The National Register. — London, England, 1815-10-22 00:00:00

S erqcelulness Of action and attitude is inconsistent tvith the frolicseme levity of youth. Perhaps, how cver, ,this wits occasioned by the excessive agitation nnder which she scented to labour when appeared on the stage. It is true, that she has been ill treated by some %ugallant iters, blockheads who would wrap a blanket round the Medicean Venus, or cast stones at the Apollo Bell 'dere ; but as she has removed whatever the coldest heart could deem objectionable, let her not doubt the protection of the public against all tasteless *and unjust aLlacks. f it the toidshipman's dress she regained perfect possession of herself, and united grace with spirit and feeling. When she resumed the habiliments of her sex, she retained WI her excellence, and the melody of her %nice, the varied and rapid changes of her countenance, the occasional ditty and tenderness of her manner, still Llinglcd with artles3 simplicity, formed the most interesting and na!ural picture. This performance has since been rcikqtted with enthusiastic marks of public approbation. On Thursday', Mr. Kean's Othello drew one of the most c: owded houses of the season. He displayed his usual . c..cellence, and although he varied his mode of performing many parts, he did it with equal judgment, feeling, and eifect. Mr. Pope's Irtr;o was played K ith much discrimi ration and- spirit; and N. Bartley, iu 1/est/en/ono, and Mrs. Glover, 41 Einclia, justly obtained a large share of avolause. CON* ENT ARDENT. This Theatre has made a val nable.accini , ,iti on this week, the person of Mrs. Arnold, da;ightier to the Btitish 1/I,;lia, Jordan. That laity maile her first al►pear a;il;. on Wednesday last, as Roviliird, in Saakespeare's Gmedy of As I - ors Like It ; and well, and justly too, vas she likcjir. , tho audiviice. She maintained the ',elm tati.on of her laotle‘r. whose hest days she occasionally re v:died, and k a!reiely included amongst the favourites of a public. C- . 1 PT.-I witiGur. M. DIY-canal, an ',Advocate, who was imprisoned in the . Temple at. Ow same time as the al#ove-lanient.Nl Of ficer, has lately in the, Li. !•: , c Ger:elle. ; the follow ingle:ter, describing the manner in whizli he was at,sassi- YlatCLI. C.iptain xvlr• closely impri , omed in, one of those dungeons, , which in th lain.ria,:e of tyranny is called a Secret, and which includes the ;Ilea of every thing most terrible to • the imagination. Ile saw no human being l bat one individual, a tarnhey, %I Site(' 111111 thrice a day. Ili, Sccret -.vas situated in a small detached square, within which was also coutin:•il an .old Jesuit, about SO years of age, a -.man of quality and learning, olio ho noured me with his eteeni and confidence. The Captain bad his throat cut with a - vazor betweel 12 and half-past 12 at night (1). About seven the morning; the turnkey of this unfortunate officer a..voke all the Temple with his cribs, repeating over and tner---ne 11:ii . g•li , h Captain has hintYclf! The gaoler carne to the spot and allowed the prisoners to go into the apartment of the deceased. 1 entered in my turn, as did also l'lB of my companions in misfoitune. The Captain was extended on his bed covered with blood, and the fatal razor was lying on the 11'lor. A Muni/cur of the preceding day was lying as it Nkt;r:.: very apvropriatcly ou the nightAablc. It contained ~. TUC NATIONAL REGISTER. OCT. 22. the details of a bignal victory gained by the French. " You see (said the turnkeys, who were doubtless well taught by Savary) our victory has driven the English Captain to despair." No body,said a worddand rso one, not even the turnkeys themselves, believed the story. On this point the public - will particularly remember, that the reading of newstapers was strictly forbidden to Capt. Wri ;! ,lit; and that he had no razes . , as the barber of the Temple shaved him twice a week. accompanied and su.- perintended by one of the gaolers. These facts were notorious iu the prison. • Full of horror at the shocking sp-ctaele I had seen, I went into the Jesuit's apartment which was on the oppo site side, at some paces distance from the English Cap - tain's. " What crimes are committed i., this prison!' said lie, raising ins hands and eves towards Heaven. " Yes, father," I replied, " they are enormous and ex : coed all measure. Being so near the spot, s:ou h rye pro bably heard all that ipssed. For my part, I have heard a good part of it, or rather, I have seen the precursors of the catastrophe." " Who were they ?" " I Sh:111 tell you • —Being awake about midnight ( for there is little sound sleep iu'State-prisons), I very distinctly heard the door of the wicket open and then shut (2). I also heard some men walking in the court, as well as the O pening and shutting of the doer which leads to the tower. I confess I was seized with alarm, fur it was usually about this hoer that the gaolers came to extraire (that was their term when they removed a prisoaer) some unfortunate being iii order to carry him bel'ore a secret military coal m:ssian, and thence to a fusillade. " M fear was not unreasonable, (or many had in this mantic:. peri4ted during the night.; it ceased, however, •••vlien I found that the men I had heard were not coming my way. Curiosity now iollueneed me, and 1 put my head out at tive, grated window of my apartment. The assassins returned slowly at about half past twelve; but the night was very dark, acrd it was imposalble for ese to count them. The wicket was opened and shut again." Tin: Jesuit, in his turn, said to me, that about the same, hour he heard the gate of his square opened.— Three or four men came groping on their hands and vet (as he thoug'it), and opened and shut the door of •• the Captain's chamber. Some minutes alter, he heard it open and shut again, and finally heard the gate of the square shut (j). As for the mutilation of this brave officer, which the Ghent Jourerz.! stated, and which the General (hzzate of the Naherlandy has repeated on that authority, it is entirely a fiction which every judicious historian will re ject. las well as all the prisoners in the Temple saw the, dead body uaked ; and there was no mutilation except in the nech, where there was a very deep cut, about four inches in extent. A report of the pretended suicide was drawn up, and scut to London, with a Monacar as fake as the document. I shall soon send you information relative to General Pichegru. D'lkNoue . Advocate. (I) This will be proved by the ci:ettia3t.ance I shall state. • (-2) My apartment, which fronted the first wirket, was about CS feet di,tant 'tom it, and its elevation was about 80 fret. (:3) Whatever p-ecautions may be taken, the A:awing of donhle b:lrs, and the wining of keys in double and treble lock 4, seldom fail to awaken thy SOUlldeSt sleel.•ers.