The National Register. — London, England, 1822-03-24 00:00:00

FRENCH FINANCE. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. MAacit 19. The Ministers were charged by M. Tetuan x with extravagant expenditure. Places had become the means of corruption Political dissention was solely occasioned by the struggle of parties to obtain fa vour, places, and pensions. The nation looked in vain tir the prevention of these abuses. France, after so many misfintunes, must also be made reli gious, but instead of that holy religion, formed by morals and the Evangelists, they beheld their most cruel enemies appear, and fanaticism, raising her ghastly head at the altar, disturbed divine worship, as well as conscience. —(Violent murmurs and inter ruption.)—They saw the funds destined to support the regular clergy devoted to the re-establishment of monastic orders, once consigned to oblivion.—(New murmurs.)—The French nation, by population, its ri:hes, and its power, ought to hold the first rank, and, among other nations, commercial advantages; but after being dragged, languishing in the suite of the Holy Alliance, it appeared that they could only b..: admitted per favour, and form to their natural r gltt s.—( Laugh ter.)—F run ce, however, possessed at tl:c present day sufficient experience and light to do justice to political Charlatans, who had given her nothing but vain promises, and who wished still to aL use her. NI. B. Constant entered into a long examination of the expellees of the interior. " I find," said he, " 4,000,000 for the clergy. I should not object to the expence necessary to support religion ; but I cannot consent to the unequal manner in which that stun is divided. I also see breed contributions Ihr the support of contributions for the support of mis sionaries, who are forced into the churches by a sudden eruption. They are maintained by blind obstinacy, and charges of cavalry interrupt their eauticles."—(Cries of Order.) A voice on the right.—These are indecent excla mations. Petards and stones thrown in at the win dows only trouble these pious exercises. The orator, at the conclusion of his speech, descended the tribune amidst a violent effervescence. A voice on the left exclaimed, " Print the speech." Several on the right, " No, no; it is a tissue of im- • positions and calumny." M. de Castelbajac endeavoured to remove the impressions made by M. Constant. He described him to be the apologist of all revolutions, and that at a moment when an unfortunate monarch thund himself nearly in the situation of Louis XVI. a short time before he was murdered by the revolu tionists. M. Constant had appealed to those out of the house, and accused the elections as not being na tieual. The speech was an appeal to the passions, nod he opposed the printing. M. de Girardin said the speech was not against the ministers of religion, but smugglers of religion. --(Violent cries of order.) A member.—Can Count Girardin prove that ? M. de Girardin. —The missionaries are opposed by all the Cures of the capital.—(No, it is false.) M. de Marcellus.—They are called by the reli gious pastors. M. de Girardin.—They come to exclaim against the Spaniards, whom they paint as rebels. The explanations of this speaker were met by loud clamours on the right side, where the benches were deserted in great disorder. The printing was re jected by a great majority. M. B. Constant then mounted the tribune to speak upon a personal attack, but the tumult pre vented him. All the right side rose, spontaneously exclaiming, " We have heard horrors enough; you are a rebel, a leader of faction, a provoker of trou bles, a friend of Gen. Bertlion, the apostle of revolts in all countries." M. B. Constant, pale and trembling, made vain efforts to be heard. A number of voices.—auld your tongue, factious man—rebel M. Piet.—You should be put under accusation fur your speech. A voice in the centre.—We have the advantage in number, and To-morrow, To-morrow. M. de Corcelles, on the left benches, said, " This is indecent." M. 13. Constant attempted to explain. A number of members in the lobbies repeated the words " smugglers of religion." The agitation was excessive. .Nl. de Sesmaisons,—Blood and rebellion fill upon your head. _ M. B. Constant.—Dlood extends to those who by bad laws have carried from France all her guaran tees. It falls upon those who abuse power to attain their designs. It will, in short, fail upon you. All the Members who were in the lobbies rushed out in disorder without example. M. B. Constant remained almost alone, and, ex hausted with fatigue, at last descended the tribune. The President postponed the discussion until the ilex: day and adjourned at six o'clock. THE NATIONAL REGISTER COIENT GARDEN THEATRE. The lovers of genuine comedy were highly gra tified on Tuesday evening by the production of that masterpiece of Sheridan's genius, The School for Scandal: amidst the vapid insipidity of modem plays, this truly classical performance is like an Oasis in the Desert, refreshing the weary traveller with unaccustomed verdure. The piece was played for the purpose of intro. during Mr. Charles Kemble to the audience, for the first time this season; he was greeted with that cor dial welcome which is the fair reward of his high professional merits : we trust that it will prove the harbinger of success to the new management of this Theatre, of which, we understand, Mr. C. Kemblc is placed at the head. It would be superfluous to comment on the parti culars of a performance on which the public have had so many opportunities of !brining their opinion ; but we cannot refrain front remarking, in a general manner, that Mr. C. Kemble represented Charles Surface with undiminished spirit and elegance, and well deserved the fervent applause which he re ceived. Mrs. Davison continues without a rival in the character of Lady Tante, which she performed with her usual sprightliness and grace. We are surprised that this lady's line talents are not more frequently I called into action, for she is admired as often as she is seen. Mr. Farren's Sir Peter was in his very best style, and there needs no higher praise: Mr. Fawcett's exertions gave unuusal prominence to the part of Sir Oliver Surface. Air. Macready's conception of Joseph is unques tionably just, but his execution is somewhat deficient in vigour. We beg leave to suggest to this gentle man, that a little more force of expression, and ele vation of tone, would greatly increase the effect of his performance; this observation might be fairly applied to Mr. Alacready's acting in general, for al though his under tones are always judiciously intro duced, they are not very well suited to the vast size of the Theatre, and arc sometimes almost unheard by those who sit far from the stage. Mr. Moses afforded a little extra merriment by a sly allusion to the late ministerial operations on the Navy Five per Cents., and the piece altogether was received in the most flattering manner by a nume rous and brilliant audience : we hope to see it soon repeated. On Monday last, Mr. Huse, from the bank, an nounced on the Stock Exchange, that " all those persons, holders of Five per Cent. Stock, who have dissented from the plan fur the redaction of inte rest, may, on giving notice on or before the 30th instant, receive the amount of their stock, at par, in money, on the sth of April, with, the quarter's interest then due. Those persons who have dis sented, and who decline receiving the amount on the sth of April, will be paid off on the sth of July.—Those persons who have the extended pri vilege of declaring their dissent till the I st of June, will likewise be paid off on the sth of July." Upon the subject of the report now current on the Continent, of an intended matrimonial alliance between his Britannic Majesty and a Danish Prin cess, a letter from Aix-la-Chapelle of the sth inst., inserted in the French papers, contains the fidlow in,. passage :—" It is affirmed that on the occasion of the ensuing marriage of George IV. with a Danish l'rincess, a treaty of alliance will be con cluded betyeen England and Denmark, in. which certain modifications will he stipulated relatively to the navigation of the Baltic. It is not said whe ther Russia and Sweden will be parties in this treaty." - - An extraordinary murder was lately committed at Petersburgh. The servant of a tinnily, on going into the kitchen, found a basket containing an infant, together with a letter and purse of 200 rouble. The letter escaped her notice, and tempted by the money, the inhuman wretch resolved to de stroy the child. She threw it into the large stove used in that country, where the poor innocent was speedily consumed : the money was secreted, and every thing likely to lead to suspicion put away, by :he time that the family, which had been abroad, returned home.. The master, however, a humane and respectable man, by accident found the letter which intbrmed him of the deposit, and stated that he should receive '2OO ruble:, every quarter while the infant, whom circumstances forced its parents to conceal, lived under his charge. Ile called up the servant, who at first denied all knowledge of the tact; but being closely questioned, at last con. fcssed her crime, to the enormity of which the ashes from the stove bore horrible tcstimony.—She was committed to prison, and has paid her forfeit life to the laws. On Sunday night the brewhousc of R. Mawby, Esq. at Blackheath, was broken open, and a fixed copper was taken down and carried away by some thieves, undiscovered.—The nightly depredations committed is this neighbourhood become alarming 03 To the Editor of the St. James's Chronic!e. SIR,—You have intellect teedly inserted in year respectable Journal of the 7th instant a very calumnious article, (signed, "A Prudent•lllau,") directed egaiiist the Norwich Colon Offices. This "Prudent .Stan" commences by some haelnied servations, which do not require notice, and proceeds to say, that " the National Union leas finished its career in a shorter period in the same way,' (in bankruptcy), as its Parent, the Norwich. Union fur mutual hi:manes,: after having blazoned forth its prodigious wealth in es, ty nook and coiner of the Ltnpire, is obliged to give up the ghost," Sc. dtc. . Now, Sir, so far from the " National Union" being t!ic child of the 6 6 Norwich Union," it was " a little ails en. tore" set tip in direct opposition to the 'Norwich, by discarded officer of the latter. And the " Prudent Mau '• is defied to prove (liberal as he is in his insinuations) that the Norwisli Society has "blazoned foul:" one shi; is L which it did nut possess. As to giving up the ghost, I shall speak more on that head presently. The most objectionable feature, honey. r, of the let's-; is, the attempt (by loose phraseology) to lead the reader into a supposition that the Norwich Union Office is at once a Lite and Fire Insurance Institution—with the in tent of injuring the Union Live Insurance Society, whir!' is perfectly distinct front the NJIAViCII Fise Office, and has nut experienced any alteration of plan whatever. That such is the objet most be evident—otherwise wiry introduce the Biriningliant Life Office—the CommerciA Lifcoffice—thePhilatithe opie AanitilvSociety—Dr.Prict observations (applying wholly to Offices connected with contingency of life)—and the question of reduced rates — (since the Fire Office never reduced its premiums.) He talks shout the " bursting of this bubble," (the Fire Office) forgetting that the " bubble" has realized to t: , 3 persons insiiiing a saving of One Hundred Tliiii.sa:i I Pounds, (three times as much as has ever been paid barn by the Comity), and that this " bobble" stands nearly at we head of all the Fire Offices in the empire ! He says, that the " Managers of the departed Norvric4 Union" are " contending in Chancery with the Members for the Fragments of the Old Suciety"!!! Bravo!! ! The " contention," Mr. Editor, was (as you will find veri fied on oath) between the great body of a Society com b' g sixty thuissived person:, and FOUR obscure indn is duals, who were not legally Members at all!—who, theta is reason to believe, were merely the tools of the ex-Se cretery—aud who were put out of Court, saddled will tne Costs! He finishes by speaking of "bankruptcies," and " ter giversations," and of the necessity of " the public" et,. (wiring into the " character unit conduct" of those v its offer protection, " before they" (Inca g, I presume, toe public) commit their Interests to bands " which base proved unfaithful: . Now in reply to this most libellous paragraph, I call on the writer to come forward and point out, if it is in his power, one single instance in which the Union Fire Office has failed in its engagements, or " cm 1111 l itted an art it bankruptcy"—and as to " unfaithful hands," I him to prove any thing ,which can cast a shade on the tegrity of the Directors of that great Instiuttion. But I will now advert to the stale of the Union OFS:!cs. The Norwich Union Fire Office has a capital of 3:tO, —pays this quarter ISOM. duty—(about as much as • •.e. County pays in half a year)—has increased in busiii-ss thrice as hands (let the public decide it unfaithful") of at!' , 2ll Aldermen of Norwich, four emineut [tinkers, sc.—‘lll/1 mite funds ale entrusted to the lion. OA Wodehouse, Sir Jacob Astley, Bart., 'l'. W. Coke, Esq M.P., R. H. Oar ney, Esq. H.P., Chas. Harvey, Esq. M.P., J. C. Cur wee, Esq. M.P., se. &c. Sc. As to the Lite Office (the real object of this attack )kt my opponent produce (if lie can) proofs that the Provides Office has been as prooperous as the Union Listitotion.— The latter HAS TRE.RLEAJ rrs BUSINESS IN .t.IX YEARS.—is in the receipt of a hundred t hotesai:4 pounds per a 1111 l un—lias a capital ofIiALF A MILLION--..vid as to the scale of its mortality, daffies comparisou with any Office in the Empire ! I am, Sir, &e. A moat PRUDENT MAN." P.S.--There is a difficulty in instituting a comparicin between the Union and Piovident Offices.—Th.! publishes iteaccomits and proceedings ; the latter is • - markably shy of ligines, though the community is often fivoured w:Ili accounts of complimentary resolutions passed at meetings of persons who seem delighted with the " management" of the " Managing Director.' The insurers with the Union too meet sometimes— Li!!t the grounds of the satisfaction which they es press w.lit the management of those whom the advocate of the Pt e vident insinuates are unfaithful, are before the wutl.l in black and white—each insurer, for example, who atteu.lttt the late meeting in London, eart: there with an accoutit in his hand, exhibiting facts—imlispot•ble slat eitigei,ts of money transactions, not mere general declamation or loose estimates t and the result of a mature consul, r aa Jll of those accounts was, the intake expression of 811111U:14.. lion recorded in their adverti.cinent, which appeascd the newspapers a few days after. Miran. At his house iu Clarges street, She lady of 11. Jedityt, esq. o. a daughter. tilts. Strum, of Percy street, of a daughter. At Claptain, the lasty of 1. 1 ickeil, ens. of a son. At :so:toils place, MEIO.I. G. kit like, of a ilaughter. 'I he lad) of John Clark, esq. tit Ileatheott sweet, Mecisicoba•gl. sguare, us 4 Solt. M, s. Sallies of Percy street, of a son. Abutter. • At Latnbeth, G. Calthrop, eq. to Jane, only .1410itar of the left 'l. Cockshutt, eq. of hersologton common. At NO/Mich, UCI4ViII, youngest son ot the late Dr. 11•. Greetae, of Tt Lusty eolleae,Catnbr idle, to Catherine Spencer, ssecouct daugnseeitt It. NOI ton, esq. of Ilawburgh hall, Norfolk. At Causbes well, Paul Goul). coq. to Miss Harriett Marla Sat.iiers, of the above Mr. Geinge 1% Sae, of Wood street, Cheapside, to Miss Eilessiy. of SULI,ItII4II4I. DiCb. On Wednesday tact, aged 34, l,aridt Welch, eel. nne ^l' the 01,14,4 members of the col pordtioo ot We sity oi Luwl.iu, mad ca..) )eate Depot) of the Wsiil of Csuil.eirick. At br /10 ndesaced age. 1110.1 thee, rel. lute Or L ., e , C 1 : 0 " square, one of his )iWielll) . • j umccs el the VC -0e: Lof the e,0w...y Middlesex. At l'eurn, aged 60 genre, the Rev. J. B. Wddinoce, 33 ,stsms naihister over Ute tuslcyenticut csougregatiou et raintonth• At I: f ootiAN. f. nruswneots.i. issed, W. At Isis house 10 eltPlule street. aged lA, Juba tech, esci. In Charles street, Nierlkeinigo6l ayuult, JAM,'" UrlUitol/, Cl l. /at. of Aorthnr t/t1 I 11111. a4vil At looting, iu c usequetice ,'i a fall trim a elnite, N:r J. =Sirs BlA..lrati.ta all cet, bssuthsv,u k, aucuuncer, aisd 36. ' dai.r.Att'MS