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THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT

LONDON,
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1822.

We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday,
which contain some interesting intelligence rela-
tive to the Greeks. Admiral HALGAN has re-
turned to Toulon from Athens, whiCh he had
left only three weeks before. At that period the
Greeks were besieging the Acropolis, of which
the Turks still retained possession, and it was
feared that the shells of the besiegers would
complete the ruin begun by the Venetians some
centuries ago, and accomplish the total destruc-
tion of the Parthenon. Admiral HALGAN has
brought with him to France the basso relievos
which adorned the monument called the
Lanthorn of Demosthenes.
An article from Leghorn, of the 20th, states,
on the authority of a letter from Greece, that
the Greeks have opened two loans on the secu-
rity of the lands lately belonging to the Turks,
which have been confiscated, and that moreover
sales of national property have been determined
on, to meet the extraordinary expences of the
ensuing year. The vigour and perseverance
displayed by the Greeks in establishing their in-
dependence is highly gratifying, and holds out
the prospect of ultimate success.

The letter from Greece, above alluded tot
after giving some details respecting the ner
territorial division of the parts of Greece deli-
iered from the Ottoman yoke, furnishes the fol-
lowing intelligence :
" The Executive Power has been compelled to announce two
voluntary loans, and the activity shewn in subscribing W fill them
will prove thwmount of the confidence which it enjoys. The first-
loan which has been opened is for 5,000,000 piastres divided
into small sums. The interest is to be 8 per cent. per annum'
payable half yearly, and secured by a mortgage upon the do-
mains of the State, the greater and the best part of the lands
which belonged to the Turks having been confiscated for the
profit of the State after the destruction or flight of the enemy
As this loan, divided into small sums, cannot from its nature
be very speedily filled, a second has been opened for 2,000,000
piastres, divided into shares of 100, 75, 50, and 25,000 piastre'-
At the same time the patriotism of the Greeks has been excited
to make voluntary donations.

" It is stated that the extraordinary expences for the en-
suing year will amount to upwards of 10,000,000 piastres,whiel
must be covered by loans, and the sale of State domains, for no
authority has been yet established for the levying of regular im-
posts, and it is not to be expected that order can be established
before the end of the year. The Greek States owe to the aeti'
vity and knowledge of their new President the success of their
enierprizes. By his personal consideration and his presence at
Hydra, he hastened the fitting out of the Greek fleet, which,
as all the accounts state, has so completely defeated and dis-
persed the fleet of the enemy, that it will not probably attempt
to re-appear in the Egean Sea. By land they have recently
obtained two victories, one in Eubea, whete they took Karl''
stos, and the other at Spercliios, where the Turkish Com-
mandant, Mehemed Pacha, was killed. It was in consequence
of the last victory that the insurrection spread in Thessaly and
Macedonia.

" If the accounts which we have are confirmed, the Turkish-
plan of campaign for the Peloponnesus is completely deranged;
for, at the same moment that their fleet disembarked troops at
Lepanto and at Patras, Chourschid Pacha was to have ad-
vanced from Albania, and the Pacha of Salonica to pass Tiler'
mopyhe, but the fleet has been defeated, the enemy is attacked
at Salonica by land and sea, and the Greeks have prevented
Chourschid Pacha from moving, by reinforcing, with the e°l9
of Colochoone, the Albanians and the Souliotes who are op-
posed to him."
The Moniteur of Monday contained a R 9931
Ordonnance, erasing the name of Baron Louis,
one of the ExLMinisters, from the list' of Mini"
sters of State (Ministers out of office,' .but re,
taming the title, with a pension of 200
francs), on account 'of some disturbances r"
ported to have taken place in .his Depart:
ment, at which he was present. It apPears
by an article in Tuesday's Constitutionel,
that Baron Louis was erased from the Ilst, °f
Ministers of State, because at the late election
he and several others had insisted on the righ_t.
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stance, through the report of a spy, communi-
cated it to the superior Authorities, who imme-
diately determined on the Baron's expulsion.
Such is the only explanation which has yet been
given of this mysterious affair, and we must
°bserve that it is an ex pante statement.
We have given further extracts from the
I;'rencli Journals in a preceding column ; and in
the same place will be found some articles from
11russels and Frankfort Papers, which have ar-
rived since our last.

FIZENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, MAY 14.
Fire per Cents.
Lowest BB f. sc.

Closed
Exchange on London—One Month 35 f. 15 C.
Three Months 25 f. —c.

A Spanish Mail, with Madrid Papers to the
7th of May inclusive, has arrived, but their con.
tens have been in a great measure anticipated by
"r previous extracts from the French Journals.
Ati important piece of information was commu-
okated in the sitting of the Cortes of the
25th of April, when a Report of the Committee
°4 Public Credit was read. Ou this proceeding
SL "R FERRER took occasion to allude to the pre-
'alence of opinions unfavourable to public credit,
which, he observed, were the more unjust,as of all
the Rations of Europe Spain presented the best
Securities for its debts. This observation induced
Senor CANGA to rise, who informed the Cortes
that the Committee appointed to consider the
state of the national debt, would prove that debt
t° be far less than exaggerated accounts had
lately made it. Senor FERREIt spoke again in
oufirmation of Senor CANGA'S statement, and

said that several citizens, of whom he was one, had,
1)7 a representation to the last Cortes, proved
that the debt, which was supposed to amount to
14,000 millions, did not, at the most, exceed
f3°°o millions of reals (60 millions sterling).—
The accounts previously received through France
of the defeat and dispersion of the insurgent
banditti in Biscay and Murcia are fully con-
firmed by the Madrid Papers.

NEW ENGLAND COFFEE-HOUSE, MAY 17.
vLir ERPOOL, MAY 15.—The James Cropper, from New
°r/E, is off this port. Letters, &c. will be forwarded to-
rnorrow.

[From Baltimore, April 51
The brig Torpedo arrived yesterday in 13 days from St. Bar-
V`lvGiornew's, states that the Colombia?: brig of war, Colonel
CEDER, was brought in there; the sailors had mutinied ;
three or four had been killed, and seven or eight wounded.
There
tv ere Were fifty persons on board the above vessel, and had
Ken three prizes previous to the mutiny.

[Extract of a Letter from New York, April B.]
" It is calculated here, that since we have acknowledged the
e4°lnbian Republic our commerce with that country will be
. ,er
Y extensive, and prove highly favourable to our manufac-
tures-',

thAt a period when so much suffering exists in
me country, and when there is an universal corn-
-44,1" of an insufficient market for taking off the
th-""clant products of the various branches of
•,,i,be national industry, there are few persons to
N,,,,ni the residence of great numbers of our
aa-,,4lthY countrymen on the Continent has not
ferared to be an evil that required the inter-
11,11!tice of the Legislature. The large sums
th Ich are thus drawn off from the circulation of
doe, country, and the great amount of British
sPlcultural and other produce, which is in con-
PLl„,,tlence left unconsurned on the hands of the
to auocers, have had a manifest and a material
aitligencyto aggravate those difficulties with which
classes of the people have had to contend.
lih's no doubt a delicate matter to controul the
I;vert‘,
of individuals, as to the quarter of the
is -:,"4 in which they may choose to reside. It
ao ''s°s however, an indisputable public evil of
g magnitucte, when a great portion of the
Stentdu of the country is drained off to other
th-'es) by persons who seek to evade those bur-
ensa at home which have been incurred for the
trtirntection of that very property from which they
ernselves draw their resources. Ireland pre-
sents a sad and instructive example of the mis-
plevnus consequences which spring from the
b'actices of absentees; and though there cannot any fear that those practices will ever become
tiinfjuriously extensive as respects England, yet
b IS country is entitled to a degree of protection
11-I.°Portionate to the extent of the mischief which
I.'s already actually occurred.—Sir THOMAS
seLIIIHRIDGE, we are glad to observe, pre-
ti,ted a Petition to the House of Commons
ialls" night on the subject " from a quarter
s every sense entitled to the highest re-
pPrect." The principle of restraining and even
l"ting residence abroad, in cases which are
I,:trirnental to the public welfare, has been long
cngnized by the laws which prohibit and ren-
tier Penal the emigration of artisans and media-
" to foreign states. Surely, when a starving
eritnlan is not allowed to seek subsistence in a
emntry where his industry and skill would meet
PkYtnent and reward, it cannot be deemed
CeSSiVeIY severe that a tax should be imposed
riPoon those, Who, either for pleasure or from eco-
vT y, think fit to expend those resources abroad
are essential to the well-being of their
I,lla_ntri' cv
cao
.—lt is really painful to read the
I,°, sense uttered by Mr. RICARDO, when from
'htsatvicsionary theoretical principles be calculates
England will be a most inviting residence
rin,,r_oaull descriptions of persons, as soon as his
;17'4 stheories have rendered the cost of living
ri
QuElt
we Cheap CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
ps_ are sorry to see, has been seduced by
"e promised blessings of cheapness which Mr.

RICARDO holds out to him! Scotland is all
cheaper country to live in than England, and
Ireland again is still cheaper than Scotland!
But who ever thought that the mass of the
people, or any one class of the people, lived
better in Scotland or Ireland than in Eng-
land ? --We cannot too often repeat that
Ireland affords, in her present unhappy situa-
tion, the most salutary lessons to Statesmen, if
they will but trace up her calamities to their
real practical causes,—if they will but regard
her as a beacon, warning them from wrecking
the remaining interests of the Empire on the rocks
upon which her welfare has been destroyed !
Living is cheap in Ireland, because Ireland is
poor! It is also cheap in many countries of
Europe, and in the wilds of Africa and America,
for the same reason. How can Mr. RicAnno
expect that his cheapness will improve the con-
dition of England, when he calculates that in
order to arrive at that cheapness the value of
her best lands must be deteriorated, while her
inferior lands must go altogether out of cultiva-
tion ?--When rents shall have fallen,—when all
incomes shalt be diminished.—when the condi-

tion of the labourers of England shall be the con-
dition of the labourer's of Ireland (to which they
are already rapidly declining),—when with dimi-
nished productio❑ there will still be excessive
supply, on account of the still greater diminution
of consumption,—then England will also enjoy
the full blessings of the cheapness of profound
poverty ; and the sun of her prosperity will have
set for ever !

Since writing the above, we have received the
subjoined Letter :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Slit—Observing that the subject respecting " Absentees"
was brought before the House of Commons yesterday by Sir
THOMAS LETHBRIDGE, allow IBC to state to you—ln the
year 1635 a Proclamation was issued to restrain the great resort
of the Nobility and Gentry to the City of London, which was
found to impoverish the Country, and increase the infection of
the City. An information was exhibited in the Star Chamber
against 7 Lords, 60 Baronets and Knights, and against nearly
100 Gentlemen, for non-observanCe of this Act of State. A
similar Proclamation at this time, to restrain Emigrationa,
though it might be an unpopular measure with a few, would,
I think, in its consequences, be an extremely salutary one with
the many. The number of Absentees from their native coun-
try isalmost incredible ; and the escape from all taxation ,:rhat-
ever by so many of these makes it of course fall the heavier on
those who remain behind. Ireland never would have been in
her present deplorable condition, had she not been deserted, as
she has been, ever since the Union, by her natural protectors—
the Nobility and Gentry.
I remain, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
141, Jermyn-street, St. James's. H. D.

The Petition of the Magistrates, acting in and
for the Parish of St. James, Westminster, which
we have inserted this day, is such a curious in-
stance of a disposition to surrender power, as
is highly honourable to their principles and
character. The conduct of certain Brewers,
in• possessing themselves of Public-houses, and
their influence over Magistrates in procuring
Licences for those houses and refusing them
to others, is a very serious evil, disgraceful
to the country, and injurious to the people.
—The vast fortunes which have been acquir-
ed by Brewers shew that they could well
afford their Beer at a much lower rate than
they charge it to the Public, while, at the same
time, the quality of the Beer has been much de-
teriorated, and if report says true, ingredients
have been mingled in the composition, of a very
unwholesome description. As Porter is the chief
beverage of the middling and lower classes, it is
absolutely incumbent on the Government to
adopt some measure, not only to prevent the
monopoly of the Brewers, but to restrain their
avarice, and secure a nutritious article of such
extensive consumption, in which the general wel-
fare of the community is essentially involved.—
The Petition is temperate and respectful, and
is supported by such solid facts and weighty ar-
guments as, we trust, cannot fail to have their
due influence upon the Legislature.

The negociation with the South Sea Company
for the Pension Loan having, as it appears,
failed, in consequence of the deficiency of sub-
scriptions to make up the amount required as a
deposit by Government, there are various ru-
mours in circulation as to the course still intend-
ed to be pursued, in order to carry the project
into execution. In the absence of authentic in-
formation on the subject, we shall not at present
notice any of the vague statements which are
afloat. We earnestly hope, however, that the
scheme will be found practicable, even if it
should be effected on terms apparently disadvan-
tageous to the Public ; for there can be no doubt
that national advantages, much greater even than
the whole pecuniary amount of the transaction,
would result from the reduction of taxes, without
any diminution of expenditure, which the execu-
tion of this wise financial operation would enable
Government to effect

It is said that the idea of enabling Country
Banks to be founded on the principle of the
Scotch Banks, and of empowering them to make
payments in Bank of England paper (the con-
currence in which, on the part of the Bank of
England, was to be purchased by an extension
of its charter) has been abandoned. The prin-
cipal object intended to be accomplished by this
measure was to increase the circulating medium,
to the diminution of which, from the supposed
effects of Mr. PEEL'S Bill, the agricultural dis-
tress and the general difficulties of the people
have been popularly attributed. It is now)
however, alleged that Government have ascer-
tained that the Country Bankers do not require
any facilities for the extension of their transac-
tions ; but that, on the contrary, they possess
ample means of affording all the pecuniary ac-
commodation for which satisfactory securities
can be offered them. If this representation he
correct, it confirms the reasonings by which we
endeavoured to shew that the diminution of the
currency, or rather of the medium of exchange,
was pot the cause of the distress or of low prices ;
but that, on the contrary, the low prices had caused
the contraction of the currency. From all the re-
flection which we have been able to give the sub-
ject, we are confirmed in this opinion. In the
currency we include not only the metallic money
of the Government, but the paper of the Bank of
England, the paper of country Bankers, and the
private paper of individuals. The medium of

exchange comprizes not only all these, but book
credit. The Government money, therefore, forms
only a part of the aggregate medium ; and any
diminution of the Government money would
have been instantly compensated by an increase
of private paper and credit, if the country had
been in a prosperous condition.

NAVIGATION BILL.—It is now generally un-
derstood, that several material alterations are to
be made made in this Bill, and that its provisions
are to be confined to the European Trade only.
We are glad that even this concession has been
made by the Board of Trade, but it would give
us and the Country greater satisfaction if the
Bill was abandoned altogether—or at all events
until the next session ; for we are convinced that
the more time there is afforded for reflection on this
speculative and hazardous measure, the stronger
will be the objections to it.

WEST INDIA INTERCOURSE.-This ill-timed
and unnecessary measure, we hope, will also be
postponed for another year. It will afford an
opportunity to the British North American Co.
lonists to be heard against it, and who will skew
that the duties proposed to be imposed in the
Sugar Colonies on American produce, will afford
no protection whatever to the British Colonists—
whilst Cie measure will altogether exclude from
this trade the British Shipping.

We have the satisfaction to state, that the
Irish papers received this morning do not contai❑
any accounts of fresh outrages. Neither, how-
ever, do they communicate any further surrender
of arms by the peasantry. The intelligence of
the munificent subscription opened in London
has however been received in Ireland with joy
acrd gratitude, and will do more, we trust, to-
ward disarming the population of their virulent
passions and antipathies, than the terrors of the
law itself.—The further relief about to be given
by Government, through the employment of a
part of the peasantry in the distressed districts,
will also, no doubt, have very happy effects.

Government have purchased one thousand tons of potatoes at
Leith for three half-pence per stone, to be sent to Glasgow, and
from thence to Dublin, where they are to be put on board canal
boats, and forwarded to this city, and other parts of the South ;
and should an equal quantity be required in addition thereto, it
will be furnished. To such as have not the means of paying
for them, they will be delivered gratis. This ready supply, it
is to be hoped, will have the effect of counteracting monopolists,
who may have taken advantage of the present distresses to en-
hance the prices of provisions, and thereby acquire profit at
the expence of public misery. It has been truly said, that the
poor peasantry owe to the Government every thing.—( Cork
Mercantile Chronicle, May 13.)

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
This may well be called the age of improvement. Vaccine
inoculation, steam engines, gas lights, and many ether modern
discoveries have had their admirers, but all of them have con-
ferred signal benefits on the human race. A new class of philo-
sophers have, however, within the last week arisen in the City,
who are likely to eclipse, by their deeds, all the knowledge yet
acquired in the 'known and unknown world. They call them-
selves Amateurs of Finance. Their professed object is to ex-
pend abundance of money, without having any visible means
for repaying it, and the only difficulty they at present feel is,
" how they can best induce the world to patronise their virtu-
ous exertions."—The Minister of the British Empire, rich in
resources and in public virtue, has proposed a plan for raising
money, which has given astonishment to a great portion of his
Majesty's subjects, and has consequently created much anxiety
in the minds of the modern Amateurs of Finance. Many of
these Gentlemen have waited on the Minister, but the result of
the different conferences has been equally unsatisfactory to both
parties. The Minister wanted money, and the modern Finance
Philosophers wanted knowledge; and both were equally disap-
pointed. The South Sea Company was unable to make auy
offer, and thus their expected profit on agency has been frus-
trated by the good sense of the public. It is now reported,
that the Bank of England has agreed to lend the Government
two millions farther, at three per cent., and which sum must
be added to the already enormous debt of England. If this
system of expediency be sanctioned by the House of Commons,
gloomy indeed is the prospect for England. To put off the
evil hour, even for one short year, seems to be the principle of
the present Administration—to frighten and to humbug the
Country Gentlemen, appears at present to be their only object.
In the City, however, where every man must look to himself,
their quackery has little or no effect. The Fundholders trust
to the well-known honour and resources of the :Zmpire, and
pay little attention to the shifts which the present splendid Ad-
ministration is obliged to practise in raising money to support
their extravagance.—Their absurd negociations for a Loan
have no effect on the public securities, and the reason is very
simple—" they are known."—Letters from Buenos Ayres
quote wheat as high as fourteen dollars a fanega of 2001 b., and
American flour has risen there from 6 to 17 dollars a barrel.
The holders of foreign grain still hope that their interests will
be attended to in the new Corn. Bill, and that permission will
be granted them to export flour, made from their property, now
perishing under the King's lock.—Four respectable establish-
ments in the Baltic trade have suspended payment—another
proof of the truth of Lord LONDONDERRY'S declared opinion
of the prosperous state of trade.—(,Morning Chronicle.)

Yesterday the Marquis OfLONDONDERRY. Mr.
PEEL, the Duke of WELLINGTON, and the Earl
of LIVERPOOL had audiences of the KING.
The Duke of YORK visited his MAJESTY
yesterday.—Yesterday morning the Duke and
Duchess of CLARENCE and Suite left Bushy Park
on their way to Walmer Castle, and proceeded
to Sittingbourne, in Kent, where their Royal
Highnesses slept last night.—Yesterday the
Princess AUGUSTA rode in her carriage in the
Rides of the Park, &c.
[Extract of a letter from Bombay, dated Oct. 26.1—" His
Majesty's ship Liverpool has arrived here from Muscat.—
We are sorry to observe that the crew have suffered severely
from the excessive heats that pervade the Persian gulf at this
season of the year, but which have been this year more in-
tense than usual. In addition to several seamen who have died,
we are sorry to include no less than three of her Lieutenants,
and the Surgeon ; the names as follow :—Lieutenants FEN-
WICK, GERRIDO, and BELL, with Mr. ALEXANDER, the
Surgeon. Several officers attached to the troops at Kishmi have
also died ; viz. Lieut. LE BLANC, of the Ist batt. 12th Regi-
ment; Lieutenants FonnEs and RrND, of the European Re-
giment. The weather for these some days past has been
close and oppressive during the day, but the nights have af-
forded the usual Elephanta squalls which indicate a change
of season. A considerable quantity of rain has fallen, and
reports from the Uplands assure us that the grain crops
have been placed in a state of security by this timely
supply of rain. The cholera has made, and continues to
make, most dreadful and alarming ravages at Bussorah : in
fifteen days 14,000 people were carried off at Bushire, 20 per
day are dying, and the number increasing; it has extended to
Kozroom, and will no doubt soon make its progress' all over
Persia; the consequence is, numerous families have quitted
their houses; no business is done—the Bazaars remained
closed and unsupplied, and a gloom the most dismal pervades
throughout."
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-This morning, as two
young women were walking in St. George's-fields,
a cow that was passing with a calf suddenly at-
tacked one of them, and wounded her so severely
in the side that she died in a short time after.—
The same
,cow, in proceeding over Blackfriars
Bridge, attacked a young woman, and wounded
her severely. Surely, as the vicious temper of
the animal must have been known to the driver,
he deserves some punishment for his want of cau-
tion and humanity.

DEPARTURES.-Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Carroll, from Wel-
beck-street, for Brighton ; Wynne Aubrey, Esq. from the
Lincoln Hotel, Manchester-street, for Brighton.

• FASHIONABLE PARTIES.
The Duke of Sussex has issued cards of invitation for an
entertainment on Sunday next at Kensington Palace.
The Rev. Sir C. Jervoise, Bart. entertained a distinguished
party yesterday at his house in Hanover-square.
The Earl and Countess of Darnley entertained a distinguished
party yesterday at their house in Beikeley-square.
Lord Arden entertained a large party to dinner yesterday at
his house in St. James's-place.
Lord and Lady King gave an elegant entertainment on Wed-
nesday, to Earl Grosvenor, Lord and Lady' Ebrington, Lord
Suffield, Lord Stanley, Honourable Mr. and Mrs. Agar Ellice,
Mr. Luttrel, Rev. Sydney Smith, at th± house in Do-
ver-street.

Yesterday, the Earl of Yarmouth gave a sumptuous dinner
at his house in Seymour-place, to his Royal Highness the Duke
of York, his Highness Prince Esterhazy, Marquis of Anglesea,
Count Lieven, Lord William Bentinck, Earl Gower, and a large
party of Noblemen and Gentlemen.
Yesterday, the Earl and Countess Bathurst gave a grand
dinner at their house in Great Stanhope-street, Park-lane, to
her Royal Highness Princess Esterhazy, the Duke of Wel-
lington, the Marchioness of Londonderry, Earl and Countess
of Mansfield, Countess Lieven, Count and Countess Munster,
Viscount and Viscountess Granville, &c.
A ',MACK'S Ball on Wednesday evening was most brilliantly
attended. Dancing commenced about eleven o'clock, and con-
tinued with great spirit till past four yesterday morning. There
were present upwards of 400 persons of the first distinction and
fashion. -

On Wednesday afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Crown
Prince and Princess of DENMARK, and a numerous suite in
their train, arrived in four carriages, at No. 65, \Vimpole-
street, which house has been lately taken, and fitted up in a
most magnificent style for their reception, their Royal High-
nesses having declined accepting the proffers of his Majesty,
in order to live as private as possible during their residence in
this country.

P 0 E T Jt Y.

THE GRAVE.
I love to muse, when none are nigh,
Where yew tree branches wave,
And hear the winds, with softest sigh,
Sweep o'er the grassy grave.
•
It seems a mournful music, meet
To soothe a lonely hour;
Sad though it be, it is more sweet
Than that from Pleasure's bower.
I know not why it should be sad,
Or seem a mournful tone,
Unless by flan the spot be clad
With terrors not his own.
To nature it seems just as dear
As earth's most cheerful site •
The dew-drops glitter there as clear,
The sun-beams shine as bright.
The showers descend as softly there
As on the loveliest flowers ;
Nor does the moonlight seem more fair
On beauty's sweetest bowers.
Aye! but within—within there sleeps
One, o'er whose mould'ring clay
The loathsome earth-worm winds and creeps,
And wastes that form away.'
And what of that? the frame that feeds
The reptile tribe below,
As little of their banquet heeds,
As of the winds that blow.

BERNARD BARTON.

KING'S TIIEATRE.-The Farewell Benefit of
Madame CAMPORESE attracted a very numerous
audience last night, to the regret of the frequen-
ters of this Theatre, and to the higher musical
circles, as she possesses great talents, both as a
Singer and an Actress. She has also endeared
herself to many distinguished friends by her mo-
dest unassuming manners, and the uniform pro-
priety of her private conduct. The Opera which
she brought forward on this occasion has been
much admired abroad : it is intitled Otello, and is
of course founded upon the Tragedy of our great
Dramatic Bard. It was, no doubt, impossible to
compress the chief incidents, and all the charac-
ter of the Play, into an Opera of only two Acts;
but such an abridgement has been made as
still to secure a very strong interest in the
story ; and in justice to the composer, Rossnii,
it must be stated that his music is admirably
adapted to the sentiments, and is appropriate,
touching, and expressive. We have not room to
detail the variations from the original fable, but
we may truly observe that the whole forcibly
interests the feelings. CAMPORESE was highly
interesting as Desdemona ; CuaioNi was Otello ;
PLACCI, logo; BEGREZ, Roderigo; CARTON!, Bra-
bantio,now named Minn.(); and Signora CARADORI,
the Emilia. They all exerted themselves with zeal,
evidently animated by friendship, and the whole
was so gratifying, and so well received, that it
will doubtless be repeated with great advantage
to the Theatre.

ARGYLL 11003,15.-The third of Madame CA.•
TALANI'S series of Concerts, which had been
delayed on account Of her indisposition, took
place on Wednesday. There was a great struggle
to procure admission on the opening of the doors,
and the room was immediately filled. The ex-
ertions of this wonderful performer displayed .no
marks of her recent indisposition. Her vocal
powers are certainly much beyond any that have
been witnessed in this country, and she was rap-
turously applauded. BEGREZ and KELLNER were
the other vocal performers. YANIEWIEZ, with
hisjviolin, and NICHOLSON, with his flute, agree-
ably diversified the general entertainments. We
know not who was the architect of these rooms,
but in justice to him it must be said that they
are admirably calculated for music, vocal and
instrumental.

THE ABBE SICARD.—The funeral of this truly
good man took place at Paris or) Monday last. His remains
were attended by a military escort, Mcipbers of the Institute,
and the Deaf and Dumb Pupils of the deceased. Two days
before his death, he addressed these words to the Abbe Gou-
delin, the Director of the Deaf and Dumb School of Bordeaux :
—" My dear Brother—Ready to die, I bequeath to you my
dear children—l bequeath their souls to your religion, their
bodies to your care, their intellectual faculties to your en-
lightened capacity. Perform this noble task, and I die
tranquil."
Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, the whole
of the East India Company's troops, consisting
of upwards of 650 men, paraded in the yard of
their New-street warehouse, in full regimentals.
At nine o'clock they marched off, under the corn."
' mand of Colonel ASTELL, to the fields in the
neighbourhood of Hackney, where they_ had a
grand field-day.

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A SHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

Lord John Hay and Captzin Hay ; Sir Francis and Lady
Wood ; W. I'. Honeyy.-ood, Esq., M.P. ; J. H. Smith, Esq.
DI.P.