The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-04 00:00:00

etivr. ii THE QUEEN. ler Majesty, on Thursday, slept the greater part . er tie; eight; and, as throughout the preceding day she LA been free from pain, it was hoped she would have derived saute advantage from the repose. The hope, however, we.s not realised; for the physicians on visiting the chamber of their Royal Patient, at eight o'clock in the morning, fuund no alteration whatever in her ge neral state, Toward the middle of the .day, her Majesty was main moved into the room adjoining her chamber, and she took a slight repast then: at five o'clock ; but up to half past seven, no variation in her lealth had taken place. In the forenoon, the Princesses again occupied ar. hour or two on the lawn, inspecting the progress of the workm co- Their Royal- Highnesses were attended. in their walk by General Taylor and Sir Henry Halford. On the return of the Royal Indies to the Palace, they litand Lady Campbell and Lady Elizabeth Montague just alirlited, to pay their first? visit to the Royal Fa auily, Trlnce their return from attexding the Princess „Elie:death of Hesse Eombourg to the continent. They mere most graciously received ; and after re ... ellen:nag ne trly.an hour in conversmion, the Princesses conducted the.n to see their improvements on the lawn and shruble;riee. The wall was widely excursive, for the Ladies did.not return to the Palace again till after a lapse of .nearly three hours: and then the Ladies. Campbell and Elizabeth Montague almost immediately returned to tow a . The Prince. Regent reached the Palace, punctually at this usual hour of half past five o'clock, when the phy 'sicians made their raport of the state of her Majesty to his Royal Highness, and directly after Sir Henry litlford left the Palace for 'Windsor Castle, to be present at the Monthly Council. The Prince afterwards visited her 'Majesty and the Princesses, and after remaining with them till about halfpast six o'clock, his Royal Highness returned to.Caritou House to dine. The thllowing Bulletins of the Queen's .hettlth have lean issued sum our last : " Kew Palace. Sept. QB. " The Queen feels herself suniztvliat refresiol thi morning, leer Majesty having slept well in the night." Kew Ware, Sept. 49. "..The Quem has nit slept :mite so u ~11 Ihe la:: night as in, the ta-a pteceaing ones. The syml,:mus of her Majesty's complaint are niuch the same as tbose of yesteniay." Keveralice, Sept. 30. " The Queen has slept well in the night, and lier.NlAjelty is a little better this rimming:" ". Kew Palace, Oct. 1. " The•Quecn hai hal several hours Flcep in Me night, bat it does not apper a have prolucel any material ciiange of the symptoms of her 31ajesty 'a disease." ".Rem Palace. Oct. 4. "The (lien has again had sneral Isours' sleep. bit: it dies not alr4r to how. proluct:d P.4ly si.ible effect on the state of her Ma'jes ty s comidaint.' •• Rey ralfICC. Ott.:. •• The Qceen has itai several hours deep, Inn the r y rr. proms of her Majesty's disease do not appeerte have been relieved by it. •• 1+..41111. L 31.1. M." The Monitour inserts among the proceedings of the Royal Institute at Paris, a report on the book of M. Dupin, who lately travelled into this country, .and has published the result of his observations on the naval . arsenals, and commercial pone of England. Dopin is an Engineer Military end • - •Civil, .who received his education iac the polytechnic school et.Purie, and visited Great Britain with-the patriotic design of carrying off, for the benefit of his own country, every particle of knowledge to which he could gain access, respecting those immense establishments .and magazines on which depend the construction and.equipment of the British navy. He examined, and , was suffered to examine, in .detail, the Dock-yards ofeDeptfimd, Woolwich, Sheer ness, Chatham,. Portsmouth, and 'Plymouth. M. Bu rin, it must be allowed, .does ample justice to the genuity and extent of the various engines and opera.; tions which he investigated. He states the prodigious expense at which our dock-yards have been formed and maintained, together with the facilities which are ad ministered by the bold and liberal use of the powers of mechanism, to the construction, reception, repair, ice,- provemeut, supply, and economy of our ships of war. M. I)upin.has added to his written descriptions, a series of exact and masterly drawings, which represent the • most curious .and complex machines employed in the various departments of the dock-yards. All these ,xon ders, and, hitherto, mysteries of British maritime greatness, are now • made public by a French engineer, fig the general use •of the French government, and of the world. It is very certain that a mere knowledge of British art may be far eneaigh distant froa• its prac tical application to the peeposes s f .other states. The want of money, the division_ Pi' the French national spirit from naval to military gfat4tur, with other eir cumetar.cas, may, for some years, ounben to the shelves .oi the lnsfaute, and to the Buieau dal:. Marine, M. ])upin's suceeee:.el end meritorious labours r . elatt.e..hen ceameree,ll-JuLielits, . end money abounds, and the spirit of marithae eenhition shell be ezettiana.ed—timee stands the book or ins:rilutiou. The Nuremfii!rg Gazette states, tbat the brinker who la;ely attempted buichift...at Vienna, has eixbraced itud.rccciya ViTE ittE(ntelVift• THE DRAMA. DRURY LANE. The announcement of Mr. Kean in the character of Richard, on Monday night, his first appearance this season, proved sufficient attraction to till the house previous to the rising of the curtain. His reception was such as must have been most gratifying to him on his entree; he was greeted with a general shout of applause from the audience generally, and the Pit rose as if by common consent, and received him with a waving of hats and handkerchiefs, which coat:Rued for several minutes. ltlr. Kean went .through the three • first acts with his usual energy. At the commencement of the fourth, however, in the coronation scene, whilst sounding Buckingham on the subkct of the murder of the Princes, some persona in the gallery created a dis turbance which evidently annoyed ;Loth the audience and the actor. The former did not notice it. The latter, however, appeared determined it should not pass over without observation ; fur, in the midst of his speech. he stopped, and, coming forward towards the foot lights, directed his looks tesvards the Gallery, continuing silent till the Pit touknp the cause, and called loudly on the Police Officers to remove the cause of the disturbance, which was thus prolonged to an extent of several nutes ; whereas, but for Mr. Keul's extraordinary ap peal, it would in all probability have subsidel in as many seconds. Silence having been restored, Mr. Kean bowl, and resumed the business of the Stii,ge.— He did not so soon recover himself. The whole of the fourth act, with the exception of "So much for Buck ingham," went off with a degree of flatness we lave never before witnessed, when Mr. Kean was the repre sentative of the crook-barked tyrant. The sentence alluded • to above, was given •by him in the happiest manner, and called forth the most rapturous applause : it was not, however, till the • tent .see.ne that Richard was completely himself again; and ultimately the cur tain fell amidst the acclamations of the audience. The new piece of Sigesmar the Switzer, followed.— It has undergone some judicious curtsilments. The audience were in good humour, and it went off much better than on its first productien. • Tuesday night the favourite Comedy of Speed the Plough was performed at this Theatre, when Mr. Munden appeared, for the first time this season, in the character of• Sir Abel Handy. This old and deserving favourite of the public was received, as his talents demand, with the warmest greetings: the audience welcomed him as an old friend, whose return, after a long absence, was a subject of congratulation. Mr. Munden's merits in. the character of Sir Ald Handy have long been :acknowledged : it is sufficient now to say, that his powers of pleasing the audience remain unimpaired. We never recolleot to have seen him to greater advantage. Mr. Penley bustled through the part of Hob Handy with considerable spirit. Mr. H. filenthle played Henry; he does not impart sufficient energy to the part. Bengough was respectable in Sir Philip Blanchard. This gentleman improves in the .estimation of the public. Miss Smithson rendered the . part of Miss Blcndjbrd very interesting; she was loudly . and deservedly applauded in. the scene in which she so artlessly discovers her love for Henry. Mr. Western. .attempted.the character of*Fareter Ashfield. We regret that we cdnnot congratulate him on the success of his effort. In our opinion •he failed entirely ;he seemed to have mistaken rudeness and vulgarity for native sin cerity and simplicity. COVENT-GARDEN. Mr. Y. Farren appeared on Thursday night in a new character, Sir &NNW Constant, in the comedy of The Way to. Keep Rim. Thianctor here comes before its in h is own person, and throw 3. off that envelope or artifi cial disguise, which, in his Lord Ogkby or Sir Peter Teazle, throws:: degree of obscurity around him, and leaves us in a greet measure to guess Relic real extent and versatility of his powers. The disclosure has.not. .sve think, enhanced the reputation lie has already ac quired,although his performance of Sir lietehful Con stant possesses, what it is impossible that any part Mr. Farren eelected as the medium of his efforts should be without, many masterly points and refined touches of consummate skill. His great defect wet; in the scale of .manners he helm fixed on as his notion of this character, too much of the forced and artificial cast,, and wholly differing both front his predecessors, and from the notion wa forneeteperesing the comedy. 'there is no reason why this part ofthe comedy sheuld nut be given in the natural. ones of the voice, since it is not the manners, but the sentiments and conduct of the character that preduce the ludicrous effect intended. Bannister always gave it on this principle. Mr. Farren, on the contrary, cbviously employed a feigned voice and constrained manner as the basis on which his performance was founded. In every other respect he was masterly and complete. No actor is less liable to be taken by surprise, or more completely fills up in his by-play, the pauses in the . dialogue. His manner of ascertaining if any listeners wereet.,band, before he oommiti,.ates to lin L.- v ivre the secret efj2is attachment to ' l ady Constant, was truly admirable. :He received reiterated marks dap probation from the audience. Mr. C. Keinide did not succeed so well in ,Lovesnort as we anticipated i and •••1, Jones's Sir Brilliant Fashion, though livelyand spirited, would have admitted a greater degree of retineatent.— We admired Mrs. Faucit, and thought her unusually happy in Mrs. Lopenwre: and the satuc praise may be assigned to Mrs. Gibbs, in Muslin. Miss Brunton represented the Widow Belniour, and, allowing for too stroug a cast of seriousness, with great success. .More attention should be 'paid to costume in the getting up of this asscellent comedy. The .three chief male characters were dressed in,the fashion of three .difil.rent periods, distant hum each other at least bales century. A " young lady," as her first essay before a London audience, on Friday night ventured on the part of Lucy Bertram, in the play of Guy Mamie? ing. Judging the debutante merely as a singer, we have seldom incurred the painful necessity of recording a more complete failure. In that line her chance of success is quite hope. less, since she possesses neither voice, nor taste, nor science; even an car for music appears to Imre. ,Ocest denied her. As an actress she is pot without racrit; some passages were delivered in a manner that disco. vered both a feeling heart and a good undemauding ; but even in that department her chance of Eminence is very remote and uncertain. The audience were ex tremely indulgent ; the trying situation in which a performer is .placed on these occasions, particularly when a young and interesting female, always proves an irresistible appeal to their kindness ; if the applause it produced could be admitted as a decisive proof of merit, we should now be congratulating a performer on her triumph, to whom, even as a most cordial welio ,wisher, we can only recommend a speedy retirement. The annual expenses of Drury Lane Theatre are reducel by the economical measures adopted by tip Sub Committee, from 70,0001. to 40,0001, a sum below the lowest annual receipt ever experienced at thtpt house. The will of Matthew Gregory Lewis, author ar " The Castle•Spectre," " The Monk," and other lite. rary works, has been proved. In his will he gives se Mrs. H. Johnstone, late of the Theatre Royal Covent Gardm, the sum of IDOL to purchase some trinket er other ornament to be worn on her neck in remembrance of hint: •to the Right Honourable Lord Holland his Wok of caricatures : personal property within the pro.. vitae of Canterbury sworn ender 60,0001. Friday the Parliament was further prorogued till theel.Qth of November. The manner was the same us op the last occasion—by writ ; but the ceremony was somewhat different. The Lord Chancellor not being in ate..nth:nee, the seat in front of the throne on which. the Conitnissioners usually sat on such occasions, wes tretnoved, and the only Peers who attended, Earl Bite hunt and Viscount Sidmouth, mune in without robes, and took their seateon the Treasury Bench. One of the messengers of the House of Commons, who was in waiting, was then ordered to inform that House that their. Lordships were ready, and that the writ of pro.. rogation was about to be read. He retired, and in a short time returned, followed by one of the reading clerks and subordinate officers, who on this occasion re.. presented the Cwnmons. The writ was then read, the junior reading clerk standing at the place where the Speaker is accustomed to hear commissions of pro xerition.; the others at a distance behint'. s At the con— clusien, of the writ their I ortishies and the clerks withdrew, The whole of the improvements in tite House-of- Lords seem to be finished. . The House has now a very elegant appearance-. . The covering on the wool-sacks and benches is quite new. The throne, which was not uncovered on this oeession, as well as the crowns over the canopy, are newly gilt. and look very neat, but the old velvet festooning still setimitu. This we were informed arises from a .matter of eti quette, that the materials of either throne or canopy .should not be changed in the present reign. " From the evidence adduced before the Committee. it appears that I ord Lonsdale is in possesion of a vcry beneficial lease of the whole coals belonging to St. Bees School, for a term of 800 years, at a rent of 31.145.. per annum 1 The Noble Lord is a Trustee of the School. His ancestor, Sir James Lowther, was a Trustee, and as sech.granted a lease to hinueff of the coals within the neuter—being quite an illegal act, and ht s of course only to be noticed to be set aside. What blame must attach to the Trustees of the Clua• rity for allowing this abuse to exist without noticing it !!! The evidence is incomplete, owing to the die, solution of Parliament befige the matter had been fully investieated."—Carlisle Patrete__ _ _ . e kre happy, to 6eo, in the l'lolidelphu..-Aeroro of the 26th of August, thr tidiowing contradiction of.the report contairv..d in our . lava extracts , of a eruct fate having betel Colonel M•Doaald and eleven companions, on the hanks of the Orocoko, in May last object of stories of this kind eikanot be mistaken,—.one fact, however, may serve to chew the value of the whole—Colonel M'lloinsld is at this moment in the United. State,i, aid his evinpaniou.s were, in July, at St. .Fernando de Apure." The Lords of the 'Treasury have ordered, that all. Bibles and Testaments exported by the Briti,h aad F o r e ign Bible. Society, shall be allowed to pas:i slaty cc.