The National Register. — London, England, 1819-04-05 00:00:00

APRIL 5. Mc. Lawson lately accepted the Chiltern Hun ereis, and sent an advertisement to The Tinter, stating that he 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 D 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 them to re-elect Mr. Manna duke, who is now accordingly again returned. Ma. LAVION. -My eloquence hath nought availed. I own that I waylay!) , failed. D. or N.—Paird! yea, indeed! ungrateful hound ! Slope payment for three thousand pound I Mrs. LAwsox.—Poor Matt MADUIE ! whatever he did. My 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. & 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 man and others, who had petitioned against the return of the Ilon. George Lamb for the City of Westminster, had failed to enter into the requisite reeognizances, and the order fir taking the Petition into consideration was consequently discharged. We understand that an interesting question, re specting the right of exemption from serving the office of constable, will be determined in the course of next month. It is a case between a gentleman of the name of Waters, one of the persuasion of the Society of Friends, of Scot's yard, and the Ward of Dowgate, the former having appealed in conformity with the Act of Parliament 10 Geo. 2, cap. 9. 2 , and the latter having indicted him fur neglect of duty previous to the appeal being heard. The case is of much importance, us it regards our municipal tights. Mr. Waters will, we arc informed, advocate his own cause. It is expected to come on the 19th inst. The Doke of WELLINGTON and I, , NRD CASTLZ REAII Where among the applicants at Almack's, on Wednesday night, who were refused admittance on ac count of being a few minutes after the time fixed dythe Lady Patronesses. It was in vain that the Noble Lord seat tip his name, and that of his illustrious companion; Ctey were informed that a• they might retire to the place trout whence they had conic, for the established rtil: v. 01,1,1 not be infringed." Toe Lady Patronesses leer,. the Duchess Of WELLINGTON and Lady Cats ( t.e.rt C %C H. The Ilalf-pay Officers of the Navy and Army are in future to have the preference of situations under *Govern mem ; if exceeding three times the amount, the hall-pav to cease, allowing them, on a war, the °poor:unity to return to their profession. This is as it shotad he. Sorely those on half-pay of the old establediment will be t h o ught of, haring unfortunately. been forgot. The edffervtice of the new and old rate is of consequence— to hate 311 on one footing is desirable, tiIEATRIC PitonLess.—(By a Correspondent.)— How to enable a sinking 'Treasury to ray a great Actor the largest salary possible. The shortest way is to pay nothing to nobody else ; bat to do it secun dum artem, Take a great actor, 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 u few chorus singers, mutes, and scene-shifters; and if they cannot speak, you may write a play far 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. PEDZSTRIANISPC—At a quarter past three o'clock on Friday morning, Daniel Crisp, the celebrated pett•st I tan. mined from the Dover Castle Inn, at Doer, to the !.;Alden Lion Inn, Borough Market, London, a tii.tarez of 72 miles, which extraordinary and herculean ta,k he has undertaken for a wager of lout to perform !o and from Loudon to Dover, for twolve site eessive days, the entice distance being 864 miles. Ile :suited at half-past nine o'clock at the lonise of Mr. Crib (ale pogalistic eliampion), the Golden Lion. in the Borough Market. lie !hewed no great signs of fatigue, ho chief einuplaint was the great ntimber of hills, a n d extreme- closeness of the weather. Aber lv,ving a g.mel ti;lit's rest, he set off on his return to Dov cr just us the elov k struck three )'esterday.morni ng. Dev c„ the murderer, who was ordered for execution to-inotrow morning, for the murder •of Mary Anti lbert, is respite) until Thursday, when it is expected he will undergo the sentence of the Law, at the New Prison. llotsetnetoger I one. A man and his with, named CrOss, livity , in Red ante-court, Mittories, being absent froth home on Tliurstla-,. leaving in the house only a young child, about five yearn: 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 tr fling presents, and in the , mean time contrived to take away a box ham a ta ble in the room, containing six silver spoons anti four one pound aotcm, with which she go: off undis covered. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. THE IiALLINS. . DRURY-LANE THEATRE.--MO great is the scarcity of dramatic genius in the present day, that the atinnuciation of a new Play Ilebions excites any considerable 'Portion of anxiety. lit the Augustan age of English literature. snub an event generally attracted the attention not only of the wits and scholars, but even of the well informed part of the public at large, and indeed it was natural that those who had once been delighted with the smightly sallies of Pas getter and Congreve, should hail with pleasure a sig nal, which promised new streams of enjoyment from springs already tasted; but in recent times, so tew good Plays have been produced, that our expectations are ne ver raised very high, nor do we often enjoy the agreeable surprise of finding the Piece better than we expected. some correspondence W 14111141 in the Public Journals had, however, procured ter the Tragedy of The Italians a murk greater share of attention than has been anticipated by any ails modern competitors; the author had imputed to a celebrated Tragedian of the Jay the illiberal desire of preventing the pee forinance of any Tragedy, in which the whole interrat ttf fin, Piece stunild not critter in the clia raeter to be allotted to Himself: the Actor repelled the charge with a 'Mild, which the public thought coarse and acrimonious ; the subject was discussed in that plieml Seal el criticism. the Pit, dud the clinical was tesusinated by an apology flout the Tragedian. Last @rostra the pc riot-mance of The Italians was ar ranged for, the music composed, and the scrum y painted, when the GREAT LITTLE MAN interposed his Yele agniunt its production ; but as considerable anxiety had store been raised with regard to it, and the friends of the amber exclaimed loudly, that it possessed great merit, and that he bad not been fairly treated, the managing pow ess ut Drury-Lane Theatre very 'amiably determined that tl.e Play should lie performed, and the Cl4lllll Of the author submitted to the test of public examination : it we, ac cordingly put into rehearsal witu great alacrity, and last night the audience had an opportunity of judging of its merits. The plot, as far as its erndeness will allow its to call it so, is briefly that /11//smso,King of Naples, by the haekiiied means of a forged letter purporting to be hum 1.1.1401140, nobleman of great influence, is deceived into the belief of his treasonable intentions. This deception originates with Manfrrdi (another nobleman jealous of Pontano's vir• Nee, and mortified at the refusal of his slaughter, whom he demanded in marriage) and Claudia, the • tress of al (Tense, vs hose inveterate bate is raised by the seornfird refusal of the lute she had proffered to Eva:ann. Under this undeserved displeasure of his SOVel eigu, Pentane is deprived of his right by a chemical "mailer which is thrown into his eves by rtlaafrerti, and is thin consigned to the care of a peasant boy, aeipia, a. hi. guide, .41banio, another nobleman, has been banished from Naples under the suspicion of mottle' hie his °an wife, a ho bad, in fact, been puiguarded by Manfredi; and this gentleman talks a great deal in the style ut a minor Coriolis/rs. There is. an ander or love plot between "twin and Angelina; of the former'a aneestois nothing is said, andlie thereby es capes the char& of degeneration, fur certainly a flatter lover cannot be found; of the latter (the daughter of Fantasia), we can only say, that if any merit belong to the character, it must originate in time acts ess who wills " Genius which, Ilse Poet left behind, Creates an excellence it did sot find." Its the last Art the Kiug is sondeceivi d, and earusequent• ly embrates Fontana, Manfredi is killed by d laanio, who afterwards despatches Isimsdf, and we suppose the lovers are to be made happy. Suds is the plot, and as to the arrangement and language, we have not been able to discover any beauty in the poetry, yet the nut her has ex eitedsume interest in the fate of Maki'', and arranged the plot bunch a manner as to keep alive limit concern mail the conchs f the l'icce: the wounded feel ings of a noble heart small r iag under a sense of unmerited infamy, and goaded into partial insanity by long conflated misery, are tuletahly described; several of the incidents are well calculated for stage elect, but there lino originality of character if we except the youth Scipio an improvisutore, ho is welbelieve the first of these ex temporaneuuripuets that has been exhibited to a Ilritishaudience, and it must he con fessed that his poetical elusions, and his attentive kindness to the will: wiry foetano ' are likely to procure fur him a favourable reception. In the 4th Act some generous senti ments of pat, iotisiii are uttered t y rtatlaue. 1 here is nothing rental kable in the female characters... Of the casting of the Play it would be cruelty to say any thing—the Theatre groans under such a poverty cf . talent that the Manager might not be to blame, but certainly the public voice was ton itneqeivneally expressed upon Mr. Henry Kenible's subject last night, so permit his father's thinning hint tiny bleary, to the tniu of the Theatre, into the lion business. Justice demands oar eulogy of Mr. Rae—lead Ids exist sure depended on the success of the Puree, he toned not have done mite; bis pat t is heavy and bail, but he worked through it must heroically. At the cone:tisk/it r the Play a tremendous row took place, which appeared to be in its zenith when we left the house, at past 11 o'clock; hnt we believe tt,e Tragedy will he withdrawn—We are sure it ought to be sir in deference to the public opinian. Fur Mr. Kean it is a most fortunate circumstance that the Ploy is what it is—had it hems better or feel runs 'need that his conduct, inflated ns be is by ephemeral popularity, would have been tile rime, and that p•trt of the piddie trho tire" pleased they knots lint why and earestut a heft-foie.' will find his excuse in the mediocrity of the 'fragrds ; this i• nut•even a palliation in our estimation. The play mice having been accepted, we must protest, on the part of the r i gain.t any servant of the Turatre interpo.inz. lit, ideal voice, aided by his arrogance of opinion, 1111 subject 111 cheek perhaps Is s judgment was practically less ea ancient titan it is mild have been on a Pantomime. 11 e would in perfei I friendship remind It►. KB/411 that he stands inn a pintiar 1., which he 11.. s reached with unequalled rapi dits, ;81111111;11 i. 1.10,1 ben is an abyss to which a very triae may can i,u him for ever. A genevalreduction in the Stafl'of the Militia is now effecting. An order has been receives! in Bury, for the disbanding of 4 sergesnts, 4 corporals, and 4 drummers.---By this means per. hapswintethirig may be witred towards paying the in,oont. coed to the great Cotntuaatla-in•CllAf fie doing Lis duty to his viac, T4bl4 falba. 109 An account of the total import of foreign and coloniai corn, grain, meal, and flour, in real value, in each year, from the year IBIY to the year ISIS, Loth incluaive, into Great Britain :-- Value, as calculated at the average near►et prices its England and Wales Year 181‘' L.1.267,330 3 1 1813 .,192,541 3 6 lbl4 2.815,3111 4 0 181 S 793443 8 II 941,497 19 I 1811 6.403,M93 10 6 ......1818 10,908.140 0 :1 A comparison of the Bulge', just presented by tht French MiniAer of Finance, with the amount of pub— lic burdens in this country, presents a very serious contrast. The amount required for the service of the year iBl9, in France, is 37.000,01)0t. Mein:ling all etarges—the public debt, sinking fund, and support . of the clergy. Now, assuming the population to be f25,u04000, and the number of houses, 6,000,000, the taxation upon every man, woman, and child, will be f. 17 shillings, and upon every lionsel.eeper 6!. The stun demanded in England for the service of the year, will plobahly be 00,000,000/. which, 'opposing the population of the United Kingdom to be 15,004000, and the number of houses 6,000,000, produces taxation to the amount of 41. los. upon every man, woman, and child, and 221. upon every housekeeper. This i s an alarming and .li,heartening contrast. Three foreigners of distinguished rank, Princes — Dalgorneky, and Volkorisky, trout Russia, and Connt P on i a rowske, from Poland. have been on a visit to Mr. Coke. at HOlkham, dinitnr the last week. Coming in pursuit of agricultiiral knowledge they paid particular attention to the llolkham farming, and were highly itified by witnessing the superior made ia which n conducted there under the auspices of Mr. Coke. The public feeling has been nnnecessarily excited by a statement entirely fonnded in falsehnod, reireeting a • Maniac in the Kings Bench hating nearly killed a - fellow-prisoner, liv attempting, to force a retldtot poker down his throat.—The Maniac I • - sell' is since dead; and the following are the particulars of the Coronet's inquest in the King's Bench Prison :—An inquest • was taken on Tuesday evening before Gude, Esq. Coroner, nn the body of Thomas Foster Gunter, described as a maniac, who died on Monday. The Inquest afforded much interest, from the contra dictory reports on the so) , jeet. Mr. Daniels, ar Clergyman, proved, that being sent for, the deceased was labouring under great remorse of conscience, 204 - asked if he could hope for forgiveness in another world for offences, and he was replied to in the affirmative. Ile said he should die on being, made a bankrupt. This Gentleman and another Clergyman believed the prisoner to be la bouring tinder a dreadful compunction, anti that he was not insane. Steele, . the matt WIIO sal up with the deceased, stated thk• runner in which he laid violent hands upon himself with the poker. Ile first told him that if he would re main quiet he would not kill him, hut he would kill himself, as if he lived he should be sure to be hung. - This witness presenter{ hint killing himself, when he turned upon him, but did not injure bun. At cleeen o'clock the :tire delivered the following verdict— • " Died by the Visitation of God, front a violent af fection of the nervous system." SHOCKING CIRCUMSTANCY.--•-At Bromley, Middle- • sex, on IVednesday evening last, a labueing man, . having a quarrel with his wile, was cutting some bread, . when he threatened to throw the knife at her. Site dared him to do so, anti lie put the knife down; but in • a moment alter, irritated by some expression which escaped her, lie threw the loaf at her with great violence. It struck their infMit child, which was sticking at the mother's breast, and calsad as instant death. Tne fa ther was taken into custody, to abide the result of a coroner's inquest. • Pigeon • ;hitch —A match for •a•suni of 84:1 gui neas, a sweepstakes between Messrs. • Hollis, Snitch, and George, took place on Cobham Commint, at 11 birds each. Mr.' George won the stake by killing to birds; Messrs. Hollis and Smith killed 9 and . Shocking Calusirophe.—Friday monting,' ;:tilx) s at nine o'clock, the following dreadful aceititut hap.. pened to the son of Mr. Richardson, butcher, Spar row-corner, Rosemary-lane, a lad about 12 years of age, having employment at the New Mint, Towor hill ; —going too near the steam-engine, a wheel • belonging to some part of the machinery, drew him in, whereby his head was so shockingly crushed that his brains protruded, and caused instant death.—lle now lies fur the Coroner's Inquest. FooTr.tn BonnEuv....-On Wednesday evening, • as Mr tNingleton, of Meard-street, Water lane, was • returning to town, from Footscray, and having oc casion to call at Blackheath on his way home, he was stopped near the end et' the lane leading out of the Maidstone road, by three fellows, two of whom had on sailor's jackets ; such was their audacity nt day-light, and where the road is public. One of them placed himself ut the head of the horse, and the others robbed Mr. S. of his watch and . 41. ROM: • in money. The next took a bundle from the•head of the chaise, cut the horse from the harness, and m:vle off acrd-s the fields threatening to shout Mr. .. S. if ae attempted to fellow. r