The National Register. — London, England, 1813-11-28 00:00:00

NOV, THE NA TTONA Children of oirr Country Cathedrals are hardly better - .attended to than those whose neglected state • has furnished the sub jc of this paper ; but wl!ose wrotigs, let us hope, will in due season he judicially redressed. Reform orrly can here avert ruin.. We owe it to the piety of . our ancestors, owe it to the credit of ourselves, we owe it to the welfare of our po,terity—we owe it to the God whom we worship, and to the Country that we love!—td preserve inviolate the billowed institutions of our forefatheis ; and thus convey them down, in all their purity, to distant, verydistant, gene rations. Oticstuus. •• • Peraintrilator has reached his destination. • This production l►as hot been printed fur sale. nis is entitled, 11-wever, ;1 4 fOlll/ %s Letters to the fii.hop of London, the Dean of St. Poe-, and other Digidiaries of that Church, on the present . State of On! Choristeis witi►.Evidences respecting the Ancient School attached to 11:e Cathedral ; and observations on Dean Collet's Founda tion, eeneralk known by the name of Saint Taal', School.' These Leueri are t , ivned ' M',ria Hackett,' and are teportja to he the pro duction of a Lady of property and worth. They certainly evince a very atij►eriur mind• piLim .1 rlc REGISTER. DRURY-LANE. This Theatre has this week produced two novelties. A musical Farce was perfolaned, for the first time, on Moodily, under the title at' !` Who's In here Her?" It would really be a waste of time to dwt II on the slender merits or prominent deti•ets of this pro duct ion. It is so little likely to annoy fishing, that condemnation would be as ernel, as praise would be ridiculous.* The business consists of the stratagems of two-lovers, to prevent one mar rbsge and effect another. These stratagems arc unnsually poor and and the piece is altogether so languid, that those who at tend the rerformance, though disposed to favour it, could find no pretext for clapping • and, notwithstanding it went ofr without upposition, it receive:l very little applause. .M.ux.DEN's drollery, and a clap trap or two, about " John Itull"--" Liberty7—ansl A " Holla n d," liVt're the only things that made a strong impression on. the Audience, alai the.4c of course, any scribbler could..prodnee at plea-nrc, as well as the ingenious Gentleman who fintnislied them on this occasion.—lt may languish it.week or two, hut if it should endured so long, by the apathy of the town,it will certainly Miter be recalled as that which leas any chance of gaining their favour. Now:it/had, produced on limrsday, is said. to be from. the pro lific pen of LonivlivßoN. it appears, however, that his *word ship's &lunatic. Muse is yet too timorous to venture on original Nights. Not only the plot of his drama is avowedly taken from Mrs. Sin-mina:Vs tale of Nourjahail, lint the whole seems to us a translation trom a piece which wits represented ten years atro at one of the Parisian theatres. The following is a sketch of the fable : The Rattan of °rums. Shapiseddin (Me. RAF: }; wishes to try his favourite, Nuenjahad (Mr ELLI9TOO, before he appoints him his Grand Vizier, because he has heard hini . duclare that unbounded north, and immortality on C th , formed. the summit of his desires. For that purpose I.:: leaves him in a magnificent palace, where, noon after, a pretended Genius appears to him, and offers him un bounded riches and immortality, on the part ef the Prophet who has read his heart on conditon that whenver his conduct should hi impro per lie should be subject to trances of a length proportionate to his of fence. IL submits to these (onus, and receives a key and a phial the former lends him to apparently inexhaustible treasures': the lat ter renders him immortal. The first use he makes of these gifts is, not ithstanding Isis love for his - wife, Itiondane (Mrs. Hain :+i), to purchase a whole seraglio of beautifal slaves, and in defiance to the .precepts of Maimmet, to be guilty of intoxication. A slcepine powder hay- I ing .been put in the Vine, this fv•st fault is puoiAn d by a truce which he is told.lasted four years and a month, during which his be loved Mondiwc has died in giving Isirth to a son. Alter the first bursts of,.surprisc and of grief are over, and Hamm (Mr. Lovr.- GROVE) his chief attendant, has iliforintql bi,et that. all liiikslaves sur vive, he once more resolves to enjoy perfect happiness, and Drabs ft represent of Mahomet's Paradise to be acted on earth. He mimics the prophet, and the fair Znictau (Miss Poots becomes his chief Howl ! wliilst the sports aad dances of hei•companaons, mixed with a band of select youths, proslnce a scene drOirViN in present enjoyiaent'all trace of - grief, and all recollection of the condition attached to the gifts of the Genius. In the midst ul his revas, he is IS' . . . informs 41 that an. old man comes tu. ransom his -4atirchtensysmo, ~-. Nourjahatts slaves, who fired with her beauty, insultingly refitse* to restore her. This scrotal fault being more considerable Oar klut first, i , !inis:led with a loneertramteAnd Nouejohod awakingut the end Of forty years, supposed sintaber, finds lin sem, nil his slaves, and the Sultan dead. Only one man survives, who reproaches him aids his folly, and afar cxeressing his abhorrence of him, declares himself to be his son. This last blow completes Nourjakod's disgust fir and both tidies and immortality become loathsome to him: His , ovstl . / 1 / 1 17/datlC is then introduced to him as his .grand daughter, and at the time he thinks he may yet be happy,thty are all seized by t he pada of Shamsheddin's snrtnried successor, on account of . 21'ourjuhaa's His son is condemned to instant executi , ;n, and his grand daughter is sent to the Haarem. Left to himself, Nourjahad curses his riches and invokes death, when the Genius reappears, and offers to re% store him his regretted mortality. He accepts the proposal, though in momenta' y expectation Of belie , sent to the scadidd, like his`son, when the Genius waves her hand " ; the bottom of the stage opens, and the Sultan and all his friends are seen, Manddne gouts lwr hua band, and the Sultan, who hail assumed the chitractcr 01 - Nourjuhfas son, appoints him his Grand Vizier. flues closes this 'mantle drains, which contains many interest . rug situations, and is assisted in its progress . by thesuriz: of scenery, the wimp of military processions, and the pleasing display of . fe l , male grace and beauty, in elegant attitudes sportive dances. [ The language is plain, natural, awl occasionally forcible. But it • neither reseals the richness nor tke feeling of a poet. The • city of the action renders it rather dull to English taste ; though in the opinion of those conversant with the ancient stage, it may ad 4 to its interest. EL I.ISTON expressed the varied. passions by whielo Nuudishad is agitated in the course of his trials, with his usual lido,. lily to nature and to feeling. RAE reserved his strength fpr the scene in which he appears as Nintriand's son, in which he displayed much energy. Mrs. thiats and Mr. Lovrqinove gave. full effect to their respi-ctive characters, and Miss POOLE in Zadema, the chief slave, displayed the united and - seductive attractions of beauty and melody. The dances were tastefully planned and skilfully executed, especially by Miss SMITH, tire scenery was splendid. and the manner in which the flenius appears, dimly seen at first in all the toyzte rioustiess of obscurity, every shade then vanishiinz by degrees tit she bursts info unclouded light, was new an.' highly applauded: A crowded audience received this piece with the most v.. thusiastic approbation, which it has since continued to obtaau. . The musk, by Mr. is only a tasteful selection. Mr: Simisio, lute of the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, fell down• on ii.turdav in a fit and almost instantly expired. He bad for some time past been in the fleet prison foi:debt, and !mine, settled with • his creditors, was dressing himself again to entity his liberty, whets the .event took place, • liis father :Iccidentally met his death a few years afro hir over she Irinniktrrs Of the T tvern stairs. FonGED Sr.imPs asp NoTEs.---Triday William Atkinson anti Mary his wife, underwent another examination, charged with forginz and uttering stamps,. and Colchester hank-uotes, of the firm of Cricket and Co. f hey uer:2 folly committed for trial. Mr. Cricket was bound over to prosecute on the part of the bank, and Mr, Fiance. on the part of the stamp-office. rn On Thursday se'unight, au inquest was held at Carrickfergus, on the hody of John Hooper, n boy helimeiittr to his Majesty's ship Meier* (now lying in that hat bout ), ho had inflicted a severe wound on his throat with a knife, on the Moodily morning previous. It appeared It appeared from the evidence of Su: goon Deese, oldie ship, and others, that the ulifuttunate youth had bern threatened with punishment in con sequence of improper conduct ; that lie secreted himself on Monday to t alling , at ; that a cornnral of nullities was o rrlercd b etween ,kek. to search for him ; who tinitul him on the cable-tier, hiding be. hind the inns, ; that he did not er when spoken to, and on drugging hu,, f rom I; s e place of entice .luww, his throat was cut, and bleeding profusely ; a knife was 1401051 IR-ule hon. Every assistance was innue. et en ; nut he cavired hum Iws of blood, oi Wednesday eve Ling., Verdict—Feb de ay. DIED At hie house in n:Sr►•, suddenly, of an apoplectic fit, G. John.tone, F. , q. Al. P.. for Fleydon. Lately, at , ca, Mr. W. Clarke, Captain of the Rebecca privateer, of Folkstone, who, 14.). fccipellt pr.wtiee, had acquired the argot throwing tlic,l le:id wi I:1 his 14.etli f.ire.o.r than almost auy man could do with hi , hands.; apd in his last ex.peiiinent, from having . 1w Isis baLlree, • lie fell a sacrifice to his dexterity. • On Wednes - day lira, ortcr 4 lona illnesq, of a cancer, in her 5 year, Mary Sarre; %vile tit' Su.,:e; Pavement, Mooriielda. 1 , A ,W-