The National Register. — London, England, 1817-10-27 00:00:00

()e.g. 27. Till: D 11.4.31.1. DRUkt Y. LA \ E. liiss Byrne, of w!totu we male such favourable mention in' our last paper, On Tuesday assumed the part of My in the lityTar's ()porn. The style of this music is totally different from that of the Haunted Tower, the airs arc generally simple, vet they require a fine voice, and a very good taste in the perthrtner, to b heard wits plusure. Miss Bytne displayA julgment and swectnes.: in her execution of the hcau tiful. songs of this Opera. If she occasionally intro duced a few more ortrtments than we are accustomed ti hear at Covent Ganlen, still they %yew so neatly aryl ele g antly turned, that it was impossible not to almire theni. This perhaps w.ts the ease in Ceasc Nov- Fining ; but it was so much liked that it was with difficulty that she was allowed to 1 , 0 off without singing it a third time: All the most favourite airs were encored. Though we were throughout much plcaied with Miss Byrne, the manner in which she executed the duet, Wks' how now Saury Jade, guve us ►oust grata fication.—la the line 3. How can ran see mernade The *oft of Auch a gypNey." She dwelt ou the word //vide, and introduced wane of the sweetest notes we ever heard. Upon the whole, if :Miss Byrne be inferiar to the delightfal warbler of the other theatre, she is certainly very decidedly superior t. , every other candidate we have ter vocal flame. As an actress, she gave much interest to the part of Polly. All the other 'Characters were well supported, Miss Kelly in Lkcy, is unrivalled ; and Cooke's Mae/with is excellent. The whole performance was very well received, and announced fur repetition with universal applause. Satrudayaight the Tragedy of Othello was represented fire the purpose or introducing a young lady in the part of Desdemong. Her prsonal merits are preposessing in the extreme. Her form is elegantly proportioned ; her features are pleasing and sweetly expressive ; her eve, whizli is more humid than brilliant, more soft than sparkliag, imparts a lustre that finely harmonizes with the deli..acy of her complexion. To these claims to Hower of youth and beauty's pride" most be added the advantage of a %Jim, clear, distinct, mid melodious a-!1 of clusiderable compass. Her enunciation is roi a•A action dilute. So far every attribute befitted la r for the task. But her qualifications, otherwise we f. •I reluctance is stating were far from cmnmensurate with natures corporeal gifts or refined habits. A. deficiency of feeling hung upon her effort throughout. Her recitation seemed to be the result of a mere mechanical utterance of words rather than the involuntary expression of the thoughts or feelings, which agitate the soul. Her manner was unembar rassed, and she appeared to be conversant with the business of the stage. She was tvannly applauded. Mr. Maywood performed lobo for the first time before a London audience, but was not fully adequate to the assumption.—The house was extremely crowded. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. After an absence of several years, Mr Braham, has re-appeared at this house. Thursday night introduced him to us in the Siege of Belgrade. It were idle to observe upon the talents which he displays in this fa vourite part, after the long period in which he has enjoyed the public favour, we may say without a rival. We understand he is engaged at the prodigious salary of 701. per week. The new melo-drame of Father and Children, at this theatre, is striking in its effect, anti gave an opportunity for sonic very excellent acting by Messrs Macready and Farley, It was announced with applause for repetition on Monday (this day). A German Journal contains the following article; it gives rise to several reflections, which the late events ut Tunis tend to strengthen :—" Considerable atten tion has been excited by the military preparations of the Pacha, %hornet Ali, Viceroy of Egvgt, by his efforts to put himself in communication with several powers of Europe, by the large purchases of artillery and ammunition made by his agents, and lastly, by the contracts entered into by his Plenipotentiary in Swe den with several manufacturers or dealers in that king dom. It is said that the intention of this Pacha is to render himself an independent Sovereign in Egypt, and to seize the territories of Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli. In that case there will be an end to the piracies of the Barbary corsairs. It is rumoured that there have been overtures upon this subject male at Lisbon, Stockholm, and other Courts." The Americans, not content with moderate priers their cotton, have driven our manufacturers to the Indian market, the imports from which arc increasing in a rapid ratio. About 51,000 bales of cotton were last year imported from the East Indies : this year there have been 100,000, and next year will probably prmluce 130,000. In return, too, the Manchester goods have been sent to India, at prices so low, that they must command a market, some of them so low ma from 7d. to 70. per yard. COURT OF COSLIION COUNCIL. A Court will convened un Thursday for the purpose of taking sub eaesideratinn varions pubic and. private matters. Mr. Di‘nii morml, that the Shoo Oft lately elected be sillow. e.i a Wall in lii COlll . l, althinigh they were lint The motion WWI i1.:11.4,1 to, ;Ind the Sheriffs were formally in lrudue•rd, and rook their 114 . 41 , .. Tilt. L lid Mayor pieNcitteil to the Court a letter which he 114,1 received Ilion the Imed ni ) or elect. It was read to the Court, and . liquitiril Ntr. Corivt.ipher Smith's intention to take upon himself* the office of Luid Mayor fur the year en • sERNios ritrtcrtru AT ST. PAUL'S. r. 1111111.0 cad moved, that die thanks of the Court be given to the Rev. George Fearer Bates, for the n .llllOll PiTache'll by Wei at St• NW ' s ( 1110'111',11, ou Ti hilly Sunday, the tith June lavt, befure his Maje,t.'s Judges, the Lund. Mayor, and Common (*mined. Ile at the same time &shiers ed, that be hinrelf did not altogether approve of the conduct of that gentleman. amf runlessed that there were passages in the sermon is hick did not accord with Ins ideas of the rights and psi vitiates of the people. Mr. Waillimati obsexveil, lie hail a ditty painful to perform, namely, to bring rhlae;;,a against a Icsierctabte in hit idUdl, who 1:0111•1 Ilia i.e present ins person to answer them, even if they were capable of being aiiiiveri d. His task W. 141, dillieult by the de dee - idiot, (era gentleman opposite, %she, on his (Mr. W.) ever...sing feels lest any thing which 111.. might feel it leis ditty to state should injure * Mr. Bates, 0b ... Cs ed, th tt so tar is it, he was convinced the discussion which WAS 110 W to lake place, would be of material service to that reverend gentleeneo. Ile trusted he should discharge his duty boldly, and not he detei eed by any consideration of the obsee vattUlls which 11111:lit he Made on hit conduct. He 50. e to mint' all alllelldlllelli to this minims of thanks, and in a long speech maimained that the 1 1er111011 preached by . this Rev. ge/111e111:111, had a direct tendency to prejudice the minds of the Judges and the 'whew against those unhappy individuals WllO Mere then about to be tried for high treason. This was a time, he gala. W111:11 it was the duty of all well- ishers of their country to War.:ll encroachments of this nature, and lie conceived that the Corporation of the City of London, would nut be amine consistently with their duty, if they (lid not upon this occasion, express their highest iudig 11/111011. He was ready 10 admit that, um such occasions. the Judges might be adun.wiahed by the Minister of the Gospel to enforce the laws of the eisontry, but it should be to elifoice them with moderation and lenity. They should be instructed to temper jail ice with mercy, and that great and universal truth. that the 14W11 were made solely for the pit rpi.se of pro minim; the happiness of the community, should be impressed epee Mem. Mr. W. then referred tithe sermon of the Rev. gesitlenem, and read several passages from it. Sof a Sill nelllllllelli was contented in it inculcating either nice e) ur elentesecy ; hut on the comely), its direct object seemed to be, to impress upon the 'Muds of those who heard it, a di regal dto the pimple'. I ights, It 4."'oieeivoered to prove, that WWI had no siglets, that di; liras mad be calorced with tl.: utmost severity, making no Wet:Action between any pal tictilar religion ur got eminent, and .deelariiig Ihat, whether Hea thens, Christians, or Jews, the people might be dealt with as else nemarch pleased. If rule .crown had been preached, lie Was persuaded, in the time of Judge Jefferies, it would leave been reprobated. The text taken was suited to a purpose ; but the context was overlooked. By the language of the sermon it was contended that the Jades hag the same power KS the Prophets of old had under the divine mission of God. Here Mr. W. read extract's from the sermon, and contended that the preacher endeavoured to establish the doctrine of " non-resistauce" mid " passive obedieuee" to its fullest ex tent ; that the Judges, having receivedtheir power from the King, were amenable to no one else for their actions; that accurdiug to Scripture, even the power of a Heathen sove rpeigie ran iperallel with that of the Most High God. Aud the preacher.asked, how was this positive doctrine of Scripture ' to be reconciled with the doctrine of the self constituted reformers of the present day? The sermon was preached beturc the Corporation, at the very moment when that Cur. ',oration were petitioning for a redress of grievances, and against the suspeesion oldie Habeas Corpus Act. Were the I Corporation, with the Lord Mayor at their head, a self-con stinted body of reformers, whose object was to overturn the coustaution anti to introduce confusion? In April last, the sonic kern gentleman preached a sermon equally improper. He (Mr. W.) let that pass without animadversion. Bat lie was at a loss tu conceive how the Rev. gentleman, after the severe reprimand he had received on that occasion Irons the Lord Mayor, had dared in June fullowing to fall into the saint error. He was not present at the time the sermon was preached, but could easily conceive the surprise and indigna tion expressed in his Lordship's countenance at this second insult. He would advise every one to compare the doctrine of "non-resistance" in his sermon, with extracts from the works of the great Lord Somers, which he read. Lord Somers said, " If he was cursed who only sought to remove Iris neighbour's land mark, what did that man deserve who preached' non-resisiauee' and ' passive obedience,' which at ouce unloved every boundary to property between niau and man, and destroyed all the rights of the people i" Ore. He then read passages from the Holy Scriptures, to prove that the laws of God were the laws of mercy, that the conclu sions drawn its the sermon were erroneous, and directly cote tratlicted by the very work from wheace had been made so many qautatious. And here he insist cougratielate the Court 011011 oue evil being done away—be meant the mode of se lecting Grand Juries in London. The Cum t would be sue prised when this report was presented from the Cui 1111 l ittee, to see the evil of the system which had so long pre , ailed. It would be seen, that in a period of Ai days smile per suns had been on the Jury upwal ds of 60 theses, whilst others iu the het were not called once. Mr. Wait Moan, after other observations, moved an amend ment, which was to the following effect:— " That it is the opinion of the Court, that the pulpit ought solely to be devoted ro the service of Grd, and never to be made the vehicle of political denunciation. " 'Fhat on Sunday, the eighth of .111111 e, i I?, being the First stinday in Trinity, the Rev. George Feat iie Bates, preached a sermon before his Majesty's Judges, the Lord Mayor, and C mon Council. which appears to this Commit, highly repre hensible, as being repiignent to the established principles of the British constitution, by which the lion>e of Brunswick was called to the throne, and conveys indiscriminate imputa tions ni this Court, and the rest of the subjects of the realm, who had becii seeking a redress of their grievances, by petitioning against the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Art. " That It has an evident tendency to excite prejudices in the minds of the Judges anti people against the persons then in custody, and about to be tried for bigit treason upon the 'ME NAT/0 NAL REGISTMI, 4'. ../7 evidence, as it now appears, or a fevir abandoned wretches., who, acting as spies and informers, had been endeaviatring to excite others to arts of treason and rebellion." I Mr. Williams seconded the amendment in a short speech. Mr. Dixon expressed hi* surprise that the looser of this • amendment, whose general rood conduct and whose abil•• Lica were so well known, should have lent himself on this 'occasion to be the handle of a party. He confessed, that never in his political career had he seen that gentleman fail so much in his arguments; and lecommended him, the next time he attempted a similar task, to look a little more into that sacred book he had now so frequently quoted. With respect to the conduct of the geiltlenian, which bad been so much objected to, he was ready to admit that,alitionali there were occasions in which politics might be iiitroduced in a sermon y et, speaking generally, it was objectionable. The Rever end gentliman had availed himself of this public occasion, hr conceived, most fitly ; and he defied any gentleman to point out a single expression in the sermon, Whirl' went be yond recommending tine attention to the laws of the (-minks. With respect to what hail been said by the worthy mover of the amendment as to special juries, he begged to add. that hut a single verdict had been given by these jurors that mill he called in quest too, either for its mercy, law, or just...e. Ile would utmost cordially give his vote for the original and wiiiild as cranially oppose the amentiment. Mr. Harvey objected to the vote of thanks, upon the sl“;:le amoral that this was a political sermon. 'lite intents 1:1' the Rev. gentleman might be great, and the sermon might be written with great force of expression ; but lie was an enemy to the pulpit being transformed into a political rostrum. He condemned the whole mot of political sentiments eontained in the sermon ; lint even it' the Rev. gentleman had taken a different side of the question, it' lie had extolled the merits of those whom lie thought as well calculated to govern, as those now ill power were ill calculated, still lie should have been of the same opinion as he now was, and should have voted for the amendment. Mr. iirifEilis was in favour of the amendment. Mr. Davis thought that jostle': was nut done to the Rey. gentleman as hose conduct had thus been reprobated. He confessed that the sermon was one which ought not have been preacded, and that it contained some sentiments which ought not to have been intratirsoed. He would himself vote for neither the amendment nor the orittin it rpiestion, under the conception that, if the Rev. gentleman hail nut given 6ati:fasetiwl, he should be treated with silent reserve. _ The ii::,•stitin being put, both the oligirmi inution and the amendment were negatived. The Duke of Wellington arrived in town Saturday Ili; Grace, we understand, comes for the sole pavpo,u c:' Lord Rivers's estate, previou•ly to the par. • chase of it For his Grace, being complet , A. 'ler Ilizhneas the Princess Charlotte is hourly apcsieti 'to have the happiness of giving a successor to the throne of these realms. The Archbishop of Can terbury, the Bishop of London, and the Secretaries of State, remain at hand to attend and witness the so lemnities of the accouchement. The wet nurse is the wife of a respectable person in the county of Surrey, selected by the Princess herself. The medical attend ants are Sir Richard Croft, physician and aecoucheur a Dr. Stockman, the resident physician, mad Mr. Ne ville, surgeon and apothecary. The young woman who is engaged to be wet-nurse on the the accouchinent of the Princess Charlotte, ob• tained the appointment by the account she gave of her self in a letter to Sir Richard Croft, written with so much simplicity, yet with so much communication of the particulars which would naturally be required, that Sir Richard immediately sent for her. From his house she was directed to another, where several of the medical advisers of the Royal ramily had formed a sort of Board for examination. After she had answered se veral questions, the medical gentlemen began to con verse in French. It happened that she had a knowledge of-the language, and, as she supposed it to be intended that she should not understand their conversation, /she had the ingenuousness and the modesty to say, that perhaps she had better withdraw, as French was not unknown to her. On her return she was intbrmed that the Board would recommend her for the office she so licited, if they were satisfied with the appearance of her children. She has three, and these were subsequently examined. Soon afterwards she received a message front the Princess Charlotte, desiring to see her and her chits . dren. On her attendance at Claremont, the Princess and Prince Leopold passed three hours in the room with her and her children, to the latter of whom the Princess gave abundance of sweetmeats. Prince Leopold took one of them upon his knee, and said, " Well, you and I shall probably be much bitter acquainted." The • young woman was charmed with su c h condescension and atability. She was then near her own confine ment: the Princess told her that she should be well accommodated at Claremont, if she chose to stay, butt that it was wished she should do exactly as she pleased. She candidly said, that she should prefer returning to her husband's house. There she, in some days, became the mother of a hearty boy, coneernino. Whom and her self inquiries have been made from Claremont. It has been bethre said, that this young woman is the wife of a respectable yeoman near Claremont. The appintinent is no slight acquisition. What the whole recompenae is, in case of the birth of a Princess, we have not learned ; but, in ease of a Prince, it is 1,3001. and 2001. a-year. The wife of • a respectable Attorney, having been wet nurse to Prinees!,Charlotte, has snow 1001. a year, and her son is a Lieutenant in the Navy. Lord Guildford is about to proceed to Corfu, in fur. therance of his beneticient exertions to promote the permanent establishment there of a College" for the Education of Grecian Youths.