The National Register. — London, England, 1816-02-26 00:00:00

liamvity, or of low cunning; but which does not bia;uute the lofty mind, yet frail character, of .1/e;i'.'ll. Mitt.) Cr NEILL was the greEt star or the night, to whom eyes were attracted, and round whom all the rest of the tu;tors swotted to move as mere sitellites about a planet of the first (Inter. Mi e k a n, ic t iv ud mi 6 great merit, that it requires the coldness anti the experience of a critic to discover her defects ; and if she compares our jEdgment with the plaudits which she received, and in many of which we joined, it may happen probably that bile will appeal film our sentence. But on this head, we would have all ac tors understand, that mere ap plause is not the teA ef positive excellence, and that it is rb often bestowed on the poet as on the actor. The elm meter allqittetitoMiss O'NEILL was evidently the fhvourite ow! of Su sEEsPEARE in this play; but it is °fa peculiar east, and one net within the ,/bile of Miss O'Nfittt's powers. In perst.il she is fieseinating, rather than grand; in voice, powerful and impressive ; but in mind, truly fe minine, and not metaphysical or poetic, In characters of feminine Mvectness and affectimi, she is irresistible ; she looks and speaks, and seems to think and feel, as a wife would, at the distress of a beloved husband ; and we think .it more than probable that many of her audience have said mentally—' would that Heaven hail made me such a wife!' Isabella is an tared ionate 'sister, but it cold nun. The pride of minden purity animates her with a philosophic dignity, a commanding enthusiasm, a haughty inspiration, which belongs only to a mind of the highest intellectual vignur. She is a philosopher; a female Handel, a me taphysician in petticoats; n Made. De Mad in veil. This the charming Miss O'NEILL is not ; but this, the awful and the majestic Sinnoxs, upon the stagy at least, could be, and was with a superiority which delies all rivalship, tend leaves room only tin imitation. In the beautiful Mssitges of poetic enthusiasm, and lofty declamati o n, rs. Sinnosis exhibited a skill which was justly charac terised by the deputation of the English bar, when they thanked her tier the lessons they had received in eloquence. She delivered them with a grace and dignity which we have never seen equalled by any orator, living or dead, in the senate, at the bar, or in the pulpit. In her voice. the tragic MSC scented to speak with all the enthusiasm of poetic inspiration. If we say, then, that in these pas sages we beheld Miss O'NEILL with other feelings than we have done in listening to Mrs. Srnnoxs, we only say, that below the highest degree of excellence in this cast of character, Miss O'NEILL stands at, perhaps, not a very distant interval. IVe thrbear to lan-nod:wise where we have not topraise most highly, and shall prefer an maw tunity in which we may point out particular beauties, rather than deficiencies. • • • The comic characters were well east. tucio was, erhaps, too frivolvus ; hut Pompey, was really POMPEY the Great ; fin' no actor pallid have so little set down fit;• him by the author, and ntake so much of it witout tres passing beyond the limits of sound discretion. LISTON if in such characters nature itself, and yet his delineation of nature arises from R strong sense of truth, and a just feeling of humour; with a genius, which, while it seems merely to copy, actually creates. Had nature given to this actor the figure of K►:an+t.e, with as strong a sense of the sublinw as of the ridiculous, what would he not hare etlixted? At present, we never see him, without a renewed satii.fiaction, and an acknowledgment, that he is, perhaps, the first at comic actors in an age which abounds with so much excellence in Comedy, that it puts our utmost skill to the trial, when we endeavour to ascertain on where to fix the laurel which is to mark the superiority. The whole play, we repeat, is well got up, and so well acted, that none but a critic would find leisure, perhaps, to discover faults. A new Pantomine, or rather a Aelertion of the best panto mimic ser111•• • I% a 4 performed on NI midst v night at the aho• e 'Theatre with great silems. It is called //orieiviris Olie, and a more pleasing or ili• erting olio 11;1s seldom been witnessed. Toward the c!iiim of the performance, an Italian lady , oho had prrvioush exhibited at the feneing.roimi of Mr. Angelo, in Ileind-drert, made a trial of skill with two competitors. She is rather a muscular, but still a graceful figure: and to All op. patently perfect liiionlealge of the as t, she added an extraor Jinary degree of strength, precisiou, awl agility, Ilia excc. ti uns were Iciudi) applauded. INTELLIGEAVE. COURT OF KING S BENCH, Fre. 22. tont) corite•sc v, :ANILTIIII.IIT. This was nit action to recover damages against the defendant, for t whiting a patent obtained !,, the plaintiff for a newly•iii voted Lamp, for illuminating all eitics, tow IP:, and villagas. lite ease occupied the whole day. It appeared, that the na city of the intention cow-islet' in increasing the lineally of light in knits; by an ingenious mode of bringing the at mospheric air to be:tr upon the wick of the burner. After it considerable number of witnet:ses were esamined, it tamed jut that the islaintitrs specification was larger than his pa tent; the [Mk+ ht. tt itt th,.t the invent' WAR adapted for " all reties, town., and villages," whereas die former sareratled.•• light-hooses, theatres, churches, chapels, eve." Ibis derided the row ; for the Learned Judge immediatel directed the plaintiff to he mann/reed. In the King's 'kiwis on Friday scnnigbt, Mr. Wild, a !hilt broker in the t itv, OtlLlifiett a verdict, with 401. damages, against the Light I ompany ; being the vAllie of a horse killed through defendants' sui Yantis negligently 14 . :1V ing r quan tity of ruhhigh in the Strand. where they had been laying down pipes for tne gas., and by winch the animal sir.is thrown (lowa, Mr. Wild thrown out and cruised, and the gig much injured. 'Puy sapioNAL RPGISTEN 01:1) Satunity. Join Cnikr was in heed for fluniously, :waling a letters containiN at:l.ll4in promissory note fur 101. the prupetiy el Eiizab....6l Garnet ;as. of Richmond, Surrey. on the eSt I utd.uanst last. The prisoner had been out upon nail since the lasWatusion, and now surrendered himself to Aide NI,. Iteynokls stated the ease on the part of the prosecution; and thu fails of tlw i,hieh were ad , ltard ni its s•appurt by nearly 1:0 witnesas, were briefly ihriser—lc appeared o,:tt a persioi named Glatt'. roiding near litidport, hail, on the 191 it of .tugusb last, procured a promissory , note. Bd.. Iron: the Dor.l.:iter Bank. payable at the how,' of tux, Merle, and Co. of Little Britain. This note be enclosed in a letter on the glst of August List, to Mrs. E. Garnett Jones, of Kew, luau Richnionchciirectesi to the care ofMr. John Beil, idostles street, in the latter place. This letter. it impearssl, war never received by Mrs. Cale or Jlr. Wilson; but, on the i• qd of Auguit. the day on Which it should have arrived, a person tailing himself Wil on. pre sented the promissory note in question. :a the house of Cox. Merle, and Ca. fur payment, where a clerk, of the name of 11:teller. gave in lieu too corresponding notes of the value of 11. each. These, with vari ous other notes. were also proved to have been received on the mune day by the houw of Cox and Co. from the Bank of England. 'fhe prisoner. who was a stamper of letters in the General Post (Hlke, hail also the duty of delivering suede letters as he Stalllpell over to the sorter. It further appeared, that the prisoner was employed on the duty de scribed at a table marked F. where the Britunt latttrs were stamped. 'She arrival of the Bridport bait of letters was proved to have been re gularly received on the •t td tit A11'411 , 1, when the letter and note in question were missing from nonalelivcry. It. eut..asitience of aim • of the Bank notes which had bean paid in exchange for the airy note at the house of Cox and Co. hring traced to the prisoner, the was taken into custody'. and underwent an examination at Bow-street Here the notes which hall Ivan so traced t•, him, and ir. , :ori,ll in his writing. were produced by Mr. retkin, Jun. the Solicitor to the Post t Mice, when the torisaner arkameleilg them to be so endorsed by him but stated distinctly the name and ad trews ofesch parson ;ruin whom lie received them. ...... ......... The trial occupied the attention. of the Court for secernl hours, and Mr. Justice I.e Blanc. haring summed up the evident.-- a: great length. the Jury, withirat the slightest besiuttion. found the privinr Guilty— Death t but recoinmeigled him to merry, on account of his previous gmd character. Tuesday frilliam White alias Kor.kee Beau, was indicted for steals Mg. or the lfith of October last, a paper parcel, on:mining hunk notes anininting to INF.'. the property of Met3lii. Henry Brown. and James Coombs, of Windsor. ,rt Pohests. 1010 sews indicted with tea• prisoner as an accomplice. was called upon his recognizance. but did not appear. The eiictuiistarece of this case have been so fully and so fretluently before the publii: in our Paper. that we feel it unnecessary to detail the evidence. alibi was attempted to he proved by at least aix petsions ; but the Judge basing summed up the evidence, the Jury. without the slightest hesitation. found the prisoncl---fiuilty. Wednesday Corpi. Barnett. for attempting the life of Nlim Kelly. by firing at her in Drury Lane Theatre , was Pitt to the bar; hut the (;rand Jury having been discharged, his trial was postponed until thu nes, t S.l,sions. Ti IV It !TO/ITV:R. after some trials of no public interest, proceeded to pass s-nu nee of Death upon the following 'ZS convicts:--. John Fencnt, for stealing 4.;tiods amountiog to .5 inl. in a dwelling house; John Cutler, for s..crettrig a letter containing a ml. note; Daniel Halliday. Tho7nas Weatherstone. alias Anderson, Robert Carver, John Dates, alias Wild. John :Marshall, James Dail, Richard Gill:um. W. Thomas. W. Smith, .1. Crow, 11. Jones. alias Bland. James Smith. Thomas Turner. Arthur Allinpliam. and James Wool, for burglary: Robert Esellay. alias Wilson. G. Fret-tone. James Miles. W. Rose, and Charles Tomkinson reading good and money in dwelling houses; Thomas Cooper. for cutting and maiming wit ; intent to kir : Ann Smith. for prhatAy stealing in a shop; and J Barnett, a boy only ten years of age, for staling viva. ly in a shop. Thursday after hearing a f.w CAWS of a petty nature. the Sessions terminated, and the Recorder pmeeeded to pass sentence upon the se veral convicts; when Captain George harrower, for bigamy. being pet to. the bar. and asked what he had to way why thejukrment of the court should not be prononneed against him r replied. that however cheer fully he would submit to the punishment which the laws of his country imposed, lie felt himself again bound, as an injured and persecuted intheidual, to declare his innocance of the crime with which he was so Mully charged by his pro:motors; he was then anuoucisi t o b e cor di rist i air mouths in Newgate. The Captain bowed respectfully to the Court, and retired. J. II uglies, to tk trans' orted for life; T. Read, J. Bowers. .1 Dent. J. Watkins. and L. Cmmar, tor It Bears; .1. Hassey, G. Lewis ' W. F.vans. J. llaxwortliy, Turman, T. Berry, .1. Sullivan. Jane Eng land. C. Lander alia. Harris. Ann Harding. Ann Brower, J. Wilson, Ann arias Mary Burn, T. Harris. M. ll:in.:van, W. White, .1. Robin son. Charlotte Hav,y, G. Burton. IL Perry. H. Johnson, J. Button. Martha Galagon, T. Perrym W. Austin. and C. King. for seven yrats. Four were ordered to be imprisoned in the House of (orreition for one )enr ; ten for six months ; four fur three months ; and four for one month each ; wise far imprisonment in the Iliki , e of nu-nation fur the City of London. and four in Newgate for various periods ; four were lined is. each and discharged ; seven were rrivattly whipped ; one judgment was resuir, d ; ma twelve were prod:aviation. --Sessions adjournott to April 3. ELANCHOLI* ACI'l DENT. Friday, in a snuffle between Mr. Brookes. the owner of a menagerie. and Mr. Thompson. in which a pistol* was used. the Ldter was shot in the head, and little or no bopes.ire entertained of ltis ::covery. alai: having taken place in the City, Mr. B. was brought before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House to explain the transaction. S vend witnesses also attended, who were presem on the melancholy oc casion. The following particulars tranapirtal beim.: Ms Lordship:— Mr. B. had been acqtbSillted with 6arali Turkey tio six a ram during which period they had lived tageth.r as man and wife. out were rot married. HaYing 'atsiness in Se otland. he left the female under pro tection of his friends. residing at Wistinorland-plat, with s stitahle pniyisiaa for her maintenance until his return. Its friends !vin e ; us the habit of visiting an aqua ntancy with w!.oui Mr. Thompson lodged, the latter, in exonsequence. beearne a:quaimsel with Sa.sio Tookey ; and two days prior to Mr. B.'s retarr, troa. koclnld. pm vailyel to on her to quit Westmorland-place. and to with hiu. a: hi. Ind..ings in the ity-road ‘tr. B. was notch .reined a: the hos te. the deeply, and conrultiAl with a liair.dreurr, tae "arat_her or the fugitive. as to the best roan of vet:owning her. They both proceylui tog•ather to 'rhonipson's lodgings, aped during Isis absence induced Sarah TYs.a.:y to return wial them, but not without considyral.l.: nlnctitcce. Three days had elapsed. when Mr. T. had enclessuored in vain to trace the ...man; and it was not until yesterday that they n.et. In the noon, M. T. called at the brother's and left Jr: thtat he was „Lsirous of an opportunity ot speaking with Mr. B. on h:Jiness relative to the poise.sion of &trill Tookey. and that in the hop! ~ .fineeting him :hoe in the evening, he thould look in. In lyss t, en an :AY= and a half Nurever. he called again, and in the inters al Mr. B. and Sarah Too key had seen the brother, and been told of Mr. Thm.psor's intention. Thompson, finding Mr. B. and the o!iieet of his .ware:;• t sgether is Bull.alley, desired to come to an explanation with die fanner. I hi the t ., orties meeting. a quarrel ensued, and Thouipsor., anabls: to cope with B. in point of strength, had pre pool hinuslf with a piitol wide)) he drew from "Ms pocket. The SCR Itniing and fears of the women. however. inclusattl Thomp on to replace it again in his praket. B. ran tip stain and armed himself uith a poker. aid, on uoming down, a fresh Prattle envied. B. has given Thompson a yioiem blow on the head with thy poker. who finding hinis If again overeat:red, Laid re. course to die pistol. B. on perectving his danger. irne rid If the potter. and eloAxl with Thompson. in order to wrest froth hia hands the idly weapon : but B. states that in this he did rar. ami finding that Thompson WAS endeavouring to discharge the pi;',. rr .o.rticri it =isle. when the contents Wltereti the head of ex man. anti he in stantly fJI, srd bled rrofusely. Mr. Amhrow, of the Post-office. hearing the shrieks of the woman. entered Lie house, and was endea vouring :a separate the parties when the pistol went off close to his ear. and his face :Ind neck-handervhief were hesisttorol all over with blood, but he fortunately escaped without injury. Toe poor wrenuti was asnated intuit chair, ahj endtsivoured„ but In an incoherent manner, to articst late an answer to oar question's. It was thought chat he was desirou , to defend hitt:self Irons the charge of suieicle, tor he ass undcrstood to repeat. '• it was taken from me. it was taken num inc." isosaung tho pool. lie was iutinetlLaely etotecyesl tu St. Thomas's 11 , ,spitai, but, ay we before awed, with htthi R till 'Willi Of [1.1.1)111:Xy. as It appeatei sitspoesale to extract the hall, or give him relief '. That joung worruin attended lliosupson to the hospial, whilst H. was conveyed to the :11 /nation-house The Lord Mayor, on hearing all the evidence brought forward, and learning that mere could be ptoduced, ordered the prisoner H. to be stranded until Mande} next. The following further particulars have been sine,: published rt %path g the aboveunfortunutealiidr. Mr. Thoilli/601111, b nauva W' )l anal {bestir and was aprineil clerk in thy houst ot Alto. Sabin anti t to. solicitoi•, in hretlenek's pfwr, Old Jewry. Ile was very much attstelled to /' young woman who was tile cause ut his ittiofortusie, and she apparent. / entertained fur hits 4 rociprocal.allixtion. 11 hen he triclinia/ft 115 r tit r at her brother's in Hall-alley, lie designated ht r by the title in wife, as, h,e prorated to inarry her intinelliattly. 11 . 1 ten Timinjauti was tam to ti e Ilospital, the wound on the left ...he of his head was probed. to useerta. I whether the ball remained there, but nothing visa diovs creel a Inch cotO.l lead the surgeons to the timmition of a conclusive oisinton. It was or - cessstry from the blow of the raker alone, to trepan the head. 'Ehe air .1 Mayor, the better to se - tuft the (litho of justice, was ekanotts, *bast tt wounded sulkier appearal in full possession of Iti.s friiidties., to tat. (howl/ his examination ; lie therefore• proceeded to die hospital on Ft ioh / air: ernoun. alter the hearing of Brookes at rite ulartsiun 'loose. I e four ,i Thompson in aco untried state of tau :d, and tiliciteal ton :site shot lino's. a tired the pistol which hail inflicted the wound, but at the Sallie time it wet tin/ler:Antal that the deadly weal.un was origiiadly in the f Tatmip•on. %Viten shown a slit;, hesrotithed that that vas not its I.o' ants. for tbe pistol was loaded with / ball; this einurnstante gave the i • - preanionthatoepiste.had not been tun/is:ad by Its-talkers. latedst• • was prevehted, by the advice of tbs./111,1.AM*. from tentleriog an strut.. and proceeding in th: examination seeurding to t h e fonrs of law. a s that ',trash hislite wablittt totally desyainal off ar,d tltcp,olsibility c a reuodur exte.,ituttn might b.: attincled with t.:anstemus consssout net s. .S, tatebuineus to:mutated. no eognocauwe tan la• taken rut TIIOIIII/!011 . 1 thech.ratites in any future judicial proceedings. tin wurday morning. the regut:r evidence. of the uhfortunate boat rte being deenoal hieby ruptisite to char up the tranauct'on, stir W. rut So at ral e d the 1. 0 .- pital tier the Lord M oor to take the examination. Brookes also wj4 pr(xcnt iu eubusty. • hut it was now use late, •Ite patient was knits! not only delirious, !tut hat extremities were already , old. He spoke a a hub., but it was in stall an incoherent and rout's, In dory manner, ths't Isis statement coul•I not be cithoitlered goal reifies:we; clifd the summits were of "Linton that he could not linger sent :11./ Jay. The me s ses riven to inquirtrs sit a late hour in the evening was, that he would not tor/ivy the night. 'Else young wonnui, the rause of the catastrophe, whoa: friends des:rued it expedient to conline her to her room, contrived to defeat their r igiknet. anti mind leer way to use hosittalt but was foam convtied suck to her friends in a state of the Wllthal . Since the above was written, we have useertoin ei that Mi. 'I lions/ , n is ulead; he expired at tl:ret o'clock ycstertlay morning at St. 'l'honsas I loopital; an inquest is sin 1111 l mod to bit on the body. TIIE St . /TEREUS tx Tilt: C0.U...P1T.....Ab011t 12 months ago between ;0 and Ito nieti anti boy, lust their live., in ti C llt aton coal-lit. near Newtastle-nispo-Ty•ne, by what is called a hla of tht•pit and its filling in cone" water. ant l uence with lt Visa I on :\llll.lllily last tit instant. that the bodies of the horaterynrt of the to we/ e s onte at, when i of thvin wore Seked in what is (allot! the far workings of the pit. It ha.) beta deftly mac( toll( d that Jet;.: unfortunate men and buys all perished by starvation. T: cy had eft into a part of the pit where the seater did not reach them, soil hail be, n many sect•ks employed in cnticavottrin to work their w..y ...sat an old pit, lot, by which tacy might have ape d. They sae sup; ' ho d t o hate filed in their attempt by tile want of hand to support theni, as ebt'y Is tow in the pit was eaten to the bout. The untottunate num had 4, water -mark fixt.l up, that they iniglit'observt if it fell. Coe ours, Isla" is sums seal to have set to watch it, W 11.) found dyad at his plot. BOW-ST E ET. OUTRAGE AT DRI7IIT-1 AN t: TllE.LTßK.—Tucntloy. George Barnett, the soling man VtiAl tired the pistol at Nfit‘s while performing on Saturday a Lull nmudof witch was given en o ur last, wiis thought limn Testhiltichis for Linn! examination. 'lite evidence was a;ain road to the respective witnessev, w;:o w ere LO their tlepo,itions; in tu.:(!ition to the former evidence is the foliownw Mr. George Rutter. lime-office Ke•per, snit!, he heel examined the lamps. and other trams el the stag,. which were exinsixl to the tiring of the shot. None of the Letups were broken ; but the sheet of tin iteta tier the purpose of etiCetiPg the light upon the stage. had several marls upon it, as it some 51.01. oad been rc i telkel. lea perforations were in one of tile wings, and also in the hack scene. %Vanes, laoiluestii a tea shot. which lie hail pit:keel up upon the stage. Mr. Maxis: asked the prisoner if he wished to say any thing in itis derence "s. lie replied. that he had fires! or the pistol in the Theatre. Ina not with the intention to injure any one; what else ti11111;tled fur Jim to my, he shotthi du upon another occasion. and in r. tiittiTrut twition. Ile was then fully eonitnittetl (fir trial, and the itartie, were Nava user to pritsenite.—ilia, Kelly iiid not ktteiitt out the whole dramatic. ..irrs were present. betide* l.ord Alontfonl. Mr. Coutes. ilc. 111: SAO:4 I ;3y m Bill (her/,:e, ./irk Feitu, it three well-known climeters, were appreltentl.l in their Irdsbyll. Limerick, in etinseipieneetif their answering the tleterit , t:tia of three thotiaut rolitient alai had litistl.ll, kniieketl low it, and gentleman in II igtl.strs.Vl. St. (iiles's, :thou' a titrtiii;:lit kg.). Mr. I hewilney, the gentleman t.lrlavl, ~ a sent line; aid Lai his (air. ing to the office and vitt, Mg the primmer , . 1:e said, that on the when he u.ts nutted it was reile.thably bright intionligfit; amt, thtr.: h.:ing a deal of mut% oft the erottial, it aas nearly as light as day; he 1. : .,1 . • thertfore ai: opportunity ot seeing the features of the hum of oneof R:e mlitient. and he had nu ht,:ni.tiun in saying the prisoner %Villiant Jorwa, tbislina, 1111. , the 'lain. llt had nut sueli a giant tom rirtanity of sieve i!ti.; the :ierwinsof the other two robbers, who were . with 1.41.1 411 takiet;.., his watch. Ike.; he Merefore could not slack to 1.. e esr. 'ails of the pr; , imers. I)anies and Riley: they were therefore diaeliarg. oil. Wit:. hone*, ;ilia , : 11111 tinsltiw, was fully emontitted the cubtang (iIiSIIIP STREET. 'rlitinilay JoleotWON w:s• ' •d before .i..•eph Mclver, E.g. Ehdrgett with the 'Lander ut the jail:int eight' ~f hi. twin ehtilubter. y Painter, Ilse chikiN 1116111 we, ileianwil, that the priwaner, tier father. is 4 botcher. re•ikliii , 4 at N. ti, Co% het haltey, lasi Sailartl43, manning It. %VIII tit IS r‘s..zate.niin let upy meat ; anti itavial; ' , urethan al vibe, Hem be radii,' 1, , /412 homy in he , firt, lir de.sircil her Muth,' au 4.) for tau r t . which the lattvi renaspil to do until tic r. sorted up, all the sat d11% . 111 torethcr th,.• , whet, the prisourr began to uphooiti his son for tliskdkeilly ord. TS : 1,11:11 1111T1IS aruae , 411111 the Sun called his it, her 'Wiwi when:. hatilrt., %kirk irritated the laiter so snitch, that hr 14i,1 hold of whiruc harchm's init . ., whit+ nits on the faille, and her koltek ptrupiell lip it lie table and sprang toward• the do.o 11 Wilms, unit her child, two months old, %%as stamina:. ,kt khe end of Mc (Ably, ulna' In r father, iu ottemp•inu lo (ling , the kikilr after la's s,m, .troirli the child Al Oh it on the „t . 111'4141 And indicted it mirep wound. The child lingered M 14\ %111 11 it e‘pit.cil. 11r. snritrnin, in liecr-Atriart, liarbiraiii, st.id , he was called to r ; the child on Saturitai. lir luau,' 4 411111 d o, 111 P Silk I , l* the braid, appamnily i dlkeh d wil t 4 kIIITP, whirl, had deeply peuctrateil, 41111 NlllCh hr kiwi no doom cAltscil Ins ' 'rile pri•otier ',aid, that he certainly wa. in an ext - e-si%e pa 4.41 .... at ilte Ina... iu eitnaeilitenve or the atotrotion hie latirtn.ee ht. ...II entitle 11s11.111 . ; 11111 light he had not the ‘lightt.t attention in iiiiirder Imo, mach it:N. IDc rotor tit who IP& s %A.. Contmittr d for trial.