The National Register. — London, England, 1819-02-15 00:00:00

• 1 1 able, that he was the first man of eminence, on whom when the writ was moved for electing a Member to supply his place on his deceive, no euhvgium hat beea pronounced ►n s'arli,►uicnt. His (\lr. Lamb's) opinions lie could prove had ever been friendly to liberty, which he had favourA to the extent of his limited means; , a d his c hums, he therefore thought, were cgual to those of Mr. Holihouse. For himself lie would only say, in the language addressed to them by Sir Samuel Homily, that he was a friend to the more equal repre sentation of the, people, and to the shorter duration of Parliaments. The names of the CanZidates were then put in suc cession. The High Bailiff decided the choice of the Electors to have fallen on Mr. Hubhouse. Mr. Ilobltutise returned thanks. The business of the day being terminated, Mr. Hunt addressed the Meting in favour of Major Cartwright. TO TILE EDITOR OF THR NATIONAL REGISTER. ON THE MANNERS OF THE RISING GENERA- TION.. - Sin—Every feeling mini must with regret perceive the daring and rebellions spirit that prevails in the youth not only of this country, bat a'so those on the Conti neot. The consequences of this spirit unless subdued, must inevitably prove of a very serious nature. Tre mendous must be the fate of the youth who thews this untoward and refractory disposition. He begins his career by flying in Cie Ewe of his masters ; he continues it by doing the same to his parents ; he then proceeds to offend the laws of his country, and concludes by violating the laws and commandments of his God.— The principle is the same, though it varies in its object and is directed to different ends. This want of subordiation is sufficient to excite a general alarm particularly when we contemplate and shudder at the dreadful increase of crimes of every description, and chiefly that of forgery. The Sessions in the Metropolis, end the Assizes in our different countries, exhibit a melancholy list of juvenile, nay offinnlers. But by tho-e of a well-regulated mind, musters, tutors, and governesses, if conscientious in the discharge of their duty. will be regarded with esteem, and justly considered as beuefactoes to their country ; for by their patient and persevering exertions, the inundation of the future happiness of their pupils is laid. They are in fact, loco purenavn ; and any grateful youth will view them as such. It is a narrow and contracted no tion, told false in its principle, to assert, that when tractors are paid by the parents of the children, all oliligation muses on their part, gal that of their off -spring, Payment by no means cancels the obligation ; the debt of gratitude can never be sufficiently paid to those w:to have toiled and laboured in the arduous and too of.en thankless task of endeavouring to.en lighten the rising generation, and reseae it from bar barism and i g norance. I know not a more irksome profession than, that of a school-master, whether public cr private. It is Oat which is (as has been remarked on a late - trial by an eminent Counsel) perhaps pro d nave of most bereft to the Public a id of least benefit t the professor ; for he has to s.rig3le agninst pride, obstinacy, and ignorance, withont any material pro. tyect . of fo rtune or of fame. Had the school-master and 5...i1001-mistress merely to attend to instruction alone, thoir labour would be greatly diminished, brit they are anfortunately doomed to sustain the a g gravating insults of daring and refractory spi-its, which spurn their au thority, and treat them with contempt. Audacity and eillontory are urriverl at albrmidable pitch, and I um des-ply concerned to say it, even among young females, f. ern whom wo naturally expect mildness aa:l gentle r:es:4, the pr.itsT characteristic of their sex. Of these vi:agos, or manlike ladies (as they are very aptly rill edl the [Leman poet has, with just and pointed satire, Mistier hinc wevimima cat. Om illumine olio pu,tur achuovet ; Cdniinero, sic cti:le n p, quo' vindida, N.:rno ?nazis gautlet. uuam racmina. It may nx.v be asked and with great propriety, from whence this dreadful cahunity originates, and how it may be repressed. I scruple not to say, that for the most part of it originates in the weakness, folly, and false indulrnee of parents ' who have to thank them selves, and Vieniselvcs only for the miseries which they entail upon their offspring. 1-lence arise that disregard t) parental authority, that insubordination, and that want of respect which are but too evidently manifested in most familia. In former times the youths of both sexes were kept more is the b tek ground in the nur sery, and nat introduced into compsuy, or. to use the modern fashionahle phrase, brou,z4:l o'', till b irdering on the age of eighteen or twenty. But ncr.v, Master or Miss make their entree at the st;.re of for.rteea or.fPen, rrhea the one can neither be treated like a boy nor the other like u girl. Master is permitted to sit till a late hour at th e table allor the I.Alie3 hsw withdrawn, while his father is utterly unnaindfol of the sage pre cept and salutary caution of the Rualaa satirist who:a I Aare already rillgred... THE NATIONAL REGiSTER. Maxima debutur puero reverends, si quid Turpe puss, nec to contempseris annos ; S.xl pecuturo, obsi.,tat übi, tidius Utile father is thus negligent of his duty to his son, the t;md and foolish mother is equally so towards her daughter, the boarding school Miss, who, too often, has received an education far lxyend her sphere in life, who, perhaps, ere she has reached her 17th year, is ushered into the drawing-room, where she is taught, to the admiration of her mama (but secret disgust of her more discerning-friends), with unblushing confidence to imitate the fine lady, stare every one out of count enance, and, as Dean Swift has humorously remarked, actually, by her boldness and effronte►y, run down the men. As the education of youth was formerly too much neglected, it is now carried to the contrary extreme- I am by no , means an advocate for keeping the !ewer or ders of sOciety injurious, and suffering them to remain without any sort of education ; but surely that educa tion should be given to them which is suitable to the sphere of life in which they are likely to move, and in which the band of Divine Providence has been pleased to place them. Too relined an education is highly in jurious to those who have received it ; for it sets them ab9ve themselves, and teaches them to despise the hum ble situation of their misjulgisag and ill-advised parents. I once witnessed this absurdity at a little pub lic house at ivhich 1 stopped, on the road &um Rains oitte to Margate. Little Miss brought in my refresh-. tnents, splendidly and elegantly dressed, with her hair en papilla t e,; site then hastily ran up stairs to attend the summons of her music-master; the door, through the vanity of the.mother, being left open, that I might hear the dulcet sounds of this daughter of beer and cyder. Sounds I certainly beard, but they were not those of harmony. To complete her accomplishments, drawing was not omitted. Specimens of her correct ness in that elegant art were in profusion hung round the room in costly gib frames: In one piece you might be delighted with the vicot of houses resembling the leaning tower of Pisa, with chimneys quite perpendi cular ; and in another the leaves of trees all hearing the same way, which gave you en accurate idea of a storm at sea, without the artist having been at the trouble of representing angry and tempestuous waves. If the results of stich an education be not absurd and ridiculous in the extreme, it will be a matter of asto nishment and wonder to. Mr. Editor, your humble Servant, CENson. Posturtpt. MONDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. PECUNIARY INDEMNITY BY FRANCE TO THE ALLIED POWERS. DEFINITIVE ARRANGEMENTS FOR REGULATING THE MODE AND TIIE PEHLODS OF PAYMENT OF TIIE LAST 100 MILLIONS OF FRANCS, OF THE PE CUNIARY INDEMNITY TO BE PROVIDED EY PRANCE. Existing circumstances having rendered it necessary to seek the means of diminishing as much as possible the muss of the :oscriptlons of Rentes, on the Great 13ook of the Public I)dbt of France, which may im mediately be brought into the market at Paris, it has been agreed as follows : Art. 1. The inscription of 6,615,9-Itf. of Rentes, made over by Fiance to the Courts of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russin,• conformably to the 5,h Article of the Convention of the 9th of October, ISIS, shall remain in deposits in the hands of the Commis sioners of the said Courts, till the. sth of June, 1120. In consequence, the Contract entered into between the Courts of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, and the Houses of Hope and Company, and Baring, and Company, for the realization of the capital of the said inscription of Rentes, is considered as null and void. Art. 2. In pursuance of the shave Article, the in.. scription of 2,205,31.1 f. which the four Special Com missioners had remitted on the 2.1 of December, 1818, tc the houses of Hope and Co., and Baring, Brothers, and Co., in execution of the contract of sale above mentioned, shall be returned by these same banking houszs to the four Commissioners, who will return to them in exchange their engagements for the same value. The said inscription of 2,205,314 f. shall be transferred by the Rqyal Treasury of Friinct:, an .l shall be united, under the nr.nc cf the four Special Commissioners. to the iascri i , tion Of 4,410,650 f. which remains in their hands. Art. 3. On the it of Jury, 1520, Franca shall rc.ait to thc above named Courts, in exchange fur the above-mentioned Inscription of 6,615,944 f. of Rentes, Bons of the Royal Treasury, for the sum of 1.00,000,000 of francs; the said Bons bearing interest at 5 per cent., payable in nine months, in equal portions, from. day to day ; to commence the Ist of June, 1820, and. to finish the Ist of Niareh, 1 821. The two first thirds of these Bons shall not be• negotiable ; but the last third may be negotiated frees the period of the Ist December, 1820. Art. 4. The Commissioners of the Courts of Austria.. Great Britain, Prusia, and Russia, will receive the los rears of the said Renee of 6,615,944 f. inscribed, with. interest from the 2:1.d of Septeutbe.r, 1818, which will fall due from that day untill the Ist ofJume 1840, ins elusive, on which day the successive remittances will be paid to the parties interested. Art. 5. It is agreed that the above arrangements shalr not interfere with those coneludel between the French. Government and the above mentioned houses, Hope tk Co., and Baring, Brothers, and Co., nor with the inn.► diications which may be given to them by virtue of the present arrangement. Art. 6. It is agreed that at the period of the negoti— ation of the last third of the Bons which shall be placed: at the disposal of the Courts of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, in pursuance of the 3d Article of the present arrangement, (provided that these Courts shall be disposed to make use of this power,) the French Government shall be informed thereof, and on the same condition shall enjoy the prJereace of negotiating such- Bons. Done, in five parts, at Paris, Feb 2, 1819. (sl 6 .nel) . I.E BARON DE VINCENT._ I.F. MARQUIS DESSOLLES. CIARLEi STUART,. H. 1)E GOLTZ. POZZO DI BORGO. E E DRAMA. DREW/ LANE. On Thursday night was presented a new farce, ew titled I kh Notions; or, A Trip to Exmouth. The• plot may be told in a few words :—Sir PrederickAu gustus Pageant, Baronet (Munden), having, in con.- sequence of the sudden death of an elder brother, sue-. ceetled to the title and a large estate, escapes from the thraldom of a cheese-shop in the Borough, with a more than ordinary share of vulgarity, and becomes,passion• ately enamoured of high titles and ancient Nobility. The old Gentleman has a niece (Miss. Cubitt), hand some and accomplished, by whom he is resolved to ob tain an alliance with the Peerage; but the young Lady has most perversely, though without her uncle's knowlenge admitted a plain Commoner (T. Cooke) to the undisputed possession of her heart. Sir Frederick, accompanied by his niece, her maid .\1 artha (Mrs. Alsop,) and his man Tim (Knight), as the Baronet expresses it, "all in the family way," takes a summer " trip to Ex mouth," in the !•e;.e of the; e meeting with some orpor. twiny of gratifying his High Notions; thit bar Frank lin the lover, with kip hisservant (RossA), follow them. Skip, to obtain an introduction in; o the Baronet's house disguises himself us Master of the Ceremonies; and whi:e he delights the ear of the Baronet with the pro mise of introducing him to some foreign. Duke, of rmnience wealth and consevence, he contrives to etnr:ey a letter to the nice from Franklin, apprising her of the plot. The Alaster of the Ceremonies re tires, and Sip soon after returns disguised as the promised Duke, and by droppin; a letter, which the Baronet - picks up, cad reads, he makes him believe that he purposes to have the Baronet's name insrstel in " the new batch of Peers," and that Franklin is a Lord of ancient family in divuise. The trick succeeds and the lovers are happy. This outline is completed by nn ei. y and sprightlf dialogue, amusing incidents, and some v,ry I):Lasitig singing. Munden and Knight sang a very g oo d 4, on the charms of a substantial Oinner, wa4 loudly encored , and even called foe a third time. l'l e popular actors exerted themselves miss. mhly aml successfully, and k..pt the tutus:: in roars ol' Miss Cubitt and Mr. T. Cooke were highly api , d in several songs, some of which tvere 'enrol, d. Iho part of Martha WAS much toti wiling for such an tress as Mrs. Alsip ; she, however, helped to cooceal i insignificance.. Russel rendered the Master of the Ceremonies, and the Spanish Grandee, very amusing personages. Both the music and the dialogue arc the prokhictii re of Mr. Parry. It was remit ed in a IV on; fkurriii t i msnner, and is likely to bec.ane .v.th six; Public. (For Me rentaii•rer of Me Draw.: sec ti; ks! Fie.),