The National Register. — London, England, 1813-08-22 00:00:00

AUGUST ft :,..* -DRAMATIC REGIS' LYCEUM. On 'Thursday last, an operatic drama in three acts, called The Waltz and founded on WYCHERLEY'S Dancing Master, but purged of all its grossness; was represented for. the first time at this theatre. Those who expected a satire aimed at the prevalent taste for the • voluptuous indecency of the Gerinan Waltz, were disappointed. Iu its - present state, the piece has little pungency, either of wit or of satire, to boast : yet it is lively and amusing. Is it does not instruct or reprove, it hies little tendency to corrupt. Its fable is perhaps too simple for an English audience, to whom the intricacies of under-plots are always pleasing; but the skill of the performers fills up the emptiness of its outlines, and. gives the whole the plumpness, colonrino and vivacity of life. The charac ters are as antiquated as the plot, which only consists in the giddy contrivances of a young! girl (Miss KELLY) to deceive her father (LoveonovEl an Englishman denationalised by his long abode in Simon, of which he teas adopted the manners anti the dAiss ; her aunt, (Mrs. SPARKS) an old meddling woman, anti tier cousin ( . I.isirOsil, a dunce of English origin, loaded with 'F'rench frippery and extiavagance. in order to many ker lover (Pien.ups) whom she introduces as her dancing-master, with the assistance and thromJi th ey stu pidity of his very rival, her cousin. She is assisted its tier intrigue by her maid (Mrs. LtsToN) who has nothing to do but to inform her when her father is coming, at which times she feigus she learning 'a waltz. As usual, the contrivances of the lovers suceeeil, and ; they arc ultimately forgiven. It can easily be conceived that the mere introduction of such able performers, in any characters, must produce much comic effect, aid malty laughable. liitilatiollB. Iu these, they have power ful auxiliaries in the ridiculousness of their respective dresses, and the pompous gravity of LovEonove, the coxcombical affectation of LISTON, Mrs. SPARK'S stiffness, MISS KELLY'S chdrining vi% nit}, ease, spirit, and nature, with the melodious voices of Pa , i.uPs and Mrs. LISTON may well, cause the deficiencies of the piece to be forgotten. Among the latter, however, we will mention the attar .ment of ti:e Frenchified dunce to his dress, which is carried se far, as to make us more-inclined to laugh at the foolish- Nes- of the author, than at that of his fop. On the first night, this piece encountered much opposition, but it has since become mote popular. It is an entertaining trifle en livened by -ome pretty music. The four Officerq, who remained for execution at Win cheFter. Ur the fnu.der of Lieut. BLUNDELL, in a duel, have received a further respite until the 2d of September. The fallowing notice was posted up in the Corn-Exchange and other places on Monday:— MANSION-HOUgE, AUG. 10, 1813. "Inconsequence of the want of corectness in the manner of mak ing the Returns of Meal or Flour bought within the City of Lon pon, and the weekly Hills of iviortality, and within ten miles of the Royal Exeliani 4 c ari.ing principally from the non-observance of the 6th Section of the Act, passed in the 37th year of his present Majesty's rein, which directs, that the price shall be absolutely fist d at the time of sale,. and before the delivery, and shall not de pen I upon any enture mar! et price or other contingency, under the penalty of twenty pounds on both buyer and seller, the Lord Mayor is tillable to fix the Assize of Bread with justice to the " The Lord Mavoc, therefore, gives this notice to the trade, that lit feels Linise:fnue4 in.peratively called upon to put the penal clauses of the Art ill forte to the full extent ; particularly against all persons mho sh;;Il sell and deliver or receive any deal or Flour without a regular Bill o!' l'a)cels, setting forth the true price actu ally agreed upon, acuording to the directions of the said Act. " By ortier oi leis I.ordship, •• FRANCIS NOBLER, Clerk." DRFATIFVT. EXPTeSTON.---Yestelday mortlitlt, tit about twenty- fi ve riiitiutes past six o'clock, too of the powder mills at Hounslow were blown tip with trenu.ndous explosion.. The reports, ohick took place with only a momentary interval bcto eel) them, were heard for up wards of twenty mile, round. At Kel.sicgteri and Brompton, the shocks were so violent as to resemble thr se of an earthquake, and the courussion of the air so e‘tratirdittiny a• to rine small hells hung in gardens in the?4e pqrta. We have heard that three persons tell victims to this aw cilia v--the cause of which, as must gene:9lly be the cue in such evcnti k :cuiniut be ant/wined. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. - a" TRIAE'OF NICHOLSON FOR • THE MURDER-4WICHITAIS-04.4t§: - '. _ • • Friday Philip Nicholson wtiO 'tried at Maid:etorre foie the worder of Mr. and Mrs. nom. The prisoner *its,' °EI few • minute's after a oc k , brought:to the bar in fetters;•and with a . belt round his waist, to which his writs were 7ibioned, so that 14-Was nimble to raise his hands, with a view, we snppinie, titiprevent bin - Client doing any personal injury._ He was conveyed Ao•tite bar by. ate jailer ix Maidstone,Mr. Adkins, the Goveinor (.ICOldliajfAXiffitilAS ) 4.4,o ll .4.' several constables.—The prisoner being arrate.nedLan.d asktiettbr hie plea, he said that he had already ttiade a full eoifessioo _of 4.. 1 1 the s cier eumstances of his guilt, whichcoufession he was r e .tely to co.nidlin„ • but as it appeared to be the, general wish that. lie sbould,, tate his . trial, he would plead " Not Guilty." The prisoner §:4oke serindis.:. , 4*- tinctly, and in so low a. tone, t h et we coup) with Aliffieulty.eoßea. - -• his meaning. . . . Upon the Jury.being sworn, Mr. Roberts. opened the oast for prosecution. .• • • * ••• F Mr. S. rjeant Shepherd observed, that the Prisoner stoolkindietertfur isi t st petty treason, in the murder of his master, The law in its wittriole,bort made that crime subject to heavier punishment. .and he Apffebendeet the policy of that law was to secure the safety and comfort of man its . - t t domestic life ; for by vigilance and caution a man might guard against •,,,e L. external violence, yet no degree of human prudencer utet* against domestic treachery. The law,. therefore, had declared * such violations of duty on the part of a servant petty treason, thereby. saying it was a untie of such magnitude that it was iufezior, only to crimes against the safety of the State itself • • The facts of the case were such as could leave no doubt nf the guilt •i of the prisoner. The. unfortunate transaction took place , on the .31st, of • May. The prisoner was footman in Mr. Buear's family, and was rte only person who slept in the house, he other male servants bei:g lodger± in the detached buildings. About ten o'clock on the 301 h (the Sunday evening) Mr. Boner retired to rest; the next trwriiing the timid servant who first rose, observed that the anti-room heading to her mas ter's bed-room was locked on the outside, which . was unus.ea!, and chewed that some one must have come out of than Num. On op:fling the door she saw that the rushlight had beers removed, and that a had smell came from her master's bed-room ; she also saw the marks of feet leading from the bed-rooM. The witness being greatly alarmed at tl• -- ,ise appearances, went up stairs to her mistress's mail, w ho, on beinimkt what she had seen; ti.clied that her master my; no : streti were reties tiered. They both came down stairs, and •tt '.rata . i n t o where they found Bonar lying deer: on the floor, bloody, and Iris head wounded; and Mrs. Bonar in her bed, as it ofti marl, appeartol i , not quite dead. On the Alor, lying near Mr. Bonar, the ball poker •was found, which was evideoJy the weapon with which he had been murdered. In the room was also found the candlestick, which did not belong to the chamber, but had been blotn,;ht from the servant,' hall, I where the Prisoner slept. This state of stings caused a gen.fral ;Jams in the family, and the Prisoner, with others; was in the roma, wl.ra it was remarked that the Prisoner took • the sheets, which ware . Li wily, and bringing them down into the hall, he tied them up in a sheet kons his own bed ; but it was discovered. t h at one of the sheets whim!' he thus tied up, was one of his own sheets, and it was artist onqu t.stions that when he committed the tact he wrapped a sheet from Ins bed rouud his body, and thus attired, went to his master's room. A surgeon was imniediatcly sent for, and the Priscater expresses) a treat auxitety to gti to London to fetch, as he said, Mr. Astley ; but hit was in so perturbed a state of mind, that he could not saddle his e, and the co :chman did it fir him. It was observed by a ‘vasherwomar, that the servants' hall window was open at fora o'clock in the morniag, whom she came to work, end as a servant recollected shutting it on the nil; lit before, as they went to bed, it was evident it must hive been opens cl icy Form. one within side, between twelve and four in the morning. an d as the Prisoner was the only person who shirt in tha room. it was it - (erred that he must have done it. These circumstances inducing a sit s picion against biro, he was taken into custody, and while he was custody, and daring the time the Coroner's Jury was sitting, lie nr:i an attempt on his o.sat life. The won !d was not howeve r being sewn up, lie was apparently hkely to rocover. It huweve 7 broke out bleeding afresh, and the• Prisoner appeared to he in a ds state. It was then that he sent for Mr. bonar, the son of the deceasur: and there made a confession, which put his pint ties (.11(1 all (hat That confess'. n no doubt was MAC uncles at ircyrcsicct that be %r • , 5 dying. and was intendcd,as the only atonement i!e could inAr far ttl .a dreadful crime he had perpetrated. This w;:s reduced int', tir.lia signed by the Primer, and attested by several re , .pectabk '1 and a M :gistrate,• in whose presence it was made. This would be rot in evidence, and could have no doubt of Ole coil' Anne Curneck, the house-rm:id, May (lake, It Gf the r the 1.1...,u5:•-:rit'i!, 4 . 541 .