Star.
London, England, 1821-11-05 00:00:00

SUPPRESSED MONASTERIES IN SPAIN.

We have before us an account of the number of
Monasteries and Convents suppressed in the Penin-
sula in consequence of the law of the 6th of Septem-
ber, 1820. The statement is very curious, and we
consider worthy of the attention of our Readers, who
cannot fail to applaud the wksdom by which the
country has been relieved of a heavy burden, and re-
covered property of which it had been fqr ages de-
prived.—The Jesuits possessed, in theMoVinces of
Toledo, Castile, Arragon, and Andalusia, 124 col-
leges, and sixteen houses of residence, which, if not
completely occupied at the time of the suppression,
would soon have been so in consequence of the acti-
vity of the new Propagandists.
The Monks of St. Benedict held in the congrega-
tion of Valladolid and in La Tarraconense, 63 of the
suppressed Monasteries. The Monks of St. Bernard
had 60 in the congregation of Castile and Leon, and
in that of the Cistercian of Ariagon and Navarre.—
The Carthusian Monks had 16 in the provinces of
Arragon and Castile. The Monks of St. Jerome had
48 in six Circuits of eight Monasteries each. The
Monks of St. Basil had in the provinces of Andalusia,
Castile, and El Tardon, 17. The Premonstratensians
had 17 of the suppressed Convents ; the Military Or-
ders, 14 ; tl.e Hospitalars of St. John de Dios, 58;
those of Sancti-Spiritus, 8 ; and those of San Antonia
Abad, 36.• Making in all, 477.
How many hands are thus in future saved for agri-
culture, for the arts, and every kind of industry'.—
How much wealth will he distributed through all the
classes of society ? That an increase of population
must take place in a country where the:present popu-
lation is not one-half of the number corresponding to
its extent and fertility ! But, above all, what an
im-
portant store is still left; and how great must be the
advantages which our country will obtain when the
2692 religious houses which yet remain, and in which
the persons of both sexes who occur)), them may be
said to bury their posterity, shall be definitively
suppressed I—El Universal.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex had a
huge party to dinner on Saturday.
The Duke of DEVONSHIRZ arrived on Wednesday
last in Paris.

Friday, at Goodwood, her Grace the Duchess of
RICHMOND was safely delivered of a son.
The Duke and Duchess of ATHOL, the Hon. Misses
MURRAY and KNIGHT, Lord CHARLES MURRAY, and
the youngest son of Lord GLENLYON, sailed in the
Tontine, from Greenock, on Tuesday, on their way to
his Grace's seat, Mona Castle, in the Isle of Man.
Lady ELIZABETH MACGREGOR MURRAY, his Grace's
youngest daughter, lately returned from India with
her family, sailed from Liverpool on Tuesday for the
same destination. The Duke, who has not visited
the Isle of Man for nine years past, intends spending
the winter there, and will not return to Scodandibe•
fore May or June next.
The Earl of BRIDGEWATER has been pleased to in-
timate his intention of employing all the poor on and
about his estates in Shropshire, during the approach-
ing winter, and has offered to the Public as much
land and pecuniary advance as would be deemed ne-
cessary for improving the turnpike and other roads
in the same district.

THOMAS ARTHUR, Esq. of Glanornera, has reduced
the rents of a part of his estate, at the rate of 30s. per
acre, and has forgiven his tenants an art ear of up-
wards of £lBOO.

The Italian Opera House, it is understood, will
open shortly after Christmas. During the recess, no
expense has been spared in collecting the first-rate
talent, both in the Opera and Ballet department.

Mrs. CHATTERLEY will make her first appearance
at Covent-Garden Theatre to-morrow evening, in the
character of Miss Hardcastle, in GOLDSMITH'S fa-
vourite Comedy of She Stoops to Conquer.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, with additional
music, is about to be revived at Covent-Garden
Theatre; in which is to be introduced a superb Car-
nival by moon light.
The new Grand Pageant forthcoming at Drury.
Lane Theatre, of His Mgjesty's late Visit to Dublin,
will be one of the most splendid and astonishing de-
scription. Five hundred supernumeraries are engaged,
and forty horses. One scene, representing the inte-
rior of the Dublin Theatre, for mechanism, will sur-
pass anything ever yet produced: a complete thea-
tre will be erected on the spacious stage, with pit
and two tier of boxes to seat five hundred persons.
The e,timated expense is £7OOO.
Saturday evening, the Olympic Theatre opened for
the season. It has been re-embellished, and nothing
been omitted to render it worthy that distinguished
patronage it has for the last two seasons received.
The House was crowded in every part. A very clever
Address was spoken by Mr. OXBLRRY in his usual
style of excellence.
DRURT•LANE TitzaTau.—Saturday night, to the
great satisfaction of the admirers of dramatic genius,_
Mr. MCNDEN resumed his station on the boards of
Drury. The Comedy of Folly as it Flies was revived
upon this occasion, and the broadly ludicrous part of
Peter Post Obit was that in which he paid his first
visit for the season, to an audience who are at all
times happy to receive him. The Play has under-
gone much curtailment, but the most striking of its
comic features are preserved ; and, cast as it was,
with the veteran comedian at the head of the Dra-
matis Persona, it could not fail to produce abundant
laughter and amusement. Mr. ELLISTON, as Tom
Tick, was also very happy. Mrs. EDWIN, in the cha•
ratter of Lady Melmoth, performed in a manner
worthy of her established reputation, and Miss SMITH-
son, in that of Georgiana, contributed to the advance-
ment of a rising name. In short, the whole of the
parts were so judiciously distributed and so well sus-
tained, as to entitle the Drama, if it was only for the
sake of the talents embarked in its support, to many
repetitions during the season.
Wednesday morning early, during the very dense
fog that surrounded the Metropolis, the house of Mr.
Pm tie PRINCE, in China Terrace, Lambeth, was
broken into, and robbed of various articles of plate
and linen. After attempting to force an entrance at
the kitchen windows and doors in the area, in vain,
he thieves came to the desperate resolution of re-
moving the pavement, and at length succeeded in
undennining one of the doors. A boy was then put
through the aperture, who took off the fastenings and
' admitted his employers.

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