The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-31 00:00:00

11 . 4 E 'N • 'taken tbr the pi their public functions. " We consider it to be our furtherand indispensable duty, to assure your Exrellenc v, although 'we'eannot chnlbt that' titer late abominable murder el l en individual—as amiable a Mk,ristrate, and as upright es any that have beenleft behind to etnulate his example in the firm support Of the laws—was intended as a mea, sure of intimidation, as.applieti to the whole body of tracy, to suspend -and paralyze the exercise -of our important functions, that we are, notwithstanding determined, one au& all,; to stand by each other withfirtnness . and perseverance, and.stea-: dily to conti tine in the discharge of our public duties, until . in-. surrection and outrage shall have been .effectually . repressed social relations and domestic tranquillity re established; and-the spirit•of combination and tonspiracy—tlie fatal source. of so. tna ny evils, sacrifices, and . crimes, eliectuallrdissolved, .and .un. feagnedlv abandoned. " Ana the • Magistrates of the Barony r,f Clanwilliam, upon: whom, as placed in more immediate vicinity to the scene of the; late most atrocious outrage, the duty of resisting, by the strong: arm of the law, that desperate spi ri t of violence and assassination,: w mld seem to hare been thrown in the first, instance, and in a special degree ; and which the aid, to.be afforded by a more dis- tant co-operation, must, of necessity, be comparatively weak aria inefficient, haying declared themselves aid" the ordinary power! of the Mirjstracy entirely incompetent -to undertake so -deep a responsile I ity ; and having called for the strong interposition of his Majesty's toyernment, , and the extension, to their particular district, of the provisions of the Act of the 54th rear of the King, cap. 13, entitled, an Act' for the better execution of Me luwc in Ireland, by appointing superintendia,g Magistrates and addiiional Constables, in counties, in certain cases : ,btracy i " We, the Justices of the Peace of the county Of Tipperarv d here in Sper!ial Sessions assembled, think it our duty, under the peculiar circumstances herein before recited, unanimously to submit it to your Excellency, as our opinion and humble recom - suendation, that the provisions of the said Act may he extended • accordingly to the said Barony of Clanwilliatn. " Confiding in your.Excelleney's administration, for a perse• verance in the same wise and equitable principle which, in the selection of the persons already made fur carrying these extraor dinary powers into effect, has so effectually protected the Go 'verninent, not less than the Magistrates theinelves, against the imputation of those unworthy motives, of an undue attention to ,patronage on the one hand, and belf-interet on the other." (Signed, Doriouv no nu, and 75 other Magistrates.) THE LORD LIEUTE.NANT's ANSWER. " Dublin Castic. Dec. 17, 1815. "Mr Loan--I am commanded by the Lord Lieutenant to acquaint your Lordship, that his Excellency has received the Address which your Lordship was requested to transmit whim, from a General Meeting of the .NlagiArates of the coutrty of Tipperary. " It is gratifying in the highest de,;ree to his Excellency, to . receive from a body so deeply interested in the welfare of that County, an assurance that they approve of theseveral measures to which his Excellency. has resorted, for the purpose of restoring • and maintaining the public peace, of bringing to justice the murderers of a roost upright and efficienelligistrate, and of protecting from the same fate those who were associated with him in the performance of duties, to the conscientious discharge .of which he fell a victim. "While his Excellency deeply deplores thp loss whiff So ciety has sustained by this atricious murder, he has seen, with the greatest satisfaction, that, so far from intimidating the Ma gistrates, it has stimulated them to enereased exertion ; and that, by the general indignation which it has - excited, and the union which it has promoted, this crime itself has been instru tneatal in defeating the very..object for which it was planted and . perpetraied. " Ells Excel encv desires me to assure the :Magistrates, that e‘ cry energy of the Executive Government shalt continue to be. appited ;a aid of-their personal exertigalh* anti stiptilit-the melt hut* at present in oporatiou provt tnadequatei he will not 'PIC. 31. 10 su, othe!s,•as tir- shrink tioin the respiy_ gent necessity may call for and jottify. "'His Excellency has directed immediate steps to be taken, with the viewofapplving to the Barony of Clanwill lam, the pro ,visions of the Act which the Magistrates have reconintended,to be enforced ; .and they may be assui (xi, that in selecting the in strtiroents.for carrying it into'execution, his Excellency will act upon the rfil c ple upon which he has hitherto acted—and con sider tteir . eincitucy their strongest and their sole reconitneu 'dation. " 1 have the honour to be, &c. ROBilitT 44 The Itightilon. the Earl . of Donoughinore, atc.Zec. tiro." TIM DRAMATIC REGISTER. du original CRITHEUE on 'BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, OA the BEGGAR'S' Boot, and its REvtvaL. .(As promised last week.) The transcendant merit of our early dramatic writers is now fully acknowledged. •Shokespeare, partly by the acting of Garrick, , and partly by the zeal of some com. mentators Of genius, amongst wham we enumerate War. &urina l ..Prlpe, and Johnson, has long since been rescued from the oblivion into which a taste, vitiated by the dissi pation of a luxurious Court, in the days of the Id Charles, anit'an absurd admiration for French manners end• French clritleisln, - (the manners and the criticism of the tinsel -age of Louis XI V.) - had thrown him ; and the active, restietts curiosity of the present age, certainly not deficient in ori. ginal genius, but almost encumbered with learning, affords a' fair'opportunity for again decorating with fresh laurels the honoured heads of Beaumont acid Fletcher, and-the learned Jonson. The two :former were, at one time, the favourite poets of the town ;Attiring their lives, - they almost usurped the stage, and.theirplays were much mora frequently-acted than those of Shakelpeare. During the Commonwealth, and•the usurpatiantrferonstrell, the stage suffered - ate inkerreenum ; .and when the puritanical spirit had. passed away; there came, with - theßestoration, an alai , .puritanical epirit, which . could -take - no pleasure in - the sound -and ..solid sense of our .forefithevs, ' , bet converted every thing into frivolity.and.unbridled debauchery. With a. Co u rt, sueb-as is_ described. by the Count De .Grammo fit, .it. is .quite impossible that any good taste .could have been preserved ; for, not to, have debauched the taste of a pen. ph., must have left them all the misery df consciousness, in fhe midst of their ciegradation; And.out CIE the just sense of their humiliation, would have sprung :theptoutl spirit of re. sistance. It required some years,. before the genius even of Shakespeare could escape from the. shade. into •which his fame must necessarily in such times :pass. 'His merits.are now fully known; and as Bearmsont , and. Fletcher bad formerly almost excluded him - from the • stage, each is the revolution of events, that we find they, having been per. baps at first too highly praised, have been certainly since too much neglected. In learning, they appear to havegreatly surpassed Shakespeare, of whose knowledge and.learniag however, we have formed by no means so Contemptible a notion as some of his critics. In sublimity And pathos, they must, of course, come short of him who surpassed all 'others, In richness of fancy also, they are unequal ; and there is a sweetness in the harmony of Shakespeare': verse, in which he is quite unrivolled. His ear seoins to have bleu toned as nicety as that of Milton, who alone, in his maiuwt, in the beautiful Mask of Comm*, and in some