The National Register. — London, England, 1816-07-29 00:00:00

?WY T. 29. DRAMATIC REGISTER - HAYMARKET. On Monda7 night, a new Comedy was produced, called Exit ky Mistake, said to be from the pen of Mr. Jamieson. It is an excellent little piece, in which we can recollect nothing at all for ill nature to snarl at, unless it be a too great liberality in the quantity of puns. The interest of the scene is preserved throughout ; the cha racters arc strongly marked; the language is pointed and elegant; and there are, here and there, sonic very success ful-hitx at the follies of the day. The following will give some slight notion of the plot of the piece. _ _ Mr. Rowland (TERRY) reslizei a large fortune in India, and is dig. posed to return and enjoy it in the land of his nativity. The person who has the management of his alitS abroad is a quaker, who sends along with his fortune the will of Mr. Rowland to Mr. Straw (War- Itstsoto, who is appointed executor, and, at the same time, apprises Straw of the circumstance of Mr. Rowland's return, in language which :rives rise to the hustle of the piece. The quaker talks of Mr. Rwsland having departed on the Bth of May, and uses other equivocal expressions, whale. taken together, address themselves to Mr. Straw as a communication of the death of his friend Mr. Rowland. Upon the arrival therefore of the property. he proceeds to the distribution of it, as executor, and had actually paid over ona half of it to Mrs. {Val singhont (Nils. DAYIERPORT), a widow, and her daughter /torn et (\lass TAYLOR); when a letter from Portsmouth, very much to his as tonishment, apprises him not only that Mr. Rowland is still,alive, but that he will be in town instantly. Mrs. lfralsinghant was in the bus tle of new arrangements, new establishments, and new equipages, when the mistake is communicated to her, and she faints of course. Been rering, at length, from the shock, the executor and the widow lay their heads together ; and it is agreed, that Mr. Rowland shall he tempted to take up his abode at the house of Mrs. Walsinglow, where he might probably fall in love with Ilarriet, and thus obviate the difficulty of re-paving the money, part of which had been actually expended. Mr. Rowland arrives at an inn, and so dues a Mr. Rattletrap HlussEcti, from the Baltimore Theatre, who is mistaken by Straw, when he waits upon him at the inn, for Mr. Rowland. He is treated accordingly, and, imagining that all this attention is paid to him from the reports of his pmfesaional talents, he feels flattered, closes with the invitation to Mrs. IVaLisicliam's, and has almost succeeded in obtaining the blush ing consent ot the widow herself; when Mr. Rowland, who from a va riety of circumstances imagines that a plot is laid to talk about his death and rub hint of his property, eventually makes himself known. An delaircitsentent takes place, the mistakes are rectified, and /farrier is married to a nephew of Mr. Roseland, an artist, who was smitten by her as she was sitting to him for leer portrait. JON Es has a rattling character, very suitable to him, as a legatee, and is very hard to be con vinced that Mr. Rowland is tent really dead. Mrs. GillaB plays the bar maid at the tavern very eifectively ; the landlord of which tavern GM's, lilt does not succeed, he can" turn it into a Bazaar."—Mr. Rww- Inild, who is rather an amorous old gentleman, calls the baranaid a roguo—and she says " she's at the Bar !" " She takes romplimenta and gives change, :end receives a good deal of French coin both ways." TO/ELY plays Mr. /G .eland's servant, who is distressed capon his re turn to England to Lind the streets widened, a relation grown rich, and • variety of other alterations taken place. What with the g,lty and easy flow of the dialogue, set off by the admirable acting, this little piece was given out for repetition with universal applause, and we have no doubt will bring a plentiful harvest to the Theatre. EATON THE PEDESTRIAN. The crowd that assembled at Blackheath on Saturday se'nnight, to witness the completion of the performance of this surprising individual, exceeded any thing of the kind heretofore seen. Numbers of cliks, ba touches, &c. of persons of distinction, were . up to facilitate the Pedestrian's course, and he acoomplished his undertaking amidst boundless plaudits.—ln order, as we betbre stated, to convince the spectators that his vigour remained unabated, he walked an additional mile with perfect ease—a nobleman present afterwards took Eaton and his children into his barouche, intending to drive them round the course ; but the impatience of mul titude to testify their feelings upon the occasion induced them to take the horses from the barouche befbre it had got half way round, and draw it with acclamations to the I fare and Billet ; where the Pedestrian, decorated with laurel aid ribbons, was received by his friends. After a short time, he mounted a balcony in front of the Hare and Billet, and, in a brief and modest address, re turned thanks for the protection and favour he had so li berally experienced. He also took occasion to propose undertaking, without any delay, another task of walking 60 miles a day for 10 successive days, fur a subscription : or, by himself and son, a child under six years of age, to 'walk 80 miles a day for the same time—the child to walk 20 miles each day. . . Many of those present gave the pedestrian handsome marks of favour; among whom we remarked the celebrated Romeo Coates, who put down a sum of money, accom panied by an address to the multitude. Much of Eaton's success is to be attributed to the ex ertions of Mr. Robinson, a gentleman residing at the Heath, who, throughout the pedestrian's feat, afforded him every assistance and protection against the numerous attempts made to impede him in his u..-lertaking. The Dublin Critics have designated Mr. Liston the irresistible Liston. The epithet is not meant to apply to his beauty. One of the Parisian Theatres, the Ant/ ign Comique, has procured a successful Melo-drame, entitled Bok.v/as; aw, les Ruines de fillohayr: It presents a wonderful combination (my the Parisian Editors) of all that can please the spectators in this way; via. Assassination, suicide, storm, battles of all kinds, explosion, Ike. &c. &c. All our jolies,fenones are eager to see Boleslas." Sir W. Burroughs, we hear, has discovered a new and easy mode of finding the longitude at sea and hind, from an observed altitude of the moon's enlightened limb, taken about three or four hours before or after her passing the meridian. Ile practised it, we understand, during his Lite voyage from 'Milli with the utmost success TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. POETRY. LINES IN ANSWER TO " HINTS TO FARMERS." If the Farmers their daughters put under the cow, And the eons must do nothing but follow the pie/444 Let the Tradesmen themselves to their counters confine. And give up their dashing, theirportire, and trine; Let the ides their [mirk: and .figlies forego, And lire as the worthies did ceneries ago ! Why front farmers alone expect reformation ? When alike 'its required from all ranks in the nation. LAURA. ON THIS RAINY MONTH. To name this month his own, great Caner chose; The one it merits now is, Pluviose. •NOTIIER. All ye may ape your stores without delay, Who hoarded them against a rainy dry. I MPRO PIT% flow arts improve in this inspiring age, Peers mount the box, and horses tread the stage; While waltzing females, with unblu.shiug face, Disdain to dance hut in a ntan's embrace. How arts improve when :Modesty is dead, Aud Sense and Taste are, like our Bullion, fled ! A Clergyman in the West, who had unfortunately quarrelled with his parrishoners, )iad lately the misfortune to hare a shirt stolen from the hedge where it Long to dry, and he posted hand bills offering a reward for the discover , : of the offender. Next morning the following lines were found written at the foot of the copy stuck against the chinch-door Some thief has stol'n the parson's shirt, To skin nought could be nearer; The parish will give Five flu, Iced Pounds To him that steals the wears'. The following is the subject of* raricatnre that has appeared in Park :—Marshal Sachet is looking with an air of contempt on his new truncheon ( Buten de Marechan ornamented with ►he ,etude lye ; you see his old one buttoned under him. coat, and pressed to his heart, with one of the ends peeping out, on which is the imperial eagle : in the back ground are seen, on one side, Tarragona, and on the other side Bedouin in flames; under neath are the two tim couplets of a popular song made against the rebel army of the Loire : TRANSLATION. From the hanks of the Loire I ant come, A robber right fiutious in story; Twice my King I betrayed, Sir, but—mums 'Twits all from the passion of glory. Your Bayards, Dugueselins, and stuff, Are names at which sickens my heart; My motto is, Mandrin the bluff. Grim eartouche, and the grand Buonaparte. HACKNEY-COACH ACT. As we see by the daily reports from the Police-offices that much ignorance prevails as to the regulations of hackney coacbes, anti that thus fraudulent drivers are continually at tempting the most barefaced impositions, we think we cannot do better than re-publish un abstract from the principal fea tures of the last Hackney-coach Act. The Act consists of ten clause', of which the fidlowing are the most important:- - Clause 3. The driver of a hackney-chariot is compellable to carry three grown persons without any addition to the fare. 4. The usual additional fares are allowed upon driving into the country; with this exception. that in the day Gnu no addition is allow ed except the distance be four miles front town, and then at the rate of6d. for every mile above four. 6. The driver of hackney-coaches wherein any pmperty, is left, shall carry such pmperty, in the state in which it was found. within four days, to the hackney--coach other, and deposit the same with one of the clerks, under a penalty not exceeding 214. 7. No agrenteent to pay more than the regular fire is Muting: any person may, twkrithstandbyT such agreement, refuse to pay more than the established tare: anti it he pays more, he may recover the over. play, the driver bring subject to the penalty of 31. for non-payment. 8. Hackney-coachmen, who leave their coaches unattended, whether hired or ma, are liable to a penalty not exceeding al. 9. Drivers must not refuse a fare, althongh they may have been nut 12 hours: no more than the regular fare is allowed on such occasions. tn. Hackney-coachmen, watennen, he. liable to a fine and impri sonment for abusive language, he.: the penalties of funucr acts con tinue in force. One of the Paris Papers states, that M. Fournier, a physician of Lyons, attributed the present inclemency of the weather to the death of 11w moon. which he says has lately experienced an attack of apoplexy ! The learned Physician also asserts that the sun is sick, which ac counts fin. the paleness of his countenance!!—The Jour nal which announces this, very gravely adds a perha l o, that all this sickness exists only in the brain of the Phy sician. In France, as well as in this country, and generally throughout Europe, the prediction of the mad Italian Prophet, relative to the end of the world, had produced great dread in the minds of sonic—so that they neglected all business, and gave themselves up entirely to despon dency. The Ilath Paper says, that " a maiden lady, who resides in a village in Somersetshire, was deeply affected at the expected approach of a second chaos, and had taken great pains to impress the younger branches of the tinni ly with similar apprehensions. The latter however laugh ed at her folly, and were severely rebuked for their unbe lief: On Thursday morning, between six and seven o'clock a girl, eight years of age, got out of bed, and ran to the lady's chamber, crying out—Anat„luni, the World's at an End ! These words struck so much terror into the mind of the lady, that she has not spoken since; and on Friday morning, she remained in a state of insensibility!" An elopement from Tunbridge Wells took place last week ; the parties, Miss Elira Ann Pattie, only child of a deceased servant of the East India Company, and a young gentleman named Wakefield, about 19, nephew of the Chancery Barrister of that name. The young lady is possessed of a fortune of 50,0001. anti is a Ward of Chancery; where the affitir is to be investigated, at the instance of the young lady's mother. Capt. R. Dacres has resiped his situation as Governor of the Royal Naval Asylum at Greenwich. MEDICINAL SPRINGS NEAR LONDON. Tile Medicinal Springs of Dulwich and Sydenham, which were about half a century since in such estima tion as to be a common resort from London, are now entirely relinquished, but they might probably be re called, as the same soil remains through which they then ran. At that time, when the Green Man, °pp°. site Dulwich Grove, was a house of general assembly, the water was served in the same manner as it is now at Tunbridge or Cheltenham) ; this wits lust when that house VI .is sold, with the a Ilioihitig tii ids, info private hands; and Sylentiain has continued to ptC , VrVP lII.' prinvi in small tidies sunk in the earth near the little cottages tinder the hill, to which, until very lately, it yielded a trilling emolu ment. The water of the neighbourhood retains the quality an a lesser &glee, in general 6,0 feeble as not to be noticed in the usual beverage, but it is iteeifflarly obnoxious tio iron, and therefore iron pipes fur all the wells ate avoided, Hat the beauty and healthiness of the neighboin nig (-manta) mould a third great encouragement for a specidation of that Lim', if the short distance f town did not operate as a drawback, oil the virtue of these salts, as it would preclude the pleasure of a distant journey, which alwass furnishes the greater pais of the proposed remedy and the judicious arrangement of assembly-rooms, and theatrical entertainments, including late hours in the evening, which are happily combined for all the faintly, with the absolute necessity of one member of it trawl. ling to take the waters, might if found necessary for their rut, e recovery, be readily established, with a circidating literary for a tummy; but without billiards or raffles. It is very rentart,- . able that senative s p r i ngs o f t hi s kind surround London; anti are. on that very account neglected. The Titiibiidge waters have been taken fur many years past, at a tea-house near the Spa-fields, now discontinued; the saute spring has been als s served at a place near Gray's lein-road, called St. Chat's,. soul at liagnigge Wells. An open well has for ages been resorted to for eyes, both at the Spa-fields, and the, postern nu Tow er hill ; and yet we have not heard of any physician who has lately recommended it to his patients, to take the short jouruev to these places ; though they all, in times past, had aeguirett great use and celebrity. Whatever is easily attaillabie and near home has no value, and excites u. interest; and absence from London in the leisure months of the year, is of Blare im portance than recovery at home at an unfashionable time. A General Meeting of the Association for the relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring poor, is advertised to be held to morrow at the City of London Tavern, f or th e p urpose o f coo s sidering the most beneficial way of giving assistance to such Associations as may be formed fur the relief of tho: e parts of the country which at pre.ent are sidlering most severely under the pressure of temporary distress. The Duke it V ork Witt take the chair ; and the meeting, it is expected, will be most revert:tidy and numerously attended. The Lord Mayor of London arrived at South-End on Tuesday, on his route for Rochester. Four hundred tickets had been issued, and about :200 gentlemen and la. dies of the first respectability sat down to an excellent dinner at the Royal Hotel ; and in the evening there was a most splendid ball. The dancing commenced at eleven, led air by Alderman Heygate and Miss Wood, and was kept up until six o'clock on the following morning. Most of the neighbouring families were present ; and the bril liancy of the room was much added to by the attetrimee of a great number of naval and military officers front Sheerness. The Carnival of London is nearly at an end—a very few Nobility attached to the Court remain in town—the list of departures in every journal of fashion is as much lengthened as it was in their arrival two months since. The winter in London begins at the end of May, awl finishes at the end of July , . But the frequent splen dours at the Regent's Palace, the Royal Marriages, and the consequent complimentary visits, with the approach. ing birth-day on the 12th of August, unite to keep up the life of the metropolis, and to encourage the trades and mannfacturc , s and ingenious arts which would other. wise decline at this period. _ _ _ The Marchioness de la Rochejaquelin, in her Me. more of lhr if in La relates the following anecdote while she was at Bressuire:—Two officers en tered into a dispute under our windows in the street. One drew his sabre and touched the other gently, who put himself in a posture of defence. My father, who happened to be near them, stopped his arm, and said to him, " Jesus Christ pardoned his murderers, anti shall a soldier of the Catholic Army kill his comrade ?"—This man immediately embraced the other. Besides this in. stance, I never heard of a duel in our army. The war was so active and so perilous, that no man dreamt of shoving his courage other than against the enemy. By letters of the I Ith of June from Constantinople we learn, that her Royal Highness the Princess of %Vales arrived in that city on the tith of that month. She took up her alasle at the British Palace till a house at Buyuk. dere was fitted up for her reception. On the 9th were presented to the Princess all the Foreign Ministers, and the same evening the British Factory. Shortly another presentation was to take place, to give those an oppor. tunity to be presented who were disappointed on the tin.. mcr occasion. 11cr Royal Highness. sty the letters, con. ducted herself at all times with the greatest affability ; yet in other respects she fitiled to afliml satisfaction to the British merchants; inasmuch as she gave a decided preference in all her dealings to foreigners. She had credit on a Greek house for 40,000 Spanish dollars, when a British house could have accommodated her Royal High. ness as well. Being in want of jewellery, the Princess applied to a Frenchman ; sod she is attended by a Nea. politan Count and two l.adies. At Genoa and Sicily her Royal Highness was well received ; but at Malta. it is said the Governor made the vessel, on board of which her It oyal Higlutes was, perform quarantine iu the strictest mauner.