The National Register. — London, England, 1820-01-24 00:00:00

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Cons. for Ac. 681 Lottery Tteket% x 23 2s. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Lennon. MONDAY. JANUARY 24. The Paris Papers of Sunday have arrived. Their eonteuts are important, as manifesting a spirit of independence in the Chamber of Deputies, that must make a very stron'g and favourable impression throughout France. The Ministers, much too confident in their strength, are determined ou pro-. posing and carrying the project of a law for altering the Law of Elections. Against this measure, peti tions have been presented from various departments, but these were treated by the Ministerialists with ridicule, because they were only signed by about 20,000 persons. The Opposition, however, con tended, that they were fortified by the Constitution, as any alteration in the Law of Election wouhl be a direct violation of the Charter.—These petitions were referred to a Committee, and a report having been drawn up, M. Mestadier, as the Chairman, presented the report, and endeavoured to show that the petitions were prepared by the factious, a cant phrase, in fact, in most countries, applied to those who propose measures not perfectly in unison .with the projects of Miuisters, however arbitrary or hos tile these latter may be to the feelings of the people. The recommendation of the Committee, to whom these important petitions were referred, was, that the Chamber should pass to the Order of the Day. Upon this motion an animated debate took place, and was continued till the following day, when the Ministers, on a division, had only a miserable majo rity, with all their influence, of fire. This was decidedly a defeat, as there was never Wont so numerous a Meeting of Deputies. The nnmber that voted was 229,, and the whole Chamber con sists only of 1253 Members. The announcement of the numbers was received with acclamation by the strangers present, but the popular ebullition was silenced by a threat of their being turned out. Should the Minister persist, he will Lind - himself in a minority, and therefore he must abandon his place or his plan. The Opposition, at all events, have gained a triumph worthy of so good a cause. The great work of charity goes on in France, but not so.estensixely as with. us in England. The Duchess of Artgottleme has sent. 1,000 francs to the Protestant Cousistory of the Augsburg Confession, to be distributed amongst their poor during this rigorous season. The Duke of Angoulense has also sent a donation of 1,000 francs in aid of the poor of the first arrondissement of Paris ; and the Com pany of Canals in that city have determined, that the product of the tolls taken from skaiters on the Canals, shall be distributed-among the poor of La Vilette, in bread, meat, fuel, clothing, and money. The Paris Papers of Saturday last are almost entirely oc‘upied with reports in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday. A number of reports were brought up from the Committees. on Petitions; among others, a report on one hundred and thirty nine Petitions, sigtal by 19,07 individuals, all praying that no change might be permitted in the Charter un the Law of Elections. These Petitions gave rise to an animated, if not an angry discussion. Pasquier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, as Minister at the King, pronounced them unconstitutional, and .: THE NATIONAL /tEGISTER. as a Deputy, moved the Order of the Day. M. IN. Cevelles spoke against the alterations proposed in the Law of Elections by Ministers, which he pro nounced not a reform, but u total subversion of the Charter. It was not only the present Petitioners, but Thirty Millions of Petitioners, he said, would remonstrate ag,ainst the measure. Other Deputie. , spoke in favour of the Petitions, and others against them, and after some further debate, the proposition of M. do Chavelin, for the adjournment of the dis cusion to the following day, was adopted, and the Chamber adjourned accordingly. An expedition was under orders to sail forthwith from Cadiz, with reinforcements to the army on the Spanish Main, consisting of La Legere, .4 L guns; the Arethusa, of SG; the Hercules, of f 22 ; and the Ilyrena, of 16 guns. They were ordered to be at sea within one week at farthest, front- the ‘2311 ult. Accorttng to adviees from Madrid, of the 3d inst., Btigadier Vargas, Secretary to the Board of General Inspection of the Militia,• and Captain Dominguez, one of the Clerks in the same department, have been arrested on suspicion of having been concerned in the fabricated orders, issued some time since for calling out the Militia.. The yellow fever has en tirely disappeared at Cadiz and its neighbourhood, and the only deaths which have lately taken glace are attributed to common disorders. . TIIE DUKE or KENT.—It IS with reg ret we lay before our readers the. following bulletins of the state of his Royal Highness's health, from the last of which it appears that on Thursday morning his Royal Highness was .e,otseiderubly worse, and his danger much increased:— Woo!brook Cottage, Sidmouth, Jan. IS, MO, 9, a.nr: — His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent experienced last night sonsideratile increase of his complaint, but we tintl.his Royal Iligbnclas somewhat better this morning. (Signed) J. WILSON. M.D. W. 6. MATON, M.D. Woolbrook Cottage. Sidmouth, Jan. 19, ISM 8, P.M. Ills Royal Highness the Duke of Kent has had some com fortable sleep, and is at present in a more favourable state. (Signtal) ore 1 M.D. W. G. SIATON, M.D. Sidmouth, Devon, Jan. go, 1820, 1, A.M. Since the date of our last Report, his Royal Diglines. the Duke of Kent is become much worse, and his danger is COUbi doubly increased. (Signed) J. WILSON. M.D. W. G. MATON, M.D. We have just received the Bulletin of Thursday evening, 8, P.m., which, we regret to say, holds out no promise of amendment in his Royal High ness's health• . Iris reported on the Stock Exchange, that it is the intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to fund seven or eight millions of the Exchequer bills, and by prevailing on the Lank to hold over the sum for which he stands. pledged, to enable him to go on with the same temporising system .as he has hithetto acted on, for another year, by merely tak ing-twelve milkons from -the sinking fund. Exche quer bills have now been done at a premium, after a lapse of many -months, but not exceeding one shilling. This chews the continued abundance of money in the city, which is even greater than at the beginning of the week; but the funds are, notwithstanding, neurly . one per cent. lower The appmaching time, when the bank will be compelled to pay their notes in. bullion, in duces a number of individuals to sell large quan tities of stock, under the idea that a considerahle scarcity moeey will- arise from this circumstance. We have received a Jamaica Cunrani of the Bth of November, from which ..we extract the following articles of intelligence : • nWe learn by recent accounts fram Carthagcna, that an American.schooner bad arrived at that port after a short passage from Porto Bello, and cum municated inforniation that the Patriot prixitteer, which had been. off Panama, had proceeded.. from.. thence, and that there was a free ingress into the port fin- trainers; she also states, that a packet had arrived with letters from- Lima, saying, that the Spanish vessels of war from Cadiz had arrived off tile port of Callao, anti two Vatriat privateers which j annoyed the Royalists' vessels, immediately made ofli I Information is derived from the Victory, of Lord I Cochrane having taken s brig, culled the Rose, 1 , from Lima hound to Panama, with 400,0 W-dollar« on board. General Ilore, on to ulersivaiding th.s i I ir c uinstance, sent the information to Captai4l uf the Sapphire, at the t.we is ing in the Ria Cha ~ ers to ropiest that he would send and demand the restoration of the vessel, which his Lordship refused to deliver up, saying, that British vessels should never be a cover for ao enemy's property." THEATRICALS. ......5.... COVENT GAhLsiN THEATRE. The young La.ly, Miss Wensell, who made a very favouroble impression by her interesting per fOrmanee of Rosalind, in .4 You Like 11. on Thurs day night appeared as Beatrice in the Comedy of Much Ado about Nothing.. The countenance here warm extended to this young Lady, has had the good efket of apparently giving her more complete command of herself; as we did not on this occasion perceive any overwhelming timidity. We have before spoken of the advantages of countenance and person possessed by her ; we might say, to adopt language from the play—" Were she other than what she is, she were unhandsome." Her action, particularly her active walk, &e. in the earlier scenes, however, where she is pursuing. Benedict . , to teaze and taunt him. did not appear toadvantage It was too broad an attempt ut an independent me. The subsequent scenes, in this respect, were tnuen better. There is soinetking so preposessing in her appearance and manner generally, so lady-like and supesior, that she could not but impart an interest to the character of Beatrice ; and on the whole MISS Wensell played it with good sense and an effect, considering how unused she is to the boards, that entitled her to. the flattering applause with which she was greeted. Mr. C. Kentish: sustained the character of " Benediek, the Married Man," in admirable style, • We have seldom seen him to greater advantage The aesunted heroism of the gallant that flouted at matrimony, was well contrasted by the interest be • evinced when he learned that Bentriceloval him, but would not let him know it. Here he became mere mortal earth ; and although the countenance was overshadowed with an air of melancholy, the rich and gay attire showed that the vulnerable part of BenCdiek was wounded, lie had not escaped heart whole; and the transitions were marked with great skill. We cannot but notice the bad taste with which Don Pedro, Leounlo, and Claudio (Egerton, Conner, and Abbott), relate in the garden, knowing that they are overheard by itemed , ck, hew much he is beloved by Beatrice ; fir each as ha spoke turned his head round toward Benedick, when they ought to have spoken as if they were confidentially speaking to one another. In real iife their plan of proceeding would have defeated their scheme ; it tended to make the plotting tees apparent. The same was the ease too when the ladies practiced a similar trick to entrap Beatrice, by stating that Benalick loved her most earnestly. As nothing was more likely to counteract their own views—to imitate an erroneous example was b.ul. • " .Sigh no more Ladies" was prettily sung by Mr , . Sterling, &e. and it was encored. • That heaviest of all heavy Tragedies, " The Fatal Marriage," was on Saturday night brought krwurd again, for the purpose of introducing a Miss Jersey de Beaumont in the character. of Isabella, Mrs. Siddons was the only woman whose appearance as Isabella could tolerate its representation, and we think it en unpropitionsselection for a debut. Never theless, from the judgment a very short presence in the theatre enabled us to form, - we think Miss (We wish the lady had been announced as Mrs., for she is certainly nearer fifty than krty) Jersey de Be.. u mont may prove an acquisition to the stage at this moment, when there is, from a recent retirement, so great a dearth of taerit in the line she has chosen. —We had closed our observations here had not the extremely fine acting of Mr. M'Cready, as Biron, ' extorted from us an additional line in praise of a degree of excellence we have rarely witnessed in that. character. DRUM LANE THEATRE. _ _ O.' Thurstlaytriglit Mr. Ellistim gate Our prof.!l of the night's periOrmattee to be appropriated to the objects • Of the zealous and meritorious committee presiding over the fund for the relief of permit's destitute of , nightly shelter.—The comedy of the I)ratnatist W 45 perforated on the laudable weasion, with the new panto 11l i ttt e.— • The audience were genteel and numerous, the galleires • and pit in particular were crowded , nowt ithstatitling the very 'rola% ourable weather; and every indisithial present seemed happy in taus contributing to au institution which, the course of a tew days, has done us mush ;mod, and has traced many Littman beings from ptrishisst with cold, or fautishing for want of suit entioce.—Tlis Lord Nia)ior was present. An appropi l ie whin's., writ ! ten by James Thompson, Esti. was reoitail situ' oaten furling by Mrs. West. SINGULAR PIIIV4iOMEN.)!•7.—From Site aucbee Gazelle of New. 18 —During the night of Tuesday last, there.fell, in the toven,ltp of Broughten, on the south shore, so great a kitl:Olity of It hhork der, as completely to cover the ,:ow tvlticit tau then on the ground. A small quantity of !lie powder hats been. brought to town. mid Nlii is analysed. A roller pump, on an improved principle, for which. a patent has been obtained, has for some time p.,st been erected at %Vorcester, for the pur -I.ose of raisin; water from the river Severn into ti.e lirge basin of the Worecster canal, tvhcre it thrt,ws.. up 900 gall n iu a minute.