The National Register. — London, England, 1816-03-17 00:00:00

mAintli rt. lowed to them; and it atfbrds a consolatory prospect, that the severe and harsh treatment, to which, in general, they have been hitherto subject, will in future be dis continued. The facility also of shutting up in those re cepticles, persons not really insane, will be diminished by the measures of strict visitation about to be adopted. There is reason to think that these establishments have sometimes been perverted to the most iniquitous pur poses. G. OFFICIAL COPY or MR. !CENTER N's PROPOSER RE. SOLUTIONS FOll THE RELIEF OF .1a ItICULrunAL DISTRESS. I. That the prtion of the community, whose capita!, are engaged in agr'eulture, as well as those numemu elasies whose employment de pends thereon, are at present suffering under the pressure ut unexam pled distress. 2. 'fliat the continuance of such distress is fraught with extreme danger to the most important interegs of the country. 1. That the demand for the extended pnaluce of our agriculture is, at this time, iniutficient to produce that price which is Oeleessary to cover the heavy charges and burthens upon it. •t. That the demand for barley has been very materially reduced, by the carestive ditties to which it i subjected, in the course of the various operations which adapt it to the 1142 of the consumer. 5. 'That the continuance of those duties, during peace, when the fa cility of smuggling is so Much increased, cannot fail to injure the horn• manufacture of spirits, which must still further diminish the de- Immd litr barley. 6. That it is therefore necessary to reduce the duties on malt, beer. and spirits. 7. That is nrler to equalize the supply . of grain, and promote its cul tivation, it is desirable that an appropnatton should he made from the extra, produce of abundant harvests, to supply the deficiency of seasons less favourable. & That the admission of foreign corn to be warehoused prevents such application of our own oemsional abundance, and assigns to foreign agriculture the formation of those stores, which might otherwise be created from the produce of our awn. 9. That it is tl. a-. lire expedient to repeal so much of an ect of last session for the regilation of the corn t:sde, as permits the warehousing of forign corn, at all times, d tty fr. e. to. 'Chat m order further to promote the appropriation of a part of our present abundance, and reserve it for future consumption. it is ex psiiint to aid the iileans of tbo: , .. individuals who may be di:posed so ti emir:oy their capitals, by an advance of Exchequer bills to a limitod amount. 11. That excessive taxation renders it necessary to rive pmtection to all articles. the produce of our own soil. against similar articles. the rmwt , t of foreign countri..s, not subject to the same burthens, and, in c otfonnity with that piAi •y, which has been nnithrntly• observed, of prat. -tin; by daties, and encouraging by bounties or drawbacks, all oar other manufactures. le. That it is therefore expedd...t to impose additional duties and restrictioni on the importation of all artidea th produce of foreign agri. culture. 13. That it is evpeclient, under due limitation. to enemtrage, by bounty or drawback, the exportation of the redundant produce of the agriculture of the united kingdom. 14. That the tithe and the poor rates. to the payment of which those whose capitals are engaged in agriculture are almost exclusively sub jected, have recently been lilt with ilicror•ing and unexampled severity. and that it is therefore necessary to relieve tuew , as far as possible, titan the operation of other burdens. On Saturday se'nnight, Captain Manby exhibited to the Commisioncrs tin. the Affitirs of Barracks an efficaci ous method for the extinction of fire in storehouses and other buildings, in which its pregress is always rapidly destructive. It enables the person who discovers the fire to proceed at once to extinguish it, by a machine, which he may easily carry by hand, charged with a fluid so strongly impregnated with antiphlogistie ingredients, as instantly to quench, wherever it tails, the fiercest combustion. The quantity of fluid thus impregnated, contained in the machine, will, before the force with which it is projected is at all diminished, effect as much towards extinction as 120 gallons of simple water, how erer well directed by any other means. A case contain ing two more such machines, ready charge 3, and resor voirs of the fluid fur recharging all three, constitute the complete apparatus. Its merits are, that it is always ready for instantaneous application; that it may be car ried by only one person to any part of the building, and directed to the most intricate recesses of the incipient tire; and that it offers, in u box 1 foot deep, 2 wide, and less than 3 long, means of extinguishment equal to a quantity of 790 gallons of water applied by any other mode at present in use. Ltwgq Et.r.rooN, MA Tull 13.---IVednefulay morning the Election was cloNed for this Borough. The numbers were de clared by the returning Officer to he-- For Sir Joh. Shelley For Mr. Sent-lett 'fhe sham Capt. Wallace. mill his associate, Fred. Andrew., fur the apprehens'on of whont warrants are issued, for being eoneerned in a conspiracy and ilefraitil of the late MT. C. Bradburne, a sugar-refiner, of Whitychapcl, of the suns of which was the cause or the ❑ntitrhn n tte art he committed upon we are credibly informed, have arrived at Paris. An Officer of the Navy be.ll, asked what lit.. ColleeiVCti Mr. Burke meant by the '• cheap defence of nations r - replica. that he thought lie alluded to Midshipman's half-pay —uuthimg 'lay, an•! find yarrs , lf. - 'h.• late J. Downer, Esq. of Altlermaithurv, who possessed considerable propel ty at Brighton, has HI a lima for the maits trim-ince. (loathing, and education of 2a girls ; and fur provid ing old men with a new >nit of eluatl.s every year. Oa satorday an Inquisition was taken nt the sign of the Ba ker and Basket, in Worship-street. on !Mrs. Mary Walker, who, on Friday last, WAS 11.11101 g out clothe• to dry on :1 line, at her lodgings, in Long-alley, and over reaching herself, fell from the wMilow opals the pavement, and was killed on the spol.--Ver dict—Accidental Death. Oil Saturday se'unialit, between seven and eicht o'clock in the evening, a dre.ultiel tire broke out at Mr. %Vaterhouse's stables, at Smith Mims. A largestalilr, in which were t %veiny six horses, and all the 11111i1(111110 011 the same side of the pre mises, speedily fell a prey to the devouring element. The hone% above nn•atiuurd, and those un the oppo.ite side of the tre:oises, were in ountlper about 70, which, we are happy to say, through the ekertions u( Mr. J. ‘Vaterhoitie and the fore man, Win. Drover, were extricated from the flames, and turn ed loose into the fields. ?HE NATIONAL WEGIgTItit. DRAMA7'IC REGISTER. covrw-c RDEN. Miss O'NErt. gratified the London public, for the first time, last night, by dedicating to Thalia those talents, which had hitherto been only applied on the metropo litan stage, in embodying the plaintive sorrows or fiery passions of the Tragic Muse. She appeared as Lady Teacle, in Sheridan's excellent comedy of The School fir Scandal ; and the high bred elegance of fashionable man ners, the mixture of playfulness with satire and feeling, which distinguish the part, never were displayed with greater fidelity and skill. Her reception was rapturous. —Besides the homage of an overflowing house, she was greeted with shouts, peals o' applause, and the waving of hats; and those demonstrations of popular admiration were frequently renewed throughout the piece, which was announced fbr next Tuesday, in the midst of accla mations. We have no time or room, at this late hour, to enlarge on the merits of the other performers. Suffice it to say, that, although we have witnessed the representa tion of many plays, both at home and abroad, we had never beheld such an assemblage of excellence, as last night charmed our sight and our mind, in the perfbrmanee of the best production of our boat comic poet. Tuesday night a new musical Play in three Acts, in titled " Gay Manneriv, ; or, The Gipsey's Prophecy," was brought forward at this Theatre. The plot is taken from the popular and much-admired novel of the name, attributed, we know not how justly, to Mr. Walter Scott. The piece itself is, we understand, from the pen of Mr. Terry, the very respectable performer of this The atre, and in its plot follows, we believe, pretty closely the fiction of the poet. Henry Bertram (Mr. SINCLAIR) is stolen by gypsies in his infancy, and his father Sir Bertram, dies, leaving n daughter (Miss SrEettrxs), the victim of the villainy of Gilbert Glossiu, a lawyer (Btast- CHARD), who obtains possession of the litmily mansion and paternal estate, and who wants to make her his wife. She, spurning affluence upon these terms, is retiring into indigent obieurity, when, at an inn, she encounters Guy 21/onneting (Auttorr), the former protege of her father, whose interest sent him advantageously to India, whence he had now returned a Colonel in the army, and ;ti cir cumstances of the greatest affluence. At the inn he pro tects her from the advances of Gilbert Glossin; and, anxi ous to make a practical acknowledgment to the daughter, of the obligations which he owed her father, he introduces her to his sister, who prevails upon her to accept an asy hun with them. Guy Mannering falls in love with and eventually marries her. Her brother, Henry Ber tram, though unknown as such, is the lover of Julia Mtiuncring (Miss Ma TT I I s), the Colonel's sister ; and, in leaving the Colonel's house one evening, loses his way, and, in company with a half-tipsey companion (Emtav), encounters the gipsies, through whom, in a train of in teresting incidents, which we have not room to tbllow, the discovery is made of Holly Bertram': identity. He is restored to the family estates, married to Mi.s.e 'Man nerist, and both sets of lovers arc thus made happy : while several wicked agents in the plot receive poetical jus tice. The scene, we hardly need say, is laid in Scotland. The new scenery is excellent and appropriate. The songs are of a very superior order to those frequently found in productions of this kind ; and though the piece appeared to drag u littl in the hitter part of the first, and earlier part of the teco id acts, it never loci its h o ld upon the attention. It was received with unqualified applause, and given out for repetition amid the warmest acclama tions. Bishop, Atiwood, Davy, Whitaker, and T. Cooke, have contributed to the music, most of which is unexcep tionably good. Several of the songs were encored ; par ticularly an exquisite one, composed by Bishop, to the words of Miss Johann() Baillic, in which the mellithtous notes of Master Williams were heard with delightful el' , feet. The perfi,nners exerted themselves much. AnnoT, Estrrtv, lusTos, 131-v:clump, Mrs. DavEstrowr, nItTON, and Mrs. Gmass, did the piece justice.. The House was crowded in every part. DRURY-LANE. The lateness of the hour at which the -revival of Mas singer's play of The Duke of Milan finished on Saturday, prevented us giving but a brief account of the perform mice in our last. The Play has been repeated this week with increased success, and may be considered as another specimen of the great talents of the ancient dramatists. From the mail with which the Managers of Drury-lane Theatre have laboured in this respect, it may be interred, that there is no intention to abandon this rich and bril liant mine. Some of the characters of this play, present objects in whose situation and fate we are deerly inte rested, and of these none strike so feelingly upon the at tention as himself, if we except the much-injured and virtuous Marcella. The latter character was sus tained by Mrs. Bartley with an effect equal to any of those excellent performances which have already raised her so deservedly high in her profession; bat on Mr. Kean the attention of the audience was principally fixed, and the genius which he displayed drew down the plan , dits of the audience. I his scene with Fraueiseo, previous to his departing to surreuilcr himself to the Emperor Charles, where, from excess of love to his Duchess, the fear of not returning to her embraces, and the dread of her becoming the partner of another, he suggests her mur der, was a most arduous and extraordinary exertion. The scene upon his return, when from the treacherous plots of Francisco, to whose care the Duchess had been confided in his absence, and when rushing anxiously to her arms, she receives him coldly, was very affecting. His con cluding scenes, however, when forced by strong circum stances to believe itfarcelia false—the frenzied heat of jealousy, which urges him to her assassination—the sub sequent conviction of her inuocence, and the picture of hope and despair exhibited over the lxxly of his murdered partner—fnally, his own death ; were pourtrayed with superior tbree and effect —The other characters were adequately sustained. The piece has been got up in a, most splendid style. PRoi.oGrE TO TIIF' DUKE OF MILAN. Still irr the Orsini's anoint round we dwell, And Mas.singer is master of the Fpell— Whilst Shalcspeare„ rising nitilst the seulprtied dertd, . Reams like the genius of the saereti shade; Whilst we have seen where Johnsoll'i ashes lie, And point the moral of mortality; . Nor moon:no:nil urn, nor image thews, Where the last relics of our Haiti repot:— Yet shall he rest secure of fame to come-- . Your praise his Epitaph—Otis vault his Tomb. !Pre Fletcher too, mid Farquhar Nov behold, Those smiles reviv'd that wak'd their wit of old— In its own shrine each lionour'd burst replae'd, And British Genius erown'a hy . girlish Taste. But not your smile returning life imparts To one rilove of all the sister art.; Here too (fir Gratitude nary 'boast her zeal), The living warmth our glowing boiunis re,'.— Thee let your kindness still improve our skill, And lead from triumph on to triumph still. Ye that have thrill'd beneath the smile cr frown._ When Richard courts a Queen, or wins a crown; Ye that have throhb'd at all Othello's Ills jealous mailnesS, and repentant throe,: And ye who nightly Fwill the throng, to SiIAIV The villain's daring guilt, and last de psir— l'artake our mimic transport.] fi , ,re, and prove The double tyranny of hate and love: And if thc Bard, in every look exprvs'd, Shall kindle all the passions of the breast; If Critics, kindly partial, krl they vi,w The portraits Nlasaingeis own paicil drew, Oh! let your favour then divide the priise, Mid blend the Actor's with the Poet s bays. The Prince Regent, having nearly recovered from hir• extreme &Way, expected to return to London at the beginning of next week. On Saturday se'nnight the Archdukes John avd Lewis arrived at the Ship Inn, Dover, with their respective suites, and on Monday morning embarked on board the Royal Charlotte yacht, which railed at eight o'clock with a Lir wind for Calais. On the vessel leaving the har bour, she was saluted by the guns at - the Heights, and. their Highnesses were repeatedly cheered on their way from the Ship Inn, until they left the pier. A division has taken place among the leaders of thst Irish Catholics ; and two separate petitions to the Com mons have been determined on, one of them. from the moderate, and the other from the violent party : their meetings are held separately in Dublin. General Count Below, the welWatown Prussian Ge neral, died lately at Koningsberg, within a few days after he had retired from tho army. He was only in the 61st year of his age. The French Budget presents a total expenditure, ordi nary and extraordinary, of nearly 8'26 millions of francs, about 34' millions and a half sterling, for the current year, and a total-receipt of nearly 8:27, rather more than 34 millions and a half sterling. Thu ways and means, consist of the ordinary direct taxes upon land, personal and moveable property, doors and windows, and patents, to the amount of nearly nine millions sterling ;Attics nit registers, wood, salt, tobacco, customs, and j ui lie ec t con tributions to the amount of 13 millions and a hull ster ling ; the extraordinary taxes are nO per cent. additional upon the tax on landed property, about 3,600,0001. ster-, ling ; 75 per cent. _addition to the tax on moveable and personal property, about 900,0001. sterling ; 60 per c:mt; - addition to the tax on windows and doors ; 125 per cent. addition to the duty- on patents, amounting to about 800,0001. The ordinary expellees are the Fended Debt, Annuities, and Pensions, between five and six millions sterling ; Foreign Affitirs alO,OOOl. sterling; Minister of the Interior, 600,06101. War, nearly nine millions sterling; Marine, two millions; Negotiations. 590,0001.; the King's Civil List, 1,040,000 L sterling; and the Royal Family, near SlO,OOOl. The Kin{ of Franm's Cif i 1 List does not include the payment ot -the Judges,. Foreign Ambassadors, &e. It is entirely for the ria;nt nonce of the personal splendour of the .King, who has, besides a large revenue in domains, Ike. The King's, brother, his two nephews, and niece, have each about 85,0001. sterling a year. The Budget reconunends economy in all the depart ments of the Stott:, except the Royal Household. This exception is accounted for most satisfactorily. His Ma jesty had, by his conduct, anticipated the necessity. Not content with promising economy, he hat practised it. He had made a voluntary retrenchment in his cxpences, to the amount of 10 millions. The French Ministers have recommended a reduction in their own salaries, and those of the heads in other Offices. We barn that Denmark has cone tided a pew • for seven years with the Dey of 'llipoli, to whoin gents to ray an annual tribute of JO,OOO piastiiis.