The National Register. — London, England, 1808-03-06 00:00:00

159 is ib no t to batter the beautiful cornice, but to sweep away the cobwebs that defile it. Tie first and greatest offences are those which relate to public decency, either on the stage, or in the front of the house. The Proprietors sanction, in the old plays, the continuance of a thousand indecencies, which if they should now he produced, would bring down, upon the production in which they should appear, the merited execration of the whole body of the audi ence. John 8011, as the British public, is very familiarly called, however, he RI:1 V want tine taste, certainly does not want honest feeling: and we regret that the obscenities of the eid play: have continued so long to he tolerated by him. At revival, the spectators have indeed sometimes evpres-eel their di‘spprobation of indecency :and Dryden's coarse interpola tioat were almost fatal to the reproduction of The Tempest last year. But the plays which are performed every now and Owls, preserve their dirt with their merits, for the habit of see (n them, reeneciles the people to their indelicacy ; and intel lectual like bodily prostitution, becomes familia^ by repetition. Bet is it to he endured, that the Proprietors of a theatre shall force the disgusting images of vice upon the public eye till their nakedoess is no longer obseryPd, and corrupt those moral feel ings which they ate commis.imied to guard ? Ought not rather all these who have wit daughters, or sisters, to rise up in the theatres, and by a gewral exclamation to sound their ah horence of the vices that are ohtroded, and their indignation against the Patentees ss ho obtrude them ? We should hail, with tie greatest delight, the triumph of this right feel ing; we aeknowledre ourselves to he of that very small sect who ena sider it as a very ungentlemanly, and, to make use of a coarse but stroag expression, a blackguard habit, to hiss in a theatre; but tkere are some attacks which render all arms lawful. When tedereuey of morals is to he repelled, no nicety of man ners can be important ; and if some , independent man, capable of feeling for female delicacy, would set the example of exe crating the odious custom, who could refuse to support him, .• That bad a heart to love, and in that heart Courage•. to make l.is love Lnow•n ? to our next number we ',peal( of some indecencies that are tolerated by the Proprietors in the front of the house. LORD SOMERVILLUS SPRING sIIOW OF CATTLF.. On Monday commenced the Exhibition of Cattle by Breeder=. anedidates for prizes so nobly offer,4l by Lord Somerville, as the means of promoting national improvement. It was certainly the best meeting we ever witnesseel. The Exhibition was renewed on Tuesday, and at five o'clock, aumerous Company had the tumour by invitation to dine w ith Lord Sonterville,at the Free Mat ou's Tavern t among the com pany were the Duke of Clarence, Duke of Bedford, the Mar quisseg of Tweedale and Huntley, the Earls of W incliekea. and Errwrout, Lord Harewood, &c. &e. tire. After dinner t'le ad ration of the prizes by the Rev. floury Bate Dudley, Thomas ker, Richard Maddox, William 'Watson and John Bannister, were read, viz. To the Duke of Bedford. for his Devon Oxen, the first prize. To Mr. Martin Webber, fur his pair of Devon Oxen, the second pri ze. To the Duke of Bedford for the best pair of five Southdown ewe hogs—The Prize. The Earl of Bridgewater, Arr the best pen of five Southdown Wethers—The Prize. To Mr. Dodd for his Suffolk pig—who received a Cup from the hands of his Lordship. Mr. Edward Platt, shelved the Carcase of an enormously flit tbree-shear Leicester wetlier; and Mr. Wm. Boultbie, a 7 Months Leicester pig, fed on oatmeal, whose live weight wa , Itht. Mb. A too share plijugh was shewn, which had been used sal found admirably to succed in stiff clay soil on Lord Somer vines' net. farm in Cobham; Mr. Lester shewed his revolving potatoe ashen, and one of his large chaff-cutters. Mr. Joao ] Jones, de'tributed particulars of the three threshing mills which he has erected in different parts of the kingdom. •Messrs. Budge and Par,:oiim slimed various agricultural seeds. Messrs. Marshall and Wall exhibited some turther specimen , of suanuaxtured yards from the wool of Lord Somerville and Mr. Tole t. M r . W hitworth shewed specimens of sash line made of long coarse wcol, a branch of manufacture likely to lessen the drug Of course wool, and the' scarcity of hemp at the same Ow. The Joidies recommended Mr. Terret to his Lardship's notice linaoll_ THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ALIRCIf O. for his additional premium, for his oxen, fed on grass, hay, and turnips, and regularly worked, and his Lordsship accordingly delivered him a cup. The Judges complimented the owner of the ewe-hogs. Earl Bridget+ ater, in part ieular, on their improved condition in frame and wool. Mr. Hobson's pen of ewe-hogs were stated to have come more than four hundred miles from the Chexiot-hills, to be ex hibited. The Judges' report respecting the shepherds was as follows, viz. That Charles Paine, shepherd to Mr. Ellman, having raised 799 lambs from 603 ewes, and lost only 21, was entitled to the first prize of 61. That Cornelia.; Gallop, shepherd to Mr. at lance, having raised 410 lambs from 309 ewes, was entitled to the .econd prizenf It. his Lordship, after stating that Messrs. Smith and Harring ton had of late fed many tine oxen w ith distillery %%Ash instead of giving the sante to pigs, he presented Mr. Ilarrin,..ton w irh a cup for his valuable experiment, and endeavoured to eoforee the propriety of using molasses or treacle dissolved iu water, as an addition to hay, and as a substitute for nil cake in the feed ing of oxen, which would benefit our Colonies, at the same time that it would introduce a new and most nutritious food fur cattle, of which he intended himself to make t rial, and skew the oxen so fed at his show next year, of which the printed proposals were distributed to the companv , as neve also the. Duke of Bedford's for his sheep-shearinc in June next. The spring IN heat-seed &livered out last year by his Lordship, to Earl NVinchelsea and others, was stated to have prodoccd 19 fold of good grain, though it certainly was not a proper spring wheat LAW REPOIt IS. coutur OF CHANCERY, MARCH 3. °HAI nisPir - rt:. The T,ord Chanrellor gave his promised judgment in 111;s case, which was a , follows :-11is Lordship ob,erxed, that he had none over the proceedings on the principal !wilds, and he had minutely -neighed the arguments, of course, be thought, his present judgmen' ould he decisive. There w ere too !hail, points on W hieh he had been called on to inter fere, one of Ix hich was, to appiiint a Manager in the room of Mr. Tay liar ; and the other, to nominate a prison to receive the rents and profiti of the Theatre, and make the necessary disbursements. In the ,ippointinent of a Nlituager the Court could not interfere, the deed of 1803 being altogether so contradictory in it, provisions, that a Manager of his Lordship's appointment could not inter fere, by the irtue of the deed, and consequently, it would lead to the immediate shutting up of the Theatre. With respect to the second point, that of nominatiug a receiver of the rents and profits of the l'hcatre, his Lordship oberved, that if the parties could point out to him how a person so appointed could, with Safety to F., Undertake to receive and make di , — horsemettis oaf the monies ‘N h neeessarily would fall to his lot, he would IV V hear them ; but it were impossible. that any person could interfere n hilst the deed of 1803 ex iited ; nd therefure his Lordship observed, that he could not heat any more of the business. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MARCH 4. CR IM. CON. curmsoN r. TII The Attorney General °putted the case, which was an :wanly for Criminal Conversation ith the wife of the Plaintilf, an Attorney of eminence, residing in Atqel-conrt, Throckmorton street, committed by the Defendant, tt ho was coachman to the Plaintiff. The Learned Counsel did not expatiate at much length upon the nature of the offence; but dwelt chiefly upon the situation in w hick the Defendant was placed as servant to the Plaintiff. tow how he owed every duty of respect, and whose) domestic peace he should have been the last to invade. Mrs. G. had been married to the Plaintiff for many years, and he had lived with her in habits of extreme affection, which was inter rupted only by the discovery of her infidelity in the last autumn. I' hey had had one child which died, but Mr. tiregson's confi dence in his wife. was unbounded. The IN ithesses proved ihe marriage, and the fact of adultery cas proved clearly by two witnesses. A. Mri.. Meade. who is a milkwoman at Lavton. in Esq•x". e;here the.Plaintitf has a coutrtrv-house, saw the Defendant awl ('region riding ont with the carriage last 511111171 CT. lltegson was wu the n v x 'thcy were %cry A