bad taste and not in keeping; "the slimy bravery of shame" and "dishonour breaking from a man, like a noxious vapour from a grave." A frequent application too of the term "bad" serves as a substitute for some more limited and undefined epithet, "this bad world"-" this bad heart"-" bad man," &c. The paraphrase on the vulgar adage "Misfortunes never come single" had better have been omitted. All

this is very slovenly. But we pass with pleasure from criticising the tragedy to the more pleasing task of praising the performers.

Though the whining sorrows of the heroine afforded no adequate display of Miss Kelly's highly original talents, yet her personification of Margaret was distinguished by the nicest discrimination. In the former scenes of the play, where she has only her own sorrows to sustain, she claims a right to indulge in grief; but, from the first moment that she hears her lover's character assailed, she becomes a new creature. She dries her tears in order to arm herself with strength for his defence; she undertakes to stand up as his champion; and her fortitude and resolution never once faint under the task; exhibiting a

beautiful picture of woman's real courage. Miss Kelly has ventured a bold experiment in resolving to trust to an imitation of nature alone for success. Her style of acting is very peculiar; we heartily wish it may become popular. The manner in which the words as it were gushed from her heart, in her supplication for divine aid, was finer than any of the finest touches we ever remember of Miss O'Neill's.

Of Mr. Macready in the character of the Huguenot, without going into the detail, it is sufficient to say, that he transcended all his former efforts. It has been observed of him, in this part, that Mr. Kean might have equalled him, certainly no other living performer; this is saying a great deal, but we think not too much. Why is he not allowed to appear more frequently in Shakspeare? Mr. Abbot preserved a serenity of demeanour, that was perfectly in unison with the pacific disposition of the character he represented: perhaps he looked somewhat too young and interesting to accord exactly with our notions of a young lady's ghostly confessor. Mrs. Vining was a very handsome bridesmaid; but she should have been drest in white.

THE Duke of Wellington is arrived in London from Paris, but nothing has transpired relative to the probability of a war between France and Spain. The opinion, however, of the best-informed politicians, appears decidedly in favour of peace. This is also strengthened by the fact of a treaty, offensive and defensive, having been entered into between the constitutional governments of Spain and Portugal, and the engagement on the part of the latter Power to furnish an army to their Ally, in case of invasion by France. The formidable preparations for war making by Spain will, doubtless, have a powerful effect on the councils of her enemies, and the armies of France, led on by young officers without experience, will not be made very effective instruments in fighting against the cause of li

berty, for which they have endured so much.-Weak, indeed, must be the Bourbons of France, if they cannot discern their security and happiness in peace, and their misery and ruin in war!

SPAIN. The insurrection is dying away in all the Provinces.Nearly all the officers and sub-officers have taken refuge in France. All the couriers from Madrid, and every other part of the Peninsula, now arrive at Bayonne without delay.-A Proclamation of Mina denounces severe penalties against those faithless Spaniards who either aid the rebels, or abandon their towns and houses from cowardice. The accounts all concur in representing the Constitutional arms as every where successful, and the Rebels as defeated and dismayed.The military preparations of the

Spanish Government are proceeding with extraordinary activity, and are well seconded by the enthusiasm of the people. The new levies are proceeding rapidly; volunteer companies are forming in all the towns, the fortresses are repairing, and the manufactories of arms and stores have given employment to multitudes of the poor. Large portions of the communal and uncultivated lands are distributed by the Political Chiefs among the rural population; and a numerous race of sinall proprietors is thus created, whose enjoyment of their property depends on the stability of the Constitution. En thusiasm in favour of the Constitution is at its acmé in Madrid. There are lectures on the Constitution, Constitutional catechims, Constitutional calendars, Constitutional ribbands, Constitutional taverns, Constitutional confectionary, Constitutional songs, in abundance, and Constitutional plays. The Cortes have come to a resolution respecting the insurgent guards: On the niemorable 7th of July, 400 of the rebels laid down their arms to two Constitutional officers, upon a pledge from the latter, that their lives should be spared. They had no authority for giving such a pledge, but the Cortes have not only confirmed it, but decreed, that even the rebel guards taken without capitulation, and in process of trial, shall be exempted from their legal liability to the punishment of death. FRANCE.A disturbance took place at the School of Medicine on the 18th of November. The Abbé Nicole, who is rector of the academy, had no sooner appeared to address the young men, than the cry of "A bas les Jesuites!" and other offensive expressions, were uttered. The Abbé could not be heard, and M. Desgenettes, who tried for an hour to gain a hearing, could not succeed. After this tumultuous conduct had continued forsome time, an end was put to the sitting; and the Rector on going out was saluted with still stronger testimonies of disappro bation. The prevalence of liberal opinions, says a private letter,

among the different colleges and lyceums of Paris, is very striking; and it appears, that the measures of rigour adopted against their fa

vourite instructors and professors, only tend to increase their attachment for what they consider the persecuted truth."-In consequence of this disturbance, a Royal Decree was issued on the 21st, which entirely suppressed the faculty of medicine, and ordered the Minister of the laterior to present a plan for its reorganization. The Grand Master is, however, allowed" to authorize those of whom he may receive favourable information, to resume their inscriptions either in the faculties of Strasburg, Montpellier, or in any of the secondary schools." The suppressed school was governed by twenty-five professors, the most eminent surgeons of France, and gave instruction to four thousand students.-A Royal Ordinance, dated ths 20th November, appeared in the Moniteur of Sunday, December 1, calling out forty thousand men of the Levy of 1822, which are not an addition to the army, but for the purpose of replacing forty thousand men, whose term of service expires this year. Several officers of Gen. Mina arrived at Perpignan, who had been made prisoners at Urgel, and conducted to Toulouse. They came from that town, where they entered quite in rags, and were at first very badly received. They were taken for the men of the Faith, but as soon as the error was discovered, they were amply compensated. People stripped off their clothes to give to them; a subscription was immediately opened in their favour; and they say, had they received every thing which was offered them, as clothes and other succours, it would have been impossible to carry them into Spain. The determination of this Government, to maintain peace if possible, is said to have been brought about in a great measure by the ascertained temper of the French army. Letters have been received from the frontiers, which speak of occurrences there the most alarming-of insubordination and desertion.

GREECE AND TURKEY.- Private letters state the taking of Napoli di Romania by the Greeks; they entered it on the 1st of November, and found 500 pieces of cannon in that fortress. The Turks had their lives spared, though they broke the capi

tulation which they had concluded a month before.

Constantinople has recently been the scene of great disturbances. The violent clamours of the Janissaries against the favourite Minister, Haleb Effendi, at length alarmed Sultan Mahmoud, who resolved to convince himself by his own eyes of the truth of the statements. He traversed the streets of Constantinople on the 9th in the strictest incognito. The most profound tranquillity prevailed. He spoke with several persons who met him; the information which he obtained on this occasion decided his purpose. Haleb Effendi was dismissed and exiled, as were also his friends the Grand Vi zier and the Barber Pacha or Chief Barber. This change was supposed greatly to increase the prospect of war with Russia, as Haleb was thought to favour the pacific mediation of Austria and England, and the Janissaries, who have triumphed have long been furious for war.

BRAZIL.The Prince Regent published a proclamation on the 21st of September, declaring the final separation of Brazil from Portugal, and announcing his own promotion to the dignity of Emperor.On the 12th of October, when his Highness attained his 24th year, he was solemnly proclaimed at Rio Janeiro, Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of the kingdom of Brazil, by the title of Don Pedro the First. The forms were gone through in the hall of the Senate of the Camora, and the enthusiasm of all classes was very great. In the evening the city was illuminated, and the Emperor, accompanied by his consort, Donna Maria da Gloria, went to the theatre, where pieces were represented and hymns sung, adapted to the occasion.

PORTUGAL.-On the 4th of October, the General and Extraordinary Cortes, their labours in framing the Constitution being concluded, closed their session. The King attended and delivered a very cloquent and constitutional speech. His Majesty congratulated the Cortes on the completion of their glorious labours, which had made the people free and prosperous, and himself happy. In regard to foreign relations, the King

announced that they were of the most pacific description; and he added," I have particular satisfaction in being able to announce to you, that the most positive declarations of the Governments of France and England have fully secured us against the fears of any attack upon our independence."-In reply, the President delivered a long and able address, in which he eloquently alluded to the order, peace, and har mony, which had characterized the Revolution." Portugal," he said, "has given to astonished Europe the first example of a regeneration commenced and concluded in the short space of two years, in which the inhabitants of great cities and of the poorest villages have not for a single day discontinued their usual occupations-in which no parties have dared to shew themselves in a way capable of affecting the security of the Republic,-and in which all citizens have with marked alacrity, or at least with firm resignation, sacrificed their own interests to the public welfare." The ceremony

took place amid the enthusiastic plaudits of all present. In the sitting of the Cortes on the 4th, a report was made on a despatch from the Minister for the Home Department, in which the Congress was informed that the Queen, having refused to take the oath to the Constitution of the Monarchy, the King had resolved on carrying into execution the decree of the Cortes, ordaining that whoever shall refuse to swear to the Constitution shall quit the kingdom, and renounce the rights of a Portuguese citizen. In the sitting of the following day, Senhor Pato Moriz read the following motion:-"It being indispensible that the law should be carried into effect, as well with regard to the Ex-queen of Portugal, as any other person who may refuse to swear to the political constitution of the monarchy; and its execution having been delayed by the report of the physicians, stating that her life would be endangered by the severity of the weather, if she should travel in the present state of her health; I propose that the Government be required to order, that the same ten physicians do continue to

attend the Ex-Portuguese citizen during her residence in the Quinta de Ramalhao, and accompany her up to the period of her quitting the

Portuguese territories."-This proposition remained over for a second reading.

THOMAS LEACH, of Blue Boar court, Friday-street, Cheapside, London, merchant, for an improvement in steam engines, by the application of steam immediately to a wheel, instead of the usual process. Communicated to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad. Dated Oct. 28, 1822.

WILLIAM PIPER, of Cookley Iron Works, Wolverley, Worcestershire, Civil Engineer; for several new anchors for the use of shipping and other vessels. Dated Nov. 1, 1822.

ALFRED FLINT, of Uley, Gloucestershire, engineer; for a machine for scouring, pising, and washing woollen cloths. Dated Nov. 1, 1822.

JOHN OXFORD, of Little Britain, London, Gentleman, for an improved method of preventing premature decay in timber, metallic substances, and canvas, by the application whereof to such several bodies, respectively, the same are rendered impervious to the dry rot, damp rot, worms, insects, or rust, to which the same are respectively liable, and the same are rendered thereby more durable, and less liable to decay. Dated Nov. 1, 1822.

JOHN DOWELL MOXON, of Liver

pool, Lancashire, ship owner, and merchant; for improvements in the construction of bridges, and works of a similar nature. Dated Nov. 9, 1822.

FRANCIS DEAKIN of Birmingham, Warwickshire, sword manufacturer and wire-drawer; for an improvement in the manufacture of holster-cases, cartouch boxes, and certain other description of cases. Dated Nov. 9, 1822.

JOHN JEKYLL, of Roundhill-house, Wincanton, Somersetshire, Captain in his Majesty's navy; for certain improvements in steam or vapour baths, to render the same more portable and convenient than those in present use. Dated Nov. 9, 1822.

RICHARD ROBERTS, of Manchester, Lancashire, civil engineer; for certain machinery or implements applicable to the process of weaving plain or figured cloths or fabrics, which may be used on, and in conjunction with, looms now in common use; and also certain improvements in the construction of looms for weaving plain and figured cloths or fabrics, and in the method of working looms, either by hand, by steam, or other power. Dated 14, 1822.

The latter sown Wheats have generally planted well, but the open weather has thrown out abundance of weeds, on the bean and pea eddishes; which, from the inability of the occupiers, were not sufficiently cleared and cultivated for the reception of the seed. The grazing districts are full of grass, and the common turnips were in full growth, until the late frost; but the Swedes have almost universally failed. -Mangel-Wurzel and Coleseed are abundant in most parts, particularly in the Fen districts of Lincoln, Cambridge, and Huntingdon. The meat markets

continue their low prices: Smithfield having an over-supply on Mondays and Fridays, though principally of beasts of inferior condition. Lean stock is somewhat dearer; but more so in store sheep than in bullocks; aud milch cows sell freely for more money. The Haymarket is heavy, from the large quantity of feed, which the open weather every where supplies. The potatoe crop has been good in most districts; but not so large as that of last year. There is but little doing in the Hoptrade; and the Wool-market is dull nearly at last month's prices,

COTTON.-There has been a very extensive speculation entered into in East-India Cottons; the buyers have continued purchasing regularly for some time, and in so quiet a manner, that the extent of the speculation did not transpire until all the purchases were made. The estimated quantity is nearly 8000 bags, viz.: 5500 Bengals, 43d. a 538., and 2500 Surats, 5d. a 5 d. being nearly the same prices as the average of last India sale. One of the first India houses disposed of all their stock of Cotton.

SUGAR.-The demand, for Muscovades last week was without interest till towards Friday, when very considerable purchases were made, owing, no doubt, to the closing of the market previous to the holidays: no improvement in the good and fine samples could be stated; the low browns were heavy, and were offered 6d. a 1s. per cwt. lower to induce buyers to come forward, but no progress could be made in the sales.

COFFEE. The public sales of Coffee last week were inconsiderable; the St. Domingo fully supported the previous prices, ordinary to good ordinary 99s.

a 100s.; middling Brazil sold 112s. and 112s. 6d. fine ordinary 105s. 6d., good ordinary 98s. 6d. The remainder of the Coffee consisted of Demerara and Berbice descriptions, generally ordinary and damaged; they sold at a reduction of 2s. a 3s. By private contract, good ordinary clean Jamaica was in great request, and for one parcel 102s. was realised.

CORN.-There was a good supply of Wheat to yesterday's market from Essex and Kent; a few of the best runs were early selected out, and purchased eagerly at an advance of 18. per quarter; the trade afterwards became heavy, and some proportion of the supply remained over undisposed of.-The late very large arrivals of Barley have supplied the malsters with stock, the demand was in consequence languid, and no progress could be made in the sales. -Oats were very heavy, and no buyers would purchase to any extent, unless a decline of 6d. a 1s. per quarter was submitted to, the reduction was in several instances confirmed, but no general decline in the prices can be stated. -Beans were without alteration.

The Secretary to the SOCIETY of GUARDIANS for the PROTECTION of TRADE by Circulars has informed the Members thereof, that

JOHN NIGHTINGALE, of 21, street, Berkley-square,

Bruton

GEORGE HODGSON, of 29, Alsop'sbuildings, New-road,

ANDREW KAUFFMAN, musical instrument maker, formerly of Angelcourt, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, and since of 13, Water-street, Blackfriars,

THOMAS CLOss, of the Quadrant, Regent-street, and

FREDERICK RANKIN, surgeon, late of Buckingham-street, Strand, and since of 54, Hatfield-street, Blackfriars, are reported to this Society as improper to be proposed to be ballotted for as Members thereof.-that

JOHN JULIAN, coal and provision warehouse, Park-street, Borough, is connected with

HUNTER and RICHARDSON, 12, Hadlow-street, Brunswick-square: and

that

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GEORGE SMITH pretends to be in the employ of the respectable House of Messrs. Harding and Co. of Pall Mall, as well as in that of Messrs Howell and James, of Regent-street.

A thin woman, of rather mean appearance, with a sallow complexion, and dark brown hair parted in the front, dressed in a buff spotted cotton gown, a drab whittle, and a black silk hunet, calling herself

MARGARET THOMPSON, has obtained money from various tradesmen, by pretending to be the housekeeper of a respectable family, and to bring orders for mourning, &c. She generally gives a letter to a respectable silk house in Waterloo-place for the goods.

SAMUEL RANKEN, who is described as a man of colour, is not Mr. SAMUEL BRANDON RANKEN, of Chapel-place, Norwood ;-one of the addresses of the above SAMUEL RANKEN being at Norwood renders this notice necessary.

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