The National Register. — London, England, 1813-04-11 00:00:00

APRIL DRURY LANE THEATRE. nu Tnursday, Mr. MOWERBY, who, some years ago, was broneht out at " The Haynuirket Theatre" in DIMOND% trans lation of I.a Coupable 11 ere, better known by the name of The Doubtful o n mute his first appearance on these boards, on 'rings dav, in the character of Othello. His perthrmance was generally respeetaule, and in some parts entitled to warm commendation. Hr is not, however, so mach improved since we last saw him, as to he in our estimation a frir•t rate actor. Neither his person nor his noWerti warrant a confident expectation that he will ever rank as such ; he may nevertheless be found a valuable acquisition to this Theatre, and conceive he will experience no difficulty in findiml parrs better sti..ted to his talents than Othello.—The immense pressure of Foreign intelligence precludes us from offering further strictures at present. MRS. SIDDONS. On Thin/day, this Lady commenced her readings at the Argyle Rooms ; she went through the Tragedy of Humid from the begin in gto the end of the clo.et scene. The di-Triinination and efirct with which she marked each character, afforded the highest grati tcation to the audience, and only left them to regret the early termination of the evening's performance. PRINCESS OF WALES. Yesterday se'nnight the City Remembraitecr waited upon her Royal Higliness the Princess of Wales, to know her Royal Highness's plea sure with respect to the time when the Sheriffs of London might wait upon her to learn w:len it wou:d be most convenient for the Corporation of ti.e City to present the Address, voted to her Royal Highness by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery in Common-hall assembled. The follow ing is a copy of her Royal Himliness's answer : Montagne-house, Blackheath, April 3, 18 '3. " Impressed wish the deepeit sense of gratitude for the unexpec ted h6nour the Lord Mayor, and the Noble City of London, intend to confer upon me, by presenting au address of congratulation on the happy annihilation of a conspiracy against my honour and my life ; I feet myself unable to do justice to my kelings to expressing my grateful acknowleelgnicitts for the sinew c interest the Lord Mayor and the City of London have evinced for my welfare and hap piness. The melancholy event of the Duchess of Brunswick's my mother's demise, involves me at this moment, in the deepest afflic tion. I shall not tail to send, on Monday next, an answer to the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs, to express more fully my sentiments on the honour intended to be conferred upon me. (Signed) " CAROLE\ E, Prss. of WALES." On Monday her Royal Highness signified her pleasure, that she wonld see the Sheriff'' , on the following morning. Aceording,ly, on Tuesday, they waited upon her Royal Highness, at Montague-house, illiackt‘cath ; and her Royal Highness has ap pointed Monday next, at two o'clock, to receive the Address, at Kensington Palace. KING CH %ItIA., MARTYR. On Wednesday lost at the interment of the Dochess Dowager nt Brunswick, an important discovrry was made. It had been i o iii sus_ pected tat the reanains of King Chles were deposited in this Vault at Wingin h g. Indeed, Wood in his ar Athena, and Mr Herbert in his Memoir, both state the supoosition. The Prince Revco t being down at Windsor on l'hur , ,day eyeing'', he was, of course, cou'ulted shout the mode f exploring these Royal remaios, which he directigl to be inostedtately done in his presence. Sir Henry 11.1 ford attended his Royal Highness to the vault, when the leaden coffin bring unsoldered, a body appeared, covered over with a cored emit ; on carefully stripping the head and face, the coun.enanee or the unfortunate 'Alarty r, Charles the Fit st, ituntediorly are trod, iu features apparently per fect as when he lived, but the admissiogi of an eaus.•d the eye immedi ately to disappear. severen head h ,d heel' carefully adjusted to the shoulders ; and the h o,t p.glect resemblance to the portraits was remarked in the oval Sha ;1,. of the head, the )minted heard, &c. frag• thews of which were eatetelty taken oft a• ui wee v.,:; to identify the body. On liltitog op the •l• Id., the fo-urr made by the axe was clearly discovered by nir H. HAMA, amid Ole flesh, though somewhat darkened, Was fonod a- he in a tolerably per:ect state. It is nut true, however, as has be it reported, gl•at a fluid drop. resenthling blood, fel! from it. I. the same v nit was also t o wed a deca‘ed leaden coffin, Conta)ling t e renyi.g.s gd liens' Ei?11.11, ish.en consisted of tainting inure than the skull, withso.l e hair on the elan and the principal limb bates, Ina perfcc. state. We utpierstand, that by coning: mil of toot Z~ri tie flogent, a tun arrount of this ittt:..rft-lihg, disegivery, as far us it tog.trds the Martyred King, is to be proparcd by bir Henry lialfurd. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LUDRICROUS GAZETTE; OR, THINGS TO BE LAUGHED AT 1 237 A wise-acre co n nected with Newspaper had the good sense to insert the following correspondence last Sunday, and to pla card it about the streets as something of wonderful importance, which he had the honour of giving to the world Exclusively ! Overture from the Ministers of the Prince Regent to Her Royal High ness The Prinvess of Woks ( sent on Tuesday last )• No. I. "We are instructed by his Itoyal Highness the Prince of WALES, • to make known to your Royal Highties• that a proposition, compre hending the extension of your Royal Flightless's establishment Oh II larger scale, will be submitted to your Royal Highness's consideratios on Thursday next. We are, &c. &c. " ELDON, " LIVERPOOL. 44 CASTLEREAGH. " Carlton House, Tuesday. " To her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES. " No. 11. " Montague-house, Wednesday. " lam commanded to acknowledge the receipt of a letter, signed F,LTION, LIVEn POOL, and CASTLER EAGH, by her Royal Highness the Princess of WALEs, and to desire you to acquaint the authority from whom it originated, that nothing short of THE FULL ESTABLISHMENT IN HER RIGHTS will satisfy her Royal Highness, as that is the only means of convincing the people of England, beyond a doubt (which some have dared to express), of her full and perfect innocence. " Her Royal Highness also commands me to add, that she pe remptorily insists, as the first step towards her long withheld dignities. that her apartments in Carlton• House be assigned over to the care of her Royal Highness's own proper servants. " Finaly,—Her Royal Highness will not return any reply to any question or proposition that may be made hereafter, until her Royal Highness is assured, that the secret and illegal examinations, now Coe a time suspended, are put to a conclusion, never again to be revived. I am, Sm. ,Sze. " ANNE HAMILTON." To Lord Eldon, &c. No. 111. " Thursday Morning. " Lord Liverpool is commanded to acquaint her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES that her Royal Highness's letter has been re. ccived—is now under consideration, and will be replied to early this evenine." " [The reply was received at Montagne House on Thursday even ing and contained a rejection of the terms claimed by Lady Anne HAmrt,Totsi on the part of her Royal Highness the Princess of It is ininece , sary to say the whole was a piece of mischievous wag gery, the thiT! speaks foe itself, we only wonder the Printers Dccils did not discover the cheat. LORD MOIRA AND MR. WHITBREAD. It might almost he suspeeted that a similar hoax had been sue eessrolly played off on the editor of the Morning Chronicle, if the subjoined iidienlons letters had not appeared in all the papers, with out being disavowed by those whose names they r bea. April 2, 1813. DEAR Stn—The first report of wbat,had passed in the House of Commons, made me conceive that your procedure had been hostile; and the matter was the more inexplicable to me, from my thinking that your access to documents, as well as the conversations you had hell with me, ought to have secured me from any misapprehensiou on the points . agitated. From that impression 1 tumid myself stra i t tely embarr4ssed about an explanation which I was at the same time higivy solicitous to give. l felt invinciole repugnance to an swering you in an Assembly where you could not reply ; and direct address to yourself was precluded by what 1 tool understood as the tone taken by you. The correct statement of your speech in the 410111' 1 , 1 1, Chronicle, which I must consider as the true versioli, lLs door away all difficulty : and I ant truly indebted to von for haviog now the means or covrectiog an ambignity, if oily thing of the suit be supposed to exist in my statement.- I . cannot say, that in niy vieie of the subject, any expression of mine is equivocal ; but if there be town fio, a double construction, even troll' a wait of all vettenee in persons to the context, I must think myself fortunate in an opportunity of renderher the points distinct. Your remarks attach upon two passages: that whi II ooftatliaa Partridge attlevoted to the Pi ini:vai of W ich represents Ales ; that N