The Sun.
London, England, 1820-06-26 00:00:00

ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE.

Mr. MATHaws closed bomber mos( successful
season on Smurddy,,wich the grvnttst eclat. 'The,
foll Owing Address delivered by hin► on 'the occa.
slim was Imittly applaildro

" Lim Es AND OF.NTLENEN,
" Thus I conclude the third season of•my entertainments,
which, through your unexampled hi,inanesi ant} patronage, X
Mai boast of as having been pie eminently successful. To say
that Tam proud and gratefal for ttc distinction you have con •
ferred on me, would be but .faintly to express the:warmth 'of
those feelings which aniniate me towardsmy.henefactors. To
have already dra•Nt; tt.getiter. I•7o.andiences, crowded rank,.-.
fashion, and bt.autv, is no mean boast for an humble tndwt
dual like myself; but when,' reflet, that I ntav exclaim with
the Roman Fiero, • 41one did ::.• (Confess I foci a glow of
self-gratnlation; that my good fortune prompted inc to quit
the long beaten pith of the rezular drama, to adventure ot:t
so novel and bazardon..in nriterttitting: •

'' It now u ri:yreplaiostor you, that no exer•
tiotts of iogentitly, or (,list shall:be wantini4.
to rend, r next vent's rut. :,t still more deseitvingt
ot your tavoni thou those which p:tc.::V.,etl it; and •I do
trust to be• eual;;;:irst rat ru v;:r its !,atitlt as to tresent yotl
With • ssin,ett,og new, lint ,inly in suhstaece and character
but in nal hou and arraflgerceot:aii.n t vents, I trust I.
shall not have exhausted in. uos,ll the h,tltPY fiteultY "I' ix'
eitiiig your utirtii. anu I hope yjm will au have lost the in*
clinationt to come liege and be merry.
" Ladies and Gentlemen, with reiterated chants and the
most cordial good xisbes, I now respectfully bid you fare Well."

Tue LATE BENJAMIN Esci.—The National
Advocate, an American Paper, coetuins theft:o)w.
ing paragraph . respecting this Gentleman
genius and industry es a painter have never been
surpassed, and his productions will lung be ad.
mired for their great and untivalleti merit. • He
was much attached to his native conotry, and
look great pleasure in conversing with !Os wllosi
citizens, and giving. every facility to American
Artists : he viewed our•progerss in arts, in arms,
and in science, with deep interest, and his long
absence did not alienate his affections front his na-
tive land. Yesterday,' said he to an American,
completed fifty years since I first arrived in Lon.
don ; I ,remember travelling on the top of the
Canterbury coach, and stopping about two miles
irons London, at a mean tavern, aid taking a
dinner befor'e I entered the metropolis to seek
my fortune ; and I could not avoid yesterday go.
log to the same tavern, calling for a•dinncr alone
in the same room, looking hark on the fifty years
I had spent, the rfogress.l had made in my pro-
fession, the friends I possessed, and the adven-
tures I had met with:, This was a.singular epoch.
in the life of an individual."

Tug PARK.--I.The line olcarriagel extended as
far as the eye could 'teach, both north and west—for Ken.
-singtan Gardens were again in request; and at five o'cliick
the_ grand promenade was doWn the Long Walk. In the.
Fostume,,white and pick were the favourite colours. Long
scarfs of lace,. and white bonnets 'of -figured silk, trimmed
with flowers. Great inconvenience arose from the difficulty
of approa6li to the gate ; the Ladies having to cross from the
high road, a vast expanse of (List and gravel.
Col mei BOSANQUET has received the KING'S
comm:,nds, throtigh the Seeretary.of State for the
Hume Department, to si4uify to the Light Horse
Volunteers his MAJESTY'S pleasure that the regi-
ment 34,0u1d he on duty ou the day of his MA-
JESTY'S Coronation.

On Saturday ordets were sent by Lord Stn-
MOUTH do Mr.Lee,•the High Constab'e ot ‘Vest.
rninster, directing him to summon all the Con.
stables of the parishes; in Wes.rninster to at-
tend the Parlionieut House this 'evening, and that
no excuse conic] tir would he tAien for the al.-
sence of any,,one,'as thOse who could not attend
in person must serve by
.depu!y. It was elso
timateel that 200 special constables we're to be
s*of n in for the oticainn.. Mr. bee was accord-
ingly occupied theSwb!.ie of Saturday evening in
serving notices on cure CMISI bits.; &c.
The hc;ipsit",STlCwaßi•, is arrived in the Ricer
C(ylon, bringing home Sir tioilseeT and Lady
BflOwt,relGG and suite. she has also On hoard
large-detachments of lavellids trom the fores
serving in- iir-at Island. Tice Eclipse touched at
St. Helene the 4.h ot May. and found that the
Baring, 11„bia, from Calcutta,, had passed the ,
preceding day, Nil of pas.!en4ers.
At a :Meeting of the thilAin C, ammo ouncii,
on Monday, Mr. 1..t.t.2i and Mr. GRATTAN were
proposed as Cando4tra .she ebsul64 iii. ction
tor that Coy. nomination was de‘ided is
favour of Elio tunner by a fildiotityol-63 tt,

SPANISH AMERICA.

[From the British Monitor (f June 25

The, clearsighted politician Innst have ire-rceived
tl..t 111, Cabinet of Washington bits, for a ,con-
derable time past,•been connoting with Spain,
and with the Independent Colonies. One day
site sends Consuls, and other accredited vents,

to the various Independent Governments ; the

-next dey it enters into solemn engßgemerits
with ti:e Cabinet of Madrid, not .to re-:
cognize the - independence. of her
The Cabinet of Washington, however, has at
'List declared itself. ;file American papers,
which are lately come to hand, contain a Resolu-
'don of the Senate, (urged on, no doubt, by the
Executive,) requesting the Government to recog-
nize the independence of tbe South American Co-
innies, and to send Ministers there for that pur-

pose. This is, indeed, a most important mea-
sure, as regar►ling the grand question of South
American Independence• Nay, it -points out to

the Government of this Country the necessity of
doing toe same; and if we still hesitate to adopt
the same line of policy as the Americans do, with.
regard to the Spanish Colonies, we shall; in a
very snort time, be deprived of the commercial
advdntages which we now enjoy with those Colo-

tries—advantages which we have only enjnyed
since their independence ; as they will throw all
their commerce and dealings into the hands of
the Americans. in the present distressed state of
our Commerce, it 'would,,l think, be highly
dein ivy us of advantages whirl], it mot.very

.gr„, at present, might become mate so, were we
to recognize the independence of the Col 'riles;
for we all knew tbat it is always precarious to
send valuable ships and cargoes to countries where
vv e have no Consols to wai.ch over our interests,
anti '0 protect our property. It may be said 'Oar,
according to our 7 ieaty with Spain, we are bound
to guarantee tiourinious at home and abroad.

'Tn., tv,i,s a proper an" 0000urable feeliiig so long
as Fel-416,8ml was Sovereign of his Country;. but
any ome tell ouch ine case at pre!
feorl Can Ire be calla an ludepentien, Sovereign

whr; reerives •Cotistikulion at the poita at the

bayonet, vitae-wed by laic own army oi a state ok
rebeliion Ig4inst him ? if rbe Holy Alliance, of

k'rrilinand is a Alember, CAllllOi guarantee

bis ~ower Against levoltesi-enbjects, surely a tem-
po. .41 811 i-time will not tunch.—For, not.
xessh,siss,ding our 'Treaty err Alliehce %vitt] Fr rdi-
missst, w bleb d have airedily sant, is io guaran-
tee Si rtes, ns home and iibitistd, we could as
little pr,.veht the intittecti,,D ot the Colonies as
the 1I !), Alli4nre could prevent the rtbelhon of
tlit finish unity. According to 'fleas-y,
w are
bound to assist Ft-I'4l.llam) tor 'he recovery of the
We have not, however, been called

di.oti to do so—and tl,ere the 11)4 ter reoed. But
now .liat the 'Frew)/ with the King 44 Spain 13
dis,olved, do itot see any reaso why we should

no( dvati•oorstivts of circumstances, and pl Oil by
thetn —sb,tiod •he members of the Club Lurenzini
tie rrat .sovtreigns of Spain,) object to our
proceedings, we can answer them thus " Your
• conduct is a precedent tur all the Colonies to
. decic,re themselves Independent. Bolivar and
oili4,4ins are as loyal as Quitoga and Riego ;
b:Htles ihat, the British Government only acts
towards Spain as Spain did io.cards England,
doting the Atnelican tl sr. So long aw Ferdinand
was Tt a S:tvereign of Spain, we disdained to re-
taliatc—but now that Spain is governed by Club-

bis,s, and a rebel soldiery, all treaties between us
. at e ex' loci." 1 am also fully convinced that besides
those, Colonies which are already independent, the
other, will tidlow, which till now remained faith-
ful to their King, for they were all infinitely more
displeased with the Government of the Cortes
during the late war, than they were with the
old Spanish Monarchy. And bad the Cortes
conducted themselves properly towards the Co-
lonies, it is certain that they never would have
revolted. There are persoi,s who think that the
new Spanish Constitinion will produce the sub-
mission of the Independent Colonies to the
Mother Country ; but these persons have for•
gotten that this Constitution is the V.4111C that ex-
isted when those YeTy Colonies. separated them-
selves ft inn the Spanish Government, in. 1809, and
the ssnie against which the Colonies of America
protester) It is, the:: fore, to be expected that

the re-estabh,hment of the Cortes will re-kindle
the fi.itne of discord in those Colonies wt:ere it
was alllyed by the return of Ferdinand. The

Sou:I) Americans would rather prefer the Royal
despotism of Spin, than the Oligarchic one to
which they are stibjt.cled by the new Constitution.
By this Constitution the King, deprived of all ibe
essential attributes cit the Sovereignty, is no-
thing 111,re than a slave of the .prevailing faction
of the Cortes, and leis name will only serve to
ive a colouring to 'he tyranny of the new despots.
7.'oe real anti efficient Sovereign of the New
World would in that case he the majority of the

Cortes ; who would compel the American Depu-
ties (on account or the nugatory and ridiculous
repre•entation which is allo%ved to them), to
sanetton as laws, their own grievances, and torce
then► to sanction those (Possums which they most
abhor.

It does not require much ingenuity to d:seover
in the Hetutil Spithisik Conwitution a thousand ob-
stmcles to prevent the union between the Colonies
and the Mother Country. The insignificant re-
presentalion which is given to the inh hitants of
the New World ; the manner in which the elec-
tions ale made for that repres,entation, which
every than of common sense knows is only fit to
deprive the people of their weight and import-

ance;is only meant to extend ibe influence, Rua
facilitate !he intrigues of a tyrannical administra-
tion, as•it continues to exist itt the transatlantic
Spanish dominions. Consequently every measure
of the Cartes would be in favour of Old Spain.—
Another grievance ill the Constinvion is. that
supplementary Members for those remote Conn
tries will frequently be appointed ; consequently,
during the_time of a war between Spain and a
maritime Power, the Colotties.would be deprived
of legitimate representatives- In short, the
terests of. the Spaniards will al,vays he in oppo.
sition to the interests of the New World in the
roost essential points, AS the Colonies were, and
akoys be considered in Spain as foreign, and
as mere instruments for the promotion of the'
prosperity of the Mother Country. It is also
proper to observe, that the new Government of
Spain only appointed 30 Members to represent
Spanish America at the 'ensuing meeting of the
Cones ; and by this fact alone it will be seen
what the Americans bad to expect from the
justice and liberality of me. soi•disant Spanish
Literules

The King of Spain, till •now, was the Sove-
reign of the. Spaniards, as well •as of •the Ameri-
cans_; hut by ;he present Constitution he is no-
thing more than a subaltern Magistrate--a mere
Miniver and Executor of the Sovereignty, which
is centered in a democratical assembly, where
the Americans have but a shadow of representa-
iic n,
or in other words, an inripoteni minority.
The King, slave of his ov; n subjects in Europe,
will be obliged to receive from their hands laves
w filch may be personally obnoxious to hint, And
-which he must cause to be executed at home and
abroad ; thus if the Americans were to submit to
the new Spanish Constitution, they ,would inevit-
ably become the slaves, pot of their hornier
master—not of the descendants of thOse Kings,
under whose auspices those countries were di,s-
covet ed. co,iquert.d, civilized, and ; out
to a faction, who set all law ant justice at
defianco.

This is my view • the subject.---It may he
said that my sentiments were very d►fferent some
months since—so they were, but I k the re•
cent rebellion or teVOlnriu►► in Spain, ju•' firs -this
change of opinion respecting the relai ion between
this Country and Spain, and her Colonies.