The National Register. — London, England, 1808-04-03 00:00:00

r - 7, TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. An event of considerable importance to the world of Ton has since sprung up, in the death of " the Ito)al Dane ;" an event which may, perhaps, throws us all into infairming. So sombre , and lugubrious a circumstance, threatens to blight the tender buds of Fancy, to turn the gay shops of Bond-street into me mentos of mortality, and to confound Abigail', Dyers, and Old Clothes Women, into one ►►►otley groupe of fashionable confusion. One hope still remains for the gay woM : this is an un precedented ease, Ft is expected that the arbiter of Court Eti quette will feel the motives of zeneral convenience so power fully as to induce him to wave a form, which in the midst of hostility might pass for insult. _ CITY. Tuesday a Court of Aldermen was held at Guildhall, at which the price of the quartern loaf was ordered to replant at lld. (in Wednesday a Deputation, consisting of the Lord twelve Aldermen, the Recorder, the Sherilts, and twelve otthe Common Council, waited upon Isis Majesty at Palace with a loyal Address, to which his Majesty rei folio►sing gracious answer. I thank you for vour very loyal and dutiful Arb" " The nssurances I receive of \ our unshaken at? any person and Government, allOrd n►e the greatest sa, " The example you have given to all ranks and of my people, of union and public spirit, at this i►npu, cannot but produce the most benelicinlconsequeires, me to resist effectually the poy►erful and extensive ce which the enemy * ins directed against my dominions, toattly to accomplish the great object of all my efforts—a se cure and taking peace." APRIL 3. found the Most enlightened persons' in other respects at, totally ignorant of the relative situation of the public and the Company, lie then adverted to the general notion, that the Company were in arrears to the public nearly six millions, and said it was owing to the successful exertions of himself and his friends that this claim on the part of the vublic had not at present the shadow of any l• jai exi-truce. The Deputy Chairman perfectly co-incided with his Learned Friend as to the mkerably gross ignorance and misconception which was so prevalent with respect to the Company's affairs ; he eould assure the proprietors, that the Committee of which he had the hoto.ur to be a ►uember, had not been disposed to trench on the Company's rights; should such an idea unfortu nately occur, not a moment's time would be lost in convening his con.t ituents. Captain tieorge iVelttlen, of the ship Indus, took leave of the court previous to departing• fur Madras and Bengal. Tl►e Court adjourned at six o•cloel. THE THEA,TRES. INB. lng was produced, a new Comedy, called Kenney, the nnthor of Raising , 111 a Rosenberg, and other popular race - Our observations on this Comedy by pal characters, and of the plot :- 11r. Elliston. Mr. Banni!..ter. IF . hzde.t . Mr. Mathews. SOW, Mr. Wcwitzee. Soria! Mr. Pur:er. Loiter Mr. De ('amp. Dauntless Mr. Palmer. Margin Mr. Maddocks, Lady Bloomfield Mrs. Jordan. Mrs. Barclay Mrs. Powell. Eleanor Barclay Miss Boyce. Eeho, who has long been pinned to his mother's apron st ein„ comes to town to begin business and woo Lady Bloomfield, a rich widow. Though naturally well-disposed, he commits sc- Neral follies from his ignorance of the world, and imitates the• manners and the tones of all his idle acquaintance. This regard to the opinion of The World, has induced him to abandon, in her adversity, Eleanor Barclay, whom he once honourably loved. Ch( viol, a foundling, was during infancy dependent on Mr. Doti , - mint, a man of fortune• in Northumberland, w Ito placed him with St6tle, a Ambling - merchant : but the high spirit of Cheviot re volts from his guardian's practices; he leaves the business, and, disdaining to apply for further charity to Davenan►, who has never admitted him to his presence, he maintains himself as an author. 13y rescuing Lady Bloomfield in a fracas at the opera, Cheviot interests her affections : she sends him a bank-note, enclosed in a letter signed by the Goddess Fortune : and he, with the money destined to dissipate hi- own distresses, presently relieves the poverty of Mrs. Barclay, a prisoner in the King's Bench, by purchasing, in Margin's shop, a volume of manuscript sermons, which Eleanor has come thither to sell. The rivalship of hettiot and Echo, as admirers of Lady Bloomfield, produces a sharp remonstrance from Echo : who, however, by a strong appeal to his feelings, made by Cheviot in favour of Eleanor, is brought back to a sense of his duty, shakes off' Dauntless and Loiter, his idle companions, and is restored to the amiable object of his early love. Cheviot is discovered to be a natural son Of Davenant, who, from a weak fear of The IVorld, has ncser owned him: but who, nevertheless, under the name of Witht has found him in London by the assistance of the good-natured Index, and heard him reproach his parents for abandoning their child. Mrs. Barclay owns herself his mother, who having, since her seduction, wedded and become a widow, receives honourable amends iu a marriage with Mr. Davenant. Cheviot, after some !kik obstacles, occasioned by his own pride and poverty) ii2d the Queen's i•cturua the ldress i , On Thursday Evening • World, written by at isfitti: et; 'lllaesdaiiony, descrions pieces. We will prefai lirtant crisis, an account of the princil , in cuabiiiig Cheviot .. ronfe*Tacy, Echo is, and ulti- COMSION COUNCIL. N motion wa • made that Petitions be presented to both houses at Parhaircut, expressing regret that the bill f or p reven ti ng the granting Places in Reversion (which was regarded as the first step towards a reformation of existing alai,e,) should have been defeated, anti pra:, ing that mencurns max be adopted for carrying so neee.►ary and betteticial a Bill into effect ; and also for eau-ing inquiries to be made into the Receipt, Maragc►neut, and Expenditure of the Public money, and adopting stt: 7 ll mea rare- as n e t:. effectually guard against such abuses is future, and tor abolishing all unnecessary Places and Pensions, as a means of consolidating the strength of the empire ; and calling forth the united energies and exertions of the people, which was , econded and agreed to, anti a committee n as appointed to withdraw and prepare the same, and beinA returned the Petitions were read, agreed to, anti ordered to be fairly transcribed, and signed by the Town Clerk, and presented by the Sheriffs attended by the Reinembraneer. Mr. W. Howell was elected by ballot to serve the ()nice of Water Whir, in the room of Henry Sheitheard, EN. deceased. LAST INDIA AFFAIRS. Wednesday a quarterly Geucral Court was held at.t`►e East India llou,e. The Chairman ( Mr. Edward Parry) laid several acc9unt before the Court, agreeably to the bye-laws; the titles of w hich Laving be..n read, Mr. NI. Rock wished to be informed whether those papers were sufficiently ample to enable the Proprietors to form a com plete judgment of the state of their affairs. On the Chairman's replying in the negative, :Nis. handle Jackson said, that the custom had been to have all the papers in the. Company's possession read pro . forma, which would enable the proprietors to have access to them at their convenience. _ The Deputy Chairman (Mr. Grant) having adverted to the existing Committee of Investigation in the House of Commons, hoped the Proprietors would give the Executive Body due credit that should an thing arise which might he deemed impor tant to the interests of the Company the earliest notice would be given to the General Court. Mr. Randle Jackson expressed his gratitude to the Honour able Deputy for his intimation. He confessed he felt a more than usual anxiety on the subject, as there was not any instance of a Committee being appointed with such power, since the year 178'; ) . ; and it must be well recollected what a revolution in the constitution-of the Company that Committee had produced. I4e Mt the more deeply the importance of the subject, when he rsm,i.e.iin..,..zaCia.am 7 "; 4 " - W . -- r► ~.+