The National Register. — London, England, 1819-05-16 00:00:00

MAY 16. On Friday. evemieg Use Grilishepper, 18, 'Captain Henry Forbes, ar ri ved at Portsmouth from Bermuda, with his Excellency Sir James Cockburn, late Go vernor of that Island,' who has returned home in consequence of his appointment to the office of Pay master of the Marines. Sir thIUICX is so eider bro ther of Sir George Cockburn-. STATE OF COMMERCIL—Tr foreign arrivals at Liverpool, have been unusual y n u merous for some days, and have brought us letters from Riq, Bahia, Trinadarl, and Pernambuco; also from New-York, also from other parts of the United States. The Coun ter of Bute sailed from Rio Janeiro on the 7th of March, and arrived one day before the Diana packer, which sailed from the same place no the 41st of February. The commercial letters by each of these conveyances are by no means of a gratifying description. They coin plain of an almost will want of specie, and represent trade as extremely dull in e mseqtactice. One of the letters had the following gloomy sentence:—" Tne markets here for soft manufactured goods are worse than ever." Letters from Pernambuco, of the date wf the 23th February, hinught by the Waterloo, which has arrived at Liverpool, give the same unfavourable ac coon( as to the state of the commerce in that quarter; where the markets are ale Bribed as glutted, both with manufactured goods and the produce of the country. — Cotton Is uncommonly plentiful, and idling at almost any price. The letters from Liverpool represent the arrivals or eouo:, and colonill produce generally, as I user than at any former period of the greatest commer cial prosperity; and the demand for home consumption greater than the (-living vale of trade would lead us to eithect. A letter from Trinidad, dated the 10:h of March, contain', the Mllowin7 paragraph:—'• We hate been doing very little here in the way of business for sante time past ; and I never r-col ret matters so flat and 1113CII , Cas they have preen these last six months, ~i,r hive we any'prosm , ct of their becoming better.— , t ,. a i p a rt of last yew's crops are on hand, and many of roc planters will ion itably be ruined, if there be not a favulrabie change hefore ihe commencement of the r 'suing s.-asn.t. There has likewise beet a great rallipg off to the shipping arrivals, particularly froonAmerica; and, on the whole, commerce never core a worse aspect than it does with us at present." In addition to the above communications, a respectable cloth-house, in Yorkshire, has received letters from Palermo, and likewise from Konigsberg, which are quite in unison with timse r.ceivrd from the other s'tle of the Atlantic. Oneof the hovers from Konigsberg states, that the demand fur British manufactured goods has almon ceased in that (parer, and that there are many bales on hand that have remained unpacked these two years. Ten of the Judges on Saturday sat in private, in the Exchequer Chamber, to deliberate upon Crown cases, reseived at the bite Assizes, and Old Bailey Sessions Oa Friday morning a fine girl, about 10 years of age, was run over by a waggon at the corner of Dule-*treet, Manchester-square. It appears she was endeavouring to reach at something in the waggon, to make what the children call squaakers, when her foot Flipping, she fell under the wheel, which going over her neck, car.red her instant death. SebterraneoMs 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 an extensive natural hot-bed, near Dudley, Staffordshire, which is heated by means of the slow combustion of coal of some tlepth below the surface. Prom this natural hotbed a gardener raises annually crops of different kinds of culinary vegetables, which are earlier by some weeks 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 Gosley Woorl, in the parish of Bridge. Two other young ones, and the hen bird, were flushed at the same time, but. got away. This is a very singular instance in the history of this bird, as it relates to our island. A very singular custom at the marriages of the Japanese is, that the teeth of the bride are made black by some corrosive liquid. The teeth remain bldc'x ever after, and serve to ! , hew 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 as many years as a man requires to be mature for the duties of marriage. When he marries the tree is 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 Saturday night, at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, a currier arid ano:her man quarrelled and" fought, but afterwards made up their diff,rences ; shortly after, as they were sitting side by side, the currier stabbed his antagonist, so that he died; the murderer is in custody, THE NATIONAL REGISTER. DR urtrwrs rzrzATRS. .....- A new Tragedy, called the Carib Chief, was on Thum ' day night produced at this House. It is from the pen of Mr. H. Twiss, and it experienced an uncommonly gracious reception. Tiveleene is laid in Dominica. The chief interest of the story hinges on the sufferings of Onsereeh (Kean), a Carib Chieftain, on account or the loss of a wife and daughter in warfare with Europeans; his consequent fu rious hostility towards white men, whether they api•eared as friends or enemies, and his efforts to be revenged.— Civilized exertions to reduce his native land present the means ; and the re-appearance of the French Coininander Montalbtrt, (Bengniigh) who had destroyed the Chief tain's Wife. and torn, him front his infant daughter, affords unexpected opportunity of satisfying direst hate. Montalbed was united to Ciatadilia, (Mrs. West) a lady of,lndian origin, arid one whom he hail gained by basely representing her betrothed lover, Treinsis (Mr. Henry Keinble), to be dead ; arid these the Carib Chief, and by the fortunes of a sort of irregular warfare, vets into his power, but not till illontalberi had %loin Mniack (Holland), a native Prince. Effort, to rescue them are made by (I). Fisher) Malock's p: test, and licalukratic (Miss Boyce). Moniathert had escaped, but Claudia/A was about to be led to the pile to be sacrificed. No re lief appeared, and attemp.s to delay the ceremony only I aroused OnsereaYs fairy, who sets as if his wife's spirit chided hiin for deLly. Thine is gained, and Mortitttert is declared to be coining with assi s tance. Omerrals hinnies Cfaudina to the pile ; the sacrifice is commenced ; line victim bl ens ; and it such moment, by some jewels that had dropped from her person, he discovers iu Clam dina his °wail caughter. But the knowledge comes too late, for the death-wontid had been given. ilfraritatti a,ipeais egain. Ornarak endeavours to stab bun, but is prei cruet], and he then hills himself. Montalto 1, who had exciled no auxiety for his continued existence, is left aloe. ' Such is an imperfect outline of the plot. The charac ter of antreuh is consistently and ably se. tamed ; and that of Medina in the filth act is supported with great ability and interest. Its dramatic excellence is wrought to llighest pitch, and the catastrophe is managed with fist rate skill. It was the most etT(ctive thing of the kind we ever beheld; and such was the anxiety kindled by jet jutl,ctous management, that pity posses ed every heart on finding that Cleudira breathed her last iu the arms of a long lost parent. The Per ormers i Kean and Mrs. West, exerted themselves most ab:v. The fi,.ry, broken-hearted Indian, who scants all reliance on European promise and Chriatiati mercy—who remem bers the wrongs that had been heaped upon hint—who only lives to be ietenged, was embodied with great energy and nature by Jr.N Kean. His filial scene was one of afflicting, appalling interest. The affliction and agony on discovering the jewels seemed to snake his heart-strings leap from .their places ; and his grief, on finding that the dying Claudine was really his elanaliter, appeared to merwhelin the Chieftain's SOUL ' The tran sition fruni this destroying inflow to ungovernableinly on again belt Wiling Atuestulbei, the cause of so niuc.i rat u, was marked by c haractet ist ie rugged ness of passion ; and aver iwaving stabbed himself, the style in which, with his last breath, he cursed illontalteil we, peculiar and excellent. The hissing tones that followed the curse gave terrific reality to the acetic. The other cliaiiieters merit u,o particular notice, even if we had opportunity to speak of them. With respect to the. latigu..ge of the Play it rarely itrdidged in boldness of thought, vigour of expression, or beauty of imagery ; its general merit was that of smoothness and appropri ateness, sometimes, howeser, being raper too colloiluial or quaint. These the author can easily correct, as the audience marked the passages for him. The Play. on the whole, was uncommonly well re ceived ; and the felicitious character of the catastrophe warmed the audience into studs enthusiasm, that tinhoil :! , - hat Mr. Kean was aMINed to allllollllCe it for repetition. We love to pay respect to merit, hat not at the expense of our own consistency ; and we would therefore ask, whether it is very consistent with "dramatic proprieties' to require a dead man to step form and atteounce a Play CC VENT-GARDEN THEATRE. A new Tragedy, called Fredolplio, from the pen of Mr. Mattnin, the author of Bertram, was produced at this House. iiedolpho (Young) to escape from the im p-win:lilies of /Vo/denberk (Macrearly), towards his daughter C i linda (Miss O'Neill), retires into the Swiss Nisei ; bin into this retreat the fugitives are followed, where Woldembrrg is joined by a horrible character eatled the Dwarf Bee hold (Yates), who'is as deformed in mind as he is id person. 'fire latter knows the se cret or a murder committed by Fredolpho, and both threaten destination. The father is alternately soothed and threatened ; dragged to dungeons in chains ; sepa rated from his (laughter Urfirsda; Eventually Woldenterg drags Urlindo to the altar; hut here ite is surprned by the Fatner, who had been liberated (tom the prison by the cliorts of ii/dimar (O. Keinhle). IFoldenberg stabs Aldinsor t then tiedolpho kills IfiJidenterg ; atid Uilinda falls (lead, we presume, by the side of Aldirnar. Such is the Plot of a Tragedy which was so intent:it really con demned after a must patient hearing, that we only men tion it to afiind us an opportunity of doing, justice to the per:oriners—each of whom used every exertion far the Au. hot, and Mtr.s O'Neil I, Young, ant Macready, added thew established fame by as fine acting as was perhaps ewer w itnessed. IiIdTION.4L DEBT. The following important Paper hmt just been laid on the Table of the House ut Cotuwuus• By ►ktus it will be seen. that if the Commissioners for the re duction of the .N.itiourl Debt had in the year tit td. invested the amount of Sinking Fund to the Lows of the year, there would ha% e befit a civ tog At , the putr iio of no less than 20;0,9231. Gs. lOd. 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It appears that a fungus and schirruus tu mour had fixed itself on the upper jaw -bone, which would seedily 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 woman bore without a complaint !!!—Eighteen days after she was discharged cured. The Vice-Chancellor has at last been accommo dated with a place to hold his Court in Westmin ster. His Honour will sit the remainder of the term in the old House of Lords. The present In•elvrnt Debtors' Bill will be stir feted to expire altogether, it is said, and a new Bill will be enacted, with such claaseo-•, that the pro- ' portion of Insolvents which may escap4 under tilt: new Bill, compared to those which escape under tije old one, will be in proportion only of about one• to ten In the present alitrming state of the country, arising from the pecuniary embarrassments of the Government, and when it is clear from the tone mod disposition of the New Parliament in claiming the repeal of oppressive and immoral taxes, that any new tax would not be easily allowed; we are con cerned to state, that by the weekly returns of the general Revenue, since the end of the list quarter, it appears that there is a falling off of no less than 90,0001. tveekly. Friday, a man named Wyms, or Wemvs, a miller, was taken up near Puckeridge, in Hertfordshire, on suspicion of murdering his wife, Mary Wyms, by wangling her with her garter in a wheat-field, as they were travelling.. TheSeentm Uhantiier of the States-General of Bava ria, in rejecting a preposition for introducing the 1,311. eaveriso system of education, assicn a reason which is not a little surrr6ing. They say that "it is adnp ed, at the hest, only elementary dies to a Eople destitute of education, !Leh as that of nature. n g land, and the United States ; but is much inn me chilitical to itself, and ton little fisoutaLle to the lurment of mind, and besides completely useless in a country such as Germany, where esery village has its primary school.