The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-10 00:00:00

'V Al:(31. THE DR43I 1. ENGLIcaI OPERA HOUSE. • iIAVAIARKET THEATRE. T Notwithstanding the intense heat of the weather, stltis theatre has . I:4pt up its usual attraction. - 2'40 Americas has been repeated every evening during the tv'ck with the exception of Saturda:c This operatic... -drama is exceedingly well acted, and we emitted to, entice in our last, the Anomarous and meritorious exer .t:tais of Mr. .Harley Jack of alitrades, it kept the • house in a roar of laughter. On Thursday., the combined melo-drama and musi-, cal entertainment .calie3 the Deserter of Naples, was nrivea 4in the purpose of exhibiting Mr. :f . I'. Cod.:e sls Henry, and it is but justice to any that he acquitted I.;mself•most creditably though occasionally .a )ittle too yam tomitnie. The exquisite and interestiug performance ....9msia,sby Miss Kelly, Is too welltnowa to need our praise. Saturday Bickerstaffa's opera of Lionel airs Clarissa drew a name:row! and - fashionable audience. Miss Carew again Llelig:itel us ; she is in to any singer on . the stage, it i, to Miss Stephens only ; but we can •pcsitively pronounce her to be a better musician than' 't!..e Covent (1;!elen Siren. w ?earmen sang and acted • svei:, Miss Kelly garcthe little part pf - .hung great iia nortanc- and Bartley delivered the sentiments of the • bcnevoltuit Sir JoAo Flowerdale with a gentlemanly cace.llis:Stevcnsuu is an improving yantig actress. Co/o.tc/ Ofribtri ,and his fantastical lady loct none of itheir humour et importance.ba the hands of Mr. Chat -terly•and Mrs. Grove. _ _ Tl•eir• itoyal Illiglinesscs the Mike and Duchess of Kent smd suite visited the English Opera on Nlowlay, And were highly gratified with the eutertainateuts se/ •lected on that occasion. The play of the Africans was revived.r.t this theatre on Wednesday night, after a llpse of six years since its 'lam representation. This revival is likely to carry with -.it the suffrages of the public: we wish the piece had 'been innre free fmm the faults peculiarly incidental to snmdern drainatic productions, and which g-enerally eon- . -car with other causes to limit the perir:d of their (lora '..tinn—we mean an overflow of ia-placed sentiment, menr. - .1 aphorisms out 4 character, with allusions that arc born, and nwst expire with the occasion that pro. diced them. The. play of she :elfricans, however, pus .-resses an innate strength capable of supporting much greater weight, since it •exhibits wiry sitliations powerful interest, well drawn .and contrasted cliarae- Aers, together with a story well constructed and judi ciously developed. The performers, among whom were Mr. %Varde and Miss E. Blanchard, who represented 14 characters of Sr /leo and ilerissa for first time, exerted themsatiaue with unusual skill and camera; and the play war: given aft fw repetition on. the remaining •n:ge.; rlie week witli universal approbat'ain. Mr. S Kemble has been appointed by the •eula-Com • raittee of Drury Lane Theatre, .Manager for the ensu ing season. The dispute kstween .the Committee of Drury lime Theatre and lillisten, respecting the Olympic Theatre, has terminated i.e Lis favour ; :ma tine Law Officers of the Crown have reported, that his pevformances there are no infriogenm.ts of the patent. The Special C.aninitace aral-SUb-Committeoof Drury lane Theatre have-at kagth declared open war against eaih otia....r's authority. The .f.armer have served an notico GU the latter, nut to make any engage -I,:onts for the ensuing season, without the approbation •of the body of the Proprietors ; which notice the Sub- Ceaunittee, it is tai f, refuse to ()boy. Au official communication .has been =Gale by the Bank to the Stock Exchange, that the former will, as usaal, give every thcility to the negotiators of the New • St:,k ; that they will, what is technically culled, "take in the 01rruktm," wl:ich is, to make payment of the realainaler of the histalments,•on living paid interest at the rate et 5 per cent, for the morey.advanced. Iteprest:ntatioats are now making to the Admiralty,-ors' the subject of the depredations committed on mar.com merce in the West -Indies by the Insurgent privateers ; .strong these, the ease of the Jupiter is one attic most _prominent. It is said, that Government only-require the facts to be fully authenticated, to determine on the most vigorous measures tier the suppression of a nest of freebooters and pirates, who appear to acknowledge no distincti•m-of friend or foe, hut to plunder indivrimi . nately all wh, . have the misfiartune to fall inti, their hands. _ _ The Priry Council on Monde• last itotermined that the Council of Ab?oleen of 1816, last legally clectek, net un .the .23d of Septetuber, and till uti a' Council. who ai;ain ottAlichaelunts day should pmcced usif they had been thecouncil of the present year, to an eleciiou of Magisisstesittut Counsellors of that city for the ensuing year. Tuesday the Lord Mayor held a Court of Aldermen at Guildhall fur 'her:Tose of ewearin,„ ,, in • Mr.Waith mat.4: the new Aldermen for the 'Wart of Farringtion WithiAtt; In tho. room of Sir Charles Prix, Bart, -.4C2.3011. THE NATIONAL RECISTriI. COURT OF CH.INCERY.—SATuaniY, Atm 8. DRURY-LANE 71111A7PRL Sir 'Rowdily, on the part of a greet majoeity of the proprietors of this theatre, moved his Lordship to grant an Injunetton to prevent the • Sub-Committee, - consistiug of five persons, from proceeding in engaging any new performers, or entering into any new contracts on the behalf of the proprietors, considering the state of their fitmL. • When the late theatreetas unfortunate— ly bent down, there were a number a.en g a g eittints, and an Act of Parliament was reseed MOOLiealage a• Committe.: of ten persons to raise the'sum'atoo,oool, it: shares of tool. each, and the ethareholders to have votes in proportion to the number of shares.' The Legis lature passed a second Act, in which the power of ma nagement was vested in a Sub-Committee of fwe-persone, who had full power to appoint a manager and engage performers, &c. The debts of the theatre amounted to 80,000!. and in June last a Select Committee was up pointed to investigate the matters referred to them, and on the tith of that month they reported, and indeed it was evideut, that the true, state of attars must have Lon known to r the Sub-Committee. Severtaresoletions were thrtned-beNhe•&siett Committee, which were read and approved of try 41:e General Meeting on the Bth of Jute. On the of July the Select Committee, cave another.report of their eiThrts, and recommended the suns of 17,4;001. to be raised by loan, and George Coleman, Esq. -to he appointed manager. A Special .Conitnittee, at. the same time, reported, that much of the ineumbrmrees was occasioned by the facility with which articles were procured front tradesmen, and also from the very great number of orders for free admission. The report tsars agreed to by the General :Meeting of Propileors, at least by a majority of 44. The bill went on to state that nu capital remained, but that money must be raised •by loan. - Largo sums were due to ti: performers, who had consented to receive a composition the their debts on certain terms. The Court was there- Line prayed to restrain the Sob-Committee from going on. Ile bedew doubt the Court would at once-inter.. fe.e. The Jammed iTeniusel then at great :length yeoat into St Zetail of the facts, whichfirealready•before the public. The Tema Chancellor granted thelnjunctien on this er-parle application ; but erdered.notice to he served on • the other side without delay. - seventeen Bankrupt Petitions hare teen trans erred irfrom the Lord Chancellor's paper to that of-the Vice I Chancellor, who at resent proceeds with tko Bankrupt Petitions in a manner hitherto unbrinwn in . Chancery. His Honour %rill be over with his prc. , :;..ut sittings in a I very few ilayg, and tits Lord Chancellor wlti terminate.. I his on the I,itli. The Sittings last ye ,:r continued till i the end of SeptemLer.nwly ; thus atilailing a proof of the improvement in dispatch of hiviness. A series of G;:rman Journals to a reront date reach ca us 1:1:;t niglit. .An article, clatel. Beriir, an 21st nit. gives the following account of the late .Frankfort fair : _ . " '!'he Franltfort Fair, which now finished, has turned out, as aterc.hatits t.,f this city say, tolerably well fin our mattailtettirers ; there was particularly a great tioramalfOr leather and cloth. '1 he k uglish sold their goods this time at higher prices than uson,l, and kel not in general brought great quantities with theta ; kit -they-had a nutiteroits assortment of patterns, .cu which they have received very large or ders. Our ma natiteturers therAirra I:now with toleraNe certainty sikat.thcy have to e:tpect fruat the next fair." Extract of a Ictter from New Orleans, dated .June : —" An official communication has been received at the Custenp-hcase litre from the Trcnviry at Washington, stating that there wiil no obstruction to the admis sion of specie into Ataceira fraat.the British West India islands, after the auto of Sep:collier next, in vessels of war. . Those, therefore, who sviAt to loil. a ,rwfuatls here may avail themselves of such or.portunities.7' A HatuhurOt mail, with hiazterican and .Jamaica papers, have.corne to han.l. At+ article from Stockhohn states, that ::sheSvredish civil list has been definitively settled; thlaincetne of the King being fixed,at:NO,t)uo &liars, !tad that of the Crown Prince at +40,000 Every Norsve ,, ittn is to enjoy the privileges of a natixo subject in the kin.z.lota of Sweden, friatn the moment that his petition tin that rrpose shall b. pre: , -'uteri to the King. A similar concession to the. tit - oh - A - 4,0f Swe den ii looked for from the Norwegian Diet. The late clidtion for the County of Wt.!, -is. sup _ pima tolitireet)ltt Mr. Wellesley Long Pole .ao less thait 81,4WH:; . " , brittiltis large Rum is not mom than one 'year's t 4ntlent.tn. By p‘e/ticii.itiiriri iff the lion. Mr. Amen to the title of LotrMtistni.;:artat betvimes' vacant tin. Great Yar mouth:for viltielf WS . l.nnishin's brother is expected to becoOld cancli:?afe:' Edmund K. !Aeon. Esti. the late Pictish& fok 'Aia - rinnuth, has again °Rita himself a eanlidate.' ' ..... At twon'elotk on Weednesday, a thermometer in the alintie;trith a math aspect isthe Strand , was at 84 deg. A thermometer in the sal, 114 deg. ; ditty', bun) blacked, 42.2 - deg. four fcct fzein the grtmad. PR...TP.ITE CORRESPOND. PAR/4, Am, 3. The investigation . into the conspiracy is not mueb further advanced ,than it was three weeks ago. All that is yet known of it at Paris is derived titan the: reports and rvinciurs, more •or less authentic, publish ed in- the. jonrti*. We must therefore wait, till the dpcutuents.tO be', rodueed viiust those accused of this sulphide aad absnrd • plot are laid bethre the public, • n 4 then.,iic *ball be able to learn how far it meri'..l I •'any serious attention. General Carmel is still in pri son, and secured in solitary confinement, which depriNs him of all communication with his counsel. H grievously complains of this treatment through! ; advocate, M. Berryer, preliminary obsematton, 1,1 fhvour of M. Cannel, published by that barrist,... This defence gives au information a bout the crime of which the Genera. is accused. Some parsons dselarr that the affair :of the conspiracy will lr: stifled, alvt. that the Mirdster himself; frightened at the ,gravity- o.' the plot, will relent in the prueccut:on. This would have a strange appearance ; as it would show that the tribunals were entirely under the control of the autho rities, and that the latter could at their pleasure devetw victims to justice, or snatch them from it. Thenote o the Ultras to the Allied Powers, whichima been pul, lished some day.; ago, probably. rby the Ministry has been seized after the In nksellers.had sold a grew number of copies Such are-,the inexplicable measuris• of Government in this affair. • It would appear by a letter from Roden, inserted it. a German paper, that Las Cases is making represen tations to the Allied rowers to procure some mitigatiou of the lot of his master Napakon. BOXIN . G. The battle beiween Painter and Spring for 1 rni guineas aside, and that between Crawley and a Clam alt r! et Butcher, took place en Friday on the lltim:u Farm, between fintr and five miles from Kingston, a 21-feet roped ring. Spring and Painter ore wc:.l known pugilists, who fought at Michaelhain 14ownn , ori the -Ist of April last, and the ii.rmex. wots . ;n hour and a half. On this combat stinging sum , : of • money have been lost by the very flesikst of. the Cug• nostynti, as those who backcil Spring bctsre, backed hint again heavily at 5 to 2 ; and Baintee3 fortnev- i bueleru,. with a few exceptions, were brc.eght aye; to lipting's side. TILE 114TTi.E. - Vaund 1. Between four and flee minutes waa °couple/I.in form and measurentnit, mild Spring . made play. but leftiaand was well parried. Painter was aiming to get u oil in at distant.., tun having done so, he made a leit••banded feint, end slew out his ri,),;„ hand with the full weight of his body, and floored his adversary by a heavy hit over the hdt rwe, which decide. 4 bout! link the kuuck down blow. Even beta on Painter, from O w against hie. .2. Painter, in great co 1t layfrom tintaraomar of claret width &wed from his adversary's eye, made play. at::: light hits were t cas.lged. Bath down. :Pelmet, under. 3. Painter received slightly.on the .4.12 of the 1401 pith his &deer. sary's left Land, and in cluing both went down. 4. There was no hitting, Spring was strongest At thron s. After eirebargieg counter hits, l'aintervt his .11versary'slit...i 10e.e.l titian hi: ss•Ct iirmoind weaved with Ms asgll; ; • Spring had. too much experitace to stand • this. mite Art's ed Painter's weevil band.and ha,sinwhis left leg pressed actiustiiir adversary's Mom—. mute: reeeZred a soma fall. . . . 4.1..1Lere was more lighting in thla mind thartin any procedir.; it. Sz . varal hits were ..planted on -each ride. but l'aiuter eke.; :.awnedto ..te to do wpA what be di j perittrau; that a make Ls valrevar., -trel his right band. •- .‘ip7ltv.ll6l rather the be , : ci.t*.c round. a1..1,in strivig to give theialle he succetak,l. .tnd v. No tuischtef dime, Vie mm were pipinu ..ihg, whia; in the ring glir,..se i. t:avied bellows.:Lettd.og, ratii.tniag u:.oratious. They each t.ther, :oat: V, 7.: dots n t. 11,:re wrus some mischief cut out,amtl the • inn met and turn:v. :a ir, e.::roet. At the, eioac of a smart ceived a tirt.t-hautki 'wrier c.pou th e.ar..wnipt duet out, tuatUt i:.ettoug oaten of speedy t 4 4 4:t to. ';'Spring got up teal tough hi; br.':t ; bnt Painter, Ll though hi: rai:y. Ur. , :te ground with much adroitness, to 1:3,t his tigiitio.lA to ael-:" He War, e a r,' w c h,., 11, 11, Tlicre wai but little tigi.ting. Lac Stain:est huh isect,:ag..vt b cantusiatir, atiUtaugh ltc stun nuentully to cr y atui , i , ught game: 14.. Sprint; Imes tac brat oCti.;lating, real her,, ; Co convel e . t:te littcr part of tht Lottlt! Lest to the Tort iog tcrttler;. r.t:t go over to: %Owl.. 'it tb. :01,111tk, ::i WAI I:ltwu hogging, (put I.ut !execution until round, when a p.ly ar.o latex, w:111 Puintur tac tif the routi,d, by g.ttiii,.; ~nkr his atm again. ~nd thoppii.g wa, Ins run Lad sufThroa re vrr.iy ; hut ahhoogit 'oe , otto cour a ge..awl,ft t :.eta s r .th•ter onL•gs.n...rolhil ~ am; m 17,. b-oti i ,.l:t ;spring e. 1. 1 : in every wand. L. 'woe sintart Y`l" a 'g 1"-T.O.Ytt 1 1141.:.!4 to otivn •;meiied F• t!:111 he tA, tit„ but t la. that:llia the ion, al 1..; tie v.- I c 711.1..: remvered the finishing hit, alts:ea:;.lll..: until the 4..:81 reubtL, and his,gaine (wised him to 1 , -,.ver.l , lie gave in. not by wore.,,, but from ht:lple:sn Glit-: cue • bout and four I the In:teller ID two ot.,threo and lie r ill not wati, ,; :; .!:t mor . 4 Co! ICI tiIIVW ;lilt 10 L. kiglAtid. Tb r Smollinq Nors say! About-t fc 0 montils,c f7o , T. Visncis, of I.oug4boroog'..., who had - been tote! blind of one eye foi• near 30 years, completely recovered the siglit again without any sapplicntion ; hut, strange to tell. he in%tantly then 1A,..0u5, at 4 still remuitic. bliai oa tic cticr." '4 Ags. F, 11. .e 153