The National Register. — London, England, 1818-05-24 00:00:00

MAY PA 2'111; DR A DRURY LIN I'. The Suspicious Husband was rep:•;rented on Friday r:glit. Mr. Billiton, as Ranger, displayed all the :i;: zightliness and humour valid. hake so im;tiently tlis ti:-;;nislwil Lis petforinancus. Mrs. Davison was the Ciariticier. It is eattEolent to toy, that :;iie was in lent spirits. Mr. Harley's ,ease an' good temper will carry him through almost any part ; Lot he is nat ex actly the thing iu Jack Meant. The company of this. house would sorely furnish n better Frunklq than Mr. Yearley. Ail the other characters were supported in a style worthy of a .British national theatre. COVENT GARDEN. Au o?eratic Ftnee, culled Deceneder and flay. wt brought forward far .the first thee em Satllttlay. It Mated in -the Lilo to be founded on a comedy of Molicre, but we confess ourselves at a loss to discover iss remotest connection in character, incident. wit, humour, or fable, with any of that distinguished an- • thor's productions. The title gives an idea of the plot. A rich old Plebeian who appears the representative of accuther, i,c on the point of being married to the yagog -daughter, (t presenting May) of a Spanish Nobleman, and this young Lady being engeged to a gallant younglover, resolvesto thwart the match. by atrecting the most unbounded extravagance and a proud domineering behaviour. In this she succeeds, and the Losers are, according to the established courtesy of the Drama, made happy. The dialogue is in general be. law mediocrity, and -the tricks and contrivances were i 9 miserably contemptible as to render altogether unvailing the excellent acting of Fawcett acid Emery,. and thesweet striits of Miss Stephens. '6igns of dis t :Intent appeased at the end of the act, and increased so • Flash towards the close that not one ward could be beard, ami the announcement of the Farce for repetition was . -completely inaudible. The scenery was very splendid and deserved a better-piece. The music by Bishop is pretty, and a Duet between Fawcett and Miss Stephens was encored. The piece has been withdrawn. The Bill proposed to be introduced into the Mouse of Commons, relative to the giving security fur the •elchts of Drury Lane Theatre. will, it is said, probably be followed .by another, fur dispos!ug of the property by Lottery. The agriculture rcrorts from every optarter of the -Continent appear to be of the most flattering deserip-, tion. Ever since the beginning of April the weather 'bus been uncommonly warai ; the trees are almost all' out of blossom ; the fruit is act, and the corn is mostly -in ear, and promises an abundant harvest. flit price of corn has fallen rapidly ; the hectolitre of rye, which., atilt' at this period last year for 8 dollars, 4 gr. 8 pf. Berlin currency, it now soiling for 3 dollars, t 7. gr. 8 pf. " Far these' thirty years pale," says an article from Vienna, " there has not been a more fruitful and pro ductive harvest and 'vintage in Austria than we have reason to expect this year. Already., on the sth of. April, we had everywhere in our hills, even those Where snow lay last year at the same time, the finest . • ears on the corn. The vines have already shoots six ruches long. Our apricots :are as -large as smalthen's, - eggs, rand the trees heavilyladen with fruit. The irice of corn falls in an extraordinary manne.:; the Vienna metre costs only live florins.inlaper." ► A letter 'from Cambray announces a disturbance -vhich took place 'between some soldiers of a French legion passing through this town, and part of the Elie.- l'sh military comp osieg the garrison. A Frenchman, pursued by,these latter, after some smart skirmishing on both aides, rtudietllnto a shop and implored the ink tress to conceal him. - She consented,. and told "him to Iliac himself up stairs. The fugitive gottinto the gar-2 ret, thence, bye ladder which he drew- up after him, reachtel the roof of the 'house, and fearful of being too .exposed, desetnila - by alieighbouring chimney into the apartment of a Curate. The Curate was performing Mass, but his Governante lay fast asleep in bed, when the Frenchman, apprehenSive of her dies at her awaken- 4 ' ins, threw. over him the eanonical.Mbes of the ; priest, descended the staircase, and past safely Armagh a unpaid., of enemies waitinerfer him in the street. A collector of the assessed taxes in a refills near. London; being accidentally discovered to have made a charge upon one house for more than he had paid int o the tax-utlice, an znvestigation took , plaee, which led t o the discovery that "lie had carried on this -practice fo many years, and laid therapy, from a state ofamailvencyr been enabled to realise a considerable 'property. The owrespondent who informs us of thisrreonnuneeda, as n, precaution against similar frauds, that those who pay to the taxes should, befere paying, demand a sight• of the rate signed - by isle '..2,nialissioners. I'he accounts received of tune state of the hops i.a tare meighbourhouci of Maids:one conti:wo to be very favour able, and there is everyprovect of a soccvslful year. The I'.'7lawing.parsgraph is copied from hiecnian's Dublin Journal:—" A .man of the name of it/chard Ewun, Excise-officer, Mursleburgh, was foEnd dead in the neighbourhood of Dullieith, early on Saturday morn ing, and expired soon ifFer. From appearances, there reason to suppose, that she had been ill-used by sonic .1.Q,.-wat." TIM NATIONAL wrAilsTrn. BOARD OF EX.C161.;. The f,)lllwin , y; mos w,:re determined ott•Wednesday . before Lord Sayinotir, Mr. Serjcuut M.tnlr , and the lionotirabie A. Nbinra, t 'imlunimiouers of I:xeise. ril& h1.%1: V. SOALSIE. Mrq. Snare, groc.:r, ofeiare-Ntreet,Clare-market,was charged with having '4 quautity of intitatiutt coact in her pus , :essilm. C. H. Lord, an officer of Fxcise, stated, that he went to the defendant'.: house on the tAth of February, and found 171!s. of burnt peas and beans, which were groontl, and had the appearan,:o of euifee. He asked, the defendant what she did with it ; she said that she sold it, and that she mixed I.lh. of it with 31!,. of coffee. She did it in comeiluence of Iter tr;glabaurs undersel ling her in(their sugars, and to be able to dispose of her su mr s at their prices. 5' Ihe defendant wait convicted in the rona!ty of 501. THE KING V. PLAIISOW. The 4isme officer stateil, that on the defendant's , premises in Bridge-road near I,amheth Marsh, he found :VA. of the above composition, which he said he, had ,sold us cheap coffee fo r I I years; that he was obliged to rnis it with the coffee, et he should not he able to sell with other grocers in Lie neighbourhood.— Fined 301. Tiff. ILMG V. surnltir. It. -Sherry. dealer in coffee, &c. at Rotherhlthe, was charged with the same offence. It. Pearson, an Excise-officer, stated that be went to the house of the defendant, and purchased rn ounce of coffee, for which he paid three halfpence. On examin ir.g it, he found •it was part coffee and burnt beans Hc asked the defendant if he had any vegetable powder, and he said that he had, and chewed him about lelbs. and said that he mixed it with coffee, to sell to the poor people at elow price. The defendant said that he did not sell• it for coffee, but merely as vegetable powder ; 'he soled it fer one peuny an ounce, but did not nits it with coffee. Commissioner.—" How do you account for the ounce of coffee, purchased of you by Pearson, being adulte rated with burnt beans and peas ?"—Defendant—" He was in the practice of grinding vegetable powder in the same mill as he ground his' coffee." Commissioner.—" And sometime/3 you ground them both together ?"—Defendant,--" When he ground the coffeee for Mr. Pearson, which he did while Mr. P. Was in his shop, he supposed there was some of the ve getable powder remaining in tho mill. He did not know •that be was acting .illegally to keep vegetable powder on his posmises."—lle was eonvicted also in the penalty of 501. K.:LEIDOCCOPE.-A correspondent has mode the fol lowing curious calculation of the „mother of changes Olt wonderful instrument. willamlusit.:—" Supposing (he says) the instrument to contain tO small piece& of glass, and that you make •:0 changes in each mi nute, it will take no less than the inconceivable space of 482,880,899,576 years and 360 days to through the immense variety of changes it is capable of producing : amounting (according to our frail idea of the nature of things) to an eternity. Or if you take only 12 small pieets..and make •10 changes in each minute, it will then take 53,2134 days, or 91 yearsand 49 days, to ex haust its variations. .However exaggerated this state ment may appear to .some, it is actually the case.— Edinburgh Star. An old jest transposed. A gentleman who had been reading the List of Capitals sold by Tilsit last Lottery, observed. that " Edinburgh had a share of both his Thirty Thousands, and Canterbury had Two Shares: also."—" Not also," replied a friend, " but like-wise Similar wisdom; or rather good luck. was displayed at Thetfi:rd, where two clubs, held at different inns, had Shares of -his £30,600 and £20,000 Prizes, in two following Lotteries, and both were.sletred by Blatt. It appears by the Scheme of the new Lottery, that he has greater scope for Liz talent din selling Capitals, and he will no doubt have to announce (as usual) that the ma jor part have been sold by him. 'NEVER KNOWN IiEI'ORE-ONC 11.7NDRED AND SEVF.N CAPITA!. PRIZES. LOTTERY DRAWS /USG'S mum DAY. EIFT()N, Stock Broker and 'Lottery Office Keeper, No. 2, Combat and Lombard-sere t. congri.talates his,;:rier.ris. the Public, on their ac re:A .acem in die lasi Lottery. there b..ing one hundred Capitak. and more than ninety sold in shares. and •the remainder in tickets. Fyton begs to-zemintl the Pub that in the present Lottery there arc tine, I kindred and Seven Capital Prizes of 20,0001. 3,0007. 1:40001., &s. &r. rovi that the first Twenty Prices drawn willbe One Thawed founds each.; *at Tickets and Share. are at present very low in price. but will•betrissrh higher. Evrow cannot help reminding his Friends, the Public, that for the last twenty yt:arc the Lottery has been drawn on the King. Huth I ?"./, he, has stria a greater number of thipitals than any other tif. , ...kceeper, and he setieipaies a , ontinuanre of the like success ; rli.vefore he recommends an catty putehase at his fortunate Office. 1.0 sin Ann Srus:r.v.. ENGINE. LATHE ANT) TOM. MANUFACTORY. No. 10, -COCI4SPIR STaEET. -CH ARING CROM HOCTZLITFEL. uItd'DEYEKLEIN beg most respectfully . to acquaint their numernits Friends. JIM asusitaurs in lAt ,,, lianwal Amusements, that they have itr• the present season nulled consiovrshly to their Stuck -of Mecbenical Apparatus and working Tools, consisting of all kinds of Lathes for .Engine and Plain Turning, Work Benches, and Chests of Tools for general par • poses, for home consumption and for exportation; the quality of which, they flatter themselves, if. sufficiently known. Dvalet. in Ivory sad Hard wood.....Mitchasgs suppliedm tinsel... 165 OFFICIAL BULLETINS IF GENERAL 110LIVAR1 LATE VILTORULS OVER THE SPANIARDS. TULL7TIN 07 VIE LIDER %TUFO AMT OF VICVEZUELA. FF.B. The army of Gmiyana, coniumoiled by the Sopreme,Chirf, commenced it, imirett front the city of Angostor4, towards the Low cr ApAre,. oil the Jt^t of December, loud being (Iva loarkril in our .mall 11,4%.„144m, and part following the kit hauk of the thooniike, ac far a , the month of the Peso, where they were joined by Contra' llonaga4 division. They them passed over to the right bank of the SWIM river, and. uu the• I tth jltll{l4;* v.•ln Caycara, were joined by the cavalry divi sion It( (jwilVrai Getleuo, and again ei us , ing back to the tat hank, :e hove the months of the Aril e, formed a junction wi eh titnieral Paea's division, on the nit, at San jit4.l ik Pay4rit,' where hig trtoupb were iu quarters. Ttu arena' on the aityof binary, crocgeft the Apure in front of the fortreho of ion Fernando, and thin day Idle .IYIIO, ;it bey vit in the loot g, the town and fort* of Calabozo %,ere itt%e!.tesi, whelk. tier enemy's head quarters were estaibliblied, miler the loin. tte orders of General Alm The regiment of hussars of Ferdinand VII. of La and NAVHar, being plaited ou our kft, and that of Castile on our right. the enemy's cavalry forthwith attempted to flank our left ; but, by a rapid and simultaneous movement of our cavalry, the whole of his right was enveloped, at the moment that the infantry battalion of Barcelona was endeavouring to call away their attention anti atteinpting to cut Mem off. a single man of more than ZOO, of which number the flute Spanish: regiments consisted, would have hero fortuuate euough to escape, if, quicker than the uelvance of our home, they had net I iii into the town. Nevertheless, scarcely ter of the hussars and of the infantry, no more that* half the ((Wirers, made their escapes and the grenadiers and elms scum were left en the field. The regiment of Castile, which, as was already said, composed the enemy's left, sei in g the right so completely routed, was scarcely able to (*lterate any other movement than that of a shameful Iliglit, without even firing a shot ; nor would they have been able to escapc,-if, owing to the vicinity of the town, they had not beer protected by its fortitleations, which .for many days will not be able to resist the vigeruussiege which we immediately established. General aforillo, surprised in the midst of immense plait's by an army that had just come off a smirch of ;MO leagues General Morino, routed for the first time that. in America he has drawn his swurl—withont at least bringing on a general action—but now not even waiting fur the lire of our tusiletra —this saute General Moulin) now saw himself compelled tally, almost alone, from the field of battle, having escaped from two of our lancers, only through the interposition of two of bithitssars, who fell by his side—that (lettere' Murillo, in short, who his so Jong outraged humanity by styling him self the Pwiticator of South America; was, as it were in a moment, shut up iir the-centroof the Veisesuelna plains, owing to his own wawa skill, and the eistraordinary erlerity of oat movements. Such is the interesting spectacle the aition..4 Colaboro offers to the military world. The rentaindet of the enemy's forces are already cot . of from the town, and ours have marched on to meet them in every direction. Thus has the fate of our Itepublic heat de cided, without having run the danger of a single battle. MuLLICTIn Ol 1116 LSBCRATLNO ARMY, YRS. IT. (den. !torah) being shut up in the town al Calaboso, after tile complete rout he experienced on the 12th. the Liberat ing Army took up the most advantageous positions round, in °rile: - to bloeltalealie enemv,and cut off Ids supplies. Oar head enarters were established in the tows of Bistro. The racily, en the nth, wascompelled to aliandiarChlabinto, sad this he did at 12 in the night, with each precipitation, that he left in our power the whole of his artillery, a. large qita t atity of muskets and ammunition, his hospitals, stores. tate. Ile moved towards the towa.of Sombrero by the most somiatatm. ous road ; but his movement having been observed Wes* nsoroing, lay our advanced posts, the army was mdered to march iu pursuit of hint. On . the IStb, at fear iu the after n 2 S i ci turf con of cavalry belonging to dm easigeard note. up with the *wish column in the plains of &sham, lodge through tke small body of cavairyaeith which dame, MP vered his rear, anti obliged him to halt, continuing to tall his etteution so as to give time for the army to tome up ; hat night came before a sthgle division of iutantry arrived, and tie enemy, under cover of it and the surrounding thickets,. was enabled to resume his march. Many dead and winunt. rd, besides more than two huudred prisoders of the various Spanish regiments, were the result el the reneoutre-of our. van with the whole of the Spanish column on this alleluias. The pursuit was continued during the vilmeleor the evening, and in the fallowieg morning •f the 16th, wok &pia came up with the enemy et Melinal. of. the. river Guarico, near the town of Sombiatro where the 'misers of our ranguardoaku .everaince the isicalt.of day bad been premingraillie-rear, ob liged him to atop. The enemy's. position at . that moment was naturally forinidabk. Posted au .ambush or the right and left of a Darrow readouts'. with, the Overtod almost an hineeennWe hank In MS Stout,. no- . place .otaa left lay which. we could make an attack;. but oar infantry, burning for action, boldly pm•hed. on, sotwithstauding am.disadvataage of Um zroonii... Mae guards of honour to Atte iiiipreine Chief PriplwAerireLsh from. busier were the airst who. entered unto mania, with singular sleek. rity and intrepidity,isud they were followed by the Initiations of Apure isud Barloveato, caught* great hatreds to tin. e ne my. 'Meanies would hare been forced without the aid of we miser battaliorneashde etomiined in reserve, if a am :he rear.ofithe enemy had not been attempted by our timid, 'UMW co.operation the infantry were ordered to await. io this interval the eneiny alsiuhlameit his wake's, leasing ie, este possession VAS prisoners, mill the ground covered withskinspa and a clouded. Ile COlititilled sttreatliy thee read Bar hacins, where he arrived the same night; and this day he has proceeded on towards Camalossia. •Ssich Is the Leman . with which lie is possessed, that La is afraid to mkt kAiet, Iwswith- Manning the Cation. of the Spaniards so.grealand poi table, that they deliver • themseives tip us prisoners with. out lesi.tance. '1 he Iwol .0* cucnty, teem the tisnahes, caninienced his retrtat Prone Calaboso up to this day, exceeds I hr have i t i ge ; ' , 3l „ f . urra l Y .i t n he :ll l . l :l l l 'll t A li i i: vr il i a ll ; o o[ us liherty waive over the WO Spaniards in killed. ia wthostrpiilzhreaziland the reinnans that our anti wrrrk of tyrants in ;be whole of the Venezuela. Oar tout loss in this brilliant pursuit is only SO killed and ,svoissmi. eil ; amongst the f irst of whom is Lieut. Col.Paraini,Adjatiost General; Capt. Mamie, and Lieut. Girardos r ef the filmo •of Honour ; Capt. Crbines, of Barloventoa and Captaias Swims and Gonzalez, of Apure. Among the second are Brigadier General Antuategoia, Lieut. Col. Ponce, and jur Hill ; Captains Flores Illiares,Colusenares, Naranjo, mid Fulilo ; Limas. Andarai Italian, Sands, bucks, sad bar ...,.- ~.