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THIS EVENING, TIIIII(SI)AT, April 16,
their Mokaiie:lltetwaot. will poPrforin the Play of

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THE SYSTE‘I or N 4'l'l7llE ; or, the !raw*
of the Nloral and Pltyrical World. Translated from
the French of Morahan& Third Edition. with Addition..
London : Printed for W. Htedgisou ; and sold by all other
Booksellers.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, VrcpmcsaAT, APIttL 15.

THE IRON ('HI' I'.
Mr &heard Mortimer, Mr. Kerres Futshardirte, Mr.
?Nell; Warwick Mr Wnllsrk Adrus Wolirrton, Mr U:-
berry; itstelroM, Mr Mullsmi :*•onsroot. Mr Harley; Arm-
elneac Mr T. Cooke. Hrless, Mrs. Koichi • Blench, Mrs.
Orier; Barbaro, Mn Bland; Juthils, Mrs 'Huolorre.

Mr. Bnounrs, and others from the Commons, brought
up the Privately Stealing Bill (Ireland), to which they de-
sired their Lori!Alps' coneorrenee.

To which *AI be added, 14th time, a New Fare*, called
THE sIEF.PING DRAUGHT.
_

CURRENCY OF THE COUNTRY.
The Earl of LJUDEIMALT. poopiiiied hi. motion, whit+
stood fir to-morrow, until looday lieu, for which day the
Lords are summoned.
INCOME OF THE PRINCES.

'Principal Charredriers—'4r Mr. GAllie, Mr fur-
wird, Mr. Haelry, Mr snight, Mr. Currucy, Mr. Milano,
am leers, sod Mrs. Hughes.

%set, 7a.; Srenad Prier, Se. 3.. fSJ. ; Second
lingo, !a—Lower Gallery. Is.; heauud Price, Is.—Upper
Ortrery, Is ; Seciiiid Pi ice,
Bine. mid Places to lw taken of Mr. Spring, Rotunda,
Bityilea street, (runs Tell till Four, sad wf wbom may be
bed a Private Buz uightly.
?be woe Freer of The Weeping Dias* will be per-
immed every livening till further Notice.
To•sourrLiw, She Would and She Would Not.

The Margitas of Dowsatust moved for an Account.
'hewing the amount of Income enjoyed by thew Riiyal
Hightiempes the Dukes of Clarence, Cumberland, Kent, rod
Cambridge, which was ordered.

THE PRINCE REGENT'S NIESSAGE.
The Earl of LITERIPOOI. rose to move art Ad-
dress to his Royal Highuessi the Prince Regent, in
answer to the Message which had been couninii.i.
rated to their Lordships, and alluding to the Ad-
dress moved on the preceding day by a Noble
Lord opposite (Lord Holland), which, he fond, was
proposed in a form quite inconsistesit with the pro.
ceedings of the House, he observed that, as the
sole professed object of that Noble lord. mad of
those who suppo•ted the Add reps on that occasion,
was to return 'hunks to his Royal Highness for his
gracious commumeation, he t•tist-11 twit they could
not object to the present A !dress, whit h wrist no
further, and pled;ed the House to no onMion on
any part of the proposed :irraileenseill. Ile stated
that, in hesitating to muse the Addl.-mon the pre-
ceding day, he had been actuated solely by N de-
sire of accompanyotig his motion with a coniniumi.
ctn. of the proposed jitrovasion for the Royal
Dukes on their in .riage--141thoagh, accoiding to
the strict forms of Ito- Constitution, such a com-
munication, could not hwv bees, required, in as
much as the et 'Aims-mem, tiriotr, or /1 i.el notary me-
tune, must origin et. in the tidier House or Parlis•
mem; and it was not n it:l the measure came from
the other House, sit the shape of a 11111, that their
Lordships could tiaally or satisftctorily exercise
their discretion upon it.
This being the exact -tote of the circumstances,
lie, however, should think it proper ror the Mllll*.
tens of the Crown to exiilaiii the sems of the Go-
vernment upon this circumstance—so.d although
an occasion somewhat similar otsrutreil two years
ago, and another °remains in 1815, yet he had
never felt so anxious as is, the present. But, what-
ever may be the result of the proposed arrange-
ment, he should feel that he did not art a molly
loan, /Nil lie not avow his own intentions upon
the subject, mid the grounds upon which he had
founded them. It *mild he lire, .arry for him,
Iw .psa•tiniug tlit. to tiro' their
ships' rerollectiois t.et . ...v•v:Plty
which the cottittry hsd surtaittell its November lost.
He might also remind their Lordships, that sifter the
first ebullition of personal feeling through the
mistiest, oil the death of the Princess Charlotte (for
every individual seemed to feel that event as a per-
sonal loss), the first question that each man pro-
posed to himself, or to others, was, how that
event affected the succession to the Thu of
this Empire I This questi.tit naturally occurred
from the very peculiar circuiust MCC'S of the case,
and Goon the stale of the Royal Family. His Ma-
jesty had been blessed by Providence with r nu-
merous progeny. Of the eleven serviving at the
death of the Princess Charlotte, it e hint issue; of
the Princes, the youngest was 44 years of age; and
of the Piineesses, none was under 40. These cur-
curnstasices rendered the subject of the succession
to the Throne extremely interesting, slid one to
which the Ministers of the Crown and the Parliament
should turn their uttention. The subject, too, it
should he remembered, hail been alluded to in the
Speech from the Throne, and Parlirment wits then
told that it hail been under conaideratiou. In the
Addresses in answer to the Speech, both Houses
expressed their satisfaction that the subject had not
been overlooked. He thought it his ditty to state
these circumstances, that the present measure
should not seem to come before Parliament ulicots-
meted with other consideratious of a political cha-
racter.

Or Saturday, the, Play or Tlw Alonniaineess.
On Monday, die Tragedy of King Riclsar', der Second.
'Mr. Kral, will shortly mate Isis first 'appearance as Iht.
rains, in a Tragedy founded on Marlowe's Play of The
Jew of Malls.

A Comic topers, in three acts, called The Lady of the
Manor, with new Music by Mr. Wok (the original Composer
of the Piece), is its active revival, rod will shortly be pro.
derv"

A new S.rin.Comie Operatic Bombastic Interlude, called
Amoroso, faint of Little Britain, is in Mumma', and will
be produced immediately.
Various oilier Novelties are in active preparation.

. IIIE.I7IIE.ROVA L. COrRNT.G.4IIDEN.

THIS EVENING, THURSDAY. 16.
will Iw :tetra (18th time) the new Mon& Drama of
ROB ROY NIACGREGOIt;
OR, AULD LANG SYNE.

sir Frederick VC,lll.n, Mr. F.certiiii; Raubleigh
Mr. Abbott; Francis °shill('hornet, Mr. Sinclair;
Oweit, Mr. Blanchard; Captain Thornton, Mr. Connor;
Rob Roy Marcrror Campbell, Mr. Marready; Gourd,
Mr. Tarty; thniii.h and Robert (Rob Roy's Snits), Mr.
Ruston Mistrr l'artile; Major Galbraith, Mr. Taylor;
&Mae Nicol Jirvie, Mr Liston ; Jobson, Mr. Simmons.
Thant yes Stephens; Mayne, Mrs. Stetting; Jane
micapior, Miss (Alpo; Kitty, Mrs. Bishop; Helen Mac-
gregor, Mrs Egerton.

To 1616 will he added (4ih time) a new Farce, called
11110'S 11Y FATHER?
The principal Characters by Mr. Emery, Mr. Liston, Mr.
Joan, Mr Dinning, Mrs. Gabby, and Miys
Bowl, 7,. ; Sec I l'rice, 3s. rid.—Pit, 3s. 8J ; Second
Prier, IL—Lower 2.. ; &cowl Price, ls.—Upper
Gri'key, Is.; Silvio' Primed.

Places for the Boxer to he taken of Mr. Brandon, at the
Box Office, I.l3rt•stlPut, from Teri till Four.
. _

A Private Ih a may br hail fur the Season, or Nightly, of
Mr. the Brix Office.
The ore. Peace of Who's toy Father? will be repeated
every Evening.
To.m.rrow, and no Toeslav, Rob Roy Macgregor; or,
Atoll Lana iNue.
Oa Salt:easy, the Opera of Guy Maanering; or, The
Gipsy 'v Prupt.ccy
on ‘i inlay, The Point of Honour—with Hark-gain
Collis. r Ihe Flying Island..

On Wednesday will be produced, fur the first time (will.
new Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations), • new Tragedy,
called Hellmann.; or, The Fall of Toots. Th• principal
Characters by Mr. C Kemble, Mr. Yuung, Mr. Al dy,
Er. T. and Miss O'Neill.

TUEATRE•ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE,
TRPRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1818.
THE Public ore most respectfully informed,
that Notice was sent to the Theatre last night, that
Mr. MATiIEWS was aulretiox under loilesposit . *limb
would PItt:YEN r his haviug the bulimic a PERFORM-
ING IHIB EVENING.

LAST WEEK OP THE THREE TALISMANS.
ROYAL CIRCUS AND SURREY THEATRE.
Frans I'KESKN•I' THURSDAY, Aprsl 16,
I 'ISIS Two following Ewenirigs) the Performances
wit: r"men,stee with (fourth time), a splendid Comic Mau-
tirmioatic Fortelle, in Tau Arts (Corroded nu aurirut Train-
Comedy, taken from the Italian by Sir Aston Cuckayne,)
sutler the tire of
TIIE DUKE AND THE DEVIL.
The Chas-mete re by Mr. Watkine, Mr. Leonard, Mr. Cor-
dell. Mr Clifford, Mr. Fitswilliam, Mr. Ridgway, Mr.
Howell, Mr. Sonia', Mr Kirby Mix. 1201101111 (60111 the
:iesree Ro) al, yo. kj, Mrs Smith (from the Theatre-Royal,
chelteoliam, and late of the Theatre Rotel. Covent-G'arilvii),
Brammitit (front the Olympic Theatre), their fourth
appearance en this Stage.
lii Act I. will he iutroilored a Duet (partly taken from
the Sr sit Melo,ltca:. by Mr. F.lzvrillhant and Mrs. Leonard.—
" 'rite Swale'', Love," by Mr. Lvoiraril.— Song,
'• ine by melt it external Sign," by Miss Beariroolit.—
t`oh2. " Vonoc. Carlo .0 bright," by Mrs. Leonard.—And a
et.lll,C PASOAN M iodic from the Opera of Gli brhiari per
a1;:tyle). 6, Ur. I:,;raiiiient.
to Act II Duet, .` No danger, my Love," by Mr.
iniaid mot NI•••• Beaumont —Song, "The Rorie of Al.
I• 1114111," by Mtg. Smith, ea originally sung by her at lime
'lbiestre Itiiyal, Covent-Girders—Finale, " The Duke and
the Devil."
In the rooms of the Piece will be exhibited a View of
the Gina al -Florence, a Tracau Palace, &C.
At.,rr %Oriels time;, an entirely new Ilturletta, in Twu
Acta, Intsuat el no Sinollett's 4-activated Kneel, called
I.AUNCEI.O IiREAVES.
Sir Laarreelot Greener, Mr. Ilualley; Aurelia Darnel,
'li SA
u sltrclt he added (224 time,) a Grand Mete-Dra.
nierie 113orletia Spectacle, Called
Tiii: lin: LETA LISNI A NS.
Knees It.; Pit 21.; Gallery IL—Half-Prier at Ha:f past
Kw"' for r•r• !loxes to be taken of Mr. Roomer, at time
111"11-04iice, mo er the Sta.:e.iloor of elw Thiatre (where 1., ce.
,al'iml•st•ant for the Se4POll octy le purchwall, and a prie.ite
,
L'". .4.mr 4 nizis ly'; and, Air the accommodation of
fmni lire 31 dial 4.111 of the rile/11, i4l the Bureau de Spmela-
tie,
We.trin Ho9'l i'irtgt•
boors open at Half-pain kive, to begin et Half.past Six
0,, Morulay torsi will he revived, fur N.% Ntzltts only, the
(1.1104 Traxte Spi-rimie of Coasteurnie and Valeria; ur, the
Lint of lime Cw.ar t.
Ir Rehearsal 11. 'I speedily to be prodoreil, for the fired
"lb. at Ala ito :1 Airs...idioms and Aolthliotta, the
zelrltraittl Rwles;m a 'the Guider Pippin; or, Paris or a
kerk,T.

From the Address the House hail learned the
state of the matter—that two treaties of inaoriage
were in progress of negociatiou ; but as it was 'possi-
ble that the marriage of another branch of the Royal
Family might, at no distant period, come under
their view, it would be acting more fairly towards
Parliament, to present the general ',nuclide upon
which it was the desire of the Prince Regent's Go-
wer 1111 l ent to act; and therefore it was that the two
cases were united together, although it would he
subsequently open to Parliament to exercise its
discretion upon each of them reiiratelv.—( Hear,
hear, hear, from the Opposition Bea dies.
Fle again should repeat, that Parliament was snore
fairly dealt with in having the general principle
laid before it, than in being required to consider
each point according to its particular bearings,
which it might possibly be inure for the conveni-
ence of Monsters to have proposed. Ile theft
stated that the Prince Regent's Minister. hail not
thought it unreasonable to 1"1`""c to Puthan►ent
that ale .dditional grant of 19,500/. a yeur should
he u►arle to the Duke of Clarence, so that his
Royal Highness's income should amount to 40,0001.
They hail not thought it unreasonable to grant to
the Duke of Cambridge 15,0001. a year, 'nuking
his Royal flightless's income to amount to the
whole to 30,000/; our did they think it unreason-
able that the Duke of Kent, in case of his mar-

ridge. should obtain a ** 'tar provision. They
hail ukap lilt it their duty to propose that the
Duke of Cumberland should receive a rimer-
!smiling iricrrase to his present establishment.
Daring now informed the Douse what hail been the
'Menthol. of the Govertittieri*, he Shull proceed
to state the grotonls on which they had been euter-
tallied. It had been thought proper to de,trogui-la
the Duke of Clarence from his Royal Brothers: for
although his Ru al Nimes% %cot not le-ir pre-
'owl/live to the.Tirruue, yet with reference to tie:

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Anrutinly be* Gaud &Anna nclo.d,nme, call, .1 Kniili
7,4411, Emperor td Chios; saint Hewed Comte Terrific
mite) up with much sontiern Innitnibeence.
thvr nets, In Its r lIr.I, liner h. Write an °pees ; Or,
ft" Dellthts Desswat,e Authorship. In which wsil be
""4,lerd the Itehrinail in it grain{ Musses, I/ennas, called
thr Ons Cousins-0n auJ tier Blill...1"•
4" Imelestiug ne,lhishly et.usts i'alitoininis is
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Prince Regent ant the Duke of York, who hav-
ing been long married, hail had rot offspring, the
Duke of Clarence might lie considered as not far
removed Irmo the soncessinit. %Yid) regard to this
coutingency. it was not unfair to look to the pre-
cedent of 1791, afforded by the mainage of the
1)oke of York. At that prriad toe I)iike of
Yoik could soot be supposed to st ird ',ear hi
the litt..cessirsii to the Throm• as the Doke of Oa-
real% doe+ at this moment ; f.r tit Shit time the
Prince of %If Its ..as ir•imirried, and moiler thirty
years of age. 11 r. Pot thought it sour unreason-
able to propose that 40,0e0L a year, including lie
Itegiment of Guards, should be granted to his
Royal Highness. At the distoinee nt tut:My-five
years, anti the great alteretiois that had since tithes,
place in the tel value of money, mid all ar-
ticles of consumption, it rhd not alspear to 111111 :it
all nureastmable to propose a ,iittilar
mom the Duke of Clarelice. Ile wad old enough
to remember the proceedings upon
the Duke of York's marriage, :ld 'Lough he
could not say that the proloased arratigereeist had
'missed without uppovitiou, yet the discussions on
that occasion were more remsrkable for the sup-
port given to the arrangement, than to any diffi-
culties it experienced. It was powerfully supported
by the idler-trinois individual at the head of the
Ministry, Mr. Pitt. loud, if 'possible, even still
inure ably supported fry him elm then stood at the
head of what will called the Opposition, Mr. Fox.
The principal gliebtiOn then agitated war, whether
Parliament bail not a right to learn the UritoUllt of
the Doke of York's i,,comoe derived from the Bi-
shop, lc of Osoiaboorglo ; but this proposal was power-
ftei!y cambric(' by Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox, who
Contendoal th it Parliament had nothing to 410 with
whatever cmidurnews the Princes might derive from
ally C try teller than England. Ile laid been at
that time particularly wrack with the propriety of
son oloservaiiont that fo II from Mr. Fox, that it mat-
tered not how 'Wend may lie the annual grant of
Parliament, molars a something considerable were
also granted by way of outfit, for without it, it
would be (ME -tilt for the illustrious personage
concerned 111 regulate his expenses. The Noble
Earl then alluded to the heartfelt joy lie hid felt
when he had to submit the timpani iiiii to Parlia-
ment on the Princess Charlotte's marriage. The
*turn of 60,000/. a year was thou voted, awl never
was vote none ge.,er, I. Tone case, however, he
arlisouledged, wa. Slut esseinially the stein:• its the
present —( leer, lieur, from the Opposition)—
but whatever difference had existed in the circiiiii-
stances, there was a corresponding ditfrrrnce in the
rmuuut proposed, fu; the forcer-s Charlotte lied
obtained G0i,004. ;Intl foul:. to 000/. load 'teen ?mg-
geoleti trio in.. Doke sit Cloo root e. Ile next all died
too P•e ow-rage of !Juke of Glouces,er, mid
comidintelited His highness upon the delicacy he
&Niko eil 111 Ilia 10:11er1114 any application to be
made too Parliaisserit for a:s iiicrease to his establish-
ment. Ni, pert.ett einslll feel re than be did what
was clue to the highly respo-ctable character of the
I)iike of Gloucester—(t:ries of Hear, heir, front
all ports if Elie !louse)—hut to Lis foe the pre-
emits vote of Parliament was to be taken into com
iideration ; and had not tile Duke of Gloucester
eujoyed the *0:11 of f;-eta the Consolidated
Fund, lie should have found it his duty to have ad.
violet{ his Highness to have made Ito applicatiott to
Parliament for an ioicresooed provi-ion lio the view
lie had of the subject lie armed upon the general
principle of the soreraoity of contoibuting by every
memos to Ilse support of the splendwir of the
Throne ; and with that view it 11141tered mot to him
how tar ally member of the lio)al Family might
differ 1. kiln in his polowal princip!es ; he
would even go further, and add, that w fulfil-
lung Lid duty, as a corofideronal adviser of the
C:roovii, lie sl Id not feel lit iisrlf notion-need
on regard to this mutter, eve.. by tile per-
sonal consittet of any braitch of the Royal K.l-
- lie hail very siers.ly lautteloted that not long
since the oilier Iloous of Parhomovitt load tit:night
proper to r, jest a proposition made to (loan by the
Nlinisters of the Crown for au ii.creased poovisioni to
his Itoyal Highness the Duke of ettoriberlaild„ Ile
feared that the tleciSOoll 011 111:111,C111.111i1 hurl heels
influenced by some eirtmerros imirre,sioils, for lie
Could see no reason why time Duke of Cumberland
should have been Marked loy such it stigma.--
He defied any individual to urge any thing against
that illustrious Duke to pistil). soicli a proceeding,
sir against the Illustrious Princess to whom Ise hail
been tooted. —(llear, hear.)—Siner her arrival in
this ctosolitey her conduct had been dOstiongui.hed by
every circumstance calculated to armoire the um.
venial esteem of the people, and mitortummely sloe
had been, at the time of the decision of the otlwr
House of Parham. sit, so little known to env of V's
Members, that lie could not imagine how any circum-
stance co iiii ectsal wills her itioyal flightiess's name
could have exercised oily influence no their judg-
ments.—(/leer, hear.)—Tlir Noble Earl then
adverted to the Meals* for' delaving the iacreascoll
establishment, and stated, that there worild be
available fur that purpose, (Ise boom of 50,000/.
a.year, which hail been appropriated to defray the
Prince of Wales's debts, sod which would, no
about a year rod a half, be free far any other ap-
plicaf . There was alga a aunt of tO.OOO/. a-year
that had fallen, in t:onsetpietice of the lamented
delth of the Princess Cloarlot,e; lintl these two to.
griller would equal the alumna of the proposed
oarromgement. Such had bees' his f:elings ton tins
occasion, front which lie dill not *Neale to depart,
awl for winch Ise was de +' 4of Isting Coll.lllerell
xs 1111111 e re/1011%1111e. Different impressions, how-
ever, seemed to have beers 41.loptrd by others ; and
the Abominatess persons concerned did mot wish to
press Parliament her ttttt re than, on a fair conside-
ration of the circumstance., might be judged pro.
per for them. For the Goverseinwilt he should
say, that they wool,' soot lie dissatisfied if Par-
liameirt acceded to their propositivo fur half
of toe ort4imil arrange-merit. Ts.. Noble Earl
1/lell condoled by moving an Address, thanking
Ina Royal ss to: his most gracious cotninu-