The National Register. — London, England, 1817-08-04 00:00:00

AUGUST 4. ascertained the dimensions of their ships: and with a view to avoid the evil of inequality of size, so sorely felt by us in the last short war with America, it has ordered a considerable number of men of war and frigates, upon a similar construction, to be laid down immediately By accounts received from Montreal it appears that Lord Selkirk had left Fort William at the beginning of May and proceeded into the interior, for the pur pose of re-establishing his important settlement on the Bed-river. Many of those settlers, who had been plundered. and driven away last year, after their houses had been burnt to the gronnd by people professing to act under the authority of the North-West Company, had again returned to settle ; and the Indians had done every thing in their power to assist the re-esta blishment of a colony which was likely to prove so be nificial to them. Lord Selkirk meant to return to Montreal in September: and had fortunately appre hended some of the North-West Company's people, who had committed a barbarous murder. An Officer of the 531 regiment at St. Helena, writes word—" Buonaparte allows no person to visit him but his own retinue, seldom walks, and never rides out a promenading ; his billiard-room is the only exercise he enjoys; he is more sallow (his natural complexion) than when I first saw him, and more stooped, owing, I suppose, to a want of his usual exercisc.—Count Las Cases and son were sent off the Island for endeavouring to ibrward privately some com munication to Europe. The attempt was extremely ingenious, done on satin, in hieroglyphics and other characters, and could not be decyphered without the aid of a microscope ; this was made up into a waistcoat, and given to a boy, a native, lately a servant on his establishment, with instructions to present it to a correspondent at home, for which he was to receive a handsome reward. The lad informed his father of the secret." The following are further particulars contained in the le,ter from an officer of the 53d reg. at St. Helena. " Longwood, thy residence of litionaparte, is regularly planted with the gum tree, an evergreen, and grows to the !height of an elm. it is the most temperate and beautiful part of the island, except the residence of the Governor, commanding an extensive view of the ocean, where you may perceive the arrival of every ship ; the climate is delight tat, being t. ‘n degrees cooler here than in James Town, or any of the vrsllie.. " Buonaparte keeps himself much Rerlnded of late t his es tablishment was reduced some time since, in consequence of the great eonsitisiptimi of his numerous followers, and the scarcity of fres:3 pros isiona, However, the reduction extend. ed to only Puni itowski, a Pole, and three French domestics. Marshal and Couute-s Remand, are Buonaparte's greatest favourites; the former is the most worthy person composing his suit e , a,.d the latt eranelegattt woman, highly accomplished, and of au amiable dispositiou ; she is nearly related to Lord Dillou. They have four beautiful children, three boys and a girl. " The game here consists of wiNl peal: mg. pheasants, par tridges, doves, rabbits, and wild gouts. There is no other amusement 013 the escept fishing. which is extremely dmigeriots, the paths leading to the sea, being so steep and ditficult, that many lives have been lost in attempting to thweenil. No individual whatever is allowed to keep a boat ; and there are picquets posted on every spit where it might be possible to get to the sea, and cruisers in every 'lire( t on of the island, to ascertain what ships approach—and unless belonging to the East India Company. or having dispatches, or under some pecoliar eircimnatices, they are not allowed to touch, such is the vigilance observed here; thertfiat e you 113 conclude our charge is in perfect security." A German Paper says, that twenty of the subjects of the Grand Duke of Hesse Cassel, who had sold their effects to go and establish themselves in America, were arrested upon the frontier, and taken to a house of cor rection at Cassel! - - The President of the United States has issued a pro tlamation, directing the sale of no less than 800,000 acres of land, recently acquired by the National Go vernment from the Creek Indians._ _ . _ We regret to state that a letter has been received et Hamburgli, announcing the hots of four Greenland men ; the crews however were saved. Extract from a journal kept on board the Levant, at Canton:—" Wednesday, February 12,1817—At seven P. M. the lion. English East India Company's ship Elphinstone, Capt. llotnain, took fire in her fore kohl, among the cotton—the alarm was immediately spread among the fleet, all the boats assembled with men and buckets, but every effort proved fruitless—the fire in creased so rapidly, and in that part of the ship where they could not get at it, that all efforts to stop it were in vain—fortunately her powder was thrown overboard, and finding it impossible to save her, they out her moor ings, when she drifted fromamong the shipping without damaging any af the fleet, where she burnt to the waters edge. Her crew, consisting of 180 men, exclusive of Officers; only a few slightly wounded. Her wreck was sold on the 25th, ihr 19,500 dollars." I Lord Amherst and suite arrived at seven o'clock ea Wednesday evening at Spithead, in an extra ship, taken up far the occasion. His Lordship was saluted with thirteen guns, from the flag-ship. NEW Mristrett in CH %1.41.:1CRY. fotlowing is a /miry .f the letter sent by the Lord Chancellor to Mr. Coarteway, appo:oting him Mater iu Cli.uicery " DEAR •Sta.—Ai the Public have already appointed you a Master in Clancer, , in the room of the late fer-to-bc.litinented Mr. Stesl,l assure you I have ;treat fJcsmue in confirming it, by inclosing you your patcntfor the o ffi ce. Yours, with regard. ELIION." There nc .1 tt .t, on Hypo minent which aile more satin. diction to Lie 8.r,„ or hss dem mote credit talus Lordship. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Overland dispatches have been received at the India House from the Governor of Bombay, dated March 22, communicating the important intelligence of the taking of the fortress of Hattras by the British army. This fort was occupied by a native Chief named Rao Doss, sup ported as was believed by Scindiah the principal Mali ratta Sovereign ; various remonstrances had been made on our part, against his encroachments on the British territory; and these proving ineffectual, an army, com posed of British and native troops, immediately took the field, under Colonel Marshall. Arrived before Hat trass, Colonel Marshall summoned it to surrender; but the enemy confiding in his strength and means of de fence, refused to capitulate. It was: then determined to carry the place by storm. A heavy bombardment coin ' menced ; and the Congreve rockets were used with ter rible effect ; one of which, falling on the magazine, oc casioned a tremendous explosion, accompanied with a shack like that of an earthquake. Several of our troops were thrown to the ground on their faces and backs; but we are happy to say they sustained no material in jury. It was far otherwise with the garrison of Hattrass, among whom the explosion caused immense havoc. Numbers of them were destroyed. Our loss by the fire of the enemy was inconsiderable. . Lieutenant Courtland was the on y officer wounded. The advices containing the statement of these particulars had been transmitted to the Bombay Government by a private hand ; but were considered perfectly authentic. It was supposed that the speedy reduction of this place, espe cially if followed by that of Bhurtpore, would reduce Scindiah to the necessity of abandoning all his hostile plans, and thus remove all apprehension of a new Maharatta war. We learn from the Hague, that the Synod of the Reformed Church has resolved " that the third Cente nary of the Reformation shall be religiously observed in all the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands on the 2d of November, being the first Sunday after the 31st of October, the day upon which the great Luther, three centuries ago, laid publicly the first foundation of the great work of the Reformation ; that the preachers in the forenoon shall expound to their respective congre gations, in the spirit of Christian charity, the history of the principal particulars of the work of the Retbrma. tion ; mid that the Ministers (Kirkeraden) be ordered, in the rest of the service of this day, to commemorate this event to the glory of the Almighty, with all the solemnity that the nature of the service and the local circumstances will allow." Recent intelligence from Pernambuco states, that many of the 'insurgents who were made prisoners have been sent off to Bahia ; others are confined at Pernam• hue° till the arrival of the Governor, who is daily ex pected. MI the property of the rebels have been al ready confiscated. On Sunday evening, as Lord Castlereagh twat play ing with a f vourite dog of his Ludy's at their seat at Foot's Cray, in Kent, the minimal bit his hand. The sinews of the first and second fingers were separated, and the nail and top of the first finger nearly torn off. Ilis Lordship was putting it, and endeavouring to pre vent it from fighting another dog. On Monday, Dr. Bankhead arrived; he ordered him to be put to bed, and to be kept very quiet. The slog, a short time since, pinned the gardener and another man up in a corner, when they were movimg about after dark, and it was with difficulty he could be called off from them. The dog was a present from Stutgard to Lady Castkreagh. Nothing serious, however, has occurred . ; and we are happy to say his Lordship is doing well. - - - EXECUTION AT LINCOLN.—As soon as sentence of detah had been passed on Eliraheth Warriner, the infant which she had been suckling during the trial, was taken from her, and she was conducted to her cell, there to prepare berself for she awful change denounced by the law. The next day, the Rev. G. Kent delivered a very appropriate discourse from Laud. xx. 13.:—" Thus shalt not ;" but the unhappy criminal appeared in such a state of lamentable apathy, as scarcely to attend towhat deeply affected every other lue rson present. At the appointed time this wretched woman was taken to suit/ergo that punishment her crime so loudly de manded, to the new drop on the Castle Walls, where the mu concern sbe had Irefore manifested forsook her, and, NA greet bitterness about, she called en God for mercy. THE DRAMA. HAYMARKET.—A new Comedy, in three acts, from the pen of Mr Jamieson, was acted on Wednesday night for the first time, entitled Teasing made Essy.—Of the plot the following is an outline : At AO early period of life, Mr. Crumpton has entered into &preci pitate marriage with a young lady, whose friends disapprove of the match. He is driven, by distress, from England, and precee,ls to that " land of promise. not of performance," America. There he wanders for some years--but, more fortunate than many of his coon. trymen, a merchant. at New York. becomes tntimute with him. told on his decease, leaves Crompton all iris property, on condition that he shall take the name of his benefactor, which is Lilicant. Newly christened in the Pactolean stream, he i'ts out for England —hut, when he arrive i s his naive laud, he can hear no tidings of his wife. lie retires to a sequestered spot, about fifty milts fruits the suet, 0. polia, where his sole anuiseuscut .coit.ists .n going to law with his neighbour, a lady of the name of Teaser, who appears to have stu died, with some success, en Essay we had the pleasure of reading some years ago. '' The Art of ingeMnusly Tormenting..." The piece opens whistle arrival of Mr. timerville Gime-worm, ainirrister„ from the last-row of seats is the Conti of King's mul Pisan*, Mr Gammon, near the residence of she two litigants. Here Mr. avoimon (who is in Loudon, has been unaLleto procure any wages from Isis master, and, therefore, thought he had s right to borrow his name,) meets et a public house, Itisbeloved Ron Matilda—a young lady, also, while ruairiss a besalioracboolgducatioo, seat tondo, i 45 had become acquainted with Mr. Gamma, alias Glesr-sreres, to whom she is tenderly attached. There is a mutual deeeptien. Gam mon believes that she is an heiress—she believes that he is a man at property—the one is an Attorney's Clerk, the ether, tl dice if the landlord of the Rising . Sun public-house—aed a st the merrimentof the piece ls derived from the asinnees snit each, to hide the truth from the other. Mrs. Cremptots and bin ter, t ut the fate of the husband and the father being quite unknown to ern, csme down to the country, to pay a visit to !Mrs. Teaser, to whom Mrs. Crampton is nearly related. Molly Mimeos, whose beards bursting lest her supposed Somerville Glow-worm should discover her situation, is sent forward from the Hieing Sun public-house, to inform Mrs. Tearer that her relations are just arrived. Molly, who is fashionably dressed, is mistaken for Julie Crampton ; and Gam mon, whose master has long been in love with the fair Julio, and who proceeds to Mm Tearer's for the purpose of gaining a footing there, that he may turn his abilities to the service of his master, is quite amazed again to meet his dear Rosa Matilda. His stratagem to enter the house is this:—Having met an old fellow clerk, one Mr. Peter Pastoral. of the house of Latitat and Longbill, who is dis patched to Mr. Litigant with a deed. and who is charged a ith a Napkin°, which is to be served on Miss Manly, a sort of female Factotum in the family of Mrs. Tearer, Gammon offers to take the trouble off the hands of Peter. who gladly accepts the kindness. At the same time that Gammon is charged with a nitspersa, he is also directed by his master to deliver a tender note to Miss Crampton, at the horse of Mrs. Tearer. Gammon is, however, received by the old lady in gm boisterous a manner, that the 'abysms is quite for. gotten ; and all he can do is to request Minn. who comes for the purpose of seeing his daughter home, to deliver the note to the lady wider Mrs. Tearer's protection. Mimes gives it to Miss Manly $ and this fair Amazonian, having, in the morning, rescued Mr. Peter Pastoral from a man-trap, into which he had fallen. in consequence of an unfair incursion on Mrs. Taxer's grounds, where he proceeded to search for " posies," believes the letter to come from him. Peter soon after makes his appearance. to enquire for the deed which he had been sent to deliver to Litigant, but which he had unfortunately dripped—and an excellent scene of eqttivoqwe is produced, by the ad vice which Peter gives, relative to the conduct which she ought to pursue, with respect to the subpsena, bat which site, never having re ceived any suliscems, naturally considers to have reference to the ben. timents contained in the letter mistakenly delivered to her. At length Peter's propositions " to proceed to Winchester by the night-coach, and to go to bed there," enraged the lady so much, that she horse. whips the admirer of purling rills and green trees...of daisies and cowslips—out of the house. .--0 Last scene of al/ Which ends this strange eventful history," is that in which the real Mr. Glow-worm, Gammon, the assumed GIOW.wOrM. and Peter Pastoral, who is, by Miss Mealy, in =- sequence of the mis.delivered letter, supposed to be Mr. G lo w-seorisa, are assembled together, at Mrs. Teruo's. Here all is explained. Old Crampton once more embraceabislong.lost wife--the real Glow. worm receives the hand of Julia—the counterfeit Glow-worm hav ing shot " his false fires," is ready to pay his devotions to the " daughter of the Rising Sun," and all are apparently mods happy, except Peter Pastoral and Miss Monty. Never, perhaps, was a comic piece better performed. Mr. Terry, as Litigant, has not much to do—but wbat falls to his share is not unimportant—and we need scarcely add, that in his hands, none of its importance is lost. Mr. Jones, as a young Barrister, who, like many other gentlemen of the profession, is possessed of' more levity than law, played with a ouperabundance of' spirit. Mr. Mathews's Gammon, was rich in comic ex cellence. There was no imitation here—all was, as his friend at the Rising Sun would say, " Native, Ge nuine r As to Mr. Tokely, " None but himself' can be his parallel !'' His Peter Pastoral and his Crockery set description at defiance. They are both Cockneys— but the great differenee between them is t his :—Crockery, without desiring it, travelled a great deal—while Peter. with a strong inclination for visiting'rerial scenes, has been always chained to the desk. The lamentations of the former, and the louder runs of the latter, ere inimit able.—Mrs. Gibbs played, with great spirit, the cha racter of a masculine lady, who is employed in the va rious gentle offices of buying pigs, addressing parish vestries, selling oxen, and reading novels ; the most comprehensive maid of all work we ever heard of. Miss Mathews, as Molly Mixon, a young lady, who, like many of our fat men daughters, has been spoiled, by a refined education, playt4 the part extremely well. She sang a pretty s..ng with much taste. Miss Carew, as Julia Crumplen, sang very beautifully; she had no opportunity tier acting. Mrs. Davenport, as Mrs.. Tenzer, and Mrs. Connor, as Mrs. Cnaapton, gave much satisfaction, though their departments are very different. The stormy nature of the former, and the gentle disposition of the latter, formed an excellent contrast. Mr. Butler played the part of a deaf old man, a superannuated servant in the family, exceeding ly well. He was deaf not only in his hearing but in his understanding. The Comedy was given out for repetition, with every mark of cordial approbation. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE —The new melo-dramatic mmance of the lrrzard having undergone eonsiderable curtailment which renders it more compact and effec tive, has drawn good houses during the week. Bakkeloi s' Wives enoreases in attraction, and pub. lie favour—the acting of this piece is excellent—the advantage of a small-sized Theatre is very apparent„ each action and gektnre being minutely observed, ren der a high treat to the lovers of the histrionic art. On Friday Kenney's pleasing petite Opera of Matri mony was performed in which Wrench and Miss Kelly made their first appearance at this theatre in the loxes of Dela a/ and Clara—the mutual indifference of this wedded ample, the gradual roceaciliation concluding with returning affection were most admirably expressed. Amongst the visitors to the English Opera, we have observed the flakes of Bedford and Grafton, Marquis's of Headfirt and Cholmondky, Ladies Warwick, Ken nedy, thutelifC Lord Harrington, Lord Petersluna, hio.4 the Lord Mavor. A new :tad tasteful arrangement of the illuminated shrnbbery has taken Awe, wherein the Chinese lights and trees are disposed in more advantageous and pig. turesque situation&