The National Register. — London, England, 1817-08-25 00:00:00

ATTI (ST V. I PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS TO* THE ENSTING WEEK. NEW TIIE.XTIIF. 11.0YAL ENGLLS!I OPILRA•IIOUSE. Monday—The Wizard—Fire and AVatcr—Adopted Child. Tue.Alay—Persian Heaters--.My Cade. IVednesday—Wizard—itliL3as-LFire and Water. Tharvday—Persian lltattc:4--Fire mid WALT every evening till fur ther nun , -e. Eaturday—Persian Iluntere. THE DRAMA. HAYMARKET The Actor of All Work has been so industrious since his first appearance that the managers have not found it necessary to ofLr any other attraction to the town during the week. ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. On Tuesday night, was produced for the first time, a bustling one act Musical farce lauded Fire and Water_ This petit mamma abounds with whimsical situations, and is indeed one laugh from beginning to end. It is a pleasing trifle in spite of its improba bilities and will no doubt contiuue a favorite km the remainder oldie season. It war extremely well acted. Incidental to the piece is a beautiful serenade glee. This Operetta, and an alteration of the Shrubbery in the grand saloon, have 'brined the novelty of this week. It is now denominated the Chinese Walk, and presents to the eye a tasteful decoration. A p:lvilion is erected at the bottom where refreshments are served; and it has been unusually thronged with com pany. An addition of some kathcred songsters has increased the attraction. The proprietor, intleed, desrves every encourage ment for his industry and assiduity in the public service. The Theatre has been open ten weeks, and no less than sixteen pieces which had never been before pertbrmed at the English Opera, have been brought out ; nine of which are entirely new. MAJOR CARTWEIGIi T'S LETTER TO MR. OWEN. The Morning Chronicle of Tuesday last, contained a long-winded letter fram Major Cartwright, to Mr. Owen on his plan for reforming the poor. Accustom osi as we have long been to the former gentleman's let ters and speeches, we were not surprised to find that politics, and the most levelling and democratical princi ples, were its most prominent characteristics ; we were however so tbraibly struck with one paragraph, that we cannot refrain from inserting it, it—is as follows : " In compliance with the many butislred petitions, already in being, and probably hundreds more rapidly coming into existence. declining with one voice, that nolltiog an by pos sit‘ility ret, illy the affairs of the nation short of a radical ;Vilma a/ the Commons liou.se, claiming that reform as an unquestion able right, and praying for its immediate adoption, Parka - mr nt shad comply, yt,u may then know, that yottrsystem wi lint meet will, foul play but if that reform, at the hazard of a (ircuiful convulsion, shall he refused, you' may then be certain that your system cannot at the best, meet with any thing bet ter than a treacherous countenance, fur to inveterate tyrants no such system can ever be acceptable. The letter from which the above is given, was writ ten in November, 1 8 16. How this old gentleman happen then, two months previous to the meeting of Parlia ment, to speak so confidently about Petit►ons for re form, and about the hacard of dreadful convulsions, we, shall not . enquire, as we think our readers will see enough in the paragraph in question, to convince them that, the excesses which led to the suspension of the Milieus corpus 11 , 1, had an origin very ditkrent from the " instigation of spies and intimmers." TO TILE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER. SIR —lt is said that the Emperor of Austria has granted a patent to a Tyrolean for a machine to execute all kinds of needle-work with the utmost neatness. I cannot judge of the German ladies so accurately as of our own, but I am sure the ill-paid industry of every female sempstress in England furnishes a strong, reason against the introduction of such a machine • amongst us. As to the English ladies of the higher dasses, I much fixir that they would look with too much indifference on the matter ; having king since aiscarded, as vulgar instru:.tents, the needle and distaff; by which their grandmothers acquired domestic celebrity, they are ignorant at how triffing a price some of their most curiously worked dresses arc obtained from those who have sacrificed their health and eye-sight in working them. Employment like this frequently titans a severe resource for the daughters of adversity, on wl:ese educa tion and acompliclunents neither time nor fortune had been spared in the days of their parent's prosperity. If ladies would seek for such objects of their patronage, rather than indulge in an illicit tralfick in Foreign Manufactures, they would, if they' have hearts of true British feeling, experience a satisfaction flit more ex- Idlirating than what they can ever feel in. the heartless gaiety offarisian society; nor can they, (I should think) bury the recollection of the tenants, the tradesmen and servants on whose beads they have heaped bankruptcy and dispair, by abandoning their own country at a mo ment when it must required their presence and sup port. BRIDGET. TUE NATiONAL REGISTER. ExTIMOR DI N ARY cur.. Ante dreadful instar.ce of the pernicious eft', eti of ale prestnt system of whist is called 61,44 'nu/ !" occuricd at :kr Lit btdffurd Assizes. _ 1 wo solthers named Hall and Morrison were tried on the 26t11 of July tor rubbing a labouring R:aal Mailed Read, of one shilling and a penny in the church-yard of eVulverhampion, on the night of the 23rd July. The prosecutor, Read, swore taey robbed him, and the aunlaD, at whose Lou c the sal .iers lodged, swore Ow they did not sleep at home on the night in question. On this evidence they were found guilty, and left lot ex.cution. As won as the inhabitants of Welverhaniptoo heard of their tate, they ruse as one man, for there were Inutile:is amongst them acquainted with the innocence of the men, but expecting that they would be tried for a common as sault only, they had paid no ettention to the proandings at the %a wes. When the inhabitants began to investigate the matter, and compare e..eh others evidence, it Lippe/lied that the two soldiers bad been out thinking on the night of the robbery till it was too late for admission at their lodging, end they were refused entrance tato the guard -count, they theretine resolved to walk aboutetill morning. In the course of their walk they went DUD the churchyard, where they met with Read with whom they entered into conversation. Ile told them he was a Hertfordshire man, and InellLlOßed some places which were known to one of the prisoners. This produced an immediate familiarity, and after some time Hall and Head agreed to a friendly wrestle. Hall was thrown in the first round, but in the second.he threw his opponent, and in the fall one shilling and a peony fell from head's pocket. Morrison picked up the money, and jocosely said they would spend it, and put it in his pocket. A watehouth on the spot heard them quizzing Read about the bas of hienioney. Ile was sulky, but said nothing about being robbed. At five in the morning they were all seen by :mother watchman near the Market pleee, still bantering Read about his lose. Ile was now very uneery and talked of having them taken up. A grocer, name' rowis, saw them in the some place ; Read did not coniplaiu of being robbed, but was; not pleased at being laughed et. Powis afterwards met Ito bets the keeper of the Route of Correction, and in conversation, mentioned the circumstence. The anewer of Roberts, which did not then strike Pewisite extraordinary, was, '• I must see that man, this Ie& good job." Roberts immediately found out Read, questioneal him, and in a short time had the two soldiers taken up on a charge of robbery. Their commitment was made out, they wereeent to the tonics at Staffiml, where, on the Saturday following, they were con victed of the capital offence. As soon us all those circumstances were known, the Hey. Mr. Guard, whoofficiates in die village where Hall's family resides, and who had come to IVolverhampton on hear ing of the affair, immediately Oct out to follow Baron Garrow, and state what he had learned in favour of the men, and obtain a respite. He Sate the Baron, but his lordship tnuld see no reason to alter the opinion which lie had turned on the trial. Not a moment was to be lost. the men were to be executed an the following Saturday ; the ve nerable clergyman instantly set off' for London, saw Lord Sidmouth and acquainted him with the exact state of the case. His Lordship felt a difficulty in interfering, as the judge on the circuit was necessa rily better acquainted with all the bearings of the case than Ile could be. Defeated here, Mr. Guard e mstantly returned to Wolverhamp. ton, rolled a meeting of the inhabitants, obtained their signaturesto a petition to the Regent, and the affidavits of the witnesses, and ac companied by Mr. C. Mender, again set out for London. These affidavits were laid before the Attorney—General, and Lord Sidmouth instantly wrote a tii•patch for the respite of the nem, with his own hand. While Mr. Guard was thus successfully exerting himself in London, Lieut. Buchanan, of the same regiment as the soldiers, had carried copies of the affidavits to Baron Garrow, who, the moment he read them, granted a respite. Thus, by the prompt and active lituaanity of die inhabitants of Wolverleunpton, seconded by the zeal of Mr. Guard, have two innocent men been saved from an igno minious death to which they were to be consigned, through the vil la/1y of Roberts, he having, as was stated to Lord Sidmouth, insti gated Read to indict them, with the view of obtaining the reward called tfood-rnoncy which had accordiagly been pocketed by Roberts and Head, to the uinount of isOL EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDES, AND WILFUL MITRDER.—Nate- Iy a nionth since, Mr. Guy, of Palmer's-terrace, Newington, went to the sew-side, at Hastings, and left his house in the can of two maid servant,, of the names of Sureh Croft and Maria Ayling. About the beginning of laat week some painters came to a neighbouring house, and under pretence of getting warm water to make their tea, introduced theniselvee to these girls, and finally, they not only board ed with them, but cohabited with diem. Oh &mirth) , morning, about eight o'clock, a carpenter who occupied the adjoining empty house.. sharply remonstrated with them on the improper intimacy with the painters, and told them he had written to Mr. Guy, wham he expected home that afternoon. They intimated much feeling after this, and before ten o'clock left the house, with a child to months old, belonging to Maria Ayling, and were sue passing up High bury-place, towards the New-River. The circumstance that the house was left empty, did not excite attention among the neighbours till Tuesday, when it was entered by Mr. Boucher, a relative of Mr. Guy, and nothing was missed front anv part, but the servants and the child. Horrible to relate, on Wodneeday one of those, Maria Ayling, was found in the New River near Stoke Newington, with a bandage tied over her eyes, and at four o'clock on Thursday looming, the body of Sarah Croft vats stopped by the grating at tile Sluice bouse, anti about nncn, the child was found on the spoeon which the hotly of Ayling had been found. Sarah Croft had - also a bandage tied over her eyes. It is believed, therefore, that in the frenzy ex cited by the accusation, they voluntarily destroyed themselves, by walking into the river blindfolded, the mother with the child in her arms. The bonnet of A vling floated to the Sluice-house be f ore three o'clock on Saturday. They must therefore have sought their fate one or two hours before that time, or three or four hours after it was announced to them tint their enndeict find excited notice and euspi cion.—Friday an inquest was held upon the bodies of the two servants, and the infant child of Maria Ayling„ at the Sluice-house, nor Ilinneey. Two house-paintere, Anthony Smedley and William Morris, deputed to their intimacies whit Ayling and Croft. Thomas Jenkins, of Holloway, carpenter, was examined, and adhered to the eircumseence of his warning the women us to their shameful beha viour. The Jury returned a verdict of—Wilful Murder, against some persons unknown, respecting the child; and verdict cif—Felo de Se, against the women. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SuiclDE.—On Wednesday as a little girl was passim; by the end of Rath bone-pleee, she was surin ised to see an elderly mazer sitting with his legs out side on the two pair window of Mr. Moore, the iindertakei's house ; she screamed out, upon which the unroll ti nate man precipitated himself off. What WAS rather singular, both his Ic_a went through thefiret floor window, and from thence he fell von the leade.w here he remained about tali Si colds, when they beat, and he teas thrown into the street, by which . he was so seriously hunted that his life is despaired of. I . l^ was brought iutu the shop, and immediately recn: : ,r.isrd to be Mr. Moore, sen. who has been for sonic time in a state of de rangement- Lord Coerce Cavendish hay deternt:neil to appropriate a proporticn of the groundi connected with Hui -lingual-House, for the gratilleetitai of the Public, and to give I mployment to iudirstriems famatee. A lime lima been markcii out at Ihe west end, extellilimt north and south, in which will be a co vered way, or peimieuaele, from Piceediliy into Idlork.streu t. asThis covere d way will contain a doeibie Ime of shops, for the sale of jewchery and other fancy articles, mid :those will he suits orroonis. The elevation will be considerable. What first gave birth to the idea was, from the great annoyance to which the garden is subject. from the inhabitants ot a neigh bouring street throwing oyster sheik, Atc. over their ivalls. 'rite intended erection will prevent the like unisancts to to lure. 'rhe 'Americans seem to be alit imitators of French gasco.. nale, tunler Napoleon's system of magnifying. In a Cis:bib-- tun Paper, of July 7, there is an account of a public meeting at winch, among oilier toast., the following were given : " The American Navy--she has billeted down the wooden , walls of Eugland, and the • star spangled harm( r' has floated in triumph o'er each billow of the deep."---" The memory of the .gallant Captain Levin., (4 - Cllllth:qui', who alone retook his sessel fsoni a midshipman and four seamen of the Ito) a navy, and thus cave a practical proof that on. American ci tizen is equal to five British subjects." These Bobadilisin., e pit sonic, are among the virtues which belong to Republics. AnNiitt sr. Ittnasa.—Some years since, she bargemen of his Majesty's Ship the Berwick, then at Spitlicad, gnatre llcd with the bar g1111(.11 of the ship which the Admiral then com manded, as Captain, and the latter were all heal lily di tibbeii, to the no small mortification of the Admiral, who wi.s in his younger clays exceedingly athletic and somewhat addicted to boxing.—Our naval hero, a few days after, caged all the boat's crew together, d—d them for a set of cow aids. dres sed himself in a common jacket and trowsers, and ouserving the Berwick's barge rowing ashore to Portsmouth Bead), Ili. dered his owu to be immediately manned, and thus disguised took an oar alone of the crew. The coxswain, as particolat ly directed, run the head of his barge against the Berwick's barge quarter, in consequence of which, broatl.id(s of oath, wile given and returned, which produced a challenge to tight with more substantial weapons. The Admiral, as chant. pion of his crew, beat the whole of the other barge's crew, one after another, (11 in number) to the great joy and adult. ration of his sailors; and th"n making known, went and visited Lis friends in Portsmouth, as if ilutil.og kid - pencil. LE PETIT TON, FRENCH PACS ET.— Tbk eels d ves sel, which was some time since brought up our river a inan who gave himself• out as the notorious Captain Jolill,oll, the imaggler, and owner of the packet, has been seized by the Custom House officers, and now lays in the basin of our ca nal. This person has confirmed the baseness of his conduct . in practising upon the credulity of the l'utt;ie, by sitting his signature to a declaration duly made a nd witnessed ;In which he affirms •` that he is toady to make affidavit• if required„ that the goods advertised tbr sale on board the Petit lom are entirely of British manufacture, and that the reason tbr sta ting them as foreign, was only to induce people to puchase' them."—(6l-OLTESTER JOURNAL.) • THE ROYAL YACHT.-•flappears that the Royal Sovereign. yacht. which was completely ready fur sailing, and had reach-, ed the Downs, has heel) countermanded ; and that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent will finally sail in the Royal. George yacht, from Brighton, accompanied by the Duke of York they propose rev iewing the troops con the coast ; and , the King's watermen, who will attend the Regent, aro to have new dresses, with the Principality plumes and /.1. I'. U. on their caps. CUA NEL II MAN lAC.—A young man who had on Saturday and Motulay exhibited many signs of mentallolerangement, both in the Lord Chancellor's and Vice-Chancellor's Conti , . again presented himself in the Court of Chancery, a few days ago in one of the seats appropriate to the Barristers. For considerable time he observed decorum, merely indulging_ himself in occasional grimaces and contortions. Some per sons, however, who had witnessed part of what had previous ly passed, were anxious to prevent any probable Interruption to the business attic Court, which in his humour, the maniac might Obtrude,and Mr. Peacock, the Solicitor, who knew him, endeavoured to induct:him to withdraw. Expostulation, how et er, was useless, and force became necessary to remove hint when he made •frequent and energetic calls on the Lord Chancellor fin pi election, It appeared, on inquiry, that the young man, whose name is Turner, bad been a clog; to NIS-. Peacock, in whose service he hail conducted himself with general propriety until about two years ago, a beta he betrayed on sonic occasions, an evident derangement of mind ; mad this disorder increasing, Mr. Peacock found it necessary to discharge him. THE CANNER IN SHEEP.—Arcklent, or rather the simple good sense of a shepherd, has led to a discovery of an effica cious remedy for. one of the most dangerous disorders to which sheep are subject. The contagions canker had mani fested itself in- one of the flocks of M. Morel de Vinde, Peer of France. The shepherd began by the use of the willowy " remedy, an acid lotion, without effect. The contagion, wh had affected two lambs, reached in six days St others. T. shepherd, alarmed at the violence of the disease, resolved to employ the nitric acid (aqua.fortis of the shape) which he had been used to apply toe canker that fonnsou the feet of sheep. The experiment had immediately the fullest success. All the animals affected with the canker were cured, and the conta gion stopped in one day. 'f he name of the shepherd is J. Sonuniesuil. M. Slorel de Vinde has tirawuup an account of the cure. The amputated leg of the Marquis of Angleses is buried. in the garden of the Gentleman at Waterloo, in whose hones •' the operation was performed, who has placed over it a hand• come tomb (which lee has great pleasure in spewing), with an ise•cription, of which the folk's% ing is a translation:— " Herr is interred the leg of the brave and illustrious Earl of bridge, Lieutement-General of his Britannic Majesty, Commander in-thief of the English. Belgian Hied Dutch Cavalry; wounded on the iSth June, ISI3, at the memorable battle of Waterloo; and who, by his heroism, mainly contributeg_to thertriumph of the cause of the human species gloriously aeliiipw.l by the brillk.nt victory of that day." A curious seizure took place on Tuesday last aiStonelsonse, soon after the arrival of a vessel from Guernsey. A porter, carrying a bedstead from a shore-boat, was met on the beach; by a custom-housc officer, who, having asked the porter to whom it belotege:L, and receie ed rather au unsatisfactory an swer, thought it light to examine the bedstead.—On doing so, he finned Unit the posts acid pillars were hollowed out, and contained several hundred pounds woe Lb of lace, ingeniously concealed under slides. t'few days back was landed out of one of the Ostend pac kets, a young French woman, with the descriminativ e tale of the" Female Heronries." Her Husband is with leer, who is a performer of sleight of hand tricks, and has some merit in his line. Hit fair rib certainly has just claim to thesppel_ lotion hy which she is desiccated, haying exhibited lore sonic wonderful teats of strength, and of a novel ki te d, suc h as suf fering a butt of porter to he lowered on her body as she lays upon two chairs ) at SlXtle distance apart, her head resting up on out' of them, and leer legs on the other. She moved the butt up by her body with much apparent ease—in the same position, six weighty men stood on leer, whom she moved in like manner, chess ing astonishing strength of loins. She also lifts au omit, weighing upwards of three cwt. by the hair of leer head. This Herculean Frene h Lassy has come over pur posely to treat JollllBeell with the sight of her power. and will very shortly visit the Metropolis a e understand.—(lirietton)