The National Register. — London, England, 1809-07-30 00:00:00

fiii i . ziii• r icsifilti. REM wygrnio It is deficient is plot, character, Sentinient; and expression. It is a string of conceits and clap-traps, miserably strung together, and we fe,el as much for an audience *hes cou'd endure with patience such a tissue of silly iitiproliable n 0,.. sense, as we feel for a writer who cottid seriously sit down to cater for a taste so wtetthed dnd alicimindhle. With re gard to the music; which is by Mr. Addison; it is ahhorit as bad as the other parts cif the Opera; We think it would be difficult to point out one original Bar: With the excep tion of a single passage In the first trio of the second act, and the song "On the Baitks of the ;Volga," 'there is nothing of which a composer df any pretensions Would with to be consideredlthe author. The . Songs - Minna to Mrs. 'Mountain are sombre and uniuttresting and any thing gat pathetic. The chorusscs! I as the' are 'Ms-en/led; were such as we couldlscarcely pardon et Astley's ur Sadler'a Wells. We kuow that Mr. Addison is capatile of writing better Music, and we regret exceediugly to find that it is .ltecominf., , fashionable amoug Compoiers of merit, to degrade theM selves to a level with those pretenders, who write trumpery things because they cannot write better, and whO arc se , iuced into this practice by the ignriranee and depraved taste of the public, Who applaud arid censure with the risme indiscriminating want of judgment. Of the performers, we think, Mrs. Mountain has ihti ference with respect to style; and Mrs. Bishop as to voice, which is - perhaps one of the finest .ou.the stage, but she has no opportunity afforded her of. displaying it: Mr. Born appears to be au excellent musician, and exhibits eons'_ derable judgment in making the most of a voice which is na turally far from good. Mr. Phillips is more indebied to nature than to art; at present there as something unclassical and unfinished in his performances, but we have VIO doubt. he will improve. We caution him. however, against imita tion. " Whoerer follows another must necessarily be behind." Of the other Performer, the less is said the better.—The Band is certainly a,tood one, as for as it goes. If they did not exert themselies so much as we could have wished ; we very readily account for it, by sup posing them to have experienced feelings similar to our own at the wretched music they were obliged to uasego. - . '. . •• • Ser. bruises no being Conveyed to liohnslow. Minot two miles from flte.4it&hOlprit; a poor Sian VIM Ville,' in ajane; h 3 a cart urnipg ovr, thp unite:dais° haiing tlimged oat of the road. Severn' oth r accideut4 happened on Wednesday evening in and Arent the metropOis. . A poor iabatirer, of the uathc of Furniss„ was struck blind 1 ten o ' clock, In the ' King's read; thel3ea, whilst going !fame with his two children.. A house lagiorting to Mr. Tame in Poland-striset; wits set lire to by . the origirrieed in thi second gnrir is here trio were asleep; !Alt fokunniely ft ‘segctiicovered i n ti me to save tho chi;lren, and to subdue the flames af,ter destroying the rot n. We lOCSd2v tig,lll, eigltt o'tlnek, • lie neighilonrhood at St. Alban's Was visited by a thunder storm,- which Cantitpfed eon , irletahle tinte, attended by rain, Which fell in such torrents that the (auids were quite iiiutnitiated, cud w 4.64 palingS. Were thrown down; and other wood works floated in the stream, hich renderer) the highways almost impassabie. The atmos phere appeared like a sheet of hit, the air waslrapregnatcd sulphur, and the lightning trinde such a hissing noise, and the whole presedd a scene so frightful; that the horses on the road would not proceed. Thè neighbor thodd of Christ Church, Blackfriars, was, neatly the whole of Thursday, kept in a state of tumult, owing to the fallowing eireunstanee i—An old woman, wha had at. • tended the funeral of a man who died of a cortagions fever, and who wac 1;6.0 on Sunday last; in passing the graie ota Thuri jay; iralwiocdsho heard a groaning and calling non for assist: vice; .from . it; and the iMpression. teas so tnrong, .that At ac tually fainted a:say On the spot. I 1 hen she recovered, bile de clared What she imagined She heaid; Which cettoing to the Know. ledge of the parish otlicei-i,. sUe Was sent ti) th'e ‘inteti-housej its heing the nrcasitig Of orating a miih. The clerefman; iexton, aril atheri; attended, and asmrfri the people that it was sihle the watt could have lieea hurled alive; chid that It ass no thing. snore than an idle tate: but, notwithstanding all such ex hortation, the crowd continued 114 whole of the day. The people mnat wished to T.itt4e the gta*e Openedi but this isvii presented ns extremely chingeroUs, oujOg to the waif having died of a contagions fe4et.—Soroeittroiliit fur t 4 noise by sAllpitsint it proceeded ft4 n h a Mail tot:fined in die rtintigimus wares-•• While dthen suppose it Id have been the unlucky exploit of some ventriloquist passive that Way. • 'STEM ;AMY 80' 41, Up- - . . SPORTIX6 BULLETINg. Two races took place on 'Wednesday on the New-Cross rond, be t w ern Captain Aiken and 111 r. Sullivan, the former having un dertaken to go a mile in five minutes, and run Mr. Sittlirun r mile„ with the interval of one minute only between the statts. Tilt Captain did his mite in 2 seconds under the given tithe and, sifter' resting the minute, to did the other mile in five • minutes and t wenty-fiveseconds, and beat his adverbary by about 100 yards. The wagers were 20 guineas each. A young Divine, in the vicinity of Edinburgh, has andertaken for a wager of 100 guineas, to read six chapterii front the bible, every hour, for six weeks, and actually began his arduous task last Thursday at twelve o'clitek, when pets were ten to one against him. We suppose the next gambling transaction we hear of will be that his Grace the B p of has undertaken, for a wager of one thousand guineas, to preach font* whale sermons in twelve months. A wager of one guinea was decided a few days ago, between J oha Pooler, of Newport, Shropshire, and Richard liantrainds, of Stafford, as to which of the two could make the greaternum ber of shoes in a week. After pegging at eke task the tOnve mentioned time, it appeared that the former had finished eighty one pairs, and the latter seventy-five! !—We conjecture that these shoes, like the pedlar's razors—were made n est to use tut to utl. Mr. Rowe who has been attempting to do the Barclay match Someesetshire, resigned the task on SaturCay, the 15th day'. performance only having been completed. Ile has thus lost a *take of 100 guitusai, and his health is much injured. EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING. On Tuesday night as ope of the Bath coaches iris travelling lie3X Colebrook, the leader took fright at the -vivid lightning, and became unmanageable. The consequence was, the animal. started of at full speed in spite of the endeavours of the coach. JEAN sad the vehicle was upset, and literally shattered in pieces. Rita ono* us wipe* hurt, and u female passenger died of LISII The Wm:4ler, hit. arrived at Daitroe &Font Sill fide: title min kuSsiai prises,. Weis with corn, bran ?y, &c: Tier cheerful rattier arrived at Sandham loth lust. with three prizes. The Yriendschip, Kok; bound to the Baltic, ha been taken by * Danish lug. ger, retaken by the Earnest briar, and arrived at Ystadt: The Anti of Lynn, May, from Webers . , *is caplared 9th inst. by an open boat, from Lew*: The Drie Gehroeders, Sister; from London to Ilieligoland, is lost, with all the trew: The Pegry, *mouth; blond to the Perlian Golf, and the Perseverance Williams, holm to Bombay, both from S erial; n etu repter e d Mb S e ptember. oil teylon, hy t .4.. Caroline Preach frigate.: —Thu Catc , itta, Davidson, of lien' gal; the Henry Welleiaey, Willianuon ; and the C'etherine, - , ffook Madras to B.mgal; were captured in September; near ftaujant, by the lfiron.‘ delle French privattier.—the CMOs, Chauvet, of Bengal, is tuken by a French privateer, in the Streights of blilacca.—Tke Jo:to, Freelt corvette, of est rlit• sk„i taken In the Bay of Angel; in illeptembor, by tho Mndeste frirete , she had previously captured the Swelow, of Penicg, and the Frederick of Ben gal; the latter was retaken by the Modtste: The Annan, sailed from liewfonodiand for Wattotford, is Nevehibtri and Lis not since been beard of. The Auna Celheriva, Danish brig, prize to the Fin(' ?tun brig; the 7,ona, of Boston, detained by the Stonuoss gun-brig; the Johanna Catherine, Das nish brig, ptho to the Snake SW: arriyed at Leith lath instant, MARRIED. At Falmouth, Mr. Wm. Siortwins, aged 6a, to Mrs. Ann llfut4 ley, aged 55, being the third time each of them had attended at th:... - hymened alta r. . MED. At Little Ealing, on Wednesday last, aged 10, Lady Wright, widow of the late Sir Sampstin Wright, Knt. Lately, Majf)r Ormsby, Keeper of the Four Courts Marshal sea, Dublin. A few days agn at the age of 133, Mr. James Rlbiason, many %ears a rarrenfer and builder in Long-hue, who retained hit facultie s tri a eew dayS of his dent h. Lately, at IThii4ll, near Doncaster, Dame Humphreys, is Or 109th year of beige. YESTERDAY'S ;iitic,C OF STOCKS. 3per Cent. Consul Misl,7i-5 per Cent. Navy NAV—lndia Steek 187i--1 per Cent. (7011101 344-3 per Cent. Reduced 68/1---Lone, Ann. Com,. ears MA 3 -10—Exchequer Bills, 3i.1 per day 8,13 pm—lndia. Bunts 1911 put.—Lottery Tirketb2ll, lb.—Cassels Inv Accauat 044