The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-09 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER .9,

After the establishment of the Inquisition in Spain it
was natural to expect that the restoration of the Jesuits
would soon follow. Too intimate a connection has always
existed betweon these two bodies, and their united in-
fluence over kingdoms has been too greet for monarchs
to do without them in such critical times as the pres2nr,
particularly those monarchs who from experience aie
aware of their utility in the way of police.—Hence do
we find that the King of Spain readily cinched at them
as powerful props to his throne, and DO doubt out of gra-
titude they will answer the expectations formed of them.
The Inquisition for some time past has been aetive, and
we may expect to find that the public schools in Spain
will be confided to new masters,• in which the sovereign-
ty of the people will be pronounced in a manifest heresy,
and those pinciples and tenets taught, which heretofore
have so peculiarly distinguished the followers of Loy-
oley.- —Tin: main object is to undo every thing that '
had been done during the late revolution; to extirpate
those ideas acquired by the intercourse of foreiguers, to
restore that general gloom so congenial to the cowl, and
so convenient to princes who build their thrones on ter-
ror, rather than the affections of their subjects; and cer-
tainly to effect this, no instruments more proper than
the Inquisition and the Jesuits.—By one of those dex-
trous artifices, however, not unknown even in.free
coun-
certain communities and towns had been made to
solicit the restoration of the Jesuits, and on finding the
measure produced no material opposition, it was render-
ed general by the King's Decree, lately published in
Madrid.

An official article from Madrid communicates the en-
trance of the Royal troops into Santa Fe, the capital of
New Granada, on the western coast of South America,
without firing a shot. The finances of Old Spain appear
to be in a most wretched state.—The pay even of soldiers
and sailors has been so long in arrear, that several of them,
it is said, have perished of want. This, if true, isa singu-
lar occurrence.—lt is seldom that those who have iron

suffer themselves to want bread long.
Dispatches received on Monday from Rio Janeiro com-
municate the sailing of the expedition fitted out by the
Court of Brazil against the independents of the River
Plate on the 13th of June.—lt had on board about 5000
of the Portuguese troops trained to discipline and inured
to service under the command of Lord Wellington.—
Their first object was the possession of Monte Video,
which was expected to surrender without opposition, and
great reliance was placed upon the co-operation of the
insurgents who were disaffected to Artigas. Much also
appears to be expected from the remains of the Royalist
party, wltich it was hoped would shear itself in oonride-
ruble force on the landing of the troops at Maldonads
and Monte Video.—ln the Admirers ship was Dt. Her-
rera, late Secretary of the Government of Buenos Ayres,
whom the Portuguese Cabinet had induced to accompany
the expedition. This fact alone explains the ultimate
object in view.—The expedition was, however, unfortu-
nate in its outset; for soon after its departure to the
eastward of Janeiro, a gale of wind coming on several.
ships received considerable damage, but most of all a
store-ship with ammunition on board, which was so much
injured that she was under the necessity of putting back
to Rio Janeiro for repairs.—A corps of 1500 men was
to join the expedition at St. Catherine's. The ardent
expectations of the " beloved Ferdinand" and his brother
will be speedily gratified, by the arrival of the Portu-
.guese Princesses, who were to sail from Rio Janeiro to
Cadiz on the 26th of June, in a line of battle ship, accom-
panied by a Spanish frigate. Lord Beresford was to•
sail at the same time in the Dori Pedro, u Portuguese
frigate, for Lisbon.

Kivo's HEALTH.---Yestertlay the following. Bulletin
was shown at St. James's Palace :

Windsor Castle, Septembrr 1.

His Majesty has enjoyed good bodily health, a.:.1 has been
generally tranquil during the last mouth; but His Majesty's
disorder has undergone no change.
ROYAL Divoncr.—ln our last we gave some account
of a pamphlet, just published, respecting this delicate
subject. The following is the concluding sentence of
the pamphlet, and which, we doubt not, will be read
with considerable interest by our readers.
t.
Anecdotes sufficient to palliate if not to justify whatever
ran be alledged on the one sitle,may now be forced into public
view by the imperative duty of sell defence on the other part '
the taste of the age, the feelings of the people, the decent ob
awry:lace of society, the chaste sentiments( of well regulated
minds, all that constitute public decorum, may be outraged by
daily disenssions, which no attempts of timid or of thne-serving
men can keep within the balls of Parliament; every frailty of
all the illustrions persons who should he the patterns of pro-
priety as of virtue, may be laid bare to the prurient laze of
vulgar curiosity by the unsparing hand of judicial inqniry—
vast mischief—ills lordly to be repaired, may be done to the
morals of the nation, as well as to the character and comfort of
exalted individuals. Hut th .re is every reason to export that
the design of dissolving the existing marriage of the Prince
Regent will fail ; that the expectations of the Princess Char-
lotte will not he defeated ; and that the country will be spaced
the conntless evils of a long minority rind a eontcstcd regency
—evils scarcely differing from those of a disputed snccession."
Rumour has ascribed the composition of the Monody
to the Hon. Mr. Lambe, and other authors ; but it is
pretty generally said to come from the pen of Lord
Byron. •

'ER.

DRURY JANE.
This magnificent Theatre opened on Saturday for the
season, with The School for Scandal, and " Who's
Who ?" When the curtain first rose, " God save the King"
was sung, and honoured with the most enthuiastic ac-
clamations by the audience.
Mr. Rea now camcforward, and having obtainedailence,
spoke as follows :
" Lunt% u (11;NTIAMFN,—.A Monody on the death of Mr.
Sheridan had be. n anontineed to be spoken by Mrs. Davison
this CS enintf. Through various unfortunate and unforeseen
cirepnstances, it W. 13 nut rat into her hands till a late hour yew
terday, and though she has eivea every attention to it since, she
cannot depend on her memory to redite, and therefore hopes,
from your kiwi indolence, to be pertaitted to read it."

The apology was generally well rc:•eived, but some his-
ses mingled with the applause Which it called forth.—
Solemn music preceded the rising of the curtain, which
on being drawn up, discovered Mts. Davison in a pensive
attitude, at the tomb of Sheridan.—We were here re-
minded of the scenic arrangement made by. Marmontel
and Mademoiselle Clairol), for the recitation. of his Ode
to Voltaire. The effect was considerable for the moment,
but the interest which had been excited was ill repaid by
the reading of the Poem. With every wish to do honour
to the memory of the Drama's brightest ornament in mo-
dern times, the audience coukl..inst. feebly applaud the
praises here bestow edon him. The difference LA ween read.
ing and reciting is so great, that many points were una-
voidably lost, and the excess of feeling which seemed al-
most to ovcrwhelm•Mrs. Davison, did any thing but con-
tribute to the hnpression, which the author wished to
create. The result was, it went off with an expression
of moderate approbation, which smith to intimate the
will was taken for the deed.

In The School for Scandal the favourite:sof the town
were received in the usual way. The Sir Peter of
Munden, the Sir OliverofDowton, and the Lady Teazle
of Mrs. Davison, presented some delectable specimens of
true comedy, and nobly embodied the humour of him
whose loss the Theatre must long deplore. The other
characters rresental nothing very striking. Rae acted
Charles with some spirit, and Mrs. (tiger made several
good hits in Mrs. Candour. Wallach gave but a faint
idea of the insinuating villainy of Jbeeph, Knight made
but little of Crabtree, and Harley nothing of Sir Benja.
min Backbite. On the whole, the performance on this
occasion fell woefully short .of the effect - which it was
once our happiness to witness on the same boards.
We have already laid before the public many of the
particularsof those changes which have been effected
since the close of the last season. The following are the
details of the whole:—

THE. BOXES.
In this part of the building the first and most striking tea-
times ofnovclty were the two boxes prepared for the exclusive
convenience of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Cobourg and the D eke and Duchess of Gloucester. That
designed for the fernier illustrious couple is situated in the
neat circle on the King's side, and that for the latter on the
Prince's side, directly opposite; and both immediately adjoin
the private Coxes. They. arc fitted up in a tasteful and ele-
gant manner, the ornaments and draperies corresponding, of
course, with the general decorations of the theatre. To the
test are attached two small but commodious waiting-rooms, and
to the latter one of the same description. The fronts of these
boxes are thrown cienpletely open, so that a full view of the
inmates may be connuanded from all parts of the house ; and
One those objections to privacy, which were occasionally ma-
tsifested, during tile visit, of the Prince of Cobourg and his
beloved Consort, toward the conclusion of the last season, arc
c:enpletely obviated. It is also satisfactory to observe, that in
the selection of the site of these Iwo new boxes, little lass has
been sustained by the audience in general, as they are eon-
strueted in those parts of the house which were least frequented,
from their contiguity to the private boxes, the blank partitions
of which obstructed. the view.of the stage altogether from the
back rows.
The next improvement in this department seas-discernible in
the dress Luxe,. whieh have been rendered extremely conve-
nait by the removal of one of the rows of seats, the umber
being now 3 instead of 4. This altenition, independent of the
room which it affords the audience in the dress circle, has been
productive of anether advantage not lest important. Formerly
the company were so crowded together; mid the back rows
were so littic raised a!inve the front, that the brilliant and im-
posing effect, naturally remitting fried an iis.sembia4,,c of beauty
and le.hion, was almost entirely obscured. By the present
plan, the back rows heiee inure eh:sated, each name heroines
more distinct, and thus the taste and splendour of the
become more eonspicaseits..