The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-09 00:00:00

•a, •• A THE DHZ i 4. ENGI,I3II FifIUSE. N' o twitlistanaing the intense heat of the weather, ihk t h eatre has - kept up its usual attraction. Th.? ,fm:rricans has been repeated evay evenin,.; during the eek with the exception of last night. This operatic draina is exceedingly well aetci, and we omitted to notice in oar kst, the humorous and meritorious exer tions of Ar. Harley in his Jack of all trades, it kept the Souse in a roar of lar::;hter. Thnrehty, the combined melo-drama anti mnsi cal entertainment called the D. , ,terlcr of Naples, was r vivo l tip. the purpose of exhibiting Mr. T. P. Cooke a.; Heety, and it is hut justice to say that he acquitted himself most creditably thougii occasionally a little too rt7.9totitheic. The exinisite and interesting performance f by Miss Kelly, is too well known to need our praise. Last night flickerstaffe's opera of Lioael and Clarrssa il:ew a numerous anti fashionable audience. Miss Carew again deligbted us ; if she is inferior to any singer on tv• stage, it is to Miss Stephens only ; but we can positively pronounce her to be a better musician than the Covont Garden Syron. l'earman sang and acted -veil, Miss Kelly gave the little part or Jenny great int " portance, anti Bartley delivered the smitiments of the benevolent Sit John Flowerdak with a gentlemanly case. Miss Stevenson is an improving young actress. Colonel 6hllnw and his fantastical lady lost none of their humour or importance in the hands of Mr. Chat terlr and Mrs. Grove. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of . 7.ent and suite visited the English Opera on Monday, were highly gratified with the entertainments se .le:!ted on that occasion. HAY 31 utKET THE tTRE. rne play of the Africans was revived at this theatre I , on Wedneslay night, after a lapse of six years since its last representation. This revival is likely to carry with it the suffrages of the public: we wish the piece hail leen more flee from the titults peculiarly incidental to modern dra:natie produe.tions, and which generally con cur with other causes to limit the period of their aura. titni—we mean an overflow of ill-placed sentiment, moral aphorisms out of character, with allusions that :re born, and must expire with the occasion that pro. dared them. The play of the .Ifricans, however, pos sesses an innate strength capable of supporting much greatin. weight, since it exhibits many situations of powerful interest, well drawn and contrasted charm ton, together with a story well eoustruetel and judi t amsly developed. The pm-limners, among whom were Nlr. Warde and Miss E. Blanchard, who represented characters of Bc/ico and Berissa for the first time, \erted themselves with unusual skill and success ; and stlle play was given out flr repetition on the remaining nights of the week with universal approbation. Mr. S. Kemble has lieen applinted by the Sub•Com raittee of Drury Lane Theatre, Manager fur the ensu ing season. The dispute between the Committee of Drury Lane Theatre and Elliqou, respecting the Olympic Theatre, has terminated in his favour ; and Cc., Law Officers of -the Crown have repined, that his performances there are no infringements of the patent. The Special Committee and Soh-Committee of Drur: - - lane Theatre have at length declared war against •each other's authority. The firmer have .servel an official notice cn the latter, not to make any engage meats for the ensuing season, without the approbation of the body of the Proprietors ; which notice the Sub 'Committee, it is s dd, refuse to obJy. An official coinnumication has been male by the Bank to the Stock Exchange, that the firmer will, a.; usual, give every facility to the negociators of the New Stock ; that time will, what is technically called, " take ie the Omnium,'' which is, •to make payment of the remainder of the instalments, on being paid interest at .tte rate ct' per cent. fir the money advanced. Representations arc now making to the Admiralty, on the subject of the depredations :.tunmitted on our com merce in the \Vest Indies by the Insurgent privateers ; .a:nong these, the case of the Jupiter is onc of the most prominent. It .is said, that Government only require .the fmts to be fully authenticated, to determine On toe most vigorous measures for the suppression of a nest of freebooters and pirates, who appear to soknowled;, , e n'o. distinction of friend or foe, but to plunder indiscrimi nately all who have the misfitrtune to fall law their han 's. The Privy Council en Monday last determined that the Conneil of Aberdeen of 1816, last legally elected, should meet on the Q:33. of September, and fill up a Council. who again on Michaelmas day should proceed as if they had been the Council of the prevnt year, to an election of Magistrates anti Counsellors of that city for the (nutting year. Tuesday the Lord Mayor held a Court of Aldermen at Guildhall for the purpose of swearing hi selr.Waith man, the new Alderman thr the Ward of Farringdon 'Without, in the room of Sir Charles Price, Bart, 'be te-A:aced. Tt. , :•"t ittlCterv.t COURT CILINCERY.-....SATURDAY, Avo. 8. • +40.-- MIVRV-LANE TIIBATIE. Sir S. Roinilly, on the part (..f a great majority of I the proprietors of :his threttre, moved hi-, Lerdship to grant an Injunction to prevent the Sub-Committee, e.inststing of five persons. from proceeding in engaging any new per"iirmers, or entering into any new contracts oa the behalf of the proprietors, ceesidering the state of their limits. Wlle3 the late theatre wai tiethrtunate ly burnt down, there wore a number of engagements, and an Art of Parliament was passed authorising a Committee of ten persons to raise the Lem of r. 00,0001. in shires of 10e4. cadt, and the shareholders to have votes in proportion to the number of shares. The Legis lature passed a second Art, in which the power of ma nagement was vested in a S::1!-001111111ttet: of five persons, who had full power to appoint a manager and engage performers, Ste. The debts of the theatre amounted to 80,0;i01. and in June last a SAect Committee was ap pointed to investigate the matters ref.nTed to there, and on the Bth of that month they reported, and indeed it was evident, that the true state of affair; must have been !mown to the Sub-Committee. Several resolutions were tianted by the Select Conunittee, which were read and approved of by the General Meeting on the Bth of June. On the 16th of July the Select Committee gave another report of their efforts, and recommeaded the stun of 17,0001. to be raised by loan, and George Coleman, Esq. to he appointed manager. A Special Committee, at the same time, reported, that much of the ineumbrances was occasioned by the facility with which articles were procured from tradesmen, and also from the very great number of orders fir free admission. The report was agreed to by the (ieneral Meeting of Proprietors, at least by a majority or The bill went on to state that no capital remained, but that money must be raised by loan. Large sums were due to the performers, who had consented to receive a composition for their debts on certain terms. The Court was there fore prayed to restrain the Sub-Committee from going on. Ile had no doubt the Court would at once inter fere. The Learned Counsel then at great length went into a detail of the facts, which are already befiire the public. The Lord Chancellor granted the Injunction on this ex-parte application ; but ordered notice to be served on the other side without delay. Seventeen Bankrupt Petitions have been transferred from the Lord Chancellor's paper to that of the Vice Chancellor, who at present proceeds with the Bankrupt Petitions in a manner hitherto unknown in Chancery. Ills Honour wiil he over with his present sittings in a very few days, and the Lord Chancellor will terminate his on the I 3th. The Sittings last year manned till • the end of September nearly ; thus affording a proof of the improvement in dispatch of .business. A series of German Journals to a recent date reach ed us lest night. '►n article, datel Berlin, the telst ult. gives the following account of the late Frankfort fair : The •Frankfort Fair, which is now finished, has turned out, as merchants of this city say, tolerably well fbr our manafactnrers ; there was particularly a great demand for leather and cloth. The English sold their gods this time at higher prices than usual, a•td had not in general brought great quantities with them ; but they had a numerous assortmeut of patterns, on which -they have received very large-orders. Our ma nefacturers therefore know with tolerable certainty what they have to expect from the next fair." Extract of a letter feom New Orleans, dated June 3 : —" An official communication has been received at the Custom-heuse here front the frcacury at Washington, stating that there will he no obstruction to the admis sion of sp:e•ie into America from the British West India• islands, after the SOth of September next, in vessels of war. Those, therefore, who wish to lodge funds here'', may a•. - ail themselves of sueli op;iortanities." A Hambneglt mail, with American anti Jamaica , 1 papers, have oree to hand. An erticle from Stockholm states, that the Swedish civil list has been detioitively settle:l; the income of the King being fixed at 3-20,000 dollars, and that of the Croton Prince at 100,000 Every Norwegian is to I njoy the privileges of a native sal feet in tlae kinelea of Sweden, from ►he moment thet his petition tier that purpose shell be presented to the Ki4g. A similar coneeseion to :he nativee of Se e den is lool.ed for Cleo the Nerwegian Diet. The late eleetion fir the County of Wilts, lump po:zed to have cost Mr. Wcilesley Long Pole no less than 80,0001. ; but this large sum is not more than one year's income of the Hon. Gentleman. By the acce.ssion of the Hon. Mr. Anstn to the title of Lord Anson, a ROM heeomes vacant for Great Yar mouth, for which his lorlisblots Another is expected to become a c:u.'.i , l•ttc. rehnend , K. Lacon. Esq. the late Member fur Yarmouth, has stgaiu offered himseif a candidete At two o'cloek on V6einesday, a thermometer in the shade,with a south aspect in the Strand, was at 84 deg. A thermometer in the sun, 114 deg. ; ditto, bull , Waled, 122 deg. four feet from the ground. PRIVATE C6RItESPOWDENCE. PARIS, %I G. 3 • The investigation into the conspiracy is not much further advanced than it was three weeks ago. tillq is yet known of it at Paris is derived from the reports and rumours, more or leis authentic, publish ed in the journals. We must therefore wait, till the documents to be produced against those accused of this culpable and absurd plot are laid betbre the public, and then we shall be able to leant how titr it meri's any serious attention. General Camel is still in pri ses, and secured in solitary coalman: It, which deprives him of all communication with 'his counsel. lie grievously complains of this tre:rtment through hi.; advocate, M. Berryer, in preliwkary chscrvutions is flivour of M. Canuel, published by that barrister. This defence gives no infbrmatioe about the crime which the•Ceneral is accusal. Scale persons (leclars, that the atlitir :of the conspiracy will be stilted, az; i that the Minister himself, frightened at the gravity ot' the plot, will relent in the proscoution. This would have a strange appearance ; as it, would show thi - A the tribunals were entirely under the control of the nab.- rities, and that the latter could at their pleasure devote victims to jaAice, or snatch them from it. The note ef the Ultras to the Allied Powers, ‘vhieh had been pub lished some days ago, pram:Cry by the Ministry itself, has been seized after the booksellers had sold a great number of copies. Snell are the inexplicable measures of Government in this affair. _ _ It would uppear by a letter from Baden, inserted in a German paper, that Las Cues is making represcu-' tritium; to the /Mica Powers to procure some rcitigatior. of the lot of his master Napoleon. BOXING. The battle between Painter and Spring for . 'JO guineas aside, and that between Crawley and a i'lare Market Butcher, took place on Friday on the Russia Farm, between par and five miles from Kin6stun, a 21-fect roped ring. Spring and Painter. are well known pugilists, who fought at Michaelham Downs on the Ist of April last, and the former wan in au hour and a half. Oa this combat stinging sums of money have been lost by the very flee ern of the Cog novena, as those who backed Spring "ue , fore, backed hint again heavily at 5 to 2 ; and Puititces former backers, with a few exceptions, were brought over to side. _ _ THE BATTLE. Round 1. Between four and finial-antes was. occupied in form and measurement, until Spring uncle play, but his left hand was .well parried. Painter was aiming .to get wel in at distance, and having dune so, he made a left handed feint, Lndslvw out his right band with the full weight of his hotly, and roared his adversary by a heavy hit over the lett cve,,whieli decided blood with the knot down blow. Liven betting Al Painter,,from Sto 2 against him. 2. Painter, in great confidence, from the streams of claret whicn flowed from his adversary's eye, tnade,play, and light hits were ca clia.weil. Both down. Painter under. 'Painter remind slightly on the side of the head with his advc.r say', left hand. and-in .closing bath went down. 4. There was no hitting, but Spring ass strongest at throwing. 5. After exchanging counter hits, Painter got his adversary's head locked under his left arm, and weaved with his right , Spring had as inuchcxperience to stand this, and lie seized Painter's weavinr, hand, and having his left leg pressed against his adversary's hams. — Painter received.a severe fall. f). There was more fighting in this round than in any pri.cetiiiig it. Several bits were planted on each side, but i'amier's obyet seemeet to be to do well what lie did per.orin ; t!tat i-, to main: his adversary feel his right hand. Spring had ratlicrilie hest of the round, anti in striving to give the ftdl, he.suc , •ettle.l.. 7 and it. No mischief waa done, the n ten were piping and schem ing, what in the ring phrase is termed ter mor.+ nithaning operations. They acetainnulated c rear other, and went down nicely. 9. litre was some nad.biel cat nut,,and the men met manfully, and turned to in earnest. At the c.ieve.lif a :mart rally, Spring re ceived it chancery right-handed. itta•a the ear, waipt the claret out, and it was a stioag et:44ci •pe.dy victory.-7 to s, on Painter. to. Spring got up groggy. aet itught his best; but Painter, al th.itigh hie in the rade, broke ground with much atinutaess, to ..1 his right hand to work a:A:a, ite was thrown in a c10.,e. 1, in, and There wi , si but little fighting, but Spring's nob by eontu..4.s, aitlimigh he ,tool manfully to bisiat veraty, end :,wort t I. Spring lied the I:est of fighting, and -hit Ins adver,try (014 legs. Tii convey the '...ttcr part of the baale best to the sporting readers, we neeti tine ge 4:O"Ur the whole on' the rolinds, as there sat much hugging, and but little execution until thrt 22d round, when:: gay anti Inatib . rally mok pl4ce, with recipnoal advantagt,-. Panittr had the - hAt of the romitl, by getting his adversary's laud under his arm again. and dropping hint when tacit of weaving. - spring WAS now much reduced, and his head suffered JP- Vert) . F ; but flitllollo hr fo , y.dit with much courage and fairivs, Tahlar out-I:cat:rad:4l him, 'end the latter bnitight Spriu, , dower A hit in evt:v rotund. In mural St, otter 'ore smart Muting, sprlng received Painter's heavy right-hana capon foe jaw, which eh... ,Illack arra smelieti at Norwic:i. It ads Levin, that he e...t i:ot mu.; b u t like a n ();ivv:•, lie thought h.: had no: Mt: .11. at. the 'AI). end, • 1,1; I ) ,: u s i t it i: l jr :in t e .. l,2 l d l recovered the finis :end his !wile to t , ti bit» to be severely punished. ile .11 , not by word, but :iota 1ie1p1e.,,!...55„ anti tiglittug one h .. our and fora minutes erawky slesiglitered the Clare-market butcher in two or_thret fel L ar n ic h r ri t t c:r:: l w nti m h i e his ini h ll a n t o t ot h.ll.ln;Plca.nd. The I s :...-!-••• • A bou t t ivo mootls a 477:, I'. Fr:u'•:s, of Loughborough, wilt) hut bceu tatiti::,• blind of one eyz for nta►r 3O years, completely rocovert-1 the sight again without any application ; but, atramze to tell, he instantly then became, anti still reollnul quite blind oil the other."