The National Register. — London, England, 1819-04-04 00:00:00

APlat. 4. -- - Mr. Lawson lately accepted the Chiltern Hun dreds, and sent an advertisement to The Times, I stating that be resigned his seat in consequence of having failed in Parliament. It is supposed that he disposed of his seat for a valuable consideration to the 1) of N. but the gentleman who was to be a Candidate being in America, Mrs. Lawson, the mother of the Orator, made a speech to the Elec tors, and persuaded theta to re-elect Mr. Marais duke, who is now accordingly again returned. Ma. LARSON.-My eloquence bath nought availed, I own that I completely failed. D. or N.—Faird! yes, indeed ! ungrateful hound ! Stopt payment for three thousand pound! Mrs. LAwsom.—Poor MARMADUKE! whatever he did. Sly maiden speech at length succeeded. The Excise Licence Bill passed through a Com mittee, in which it was resolved, that the additional duty of 21. (is. payable by plate sellers, should be payable by those who sold gold watches. In the House of Commons on Thursday night, the Speaker informed the House, that Mr. S. Aker- Hum and others, who had petitioned against the return of the Hon. George Lamb for the City of \Westminster, bad failed to enter into the requisite recognizances, and the order for taking the Petition into consideration was consequently discharged. -------- We understand that an interesting question, re. s , ecting the right of exemption frogs serving the office' of constable, will be determined in the course of next month. It is a case between a gentleman lof the name of Waters, one of the persuasion of the Society of Friends, of Scot's yard, and the Ward of Dovgate, the former having appealed in conformity with the Act of Parliament 10 Geo. 2, cap. '2 .2, and the latter having indicted him for neglect of duty previous to the appeal being heard. The case is of much importance, as it regards our municipal rights. !lr. Waters will, we are informed, advocate his own cause. It is expected to come on the 19th inst. The Duke of WELLINGTON and Loan Cosrtt xeAit where among the applicants at Alinack's, ou Wednesday night, who were refused aditintaiice on ac (omit of being a few minmes after the time fixed 1,3 r the Patronesses. It was in vain that the Noble Lord -eat up his name, and that of his illustrious companion; they were informed that '• they might retire to the place !nun whence they hail come, for the established rule is (Ail not he infringed." The Lady Patron . here the Duchess of WELLINGTON and Lady CAS TLEREAGH. The half-pay Officers of the Navy and Army are in Noire to have the 'lcicle:nee of situations under Govern ment; if exceedilig three times the aninultr, the half-pay to ewe, showing them, on a war, the opportunity to vturti to their profession. This is as it should be. Surely those on ItaTp.ty of the old establishment will be onog,lit of. basing unfortunately been forgot. The ilAterene: of the new and old rate of consequence — to have 311 nn one footing is desirable, 'lttEATote PnonLEm.—(By a Correspondent.) — Bow to enable a sinking Treasury to pay a great Actor the largest salary possible. The shortest way is to pay nothing to nobody else ; but to do it secun dum artem, Take a great uc!or, and set him by himself; then take down all the others that are worth any thing, and put them on the shelf, or throw them out o' doors. Take some third-rates, or lower, if you like them better, or promote a few chorus singers, mutes, and scene-shifters; and if they cannot speak, you may write a play for them— in which they shall have nothing to say. Place your great actor in the midst. Let them roar and whisper for four hours. Then pay the savings on their salaries to the great actor, if you can. PEDEBTRIANISs4.--At a quarter pastthree o'clock on Friday 'naming, Daniel Crisp, the celebrated ritesuian , started from the Dover Castle Inn, at Dover, to • the (;olden Lion Inn, Borough Market, London, a distal ce of 7} miles, which extraordinary and herculean ta.k he has undertaken for a wager of Wot. 10 perform to and (tom Loudon to Dover, for e site. costive days, the cruise distance being Btj4 rinks. Ile arrived at half-past nine o'clock at tic house of Mr. (;rib (the pugilistic champion), the Galileo Li m, in the Borough Market. He rhewed no great signs of fatigue, his chief complaint was the great n omber o f hills, and extreme closeness of the weather. Alter having a good night's rest, he set orlon his return to Dover just is the clock struck three ycstetilay mottling. DEANE, the murderer, Who was ordered for excemion mmtarrow morning, for the murder of _Maly Anti Albert, is respired until Thursday, when it is expect. d he will undergo the sentence of the Law, at the New Prison, Ilarsemonger Lane. A man and his wife, named Cross, living in Red- Fate-court, Islinories, being absent front home on Thursda-, leaving in the house only a young child, about flue years old, a well-dressed female came in, inquiring of the- child for its parents ; finding, by the simple answer of the child they were out, she amused it with some tilling presents, and in the mean time contrived to take away a box front a ta ble in the room, containing six silver spoons sad four one pound notes, with which she got off undis covered. /i4t NA noxia nEelt.rtic THE ITALL4N.S. DRURY-LANS THKATRE.—So great is the scarcity of dramatic genius in the present day, that the a iiiiii miation of • new Play seldom excites any considerable portion of anxiety. In the Augustan age of English literature. surds an event generally iittracted the attention not truly of the wits and sehulars, but even of the well informed part of the public at large, end indeed it was uatioral that those who had once berm delighted with Ilse apt ighily sallies of Pat qnliar and Corigreve, should hail with please' es a sig nal, which promised new streams of enjoyment from springs already tasted ; but in recent timer, so Irv , good Plays have been produced, that our expectations are ne ver raised very high, nor do we often enjoy the agreeable ant wise of finding II:e Piece better than we expected. Sulue correspondence inserted is, die Fatale Journals had, however, procured ler the Tragedy of Tke !tediums m touch greater slime of attention /hen has bees, anticipated by any of its mod-ris competitor.; the author had imputed to • celebrated Tragedian of the day the illiberal desire of preventing the pi rforinauce of any Tragedy, in whirls the whole interest of the Piece 'mould nut center in the cha racter to be allotted to liiinsell the Actor reprised I lic• charge %sills a spit it, obit Is the public thought 00.11se ass 1 acrimonious she subject was discussed is, inert dread 51.41 of criticism, the Pit, and the mildest was teinituats.d try au apology farina the Tragedian. Last Sc4Sll6l the perforinauce of The Itahans was ar ranged fur. the ntu+iccosspovrd,ani site scrum y panned, when the ORIKAT r.iTTLC MAN interposed Isis rata against Its production ; as COUsitiClittele anxiety had cure been raised with regard to it, and the friends of the author exclaimed loudly, that it possessed great earth, and Oral he had slut been fairly treated, the managing powers of Dritry•Litne Theatre very laudably de:ermined 111/1 the Play should be performed, and the chums of the author submitted to the test of public exat ii iii ation : it WAS ac cordingly post into rehearsal wills great alacrity, and last night the UUtIICI:CC IlAtl as opportunity of judging el Its m . ei its. The plot, as far as its crudeness will allow us to call it so, is briefly that ififoxsa,b.ing of Naples, by the lirrkiiied 111 1.41116 of a lOU ged letter purporting to be train POIS4WICI. nobleman of gre.it influence, it ileeeiv ed into the belief of his treasoualile intentions. Tuts deception oi iginates with Manfredi (another nobleman jealous of Fonfaiso's vir tues, and mortified at the refuted of lute datightet, whom lie demanded in mart iage) and Claudia, the mistress of „dy'onsa, whose inveterate bate is raised by the son aid tefusal of the love she hail proffered to Fulitinsu. Udder this undeserved displeasure of his Soverei!iii, elininnu is deprived of his sight by a ehearical powder winch is thrown into his eyes by Manfredi, and is then consigned to the cote a a peasant boy, beipio, as his guide. Albania, another nobleman, hes been h.uushrd (Imo Naples under the suspicion of 'made' ilia his own wife, who had, in fact, been pingnarded by Manfreai; and this gentleman talks a great deal in the style ut a iii iii or Cerinianus. There is an under or love plot between Angelo and Angelina; of the former's ancestors nothing is said, and lie *het city es capes the charge of degeneration, for certainly a flatter lover cannot be' found; of the latter (the daughter of Fontatte), we can only say, that it' any merit belong to the character, it lutist °tight:tie in the actors* who with " Genius which, the Poet left behind, Creates an excellence it did not find." In the last Act the King is issitleceived, and conseqnent ly embraces Foliate°, Manfredi is killed by who arum wards despatches himself, and we suppose the hive's are to be made happy. Such is the plot, and as to the arrangement and language, we have not been able to discover any beauty in the poetry, Yet the :Luther has excitedsome interest in the foie of 4 Thank, and arranged the plot in such a manner us to keep Wive that concern until the conclusion of the Piece: the wounded feel ings of u noble heart smarting under a sense of unmerited infamy, and goaded into partial imunity by long continued misery, are tolerably described; several of the incidents are well calculated for stage effect, but there is no originality of character it we except the youth Scipio an iumrovisatore, who is welbilieve the tint of theseeztemporaneeudipoets that has been exhibited to a British audience, and it must be con fes,ed that It 5 poetical effusions, and 114 attentive kindness to the wilt:sity Fontana are likely to procure for him a favourable reception. ' ln the 4th Act some generous senti ments of patriotism are uttered by Fontano. 1 here is nuthiog remarkable in the female characters. Of the cao Mg of the Play it would be cruelty to say any thing—the Theatre groans under such a poi/city of talent that the Manager ;eight not be to blame, but certainly the public voice was too uneqnivocally espres.ed 'open Mr. Henry Kemble's anbject last night, to permit his father's thrusting I • uny more, to the ruin of the Theatre, limbo the first bovines'. Justice demands oar enloay of Mr. Rar—hati his eaist• eiii e depended on the 'success of the Puree, hue could nut have dune mute; his part is heavy and bad, but he worked through it t heroically. At the coneltiviou el the Play a tremendous row took place, which appeared to be is its smith when ae left the house, at past l I o'cloca ; but we believe the Tragedy will be withdrawn—we aie sine it ought to be so in deference to the public opintan. For Mr. Kean it it It must fortunate circumstance that tile Play is what it is—had ii heels better ne feel convinced that his conduct, inflated as he is by ephemeral popularity, would have beets the !LIM', and that part al the public w ha are " pleased they know ant o by amid care nut a herefore," will find his excuse in the mediocrity of the Tragedy ; this Is not even a palliation in our estimation. The play once having been *rc' pled, WE must protest, on the part of the Public, ageing sissy servant of the Theatre interposing his individual voice, aided by bis arrogance of opiemon, on a subject to which perhaps Ws judgment wns practically less competent than it would have been on a Pantomime. We would in perfect friendship remind Mr. Kean that lie stands on a pinnam le, a Melt he has reached with unequalled rapi dity, and that below him Is an abyss to which a very trifle may consign him fur ever. A general redaction in the Staff or the Mit;tia is rev effecting. An order bas been received in Buty. for the disuanding of sergeants. corposab. and drummers. —Sy thill means pe r wrd somegiag may be saved towards paying the to the=Corataaallsr-iittitirf for doing In, duty to his yeas :able 109 . ". . An Account of the total trillion of foreign and colonial c on, grain, uscal, and flour, in real value, in each yea►, from the year 181`2 to inc year 1818, both inclusive, into Grea Britain : Value. as calculated at the average market prices in Flaglaud and Watts. Year 19 14 L 1 201.350 3 I 2.192,h91 3 6 1514... ..... 2.81 3 . 310 4 0 • 79.1,241 8 11 942,491 19 'T VW/ 8,403,891 10 6 10,908,140 0 2 A comparison of the Budget, just presented by the French Minister of Finance, with the amp ..... of pub lic blade-its in this country, presents a very sersous contrast. The ainowit required for the service of thy year 1819, in Frame, is 37,000,000/. iticluding all caarges- , -the public dela, sinking fund, and support o' . the clergy. Now, assuming the population to be Yit,ouo,uoo, aid the number o f houses, 6,000,000, the tixatioii upoll every 111.1 n, wontan, and cild, will lie *l7 shillings, and upon every housekeeper h tit The sum demanded in England for the sets ice of the year, will piohably hr ll;i,000,0001. which, supposing the poptil 101 l 01 . the Cooed Kingdom to be b,004.4000, and the number of linuse, 6,cu0,00u, produces taxation to the amount of 41. tor. upon every man, woman, and child, and 221. upon every housekeeper. This is an alarming and disheartening contrast. Three foreigners of distinguished rank. Primes . 11.&,orocky, and Vollsonskv, from Russia, and Coned' linaidtowsk v, from Poland, have been on a visit to Mr. Coke. at hulk ham, durin; , . the last week. Coining in • pursuit of agricultural knowledge they paid particular attention to the Hulkhum farming, and were highly ...ratified by witnessing the superior mode in which wt. conducted there under the auspices of Mr. Cake. The public feeling has Leen unnecessarily exclied by-a • statemelit entirely founded in falsehood, reTecting a donnas in the Xing's Bench haeiag nearly killed a fellow-prisoner, by attempting to force a red-hot poker down his throat.—The Maniac himself is since dead . ; and the following are the particulars of ante Coroner's Inquest in the King's Bench Prison :—An inquest was taken on Tuesday evening before Esq. Coroner, on the body of Thomas Foster Ganser, described as a maniac, who died on Monday. The Inquest afrortlett much iiitc•rest, (min the contra dictory reports 011 the ;Inject. Mr. atone's, a Clergyman, proved, that being scot for, the deceased was labouring, undergreat remorse of conscience, and a4;ed if he could hope fur forgiveness iu another world for offences, and lie was replied to in the affirmative. lie said lie should die on brine! utade a hatikrupt. Gentleman, and another Clergyman believed the prisoner to be labouring under a dreadful compunction, and that lie was not insane. Steele, the man who sat up with the deceased, stated the instiller in which he laid violent hands upon himself with the poker. Re riot told hint that if lie would re main quiet he would not kill him, but he would kill himself, as if he lived lie should be sure to be hung. This witness presented him killing, himself, when he turned upon him, but Jul not injure loin. At eleven, o'clock the :ury delivered the following verdict— " Died by the Vis:taiion of God, from a Vic.llClll, ar feetion of the nervous SySICIII. " SHOCKING CITICUMSTANCV.—At Brantley, 11.141,Ile sex, on Wednesday evening last, a labouring titan, having a quarrel with his svitc, was cutting snots bread, when he threatened to throw the knife at her. She dared him to do so, and lie put the knife down; but in a moment after, irritated by some expression which escapeil her, he threw the lost at her with great violence. It snuck their itilaut child, which was sucking at the mother's breast, and caused its iiistant death. The fa tlit:r•was taken into custody, to abide the result 'of a coroner's inquest. Pigeon Match.—A match for a sum of 30 gui neas, a sweepstakes between Messrs. Hollis, Smith, and George, took place on Cobham Common, at 11 birds each. Mr. George won the stake by killing 10 birds; Messrs. Hollis and Smith 1-illed•9 and 7. Shocking Catastrophe.—Friday morning, about nine o'clock, the following dreadful accident hap. pened to the son of Mr. Richardson,•butcher, Spar row-corner, Rmemarrlane, a lad about 12 years of age, having employment at the New Mint, Tower. bill ; —going too near the steam-engine, a wheel belonging to some part of the machinery, drew Lita in, whereby his head was so shockingly crushed that, his brains protruded, and caused instant death.—lle now lies fur the Coroner's Inquest. FOOTPAD RODBERY.—On Wednesday event:f.c., . as Mr Singleton, of Meard.street, Witter lane, w:ta • returning to town, from Footscray, and having o:- easion to call at Blackheath on his way home, 11.- was stopped near the end of Ore lane leading out of the Maidstone road, by three fellows, two of whom had on sailor's jackets ; sata was their audacity at day-light, and..where the road is public. One of thew placed - himself at the head o' the home, and the others robbed Mr. S. of his watch anti 41. in money. Tlic next tool: a bundle from tilt ltezd of the chaise, cut the horse from the harness toirl mode off IICTO•5 the fields threatening toshept Mr., S. if he stttteptod to foiled,. 1