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•;NDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTIUS.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 2t
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AND THE GIANT HELMET.
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Miss Sharpe.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 29,
Will be represented a New Domestic Drama, entitled
MARTHA WILLIS, THE MAID SERVANT.
Martha Willis, Mrs. Henry Vining.

Supported by the entire strength of the Company,
After which will be produced the New Comic Pantomime,
entitled

HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY
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LONDON:
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21). 1840.

The regret which we expressed yesterday at the
line of conduct which Admiral STOPFORD felt it
his duty to pursue with respect to Commodore
NAPIER'S Convention with MEHEMET ALI, has
not been diminished by a more careful perusal of
the correspondence between the Gallant Admiral
and his Highness the VICEROY. On the con-
trary, the first painful impression made upon our
mind has been deepened by the closeness with
which we have endeavoured to examine this ques-
tion in all its bearings. There were so many rea-
sons to induce the Admiral, if he could not accept
the Treaty consistently with his instructions, not
to reject it altogether, that we are really asto-
nished how he could have arrived at the conclu-
sion at which he did. In the first place, why
was Commodore NAPIER sent with a squadron to
Alexandria, if he was neither to fight nor nego-
tiate ? If a mere conference only was anticipated,
a steamer would have answered the purposes
better than ships of the line, calculated by their
movements to alarm Eu rope. Next, the Conven
tion having been signed, and on its way to England
it ought :o have occurred to such a man as Admiral
STOPFORD that no injury could arise from remain-
ing silent till he had received further instructions
from Lord PALMERSTON. Ile must have been
sensible that he could not reject the Treaty without
passing a severe censure upon the conduct of a
most meritoriou:, offiLer—wonr ding in the
tenderest point the pride of the PACH A of Egypt—
and indirectly inflicting great injury upon British good
faith in every part of the world. Nor was even the
rejection of the Treaty conceived in terms becoming
the high rank of the Gallant Admiral, aid the il-
lustrious name of the officer censured by it. The
Admiral himself must have felt this very sensibly
when four days after he had dcnounced Commodore
"A:Q. Conrentiou es" hx,:ty and unauthorised,
he found himself obliged to submit for the PACHA'S
acceptance a Convention proposed by Lord PAL•

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