The National Register. — London, England, 1819-03-01 00:00:00

itt %Rat 1 his narrative ; under the ides that it waa then impru. dent and unjustifiable provocation of the Japanese nation which led to the subsequent capture and impri velment of him and his crew. The anecdotes here given, however, not only Ptiffi nen tly exone-ate theta &au the eh arge of having acted without authority from their superior officer ; but likewise places their aurae tent aod actions in so engaging a point of view, that the arciunt which they tlso contain of the early fate of two such young' men, who met with death, as they had often dared at, tocether and at the same moment, will nat be read without mingled feelings of admiration and rewet. Tle z g ize England ; or, Trimniphs of the late War. This is a book which we presume every lover of his country must desire some pleasure from looking into; and even should the reader get no further than the table contents. he will, if he have a grain of ad•tliration in his nature bite patriotism and courage, dwell upon it with feelings of no cornm:m sort—a series of victories beginning with that of Lo r d H owe, off Brest, and with the reduction of Algiers by Lord Exmouth, and the rmtoring of tranquillity in India by the Marquis of Hastings, includes such a number of pliant actions, performed in so many anti s u c h distant p arts of the habitable globe, that the imagination fires at the thought of the wide Sea in which British valour has displayed'. itself: and inspires in every o::e who has the happy 1 , power of saying so, the exultant exclamation, •• and I also am a Briton?' The purport of this work is to col-1 lest into one focus the tributes of eloquence and grati tuae which have been excited from the country in the thanks of nuliument, by the bravery and skill of our army and navy, which has been deemed deserving this public ackuowlegment of national feeling ; and at the! end of the account of each action biographical and mili tary notices are given, respecting the individuals who I were concerned in it. We have thus the force and seletnni y of the ancient honorary orations, combined white familiarity of anecdote : and whether as a grati fiestion of taste, of feeling. or of curiosity, the /Egis of England will be found to possess sufficient claims on the attention of the English reader. The French Papers of the Sth inst have arrived ; and these do not confirm, n'sr in any manner counte nance, the rumours which had been circulated ca the abject of his Majesty's health. It is trite that the kiug has been intisposed, but was on Wednesday so much recovered, as to transact public business with his Ministers, to receive a deputation from tke Chamber of lkplities, and to give audience to several of the dignitaries and great oilieers of the kingdom. The de bates on the new arrangement of the financial year were concluded in Wednesday's sitting; when the Ministerial pviect passed into a law by a majority of only St : the ayes were in, the noes 100. The taxes are tints granted to the executive Government down to the lit of July, 1820, a period of nearly IS months : so that one great cause of anxiety to Ministers, and a powerful engine of control over their measures, is irn. paired, or suspended in its operation. A letter of a recent date, tram Madrid, repeats that the Government of Spain, has begun to talk ugin about the expedition to South America, and has decreed that there shall at: a luau of 60 millions of reels, about 600,0001. ; but a Royal Ordinance, though it may an.' thorise the State to borrow, cannot oblige any man to end: accordingly, there is not a dollar forthcoming on the occasion, and in. the mean time the ships- rot, the sailors starve, and the soldiers desert their colours. It is alleged that the Ambassadors of Crest Britain, France, Austria, and the United States, have expressed strong displeasure ut the decree fur putting to death such fo reigners.as shall aaaisr the American Insurgents. A Protestant Bible Society has just been formed at Paris, under the sanction of the I•'rench Gavernineut. The Marquis de Jauerairt, Minister of State and Peer of France, is at the head of it. An Invest was hell. last week, at the Volunteer, in Illsker.oczt., rtatinsu.simsre,ll/11 the way Of Ann Coleneek, woo 1101..0.1,.11 here by swailow:n g two oune,soi latuloautri. The dee. Ihtli was IWathabt the beau: Um ' AO infatitansl and kopeks.; attachment. Sur hod writ ten ..tverol Idters, to oar of wlitch she received an answer by post. wii:c4sltz tote, LILCO/ is tae tire, and franticly exci.ountii, 60.1, 1 au to to e s het mitul ;my mammal is tns,le up—l Imow what to do. 'fit,: dccc ucd was Latly'..nat,il.l in a resin:cub/4 is ally. Verdict— itnanity. CAVTIIN a44INAT TAKTXO , NDCDIC.INES lIC Tit/ DARK. 7he Liver pool Coa I irr eitt)s—A few nights since a yoang lat.ty of 11,1, t•rwo, being ticuel with a sudden inutsposition mole night, arose tnin tier tyal to rcaen a medicine %glitch had been wen:tribal fivr her, trotn an adjoining drawer ; whin she unfortonarely got :add of a phial 3i et . laudanum sitdelt was in t! . .i .sun_ : place. and draak oft . Vie "ic t to snattenta. Site imrmeliatety tett Into a sail , ' th'ins_isibility, front wlZ:i 111 all prottsuility s.te never motiltt have ree.k. , —id. had not her fintatio . nein dtsiovit.i by atteate , tt Medical ntristadee wart imme• distly silt tor, sad by active ettertioas tile yll6Oll was prov.stntially expt.lim frum Mc a'.o,llaC4, sad aill; 6 111.14 in a rail Way of recovery. (hi 'Cuestl:ty last, abont two o'clu , :k in the morning, a Are - Wl4 (ha L:llCri4 at the 3C43/ of P. T. Wykhum, Esfp at A. , utn Ito Oxtirl snare. it ur is_ u a in tile servants' apurtm..iits, anti burnt eitti great filry ; tf.c witi,i Wing in me upposit4 Uirectinn to the liouNc, fo: tunutely pi . ,:vel.ted Cuts q.lenthil mammon becoming it prey to the dc itiringeus,:kint. Two ur three risks were at one time on tire, anti the tunnel in ttic ril4t3. wen in the infttiuunincat thibet• THE NATIONAL REGISTER. I'ITE Di t. 4314. DRURY lANE. A new Melo drame, entitled The Ilero!nr, was pro duced at this Theatre on Monday I: is a translation of that beautiful French tale The Siege of Rochelle, so far as the characters and the language are concerned ; and, if the story could have been well compressed, we should suppose it would have made a very interesting entertainment. But it would be impossible to introduce all the incidents of the novel into a three-act play ; and they arise so naturally out of each other, from the be ginning to the end, and are AO woven together by the fine imeginutitra of Madame de Geniis, that to separate is to confuse them. This was the essential, and, per haps, unavoidable fault of the Melo drame. The occur• rences were accumulated upon each other without con nexion or order ; situations were brought into contact, which in the Novel, are connected by distant intervals; and the necessary result was, a mess of passions for which there was no preparation, and of actions file 'which there was no motive The novel is itself so well .known, that it would be superfluous to give a sketch of its fable. It will be sufficient to say, that the leading characters, being gifted with new names, are all in troduced, The name of Eloise is substituted for that of Clara. There is in the original portrait of this character something exceedingly engaging. %%0 do not admire her for her heroism so much as fur that immacu late beauty by which she is surrounded. The sacrifice she offers of her life for her supposed father seems not wonderful front such a being as she is represented.— Her thoughts are above our world ; she 10.. ks and breaths of Heaven, and her affections are as pure and as warm as if they were enkindled in the heart of a seraph. It is almost a profanation to place such a character on the stage. Her language may he recited ; but her tone of filial veneration and of sacred love fbr the man whom she deemed the future guardian of her happiness cannot he imitated. Mrs, West represented Eloise, and pro duced some striking effects, particularly in the pavilion and trial scenes. But Eloise is a truncated figure of Clara. None of the elements of her character are pre served. Her devotion of her life for her supposed father was bat one of the actions which her taitid was eon• stantly inspiring. The beauty of that mind itself is kept out of view. This omission may have been un avoidable; but it is not therefore the less injurious. Her supposed father who is called St. Aubyn, is or a character perfectly fitted for the drama. His atrocious designs, and daring schemer, have all been retained, and they have found an excellent organ in Mr. Rae. In some pscssgcs he was highly impressive. In order to relieve the scene, a rural festival u•a introduced in the second act, in which Miss Tree exhibited her powers successfully. A more questionable attempt to work out variety was made by introducing the servants of the Castle, Oabery, as one of them, is to be expcepted, fur he is humourous in every thing; but the love affair between the footman and Janet was gross even to in decency. The most haeardous incident in this piece, is the restoration of the child to life, which is unnces - and absurd. This piece is, we understand, the production of Mr. R. Phillips, one of the corps of the Theatre. POLICE. GUILDHALL. ROBBERY AT INsis.—Friday, Bartholomew Brough ton, an officer in his Majesty's navy, and the son of a solicitor of great respectability, was brought befere the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Cox, charged with felony, under circumstances of very strong limpid in. The prisoner was taken into custody yesterday week, anti brought before Mr. Alderman Ileygate, the then Sitting Magistrate, on Saturday last, who, on applica tion to him fur that purpose, thought proper to grant e private hearing, from wh'ch our reportzr was of cour c excluded. The prisoner was then remanded, and on his again being brought up under very suspicious tircum s anc3s disclosed at the previous examination, refused bi Cie worthy Aldermen. We shall make no comment on the opposite conduct adopted by the two Magistrats ; but laying' bctisre .our realent the evidence which has beon produced, enable them to form their own judgment how far the public interest required that the particulars of this case should be kept secret. From the testimony of Mrs. toms, the wife of Mr. Lmnas, who keeps the White Horse Inn, Fetter Lane, and that of Henry Taylor, the waiter at 'hit inn, it appeared, that the prisoner eases to that house a fi:w days before Christmas; dav, and desired to have a bed, as he was going otr early the wit morning by the Cambridge coach ; he was.accomniodateti accordingly, and on 'wilt; shown to his room, ordered the waiter to call him at. five o'clock in the morning. The prisoner .was called as he desired by five o'clock, and after dis •e:targint.r, his bill, left the inn before nay other of the A:isnot:a were up, anti without waiting for the Cam bralge coaco. IVlicts the other persona who lodged in the ionise got up, it was disancred 'that two gentle men load been robbed curing the right, the one of his the prisomr, wita regard to wi ontlittle or no saspie, on w as excited, his appeareuce and manners bespeaking the 'watch, and the other of his cash and Bank notes. No etiunvre Lad :kir. in the Lan that night except gentleman. On the night of the laSt day of the old year, the pri.- soner came again to the White Horse, requested a bed, and desired to be called up early as befi,re : previous, however, to his going to bed, Taylor (the waiter), who had been to one of the theatres, came home, and on. going into the cnifee-room recognized the prisoner air the gentleman who had slept there on the night of tha t-W:lply. Tfis was mentioned to Mrs. Limas, but no. particular precaution Wass taken in consequence, as it was quite impossible to suspect a gentleman of his ap... pearance firr a thief. The prisoner, therefore was called,. paid his bill, and lef the In as early as at his previous visit. At breakfast time it was i.gain discovered that two gentlemen who slept in the house had been rubbed, ar b; f i re. On Tuesday, the trith inst. the prisoner paid a si-• milar visit to the Swan with Two necks, in Lad Lane;. he went there about twe:ve °clock, - said he was going off by an early coach ; was called at twelve o'cl ,, ck by his own desire, and after paying his left as he had done at the White Horse, without wai.ing for any' coach. About ten o'cock, a Mr. Smith, win) had slept in the house came down, and vomplaired of having . been robbed of six or seven pounds, and at I I o'clock two other gentlemen, inmates in the house, ..i•covered that they had also been robbed of property of between 3001 and 4001. value. Mr. Kingsf , r.l, the lam ;lord of ' Kingsford, the landlord of the Swan with Two Necks,. ala:med fur the character and reputation of his Louse, immediately offired a reward flit the discover; of the• thief; hand bills were printed and eireula!el, and every means used for his detection and apprehension, but without success, til. yesterday week, when the - prisoner paid a third visit to the AVhite Horse Inn ; there his person being again recognised, and the rob b..xy at tha Swan with Two Necks, being also known, Mr. Ki:,gsfurd wus sent fbr, who, on his arrival, knew the prisoner as the person who had slel t at his house• when the property was stolen, as bdure mentioned, an& caused him to be taken into custody. The prisoner, on his first examination, stated who, and what he was, and gave Ws address No. 61; Warren • Street. Fitzroy Square ; he admitted having slept at Mr. Kingsferti's, anti also at the White Hoyle once, but Eniel hazing 1.1.1 it at the I.:ter pd,ce before Christinas, a; stated by the evidence. 'Had expressed much indignation at being Lien fur a thief. At the second examination, Leadbeater, the rear.i slialman, who had searched the tprhoner's lodgings, i•raduced two watches, one found on his person, and the other on that of Lis tvfe; a 11. ',curd note and few shillings were all the money they had. The pri soner and his wife had lived in Warren. Street three weeks, in furnished lodgings, at one guinea and a halt per week. Mr. Brown, the city marshal, who has been . estrem.ly active in this business, stated that two of ' the notes stolen had been paid at the Bank, nod he had. vason to believe he should be able to trace them to the prisoner; he had also hopes of procuring a watch which the prisoner had disposed of since he slept at the White Horse Inn. At ens hearing, the prisoner begged earnestly to be • allowed to give and urged that sufficient time had•., been allowed to the parties to bring forward evidence, . if thug had any, which he was suie they had not. He was then remanded to Thursday; when, on hit being brGtOtt up, Mr. Brown said, he bad obtained the watch mentioned ; but that neither the person from whom it was ,t den, nor the watch maker who received it from the friioner. were in attendance to identify either the • property, or his person. The priso.ur was, therefore, ith the assent of Mr. Harmer, his solicitor, remanded • to Tuexlay next. Tar ANCHPISUOP OF JERUSALEM —The Syrian - Archbiitop of Jerusalem, Gregorio Pietro Giarve, has lately snivel in this country, and has taken up his - residence in Frith Street, Soho. He is in the dress cf the A postle St. James, with the blue turban, a lane • robe, &c. His long beard, and venerable and apostolic appearance, attract great notice, and excite cinch cu riosity. We learn, that the Archbishop's object in visiting. England is, to solicit a•sistance, and obtain some of the ma?hinery, to establish a printing-press at Mount lelatoon, far the purpose of ptepairing, and there din tributing, correct editions•of the Sacred Setipturcs, in . the Y•yriae language. Althol,g,ll Mount Lebanon is under the dominion of a I bristian Prince, nearly all . the rest of Syria is goveraed'by, ond composed of T ur ks. Nut it few of them have lately iecotne Christians, for. the fanatic fury of their faith seems to be every day. stating. To gain many, very many, from Maitonte. tanism to Christianity, little more seems wanting thaw to distribute copies of the Bible among the Syrian Turks in their own language. ; Lut to prepare such works har. been found, herctotbre, generally impracticable. The editions of the Bible printed in this country, for most parts of the East, have, from their total inaccuracy., been utterly useless. We believe we rniy venture to say,. without any offence to the leatrne.l, that fiOne but a' native ought to attempt to be a corrector of a Syriac Press, A single niistake in she placing of a point may make the same word convey a ramming the mo s t l o th_ emus, fbr what the a• ithor latentlA to be of a i nrrsitachurtt-::. i