The National Register. — London, England, 1820-02-13 00:00:00

'''' . .. • 1 . . - .0 , • - . . .. . • . 80 THE NATIONAL REGIST.ER. BIOGBAPHICA.I. MEMOIRS Offe Miss O'Neill was got so ming as to elicit plaudits FROM TUESDAY NIGHTS GAZETTE. IP- MPS. LECHER , merely on account of her youth ; her acting was judged' a -sea- BAN'KRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. LATE MISS O'NEIL. .• ..• , • of entirely hey iteintriseticoneffts, audit was by the this- • • S.Surgess, Manchester, calico-printer. „ - e .. • :..--ow•-.E set ffltn alone of talents, and just conception, that' BANKRUPTe. (From the London Magazine.) she had arty chance of succeeding in her profession.-i- J. Balme, Gomereal, Yorkshire, woolstapler. Solicitor, Mr. • There is no task half so delightful to the biographer, It is evident, therefore, that her powers were isituitive, Evans, Hatton Garden. as the delineation e Of a female possessing talent, larch- and that she was in a very great measure indebted to R. Blease, nluingliam, Cheshire, flour dealer. Sols. Messrs. ness, anti nirtue, risitfg 'Dom the •gloonly vale of indi- nature for the resphendent success she has merited an i Wright and Cole, Temple. dea .l i . eis S . ho so ttl i er A rt i h as a rs n . d'f..Stephens.Torkinirt . on, ~ C heeire, • genre and obscurity, and by intrinsic excellence alone, received. Her illustrious prototype Mrs. Siddons, tic. , Wigleaworth a nd Comity, Gray limn- :1 attaining rank, riches, and renown, in the beauteous (mired dramatic excellence by continued study, and square. bower of connubial felicity. Such a picture is rendered had she not received very considerable assistance from J. Chance, Worcester, maltster. Sol. Mr. Edmunds,. Ex• doubly charming, if, in addition to these excellent quali- her celebrated relatives, in a l l probab ilit y would never chequer Offi ce, Lincoln's Inn. ties, the writer can present to the eye a scene where every have attained mediocrity. It was a long, a very long S. Smith, Stayley. Cheshire, cotton spinner. Sols. Messrs. Brundrett, Spinks . and Reddish, Temple. .1 thing is calculated to tempt the feet from the path of time, before the latter lady became a decided favourite • J. Dundee, Carlisle cattle dealer. Sols. • Messrs. Mottnsey pure y-vr here example, the allurements of pleasure, and and it was by slow and measured steps that she attained ' and Fisher, Red Lion , Sqnare. the fascinations of fashion, are its combined Levey to en- that climax of powerful and beautiful acting, for which S. Carrington. Ashburn, Derbyshire. mercer. Sol. Mr. trap unsuspecting and unprepared modesty ; and yet all.• is now so deservedly famous. Barber, Fetter Lane. • where virtue triumphs not merely in the disdainful re- Miss O'Neill. after the expiration of the two years R. Wilson. Bridge Street, Vauxhall. linendraper and haber. 'ection of illicit love, but in the noble refusal (from its she performed on the Belles' statee, during which time dasher. Sol. Mr. Phillips. King Street, Covent Garden. being unconnected with mutual affection ) of what slice- her fame had flown all over the co u n try and commanded~J. J. Farmer, Skin grave Place, •Tempner Street. victualler. Sol. Mr. Dade, Pals- ety Bar.• wools tolerate, and perhaps commend, a legal union the attention and admiration o f all who heard of it , J• Brand er and.. Barclay, Size Lane, merchants. Sol. Mr. with reek, affluence, and splendour Should, however- received very advantageous offers from the Dublin Racket. New Court, Swithin's Lane. there be anything wanting to complete this portrait of matiegers, whose cutiosity and cupidity had been alike .1, Owens, Kington. Herefordshire. ironmonger. SoL Mr. ' female worth, when he can pourtray, as the climax of excited. This was a new and trying event in her life. Pugh, Bernard Street, Russell Square. his description, adversity without base servility, prospe- She was called to a theatre where she would have to No ß reo . " r an tiCl stpl in i t t Inn h. Messrs. Egerton, ' a lili ' - , G n ir iarim eh X n ua lu rt rely without pride and toes ption ; and the tenderness appear before an audience fa r more varied, refined, and S. Dye. Norwich, groce Y a. Sol. ' Mr: So Goodwin, Norwich. of filial duty, and the kindness of fraternal affection ; critical than she had yet seen ; and she was called berme J. Fullerton, :Manchester, saddler. Sole. Messrs. Wright and . displayed in every situation, and under every circuit'. her physical powers were yet sufficiently matured, to Cole, Temple. stance! Such is the character, and such has been the to give effect to her mental conceptions of character.- J. neon, Carlisle, tallow-chandler. Sol. Mr. Drake. Old conduct, of Mrs. [lecher, as the following brief memoir These were citeumstances of no small mom e nt , deserving Fish Street, Doctors Commons. will sufficiently prove ; and it is most fervently to be consi d e r a bl e thought, and which, in all probability, F riet Fo t r e d it Line St ree t , wine merchant. Sol. Mr. Young, Chi: House. hoped, that the stage, instead of being as it once was, would have dunned any inferior performer ; but her Jere Bide:ill, Exeter, wine merchant. Mr. Young, Char. a sort of licensed heram, where its female ornaments better genies prevailed, and she went 1 Her Dublin lotto How,. Mansion House. might be basely purchased by every noble or affluent li- was more ausoicious than her Wrest dela!, and the G. Solomon. Lemon Street, Goodman's Fields, hardwareman. beruine, it will continue to produce actresses - like her, character of Widow Cheerly, in the comedy of the Sol- • Sol. Mr. Hutchison, Crown Court, Threadneedle Street. whose beauty, modesty, and ability, if transplanted to a dier's Daughter, which was selected nit that occasion, M ess rs . eSe Henley , js.b aHnodlypweenlthlevStregs,inSgtrhaainids. Strict. mercer. Sols. inure dignified station, may compensate for the want of stamped her fame as a first-rate actress for ever. She Bo .l ;er l o er l l d er , J AL, ry L . amb's Conduit . Street, jeweller. Sol. Mr. exalted birth, or of splendid and titled connexions. ' alternately performed tragic and comic characters to Lord Thurlow and the Ea !I of Derby have successive- delighted audiences whilst she continued on that stage, ly deprived the drama of its charming supporters ; and wish equal effect; but although we think she canton ADDRESS TO EARL FITZWILLIAM their respective ladies have given other proofs of the eh- perform any thing in a very inferior summer,. yet we do chantment which talent and loveliness throw around not conceive that her comic ability bears any proportion 4, TO TESTIFY TUE GRATITUDE or THE WEST RIDING FOR 11111 LORDSHIP'S SERVICES DURING HIS CONTINUANCE them, when united with purity of character, and pro- to her tragic excellence :-but more of this anon. IN THE OFFICE OF LOltD-LIEUTENANT, A PERIOD OF priety of conduct. The manager of Covent Garden heard her fame, and MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS." Mrs. Becher is descended, on the paternal side, from believed it. He made offers of a nature so liberal, that Wednesday being the day appointed to present Earl Fitawil. Mr. O'Neil, whose ancestors led the " noiseless tenor of they could not be refused ; and Miss O'Neil graced a Ham with the address agreed to at a meeting at Wale:Keil. on their way" in the sister kingdom of Ireland ;as did Lifetime theatre, and gratified a London audience, on the liith of Nov. lust, upwards of 100 noblemen and #,..ut:e . ...en assetnbled in the morning, at Wentworneliouse, to . au. t, . t.:e those of her mother, who is the daughter of a Mr. Fee- her first appearance. in a manner we all know to be too deputation. The company were received into the Oland hall, therstone, of the county of Longford. Mr. and Mrs. rich for description, in ths character ofJuliet. It would and about two o'clock Lord Althorp, and the gentlemen to. mete O'Neil are the parents of several children, besides the be an unnecessary and almost an impossible task, to de- the d e p u t a tion, proceeded to the saloon, followed by the 0 • 01 accomplished subject of these memoirs. The daughters scribe the different characters he which Miss O'Neil ap- the noblemen and gentlemen prevent, where Earl Fi'awilliatia are all younger than Mrs. Becher ; and of the sons, the pewter' from time to time; or 10 tell the amazing enlists. was waiting to receive the address, supported on les O s tia uy eldest is performing respectable parts, with a rising re- stash'-the mingled wonder and delight she invariably Revd LenJM.ilton, anThe don hes le ny tett by rmed acrescen his Lonlship's id io t tai eplain e tie— . ' Lowe. tympat m ot his potation, in several provincial theatres ; the second has excited. The tea' s of sensibility which have trickled Lordsh ip, the deputation occupying the centre. Lord Mellow, . studied medicine, under Mr. Wilson, of Windmill- down, not merely the cheek of the fair, but of our her- advancing a few paces, addressed his Lordship in a manly, ener. street, a powder anatontist ; the third is an officer in dier and more stubborn sex, when she performed her g ctic, and impressive speech, eulogising his Lottlslim's many the army. whose Leutenstiey is one 'amongst many I Belt idera, her Munimia, her Isabella, her Jane Shore, public and private views', and in u conetderahle donee reitera- , proofs of tile eind affection of his eldest sister ; ants the I and her other pathetic pieces, are the best practical tine the sentiments contained in the resolutions end ad. nes. i rest are too young to be noticed, either here or else- proofs of her power. And in our indignant enthusiasm d which his Lordship then read, and concluded by observine, teat where. With such a numerous offspring, it could not we should denominate the heart that had not throbbed, le best testi mony . of the approval of his long and tentitful servi. l• , Ms was evinced by the unsolicited signatures of upwards of be expected that Mr. Wel &shoulder circumstances which lor the eye that had-not wept, in beholding her its these Gem of his frieads and neighbours. Lend Ancor', then deli- in a pecuniary point of vi e w, wer e never very favourable • characters of touching tenderness, to be colder than the vered the roll into the hunds of Earl Fitswillietn, which euntained could bestow upon each or ally of them a finished edit- Alpine snow, and harder titan the Adamantine rock. many skins of parchment. • • cation ; yet front what is known of the young gentle- The conduct of Miss O'Neil has been always marked After the applause which followed the presentation of the ad . dress had suboded his Lordship under feelings evidently punch • proprietymen, independent of Mrs. Becher, it is evident that this , with a sense of propriety seldom equalled, and' never ex- anected on the o cca sion, said, in reply to Lord Aithorp's speece highly necessary duty has not been wholly unattended celled. W hilt single, she was titian:betties of distine- ' to, on p resenting the Address, that it was impossible to imagine his Lion, and refused the majority of those invitations which ftefings: lie kit more than he could express. and the recollection •• Mr. O'Neil became, in early life, an enthusiastic vo- others would have been delighted to accept. The hand of this day would never be effaced but with his existence. Tne - ( subject which ltd to the address he would not discuss. He per tans to Thespis, and among such o f his countrymen as of an Irish nobleman was offered in her, but she refused• possessed snore warmth of heart than coolness of head, ir, conceiving that a coronet, tin reelected with mutual reedy agreed with the sentiments expressed by . the _Noble Lout r elicited at various times no little applause by his histri- love and mental feeling, was only a tinselled bauble-a (Lord Althorpa that the Crown had the selection and ap i emit- onic exertions. He was not, however, considered by gilded misery. fluent of its subordinate officers, and consequently the rig!.' and prelogause of dismissing than whenever it thought proper, and • the more calculating judgwerit of the critic, entitled to The gentleman who has lately led her to the altar, is without swigging any reason for so doing; as Weil, Ise haw never • • rank in a very high order as a thematic performer, but of a distinguished f Judy in Ireland. His estates a re inquired as to the Cathie Wiliell led to his own dismissal. In fact. • so just is as the right of such prerogetiie, that were he at the elbow was alfowed to possess, like litany other eminent indi- principally in Mellow, (tor which he is member of par- r adviser of the Crown, and a similar occurrence had taken • victuals , (would they knew it I) more ability its teaching ha mem) and the adjointing villages. His various le- p o lace. and au inquiry into the reason had been requested, that . and curreetitig the acting of others, than in acting hint- ' mints. as well as all who know hint, honour a n d esteem he, as Weil wiener, would counsel the Crown to give no reason, self. him for that liberality and kindness which ha A Mil- it being whony inconsistent with its dignity to be held account- ender such a tutor, whose lessons tonal have a ll the flintily characterised his conduct. His beautiful brid e able for its acts towards its officers. " But, gentlemen. although I citeret of parental affection, besides their Justness and E has been !troweled to all the nobility and gentry of the I se e ' h the re-awn. , yet I can divine it; and in . •doi nd ng , so, I do not any thtng, durmg the long and eve. t pen 20 proi•riesy, the you've and f a i r follower of Melpomene surrounding rerun. ry, and has been Necked by them nut years I held the situation of Lord Lieutenaratofthis Biding, that • I could not bet mitehe many useful ideas, which, in ad- as the branch of a plebian root, partaking of a low mind can impeach my having fulfilled the duties deity late official . Ilium to the powerful talents she i li f ie n t ed f r o m p a n t i e , and yelpr manner, and merely engrafted on a patri- s i tuat ion other than titthfully, loyally, and to the best of my toecitier with the experience she derived during her clan tree for its blossom, its bloom, and its beauty-but abilities. I may have erred, as we areal' liable; and WI . have . , i /. oil: tend drottetie career, will sufficiently account fur as a fair floe er„ designed by nature, and fitted,by virtue, fete! contid r ei t i t t t i to on n e ti w el i i t i l l ir se i rt h t a h v a e t I d Int e ve n donLit t v ir t d o e w n a ti r o d n s al t l i y i . e . that magical inn . ..mice she has so frequently exerted to gt , ill' and seine, and shed its fragrance in the highest 1 I King we.' ll:l to .e I a l g y comer; The r presentations I made were - t ; 'over her al....rtiately astonished and delighted metropo. and ihe noblest garden of society. such as I officially noel from the best sources) received; and I ' lean auditor. Mrs. Becher to her ho ll ows h e it r ec ord e d, has la- made diem faithfully and featlessly :if they were not correct, i MI. (e'N e , I i's circumstances compelled him to change bound assiduotedy and succes s fully, not for herself, hot was deceived; Gentlemen, I feel the more convinced teat my i from time to time the scene of his performances from 1 1111 Belfase to Drogheda, .and from t heiice to various ',mein-. for those she lie rid with filial and fraternal affection ;- cial theatres in Ireland ; in all of which his daughter's • si n t l e oo h l a h s , lll :l l ::l ll l l Y e eate r . lllllll , i ll p e a a l s h in ( g )l. k--e her h P e arr il l e u e ''l % x e's is t::W im t ' e k l . , talents shone conspicnotnlv. At the early age of twelve on line of her brothers the commission, for which his general conduct Inn been correct, from the very nutrked attention ion I this day receive M your hand,; and I shall and t i ta rl"t •ei t itlenien, that day on which I received the despatch. that my services were no longer required. as the most tOrtunate day of my lite, inasmuch as it has kelto.rithis-the or c e nsure ccpuitoetestetnadnedd Mari O'Neill made liar dAert on time stage of Drogheda, breast panted with youthful ardour ansienthusiarn; sod happie,t day id my existence. The ha f u neer the attsp cis of her father, who was that, the she has enabled the rest of her relative* to perform 'helm to be conveyed by my dismissal front office, is now thrown Lack actisig manager ; and it is no less estostishitig than several duties in the situations its which Providence has ' • true, that those who were at all ecipteintsd with drama. placed them, without having any thing to fear from the 1 tic excellence in that quarter of the sister country, gave icy hand of stern Adversity. 'rids is ie UV benevolence ; on those with when) it origineted. The Itemised,. and the very marked assent of you, my friends and neighbtdirs, is o more value to me than the honour conferred by my late office. I now .; beg my Load and gentlemen, to say , that the grateful keliters • ! it as their °venue. front des first appearance, titan the and althoueh those who mistake eccentric prodigality whi ch this day have been created by the approbation of upwards of . 1 ; i ; young debutante was dest tiled at nu distaut date, to shine fon fteeerosity, and 'ancient economy for rennet-, suety Nato (duty fellow •citisens and is ighbours, can never he effaced i es a dhow:tic star in a nobler horizon•. tominue to traduce her fair lime, the more thinking and but by my latest breath : and I can only tesure you, that my •. • • '1 hr (lan n its of this fair planet soon became the better part of society will hoot,/ and esteem that filial future life !li al l iiidlt . ca t i .d inot io be tii I . • c at r g v , ice bo o rt e le i r l i i ng su e v s e l re a . m on the rave to th e g pro- . • • • t h eme os eanyersatiott throttehom the contiguous coml- duty and tenderness which has prompted her toweas- Piisliailit be g s e t ; the C de dica te d of my ' country, and to the 'service 'and 1 is., ef treaded ; and Mr. Teluot, manager of the Belfast ing exertions. muc hi more than either the wish fur a a ventag e mow, my Mends." • ' ecelleany, made very advantagenus otters to enjoy the fortune or the thirst for f arm. The company then retired from the saloon , and rooms le. • . s . i beneht of her rising abilities. l'hese offers were acceded Be fer L e EN T ASSIZES.:-WESTERN .- CIRBITIT. refinement w ere thrown open, where upwards of Leo gentlentee . to, am see was accordingly taken from the loud careparamk. of au elegiug cii!iat ion. A band or music played dating ; • J am juteemi. • deice of her fattier, to be plead m e s e! M r. Baum WOOD so d M r . Jostler BURROVGII. the time in the grand pillared hall. 1 r_to be ruts- Sall t lii i l:l „. ll 6 lp e l s tl i :;—Melidd,, , Febtua . ry . 9e , at the Castle of Aratemea the party were Lord Althorp. Lord Stourton, Sir W. the unlimited coot:ill of a slliili•AC manageMilner, eteloha Itantstien, Sir F. L. Wood, Sir Ed ward Smyth. jeer to tae caprices J0..1 prejudices al a orange audience Wills-Sault day. March 4, at New Sersen. General I•iterov, flow Mr. Petre, Hon. Mr. Stourum, Hon. ...Wind tier tor ttttt e, and pernaps her fate, lit he entire-le Inoset -Thursday, March 9, at Dereliester. Mr. Twisleton..e_e., e rlapsialaitt ',eon the unassisted powereof her own d. ne%un--Muullay, March 13, at the Ca.tte of E x eter. ~ . ._______ .__ _ - _ She s t ieceeiled--she truiniplied. During die Mir sears City and CONisly of Exeter-Same day at the Guildhall of The remain.; of die late Mr. J. Latotiche, the sire appearel on the Bellast boards, her int erovement, the city of Exeter. highly reseectehle Member for the County of Lei lc and the approbation of her audiences, were etogreui,„l, eurnwati-Weduesdas, March St, at Leunceston. Increawitg. Her reputation while yet a child (for stir 5°1 , 1 ,"" ' I -‘l°"* Y.l' 44l" .11. at the Castle of 'reunion. trim, prat cede '. on ilturectay morning froas A rli - v... AN EFFICTLAL siEREIVit rult RENIoVING CHILBLAINS. ' ton-street, on their way to Duldin for interment. i • Auld not be otherwise &eta:ideated) was. Willi . ~ 411,1' and -One ounce of white cu p i , her couceptions of the ettaractete she pertorsiteu, ire- lis•olved ill a lillilll ilf iii_ __ Water, and OrtalNiUli4i l V 411;I:i r l "' Ii I IG Me atfecte I viols, giro only elicited fruit) lliv• astonished hearers the WWI will wiirriy rismobe ow - lii ::, .... b.. l g ichate. 6 , 4418 -.l a • 1 . N. B. 'Plus my were accompanied part of the way by Mr George Latour:tie, the relative of the th.ccam..,l, :too 1 , ~:,,-9.3v0cal mid coutinued plaudits. application must be RSC.4 heroic they break, other:ow it a few private friends. will do injury. I , . . .... • -, 7.0-..:-.... ; to . -- ' _ .., ... • . S. • . ..i . fly_ imilllll