the 9th of September at St Christo' pher's, and very considerable damage was done on shore to the canes and the plantations.

Sydney Gazettes bring an account that no less then 400 new settlers

were to receive grants of land; that the colony had the brightest prospects before it. Much new land had been discovered in the interior, of excellent quality, and the colonists hope soon

to make olive oil, wine, hemp, and dried fruits, articles of exportation. Sir Thomas Brisbane, the new governor, left Rio de Janeiro in August on his voyage thither.

The Earl of Chatham, the new Governor of Gibraltar, arrived there on the 15th Nov. under a salute, and proceeded to the convent, where the keys of the fortress were delivered to him by the Lieut.-governor.

THE French budget for 1822 was laid before the Chambers on the 27th of November, by the Minister of Finance, who gave in his estimates for 1822 at 890 millions of francs, which is an excess over the last year of seven millions; but the ways were more than commensurate to meet the amount. The charge for the consolidated debt was 228,864,560 fr. being a diminution of 188,204 f. upon that charge under that head for 1821. The charge for the civil list and Royal Family, 34,000,000 f. The floating annuities, 10,400,000 f. being 400,000 f. less than the last year. In the pension-list, a diminution had taken place of 1,242,925 f. The charge for the Legion of Honour was 3,400,000 f. and 10,000,000 f. for defraying interests. The expenditure under the head of Presidency of the Council of Ministers," was fixed at 180,000 f. On the disbursements for the Ministry of Justice, which, in 1821, amounted to 17,879,500 f. an augmentation was necessary, from the addition of a seventh Chamber to the Tribunal of the First Instance in Paris. The estimate for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs was 7,870,000 f. being 15,000 f. beyond the expenditure of 1821; and that for the Home Department 112,085,000 f. being an increase of 3,145,814 f. The charge in the War Department was 176,472,000 f. being an increase of 1,735,400 f. The estimate for the Marine Department was 52,980,000 f. being an excess of 7,020,000 f. to be incurred for the purpose of putting the navy in a complete state of repair. The charge for the Finance Depart

ment was 138,846,880 f. being an excess of 1,975,595 f. compared with the budget for the last year. The sum total of the estimates for 1822 was 889,541,340 f. presenting an augmen

tation of 7,306,066 f. The Minister, after stating these various charges, proceeded to detail his ways and means. He stated the advantages resulting to the Treasury from the sale of rentes in August, which would render it unnecessary any longer to have recourse to the issue of extraordinary securities, and had determined the Government to pay the reconnoissances of liquidation in money. The total of the Ways and Means was stated at 890,000,033 f. exceeding the presumed demands by a sum of 458,693 f.-On the 30th Nov. the Chamber of Deputies presented an address to the King, which was agreed to after a stormy debate. The Address was in the following terms :—

"SIRE,-Your faithful subjects, the the foot of the Throne, with the profound Deputies of the Departments, approach expression of their devotion and respect; to which they are happy to be able to add that of truth, which a legitimate King is alone worthy of hearing.

"Your sorrows, Sire, have been those of all France; she consoles herself, with her King, on the sacred cradle in which reposes the heir of our love, and that of your example. This infant will accom

plish the promises of his birth, and the desires of your tenderness. He will grow ness; and, full of your mind, he will up under your eyes for the public happiunite all hearts.

"We congratulate you, Sire, upon your continued amicable relations with Foreign Powers, in the just confidence that a peace so precious has not been purchased by sacrifices incompatible with the honour of the Nation, and the dignity

of

your

Crown.

Majesty extend to all the calamities The benevolent thoughts of your which afflict Europe. Foreigners, as well as Frenchmen, bless the protecting hand which aids them for the honour of humanity. Let religion, let the interests of ubjects, weigh fully in the scale of a

of State for the Department of the Interior.

"The Marquess de Clermont Tonnerre, Peer of France, Minister Secretary of State for the Department of the Marine.

"The Sieur de Villele, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Minister Secretary of State for the Department of Finance.

"Our Minister Secretary of State for the Department of our Household, is charged with the execution of the present Ordonnance.

"Given at Paris, from the Castle of the Tuileries, Dec. 14, in the year of grace 1821, and the 27th of our reign.

(Signed) "LOUIS. (By order of the King) "LAURISTON." It remains to be seen whether the new party will not be more arbitrary than the old one in its conduct. To judge by their professions, they will do much for France; but in cabinets these are to be but lightly appreciated. One thing they are pledged to perform, and that is, to establish a more reasonable law for the government of the press. Little alteration was caused in the French funds by these changes.

The latest accounts from Spain mention the subsidence of the yellow fever, which has so long desolated the country. The deaths at Cadiz and at Xeres, where it made its latest appearance, were diminishing; at Barcelona this pest had entirely disappeared. The same distrust of the throne which has appeared every where in Spain since the late changes has not diminished. The known character of Ferdinand, it is to be feared, gives much ground for this distrust; and the irritation reigning among different parties, will infallibly give rise to scenes of disturbance, unless great wisdom and firmness are united on the part of the individuals on whom the management of the affairs of the nation may more immediately devolve. The reasons for this belief have been confirmed by the representations addressed to the government. Corunna, Malaga, and Xeres, are said to be in open opposition to their rulers. Great ferment prevailed in Seville, and the inhabitants of Cadiz had refused to receive the Baron Andilla, who had been sent to them in the character of CommandantGeneral. The latter circumstance gave rise to a communication from the King to the Cortes, as follows:

"It is with the most profound anguish of heart that I have learned the late events

at Cadiz, where, under the pretext of attachment to the Constitution, the rights which it vests in my person have been defied and trampled upon. I have commanded my Secretaries of State to present to the Cortes the details of so lamentable an event, in full confidence that they will co-operate with energy, in concert with my Government, to take steps that the prerogatives of my Crown, as well as public liberty, (which is one of their guarantees) may be preserved inviolable. My desires are the same as those of the Cortes: they have only for object the observation and consolidation of the Constitutional system; but the Cortes know that the infractions which Ministers may commit against the rights of the nation are as contrary to that system, as are the excesses of those who attack the rights which the Constitution has reserved to solemn circumstances, the Cortes will the Throne. I hope that, under these give to our country, and to Europe, a new proof of the spirit of conciliation which has always distinguished them; and that they will profit of the occasion now offered, to contribute in the most efficacious manner towards the consolidation of the Constitution of the Monarchy; the advantages of which cannot be experienced, and which would even be exposed to immediate ruin, if the evils

which we now deplore be not crushed in their birth. (Signed) "FERDINAND.

"San Lorenzo, Nov. 25, 1821."

This message was ultimately referred to a commission, after a warm debate, in which the ministers were repeatedly attacked in the severest terms.

The Greeks gain fresh successes over the barbarians who have so long been their oppressors. Tripolizza in the Morea has fallen into their hands, and has been made the chief seat of government.

Ali Pacha of Janina had sent them a present of 2,000,000 of seq.with a letter of congratulation. This letter was signed "Constantine," and marked the abandonment of the Islam faith by this redoubted foe of the Porte. "Above 30,000 men," said one account of the taking of Tripolizza, “penetrated into the streets; they demanded the hostages: they were no more; the Holy Archbishops, and the Bishops, had been massacred. At this news, the fury of the Greeks knew no bounds, 8000 Turks, bearing arms, were put to the sword, 12 or 13,000 others of all ages, and both sexes, suffered the same fate. In the coffers of the Vizier, 89 millions in specie were found. Above

100 brass cannon were taken, and 20,000 muskets, and a quantity of ammunition. The martyred Archbishops and Bishops were seven in number; among them were those of Monembacia and Amyclea, of which Tripolizza was the See. The infidels put to death 600 of the hostages also. As for the brave men who died gloriously in the assault, their number was scarcely three hundred."

In the mean time the situation of affairs in the East has changed for the better. Persia has not only declared war against Turkey, but has actually commenced hostilities in Asia. The fact is stated positively, and it is inferred that this would not have been done without some previous concert or communication with Russia; and that Russia will put her armies in motion against Turkey, as soon as military operations can be undertaken from the banks of the Pruth. The Emperor had sent his ultimatum to Constantinople, in reply to the last note of the Porte. His Majesty, it is said, abides by the resolutions which he has already announced, but does not depart from the principle adopted at Laybach, insists on the establishment of a system insuring the just rights of the innocent Greeks stipulated by former treaties, and the immediate evacuation of Moldavia and Wallachia.

The measures of Sir T. Maitland, in the Ionian Islands, respecting the conduct of the inhabitants to their countrymen, has roused a spirit of inextinguishable hostility to his measures on the part of the islanders. Five or six had been executed, and they had subsequently had recourse to measures styled rebellious against the acts of their protector, as he is denominated. An order was issued to disarm the population; and a letter from Trieste states, that they have resisted the order, betaken themselves to the mountains, and skirmished with the troops sent to reduce them.

A

The Portuguese Cortes go on deliberately framing the Constitution, and make considerable progress. projet of a decree for the formal abolition of the Patriarchal Church in Lisbon, had been laid before it, and been subjected to discussion. This is part of the reform in the church intended by the new Government of Portugal, and it could not have com

menced with a more interesting measure. The establishment of a Patriarchal Church in Lisbon was intended, merely to flatter the vanity of John V. and cost Portugal many millions, all of which were sacrificed to the avarice of the Court of Rome. It has since cost the nation upwards of 220 contos de reis, about 55,000l. sterling per annum, without serving any beneficial purpose.

The freedom of South America is now nearly established by the different disasters to the cause of Old Spain at the battle of Caraboze, where the English mainly contributed to the vietory-by the fall of Lima and Carthagena, and the revolution in Mexico. She retains her hold of that vast continent by a thread, which in a little time must be snapped asunder, and the whole be separated from her for ever. Puerto Cabello, Porto Bello, Panama, the castles of Callao, and some untenable towns and districts in Peru, are all that remain.

General Bolivar has been elected President of Columbia, and the General Congress was employed in discussing the plan for public education, and in forming laws for regulating the commerce of the Republic.

Letters from Havannah contain advices from Mexico, by which it appears that the Liberating Army of the Three Guarantees, under the command of Senor Don Augustin de Iturbide, made their entry into the capital of New Spain on the 27th of September. On the same day, under the Presidency of Iturbide, with the title of Generalissimo by sea and land of the empire of Mexico, a Regency, composed of five members, was appointed. A Supreme Junta was also created, of which the Bishop of Puebla was declared President. The establishment of the Government was followed by the nomination of the different Ministers and Authorities: the oath they were required to take simply pledged them to adhere to the stipulations of the treaty of Cordova.

The latest intelligence from the United States mentions that the House of Representatives had met in Congress, and that the President's Message was daily expected at the coast. The Seventeenth Congress appears to be formed of a large proportion of new members.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Miss BAILLIE'S De Monfort, after a long interval, has been again produced on the stage of this theatre. In her preface to her series of plays on the Passions, the richly-gifted and excellent author expresses her wish that she could introduce them to the world through the medium of the stage, rather than the press, because "a few tears from the simple and young would be, in her eyes, pearls of great price; and the spontaneous, untutored plaudits of the rude and uncultivated, would come to her heart as offerings of no mean value." We sympathise so heartily in this feeling, that we rejoiced to find De Monfort announced for revival; enjoyed with peculiar zest all the applause which it excited, and saw with regret the hasty suspension of its course, in consequence of its want of those theatrical blandishments which are requisite to brilliant success. In theory Miss Baillie's plan of making all things in a play subservient to the developement of a single passion, seems to us erroneous; because character is only one part of tragic excellence; because the scheme tends to that nice analysis of motive which a theatrical public will not wait to appreciate; and because it may prevent the free play and counterpoise of opposite interests and feelings, by the absorption of all into one, as the serpents of the magicians were devoured by the transmuted rod of Aaron. But viewed in reference to the individual case of the author, we think the theory has rather aided than impeded her aspirations for tragic fame. The female mind has rarely entire command over the sterner emotions which belong to tragedy it will deviate too much into beauty, tenderness, and domestic familiarities -it will rather depict virtue as a sweet necessity of nature, than as the product of high resolution, and will dissolve the soul, which should bear proudly up against the shocks of fortune, in gentle tears. But a theory like Miss Baillie's is a perpetual support to a woman against this amiable weakness; it pledges her to a high office from which she may not retire; and serves as a kind of heroical scaffolding to aid

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the completion of her majestic designs. Miss Baillie's plays, however defective in theatrical interest, are cast in a grander mould than any else ever written by woman; they have a stern and melancholy power over the soul, which makes it "sadder and wiser;" and possess much of the fulness and weight, though little of the fanciful sweetnesses of our elder bards. She has penetrated far into the sylvan glooms of romantic tragedy, where the black stream of passion flows without retiring ebb, reflecting all the mighty foliage by its side in its own sad and pensive colouring.

The character of De Monfort is finely moulded out of coarse and unattractive materials. Hate, engendered by opposition in childish enterprises and sports, and nurtured by the success of its object, is either the vice of a contemptible mind, or the mere disease of an irresponsible madman. In either case it does not seem adapted to dramatic purposes; and yet, so admirably has this difficulty been encountered by the genius of the author, that we neither loathe nor despise the hater she has drawn, nor regard him for a moment as "a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain." There is a fascination about him which keeps us within his circle in spite of ourselves. Rezenvelt, his gay, careless, sarcastic rival, is very ingeniously conceived, but scarcely developed at sufficient length to form an adequate contrast or relief to the melancholy murderer. But the noblest object in the play is the character of Jane De Monfort, a fine sketch of true female heroism and sisterly love, hit off with all the intensity and freedom of a masterly hand. There is not, in the whole compass of our poetry, a more true and affecting example of a sister's disinterested regard, as distinguished from more passionate and selfish fondnesses, than is contained in her refusal to join the party where her truant brother is expected

"Therefore it is I would not, gentle hos

tess.

Here will he find all that can woo the

heart

To joy and sweet forgetfulness of pain ;

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