The National Register. — London, England, 1809-08-06 00:00:00

AUG, 6. They issue their procl,:mation, beginning with— "Oh )e I', This will not do. 1.; there any magic in their tragical "Oh ye!" to make a Fpi - ritless army tight ? In our mind, a comical "Ge tin !" would do as well. Unless the Spanish Chiefs will adopt. the true moans of inspiring their fellow-citizens with the of freedom; and unless they make a magnanimous e ')rt to cxyel the army of JOSEPH, 'While 'NAPOLEON is still detained at Vienna, they must soon be reduced to seek the \ ictor's compassion. Seine coxcomb writes from Cadix that our fears for spain are womanish . We rather think their warfare is womanish, a:id their confidence boyish. America is still teazing both belligerent powers with her captious; selfish wrangles: thus while 117 e lion and the tiger -were disputing a prey, the fox was stealing the girne front both. We visit either the lion or tiger would let heynard feel a paw. Parliament. is prorogued to the 28th of September. The Gaette of last night . contains an order fur the taking on the.embargo. SPANISH I:CP.-1)111)11C curiosity has been gratified for .several days past, by viewing the Spanish sheep latch im ported from Spain, which are at present razing in St. Jainca's Park, ailended by the eight shepherds who were apponiicd to aiteud them during their passage. About 1300 of these fine. sheep were shlppedgin Spain, and up wards of 1200 have safely arrived. Thev are shorn close, but as yet have not sufficiently recovered from the fatigue of their journey to appear to advantage. The shepherds (the same who arrived last year) have a regular allowance of food per da j , at his Majesty's charge, and'are otherwise well provided, and have liberty to remain in England as lung as they Mease. They have a very rustic appearance, and excite much admiration from their uncouth dress ; They are extminely:swarthy, wear large dusty broad /brimmed hat', and like their sheep, seem not as yet cleans cd'from the dirt they accumulated in theirjournev. The very serioks and general complaints late'y made of the scarcity of oineas prove to have !well well founded. Se% eral persons hav e been eitployed in coltecting, markets and other places where the circulation of the current cola of the couotry most prodominatei, specie :0 a large amount, for which they have been accustomed to gi , e a I;remium of five cent. in hank notes. 'inis infamous is at length oleo,ly traced to different sources, and it is aFcer tained, that considerable quantities of gninclui Lave beeii sent out of the couutry ; ou Wednesday a seizure W ms made art the Custom-house of some cases, in which no less than thirty•two thousand guineas were packed. No directions have been issued from the Treasury to the Mint, for caking in the old Tower halfpence. Sunday sennight a duel was fought at the back of St. Nicholas Island, near Plymouth, between two midshipmen belonging to the Princess Charlotte frigate, lying in the Sound. They exchanged three shots each, at five paces distance, and were reloading-, for a fourth fire, w hen the Commandant of the garrison interfered, took away their pistols, and sent them on board their ship. One of them appeared much inebriated, and was in the act of chewing a -matsket-bill to make it fit the pistol, when the Governor of the garrison very properly interposed his authority. Wednesday morning, Mary • Moore, an elderly woman, endeavoured to intrude • her Self into the Palace. She said she came to advise with the Kiulg on the necessity of mak:, ing peace that she had many things to communicate, and among the rest that she had brought her pepper-box with her, which she produced, and it being quite empty, she Moped his Majesty would fill it. As she became very noisy and troublesome, and could not be prevailed upon to de part quietly, she was at length-carried before the sitting magistrate, and he keing convinced of her insanity, order ad proper care to be taken of her, untAl the business could rmether iniue.igated. TH NATIONAL ItraGISTER; If a nation were to be estimated as eve frequently estimate the characters of children, by the nature of the tiniiseutents to tiltieis t te, are most attached, we should comp;lled to acknowledge e . .irselves the most frivolous race upon earth. We are delighted with glitter, and we can laugh at ins; pid griatace. It is less than the tickling of a feather which excites our heartiest risibility— the holding up of a finger, that oraeal by w!tich school boys try the ideotisin of any one of their companium, a ill set the coma. tcuauces of half the grown babies of this wise metropolis into an unmeaning grin. And why is this ? It is Facause we will not either understand or feel what ought to please us. Half the world will harangue fo: an hour 10;4 - ether uaon the rationality of theatrical amusements. The old cub of a citizen who won hi' tremble at the idea of taking his new moulded rib to Vauxhall, will have no objection to place her in the nadd4e of tt:e pit at the Hay-market, to enjoy the rational pleasure of Is play ! Rational! pleasure !—Good God; • w hat a perversion -of terms ! The rationality of Dimond's " Fnundtiag of the Es, est ," for in sta,:ce ! Take any of the sixpenny blue • cc:ve red romance hooks, with which the windows of the vilest bcoi:-venders are crowded, divide it into two, or three, or five parts, a hich 304 may term acts, set the characters a singing, a s' outing-, a rant. ing, or (if you please), a acting; which may be easily done by turning the narrative into tliologue, and iotert‘persing it Witik clap-traps, German sentiments, French phrases, puns, and other portical figures. When your piece is Otis far prepared, have some conversation with the stage-carpenter, the scene-- dauber, who, (if he knows nothing more of perspective than Cm man who painted the scene of a Russian cottage, in the Russian_ Impostor, at the Lyceum), so truck the better; the dress- tnaliere &c. &c.—let them contrive all the .ea its a Ld eairances_rmi the processions, and battles, and executions ; you, as author, are to consider yourself as the mere under; lag, subservient t o the great designs of these gentlemen and ladies, and therafore are to take notes of thei r directions, and to work up your matter to match their, brilliant contrivances. Then get a woman that can eann that can make faces like a baboon. ;ti;l a tall traL.e-look ing fellow that! can bray out any thing iii the sonorous toot's Of a jack-ass. With these auxiliark's you are well prepared to provide the highest rationa! en - eitainment wilich the good peo ple of London seem to be capable of receiving. You may' ven ture to vie for applause with Mr. 73itnatil at the Hav-marliM, or you Mal' almost hope to excel tl:at wonderful praductioa, ak!, after Int . ins been stolen fra.n the tieriaan into French by a Swi ss harmonisl, was twisted, with corsiderable torture, into English, by Henry Sidaetv, and lay for some time dead in his d-sk, until • Ma Arnold took it into hand, alio skineed it , s:retrhed it, trus sed it, and stuffed it, and served it up half ma and half roasted, - before a liritisa at the Lyertlill. We critics litave for centtaici past been accused of iaveat hig rules after the composi tion of those pieces fur which those talcs are pretended to be made. True ; Aristotle wrote hi. 3 poetics long after !Mawr had given his Iliad to the world; and long aftc.r /EschNla ; , phocles and Eta i pities had. written those dramas which charmed the Greeks, almostas much as the plays of Diu - toad, or the operas • Arnoll charm the melting Londoners. We shall therefore • have justly merited a sialiiar reproach for having given the ahave excellent dramatic directions, after having seen the Russian frn. pnster, the Foundling of the Forest, and t bat acme of all moeeta dramatic alosnrdities, the Fiutagers. .Phis last wonderful pro duction a as exhibited at 'the Hay-market on Tuesdly last, for.ibt first time. We will endeavour to' give our conntry readers ae idea of this specimen oflose'eyellencies bich the" leave be. hind them when they seek the rural ileasureA.of wire. ;m t . • scene Is supposed to be in France before the lievalution. French Nobleman has privately married the daughter of in H English seaman, during his residence ha England, and has aftevi T11E47111C.41,5. II A Y-M A It/. LT. , • . sos t