The National Register. — London, England, 1813-04-25 00:00:00

APRIL 25; On Monday Lodu;siia was revived .with great splendour. It is well cAst. Brahain was in fine voice, and gave great ettect to the songs of nom sh. The scenery and decorations are ttprtb A Cossack air was introduced in the first act by Mr. Bit Aft A NI. it was loudly encored, hut this wa,s moil. a Coln plitnellt to the Conquerors .of Buonaparte than to the C u nposer of the air. COVENT-GARDEN. ALADDIN ; ''it, TEE -WONDERFUL LAMP. The romantic dreams of Ca . ,•:Clii writers have a second • time been crobodied on our stage. The Forty Thieres are now eclipsed by the wonders of Aladdin's • Lamp. It is gratifying to the pride of ; 111:111, to see what had been considered as the will of imagina- ! tion, full of impi - obahility anal impracticability, realized by his art. c have m'ver witnessed a more splendid spectacle than that which under the above mentioned name was on Monday night displayed at this theatre. The story itself possesses that interest which every thing connected with our first feelings always pieserves through the whole °four exist" nee. The Arabian Nights anne , ed our ' bo hood, and I though they have lost the attraction of novelty, they always recall early impressions of delight, which still retai n t he p ower of p leasing. Mr. FARLEY, by w horn this piece is arranaed, h s displayed Mel: taste and jtylgment. He has only desisted from the original, to intro duce a dumb slave, which greatly enhancts the interest. The painter and the machinist have done alill(04 jperedibie jw-tice to the subject. The subtoraneons garden. with the novel and striping manner in which the Genius of the Ring descends from the centre of a stow emerging star on a ring of light, whilst magic voices warble at a mellow distance; the flying palace bon on the wings of, spirits made and many (Alien scenes of equal merit, seem to give reality to the ancient tales of inchantment, and to rival the powers of fancy. C. Kvstat.s; was particularly happy in Aladdin, anti Mr. Calm t.ni, in the Dumb *Sian.. The processions ore most splendid, and the whole of this piece, is deserving of the brilbant success it has obtain( d. LITTLE DRuitv LANE. Among the novelties Nvbich Eastt r Monday has this year bronght ;.: the transmutation of Astlev's Olympic Pavillion, into an tetegant Theatoe, Lly the %rano os a sionut magician ycliped ELLl stork'. 'lbis is now becwie repre:ontut;am of Nev. Drury, in shape as lye lla< in name. It is tastefully- painted and ornamented, arid lighted up ; the Stage iq capacious, raid the scenery txcelleut. The verformances, -which are the same as at the Surrey Theatre. and by the saine Company, possess as much interest, and lose nothnig - in their Mr. BERNARD has so much improved the tuition of M.-. ELLISTON, that he fre efnently reminded us of' his master, in the part of A»zyntor in Lore's Perite. Mr. SAseimz's performance on the Mark rope, excited much interest ; and the Pantontine• of Poneles much merri ment, This Theatre promises to encrei,se eou...illerably the Summer musements of the Metropolis. It aheady attracts linnieraus au- VACCINE INOCLLATION. TO TIIF- EDITOR. OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Slit—An immediate insertion of the anuexed interesting communication will oblige yourts,• &c. April 21, 181:3. HUMANITAS. " It is gratifying to us to record anv striking instances of the beneficial effeels of Vaccination, especially when they occur in onr oknsountry: as such. we are authorized to 'slate, that in the populous City of Glasgow, containing .4101tt 100,000 inhabitants,. the Small Pox has conspicuously tlefilioesi. a fly the Glasgow Bills,of Mortality, it appearl 49 persons died iit 18 . 11 by the Small Pox, and in 1542, there were anti It deaths by that disease. Prior to the introduc tion of Vaccination, several hundreds annually died of the Pimetll Pox. May such an example excite to the general ac ceptation of the life-preserving practice of Vaccination throughout the Briti , l c mph e ! 1" TFIE NA.TI6NAL REGISTER. OLb BA n, ff: P. 2CS Monday 29 29 prisoners were tried, 21 of whom were convicted fie trifling oft tiers, a n d five were acquitted. Scoitence of transportation fur life was then passed on three piisowers; I'2 were ordered to his transportedlor 11 years; V) t'or 7 VCars; and 5 sentenced for 2 years implisontneut in Clerkenw ell BriCiewell ; 17 fur one year, and 18 f. c ti months ; 12 fur ii in Newgate for various periods; 11 to he private's' nod '1 pohliclily whippt d; and the Sessions were adjourned to the 20 of June next. When the ddirciellt couvicts were brought up to receive sen tence. on the question living put .40 Robert Kennett, for- forgery, " holier Le Lad any tong to sav silly judgment to die should not lye's against him according to law."' he very steadfastly look ed at the Recordt r for some Float time, and then took a paper out of his pocket, from which lie read a long adrbess to the Court. After i remarking on Sir Richard Carr (.11)nn Uh!, his prosecutor, and having .at at the sane time on tho Be.,eit a,. one of his Judges, he went on to notiee, that he was Convicted upon the evidence of witnesses, who, he 1 , urged, were not persons untitled to credit upon, their oaths, and who 1 clone there to give testimony against him iii order to save their own 1 lives. Ile next edvetted to the insufficiency of the proof of the other win rises, .ed further proceeded to lament his unhappy situation II hewailine the ml-erahle state of his wife and four childreo ; adding, I I that his eldest son a Captain in the army. fell honourably fighting fns h:s King and country, and concluded that topic with thanking the 1 f Ahnialuv that he did not live to witne-s his father's deplorable fate. ll.: onset veil, that his ancestors had obtained the highest honours that the city of London could bestow ; and that his uncle (the i late Alderman Kenuett) had filled that chair, a% its Chief Magistrate 1 1 from whence, on that night, jnaittnelit was iguominonsly passed en him. lie finally concloded with imploring marcy, and with earnestly morel. i 1 ling the Recorder to further his suit with the Prince Regent. The l Record, r ob.erved, that Sir R. Glynn did not sit as Judge on, the t # bench, but morely as prosecutor. POLICE. r,olv.s . i it Ewr. TIM M A TICTII ON ESS OP 1)0 W N 811 Tlt L'S Roneensr.—Mavelay morn ing being the time appointed for a public exinnivation of the ten per sons in custody on charge of beimg concerned in this extensive robbery, the Office me. crowded before twelve o'clock, printipally by persons ot .1:3141k:don. Amongst them were the Duke of Sussex, the Earl of, Stair, Lore Crewe, the Marquis of Douelas, t:,e• Nlarchieness of Down shire, Sir John and Lady llippesley Cox, Gene' al Phipps, &e. At twelve o'clock, the le/Rowing Itersolts were-placed at the 'bar, viz. f-- Joarph Richardson, Levy Hirt, Mary Hart, Sarah Cohen, James Filmic lin, Reuben Joseph, Dinah Joseph, James Simons, 531'411 S:11101iS, and. Nathan SWIC)IIS. • The prismier.Richardson, it appeared. had been the principnl exe calor of this robbery, though not the planner of it. Although but a., young man, he is supposed to have committed a number of darin4 robberies, anti has brol.e out of two of the strongest prisons in this coun try. Ile is a native of Chester. A gentleman present, who hat seen lluonaparte, declared him the strongest likeness of that personage ha ever saw. Some time since, being charged with having committed a , blirglary in Lancashire, he was taken and lodged in the New Palley Prison in Manchester, and was coolined in a cell which was securest, by east iron bars. Ile contrived to have a Neer's giesse brought into him, in order to break the iroiebars with it ; but when he had oot it ha was afraid to use it on account of the noise it wonld make. At lengtie he hit upon the stratagell of Striking the bars with the goose CVlOly at the time a verj large clock there was striking the hour, and after en counteting a variety of other difficulties, he at length effected his ca cape. lie ,:a; nut heard uny more of till he was token into ett , tody an a charge 4 hreal:ing open and robtring the houses of the Earl of 80.. borough and Lord Crewe, for which he win committed to the !hinge of • Currectieo, in Co!dhatlefields, where he was coniitied in ei cell in ilia . 1 upper part of the prison, lie being at stone-mason by trade, contrived. to take up one of the stones of the. door, and woi keel his way through into the laoup loom ; front thence he got ioto the yard, el tire gurdin oakum-room, where ho tied together some ropes, which he procured in the onkimeroom, and contrived to throw them to the top of the pre 1 son-wall, upon which thereis a elievaux ••de frize. The ropes hung by the iron-spikes sufficiently long ni•enable him to raise himself severtif yards, hut at lilt falling hack, lie found himself much i. jived by the fa:l, and has :pit blood ever since. Ile was about to return to his cull in despsir, wlien he discovered a !udder, locked and chained, both 4 l I - 11 which lie broke, and ascended tr i el.cape übuut two morolts afft), jug, toter ;Eiji Itr.7:lJti of upw.n, to the to; of the wall, and elfevted ict«een five and sic n'elnek in ►lse moe►r 'di, (A it,c houit. Siacv that time Ire (7. •• mi