The National Register. — London, England, 1818-05-11 00:00:00

MAY U. -•-- - . Werther. This piece is, we suspect, a trauslatioa of ono of the same tide, now peribrinin4 at the Theatre .Des Varieles . in Paris. The idea is a very good one ; few subjucts will less stand the test of ridicule, or ihral better material , for the mock-heroic dntam, than this extravagant and popular German story. The wither has not failed to seize on its prominent I.l . ()StlrAitiv, and to intrulace them, either in description or in action. The waltzing with Charlotte; t4c .attael - .:th:ot to the thread-bare blue coat he wore at theit. nit:eting ; and the incident of putting bread and butterfat. his children ore ludicrously set firth ; the catastrophe is got rid of, Werlher's shooting his hat instead of himself.; when he appears, and, after reproaching all parties for not interferin,g after his ostentatious request for pistols is p.o.‘keti off in the Munich diligence. The piece was uncommonly well acted; and Liston, who played IVerther gave as much effect to it as was•possible ; but it was so far from being favourably received, that the announcement for repetitition was not parmitted to lie heard. One cause may have Len, that the allot:ions were imperfectly understood.; for this little drama certainly possessei merit, though of nJ very exalted kind. Extract of a letter from .Berlin, dated April '25-: " The welding of the Princess Fredericka, daughter of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland, took place on thel7th inst. and was celebrated with great splendour. The bridegroom, the reigning Duke of Anhoit Dessau, is a young man of great promise, aged 2.1'. The marriage party were at the Opera on the 19th when the Kitt ; ; conducted the Princess to her seat in the Royal box, alaid the plaudits of a most brilliant as semblage, the Court being present. On the 21st his Majesty gayest grand masquerade at the Opera-house ; en which occasion the public were treated with every kind of refreshment: and last night the brother of the, Princess, Prince Frederick, gave a magnificent ball at s i dendid.residence in William-street, which was lately furnished for his own marriage with the Princess of Berenburg. Next week the august couple go to Potsdam, whence, after some farther festivities, they will proceed about the Ist of May for Dessau, the residence of the Prince." A fact, not stated•in the Styptementary Gazette of Tuesday, respecting the affairs of India, but which •transpired a thrtnigat since, is now confirmed by the latest intelligence from the East. We allude to the dreadful pestilence which prevailed in the camp of t!.c Governor-General. On the first day on which it was observed distinctly, it carried oft' 97 persons ; on the next day. above 500 perished. Its ravages are said to bare been chiefly, though not exclusively, confined to • the poorer classes of natives and camp-followers ; but we learn with regret that the Marquis of Hastings was himself at one time affected with this malady, and that .1; of his loidship's native servants died. When the accounts came away, however, hopes were enter tained that the progress of the disorder had been are rested. . At a recent meeting of the Catholic Board in Dub lin, a letter from the Earl of Danoughmore was read, in which he advises the Catholic Body not to again bring forward their question in Parliament, without a full and previous assurance of the attendance and sup port of its friends. ,Tuesday, the Church Missionary Societe hold their Annual Meeting Freemasons hall, wltich, , at an early hour, was crowded to excess,nnd hundreds retired for want of room. The Chair was taken by Lord Gam bier ; utter which the meeting were addressed in sere ritl interesting speeches by the venerable Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Gloucester, Dr. Thorpe ; James Stephens, W,Wilberthree, Bahington, Estes &e.itze. After wliich a liheral collection waft mode fitr the So ciety. It was annonnixii that :2131. had been collected :aces a s.:rnion bv Professor Farish in the morning., and Cie. the fonds had increased to au unprecedented extent ev :r since the opposition made by the Archdeacon of Bath. The revenue fear the last year is ..! . ;,700,1. The to.,:eting elt.cti with the whole ass.!aibly standing, up and singing. the 117th Psalm. FINE Aturs.—The beantifol .collection of-pictur_s; 1:e the most cc:lel:reed teasters of the Italian, Spanish, Fietnish and I),,Leli t:),;etlLer nirectors e,f the British hibt was on Monday f-liniitted to public inspection. Of the paintings in this es%ibition, larp;e number deserve to be plaeed in the first raids of rise at. We can only perticularize a fsw of them. Of several landscapes by Claude, tai his best style, we give the prefeeenee to So. 1:,1, Wars/tipping th e M o lt e n Cqtf. No. ati3, by Cusp, View on a River is one of the finest . pieces we have ever se -:11 by this No. 1 i iw L'...obeas, Market i',•ople, is a dist in ; :nisit:-1 by ittl..ommon richness win beau ty : and No. a n tyke, Lis on , / porteeit Sit cha racter of Puri.s, is exquisticic tinisaed. The pieces cf Raphael, Guido, Salvmor .(osa, and ot!oc naines little inferior • to them, form tot.. -ensemble of this collection. 'l'lic Duke of Sussex goes down to Bath, to the de dication of the Masoeic hall building in that city. A Grand Ole is to lit sung oa the ',v.:casino, which is to .'be computed by liithop. 111:'.StCr. nr. NATIONAL REGISTER. LORD ELT/VW/WS MEVOTII, ADDIIES6I:I) To 1.1 CILAMUER OF PEERS • The following t::e Nlemorial which accompanied the let ter till.nr , l I•lntiatrd to the Fremelt.tlimit'uer /if Peen. :- 0.1 the :?)th of .I%intry laAt. a Frenchman', whom I met at requested perm , iloa to call upon me the day following., to spTak to me on an idfairof it2oor'ar.ce. With thii re:1001..1.a I had oinverFation detatie.l :n tltc knter, addree,tal by we to General Murray, the tra:t.l.eion Ilrucw•ls. Jan. Yu, 1818. _ *" It is after having consulted the Nuke of !tic:mond. that I conununtrate to you the following fact:—:t, French retugee, of whom I know but hide, called upon me tills rainnitig. and told me that three of lie friend. wiehial to return to France, if they could do it • with safety; they arc two literary characters and an other of the partisans, who are under the sentence of a Prevotal Court. He asked me if I thought it would be possible to interest the Duke of Wellington in their flavour; I anSwercil him. that I did not think so, for two reasons—the first, because I did not suppose that !so auuld inierefere in it; and the second, became 1 did not perceive. .any motive tor requesting him to do so. He asked me if I thought he could request this of M. de Cazes. by revealing to him a conspiracy which tereatened the Duke's life; I answered, that a service or tlus nature would certainly give him a claim to his attention, but that it was very difficult to induce - the Duke to pay any attention, to menaces of an attack upon his per on, cud teat it would required strong evidence to remove the natural suspicion that the whole was an invention to further some privree views. He replied that, as far as he himself was concerned, he had nothing to ask, as he was definitively condemned for the part that he hat; acted; that, more over, he was free from restraint, had foimed other plans, and had no desire to return to France ; that he was uniy in: hued to divulge the conspirry irons the horror with whica assassination inspired him, and that the only advantage he wished to derive from it was to render a service to hisTriends. I enquired of him hew he ob tained information of the ptojectetl conspiracy he said that an officer (I believe on half-pep, whom he had from time to time sup plies) with the means of subsistence, had communicated to him an offer which hal been made to him some months previously to carry it into exceution, which he had refueed, and another individual had accepted it; that the latter had been paid during four months by those who employed him : that he had been the whole of that time constantly watching the fluke wherever he went, and he was at that moment e. tablishett in Paris, where he waited his arrival. The per son who gave me this information aaldtd, the blow is meditated by a party which is totally differece lions that whose cause I have espoused, and is even opposed to it. I then told him that I would without delay impart what he had related to me; but I desired to know by what means he proposed to expose the plan, or at all events to pre vent the effects of a immediately; he answered that there were two methods of doing it ; that he never would coneent to be the instru ment of bringing any one to punishment, and that he was nut in a position to do so ; but that it would be impossible for hint to repair to France without a special passport (soro-rondeit), and that if lie couldprocure one from the Police Minister, or the Duke of Welling ton, he would return thither ; that this would suffice. and in twenty four hours he would certainly denounce the perem, whom the police could have no difficulty in recogrizing as an ad venturer, and a foreigner, el which they would atierwerde be convinced ; that if this measure was not approved, he would endea vour to learn from a friend the name which the wretch had assunial, and, if possible, his description, sufficiently exact to be u etul, al though it was to he feared, that he would render this lust difficult, by means of disguising himself. This is what he has agreed to per, form. If I can obtain it irons him before the departure ut the courier, -I will communicate it to you. •' Such has been the subject of our conversation, the details of which are of a nature to induce me to give this recital credit enough to convince mu of the neceseity of instantly informing you. It is tor you to decide whether it is requisite to inform the Duke of it. It it be judged expedient to forward the passports, I will endeavour to sue celerate the departure of the person by the diligeme, without losing an instant. Ido not perceive what advantage this individual would derive from inventing such an affair, which would piece him in the hands of the police during the whole time he might be in Paris, and whose only ultimate advantage would consist in die favour granted to his (Liana. "•At Al events, have the go !c;s to answer me very promptly. I send this letter to Maubeuge, because I think, should you be abseil' (rout Cambray, that this is the best course. l wn, &a. (Signed) 6 ' • hIN NAI 66 Orr the LIM Feb. I received the answer of Gen. Murray, who announeml to me that the Duke of Wellington did not atem:h any importance to the news ; that he himself conceived the report to b, a perfidious conuivanet: :Jae (airtime), but he thought, that 1 should blame nty;,•lf (as others would amuse inc), if any adifurtune hap pened, fur too much reserve on ►ny vat, iu not naming the person from whom I nceived the communication. " 1 then toot: a second letter to General Murray, of which the following is a copy : " Rrusa•l;; Vu1..13, 1618. " ' Your letter, dated the Bth inst. was only delivered to me this evening. I had anticipated the manner. in winch the hake would re.Tive the communication; but I thought. arid still think, that it w• 43 my duty to impart it. .I am much plea.sed to observe that you, who ars a notch better lodge Mari iity , irlf in these alfairs, should consider that the probabilities of the intorniation being a snare area :Li 09 to 1. '" I have but very little knowledge of the person in question. but if I had not thotti:ht him worthy of come confidence, or rather, it I hail not co:unit:led that the evidence which was offered me, was capable of untleigoiair a safe intl immediate investigation, I certainly would nitlmare w:i;tau to _con Oil " • It I prop:rly interpret the concluding part of your letter, I ant compeihti lo differ with yam in opinion, and men to believe that, you hate not nr.clerstood ray hest eonununicatiou. lon appear tu.beueve that I shall reproach myself witu having acted wruag, a, it appears to you that c.l-rs will also shine tile of Cie soar., it an attempt were to ta::oep,.:c- at this moment, because I have twt given the name of the individual woo otkre.l hialself to 0u... nice yea of the truth. of his declati:ticas: if I do not deceive I._.e told you that eds man (who ci•nuot inter I ranee witlio.it :1 previous guarantee uf entire sE'ety for his petoon) has ott;!retl . ..9 clqatrt for l'atis with any • • , i.ad will a.;ike known to yam iu forty t 4 woom thete 1 , ; every thing to War, without rt .7etroct;m e. or any u.h r edvantwte , than a safe co:I -t:net 11/111tal should nc I . i.:7llisiteff i.i.11; and that the intervention of tame Duke would not be looloai fur UAL con.,piracy should be dis covered. As I do not perceive that this individual could promise him self any advantage. as rou very justly rerna:k, from time conuivance of titisde,ign, that a j•oinitc:.• to Puri , ender the direction of the police coulii produce him no h ‘l ,4 it, I re.,-,:rd the guarantees winch he offers as subtiei,ant. send I a ,ink is .ren-ii amble enotigh, that he re fuses at the same Mac to make k town ri-iderne to the poii:e of France. on rwernint of persccutimis, which he would have bat too " • ! , 1t.19 . 7 it!leir:Cr i-rra irom trolo;vii ; of it, my rrnati b:lo.lid m, will •• • I r it. tm the. lit to C1..-se a h' ci e:1! • well ealeal.:ted 1,..t I.:e t ui.tu c. and 1 kel no other regret than lir.4 whi,:h is om.a t ioned by the pr:.4.pi6t-tz. ri.fle,•ion , you uio:e it your,44 tn. on v. , y snenee, reqwting the name, Ashen the mat, Wi.o bars a oitl2rs thro . ng4 wy imerpo3ition, to give up his per son to your handl- 4 0u the tangle condition that his return W Druosels bo guaranteed. ••• • Believe roe, itc. (C*11141) • • KINNAMD.` " • M. Marinet, Awl itnr of the Council of State, enntlemned to death p coatonare, to t 615, by the Fro otal • I-11V INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, g kTUft DAY, '4,g 41i 2. Ulla DlsTii It 14 .4 titese eel en toseneoerfox. Th e R e v. W. Bastin, J. Gerrard, R. R.atelell, G. Lever, J. Trowlividge,W. J.W hi te, and anetheievere he - Melte up to revels t. the judgment ot the Court, having been l'utirel giiilty ut the Salt cbm y Assizes, before Mr. JusticeHolroyd, 014 riot with intent to disturb a dissenting cosigregation, assn. ldml fur the 'imposes of religious worship, in a house duly licensed, 4 4 Ansley, 1,11 the Dist of December, 1816. The Leirneol...ludge read the notes which lie took at the trial, front which it appeared that a numerous mob !mil as sembled at the front of W. NI I:6 cottage, at Atetev, in which the Rev. Air. Hopkins was preaeliin4 ou the et:thing in question, where they commenced dancing, hog, singing. blowing cow horns, shaking sheep 1A41,, and makiag other noises, and that the defendents were present, aiding Anti assisting therein; that these distnrhances prevented the Pcssi bility of pereormitig Divine service on that mil ether octet sions.—ltutt's house being duly lirenced, the present prose cution was bronght to present intor.uptiuu in future. Mr. Eiston's efildevit wa. put iii and read; in which he stated, that he lied been upwards of JO years, citrate of An atey. He had lived in friendly communicatioe with use former dissentine preachers, who had officiated occasionally there. On the day in question, lie w:l4 going down to tie. , house of the defendant limas-al, respell/me mime books f:ir a Sunday school,atid knew nothing oldie meeting in rpiestion; whilst arNI r. Gerrard's house,severai parishionersca n 1 and eon:plain edofthe interruption theyliait eceie edfroin the dissenter's near hull's house : this induced them to go to tire spot, when person named eay„3 friend of Hoekins, cute tip to him , mid asked who he was. Mr. Liston said he was tkeelergynian of the parish. Jay replied," You the clergymen of the If you are yuu du nut listed' the Gospel." 'lids address and other similar expressions did irritate him ; and lie confessed he did n ut use all the exertions he might base done to reprise the nej , e made by his parishitmers, who welt denting ou what was deimiehieteil the denciiie place, near Butt's coi -1 tage , he now much regretted haviiig Mien thus betrayed by Iris feeling into an uujesittiebie impropitety condue tee Melt he never ceased to lament. Ile had iiow been for tliiit3 y ears a Minister of the Gospel, had brought op a family of telt children, never having had an income of more thisiissl. per annum, till within the last twelve months, except the occa sioned aid he had received from the benevolent donations of charitable persons to clergyman with cipliaed incomes, from linnet° time. Within the last twt Ives mouths ' however, lot had been presented to a living of 12)1. Since the ; l ee!, he had iitetle applicetion to the prueeeieues of this i n l ac t aielit . wlio•we, lie understood, a society in London, to Lwow what he could do to satisfy them. The answer returned was, that nothing abort Of a public apology in the newspapers would be accepted. TiliC lAll$ a d . gradatiou which he trusted their Lordships would consider lie was justified in refusing to iindergo,aml lie had rather preferred throwing hioselfum, the mercy and the justice of then Lordships. Tee affidavit of Gerrard was also read in which he stated, that lie had acted without any premeditation, and green./ regretted what he had done ; that he had since trial ~Is n applici to the prosecutors for mei ey. the terms held out to hint were to pay all the expense* of the pi useraitioo, to give 201. "to the etalishury.lnfirmary, to make a public apology in the newspapers, and to enter into sureties to appear to judgment, when called on. These were terms he was not able to com ply with, uod he applied for some modifitestida of them; and the answer he received was au order to attend to receive judgment. Atliiiiivits were put in Treat all the defetelaota. expressing their contritiou, and affidavits to their character Were also read. Ou the part of the prosecution, the affidavits of the Rev. Mt. Hopkins and of J. Butt, were put in, stating that an at tempt to perform . Divine service was made oat the 1 Itb of Match, at Butt's cottage, but continual interruption • was given from without, and no attempt has ►iuce been made to perform Divine sees ice in Ansley. The Court then proceeded to give its judgment ; and alter commenting on the various eirealinAances of the ease which their Lordships Wiser% ed were not of an aggravated nature, it not appearing there was any thing premeditated on the part either of Mr. Caston or of Air. Gel raid, delimited that Easton should pay a tine of .11, ; Gerrard of wt.; mut that each should - ent.!r into a recoAniaaace iu IU:►I, to keep the peace for three years ; and that the other seven defendants should pay a flue of Is. each, slid enter him revognizance in 4ui. rash for the SAUIC period. This was dime, and they were dias- Oral ged. tted i t AIONDAV. uvula:wed V. HELL. The plaintiff in this (ise i hael brou4lit an action against Mr. Bell, the litoprictor of the Weekly Dispatch, for s leloul lilt her rharneter, which had apt , !ared iit hir pa l .rr. it) r. Gurney, oil a former flay, odfained a rule to sti...w etalllft why the plaintiff should not give si , eurity for nuy costs that mit:iit accrue, on the ground that she way a marl ied vviiinan, livin apart from her husband, without whose consent the actiou li.til been btottght. • N 1,.. Joatice llailey—" Was it not act forth in the defend ant's alidavit, that the plaintiff is a married %veinal'?" Mr. c•liriP.l —" Yes, iny Lord ; and it is al.o sworn by a resperl:ble individual, that he had seen her hushaud siece this arlion was commenced." Lord b'Ale.nburougli—" If a verdict should be found for the defentl.ml, how could he recover costs:' The Lady thiglit ill tlial , c. - stke, move for a Wilt of smut-, and avoid the payment of custt.. - ITheir Lordships were unanimously ' of opinion, that the plana ti%hiiiiiil giVf! Security for any cfmks, that might be iu- CUIKI:Ii II (mu the present i:a , ..--Iloie iL:ttle absolute. %%FP!. 71AV Ewtsti NO OTHERS V. SYNONS. wah aU detiolt for ; ...ld •:c4:L4f,,:10n La w scats ccutril Dv the tlctlo,la:a .nut s:ot, Lit eAvisb Sy uitgoatte,l)6amtetts-cut.::, '.rural, :ilia also • rot' certain (cll. t;tuusutirriuta due to [he S, nogogite, the %%tun, A umanid Cot for 'Lim of 1!-I. lk;;;. Mr. Sta. itt fl,r the plaintiff, and Alc. 11 ;A at for Ilic Tilt cast: cAcileti soot" interest, (rept :11C insight &afford es! into stone of the ctiNto,n , a .1,1 t . ,1•Lni.,11:4 sor tilo SytlagOgok, dieU VII acct , utit 01 t:l , . 1.,1, , c,..,411ct: t.t the question to 14t Jewish pall of Aire King'a sunjects. It appeared in ,eiitleilee, that the plaintiffs And Atuve:al others tsuuu. of si hoin art since dead) Ivirl bteunir tester th e Syuartintue iu question, in the year 1;97, fur a tern' ut sit years 'lke defendant-runt his beit had occupied two sem, ix the-Synagogite, the forintr for three•years, at 91.1:5. and tiss latter fur tau years, at ldr, dd., per annum, cacti uccapartust Alr. I 149 4;e -