The National Register. — London, England, 1817-06-30 00:00:00

JUNE 30. . THE D1t411.1. M. Talma and Nl:Awn:Agelle Georges appeared the second time, on Thursday night, at the King's . Theatre. and gave recitotions from moat of the celebrated French tragedies, and front the tritgely of Afac4eli, as adapted to the French stage. The audience was most nurner offs and sph.a.tdid, and the performance drew down peals of applause. Coessyr Chnnetc—Friday night, the musical piece of The Gentle Shepherd, rendered into Engl;sll, and curtailed into two acts, was performed at this theatre. I; afforded an opportunity to Mr. Sinclair and Miss Stephens of displaying their taste, execution, and sweet -11e5), in the beautiful airs allotted to them. They were received with enthusiasm by the audience. O'Keefe's favourite comic opera of Fontainebleau followed, in which Mr. Sinclair, as Henry, Mr. Jones, as Lackland, and Mrs. Gibbs, as Dolly Bull, were very effective. The favourite piece of The Libertine closed the per formances of the evening. The whole was honoured with the unbounded applause of n crowded and brilliant audience. Easmisst Orrna Hoesr —Last night the old ope ratic piece of , Don Junn was revived on this stage, with great splendour and effect. The dresses were entirely new, the music wRs selected with considerable taste, and the scenery reflected the highest credit on the ar tists by whom it was excecuted. We confess' that we are partial to this theatre, be cause it is the nursery of native talent, and because it was undertaken and completed by a gentleman who hits hereditary talent An his side, and who deserves all the encouragement that British patronage can afford to British genius. We cannot think, however, that this nor " Bullet Spectacle" is likely to answer the expec tations which had been conceived of it. Better things' are, it is said, in preparation. We hope that this re port will prove correct ; and that the overwhelming influence of the winter theatres will not operate as a bar to the future exertions of the Manager of the En;;- lisp Opera House. The acting of Mr. Henry Johnston, in Don Juan, ' is entitled to considerable praise. He entered into the spirit of the scene with much skill and talent. His gallantry with the fair ones—his determine , ' spirit to overcome all opposition to his pleasures—his defiance to the ghost—and the horrors of a guilty conscience struggling with the terrors of death, were emphatically and finely pourtrayed. He was. appropriately dressed, and be assumed the gay Libertine with gentlemanly tap.- The fishing duet, by Miss Bumens and Mi'c Lave, was sung in a pleasing and scientific style,,, still loudly applauded. Searanzouch, though not the best we have seen, nevertheless evinced much comic talent. Mrs. l'incott, (sister to Mr. Wullack, of Drury Lane Theatre,) as Donna Anna, displayed true feeling on witnessing the death of her father by Don Juan. As a ballet actress, her talents are far 'above tuedioc its'. The dancing of Mr. and %In. Le Clerq proved highly attractive, and was much noticed. The Louse was filled in every part ; and as, in the course of another representation, .the performers and scene-shif ters will. have become more perfect, we have no doubt that the grand ballet of Don Juan, at this theatre, will appear to considerable advantage. Mr. R. G. Butt received the judgment of the Court ad King's Bench on Monday, for a IBA on Lord Ellen borough, and also for a libel on Lord Castlermgh. He Was sentenced to be imprisoned nine months in the King's Bench Prison for the first, and at. the expira tion of that time, to be imprisoned six months longer for the second. An official return to an order of the House of Corn pions states the number of petsons now in confinement, ki warrant of either of the Secretaries of State, 'or of s.ix Privy Counselloo, detained under the Habeas Cor pus Snspension Act, at thirty-two; of whom there are three in Rea:ling Gaol, three in Tothilltields Bride well, four in Horsenionger-lane Prison, four in Chelms ford Gaol, two in Gloucester Gaol, twelve in th e llouie of Correction for the county of Middlesex, and t tree ill Exeter Gaol. They arc of various ages, from l 8 to 73. Poartax wrworriro.—On the nth instant, a foreigner, at tended by a person whom he styled his ither i e.thr, ca11..11 at diecos. Mundt/lend Bridge's, Ludgate Hill, as he stated. to look out tm aro:intent of valuable ditunonds. and gther articles, in order to Mlle a considerable pure:arum for a foreign market. lie gave it to to understhol, that it would not be convenient to pay for them till Ape following week ; but to save trouble when he came for them, he vosned to have the articles previously selected and agreed for. For theastistiction of both porties the inusproter signified that Mr. Si mon Ilium, the Geneva merchant, as he styled him, was desirous that the valuables, es they were bargained for. should be put into a, part box irhielt he had brought for that purpose, and then sealed up with his seal and that of the house. The box was proposed, of course, to be deposited with Meows. flundell and Bridge. Much time was consumed in selecting the articles, and in making out the bill of parcels, which presented altogether a nem of no less amount than ta,ttiol. Every thing Wag orrungtd, the foreigner and his easerpreter took leave, with the mourar.:e u.at they would be punc tual at the time appointed. with cash or unextertionable hills. Two elmo over and above the time fixed for the return of the foreigners haQng elapsed it was thought necetsary to break the seek. in order to restore the articles to their former places, when. to doo oolosioh /sell of thejewellera, they fiend the box is (4111i412 only& fest nog it is now supposed that the fraud must have hem enminittul 17 a quick change of /he lwaa, after the valuiskiesitad bres4epositedin one of them. On inquiry it was leeni d o g dii irsveigaeharper had 410 a few nights at toe Huntley 0.116650n0, 3.eittoloroquan; and. areordlin to the swim at the Aram pike, k sus to be toad at its 6, Duke": Hmaidiub. ___ I've awn thee in a sweeter bow, Ere art had nature babbled ; I've known thee rich in bantty's dotter. Ere innoonne bed ranieled. Whet fiend could tempt thy tender heart, That once was true and kind T What dation, with a doe* an, ,' Degrade thy spotless naiad T ~'i~~~ Masan, is the hour of low. Trust sot the Tempter's guile, For Mos will oho prove A stasis. in his smile; Habeas Corpus Stapetuticas Ad.—Ministers, it seems, feel some anxiety respecting the importance attached to the suspension of this great safeguard of thelPferti es of Englishmen, and do not wish to have it hurried through Parliament as mere routine business. This may be gathered from the following observations of Lord Liver pool, in the House of Lords, on Satarday. On the message from the Commons being announced, stating, that that House had agreed to the Bill, with an Amend ment, the Noble Lord said, be peivented that the amendment made was of considerable importance. It was originally proposed to continue the operation of the Act in question, for six weeks afier the re-assembling of Parliament. By the erne/Om:nit now insatuted by the Honourable the House of Commons, the Bill was further extended to the Ist of March next. Under a circumstance of such importance, he did not feel war ranted in proposing the adoption of the amendment, without some notice, and his Lordship moved that it be taken into consideration this day, and that the question should take precedence of all other business. An official detailed account of the recapture of Bar-• celona, by the Spanish Royalists, has appeared in a recent Caraccas Gazette. It appears, that the defend ers of Barcelona were enthusiastic in their resistance to the besieging force—that the Spanish Commander sum moned them to surrender at discretion—that on his summons being rejected, he renewed the attack, and , having prevailed at the close of a tremendous conflict, put 700 men, the remnant of the garrison, with half. I that number of women and children, to-the sword.- The American Congress has solved to negociare with all the Powers the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and t'ie establishment at Sierra Leona, or some other Rolla of the African coast, of a colony of men of colour, free, to be f o rmed at the expence of the Government. We are assured that the differences which existed between Austria and Spain, relation to the pretensions of the Queen of Etruria and the Duchy of Parma, are now adjusted. The Archduchess Leopoldine, .the Princess Royal of Brasil, arrived at Florence, on the morning of the 13th. She was received at the Palace of the Pitti by all the Royal Family, and by his Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Naples, who hid arrived there with his august consort from Leghorn. The suite of the Archduchess is composed' of 140 persons. The new Speaker of the HOuse of Commons so ingenuously makes mistakes, and so often throws himself upon the indulgence of those whom be should direct, that some of his ftiendithave advised hint to apply to the See of Rome for a general indulgent., which may qualify all errors past, present, and to come. Otavt.st Tit Sev.—The exposure of the machina tions of this man, and admission by Ministers that he was in their employ, added to the, evidence of Castle on the State Trials, have created •an unexampled sen sation in the minds of aU classes—The Editor of the Leeds Mercury, in his recent paper, persists in the accuracy of his first statement, and gives in support of it the d: orations of a Mr. Seholes and of T. Murray (the latter one of the persons .tien at Thornhill Lees), who were applied to b Oliver, and which de clamtions. contain further of Oliver's villainy.— The Leeds Mercury Alates, 0 'er made his first appear ance in Yorkshire nine or ten weeks ago, and that they believe he has been travellingia Nottinghamshire, Der brill ire, Stalfordshire,and Lancashire, labouring no doubt in his vocation.—ln conchision the Editor says, that great dissatisfaction no doubt exists, and will continue as long as the public distress prevails, but bad there been no Mr. Oliver, there would have been no plot.— Mr. Maier, lately tried thy a libel, has written a letter to the Editor of a Daily Paper, declaring that Oliver, the spy, visite I him recently in the the King's Bench Prism, and among other tiling endtstvonred to per muffle him (Wooler) to take steps and follow him to the North, to be the leader is the proposed insurrection I The well-known Harry . Thompson (or Staring Harry), who has to long bees the subject of advertue ment and search, as the accused leader of the gang who robbed the York Stamp-Office in April, was appre hended on Sunday senntht,at Carlisle, and arrived at York on Friday last. Afber an examination before the lowa Mayor, its the amine of which he behaved with considerable flippaney4 Pe was fully committed. Five of the six persons unpliented ore now in custody. THE. NATIONAL REGISTF.R. POETRY. TRUST NOT THE. TEMPTER'S WILE. -.. ' -" Roaseav oair. LUDO tte Rlti&A.4loo4l. stances have transpired with 4. - ,;Ara to ai..49nPrifios committed a few days since upoll sin vf sense dell and Bridge, jewellers, which ire 111iebt td tie only to the detection of the patties, nit's, the recovery of the greater part of the property. A female, closely connected with one of the delinquents, was on. Setur defy armpit in'tottstbdy to the Mansion-Hoene, where . the Lord Mayor was nearly four hoard engaged in a pri vate investigation of such particulars as have travtipi. red, respecting this daring and most extensive robbery • A part of the stolen jewels, -Scc. has, we understand. been already traced to a house in the neighbourhood of Bride-lane, and by the finding also of certain papers there, the route of the fugitive plunderers Lam been as certained, and their ultimate appreimesint reedered al matt certain. The Lord Mayor, upon the firm intim*. tion of the robbery, instantly dispatched the sum motive and intelligent officers in quest of the eiranders The following cheering account of tlis preset state of Ireland is taken from The Corresponind, a Dublin newspaper, of the 23d instant :••-• 1 4 The regret of - A very ahlutdant and -early harvest is naticad m all the Provincial Papers which have reachid us this morning ' • and the declension of the p r i ces o f ever y kind of provisions in several market towns, is alit° stated, and forms a most satisfactory kind of inferrer . thnt. New potatoes, it appears, are becoming, gene• rally, an article of supply in the different market towns ; and this circumstance must havean inured*, effect on the price of old ones, ix well es in iome.ailpft or other, on every necessary of lif e . F rom Ahem *gig and front the effects and eypedient universally reamed to, to relieve the humbler classes, the distress end privations at present felt can but be of sheet duralitm. It is only necessary to meet the pressure of . the moment with some fortitude and resignation, sad allwill be right again—plenty an& contentment will be uni versally diffused throughout :the country.' From the present temporary - seagnation of the neer can'ile part , or this kingdom (imps, Merchant and mast intelligent Correspondent), it it computed that there is at this time upwards of three =Drums of capital un employed by the bankers and traders : and, upon s calculation that 1,0001. in trek will employ on 1• single working on labouring moo, there mum from so large an unemployed capital, be $OO,OOO persons out of work—but, taking the different simirmatiems of trade the whisk may be taken as tee to ewe, or thre e millions of persons unemployed. t The King of Sweden has needed to 'heady As - after repeated invitatianefiele theltberiemf Ass. tria, Russia, and Prussia. _ A trout was taken, on the 20th instant, is the st stead Mill Streans, Herts, the if V 11 6 41 14 Henry Ferlde, Esq. the extreme of wlticitimit 27 inches, its girt IS inches, sad when tuba' out of the water 12} lbs. Some very curious antiquities weer recent)* dbeo.-- verecl four feet below the soil at Horsefield, near Bat ton, in Cambridgeshire. They consist of a chain with six collars fur conducting slaves : also, a doublefiskrom, 'hewing the manner in which the spits of the 'agents were supported for roasting meat, and illustrating the following- passage of Virgil :--" Subpainat nee*ltut prunes, et vioera torrent." ,' The recent fall in the prices o s f,:flut threnibout France, is attributed partly fa ll* illtiaglatsit; tides of grain poured in. to the genehmos Egypt. The Paths has inherent his Aguas, at Mar seilles, that, fur the better aseentaseditien of Commerce, he is determined to re.epea the entient easel of Br emen. The works for that purpose have been a-- . ready cesarnenctik and..several engineers art emulated to superintend them. RICIIMOND STEAM Boar.—On Satirrity trestles,. shoot ball past silt, the steam busier of the above packet Worst at the top, and Juju' ed three permits in a daagemma aimutee... The yaeht was injured ou s..tarliay week in a alight degree, and had been repaired to rendre it St to petforotsita pawl to yesterday. It fortunately had uo persons cw.hoard at tkme the event °crowed on Saturday, except the persona who uavigate and conduct i!. llie shock was ricry-greal s bat the injary *lmo to the vessel is *pry alight. The top of the cm glum holler was blown off by rhe explosion. The eendaettwo had been rowing it ay the river, and when it had lot about 100 yards above Westminster %ridge, the accitleut took plat r. Mr. Anseld, the condactor I.** the yacht, was neat the boiltsr when it burst; lie was injured in a shocking manner, and very little hope can be cutrrtained of his lecovery. Tts • . labourers belonging to the yacht were injnii io a lots do. gree. They were all conveyed on shore by a wateratau, alio was near the spot when the accident happened. HTTIMPIIODIA...-Mt. ‘rm. Clarke, rattle doctor, of Wyk:rico. near Boom, ten weeks are. was severely bitten just above she Welty a strange tiag, in me ptvlie road, near hie place of resittact. _ . 811111111000 beingentntainett that the arimid was mad. tasdkal advice was seamed 101 the manful heided, arid Mr. Clarke terateised b o a r _ K wi l ta good health till Thursday. the loth inst. %hen be a prawn) his l. and ow the next day strongly roaciifes caza ttll tie and deeadful symptoms of hydrophobia, 'Web incrust eil violence till Saimaa, tught, about eleven o'clock, what he ex. leaving aaalliciiaaate wife ant fatally to lament .tbeir tot. tics* lase _ _ _ _ • A 40144 tremelese bellet te = g ldati lea menaing ober. • four (Mock, m Main Yleepoliem • works, between retterll.leide and 11PrekeesNebeee. Tedereepse whit% easonned 'the warehouse/. and , browses 4 mallSO Yea et: =tar. rein. and turpautine the amount of km v i me . Mr. irieektes ana underetiod, le net insure& The ems realm were. it Sri as fire PT run ago; mei boa Abe prem:st fire deerne,swar...