The National Register. — London, England, 1814-07-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL -REGISTER. juI,V 2. DRAMATIC REGISTER. HAYMARKE'I"FHEATItt. A yew afterpieee was brought ont.at this. House last Monday, under the title 'of Come and See. It has been represented as a trans lation from the German, but seems to us to derive its origin from L'Avengle ,Clairvoyant, a French piece, produced some twenty ye;irs ago at the Paris theatres with much success. The plot is in the style of all French plays. simple but well conducted. Capbiin Sea/wig/4, a naval officer, returnstrom sea. and pretends to have lost his sight, for the purpose of trying the constancy of his Lady. She, however, during ahsence, formed an attachment with the Captain's nephew, and avail( herself of the blindr.ess of the husband to elude Tie circumstance is soon known, but the Captain hears it like a philosopher, and reflects with much whim on the folly of matrirnony at his tine of life. There is a fop pish physician introduced, who is entrapped into marring an an tiquated maid, el irk aff.rdel much merriment, and which was hei:2litened with C:e humour and sea wit of the Cipt:iin's Valet. This plain canvass has been filled up w ith many more common. place sentillet:t: than a piece of this nature is in :zetieral condemned to !itiAneyed joke.; are not ‘rantit:g to pie:lse the gal ' anti those who still retain any taste. Were these ex c, wi•( Iv' pruned olf, there is no donla but Coltir am! See I.:!,l,eimii:ine to WWI its motto, and to draw cunsidcrab!e o; v:::ttors. • Im-I.6,lllEolcup; announced for Friday At this house were, frays awl Yours, No Son::,. no Sapper, and Coyne and See. The lionse was v , Ty well a tt en: kj, an d the andiellt`V, ati they reasonably - Mi'rht Were SAlrvllilte iu their eXi)eCtatiollS of entertainineat, when thy% the niortitication to see Mr. Brunton enter. iu the char::crcr of au apolo-ist. He brought them intelligence of an nui d ea ,, ant nathre, whie.': not a liti:e damped the tnivtit of the eveniog, as he was charged to coat iii the distresiog fart, that two of the best comedians of the d a y, %%hose names Were in t:ie C0111:1 Hot ap• pear in consequencc of an accident, %vide!' Matte it impossible for them to continue their professional !aboard. The accident we un derstand oecnrred in Parliament•strect, neat... Catmit row. Messrs. Mathews and Terry were together in a gig, 11C11 the reins be Caine entangled et ith the horie'i le;z3. Their etiout: to di,en galzt. !i t em were ttnsnere,tsfol, and they tvcre thrown f .rward from the v. liicic on tho stones %vitt.' violence. were both mach b u t Mr, M,ithews is stated to have suffered ( . 0114(1er:11)1v more than ME. Tole. ' Ilis thillt bone w;lg at tirAt thonght to have b.g.t tractor et!, but this, we are happy to hear, was a mistake. I:is wa ., dreadfully cot and briiised, and, it is i*Cartli lie will not Oe able to rcsitine his prulesional duties for sonie time. In eon , e(inenee of this initortunate at - elite:it, 'Mr Brunton per. formed the part assigned to Itass(ll, and the latter that of .Sir Darid, l .I)..,n;:er, uled for Mathews. lZus,eli, taking the part on short notice, acquitted Limselt With lilt it and loott , ntr. The sceraid piece was No Song no Sapper, in which Mr. am the Norwich state, made his first ippe:o-ance oil London board=, in the part of .16: 1 ila, lie is active and spli ited, and !..e,a ve a characteristic portrait o f a ge!!crot;s tar. 'File part Of Margar Eta tea:, .us!ai ne d b y a youug. Llik wholly new to the stage. S.t' poN , e , :•til a good tigore, %%Oh a pit asivg face and mai king eyes. llcr vocal powers c' not rO - or tide in quality, and, i!nii:kt all 'RI' terrors, stet, stoned fi...)ariit too notch ill her cadences. nniziing Ike ii ind wa s st,bstituted for Conic and :;ee •••••• INCL.: 1 ;11 TII E vritn. Tuesday night the opera of Bich and Poor was performed for the tirst time this season, and allorite*i a fresh opportunity for the ammseerdent abilities of Mi:s he Ily and Mr. Fnwcett to display themselves. In tin ir immtet view as lather amid daughter, time former was - so impressed by her just conception of the charactur, tilat sin. fainted before the scene was finished. They were under the or cessitv of 71(1111(11k terin' att'r, scents, &c. and the latter part Int the la , t wene \V its to cess.arily omitted. (.7imoke, of 1):Iltlirm, inside his first appearance this season - last nioit, in the character of Scroßkier in the .`age of Belgrado. Tile latene.:s Of the hour only allows ns to say, that hi , wo. received with th - it applanie which Ilia ;gel! powers of v.)ice anti &served. LORD COCHRANE. 477 Die following letter has been iient to S. Brnoks,Esq Chairman of the Committee of the Electors of Westminster hang's Bench, July 18th, 1814. Sits—Amongst all the ocCurrences of my life, I can call to my me mory no one, which has produced so great a degree of exultation in my breast, ns this, through a channel I so high!) , esteem, has been communicated to me, that, after all the machii,ntions of corruption (bringing into play her ch icest agents) have been able to effect against me, the Citirtns of Westminster have, mm1611)0113 voice, pronounced me worthy of continuing. to be one of their IL-prest ntatices iii Parlia Merely to he a Member of the House of Commons Os now made tip) is something too meagre to be a gr:nilicati , in to Ine. Bat, when reflect on that lovt olcountry, that devotion to freedom, that soundness of judgment, that wish:iken adherence to troth ,rues justice. which have invariably mailed the proceedings of the Citizens of Westminster ; and, when further reflect, that it is i,f Sir Francis Burdett whom they have now, for the third Cline, made me the Colleague, how am I to express, on the one hand, my gratitude towards Own). and, on the other, the contempt which I feel for all the distinctions of birth, and for all the wealth and ail the decorations, which Ministers and Kings have it, un der the present sys:em, in their ;lower to bestow ? \Vitt' regard to the case, till , agitations of which has been the cense of this, to me most graiif ti result, I am in it a apprehens'on as no the opinions and fed.w.ts of rise word, un.l especially of the pvirple Eo g l not ; who, thour ! li they may he occasionally misled, are never de liberately cruel or unj:ast.—U:elr let it be said of me:—The Stack c'oisc have accused ;--Lord Ellentwou , fh has eharg-il for gni!ty ; --the Special mare have found thin guilt ;—the Court have senteocrki la the Was,. if Co:a/nous have expelled ; -and the Citizens of Westminster n ‘‘, j--only let this he the record placed against my name, and I r.hait be proud to stand in the Calendar of Cri minals all the days of lily life. In requesting you, Sir, to convey thcse my sentiments to nit Cf.nsti tuents at large, I cannot rtfiJin Irons neguing you pin' the other Gen tle:llmi of the Cumminee, to accept of iny particular and unfeigned th:inks, I am, Sir, your must obedit lit huall,:e ,ervnitt, COCIIIIA NE. A report is current, on the correctness of which we place considerable reliance, that Dc Hevener has written both to Government and to bold Cochrane. In his letter to Govern ment he avows himself to have personated C.'ol. Dubimrg, of which, indeed, there could be no doubt, and reflect, on ilia conduct of hii A daily Paper states, " that on Saturday morning aimut oat; o'e.oc/•, a messenger presented himself at the door of the King's Rench prison, demanding access. Coming at so nnser.3onable an hour, when, according to the rules of the prison, the doors had been long shut azainst visitors, the . Keeper at first refused admission ; but on its being stated by the messenger, that he had a letter to deliver from Lord Sid mouth to Lord Cochrane, witich admitted Wu° delay, the doc;:s were thrown open, and the bearer of this very urgent dispatch made his way to Lord Cochrane's room. His Lordship was enjoying that repose to which the guilty mind is a straner, when be was roused by the hitt uder, who presented the letter from Lord Sidmouth, dated on Friday evening, which he said required an immedicte answer. On opening it, Loid Cochrane found it to contain an intimation, that the Prince Regent had struck out his name from the list of persons coin posing the Order of the Rath, and requiring of his Lordship to return the insignia of that Order Lord Cochrane, as understand, declined complying at that time with this peremp tory requisition." Count Stab reinherg, Governor of Florence, has stoppo. 100 chests filled wi;h plate and ocher valuables which wei, on the point Of being carried away for Madame Eliza Baccio chi (,13uonapa: te's sister ), and which had been stripper from the State and Fai.tly from Individuals. The island of Corfu las been formally deliverer General Campbell by the King of France's Commiss Lsci parit up t itmers. 4 • • • 4 I p