The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-10 00:00:00

of Bajatet, Reiman., vs requited tó delineate the-fihished fed to tame the spirit of a Shrew affections an irritated 'and disappointed woman; added to which, we are apt to draw comparisons between excellency and ex cellence. We could not forget that we had seen Mr. Ellis. ton in this character ; aad in the comparison Mr. Kean was certainly by no means ectual to his predecessor. In the scene with Juliana, on firstlinparting to her the• pretended cheat he had put upot‘ her, aril informing her that he was no Puke —in that in which Lopez invites them to partake of the sustic sports of the villagers, and in his delivery of his instruction to his wife, as to the manner in which he wishedker to attire herself for the dance, he was greatly successful, and loudly applauded. A new musical Farce was produced here ou Thursday night, under the title of " 34 Spouse and The story concerns a tyrant landlord. who after perpetrating various persecutions upon a young lady who is his ward, because she rejects his addresses, and upon the tenants of his reputed property, with whom the young lady takes refuze, i• at length ousted from his guardianship, by the lady coming o age; and from the estite, by due process ofi court of law, when his successor, through whose agency his plans te.v, been defeated. marries the young lady, and restores the tenants their 1 .o•es. This little piece does not call for much criticism. and rertainly merits no severity. There are sum- tolerable jokes in it, and many pa rs of proverbs, given by Paddo k, a farmer which, with the addition of 64 as I says •o my spouse, awl as my spouse says to woe," keep up 1.1, pod humour of the )lEllh-ice. There is.a very goud turn g , ven to the vulgar aid fats proverb, " When pov , rt v comes in at the door, love oat of the window," in " l'he l e oat poverty can frighten out of the window deserves io have the door shut in his face." A political jest in it seemed• well relished the audience. A dirty c , :nstable says, he is tilt.- representative of the King , i.) whicri is then the King is as ill represented a some of hi , sul l ects " w)s well acted by Os berry, , Mrs. Bland, Miss Kelly, &c. The songs by Wh taker wer simule awl pretty, and the whole went off with undivided applause. and preach tolerant. . • failed. --f Fiere follows ---! Lagar(le, - and the s ings Ordinance.] 81 of , Paris journalsisave made entiott of W.hat Passad at Nisrileadurieg the stay of .the Duk e D'Angouleme in that city. lmpartiallY mak'ng it. oor duty to =how facts to their true light, we shad supply this ;Vence, and add here some details coming from good authority, and extract ed few). merit letter; teceird from Panguedoc„ stating ip substance what follows: The Duke WAngouleme, who went in the beginning of November to Nisines, received; during his stay there, two am: o wl of the. No i teitalit Cousistory, who were the auly ones that had not oaken flight ; one of whom was the'Presiderit and Nimister Olivier Dismons. The Duke expressed to this be putation his regret, and the chazriu that the persecutions to which the Protestants in the knot!) had been exposed had Citli•• him ; and assured then] that they should be in future prevented, 'and even kept down by force of arms; and that the King's gii iTprntsrent would affordahe Protecauts all protection that,. (therefore, all their churches should be immediately opened !'slgain, and that they might feels, exercise their worship. •The Duke D'Aitgottletue at the same tiine represented this to Reputation, that the inhabitants of the Cevennes bad done , dery ill, in u't Eri..itiz tip their arms when they we-e collect 'upon sn to do. One of the Deputation observed, that the 4e habitants, though armed, bad already experienced so tnuch persecution font the s,oi-dis.ant royalists, that they thouglzt themselves obliged, for the sake of their own safety, n a to suffer themselves to be disarmed. They even went farther, and requested the Prince to he pleased to . publish a proclama tion at Nisi-ries, to make known his opinions 'and favourable sentiments towards the Protestants, and exhort the people no longer to persecute them under the pretext of royalism: b a t *he Prince refused this just demand, alle'Titig, that his p over* did not authorise him to make such Proclamations. This con ' fession of the D Ike's - confounded the Pro estan:s. and inflamed the audacity of their persecutors. It is even said, that the De .putatimi of the Protestants, in order to avoid the insults of the populace, was conduced to the Duke by a military escoefotod entered by a back door the house were the Prince put up. Ac cording to some accounts, the Protestant Deputies Sc' reds lett. the town to pay their respects to the Duke, and to recommend their interests to him before he entered the city. However this may be, on the Sunday after the Duke's departure, divine service was again performed in a Protestant church, the entrance of which was guarded by a considerable armed force; but this precaution was in vain. File people, beinp, lammed that the church was open, col lected together, and went thither, uttering imprecations at:d menaces, fo.ced the guard, and entered the church; those who were in it with difficulty saying themselves by inmediate flight. General I.agard, being informed of this, strengthened the guard. and iepaired in person to the spot. [Mere follows the account of his being shot at.] Some persons attribute these last troubles at Nimes to the refusal of the Duke of A tigouleme, to some ecclesiastics, to set at liberty the famous 'rasa - 1110n, (as others spell it, 1 iestaillon,) chief of a band of assassins, te.liug them their demand wax more than unseasonable, and that this man was to be judged by the •Compeient tribunal to which he had been delivered. The Duke, who was at Toulouse when this uassed, hastened to, return to Nismes as soon as be was informed of it. It is to be hoped, the reinforcements he has with him, and the measures. prescribed by the King's Ordinance, will pot an end to troubles, the authors of which, it cannot he dissembled, are the impure Ireinains of saes-c.o.'atism, who, after having been kept down by the iron sceptre of Buonaparte, emboldened by the mildness . of Louis XVIII have resumed their ancient audacity, and have joined the adherents of the usurper, to consummate, if time is given them, the ruin Of the French nation. But one is asto nished that the police, ao active under Buonaparte, and which ha; so long kept &mit these monsters, wtien confided to the ,sating Nardi ander should have been unable to restraita the aul l bangef l 4nd 4h9tild, ls t them commit these . . eiisnes with kart ~ THE NATIONAL REGISTErt• -- - -i V` -1 t & _ . i. - .T" ...." h..- 11 are very different from those t:,r its ohjeet to calm peoples minds. and led courtier—the man quail- If this was his object, it •bas onntPlinhlY ((ilk ew, and gain the affections of the mention of the assassination of General ‘„,„,„;„ .AA.A ~, ,A,l,j, „,„ King's Ordinance.] But none of the Paris jc COVENT. GARDEN. Under the romantic title of Babinet, the Bandit; or The Forest of Rontescorpini, a new comic mu , icai en tertainment was produced at this Theatre on Monday night. The plot hinges on the circumstances of Flo!) too ( Liston) after being discharged from the service of a drunken master for favouring the elopement of his daughter, falling into the hands of a banditti in crossing a forest, as well as the eloping couple ; and tneir subsequent endeavours to rescue themselves from the power of the robbers Listwes comic acting, and several interesting points in the piece, procured it a favourable reception till towards , he close ; when, the denouement being_ badly arrangfd, much disap• probation was shtwit ; it has been since nightlx repeated. DUTCH PAPEIVS. LTIEDEN, SoV. 29.—The troubles which, since the return of Couis XVIII,. have not ceased to a4i tate the south of France, have assuinod a more serious character than ever, and the event has proie,d that the accounts we gave, foal time to time % were exact, though the, P4ris joornals were ang t ry, and have censured our articles with au ihOopeht sevel l ty. We kiKur that the jouige,y of Mike Vitzsourciu, to ttte south ;lad • 1 11 1 1 1. 1111 4