The National Register. — London, England, 1819-05-17 00:00:00

Srarii up Goststaaca.—The foreign arrivals at Liverpool, have been unusually iiiimenots fur some 41 rys, and have brought us letters ;'rota Rio, Bahia, Twiadatl. and Perbateilmer ,r• also front Na..v-York, I..rin other parts of the United States. The Coun tess of Buie sailed front Rio Janeiro on the 7th of larch, and arrived one day before the Diana packet. which sailed front Me same place on the 21st of February. The commercial letters by each of these conveyances ate by no means of a gratifyiug description. They corn !dam of ail alino4 loud waist of specie, and represent trade as extremely doll in consequence. One of i the letters had the eidluwini.; gloomy sentence:—" The mat k ets here for soft manufactured goods are worse than ever." Leiters from Pertiatolitico, of the date of the February, brotiAlti by the NYaterloo, which has arrit eel at Literpool, give the sante unfavourable ac count us to the state of the commerce in that quarter ; where the. markets are described as glutted, IpoJi with thathil'acturtil good and the produce of the country.-- Cotton is uncommonly plentiful, and sMil„t at alinast any price. The letters from Liverpool represein the arrivals of cotton and coleitti II produce get wrally, as laraer than at any former period of the greatest commer eta! prosperity ; and tile (I..iitiond for limns roitsuntption greater than the existing stele of trade would lead us to expect. A letter hosu. Trinidad, dated the 10.11 of Maelt, cow:sins the lidlowtog, paraaraph:—" We hat c been doing, lets' little here in ta,,ty way of business for some time past ; and I never 'need ect matters so flat and inactive as they have beemthese last six mouths, slot nave we any prospect • f their itecoining- better.— Cleat pan of lea year's crops are on hand, and 1311111 of the planters will inevitably be ruined, if there be not a fattiarable change before the commencement of the en- Hint s,a,eht. There li.is likewise been a great falling on to the shipping arrivals, particularly from America; and, on the whole, commerce never Wore a worse asp..ct than it does with us at prysent." In addition to the above communications, a respectable cloth-house, in Yorkshire, has received letters from Palermo, and I,ken ise from lionigsbeig, which are quite in ettiison with Muse received from the other sele of the Adantie. aired lie letter. Lon' Konigsberg states, that ite cilia :id fir British manufactured goods has al n inu ceased in that quarter, and that there are many bales 01 hand that list e ren t,in e d unpacked these two years. Thei...cond Chamber of the States-Geueral of Rita. tie, in rejecting.' proposition for introducing the Lau casteriatt syst: w of education, assign .1 reason which is 11 , 1 l a little surprising. They say that "it is :Alp ed, at the best, only for coilimnnicaiimt elrtnentary id. as to a p, ache destome of education, ,s,elt as that of France, England, and the United States ; but is mach too me chanical in nself, and too little favourable to the de ve lop•nnent of mi nd , and besides coinpletely useless in- a country such as Germany, where every village has its primary school. A pr.vate letter from Vienna, quoted in the French Pal ens, allirmt that '• our (the Austrian) p•rlice, hate di .c.si ered in London, the secret cypher of those who, t'n•otigie the medium of the English Journ a ls, corms pond with Bonaparte. No advertisement, relative in appearance to ordinary family-affairs, read with this se cret cypher, presents a political sense very reitiarksble." - . An operation of a singular nature is said, in a French paper, to have been performed by Dr. Moo land, at the Hotel de Dieu, in Marseilles, upon a woman It appears that a fungus and schirrous tu mour had fixed itself on the upper jaw -bone, which would speedily have become cancerous; and, if we may believe this story, the operator determined to, and actually did, remove the deceased part of the bone with the blow of a hammer, which the woo .m bore without a complaint !!!—Eighteen days after she was discharged cured. .S'Oterrancou; Garden.—A curious account of a subterraneous garden, formed at the bottom of the Percy Main Pit, Newcastle, by the furnace keeper, was communicated in the last quarterly meeting of the Caledonian Horticultural Society. The plants are formed in the bottom of the mine, by the light and radient heat of an open stove, constantly main tained for the sake of ventilation. The same letter communicated an account of en extensive natural hot-bed, net. Dudley, StafrordAire, which is heated by means of the slow coinbustion of coal of some depth below the surface. From this natural hotbed a gardener raises annually crops of different kinds of culinary vegetables, which are earlier by nano week& than those in the surrounding gardens. On Sunday, a young Woodcock, conjectured to be about three weeks old, was caught alive by a boy in Gcsley Wood, in the parish of Bridge. Two other young ones, and the ben bird, were flushed at the same time, but get away. This is a very singular instance in the history of this bird. _ A very singular custom at the marriages of the Jap mese is, that the teeth of the bride are made black by some corrosive liquid. The teeth remain. black ever after. and serve to chew that a woman is married, or a widow. Another circumstance is, at the birth of every child, to plant a tree in the gar den or court-yard, which attains its full growth in al many years as a man requires to be mature fur the duties of marriage. When he mariios the tree i., cut down, and the wood is made into chests and boxes, to contain the clothes and other things which are made fur the new-married couple. AWRY-LANZ TIINATRE. -.0- A new TnigNly, called the Carib Me, was on Thurs day night pnalucecl at this House. It is from the pen of Mr. H. Twits, and it expestenced an uncommonly gracious reception. The scene is laid in Dominica. The chief interest of the story hinges on the mall-togs of °inertia (Kepi), a Carib Chieftain, on account of the loss of >r wife and eutitghter in warfare with Europeans; his consequent fu rious hostility towards white men, whether they appeared as friends or enemies, and his etlints- to be revenged.— Civilized exertions to reduce his native land present the means : and the re-appeuratice of the French Commander Morita Merl, (1.1cogoogli) who had destroyed the Chief tain's wile, and torn him from his infant daughter, tidirils unexpected opportunity of satisfying direst hate. J.lo , :lulberi was nutted to Claudine:, (Mrs. West) a lady origin, and one wtsom he bad gained by basely representing her betrothed lover, 7le/4i. (\I r. Henry lie:mile), to be dead; mid these the Carib Chief, and by the fortunes of a sort of irre2ular warfare, gets into his lamer, butt• out till Aluelmtert had slain "deck (ii ()ILI nil), a n.i ice Prince. Efforts to rescue them are mule by (D. Fisher) Mer/ock's priest, and liailielfrode (NI Us 110) ce). Mostar rl had escaped, but Causliria was About. to be led to the pile to be sacrificed. No re lief appeared, and atienip:s to, delay the ceremony only arattal Ontereeli's fury, who acts as it ins wife's spirit chided Imo for delay. Tim, and ihorie/beet is declared to he emiiiite with uss'rdmice. Oartreels hurries Claudine to the pile ; the s icri lice is ennui *need ; the rtciitil bleeds ; and at such moment, by Wilke jewels that had dropped fruit her per,ton, he &scoters in Clau dine his nit 11 Call:(111Cr. But the knowledge collies too late, fur the deatii-woond nail been Kier's. illontaibrit appeais again. Onoleali elideat Ours to stab hint, but is pretelited, and he 11‘1:11 kilts linn,eif. 411, , Nrolteri, who had excised no un.liety tor Ms continued existence. is left alive. Such is an imperfect 'iodine of the plot. 'The charac ter of Owerruh us toitd•tently and ably sustained ; and sitar of Claw;inn in_ the filth act is stipi.orted with great ability and inn rest. 1:: dramatic excell-ace is wrought to the itiahrt pitch, and the catastrophe is nisnaged who first rate skill. It was the most dli cove thing of ;lie kind we .see beheld; and such was the anxiety kindled by its joiLetous maitaatmeist, that itijt possessed evert: heart uto liaithic; that Chedirier breathed her last iti the drill,: of a long lost parent. The ntr'orinert, Kean and Mrs. West. exerted • themselves nicest .ably: The ry, brnken-hearted Indian, who scorns all relianee on European pramise and Claistian inetcy—who remem bers the rings that had been heaped upon him—who only lives to be sevenged. • 5V55 tuulw,Jutd with great energy and maitre by Mr. Kean. ll's anal scene was rine of afflictity, appalling interest. The affliction and agony 0.0. discovering the jewels seemed to snake his heart-strings leap fawn their places ; and his gr cf. on thilling claim the dying Cloading was really Iris daughter, appeared to oserwhehn the Cotieftain's 10..1. The tran sition (sone this destroyitig sorrow to uugovernable fury on again beholding Alttialberi, the cause of so .inucit rn:n, was 111J1ked by charactet ist ic raggedness of passion ; and Aer having slabbed himself, she style in which, with his lan breath, he cursed Moaderikcrl was peculiar and excellent. The hissing toms thatfullowed the curse gave terrific reality to the scene. The other charac.crs merit no particular notice, even if we had opportunity to speak of Mein. With napect to the langulte of the Play it rarely indulged in boldness of thought, vigour of express:on, or beauty of imagery; us general merit was that cl Sllloothlk-bs and appropri ateness, sometimes, however, being rather too colloquial or tplaiitt. These the author can- easily correct, as the audience Mil keel the passages for him. The Play, on the whole. was uncommonly well re ceived ; and the feitcnitois character at the catastrophe warmed :lie audience him sue It entoosiasm, that nobody but Kean w.O alluwcd to announce it for repetition. NVe !live to pay respect to merit, but not at the expense , if our own einitisteticy ; and we would therefore ask,. whether it us very' c. nsustcnt with "dramatic prm.rieties ' so require a dead Man so step forth and AIItIUUIIICe a Pay i MAY r 7. THE NATIONAL REGISTXIt. COVENT-GARD'EN 711E4TRE. A new Trageibt. called Ferdolpho, from the pen of Mr. Matutin, the author of Drrisant, was produeeel at this House. Freclorpho (Yoang) to eseape fruits the int por.unities of froldentreg (Nlae.e.ol)), towari!s his daughter Cilinda (Yeiss O'Neill), retires foto the Swiss passes ; but into this - retreat the Cognises are followed, where Irekkazrg is joined by a horrible character called the Dwarf Berthold (Yi..t. s), who is as deformed in mind as he is its person. 'fee latter knows the st ele of a murder committed by rreehelph3e and Loth threaten destruction. The father is alteroately soothed and threatened ; dragged to dungeons in chants ; sepa rated from his daughter Olinda ; Esennially 111.1droltrg drags Olinda t•r the altar; but here lie is surprised by the Father, %Ito had been f ber ited front the prison by the efforts of ...41disnar (C. Heitible). ff oldr•nlrrg stabs A/c/ienar r then Fredolkko ktllt inedfrikrg; and Cfr/ietie falls dead, we presume, by the side of Aidimar. Such is the Plot of a Tragay Whitill was so IllitliltVitcally con demned after a most patient he:oil-1 ; z. that we only men tion it to afford us an opportunity of doing justice to the per.Ormers—each of whom used every exertion for the Author, and Miss O'Neill,Young, and Macready, added the.r establ:sheil fame by :s lane acting as was pethaus ever a•::neastd. N.lfi(th.ll;DEßl: The fo!lowr•ing important Paper has just been laid on the Table of the House ut Cuut 111111 l s. By this it will be seen, that if the Commissioners for t h e le. dll6Olll of the Notional Debt had in the year 1816, invested the amount of the Sinkiug Muttd in the Loan of the year, there would have been a sesirn; tat die pub lic of no ku than 2,1:36,9231. (31. 10d. Aa Areoant showing the Amount of Money inveserflsv - the Commissioners fur the ltrilisetion of•the National I)etit, in the Purchase of Capital Stuck in stay of the Public Funds, together with the Antolini of such Capital mock. and of the Interest annually payable thereon s pitirhowel and obtained by the said C )))))) nisouuers, fur the same, .in. the Year coding 15th Jane. 1816 :- 31 per Cent. Capital Money Invested. stock purchased. 113,401,298 2 4 21,53 . /,505 9 9 Annual !merest 11wre.m. 673,913 3 l A i' m Atlf 2 Isoul-t,i 14-e--All 71 ip ° 108 13 " c.a.* - 11 ‘ , . vs ltagr l o2 a %- 4214;:a. 2 11; .-." - wia % " - lc - 4. 2 x . 121712.4 4.17 4 y .. .7i s it i "▪ ' - .l.f.sr 4117....S=FErtA c-D 2 . _ E,O a. .1 3 .4 4 7 :17 tci yV3 . 9: a's 22, git -. m -.m Q▪ t. z Sa,la 1. uca 51.., El 4;2 14; •••• 8 mi 72- 1/2 2u tillz <tili ezi o .6 4:1; iti t•ss -a A _I- • _2. li / 41 dJ . ., .., 4 a t•t.. an i t, 9 dist c -4 4. i V~ 1 I•. C e; • _ C n - , .: t 3l 0 1 V 4- 6,. i g % 11 4.1 § Ai .: BOW STREET. On-Saturday, Jamca Roberts , B. Hantrneraley, R. Stannifonl, W. Yates, T. Ksye, and N. Oliver, all pct.. vale soldiers in the foot guards; were hrottelit up in the custody of Smithers and St rgeatit Seahury, of the Cold stream Guards, charged on' suspicion of being conceruert in atrocious robberies.in Dover -street, during du• tire on Thursday morning last. I/ appcgred from the evidence of Smithers and Seahury, that, on the fire breaktn i t a detachment of the King's guard, then on ditty, (soder the contmand of Capt Stanton, proceeded instantly , 0 the spot to protect the property, and to render every ne cessary assistance. During the fire several houses w e . e broken into and plundered, under the pretence of assiet- Mg to re cove tee goals. The following day intorma tint) Was received that several soldiers echo were tut gii.ad. at the fire had absconded. from their quarter.., ;tad were rambling about town drinking at .public-houset. A t one house in the Nlinories the prisaters were gentile together,'nook and Roberts was heard to say. he had wade,' gout', " speck" (iktoi)) at the fire, and had got inure (1130 501. Seahury traced theat Its•a pulaliediolise n ea r the Tower. Theo were all searched, ;al iiport litaiterts were found five 11. notes concealed in. his gaiters, aril tinderiteaili his shirt a handkeichief was romp!, whi.rh pro-ed to lielmig to Mrs. Ferguson, 00e of nit sulfewes• by the fire. Nothing material was salt, a from the other prisoners. Sinithers identified Itcheits and Ohl tr. as two of those who were ots guard its Daver suer,. The persons who were robbed were t:o ill, iu consequence of the alarm, to attend. The pesoners all di t•rit..l their innocence of thescharge. The Magistrate hoped, ler the Itoiteur of the name of soldier, tb. y would be ahlet•hr prove their itioneetice ; for he could not enagive a tome atrocious corner than for men ordered um for the pm infirm of stiff:acre by fire to turn plundereis of their property. gave was dischar6td, and the rise tea/aims LI till IVedtiettlay. QUEEN-SQUARE. Saturday seven privates ut the 3(1 regiment or font guards were charged 00 suspicion Of stealing considera ble property during the tire in I)over-stt vet, at the house of Short, the Sor..erm. The itasoners were remanded to a future day, whet, sorra! other oat-ties robbed during the fire us ill have notice to attend. On ‘Veulnesuudv Last, a ute nunke um; in the leashes loft of Mr. J. Ling, El utlesvell Allev , its "Nnt men, he the flue stetting tou hnt, wb:elt is 1):34,t1 In ti.o loom ittr drying. feathers, :tool threatened a I.ut nig cutubolus, nte.„ butt by the eat ly arrival of an invite it w. ia pi nudes ithotit du.n6u. uch t!atuage. 157