of the unwor thy meens resorted to against the
Liberal candidates. tight electors of Limoges have.eigued
a document inserted in that paper, complaining thit
they, without any just cause, were :struck off the list of
electors of the twelfth arrondissement, arid prevented
from voting, thottedt their names remained ieseribml up td
the ealth of February, the day on which the roll was pub
lished. The rejected electors of Limogea protest we I;ia
the arbitrary proceeding by which they were pre.
from voting. They state that in all cases every ranch;
man who proves his having paid three !lunched fraoce
direct taxes, that be is thirty years of rge, end in the eta
joyment of all civil rights, and rc,iding .thp
menti has a right 'to incribe his mune on the roll of electors.
They assert that they were thus qualified, and their names
notwithstanding were arbitrarily erased from the electoral
list. This is only one flagrant instance, out of the nutiiyl
of the same sort, that have marked the iresent election
through France. The Corittitritionizei &intuit* thA ape
of another flagrant abuse of the sair,e sort, in the peepo4
, of U. Bompierre, a wine merchant, in the "Rue Breton
' Villiers," and whose trade hi the place he serried ie
suppressed by the arbitrary interference of a Government
agent, under the most unauthorised protenees, Ikety e. be
was about to give his vote for a Liberal Deputy. • There i 4
in end to every :ling like the Charter and juatiee' it
France. It is ridiculous to tali: of the idle nameof i Con-
etitutional Monarchy, if acts of gross and arbitrary Nut-
lice such as this can be exercised without redress. At
Meaux, for the department. of Seine and Marne, the Mar-
. quis La Fayette -lost his election by only twenty-three
votes ; he had 161 in his favour, and M. Pinteville Cernon,
President of the College, opposed to tun 184. General
Foy wasehosen for St. Quentin alsoeby the Electorsl Col-
lege of Vervins, and in the four sections of 'Paris:flit:rob-
tained 813 'votes, while the Royalist candidate) Lebrun)
opposed to him, had but 706. The General of comnse
wilt take his sett area Deputy for Paris, and new. electione
will take place for St. Quentin and Veiling, where Liberal
Deputies will probably be elected. M. Lefitte lostehis
return by a majority only of six: this enlightened area
didate had 698 voices in his favour,. and AL, Sanglpt
Baguenet got. Corbiere, the ?dinister. of the Interior, bas
been chosen' for the arrondissement of Isle sod Vilaine.
According to this cakulation, the exertions of `lik's. de
Villele and his associates are likely to he crowned with
success ; and of the eeir Deputies returned from, the de7
pirtments, the great niejority will probably be Royalist.
Thus the proposition for compensation to the emi-
grants, and all other measures the present .11inistry army
wish to carry, will find large majorities to support Ahem.
We have heard nothing" as yet of the intrepid Manuel,
whose arbitrary and unjust 'expulsion created during the
last Session so strong a ferment through France. Will
La Vendee elect this dauntless Deputy again? And it
elected, will the French Ministry (a second time) hazard
his expulsion? (Ad Louis, the best of his family, is now
sinking fast to his grave; buf the succession of his brother,
of nephew, is likely at present to be undisturbed. The
fact is, a vast majority in France support the present
order of things, merely from a love of tranquillity. The
nation in general if sick of foreign wars: trade and manu-
factures are both growing ender peace. The Bourbons
are thought to be pacific, and it forms their best bold, in
the support of the French nation, to whom the preservation
of peace is just as essential as to, this country.

The languor that has hung as yet around the 'pr. sent
Session was lass night completely dispelled in the Lower
House. Mr. Abercromby, early in the evening, brought
most important charge, involving even a breach of privi-
lege against no less a personage dim the Lord Chancellor,
for language said to have been used by that high person-
age in Linooln's Inn flail, on last Saturday, when, firm
the Chancery Bench, he was reported to have charged tl.e
Honourable Member for Calne with direct falsehood. A
Most animated discussion succeeded for several hours, at
the close of which Mr. Abereromby's motion fur calling
the short-band writer, Mr. Farquharson, who reported
whet the Chancellor said, before the House, was ne-
gatived on a division, but not by a very large majo-
rity. Ministers, of course, threw the broad shield of
protection round their colleague, as fully as pois:.ble,
and Mr. Abercromby lost his motion, not by argti
ment but by numbers. There can be no question, if
. the Chancellor made use of the language imputed to him
on Saturday, that it was every tiny most itujustifiable.
All freedom of debate must cease if allusions of this sort
can be made, and with impunity. If the Chanerllei
wished to refute or deny any of the charges made against
him during the Ice debate in the Lower House, he bad
other means and opportunities of thing so.' The subject
might have been introduced by any of his friends in the
House of Lords; and Lord Eldon could then quit die
woolsack, to offer any Explanation of his judicial conduct
he pleased. But the judgment seat of the high Omit
where he presides was the last place from whence coarre
aspersions of this description should have issued. The
. hasty ebullitiona of temper should there at least
be restrainad. A lengthened possession of almost un-
-1 controlled power, political and legal, for more than
I twenty years, set ma to have persuaded Lord Eldon
. that he may now say or do almost any thing he thinks tit:
.1 lint high as his elevation is, there is a power yet above
' him, to which even lie must bend; he cannot grossly wound

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either public or private feeling, and hope to pass nn-
scathed. Ills conduct latterly hu formed the subject of
st-on/ animadversion in Parliament and beyond its doors;'
if unjustly made, he should have adopted another mode of
defence; neither the language he issued to have used, nor
the place selected for its utterance, were suited to his cha-
racter or station. There can be no question, that from
any other individual, the same expressions, thus publicly
vented, wou'd, os being brought before the House, be
tatted a direct breach af privilege, and a committal to
Ncwpte be the ahilut certain consequence. We cannot
this morning allude further to this important sub-
jict. The debate upon it will be nail with great
irkTese. The Chancellor. during the discussion, was,
we understand, in the House, up stairs, at greatly
agi• 804 We are not surprised he should have felt strongly
fin the occasion. It is now confidently said that his retire-
nit nib 'attain, and that he will select the first opportunity
of resigning his high employments into more popular hands.
To fact, such is the known wish of the most influential of
his colleagues. Lord Eldon add■ nothing to the character
ur popular influence of the Ministry.

The pressure of matter precludes our inarrtinF the
whole of Mr. Flint's petition. It will he conclude/lin our
columns of to-morrow. The same cause compels us to
defer our observations on this important caw, anal on tht
recent statutes which, while they take away the trial by
jury, make the will of local 111ftglitt-ates • summary sub-
'thole for law, and vest them with power unknown to the
Constitution of England, and fatal to the rights of the
subject.

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