The National Register. — London, England, 1816-03-18 00:00:00

MARCH 1& l o wed to them ; and it affords a consolatory prospect, that the severe and lamb 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 ceptacles, 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 roses. G. OFFICIAL COPY OF MR, WESTERN'S PROPOSED RE SOLUTIONS FOR THE RELIEF OF AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. 1. That the portion of the community, whose capitals cm engaged in agri , mlutre, as well as those nurmrous clas :es whose cmplovment de rmas theroon, are at present sutfering wider the pressure of unexam l•led distress. 2. That the continuance of such distress is fraught with extreme danger to the most important interests of the country. 3. That the demand tin the extended proeuce of our agriculture is, at C.is time, insulieLnt to produce that price wideli is necessary to cover the ',wavy shargss and borthens upon it. 4. That the demand for barley has been very materially reduced, by the excessive duties to which it is subjected, in the course of die various operations which adapt it to the use of the ceusumer. 5. That the exteinuance of those duties. during pease, when the fa cility of smuggling is so much increased, cannot fail to injure tit... home mhnuiacture of spirits, which must still further diminish the de m:a-LI for buley. tl. T.iat it is therefore necessary to reduce the duties on malt, beer, and spirits. 7. Chat in order to equalize the supply of grain, and promote its cul tiVAtiOtl, it is desiraVe that an appropnation should lie inade o ni the extra rroduce of abundant harvests, to supply the deficiency of s•_•asons less f.:••curable. ts. That the admission of foreign corn to be warehoused prevents null application of our own occasional abundance, seal woigns to foragn aoCulture the formation of e.ose stores, which might otherwise be created from the produce of cur own. That it is therefore expedient to repeil so notch of an act of last session for the regulation of the corn trade, as permits the warehousing of foreign torn, at 011 timai, duty fr e. 10. That 'n order further to promote the appropriation of a part of our present abundance, and reserve it for futur: consumption, it is ex pedicnt to aid the means of those individuals who may be disriwed so to employ their capitals, by an advance of Exchequer bills to a limitod amount. t. That excessive taxation renders it necessary to give protection to all articles, t'ae piosluce of ou- own soil, against similar ;alleles, the growth of fovi , fn countries, nut sqh;cct to the same burthens, and, in oinformity with that policy, which Wu been unitUrmly o!werved, of protecting by (bales, and cncour:ging by bounties or drawbacks, all our other manufactures ! . . 12. That it is therefore expedient to impose neditional duties :Lod restrictions on the ini - dortation of 811 articles the produce of foreign agri. culture.. ...... 15. That it is expedient, under due limitation, is encourage, by bounty or drawback, the exportation of the redundant product ut the agriculture of the united kingdom 14. That the tithe end the poor rates, to the payment cf which those whope capitals are en_raged in agriculture arc almost exclusively sub yrted, have nrendy been felt with increasing and unexampled severity, and that it is therefore necassary to relieve them, as far as possible, from the operation of other burdens. CARLIbLE E:LEC,TION. JOHN CHRUTAIN CCRWV4, Esq. having gained his Election for Carlisle, was on Saturday ch sited round the streets of the City. and never was there at any former, period &mire lively or more ethitsiastic espre , rious of esteem paid to a itepresen. tative, than was witne•.ed sin this n:lcasiou. The city was lite tally choked up with visitors front the surrounding country; and it may be truly said, as Mr. Curwi u hinisilf observed fr his Car of blite,% . that" it vt a, indeed the triumph of the people. - --The chairing dinne►, which concluded the festivity of the day, was partaken of by at least 400 independent free men, with their friends : and though the most joyous enthusiasm was every where felt, the evening passed over nut only with out tumult, but without any attempt on the part of the victors to insult their opponents..z--Coi Paper. Mr. Curwen, it is said, pledged himselr on the heisting , : at Carlisie, that if he was elected he would iminediateli take his seat, and oppose by every means in his power the continuance of the lacunae-tax. The noblemen and gentlemen of Norfhlk mot on the (2:3d int - tant, to consider of a Petition to Parliament for the discontinuance of the war-taxe.s, and the adoption of proper measures of economy.' .We learn that Denmark has concluded a peace for seven years with the Dey of Tripoli, to whom she con sents to pay an annual tribute of 20,000 piastres. Lady Wilson left Paris on the 7th,. for the purpose of presenting a representation to the Regent upon the proceeding's against Sir R. Wilson. Our Goverurner.t, it is said, have instructed our Ambassador to abstain from all official interference in the proceedings of the French Tribunal. On Saturday se'nnight the Archdukes John and Lewis arrived at the Ship Inn, Dover, with their rereetive suites, and on Monday morning embarked on boa.d Royal Charlotte yacht, which Failed at eight o'clock with a fair wind for Calais. On the vessel leaving the har bour, she was saluted by the guns ut the Heights, and their Highnesses were repeatedly cheered on their way from the Ship Inn, until they lett the pier. 117GGAlis is Tile STOCC4.— . lhlirbday atoning a miserable looking African, apparently in the lust maze of poverty ard wretchedness, was seen lurking about in one of the 'fra.i%fe.. Offices in the Bank. His '• sot rim till and any-begone" ai pearanee had an immediate effect upon the charitable dispo. sitions of some of the clerks there, who made up a poise of 13s. and presented it to hint. fie accepted it eery thank.it;:y, but was shortly after seen signing his name in a hook at the other end of the office ; and, on inquiry, it was disci.. Cr( d Cut the supposed mendicant was accepting a tratist;:r of 1101. stock, welch he had rust put chased. An Officer of th• Navy tieing asked what he conceived Mr. Burke want liv :he cheap defence of 11.1:ivirt is' rndiell that he thought lie alluded to Alidshiptitatt's half-pay—a, iltag a day, and dad yanvolf. The late J. Downer, Esq. of Altletinatthory, who omicsscrl considerable property at Itrirloon, ban !vet a liald the team. teitaoce, eloathing, and education of 2!) girls; and cm provid ing Yj old nice with a atvt suit of cloaths every year. TITE NATIONAL REGISTER. DRAMATIC REGISTER. COVENT-6 IRD EN. Miss O'NEIL gratified the London public, for the first time, on Saturday, 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 Ludy Teazle, in Sheridan's excellent comedy of The Schou!fur 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 of applause, and the waving of hats; and those demonstrations of popular admiration were frequently renewed throughout the piece, which was announced for next Tuesday, in the midst of accla mations. We have r.o time or room, at this late hour, to enlarge on the merits ofthe 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 perfrrmance of the best production of our best comic poet. Tuesday night a new musical Play in three Acts ; in titled " Guy Mannering ; or, 7'/se Gipsey's Prophety," 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 perfiirmer of this The- atre, and in its plot follows, we believe, pretty closely the fiction of' the poet. Hotly Bertram (Mr. SINCLAIR) is stolen by gypsies in his infancy, and his father Sir Bertram, dies, leaving a daughter (Miss STEPHENS), the victim of the villainy of Gilbert Glossin, u lawyer (BLAN cutARD), who obtains possession of the family mansion and paternal estate, and who wants to make her his wifr. She, spurning affluence upon these terms, is retiring into indigent obscurity, when, at an inn, she encounters Guy Mannering (Ansorr), the former protege of her father, whose interest sent him advantageously to India, whence he had now returned a Colonel in the army, and in 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 acknowkdgment 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 lum with them. Guy Manhering . fails in love with and eventually marries her. Her brother, Henry Ber tram, though unknown as such, is the lover of Julia Mannerly (Miss MATTHEWS), the Colonel's sister ; and, in leaving the Colonel's house one evening, loses his way, and, in company with u half-Lipsey companion (EMERY), encounters the gipsies, through whom, in a train of in teresting incidents, which we have not room to follow, the discovery is made of Henry lkrtram's identity. He is restored to the family estates, married to Miss Men acting, and both sets of lovers are 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 8011;V are of a very superior order to those frequently found in productions of this kind ; and though the piece appeared to drag a little in the latter part of the first, and earlier part of the second acts, it never lost its hold upon the attention. It was received with unqualified applause, and given out for repetition amid the warmest acclama tions. Bishop, Attwood, 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() Milk, in which the mellifluous notes of Master Williams were heard with delightful ef fect. The performers exerted themselves much. ABBOT, EMERY, LISTON, PI, ANCHARD, Mrs. DAVENPORT, :kil*S. EGEnToN, and Mrs. GIBBS, did the piece justiee. The House was crowded in every part. I)RURY-LANE. The lateness of the hour at which the revisal of Mas singer's play of The Duke of Milan finished on Saturday, prevented us giving but a brief account of the perforn ance 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 zeal. with which the Managers of Drury-lane Theatre have la:toured in this respect, it may be inferred, 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 deeply inte reted, and of these none strike so feelingly upon the at tention as SJbrza himself; if we except the much-injured and virtuous Maredia. The latter character was sus tained •hy Mrs. Bartley with an effect equal to any of those excellent perfbrmances which have already raised ILr so deservedly high in her profeashm; but on Mr. Kean the attention of the audience was principally fixed, and the genius which he displayed drew down the plau dits of the audience. His scene with Francisco, previous to his departing to surrender bimwlf to the Emperor Charles, where, from excess of love to his Duchess, lie fear of not returning to her embraces, and the dread of' her becoming the partner of an9ther, 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 alleging. His con cluding scenes, however, when forced by strong circum stances to believe Marcella fidse—the frenzied heat of jealousy, which urges hint to her assassination—the sub sequent conviction of her innocence, and the picture of hope and despair exhibited over the body of his murdered partner—finally, his own death ;, were pourtruyed with superior force and effect. —The other characters were adequately sustained. The piece has been got up in a most splendid style. P1101.0(;I:E TO THE HPKF. OF MILAN. Still in the Drams's ancient round we And Messinger is master of the :Tell— Whdst Shukspeare. rising, midst the sculptur'd dad, Beams like the genius of the sacred shade; Whilst we have seen where Johnson's ashes lie, And point the moral of mortality; Nor monumental urn, nor irnagr thews, Where the lest rilies. of Our repose— Yet shall he rest secure of fame to come-- Your praise his Epitaph—this vault his Tomb. Here Fleasr too, and Farquhar ova behold, Those smiles reviv'd that wad d their wiz of In its own shrine each honour's' burst rtplac'd, And British Genius crivir'd by British Taste. But not your smile returning life impara To one alone of all the sister arts; here too (for Gratitude may bout her zeal), The living warmth our glowing bosoms feti 7'hen let your kindness still improve our skill, And lead from triumph on to triumph still. Ye that have thrill'd beneath the smile or frown, When Richard courts a (4:PAIL or wins a crown; Yc that 'rive thrabb'd st a'l Othello's woo', His jealous madness, and repentant throes; And ye who nightly swell the throng, to share The villain's dario.; guilt, and last &Tarr— l'rtake our mimic transports note, anti veva The double t :army of hrae And love: And if the BALI, in every look cipress'cl, kiralle all the passions of the breast; If C rities, kindly 'radial, feel they slew 'f he portrahs Massinger's own pencil drew, . Oh! let your favour teen divide the raist, And blend the Artois with the Poet a hays. Messrs. Briekdale and Co. of the Taunton bank I•.pve • likewise stopped payment. Gibbons and Co.'s Wolverhampton Bank stopped pay ment on Monday last. _ _ . The Bank have agreed to ._xtentl the redemption of 30 per cent on the Onmium, from the 26th April to the 17th May ; and the 40 per cent. redemption from the 10th May to the 12th July. On Saturday se'nnight, Captain Manby exhibited to the Commisioners for the Affairs of Barracks au efficaci ous method for the extinction of tire in storehouses and other buildings, in which its progress is always-rapidly destructive. It enables the person who discovors the fire to proceed at once to extinguish it, by a maeltit.e, which he may easily carry by hand, charged with a- fit id so stmngiy impregnated with antiphiogistic ingredients, as insuuttly to quench, wherever it falls, the fiercest combustion. The quantity of fluid thus impregnated, contained in the machine, will, Ixfore. the force with which it is projected is at all diminished, effect as much towards extinction as I<o gallons of simple water, how ever well directed by any other means. A cam contain ing two more such machines, rerely charged, and resor . voirs of the fluid for .-recharging all three, constitute the.. complete apparatus.. Its merits are, that it is always ready for ir.stentaneous application; that it may be car ried by only one person to any part of the building, anti. directed to the most intricate revesses of. the incipient fire; and that it offers, in a box 1 foot deep, t! wide, and less than 3 long, means of- extinguishment equal to a quantity of 7t20 gallons of water applied by any other mode at present in use. The. French Budget presents a total expenditure, ordi nary and exttaordinary, of nearly 826 millions of francs. about 34 ir.illions and a half sterling, for the current year, and a total receipt of nearly 827, rather more than 34 nullirms and a half sterling. rne ways and means. consist of the ordinary- direct taxes upon land, personal and raoveable propmy, doors and windows, and vents, - to the amount of nearly nine millions sterling.; duties (41 registers, wood, salt,.tobacco, customs, and indirect air& tratutions to the amount of 13 millions and a half ster ' ling ; the extraordinary taxes arc 50 per cent. additional upon the tax on landed property, about 3,690,0001. stee ling ; 75 per cent. addition to the tax on moveable and personal pryperty, about 900,0001. sterling; 60 per cent. addition to-the tax on windows and doors ; 125 per rent. addition to the duty on patents, amounting to about 800,0001. The ordinary expences are the Funded Debt, Annuities, and Pensions, between five and six millions sterling; Foreign Affitirs 300,0001. sterling ; Minister of' the Interior, 690..0001. \Vat-, nearly nine millions sterling ; Marine, two millions; Negociations, 500,0001.; the King's Civil List, 1,040,0001. sterling ; and the. Rovnl Family, near :340,0001. The King of France's Civil List dbcs not include the payment of the Judges, • Foreign Antbassaelors e &s. It is entirely for the 3naint,e fiance of the personal splendear of the King,. who bas, besides a large revenue in domains, &c. The• King's brother, his two nephews, aud niece, have each 85,0001. steeling a year.