The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-16 00:00:00

JAN. IG. A in:LH froth Cadiz arrived on Tuesday.—The Freneb are said to have sent some of the artillery at Barcelona to France, and to have debtroyed many pieces of cannon. Three thou- Fand veteran snldiers, a great proportion of whom were ser jtants and corpornis, 17N1 been sent to France, to be replaced bv cons( ipts. There is a report,that Suchet is to be super-. sedcd by Mortier. Private accounts from Lord Wellington's army are said to report, that the French statement, respecting the severe rem-mitre of some of *their cavalry with a detachment of the British 18th llussars, is not unfounded.. The detach ment of the-lath consisted of two -troops only, which we7e severely cut up. Among the casualties of the Officers, it is said, that Major Hughes was dangerously wounded; and Captains Bolton and Croker, and two subalterns, are said to have been cut down. The affair was stated. in the French pers to have - taken place on the 18th of December. The German Papers aye filled with lamentable accounts (4' the distress of she Hamburghers, who ha% e been cruelly CN Felled from their homes by l)avoust. However,•their helpless condition immediately attracted title attention of the own Prince, who, with a promptitude and generosity that add, if pos s ible, to his fame, appropriated 40,000 dollars to the use of the soarers, and issued orders that they should be accommodated in Lubeck and Bremen. More is promised when the large sum already given is exhaust?d. His ex ample, as well as the situation of the unfortunate victims, haq excited a strong sensation in their behalf. The wet chants established in Heligoland, promptly openzd a suh ars iption for their relief; and the Governor of the island, J,ieut.•l'ol.Hatnifton, humanely contributed Iotol. to that object.—A mong a variety of decrees issued by order of Da voust, to the unfortunate inhabitantS of Hamburg)), is one to elect a Comini,sion, which is to condemn to death persons, who, under the prosure of his bat barity, may use " inflam matory speeches fending to exaspet ate the inhabitants against the troops?' Government received on Tuesday morning dicpatche from the Continent, announcing the fall to the allied forges of :he ',want fortress of Nitneguen in Dutch Blabant, of Torgau and Erfurt h in Saxony, of Blamont in the depart ment of Doubs in France, and of Zara the capital of the •pro• v ince of that name in Venitian Daltnatia, together with the no less important intelligence of the passage of the Rhine at Dasse:d,tl by General Kleist, at the head of a Prussian army. .4portly after the arrival of the messengers who were the bearers of these dispatches, the following brief sutmuary of their contents was circulated : " The dispatches teceived this morning by Government state that the head quarters of the Allies wet e still at I orrach. General Kleist, at the head of a Prussian army, has ctocsed the at Dusseldorf. Nimegucu, Torgati, Erfur h, Zara, anti Blamont, are all in pqsscssion of the Allies. Blaniont is in Lorraine, not far from Loneville." A Mail arrived on Tuesday from Holland, with accounts from the Hague to the: 7th, and from Bremen to the Id. inst. The passage of the Rhine is every where effected without oprositi , in. The Austrians under Prince Schwartzenberg 11..ve entered Fiance from Switzerland, and are near Be,an con. (.eneral Kleist has crossed at Dusseldorff to proceed to Brabant. General Blucher, with the Silesian army, has crossed between Bingen and Caub into the der,rtment of the Rhine and Mossel:e. General St. Priest entered Cob lentc on New 'Yeats day. Cologne is also said to in their po,session. Gen. Bu;ow is to advance into Blabant with LU t f:UO wen. Tnere i a tcpoit flout Holland of some action TIT NAT ,gOl 6 . dft. • I 4 REGISTER. between Cologne, and Bonn, Macdonald were defeated. 43 in which the French ui de: It is declared as a positive fact, that in one of the la e affairs on the bank of the Ad iur, when a British regime ►t cha!ged a French one through a village, the British we e actually cheesed by the inhabitants ; this sentiment, whic't regards the invaders deliverers, i 3 sa:d to be by no meals race in that part of the country. DRAMATIC lIEGMTER. DRURY.I.ANE. Narensky, or the load to rdroclqf, an Opera in three acts, was performed for the first time last Tuesday at this Theatre. Its plot and dialogue arc ft om the pen of Mr. Bttows, a new candidate for dramatic fame, who, unless his next attempt should prove more deserving, promises long to remain a can didate. The musk, however, amply compensates for the poverty of the story and of the language. It is the joint eomposition of Messrs. BILAHAM and It kIEvES, and displays their usual taste and alhilities. Two of the songs in the first act, are evidently wanting in originality, and the airs from which they have been taken not sufficiently disguised. In the rest, the met it of novelty is combined with that of ele gant and expressive melody. The Echo song is particularly beautiful and was executed by BRAHAM with unrivalled simplicity and feeling. This celebrated singer's chief fault is, in general, an erroneous compliance with the taste of the most boisterous pat t of the Public for ornament : throughout this piece, however, both as a comnoser and a singer, he has ventured to follow the dictates of his own taste, and the con tinual encores and thundering peals of applause with which all his songs were received by the audience, wil', we trust, induce him in future to obey his own impulse without fear ing to lose the plaudits which have hitherto crowned his ex ertions. Mrs. DicKoNs was also very successful and greeted with as much public approbation in all her songs. Sim plicity may, 'however, he also recommended to that Lady, whose powers of execution are hut too likely to lead her into the contrary extreme. Miss KELLY had bat little to do, but performed it with her accustomed spirit, and went through her exel cise with remaikable ease and exactness. ig the story of the piece little more need be said, titan that it is a slight variation of The Miller aid kis Men, with the addition of an under plot of little interest. As in that afterpiece, the lover Iwcomes a robber in order to save his mistresi who is tiavelling with her father, in which attempt he is at length successful. The only difference is, that Lothaire, in The .111/:cr and his Men, goes to meet the banditti, whilst Netensly is taken by them, and only joins them when he hears`that his mistress is in danger. Tins dances at the conclusion of this Opera, and the excellent music throughout, secured it a very favourable reception, and will give it a run in spite of its want of general interest, 'COVENT GARDE". After an absence of two years, Mr. JoaN fi rmr.LF mado his first appearance last night, on these ly , ards, in Cwio!a //us, and was received with all the honour doe to so old and distinguished a favourite. His ah , ence, far front having impaired. seems to have given a new vigour :0 Ins spirits; and, upon the whole, we think he never appeared to gi..atcr advantage. The House was crowded. The Olympic Theatre. continues to increase in at the manaw.r, Mr. Russel, secures appionation, 1) duction of novclrv, and the performers by their ► 'k.re fully emitted to the applause with which they noured. ;..~~: ,' • A-. ...O. _ 1. 't, • traction; the pro- e‘eiti-ns y ate lio- .