The National Register. — London, England, 1814-05-08 00:00:00

SOe de Prera v..ould have been his. The wrath of the multitude 11 vvas directed against the Senate, in consequence of a demand having been made that Beauhamois should p r declared • It was not till a deputation had been sent to the Aries, praying them to refuse to acknowledge him, that orclef•was restored. Mutssi. Apart. v:?.---The news of the great events at Paris caused in Shea city a sudden tevdution, which had most fat,l cA:n‘rritie It broke out on the 20th. The populace procretied to the house of tdlr ,;Minister of France, M, de Prena, a Piedmontese by birth, who was drbrged imo the public:s(l , lrue, and tormented in the most. cruel warmer before he was put to death. They sacked the Senate-hou , e, instated Ow Senators, and demaadA the heads the .Ilivisters. Ilay cal:ed out paritcular!y for the Miaister of the Conscription. M. ,vlra bein;7 informed c,f it, made his escape. What rendered the populace tsarinas against fhe irst Body of the State, a as, t hat N. Paradise nod Dando;o, Es Apothecaries, were at the head of a iiiha!, which, iu au extraordinary Sitting of the 17th, had den,anded rrince Eugene as The rt gister in which this demand was writ ten was torn, and the Municipality, united to the rusigity of the Se nate, sent a Deputation to the Allied Sovereigns to reject the Vice r:y. From that moment calm appears to he restored. a Provisional tiovernment has been fannal, and the 'Pectoral Bodies convoked.— Prinee Eileene is at Mantua, SA ith a tew faithful tollowers. From Turin we learn, that Prince Borglicse has been ohli. , ed to Aide himself. The fermentation of the ciipital was at its htight ; he escaped flom their feu. The previous intelligence received from France in the course of the present week differs in nothing materially from that which we have been in the habit of receiving from that quarter for some time. Notices of adhesions and rejoicings Ell every paper. The acclamations of the people, wherever Louis " the Desiree," as he is now called, appears, are inva riably said to he enthusiastic, and we may reasonably hope they are sincere. Anecdotes of Buonaparte are published -which realty almost cnnvince us that, for some time previous to the termination of his power, he was insane. Accustomed for many years to victory, he seems to have wanted forti tude to bear defeat. The reverses he met with appear to have turned his brain, and, operating on the violence and obsti oacy of his character, ut7ed him on from error to error, till all was I v o. It must excite something of snrmise to find that a thing called a Treaty was actually signed with this man, (as Empe- Tor) subsequent to his abdication of all claims to the Throne. This appears to have been done on the 11 th of last month. It was f.igned by the whole of the Allies, with the exception of England. Onr Minister, very properly, refused to give signature. However desirable the regulations which this .tread/ may cantain, we cannot pies; on what -principle Boo raparte was wade a party to it. it makes a provision for the Archduch.:ss, and for that b•av who has been called the Ninz of Rome, though, according to rr;,ort, he ought ra ther to have been considered the I. l Wy Austin of France." The duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, are given to her Royal Highness the Archduchess, and she is to be tucceeded in them by the yomig Gentleman we have just mentioned, who is speken of as her son. He is in future to be called the Prince of Palma and Placentia. We have nothing to say against these arrangements;—but what had Buonaparte to 0., with them ? The time is past for consult ing his feelings, or requiring his sanction to any measure which it shall seem good to the Allies to adopt. He must have felt this burlesque ne;ociation, was intended but to mock him. • An officer (Colonel Hill) passed through this city this =outing; he left the vicinity of Bayonne on the 23d ult. This gentleman states, that such an event as the death of Sir John Hope had not been heard of when he left the British army ; on the contrary, it was believed, and there was no doubt of the fact, that Sir John Hope was then living, and in a fair way of doing well.---Exeter Flying Post, May 5. COVRATT-G.ARDEN THEATRE. MAY S. A Mr. Sherenbeck made his first appearance yesterday in the ch4racter of Shera, in Cumberland's.comedy of The Jew. This person is himself one of the chosen people, and, we believe, has long been known in the theatrical world. He seems well stricken in years, and i 3 may be to him, a mat ter of surpiise that his talents did not procure hint a situation on the London hoards before, but we arc astonished that they should ever have brought him there at all. Of Mr. Sherenbeck's dialect we shall say little.—His He brew education may make his judgment in this respect vastly superior to ours. We wish only to say, that if in Shera it is intended the dignity of a good heart should affect the au dience, and command admiration and respect, Mr. Sherenbeck is not the man who ought to appear as the representative of the henevokent Jew. His coarse delineation of the part makes it impossible for an audience to feel any interest in whaf S hera does. Ills bast speeches were mouthed in a manner which excited risisility, and his gestures, if not preposterous, had a miserable same ness, which it required more than common fortitude calmly to endure. As we do not wish to enlarge on the defects of this exhibition, we shall say little more on the subject. A wish to promote Mr. Sherenbeck's real interest, induces us to caution him against suffering himself to be deluded by the applause he received last night. The foolish rap tures of the nobility and gentry from the neighbourhood of Houndsditch, may keep him up for a Saturday or or two, but all their sabbath exertions will never make him succeed with the town. Those who wish to hurt his feelings, may affect to praise, but we, who wish to spare him as much as possible, must fairly tell him what will soon be intimated to hit from another quarter—that he will not 40. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. . DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Mr. Kean acted Othello on Thursday, and last night he appeared as the representative of Ingo. In both he received great applause, but his Othello, considered as a whole, was a very imperfect performance. It may be urged that his ex ecution was in some - parts brilliant, and that a diminu tive figure and a husky voice ought not to be imputed to him as faults ; but admitting all this, we cannot bring ourselves to admire his portraiture of the Moor. We do not blame him for what he cannot help, but Still we can not bring ourselves to admire his defects. The Irishman's horse, though it was. proved his blindness • was a mi , fiiriune, and not a fault, was less valuable than one that could sec, and an Othello deficient in size and mice, whatever praise may be due to the actor, for greatly exerting himself in despite of nature, cannot merit unquali fied approbation. We hope Mr. Sowerby, the Othello of yesterday, will not think, in making these remarks, we have any dcsi;ol to flatter him. Tar be it from us to do such vio lence to his feelings. Though we could wish Othello to he played by such " as arc of happier person" than . Mr. Kean, we should be in no hurry to make Mr. Sowerby his substitute. _Togo is one of those characters in which Mr. Kean's peison is not particularly against him. On this subject we purpose to defer our remarks for the present. Next week, as Mr. Young is about to play Ingo at Covent Garden, we may have an opportunity of noticing both in the same publication. The grand Subscription Fete, in honour of the Peace, is to he given at Burlington House and Gardens, the use of which the Duke of DevOnshire has, in the handsomest manner, given for the occasion. The Committee are of opinion, that the number of persons at the Ball ought not in any case to exceed eighteen hundred.