The National Register. — London, England, 1818-05-10 00:00:00

MAY VI IVerther. This piece is, we inspect, a translation of one of the same title, now performin4 at the Theatre Iks litricles in Paris. Thc idea is a very good one ; for subjects will less stand the test of ridicule, or firm better materials for the mock•lieroie drama, than this extravagant and popular German story. The author has nut failed to seize on its prominent itUsurdities, and to introduce them, either in description or in action. The waltzing with Citarlutte ; the attachment to the thread-bare blue coot he wore at their nweting ; aad the incident of cutting bread and butter for his chit lien arc ludicrously set forth ; the catastrophe is got rid of, by Waffler's shooting his hat instead of hian elf ; when lie appears, and, after reproaching all panics for not interfering atter his ostentatious request Inc pistols is 9 packed ott j in the Munich diligence. The piece was uncommonly well acted ; and Liston, who played Wcrther gave as much effect to it as was possible ; but it was so fiir front being favourably received, that the announcement fhr rcpetitition was nut permitted to be heard. One Lrause may have been, that the allusions were imperfectly understood ; fur this little drama certainly posses.ses merit, though of no very exalted kind. Extract of n letter from Berlin, slated April e 5 : " The wedding of the Princes:a Fredericka, daughter of b u r Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumherland, took place on the 17th inst. and was celebrated with great splendour. The bridegromn, the reigning Duke of Atholt Dessau, is a young man of great promise, aged 24. The marriage party were at the Opera on the 19th when the King conducted the Princess to her seat in tl.e Royal box, amid the plaudits of a most brilliant as a.snablage, the Court being present. On the 21st his Majesty gave a grand masquerade at the Opera-house ; on which occasion the public were treated with every kind of refreshment : and last night the brother of the Princess, Prince Frederick, gave a magnificent ball at splendid residence in William-street, which was lately furnished for his own marriage with the Princess of Berenburg. Next week the august couple go to Potsdam, whence, after some farther festivities, they will proceed about the Ist of May for Dessau, the residence of the Prince." A fact, not stated in the Supplementary Gazette of Tuesday, respecting the affairs of India, but which transpired a fortnight since, is now confirmed by the latest intelligence from the East. We allude to the dreadful pestilence which prevailed in the camp of the Governor-General. On the first day on which it was observed distinctly, it curried off 97 persons ; on the next day above 500 perished. Its ravages are said to have been chiefly, though not exclusively, confined to the poorer classes of natives and camp-followers ; but we learn with regret that the Marquis of Hastings was himself ut one time afikted with this malady, and that 17 of his lordship's native servants died. When the accounts came away, however, hopes were enter tained that the progress of the disorder bad been ar rested. At a recent meeting of the Catholic Boerd in Dub lin, a letter from the Earl of Dononghmore was read, in which he advises the Catholic Body not to again bring forward their question in Parliament, without a full and previous assurance of the attendance and sup port of it:: friends. Tuesday, the Church Missionary Society held their Alerting at Freemasons' Hall, which, at an early hour, was crowded to excess, and hundreds retired fA' want of room. The Chair was taken by Lord Gam bier; after which the n:ceting wc re addressed in seve ral interesting speeches by the venerable Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Gloucester, Dr. Thorpe ; James Stephens, ‘V, Wilberforce, T. Babington, Evs. &c. &c. After which a liberal collection uas made for the So ciety. It was announced that 2151. had been collected after a sermon by Professor Farish in the morning, and that the funds had increased to an unprecedented extent ever since the Opposition made by the Archdeacon of Bath. The .revenue for the last year is 23,7001. The meeting closed with the whole assembly standing up rmd singing the 117th Psalm. FINE ARTS.—The beautiful collection of pictures by the moat celebrated masters of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish and Dutch schools, brought together by •the directors of the British Institution, was on Monday submitted to public inspection. Of the paintings in this exhibition, a large number deserve to be placed in the first rank of the art. We can only particularize a few of them. Of several hindseupes by Claude, in his best style, we give the prefezence to No. 131, Worshipping tier Mallen Cali No. 85, by Cuyp, Fielv ore a Rivet is one of the finest pieces we have ever seen by this master. No. 116, by Bubetts, ..11ar:at Pr0p! , ..., is a painting distinguished by uncommon richness and beau ty : and No. 48. a Vandyke, his ow,: ~ .);•irai.t in .y.ia rc:eter of Paris, is.esquisitelv finished. The pieces of Raphael, Guido, Titian, Salvator Rosa, and other names little inferior to them, tbrra :out grumble cf this collection. The Duke of Sussex coca down to Bath, to the de dication of the Masonic hall baildiag in that city. A Grand Ole is to be sung oa Cu: eccasics, i s to . .tot composed by Bishop. TIM NATtONAL RAMMER. LORD ICINY.IIRD'3 MEMOIR, ADDRESSED TO THE FRENCH CHAMBER OF PEERS The following is the Memorial which accompanied the ter of Lord Kineniril to the French Chamber of Peers : "On the t9th of January last, n Preneltrinn . . whom I wt at Brussels, rtsittest,vi Remission to e tti upn 14- tl'.! !ay loauwittir, to sp:ak to we on un atE& of inv,r.ut4.wet. With Oaken:m:l4l'l4:li lia,! rte conversation detailed in eic !emu., addrestrd t y ue to Geto,:;al Murray, the translation of whx.i fullowet— - •6 ' brussels, Jan. W. ISIB. " It is after having cenpultel the Duke of itiehmo.ul, that ememunicete M you the sollowity tact :—A rreach of waval 1 know but little, called upon e tnis morniug sod told me that three of his frien d s wished to return to Frecce , if they couki tie It with sefety I they are two liters:, eharst:ters eed an oiliees a the partisaes, who 3'9 under the sentenee of a l'sevutal Court. He asked me if I thought it woell be possible to interest the Dttke of Wetli'l4ton in tnelr Etvoar anseered him. that I did ant think 13. for tee d icaioni--:2tz first, because I did not te.appor,e that he would interefere in it.; and the second. be.caetee 1 did not perceive any motive for revestin4 him co do so. He asked me it I um:44kt lie remit I request tees of 51. de Cazee, by revealing to lain a conspiracy • Mike tnreetened the Duke's life; I unsweriel, that a service of this nature would certainly give him a clams to his attention, but that it was very difficult to induce the Duke to pay ally attention, to menaces of an auk upon his person, and that it would requ'aed strong evidence to remove the natural suspicion that the whole was an invention to further some prieete views. lle replied Mat, as far as be himself was concerned. he had nothing to ash, as he was definitively candenmed for the part that. he ilia:wird; that, more over, he was free from restraiet, Led !brunet outer plans, and Led no desire to return to France; that he was only tuelitted to divulge the conspiracy from the horror with which airtassination inspired him, anal tl:at the orly advaresee he wished to derive from it was to render a service to his friends. I enquired of him how he ob tained informatior. of the projected conspiracy: he said that an of (1 believe on half.pay), whom he had from time to time sup plied with the mcani of subeiq.ance, had eutinuunieated to him an O'er which had been made to Ititu SJllle mouths previotiely to carry it into execution, which he had refultel, and another individual had ccepted it; that the latter had been paid during four months by those who employed him : that he had been the whole of that time constantly watching the Duke wherever he went, and he was at the : motorist eete'oliehed to l'arL, where he waited his arrival. The per son who . gave me this infernuition added, the blow is meditated by a party which is totally ditfierent from that whose caw: I have opousee., and is even opposed to it. I then told him that I would without delay impart. what he had related to me; but I desired to know by what means he proposed to expose the plan, or at all events to pre vent the afters ut it immediately; he answered that there were two methods of doing it; that he neve: would.conseet to be the instru ment of bringing any one to putifelunent. and that he was not in a position to do so.; but that it wuule be iuipseseilile for him to repair to France without a special passport ( sauficoedeit), and that it he could procure one Irvin the Police etinister. or the Duke of he would return thither ; that this would suffee, and in twenty four hours lie woad cermiuly denounce the pereon, whom the lichee could bare ho difficuLy in recognizing as an ad venturer, and a foreigner, of which they would afterwards be convinced ; that if this meaetiec was not approved, he would cedes. your to learn Item a trirud the which the wretch had assumed, and, if possible, has description, sufficiently exact to be useful, al though it was to be feared, that he would render this last difficult, by means of disguising himself. This is what he has agreed to pet. form. If I can obtain .t froin him before the departure ot the courier, I will Miarinunleate it to you. " ' Such has been the subject of our conversation, the details of which are of a nature to induee ins to give this rectal credit enough to convince me of the necessity of instantly inforeitne you. It is for you to decide whether it is requisite to inform the Duke of it. It it be judged expedient to forwent the passports, I will endeavour to ac celerate the cepartare of the person by tee diligence, without losine an instant. I rio not perceive what advantage this individual wculd derive trees inventing such an alter. winch would place him in the hands of Cie police daring the whole time he might be Se Paris, and whose only ultimate advantage would consist in the favour granted to his friends. " • At sll events, have the goodness to answer me very promptly, I send this letter to Maubeuge, because I think, should you be absent from Canabra), that this is me best coarse. I sin, 6:e. (Signed) " • KINNAIRD.' On the 13th Feb. I received the answer of Gtu. Murray, who announced to me that the Duke of Wellington did not attach any importance to the news; that he himself conceived the report to be a perfidious contrivance (unc at(rappe), but he thought. then I should blame myself (as others would ZWIIIISe me), if any misfortune hap pened, tot too much reserve on my part, in not naming the person nom whom I received the communication. _ . . .. . - ... •• I then wrote a secutul letter to General Murray, of whieb the following is a copy : " ' Brussels. Feb. 13, 1618. " ' Your letter. dated the sth inst. wa:otily deliverul to we this evening. I had anticipated the manner in wnich the Dukcj would receive the communication; but I thought, and still think, that it was my duty to impart it. lam much pleased to observe that you, who are a much better Magi: ihau .thyself in these attiiirs, should eonsi,ier that the proisbil' ides of the information being a snare arc as 99 to 1. " • I have but very little knowledge of the per:on in question, but if I had nut thought Nita wcrthy of ,orne confidence, or rather, it I had not considered that the evidence whi.:ll was offered me, me; capable of undergoing a safe and immediate investigation, 1 certainly would not have :critter) to you on this subject. '• If I properly interpret the concluding part of your letter, lam compelled toddler with you in opinion, and even to believe that you have net understood my first communication. You appear to hclicve that I shah reproach inpant with haying acted wrong, as it napea:s to you that others will ako accuse use of the same, it an attempt were to take place at this inu,uent, because I have not given the name of the individual who cillkred himself to convince you of the truth of his deJaiations: if I do not deceive myielf, I have told you that this man (who cannot enter France without a previous guarantee of enure safety for has person) Las offered to depart for Ran. , *with any person you will appoint, and wamake known to you, in forty-tight hours,.the individual :iota whoi there is every thing to year, without requiring any recompence. or any other advantages than a safe eon duct which should Le tarnished him ; and that the intervention of the Duke would no: be looked for until the conspiracy altould be dis covered. •• • As I do not perceive that this individual could promise him self any advantage, as you very jast!y remark, from the contrivance of this design, and that a journey to Faris under the direction of the police could produce him no benefit, I red-ard the guarantees which he offers as suillcient, and I think it rea.soui.ble enough, that lie re taus at the same dine to make known his residence to the police of France, on account of persecutions, whielt he would have but too mu .:1) reaon to dread. • • In other relpeetg, whatever you mzy flank of it, my confidence perfretle traugml; only if any misfortune clip U ittyptu, tuy re. Fret will be eternal. •• • Nevertheless, your indgment. I repeat it, on the little credit which ought to be givcit tothe,e de:ice:tricot, is well cal; elated to lc ditluietutle, and 1 teed no other regret than Mat which is occasimwd by the preeipitoe reflections you have imtulgcil cst i t re rself in, on my silence, re,pectiog the name, when the mon who it offers himself, through my interposition. to give up his per son to your hand::, ou theemgle condition that his return to Brussels be guaranteed. •• • Believe me, &i. (Signed) •• • NN A BD.' " • M. liarinet, Auditor of the Council of State, annietnned to death far emtianuce, to lbl i, by the Pzevotal Conti of Dion. LAW INTELLIGENCE. 149 COURT OP KING'S BENCH, g -ATURDAY, MAY Z. RIOT TR DISTURB A DISSONTINCI CONGREGATION. The Rev. W. Eastm, J. Gerrard, R. Handal!, G. Lever, J. Trowbridge,W. Ford, J.White, and mod lieros ere brought up to receive the jedgment ut the Court, having been foetid goiltY at the Sitiishurs Assizes, heft re Mr. Justice Holroyd, ofa riot with Intent to distorts a dissenting congregatitm, asseic. bled fur the purposes of religions worship, in a house duly ii reused, at tt•tcy, ou the 51,1 of December, The Learned Judge read the notes which he took at the trial, front which it appeared that a numerous muff hail re ,. se/art/led at the front of W. Hetes cottage, at Anstcy, in which the Rev. Mr. Hopkins was preaching on the evening its question, where they commenced dariciug, whistling. singing. blowing row horns, shaking sheep belts, and makieg other noises, und t h at the defentlents were present, aidingan o t assistin r therein; that these disturbances prevented the pussi- Litity of perforining Divine service on that awl other occa sious.—Rutt's house being duly liccured, ti►e present prose cution was brought to prevent interruption in future. Mr. Easu n ►'s affidavit was put in cud read; in whieli stated. that ho had been upwards of Sd years, curate ut k:... stet'. lie Kati lived in friendly communication with the former dissentiug preachers, who had officiated oct•asionally tit tle . On the day in question. lie was going down to the house of the defendant Gerrard, respecting some books fur a Sunday school ,and knew nothing of the meeting its question; wlirtststfflr. Gerrard's house,several of the parishroste rsessue and compla i edofthe interruptiontheyhait received front the dimple r's nee r Butt's home : this induced them to go to the spot, when a person named Jay, a friend of Hopkins, cause up to him, and asked who Ise was. Mr. Easton said 1w was tLeclergyntan of the parish. Jay teplied," You the clergyman of tb•• parish Ifyou are you do not preach the Gospel." This address and other similar expressions did irritate him ; and he confessed he did not use all the exertions l►e migkt have done to repress the noise made by Iris parislsioner s, who wcte dancing out what was denoinimited the daucu►g 'dace, lie ir Butt's cot tage , lit now notch regretted having [wear thus betrayed by his feeling into an oujostitialtle impropriety of coutluct,whiela he never ceased to lament. He had now been for thirty year. Alinister of the Gospel,. bail [nought up a family of ten children, never having hail au income of more than 881 per tantrum, till within the last twelve months, except the ocea slonal aid he had recoived front the benevolent donations of charitable persons to clergyman with coutined incomes, from time to time. Withiu the last twelves months, however, he had been presented to a living of 1201. Suave the trial, he had made application to the prosecutors of this indictment, who were, he understood, a society in LOllllOll, to know what he could do to satisfy them. The answer returned was, that nothing short 01 4 public apology in the newspapers would be accepted. This was a degradation which lu• trusted their Lordships would consider lee was justified in refusing to undergo, anti he hod rather preferred throwing him/ellen the mercy and the justice of their Lordships. The affidavit of Gerrard was also read in which he stated, that he had acted without any premeditation, and greatly regretted whathe bad done ; that he had since trial alsoapplivl to the prosecutors for mercy. the terms held out to Irina were to pay all the eapeusca of the prosecution, to give 2tol. to the Salisbury 'Wino:try, to make a public apolo : zy in the newspapers, and to enter into sureties to appear tor joilginenr, when called on. These were terms he was nut able to com ply with, and he applied for come modification of them; and the answer he received was an order to attend to receive judgment. Affidavits were put in front all the defen•lants, expressing their contartion, and affidavits to their character were also read. Ou the part of die prosecution, tire affidavits of the Rev, Mr. Hopkins and of J. Hutt, weir: put iu , stating that an at tempt to pert:um Divine service was made on the Otti of Much, :it Butt's cottage, hut continual interruption was giseu (torn without, and no attempt has since been made to perform Divine service in Anstey. '1 iie Court then proceeds d to give its judgment ; and after commenting 011 the various cireuntitalices of the case whirls their Lordships observed Were not of an agelavated nature, it 1101 aiolitArilla there was any thing preme.iit.tted on the part either of Mr. Easton or of Alr. Gerrard, adjusted that Enciou should pay a fine of 51,; Gerrard of Wi.; and that azets should enter into a reeagnizAuce iu Lt) 1. to keep the peace fur three years; and saw other SeVell tielelol4/1101 should pay a fine of Is. each, sud enter .1110 reeoglli7:lllee In 3VI, e.mil for the Sallie period. This &age, and illey Were Jia. MONDAY. HAMILTON V. The plaintiff in this ease. had broitgla on net;en against Mr. Bell, the proprietor of I ire Wee/ay Di.spolch, for a iitott on her character, had appeared in his paper. Mr. Gurney, on a former do, nbtailtell a role to anew cause why the plaintiff should not give security for auy costs that miabt .ierrne, on the groan.' that she was a married wonian t lis is :wart trim her husband, without whose coast:at the action had been brought. Mr. Justice Was it not net forth in the defend aid's affidavit, that the plaintiff is a married woman;" Mr. Citrucy--" Yes, my Lord ; and it is also sworn by a respectable individual, that he had seen her husband since ibis action was ..!0.1U1111:11e Lord Elienborough—•• Ir• a verdict should ho found for tlao defendant, ho oi could he recover cot The 1,a , 1y in that case, wove for it Will of error, and zr.oid the vt men: of coots." • Their Lordships were unanituougly of opinion, that the plaintiff should give security for auy roar., Otat ought be in.. currcd from the present day.—ltisle mule al,' o;ate. WE!!M>O V. JEWISH SIINAGOGUES..—LAZAHWO AN th OTHERS sYMONS. This was an action fur the usr and Leriyatinn of rertitini seats rented by the defendant and his sots, in iii. Jewisit nagogue, Denmark-cone t, Sit - Ansi, and ids° Corr certain reli% giuus uflerings tine to the 6) nagugue, the whuie demand be ing fur theaUIII of Mr. Scw..let cutitinetett the case fur the plaintiff, and Mr. Mat rout fur the ilefentLiut. . . _ Vtiee4Pl' eXeliCti AtIIIIC ititere,t, from the insight it afforded into An n i e rlf Ibe cnvtonci and cerets u lIIt oi the Synagogue. and ail() en account et Ilse lin t iutl..ince ...I the qnestion to We Jewish part of the king's subjects. It appeared in evidence, that the plaintstrs and several others twine of whom aresince dead) hail become lessees of tile Synagogue in question, in the year 1127, for a term ut 2tl yea's. The defendant and his son had occupied two seats in the Synagogue, the forrusr tar three years, at 21. 2s. an 1 the latter for two years, at 188.6.1. per Auouas, cad] occupat,pa