The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-11 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

DRURY-LANE.---MiSS GREMANI, from the Bel-
fast Theatre, made her first appearance on the
London boards last night at this Theatre, in the
part of Lady Teazle. Her person is command-
ing, and of course better adapted to the tragic
line than to comedy ; and there were many
points in her acting which seemed to shew that
her talents have a natural tendency to the former.
—However, she is likely to prove a respectable
actress in both provinces of the drama. There
seemed to be something too laboured in her sar-
casms and general humour, but the whole of her
performance manifested good sense, feeling, and
a knowledge of the business of the stage. She
was chiefly successful in the scene with Joseph
in the library, and after the fall of the screen.
She was very well received, and now she has
surmounted the terror of appearing for the first
time before the awful tribunal of London criti-
cism, we anticipate more ease and freedom in
her future exertions. ELLisTozr- displayed all
his bustling spirit in Charles, and was warmly
applauded. MUNbEN certainly spared no pains
to render Sir Peter peculiarly prominent. Joseph
has seldom been supported with such good sense
and characteristic truth as by COOPER. The
play was otherwise well supported by HARLEY,
PENLEY, LOVEDAY, &c. &c. The comedy walk
succeeded by the new romance of Almoran and
Hamel, which, in all its mechanical agency, now-.
proceeds with smoothness and effect, and'whicil
was very much applauded.
Co VENT GARD EN.—LISTON, who had been
absent some time from this Theatre, last night
resumed his station in the part of Tony Lumpkin,
which he sustained with his usual quaint and
original humour, and in which he deservedly re-
ceived great applause. He met with a most
flattering reception on his entrance. Mrs.
DAVISON was announced for the part of Miss
ilarcleastle, but it was performed by Mrs.
CHATTERLEY with spirit. feeling, and humour.
JONES made a good stand in Young Marlow, a
character in which he has often appeared.—
FAWCETT'S Hardcastle is well-conceived, and
always effective.--The same may be said of the
Mrs. Hardcastle of Mrs. DA VENPORT. The
splendid new Melo-drame of Cherry and Fair
Slur, which followed, increases in public favour,
as might be expected from so grand and pictu-
resque a representation.

Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE has met with such suc-
cess in his theatrical trip to Edinburgh as we
should deem extraordinary, in the present dege-
nerate state of public taste, if his abilities did
not fully warrant the favourable reception which
he has experienced in the enlightened capital of
1 Scotland. Asa proof of his success in that city, his
1 engagement has been renewed fora few nights more.
He has appeared in Hamlet, Romeo, Othello, and
Benedick, and in all received universal and warm
applause. The audience on each night was much
more numerous than has been usual in Passion
Week. As this classical actor, for so he may he
fairly styled, on account of his education, know-
ledge, and experience, is still in the prime of
life, we may reasonably anticipate some advance
towards the return of the sterling British Drama,
under his Managerial auspices.
MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c,

DEAL, APRIL 10.--Wind N.E.---Came down from the
River last night and sailed the Duncombe, Holt, for Quebec.
Arrived the Argus Deal Pilot cutter, from a cruize to the west-
ward ; and remain in the Downs with his Majesty's ship
Severn.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL lo.—Wind F.N.E.--Sailed his
Majesty's ship Driver, for Africa; and Bengal Merchant,
Brown, for Madras and Bengal.. Came into harbour the Alfred
and Defiance transports to be paid off.
SWANSEA, APRIL 9.—The ship Prince Regent, of Bristol,
was at St. John's, which vessel had picked up Samuel Taylor,
and four of the crew of the brig 'l'asso, of Newcastle, from
Miramichi to London, having been struck with a heavy sea and
dismasted, and the vessel abandoned.
The Adelaide, Hendenburg, of Newry, is lost off Hunts-
holmen. The Utica, Roose, of Alicant, is lost off Rodekens.

ROYAL NAvY.—The King George the Fourth, of 120 guns,
is speedily to be launched at Chatham. This fine ship is built
with a round stern, and said to be the handsomest ship of the
line in the Royal Navy.

VIZ LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS' Fltatit THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

April 11, 1812.

[MORNING POST.]

. , .
The Foreign-Intelligenc- which arrived yes-
terday is of very little importance. From France
there is nothing new. The Hamburgh Papers
contain a long story of •_
a Turkish Embassy to
Fez, the capital of Morocco, with presents, to a
considerable amount. The contents of the latter
-Which accompanied these presents are not stated ;
but from the alacrity with which the African
-Monarch is represented to have signified that
he was ready, and God would help," it is more
than probable that the communication related to
the critical state in which the Ottoman Porte
fijund itself in regard to the threatened hostility
ofaussia. At all events, its importance is de-
cisiVely indicated by . the departure of the Em-
peror's two sons, accompanied by the Ambas-
sador of the Porte and several Officers of State
for Egypt, whence they were to proceed to Con-
srantinople.
[MORNIG CHRONICLE.]
' the two questions that have lately occu-
pied the'i'public mind respecting Russia and
namely, whether the Russian Ultimatlith
illl5 or has not been rejected, and whether, in

case of rejection, war must necessarily follows,—
'the former is now universally allowed to be
settled, for no one doubts that the Russian U/ti-
:Malitin was peremptorily rejected on the 28th
February. A detailed account has been given in
letter from Pera of the progress of the nego-
Ciation from the first Declaration of the Reis
Effendi, in answer to the Ultimatum, to its
final rejection, which certainly exhibits our
Allies the Turks in no very. favourable point of
view. For the duplicity, however, displayed on
this occasion, we are pretty well prepared by
the accounts which almost all travellers have
given of this people. " Oaths and solemn assur-
ances and protestations of public faith (says Eton)
nave always been, and are to this day, with them
state policy ; and there are on record thousands
of such sentences as the following, in an answer
of their Ulema, the body which unites in itself
the authority of_ the law and the church, and
shares with the Sovereign the direct exercise
of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers :
". That a treaty made with the enemies of God
and his Prophet might be broken, there being
nothing so worthy a Mahomedan as to undertake
the entire destruction of Christians."

[BRITISH PRESS.]
.The Paris Papers of Sunday furnish nothing
decisive upon the question of the war, but their
contents are very far from being of a pacific cha-
-racter. It is observable indeed that these Papers,
whenever they allude to the affairs of the East,
speak of the absolute. rejection of the Russian Ul-
timatum by the Divan as a matter upon which no
doubt is entertained, and the state of the French
funds offers sufficient evidence of the strength of
this impression. The Five per Cents. closed on
Saturday at 86 f. 75 c. Bank Stock at 1,560 f.--
There are other accounts purporting to have come
direct from Constantinople, which also speak of
the rejection of the Russian proposals by the Di-
van, and fix the 28th of February as the day on
which the important decision was made. The ex-
ertions of Lord Strangford and the Count de
Lutzow were incessant in endeavouring to in-
duce the Porte to accede to such terms as could
alone secure the peace of Europe, but the Reis
Eirt mdi for a considerable length of.time avoided
returning a precise answer to the requests of these
Ambassadors, and the result of the negotiation, if
it be correctly stated, shews that this reserve of
the Chief Minister was only assumed to amuse
the Mediating Powers, and ,to gain such time as
might have been deemed necessary for complet-
ing the preparations for the war. The Austrian
Government securities have also experienced a
farther decline; and if we look to the state of our
own market yesterday, we shall see sufficient
caue for believing that the Stock Exchange wa.;
not tree from the influence of the same appre-
hensions that are felt in Germany and France.
This is the settling day at the Stock Exchange,
and the fluctuations of the account shew how
deeply the market has been affected by the
rumours of an eastern war. Consols were at
one period so high as 811., and the improvement
IN the funds might have led the speculators for a
rise to anticipate a further advance ; yet, not-
withstanding this, it will be seen that Consols
hadyesterday fallen to 77. The new Four per
Cents. were quoted so low as 941, which reduces
Irle value of the 1051. stock offered in this se-
curity for every 1001. in the Navy Five per Cents.
to less than 127/. in money. The holders, there-
fore, of the NaVy Five per Cents. who did not
e.-press their dissent to the proposed'arrange-
ment, will actually receive less than they who
required to be paid the amount of their capital.

[THE TIMES.]
The Turkish question remains precisely where
it was. The latest communication from Con.
stantinople is that contained in a letter from Lord
Strangford, of the Bth March. That letter was
brought by an English gentleman to London,
and says nothing whatever to confirm or even
countenance the story that the negotiations had
been brAen off, or that the Russian Ultimatum
had been rejected. Nothing has yet reached
this comqt:y from the :.,eat of Government in'
Tu;kcy to establish the authenticity of the Note
s7hicb Vas been ascribed to the Divan. That
dpcument rests on the word of one of the Paris
jourthqs. A droll attempt upon public opinion
aPpealF VIHICI the forni fl ivate Correspondence
in the Couricr Fiancai. of Smiday last. That
paper gives a letter, dated Pera, March 6, the
writer of which is very learned and edifying
upon the c,!,•:ri.e of the ttplomatic transactions
froth December (2019% -ti to February 28, where
ha somewhat tLis.tisfactorily breaks off his narra-
tive with an asmiry nee' that he would not " delay
e moment too_ btain the information OA had
": lich.he %-crtilit send Off by the next
from, rei,r:wy `2S to March 6,
noOttag I.•rie' this ,;!tditici:,%ti

have inserted it. It is not true, then, that the
famous note of the Reis Effendi was delivered to
the Austrian and British Ministers on the 3d of
March, as we were but three days ago enjoined
to btlieve. Such an important fact would surely
have come under the cognizance of the private
historian of the Courier Francais; and what we
wish to ascertain is, who has yet guaranteed the
Turkish state paper:to be authentic ? The pom-
pous nothingness of the accounts which are cir-
culated by some Newspapers, from one day to
another, adds a heap of suspicion to that which
from.the first appeared to shrink from close in-
vestigation—namely, the statement that all di-
plomatic intercourse had been actually broken off
on the part both of the principals and of the
mediating Powers. We guard ourselves from
affirming that the peace of Europe is secure, but
we have yet received no evidence that it has
been rendered hopeless.

[NEW TIMES.]
This is the settling day at the Stock Exchange,
and the differences are stated to be very large-, a
circumstance which in some degree accounts for
the late depression of the Funds. Consols yes-
terday closed heavily at 77--ki. Probably a rise
may be expected after the settlement ; as the
alarm of a general war throughout Europe ap-
pears to have in great measure subsided. The
detailed account which has been published of
the occurrences at Constantinople, during the
latter stages of the negociation, clearly proves
the Divan to have acted under an impulse, which
in its nature must be temporary—tile impulse of
a wild and boastful fanaticism, originating among
the Janissaries, and inflamed by the destruction
of the once dreaded Ali Paella. Still the Turkish
Ministers do not appear to have taken any higher
ground now than they had done nearly three
months before. On the 2d of December, the
Reis Effendi officially announced that the Porte
could not in - any case accept the Russian Ulti-
matum. He then gave in a sort of centre projet,
which was transmitted to St. Petersburgh, and
rejected there, the Emperor Alexander insisting
on the pure and simple acceptance of the Ulti-
matum. It was on the 7th of February that this
news reached Constantinople, and down to the
27th the Reis Effendi himself appears to have
cherished hopes that he .might. be- able to give a
favourable answer to the demand, supported as
it was by the urgent representations of. the Aus-
trian and English Ministers; The Extraordinary
Divan, however, determined the contrary ; but
they issued nothing like a declaration of war :
on the. contrary, they expressly declared that
they were not at war with Russia, and should
only repel force by force if they were attacked.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The principal article relative to the quarrel
between the Turks and Russians, in the Paris
Papers received yesterday; is a private letter in
the Courier Francais. This letter, dated fiorn
Pera, the quarter of Constantinople in which the
Christian .Ambassadors have their, residences,
professes to detail the progress of the negociations
hetweeu the mediating Ambassadors, Lord
Strailgford and Count Lutzow on the one side,
and the Turkish Minister on the other, from the
2d of December to the 28th of February,
the day on which it states that the Divan,
in full assembly, and having consulted the
Chiefs of the Empire, Judicial and Military, una-
nimously rejected the Russian Ultimatum. The
Journal in which this letter •has appeared is far
from likely to have been favoured with any commu-
nication by the French Ministry or Legation. It
is perhaps the most decided of the French Oppo-
sition Journals. Yet the internal evidence of the''
authenticity, and the diplomatic air of the letter,
is scarcely to be denied. The circumstances are
narrated with great detail: it has, in fact, every
appearance of truth. If this statement be cor•
rect, it is difficult to suppose that the dilatory
proceedings of the Divan were not designed to
gain time. The history of the North of Europe
has, within the last century and a half, fully
shown that the Turkish Government, notwith-
standing its absurd haughtiness In not sending
out Ambassadors like other Powers, is usually
well acquainted with the state of Europe, the
conflicting interests and particular dispositions
of other Governments, and the mode of main-
taining its own interests in the game of interna-
tional politics. The object must have been to
gain delay ; and it would appear, if there be any
truth in the accounts that have recently arrived,
that the time thus gained has been consistently
employed in organizing the moral and physical
energies of the Turkish Empire against the
Russians.

THE MURDER OF MRS. MARY DONATTY.—In
consequence of the communication that was made
to the Magistracy of the Hatton-garden Police
Establishment, and also to Mr. TAYLOR, by the
Presiding Magistrate of Union Hall, relative to
some suspicion that fell on a man named George
Harvey, now under the awful sentence of death
in Horsemonger-lane for a burglary, the accused
was brought from his cell and placed before Mrs.
French, one of the witnesses, for inspection. He
is a short, stout man, of rather dark complexion,
and has somewhat the appearance of a helper in
stables. On his entering the room he ap-
peared very pale and dejected, and was heard
to say, as he often had done since his con-
viction for the burglary, " I am a dead man."
Mrs. French was desired to take a full view of
his person, and to give her opinion conscien-
tously. After a minute scrutiny the accused
was removed from her presence, when she de-
clared there certainly was a strong resemblance,
in point of height and dress, between the accused
and the man she saw lurking about on the even-
ing of the murder; but her ideas would not
allow her to say positively he was the man.—
Several other witnesses looked at the accused,
but were not able to speak to his identity. This
examination therefore produced no important
result.

Timothy Dwyer was tried at the Clonmel As-
sizes for forcibly carrying away Honora Ryan, with intent that
she should marry one James Coffey.—(This is the young woman
who was lately, forcibly taken of the Limerick coach.)—Her
evidence was entirely in &Our of the prisoner, she giving it as
her opinion that he accompanied the party rather to protect her
than efrer her any vioience.—The prisoner was acquittal.

FOR Tilt SUS.

-...inii....-
(LET TER III.)

MR. EDITOR—There is a trite adage, very ex-
pressive, though not very remarkable for ele-
gance, which, however, I cannot avoid citing upon
the present occasion, " that persons of a certain
description ought to have good memories."
In my second letter, I so fully and so clearly,
as I doubt not, showed the sandy foundation
upon which his assertions rested, in regard to the
Romish population of Ireland,—and, at the same
time, substantiated the charge of gross inconsis-
tency, that I did not imagine I should so soon
have had occasion again to introduce the name
of Mr. O'CONNELL to the attention of your
Readers ; but his speech, delivered at the Aggre-
gate Meeting, holden in their new Metropolitan
Chapel, in the city of Dublin, on the 13th of
February, claims some notice as well on account
of a new and extraordinary assertion he then
made, as the pleasure, the thankfulness to God, he
expressed, for the unanimous adoption of a Peti-
tion to Parliament.

In animadverting upon this speech, though I
shall confine my observations to a few passages,
I must recur to the Manifestoes or Proclama-
tions issued in January 1821, and in January
1822. In the first, Mr. O'CoNNELL stated the
Roman Catholics of Ireland to amount, at
that period, to five millions : in the latter he
says, " it will not be disputed but that the
Catholics are five millions and a half," of the
seven millions he found somewhere, and in six
weeks from the publication of the last, he asked,
at the aggregate Meeting, "should six millions of
people be afraid of using the language of common
sense, when we look to the state of Europe ? Can
they, the Government, look for foreign support
against our claims?" Now, Sir, either the age
of miracles has not passed away, and that they
are confined to the Romish Church, or Mr.
O'CONNELL has well-earned the honourable ap-
pellation implied at the beginning of this letter.
Nothing short of Popish miracle could have
transubstantiated five into five millions and a
half in twelve months, and five and a half into
six millions, in six weeks.
To shew your English Readers, however, that,
more than a century ago, the Protestants of Ire-
land were fully equal to defend their country,
against foreign foes, and their rights against do-
mestic 'traitors, I shall here submit to their con-
sideration a document of unquestionable authority,
taken from the Journals of the Irish House of
Commons, in the year 1715, the period of the
first rebellion, raised in Scotland, for the pur-
pose of placing the Pretender upon the Throne;
at which time it was deemed necessary for the
safety of Ireland, on account of •the Popish
party still attached to the STUART family, to
embody a Militia, in addition to a numerous
standing army ; and the Commissioners of Array
made a return to Parliament of those new levies,
as follows :—For Leinster, 16 regiments of Dra-
goons and 14 regiments of Infantry ; for Con-
naught, 12 regiments of Dragoons and 3 regi-
ments of Foot ; and for Ulster and Munster,
40 regiments of Cavalry and 22 regiments of
Foot ;—most of the regiments of Dragoons, con-
sist:ng of nine companies, and the Tyrone Regi-
ment of Foot had sixteen companies. The same
Journals furnish us with several Addresses from
the House of Commons, during that Session, to
the Lords Justices, requiring them to offer re-
wards for such Papists as should enlist in those
new levies ; so that that amazing army was com-
posed exclusively of Vrotestants. Such was the
physical strength of the Protestants of Ireland in
the year 1715. Forty-three years before that
period, Sir WILLIAM PETTY stated them to be
more than one-third of the inhabitants of the
country ; and it is worthy of notice, that an
enumeration had been made in the year 1731,
by Romish Priests, of the numbers of Pro-
testants and Roman Catholics, by which it
appeared that the latter were not quite two
to one of the former, as stated by Dr. BURKE, a
Romish Bishop of Ossory, in his" Ilibernica Do-
minicana." It is also worthy of notice that, by
Mr. O'CosNELL's account, the Romish popula-
tion bad" advanced, in the space of ninety years,
from one million, three hundred thousand, seven
hundred and sixty eight, to six millions, his last
statement. But will he presume to say, great
as his presumption is, that the Protestant popu-
lation had not advanced in the same ratio as the
Romish : in the northern counties too, in which
the former so vastly preponderate over the latter
i❑ numbers, considering the advantages arising
from a flourishing manufacture ; and considering
also their superior habits of industry, cleanliness,
and sobriety, over the Roman Catholics in the
southern counties ? Or will he say, that the
Protestants, contrary to the law of nature, have
made a retrograde motion, while the " emphatical
people" have sprung up in all qdarters like
mushrooms ?

Mr. O'CONNELL also states, in his late Procla-
mation, that the Roman Catholics of Ireland con-
stitute " full one third of the entire population
of the Empire :" an hypothesis so absurd, as
scarcely to deserve notice : however, lest
silence might be construed into acquiescence,
I shall briefly state a few local circumstances re-
specting Great Britain and Ireland; and leave
the decision to the good sense and candour of
the Protestant Reader : as for the Roman Ca-
tholics, I am not vain enough to suppose that I
shall be able to bring conyiction to their minds;
nor indeed is it my object, but merely to dis-
abuse such Protestants as have been deceived by
Popish sophistry and assertions. England con-
tains 57,680 square miles, with an average of
164 inhabitants to a mile—Wales contains 8,125
square miles, with 58 inhabitants to a mile—and
Scotland contains 27,794 square miles, with 56
inhabitants to a mile,—making an aggregate of
93,599 square miles for Great Britain ; and of
65,805 square miles for England and Wales, with
an average, taken between the two, of 154 inha-
bitants, and a fraction for every square mile ;
which give to England and Wales a population
of one million, ninety thousand, four hundred and
twenty-one, instead of eight millions and a half,
according to Mr. CHALMERS'S calculation. Scot-
land, at the average of sr inhabitants to a
Square mile, has a population of one million, five

hundred and fifty-six thousand, four hundred and
sixty-four,—making • for Great Britain an: actual
population. of eleven millions, six hundred and
forty six thousand, eight hundred and eighty-five.
Ireland contains 27,459 square miles, with. an
avetage of 127 inhabitants to a mile, taken at
the same time as those for England, Wales,
and Scotland ; and has a population of three mil-
lions, four InAdred and eighty-seven thousand, two
hundred and ninety-three; which I conceive to
be more consonant to reason and common sense
than Mr. CHALMERS'S estimate of four millions,
two hundred thousand, in the year 1791 ; and
gives to Ireland an actual increase of one mil-
lion and a half since the year 1731, when, by
the census taken, the population was found under
two millions ;—the rather, as the whole surface
of Ireland is to that of Great Britain as thirty-
seven and a- half to one hundred and twenty-
eight ; and the calculation I have given of the
population is in favour of Ireland, being thirty-
eight and a quarter to one hundred and twenty-
eight. Yet Mr. O'CONNELL, alike conspicuous
for moderation, candour, and modesty, claims
for his " fellow-countrymen" " full one-third of
the entire population of the Empire," throwing
into the scale the Presbyterians, Quakers, and
the other Dissenters in Ireland ; and, as a make-
weight, " the handful of bustling Bigots," as Mr.
DENIS SOUTHY designated the Protestants of
Ireland, in his constitutional advice to his bre-
thren, published during the Rebellion of 1803,
as opportunely as Mr. O'CoNNELL's Proclama-
tion about " Hereditary Bondsmen."

SYDNEY.