The National Register. — London, England, 1818-04-06 00:00:00

AritL 6 Adventures, interspersinif them with a number of his best songs and rpceimcns of imitation and ventriloquy. In the latter he personated a French valet, and gave a conversation between five people, whose voices were all essentially ditlimnt. His surprising powers of imita tion are well known ; during .a whimsical trial, which intrcaluced, be imitatesl the Judge and Counsel in a manner that drew down the warmest applause. He also recited, in the character of an old Scotch Lady, .1 long story stbout,snothing., which was admirable--it w.ls, perhaps, the nrnst strikingly accurate cf . any of l:is reprewntations. 'Ellat of Taftna is very. good, but a little in carricature. .He concluded .by giving a sreacip4ani Hamlet, in the manner,of John Kemble, can, OUTIg, G.T. Cooke, 'Pope, Mundell, Fawcett, B:anchard, Brabant, and Ineledor. _ . Altogether l it was a very high treat, and it was, so acc:4l4,:telty the audience,- who maniested their appro ation throughout, by the most enthusiastic applause. .fannister was in the house,:aimd on bciug recognized :eccived a must hearty .welcome. 'Mr.. Kean's success at Glasgow is without precedent; so great were the audiences attracted by his ,perferm tutees, that to maim room in the pit, sha orchestra was removed, and the band placed behind Cie scenes. From . Glasgow he proceeded w Abepleen. At every place he has performed since he Las Jeft.tevert he has received 1001. per night. Mrs. Barns, who appeared, two or three seasonr. ago, • at. Covent Garden Theatre, is now the favourite actress of the New York strge. Mr. Arnold is. actively preparing for the opening of tbe New English Opera Him*, by 'forming a company of perferners, many of whom are old favourites, and the remainder of high lir:Nimbi fame. A young gentleman, whose name is Race,. a native of Newcastle, . has made his • appearance at the theatre of that town, as 'Richard the Third, with unequivocal success. Miss Clara Fisher, who gained such singular cele brlty at Drury-lane, is now performing at the Birming ham Theatre, to crowded houses. .A new Opera, in three' Acts, written by r. gentleman of Dublin, tle: music of which is composed by Sir John Ste:el - loom:is in rehearsal, at • the theatre of that city. The new and suecessfnlT :tree of the Sleeping Draieghl produced on %S ednesday evening at Drury-laue, is the first dramatic banding S. - Penley, of that theatre. It is whispered as-a fact, that-a lady at the height of tragic fame; though pectin-ming at a Theatre Royal un der her maiden name,. has been warred sometime ; nay, was convicted and found.gniky of nutrimany at an Irish Par two years ago. . This report Yeas more than whis pered about the same period, but was not then credited in the theatrical circlet. --Sin. A Corporation. in the West of England (with which one of the principal ofracers of the Prince Regent is closely conaected) are advertisiagfor sale the next Pre sentation to their principal church, in onler.topay at their Nentre 1-4:vetting paper. A grand Musical Coiumemoration is to talcepiace :a die theatre of she' University of Oxford, in the en cuing summer, fcr which all the orchestra-of the con verts of ancient 'music is engaged, by the permission of the Directors. _ _ . At the anniverinry•dinner•of the New Musical Fund held on, Thursday at the kreentasons Tavern, the Duke of Sussex, accordir.g to an evening paper, pro posed ass toast—" Mrs: Itillington, Sunni Cecilia of England." It is reported in the musical circles, that Madame Catalani shortly intends returning to this country. The French papers, however, hint to the .contrary. Wednesday her 'Majesty -una the Princess Augusta and Elizabetha-xeived a visit from the Prince offTesse -1-lomberg. Nisi Serene ,Highness aftertvards received visits feLm the Dukes of Clarence and. Gloucester ; and in the evening had a dinner party ; among the comprny were the Prince Esterhazy and suite, Lord Stewart,&c. We are happy to say, the Prince Regent was much better- od, Wednesday. His Royal Highness gave au dience to Earl Bathurst, and Sir W. Scott, the Judge of the Admiralty. He also received visits from the Duchess of Glocester, thirDukes of York;.Cumberland, and Clarence. Prince Leopold, contrary. to expectation, still resides at Weymouth. Wednesday the . Duchessef Gloucester, the Dukes of York and Sussex, and the Prince of Besse Homberg, visited her Majesty, and the 'Princesses Angustit and Elizabeth, at the;•(Queen's Palace the Duke of Cla rence dined with • his Royal 'Mother and Sisterf. • In the evening her Majesty had a select-party. The eleenet enita of apartments on the ground flees: of the . . Mirth . Ve est wing of the 'Queen's' Palace, in whi:h the Prince Regent and the . I)uke of York xes:dcd tiering their minority, . are now fitting up in :►a appro peiate style, fur • the reception of the Prince ef Hesse Hamberg and the Princess Elizabeth, after their uniun, until theirdepartnre for Germany. The Duke of Norfidlt has just added .!to the family plate a most superb (limier service, which, for value, taste; and highly finished workmanship, is said tobaun- NI Lulled. THE NATIONAL• lIECTS.T7R. APPREHEX.eION Of HUSSEY. Since. Hussey was suspected of being the perpetra tor el the murders at Greenwich, the Magistrates and officers belonging to Bow-street have .been intlefati rable in their exertions to trace and apprehend him. rthe last account that was heard of him in London was on Sunday ce'nnight, at the Lamb public-house, near Fitzroy-market, where having drank some .peppermint with a relation, who was understood to be his.trother, he took leave of Lim, anti said he was going into the country. Adkins traced him frnm thence to Basing. stoke, and there all direct knowledge of him was lust. The officer went to Burton, is Doasetshire, where,. his wife was living with her relations,. and had lately been confined- in child-bed ; she and her family were ex tremely shocked on learning the crimes with.which he was charged ; he had net been there, .nor had they heard any thing of him. Most of the officers have been after hint in various directions, where there hat been any suspicion of finding him, but they did nut succeed on Thursday morning, however, the accept table intelligence was brought to Bow-street Office of his being taken at Deddington, in Oxfonl ,, hire. The intbrmation was brought to the Office by the law agent, in London, to Mr.. Field, the attorney of Ded dington, who stated, that he had received a letter front Mr. Field informing hint that Hussey was taken in that town, and that he would be hrought to .Londoa .by the constable, accompanied by a man who wits to ASsist in keeping Ilussey secure, and also by Mr. Field him self. The information was sent to Greenwich ; and Mr. Bicknell, the solicitor, of that place, who has ex erted himself su much to discover the murderer, and other gentlemen of that town, came to tile Office to ix: present et his examination. A brother of Hussey's, a sawyer, in Tottertham-court-road„ on learning his bro ther was taken, went to the Office to wait his arrival. At fnir o'clock the Magistrates and others were as sembled, in anxious expectation of the arrival of Hus sey, am! in this state of snspence they were kept for •nearly three, hours.. A little belbre seven o'clock, all SUSIKASC was relieved by a hackney coach driving to the door, in which were • Mr. Field, the constable, and Hussey handcuffed to another m an. He was delivered into the custody of Adkins and Vickery, who con veyed him into their room ; and after, he was released from his handcuff, the officers proceeded. to search him very minutely. On taking off his boots, something dropped out of one of them, -which proved to be a large -ring, supposed to be set with diamonds. It was asked if he had been searched, in the country ? it was answered that he had ; but it admitted that his boots had not been taken off The 'account Hussey gave of the ring being in hit boot was, that when he went to the privy, itICII out of his fob into his boot. I le gave. the following account of being possessed of the ring :. It was the anon.. b the thinms—" .. . . Question. NVICit taints ?' 7 Answer.—" In the bundle which the things were that ! found against a treeia Mr. Smith's grounds at Greenwich." Question —" Is this the account you mean to give of the ring Answer.—" Yes, it is; I have, no other account to give." The prlfoner, who had been searched, znd who had drewd idniself, was taken . into the Odice, and placed ar the bar,with .Adkins anlVickery on each side of him. Mr. thee commenced the examination of the pri sow_v. _ _ Joke 1 eulten, the man who discovered and appre hended the prisoner, stated, that he keeps a public house -irt 'Deddington, in Oxfordshire, and is the cod stable of the-parish. On Tuesday. night two men, one of then: r. lath-render, and the other, a tradesman of ‘‘ eh-trent, ..came to his house, called for supper. and beds, with which they were eccemmodated. . They kft his house about six o'clock on Wednesday morning; they tultilim.their business in travelling was being in pursuit of the prisoner, and described his person very accurately •to him, and said he had ti,gnld ring upon his person, with the remarkable inscription.on it, " To the memory of six children." They left his house fin. Ban bury, saying, they were going there in pursuit W.' hill. After the men had left his houre,.he went.and read the Oxford newspaper, in which he.saw the jai •..aer .ad ,,ertised as described by the men • Slim. i it,er 9 d i duck he saw fly" prisoner pass his house, and his•petNon an swering the description given by Cie m n and in .the advertisement, he went ..crt and followed hint 'to the tap of the King's Arms.lnr, where he had spine bread and cheese, awl a ,cup of beer. The witness asked a neighbour of the eame of Churchill to accompany him ; they watelied,mul iiillowed the prisoner from the top of the King's Arms to.a. farm-yard, which he supposed was a ihuroughfara, and finding it w', tot so, returned ; grin; he , was then convinced that the prisoner wits a strarger, and he went up to him boldly,.and said he • must.zo with him, as he hod .streez suspicion .he was the man advertised. The poisoner, after wow hesitation, confessed his name was Chrrles Hussey. :On his taking him to his house he proceeded to search him, and thund a watch and a pocket-hook, with a ring in it, part of' the property stolen from the late Mr. Bird's house. ig Mr. Birnic addressed the prisoner, and said, " This constable has brought y 0..: here ; I presume you know the charges that are ag,airst you." The prisoner denied that he did. l'he magistrate inthruied him, he was ehargel with being the murderer, or one of th e man l er ers, o f M r . Bird - and his housekeeper, and with having robbed the house, at Greenwich. Prisoner.—" I know no more about it than you do, your Worship ; 1 acted like a villain in nut making it known when I had the things (meaning the things which he said he found against a tree in Mr. Smith's grounds at Creenwieh) which were stolen from Mr. Bird's house. V, hen Mr. Poulton, the conctable, was searcliing the prisoner at I)eddington, he asked him for the riag which the men who had been at his house had described ; as having the inscription on it—" To the memory of six children." The prisoner admitted that he had such a ring, but had thrown it flown the privy, at the tap of the King's Arms Inn ; at Dcildingtun, where, on exami nation, the ring was found, wrapped up in a niece of rag, and which was now produced to t:v.e magistrate.— .This is also supposed to be part of Mr. Bird's property. A,pawnbruker's duplicate was found upon the pri. soaer, by Vickery ; 4i - r a ring, and was dated aLw t:ays alter the 'murder and robbery. The Magistrates told the prisoner it would be neces. cart' fur Mm to account fur being possessed.ef the things whic4 had been stois.n. The prisoner, in reply, said that between fire anti six o'clock on the Sunday, afternoon after the murders. and robbery, he saw a man get over a wuli into Mr. Smith's; grounds, at Greenwich, and run ; he follewed him, and saw him put a bundle down age inst a large tree and leave it there, and then run again ; curiosity led hint to the spot, and be opened part of the bundle, and saw two watches and the handle of, a silver soup ladle. left the bundle then as he found it. On the Saturday afternoon following he went to the spot again, and found the .bundle against the tree exactly in the same state as when he left it. J-te denied that the svastcoat which he sold to 111 r. Pyman was part of Mr. Bird's property, allegiug, that he.bouglit it a few miles beydnd Oxford. '1 he bundle, he said, did not contain the pocket-hook found upon him, but its con-. tents consisted, te believed, of three watches, a silver soup ladle, a silver wine strainer, four sheets, six or eight shirts, six rives, a quantity of old siver coins, two 21. Bank ofEngland rotes, three 11. not.2.s. The rings were wrapped up in rags. There was to wearing ap parel in tho bundle, awl he did not recollect any thing else that it contained. He put all the things which were in the bundle-into his box, which was atLutton's Greenwich ,academy. _ . . /le said he had Pielgrd ore of the rings At a pawn. broker's, in Tettenhmai Court-rnatl, opposite the South. ampton Arms public .house, for ss. in his own name. He said he wore .1) tack since. the tine of .his lacing a v:1116011. his motive fur absenting himself was, that • . . he vas ashamed to return ~back, after having such things in his possession, meaning Mr: Bird's stolen pro perty, and not coming forward at the time to tell of it. He removed his box, conttiliting the stolen prcperty. front Lution's .Greenwieh academy, to the house of Mrs. Goddard, No. 35, Hughes's-fields, Deptford. lie. was asked, if he bud any ',biog. s to say respecting the charges. that were trade against him ; he replied, No, he had nothing to say upon the subject. He was told, witnesses would attend against him at the next exami. nation, and it would be heard what they had to say against him; he replied, " Very well, Sir " Magistrate,—" You 3611 bo examined at a future day." Prisoner.—" Vcrx good, Sir." Mr. ,Poaltun, the constable who apprehenled the tiri suuer,' then marked all the property which was titian(' upon the prisoner, and lie, was bound over to give 1.6, denee •at the prisoner's trial, at the assizes fur the county of Kent. The p.isoper, during ~the whole of the examination, betrayed no particular emotion. After hiv examina tion he was nutted struitgly, and conveyed to the House. of Correction. On Thursday, a. Ctb►uct Cvancil was held at the Foreign ()ttice,. which- was attended by the Earl of EurL of Westmorland, Earl Bathurst, Vis count Castlereagh; Viscount Sid►nouth,,the Chancellor of the hAcheiluer, Mr. Conning, Bathurst, and Mr. E. Robinson. Friday another Cabinet Council wan held at the sane place, which woo attended by all the Cabinet. Ministers. 'l'i►e Council sat till past 5 o'clock, after which Viscy nc Ca4let evil went to Curiton-house, and had a long titalleace of the firs a Regent, to re port she result of thc.delibenitions ofthe t,ubi►;ct Earl Ilitthurst. had- an au.lience• oCtIA Prirßurnt xt Curiton-hou3c, previous to ilia of the Th e s hips destined for the Arctic Expedition dropt down the river yesterday from Deptford. The trial of L. tie Casseux ftr the outrageous assault on Mr. Matthias, the Catholic Priest, is postponed till next session.