The National Register. — London, England, 1819-07-18 00:00:00

JUICY 18. month the town and valley of °thee were made the victims of a storm, which occasioned the greatest disasters. A continued rain at the commencement caused the river to overflew its banks ;. a frightful torrent soon overturned 300 feet of a wall, tore up the street, which had Leen newly paved, undermined the foundations of an inn, and overthrew an adja cent house. The river then directed its course to the valley, where it destroyed every hope of harvest, A million and a half of kilogrammes of corn have been overwhelmed. The loss to the farmers is emi• nutted at nearly 500,000 francs ; that of the Litants of the tow . is also considerable." The French Five per Cents. are at 70 f. 8.5 c. ; Bank Stock, 1445 f. Tuesday being the dry appointed fur the Prince Regent closing theAession of Parliament, the usual arrangement& were accordingly made.. Ladies in full dresses, began to arrive at the House of Peers by eleven o'clock, and the course of people in the lark and streets has not been exceeded for some years past. The Prince Regent left St. James's palace in the state carriage at 25 minutes to two o'clock. His Royal Highness entered the House of Peers at two o'clock, and was announced by a royal salute from cannons placed on the Lambeth shore. Hit' Royal Highness remained in the house eeactlyt26 minutes. The Prince Regent gave a grand fancy dream-bait en Thursday night at Carlton house, at which most of the distinguished persons who yet remain in town were present. Several of the Ladies' &ewes were very superb, characteristic, and critically correct in costume. The company were, however, more dis tinguished for their formality Clan vivacity at the commencement of the evening, but as the hOur grew lute, reserve began to vanish, and several supporeed the characters they assumed with pleasantry and spirit. The magnificent apartments through which they meandered were decorated with .infinite taste, and the supper was most super!), and eehihited a splendid display .of princely munificence Atneng the Ladies whose dresses attraetwl much notice, were tl:c Duchess of Bedford. the. Marehionessnof Hertfunl, Countess of Mcxborough and' Warwick, Ladies 'l'rollope, Otwav, Pack, Boston, • Seymour, Berresford. Fee. &c. Most of the Gentlemen wore Regiment el uniforme, and sonic few limey dresses., On Tuesday the Princess Augusta, accompanied by the Earl ofWineltelsea,. General Garth, and Miss Disbrow, enjoyed the diversion of fishing, at Vir ginia-waters. The Princess pertook of some re freshment at Mr. Johnson's. ller Royal•Highnees arrived at her apartments in the lute Queen's-pa. lace en Thursday afternoon. A discovery has tuken place which has disap pointed the fond wishes of two lovers in high life, and totally deranged the hopes and expectations of the family of one of the parties. A young Nobleman, heir apparent to a Marquis,. was lately on the eve of marriage with the interesting and accomplished daughter of an Earl. Every preparation was made, and the day fitted fir the completion of their mutual happiness, who) a fatal defect was discovered in the pedigree of the noble suitor, which has cheated him of his foniltst hores. An action of Crim. Can. in high life, in a forward state, has recently fellen to the ground, to the great disappoietraLnt of the gentlemen of the long robe. The unfortunate lady who was the sulject of the action has paid the debt of nature.. There are bluntly airs thousand special constables sworn in btfure the Aldermen of the City of Lon don, to preserve the peace of the metropohe on Wed. nesday next. The arrangements. made at the office of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the same purpose, are on a most extensive scale. After the lath instant, the London and Yar-• mouth mails will be conveyed in a patent mail. coach, which will travel so much quicker than the usual ri;oo.e of conveyance ass to enable that town to answer letters one day earlier than heretofore. The mail leaving London at the usual time, will arrive at Yarmouth ut 114. 40m. the next morning, and depart at 3 the same afternoon. Yarmouth is lee miles from London, and it will be the only town in the kingdom at so great a distance enjoying such az et:mato:let ion. In another part of our Paper to-day will be found an account of ►he proceedings at a meeting lwld yesterday of the Proprietors of Drury-lane Theatre. It appears to us that the Select Committee have not sufheiently cnfOreed upon the public, not only that the subscription now in progress is only a loan, and that upon good security ; but that the list of sub scribers is by no means limited to those who arc share-holders of the Theatre. We are sure that the ;accessary amount would have been loner• since sub setilxml had the Select Committee propc:rly &elated that Non-Proprietors small lout-subscriptions would gratefully received. 'THE NATIONAL iIEGISTER. Dlitler-LANE THEArIiE. The Meeting of Proprietors of Drury - lane Theatre took place in the grand Salonn yesterday. Mr. Calerall haviter, been called to the Chair, Mattel, that he met the Proprietor. with unite I.leastire to-dry than he had heretofore experieneed, because he hail to announce to them the confident reliance loft by the Merl Committee dint nlNmately their exertions could nut be an needier; that the aoharription could in a few days be tilled, and that Drury-lane Theatre would cliii shine be the dramatic spheres star of Ike/boil magnitude. The amount required was ~911.1,000-4.V.(1114 had alreedy been soh scribed, aisi the Select Committee ached of those who hail originally intrusted to them their interests, at exten sion furs few drys of their confidence, inerdcr that the Os Herat Committee (the the Select Committee Will a body not recognised by thy-Act) might be placed in snub . a si tuation ita to enable diem le let the Theatre. in ao otoin euntheredostate. The worthy (Ammons next did justier to the liberal forbearance mot co•operatioon oldie creditors of the Theatre and the New Ken-toes—had either class of those Gentlemen studied dicer own apparent individual interest. the whole entire.") might have been consigned to ruin. Of the liona•lothlere, Owthe amount of 1.400010 more than 20,0001. hod ronsented to the proposed po- t - prominent el their payments, and the remainder, he bad no doubt, 'Koval/allow the noble example. It. next ad verted to the ridicelons repot 14 in the newspapers of the parlientirs cif the.ditferent ~elms made by these pi oposbog to hereof* Le f the Theatre, and *sutra ti thy Plat prieters •that the Committee had ub d a gotorJed sect ecy on that point. A Proprietor wilserred that %le. Kenai °fret had been •melt and coerce tty kimono The Chairman usked st bet her the information came from Mr. Kelm or- dot Committee 2 %Viten Mr. beau's Gn, od replied, he believed from Mr.Keiset The Cliairmou then resumed, by saying, that the Amines• of the vacation rendered Ito nentaistule a duty .4 necessity, and that in recommending a lessee, the Coirlitliklee would lauk to the umnuat of the olf•r„ the oesponisibility of the proposed menorah.% and the probAniitt of the party nialcmg the ore, bring cu.npct, tot to reader Coe Theatre once more popular. That no unfair Kristen( e should be shore % but that it was fateoded on Thttrwiay , nett to reecho amended, erteeded, and ultimate sealed tenders for the Theatre, stool that on that day the Select Continittee.would Collie to n dal/lithe deter mination as-to whom they anted recommend as A net. repenting his ettingiuni on the Coeditors unit New Renter.? liliern'ity, the Chairman sat don n. when Mc„ G. R o bins ruse and ssi t, he should indwell lanwitt, that after so 'notch of the Irct C -lime had Iro cot de •ooted to the plan it agitat on, it should fail, and from so in vial s d •tiest in amount of the miserly' iondoati. Many of tlioor ahn by their being members of the Side-C'munittees ono oat Committees, hrol moistly contributed to the dis trese and bankruptcy of the l'heatie, mow mean y left the Proprietors 140 " work out theieocu salvation" from the ev:ls they had entailed upon tiwin. There WAX at.oth• r Ace Se w.shed to notice, and that cas a set of.I• eit•ea tang gets 'lmmo, who only slope red at the Annual or Geiseinl Stinetiag., to move " to the Stub and General Com mittee for their etert km"— by which exertions the cooncern hid been placed in 4aati imn jeopardy. 'I he Proprietors nod the public (for the suh.mriptilia wits open to the public who were nut proprietors). 11.:‘ , sow to deteriu,ite w Milwr Drurs-lain Theistic wits lo mew; i!! k : into .lust or to rise again an Ornolliclit of the Mr tropohs and of the nal' , hut prom pi. tiotude cut requisite. Co., ot Carden Theatre was to open on the Oil. Se i rt inlo-r, and Drury-luos- must uprii o 4 rarly its. time was 110440'40re 10/ be let. some o' so rvistions from Mr. Attlrrinao W. mi, amt ex irite nisi toils f Rubio% it was resolved glom 'I v 440449 Nisoolel , lie , r 4 rely. till 'floscoday neat. and that ate puners of the Committee should he continued io them %In. Buller, addreasist i g the Chairman, requested to mid Xi:, to her !Miner sob.ctipi tout, with the Ernes, t hope ttua ** Drum -lane Theatre tri.uld imeg remaim in a slide of plot. perity, as an honourable mouuntent to the deceased and hi ‘ltei al tn." Thaul. urn. 'hen eared 10. the Chairman, and she Meet. ink atljuurued tine die. Letters from Amsterdam, received yesterday, mention a report being prevalent there of the plague being at Mogadore, and consequently persons who were about to . go there deferred doing so. until it IV 03 sac crt ai nal whether there was any truth in the report or not. Upon inquiry we learn, that Jv the last navices from Magadore, which arc to, the 2d ult. the plague had not then reached there ; hut as no precautions were taVen to prey. nt it, fears were entertained it would, as it raged in various parts of the Emperor of Morocco's dominions.. A Phris paper says, " A telegraphic dispatch from Strasburg!' stutes, that on the ^;th inst. the Chief of the Customs at Marleuheim, seized on the persons of Hadschi Jussuf, and. Had:it:hi Ali Echbec, calling themselves Envoys of the Prince of l'ersia, and pro. ceeding. to Paris, P 8 Cat:bemire shawls, and various other articles olCaehemire. These two travellers are susreeted to he Armenian Jews." . Cut Lia-S rF.a.r.n 01 4 tie cent appearance was detected yesterday afternoon in stripping et.child in the fieltls,.at the back of Somers Town, wLich proved to he the son of Mr. Wibra him, of Brill stree•t, about five years old. She was lodged in custody, and the child, which had iv.yen seduced by same cherries frean home, was restored to Lis disconsolate parents. likatNo iii nlt.ar.v.—TLe home of Mrs. Sal raonlrust, ('t Bread lane, Upper Hampstead .r, id, was broken and entered by tl:rte robbers on ‘Wed nestlay morning, about two o'clock, And the lower rooms were literally stripped of every article that n men road carry. Ilia t'aini:y arc on the coast, and an e Itierly woman, who was en enwilling spctt...tor of all that passed, had the C:l7e of the house. A cart was waiting to receive the goods at the earner of the lane leading to Child's and by which hopee sue entertained that. the villains wll be tle tek;ted.. ENGLISH OPEnA HOUSE. Lost evening a new Farce ruder the title of " Oar, Mae, Fore, Pies, Ig risement." was announeed, and knowing, as we do, how crowded Use House has ter rutty Isere, yet fettles we owed it as a duty Se our readers to report or tier new piece, we wetd. tsf 0,C1•001,11.11escal at the eorntororesnestt of the fast piec?. to /crimr a pato for the ~ennui ; that first piece was atorriaa,arrol we wee, completely and most agreeably surprised by the eireells ist performance of that beautiful musical esitertaiusarod.-- Mr. Pearman gave the songs of Debar will; and feeling ; Mr. flroadlitstst's Willing. was sty otspee. table ; Miss Kelly's Phone; the best we es re saw, mod Miss Carr , l6l R...., was smell.' performance s• omitted Mir younast joys. As to MV. Huckle's, C a plan B,tr,ll e , wee know too worth of the• consuiposteorty of tke 016.111111“ S. Wenc ally man for taking a part to.whielsiee Is osmems; r hut when is luau ha. a paremssigoeshets hinrg Ise•ovres it to himself, to ht employer. and to the.pnblic lobe petrert Initial part. t. Mr. Hackle had nut tro,nry.tinea to study, end he appralt d not 50 have studied one. 'Tlre•kseres of ilia atidiencemi.licipated our censor,, and we imps Mr. Heckle luny wait by She hit.t given him. After Rorion She new ;Are' , ounsuresteed ; It is demand from the powerful pen-of the sashot of that most soirees-14 of all iutoi-oleseeept pieces `. eerararries and tors"—lhe plot Crld roar/ante,a Colllllly hunsuerist (Lencastro), kliegs his daugher .ph . :l (Miss meseosun), to town ; abil nut be— ing satisfied wills oliem•Hal modes of proctoring , a trapret.• able linslionid ter her, determines to put ass adverti.erbettt ho the poititic•papeis, w hick dolvertiseint to: is sot rattle:sir It/Jilted that the real -arastiog of it may be reistalen. Harry ..111u4 (Ratty) is in lore Mich Sopky, hui cacaos obtain her ththeot consent. Heating of this siogni,, termination ol ilic obl gewilernasi,lte resolve' la mid Lis own cansr. awl noisy Cooptedwo out of his tidieulous plan ottsoitatiOX savwlla eharmclers aswsistrrtiax the astset. Psi-turns. Helm, theiefore, tint antionaised as tie Pater fe-c.lte, who, by an incorrect conception of the paiagraph, wishes to engage Splay as a companion to Lady liazte 11w nohitake is elrarril up, and Sir Pact.. iota oil visaged at being imposed upon. The rest applicant is Dr. Enda, (faint Why's Ma!) who is Intoned Lc Sans Dobbs in his prof►s►ioawl When these chin-octets are dismissed by Cumpletwa, Mary "Vim sisters mice mole as a cskbeated Minsk. A satiety of iniitaiions take plan, and after completely tiring oat (MI Coup/non. he discovers himself, and-is rewarded with Ole hand ut S , Ila..ry Alfas was personated by a young gentleman, we learn, holds , * revertible mercantile satiation is the City; hat, as.. he had a soul above Kelton." be lima placed Sylrextyr Dag,;era•nod at Drury Lana and the lisysnarket. in himself, it applmra he reached the diem!' q•ser:ion or" .tis". sits 1 a King," and being iletrrntiord so ben plalerinanout lig la I, he played last M L itt for an engages vaunt. Ity the skes ell we h..ve gist u ()film viol, it will his .iiren, be relied on his imitative lame' ; he save Faritti, and Sir-Peter i.a:te Set y its Dec:or Emden. Minden in h:tr N:a4 flulas very passably—lto id Fish. i in she S irof Dewar ainiirably, hiss in all the *theta w e thought •lie-ccaldettly failed. Yates stands too highly in our estimation to alkia competitor in the field of ii,hmekry, though we still think Mal a walk far htlJvc she le‘el ar .s •tml Med to. ltitlu•pircoof Tart ni‘ht we can only tiny that it iitioern stifticient share. ~f ephemeral merit to entry 111.111.!• It. iLe: 'hrrwpurr fur frw asks 411i1 IWO " tee liear,l het tort. ' ' We rejoice hi any thing Ihat entar.butes to Ibe st . elf:oo of ft Thentee, wont:ls winch we feel a..wiNty greta poi t0..1.1y tin twiny aceuuta, Shocking and &Will Murder!—Baweem tine and ten o'clock on Monday night, as a young wo. man was going along 'one of the principal streets ut liradtbrd, with a eann of water on her head, she was met by a roan, who i being intoxicated, began to take indecent liberties with her person ; she then , - fure threw off the cunn of water, in crder to tlet:i herself from his violence, and fled into the house cf Mrs. Wainwright for prlection: ut the same instant Mrs.W.Lerselfcoming to the door to know the cause of the disturbance, the villain rushed at licrraio/io tlicted two severe blows un the pit or her stionaeli, which laid her senselcs on the ground; all, not. ‘‘,:ithstantling the best medical aid, she expired at 5 o'clock next morning. The murderer was takvu into custody immediately —Mr.4. Walnut ight was nearly 70 years of age, and much respected.. COUNTERFEIT COIN —A nest of titterers of ba:.e coin •has been discovared at Swansea, who, there is reason to suspect, are connected ivi.th a gang that travel South Wale* and- the adjoining counties ot Nlonnion.h, Rereford, and.Salop. The gang generally assumed'the ;uise of hawkers and pedl.tr:. Fat-several seasons 17iit many of the fdrity..r3 Benentleo,. Kent, and its -vicinity, have suir.rt,l eonsidesably from sonic person or p.:rs..ms having cut the Lines in the hop rlatitot ems prvil:,-- turely,. thereby destroying thc ;---two of t:i depredators have lh:en detected, and conuniska i r trial. On Monday night last lnotly_T alarming fir.l broke our in the ExLing, t ii; u :l l , t destroyed a barn occupied. by Mrs l;ryant. The:%3 is no question but that it W:2l caused by some incendiary. Ott the rcpt evening a letter .1 timnl, iv MIL+ a determination sceins still to that this :vette Jhtill the conclusion to tilt. f l , - sips of tits atrocious ha:llene.' wretches.. Ti a: superscription or it say. that Exiling shall : t. gcneril: conflagration : the eontents•poitit cur, th.it. three more tires arc to be thrth.coaning, and the lit:,: which is to take place will be on the premise.% individual mentioned therein. From wh .t :110Liv( these measures ore taken cannot at all be slispteted, as no ill-w is arrears in the people or irs houtL V 29