The National Register.
London, England, 1815-10-22 00:00:00

PERSECUTION or Tlta PROTEMEANTO Tat SOUTIC
-rti A acE.—A pamphlet. called "A Defer:rm of the Pro.
testadts of Languedoc," has been privately circulated at
*Paris. The author is laid ,to be a Protestant Patter.
1k asserts, "that In the 19th century, his Protestant
brethren are .plundered end ageossinated in the face of
Eurape, under Louis the Desired, and that their petsecn.
Lions rival the barbariay .of Lonvds and Lachnise:”..--.
Ile supposes, however, that the King is tbut partially
acquainted with their sufferings, which he chiefly
butes to the party of pure Royalists, with the Duke
d'Angoulemc at their head. At.Nismes and •Aiignoe, be
'says, the pretended Bourbonists introduced, their furious
bands, ,determined to cement the counter-reoolution-in
the blood of the Constitutionalists and Protestants.: from
'that time (July) pillage and assassination _dosoiated the
towns and neighbourhootkand•desolate them still. That
inhabitants, he says, outraged and reduced•to beggary,
'have no alternative but•to leave .the country as therdid
in the days of the Aledicis and Maintenons. Among
tither facts, he mentions that art ashaSsiu of thirteen
Protestants, one .Prestallion, •seas released and rewarded
With the rank of Adjutant/4160r ; many temples were
plundered, and. some burnt; and the extermination of the
Protestants, he contends, is the undeniablebbject. The
'wretches, he observes, arc -called Roy&liata•, and what

name, he asks, would be applied to those who should take
up arms against them ? The author finally calls uport
the King either to protect the Protestants, or give them
leave to quit their ungrateful country, and seek mate
hospitable nations.
The correspondence promised by. the Ed:tor of tvMorn.
ing .Paper to be• continued on the subject of the Queen's
refusal:to receive: the Duchess of Cumberland, has been
•stopped at the request of persons in high•atchoilty,.
prospect of a reconciliation being opened. No inter+
view has taken place at Kew, as reported in the:papers.
A foreign Potentate (supposed t:►e King of Prussia) has
-written a note to our Government, on the misunder•
standing between these tw•o great ladies, in so peremptory
a tone as to excite not a little discussion in the high poll_
tic3l circles.

The revolution in Spanish South America gains ground:
the province of Cusco in Peru is now in the power of
the insurgents.

DRAMATIC ItECISTER.

DIWRY LANE.

The Tragic Muse'llas once more unrolled her barmr tit
this Theatre. Mr. Kean, *hose. strength- of voice hat
been considerably increased by his country • escur•ion,
resumed on Monday night the part of Richard the•Mied.
and portras-ed the artful and relenle- ty tato sv,th- a
force and trdth of colouring which transcended big
former exertions. lie was greeted in the most rapturous
manner, and has found that absence was not a cure for
admiration as it is said-to bs forlove.
On 'fdesday, Reynold's Comedy of WU was
performed, to introduce IVIr.;. Mardyn in the (-lunar rof
Allfina Mandeville. We shall not dwell- on- the incon-
sistencies with which this piece abound.,, h -• e
more'than cotmterlialanced on that evening, by the merit
of havini, furnished a passport to a lord), actre. s '
her hoyilen scenes, - however, 'lin. Mairdru -.rather
Oterirceed "her part. ;She - sot -my. ltrat

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