The National Register. — London, England, 1812-10-18 00:00:00

654 the plot. It appears to have been written in the hope that the Protean skill of MATHEWS, would give it eclat. He is made to personate an Irishman, - 1 Scotch woman, and an Engli.ih old man; The promptness with which he assumes, and the ability with which he sustains each character,'are such, that if the piece had been but tolerable, We abbuld have been anxious for its being kept up; but upon the whole, it has so little merit, that it is impossible to coutema. plate its failure with regret. There is a scene in the first act between LISTON and MIS. DAVENPORT, which was very effective, and which greatly prepossessed the - audience in favour of the piece.- The whole Farce, however, fell very short of this simple. The humour it contained, was lost hi its general dullness, as a pint of wine would be in the Thames-. Perhaps our meaning would be better understood, if we were•to use the comparison made by the celebrated QUIN, of a ir plate of marmalade, co." Two songs were itstroduced, but these, thotigh intended to be comic, and sung by Lis - roN and MATHEWS, did more harm than good . ; and all the talents of the actors could not •ave Schneide rk ns" from a storm of disapprobation, at its close. As Mr. T. DIRDIN is now Prompter at the sister theatre, it might have been expected that this production of his mute would appear at Drury Lane. The Committee owe him a vote of thanks for giving Covent Garden the preference on this occasion, and it is to be hoped they will have sense enough on their part, duly to appreciate grafitude on Al. POLICE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. As APILCTING ITORY.—Two respectable dressed children, a girl Mid a boy, of the ages of ten and eight years, were produced hetore the Magistrates, they having been lett by their mother, the wite of a , country inn-keeper, at the Old White-horse Cellar, without protec tion. It appeared by the statement of the children, that their father kept the Crown Inn at Plymouth, and that he had accompanied them with their mother, to the coach whin arrived at the Old White horse Cellar, on Wednesday afternoon. The mother bent the children to Duke -street, in the neighbourhood, to seek the house of an aunt, and after a fruitless search they returned, when the mother bad fled, and no tidings whatever had been had of her. The situation of the poor childisn excited the compassion of the inn-keeper, who took them underis fostering care. Whilst the story was being re lated, the mother was brought up from St. Giles's watch-house, charged with having been disorderly in the street at midnight, and this was the first tidings of her. Sht had 111. when she left the inn, which was reduced to 41. and she had lost her bonnet, pelisse, &c. It was evident the Unfortunate women laboured under strong mental derangement, and this was farther corroborated by passengers in the coach. To questions put, she gave such answers as an insane person would do, her looks were altogether wild and desponding. Mr Baker, the Magistrate, recommended h,..; to the humanity of the Parish Officers of St. Giles's until 11,:r husband should be informed of the affair, and the proprietor of the coffee- house.. at the Old White horse Cellar, Wok the children under his protection. G. PALMER's celebrated PATINT NEEDLCS.—These HIGHLY arr&IIMID NIEDLES having undergone a further material improve anent, are now brought to the highest state of perfection, and :r is a fact worthy of remark, that since the introduction ,of these yr:lt:able Needles, Ladies have become truly industrious, and do ever maintain, that owing to their great 3uperiority, they must ever be deeme.l the silly MULL. GOO 9 N 'DLLS, deserving the support of all great Nteilel Workers. These Needles are particularly recommended in pactiets, tech containing a small assortment of every useful size, to- 1 * gether forms the most useful ano valuable present ersen:ng the ac ceptance of the industrious fair sex. As many attempts are daily made at other houses hi Town in offering common Ncedles in cases in imitation, the public are requested to observe, none are the improved. patent but those obtained from the original Proprietor and only llaliu- lecturer, at No. 10, Sr. issue: ST:et ; Wheje also will be found a far superior quality of pi of equal merit. To MILICH•PiTS, CAPTA telt, and others, who Are in the habit of exporting Needles, may rest assured, the superior merit of these ar iclt3 will not only prose deserving their attention, but must always be a valuable acquisition on the Continent, apdipiyr etkipietigiable to sliaustet of a &Weal bitatiufacturer. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. OCT.- Isl. MOST MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. [FROM .A CORRESPONDENT On - Yriday morning, the 2d ihst. between the hours of one and two, the son of Mr. Jacob Joseph, of 13, Sorwrset -street, who is not quite sight years old, called to the servant and his brother, with when h e slept to the attic story, and told them his rather and mother were murdeted, and begged them to make t reit escape. The beivaw dew sired him to go to sleep b'.tt the child, still positive that he lent heard his ruorher stabbed three time, got out at the window, and walked on the coping of more than twetee houses, towards White. chapel, near .200 feet. He clienb,fd several higher ascents,' and de scending the same, Larne to the era' of that row of honi:es ; he them took a leap from thence about 20 feet lower, and alighted on the top' of a bick place, behind the Three Tuns Inn, I'V hitechapel. He b i t? . 'posed the roof to be timber, but it proved to be a sky-light, through. which he fell on a flooring, by which means he was dreadfully cut and bruised. It is supposed he 111116 t have been s'unned from the fall, for in that stateht remained till four o'clock. The child thouelit . `he had been asleep • for he says the fi rst tiring lie heard was th e watchman's' eallihg t hel hour; he then got lip and found a flighfof stairs which he descended, but was prevented canting to the street . ' by a paling of boards twelve wet high ; he then endeavoured to climb,. but, was so week and sore from the bruises,• that he tell three times. The child then says he went on his knees and prayed the . Almighty to assist him, after which he again tried to ascend; and suc ceeded in reaching the top, trout which pliwe he ealled the watchman to help him down ; he begged linn'• to talc! him' to Gulston-,,qua'e,. t...ut he had the inhumanity to retus-, supposing hint to belong La some Irish persons in the heighboui hood ; he, howe.er, helped num' down, and in that state th child walkei to the bowie of Mr. I.az 32, Gulston-square, to whom he r.'late It' above, s.O his rather and mother were hotir dead. We are nappy sa)ing it was .oily a' dream, as the family are-all well, and no attempt ‘vh !fryer was mad. on the house. It is initaealous that tue child escaped w'Alt hit ; ! l e is so tar recovered as to' be able to widk about. He um) had un night-cap and gown. ACCIDENTS AND- OFIENCES. An invalid, of the name of Chanson, was lately cont . . mid At P ry for attempting to murder his master. He ha,! nu !wove( as Ord ?ha scatleld than he stabbed in the throat the priest, while exhorting li in to die like a chtistian. }lv then pierced the executioner's heart, who died on the spot, and compelled his as keine to leap from the scarld,, by which he broke bothh• his legs. He then . almost aeverrai his own head from his body. An Armenian diamond merchant, named . Boljhat,- was, on the tid fuly attacked by four robber:, near 14 anheim, who, atter stripping him of a bag containing several diamonds, cut his thrort, anti threw • the body into the Rhine. The water being shallow, tome fi•liertneo descried Boljhat, and carried hint in a state of imensitelly into the city, where a skilful physician sewed up his w tied. Oh his c it valescence, he made deposition of the robbery before a M-gistrate t and described one of the persons who had used him so batbarou-ly be hare-lipped. The Magistrate departed, and shortly atte: returned in company with M. Folsche, an eminent jeweller, whom llottjat - recognised to be one of the robbers. . What renders the circuniatance more remarkable is, that Boliljat had letters of recomineedattoo ter Folsche, who, apprised of his being on the road, thus waylaid and attempted to assassinate his intended guest. The diamonds have since' been sound in Folsche's house ! and restored to the Armenian ; they are valued at 18,0001. sterling, Boljhat brought them train Persia to Russia; but despairing of a sale there, on account of the war, was proceeding to Paris for a purchaser. On Mr. Blackman's arrival, on Monday last, as a candidate, at Kingston-upon-Hull, a wag.gave it out that lie was an African, on which the mob set fire to his coach, and burnt it to ashes. Mr. B. in consequence left the town. Friday. Thomas Light, alias John Jones, alias Thomas Knight, who was lately indicted at the Middlesex Sessions, for stealing dead bodies for dissection, but evaded trial, was. with his accomplice, cue of his bail, named Patrick Harnett, charged at Hatton Garden otti..:e, with stealing three dead bodies out of the parish of Sr. Pancras or St, Gi:es. The ;prisoners were fortml with the bodies in their possession, and were remanded tier future examination. A yoing man named Anderson, late collecting clerk to Messrs. Hales and Co. brewers, is in custody on a charge of hawing embezzled 70./1. which he had received in trust for his employers. . Fitzgerald alias Marti..., the man btought Arum on board the Ceres, at the Nitre, upon his own confession of murdering the Marrs and Williamsons, is now, beyond all doubt, innocent of both those horrid transactions ; it appearing from the result of the investigation made at the instance of Mr. Read, at Bow-street, that at the ;hod the above murders were committed, Fitzgerald was Len , it% on board the Alba tross, transport brig, employed in bringing bullocks for the army and navy, from Tangiers to Cadiz. Since being confined in Cold bath-fields Prison, be has 4hawi evidnai symptoms of m 044 de? singenlant, 1