The National Register. — London, England, 1819-02-28 00:00:00

le. as his mutative ; under the idea that is was then impru. d en t and unjustifiable provocation of the Japanese nation whif.l led to the subsequent capture and impri fontnent of him and his crew. The anecdotes here given, hawever, not only sufficiently exonetate thou from the charge of hiving acted without authority fr9m their superior officer ; but likewise places their charac ters and actions in so engaging a point of view, that the frc wet which they tlso contain of the ealy fate of two suAt young men, who wet with de r ath, as they had often dare 4 at, together and at the same moment, will not be read without mingled feelings of admiration and regret. The . 1 17 6 , :s of England ; or, Triumphs of the late War This is a book which we presume every lover of iris co untry must desire smile pleasure front looking into ; and even shnuld the reader get nu further than the table contents, will, if he have a grain of admiration in Lis rountre tiir patriotism and courage, dwell upon it with feelings of no common sort—a series of victories, beginning with that of Lord Howe, off Brest, and xvil.h the reduction of Algiers by Lord Exmouth, and the restoring of tranquillity in India by the Marquis cf ILstings, includes such a number of gallant actions, performed in so many and such distant parts of the habitable globe, that the imagination fires at the thought of the wide field in which British valour has displayed itself ; and inspires in every one who has the happy power of saying so, the exultant exclamation, . 1 and I also am a Briton." The purport of this work is to col lect into one focus the tributes of eloquence and grail tab w hi;:h have been excited from the country in the t ! )an ks of Parlioment, by the bravery and skill of our array and n,-vy, which has been deemed deserving this feeling acknowleme t of national feelin • and at the • e. cal of the account of each action biographical and mili tary notices are given, respecting the individuals who vac concerned in it. We hart, thus the force and sa learii y of the areicnt honorary orations, combined withe familiarity of a necdote.: and whether as a grati fieation of taste, of feeling, or of curiosity, the . 2 Egis of England will be found to posse" sufficient claims on the attention of the English reader. POETRY. -4.-- 'EPIGRAMS. (FROM TIlk: FR Egelly) , Von acy, wnsne'er aurotttl you roan.. You meet with none but fools and ISSN ; Would ynu avoid them, keep at home; ye—break yourlookitt; gfc•:e: - • THE BOOK. A poriii; wight, w!io, being wed. Was always reading . in his bed, Ills wife address'd with gentle look. And said. " I would I were a look!" " Why so, good dame ?" the sage replied, "-Because you'd love me Oen,' she cried. Why. that might Se," he straight re s : o m'd, " But 'twould depend upon the kind—. • .‘n Alnianak, for instance, dear, " Ta have a new one every year." .7 7- STATE OF THE POLL. AT TOE CLOSE YESTERDAY 95 937 I I uhholise. 307 Cartwright A Protestant Bible Snciety has just been formed at uncier the sanetioa of the Frcn:h Government. The nirrinis de liocourt, Minister of State and Peer of France, is u,t the head of it. - • • • ora doubts have arisen as to the best situation in wIlia:11 to place the IMlAer:y cast of the tine Colossal Status, by Phitlias, sent as a present fr.an Rome to the - Pri:.cc Regent. Waterloo-place was at first fixed upon but it hts since been sti;;;;.z.estedi that the centre of the new Circus, in Piccadilly, will display this admirublo wo:.-}i of art to die best alvan..age. An Inquest was held, tart treek, rt •"te Volunteer, in il tkci'-'ort Portort.i.•Ativre, en tov L •ot• ••t :tnn Col , heck, who ;.0t,,,0•tl •• : N.IS nod ,o!:t v .-• o I' • ...1 , 11 . 11121 1 t.. .r t •L.;,I i",,ors, it , 0 . ' 11 ' .'1 • r ,• ived art ',• rhze" 1.. • . . frentuly exelai , • ' ' ' - i••0•k to Itt• tl, I now'.... ••• • ...: I • ...• •.• •,,,ttle . •• do. file I• • - .t. resale \ ".• In' -tn:ty. IL fox .• , - NI • •••• IN' ru i I 7 • hiot •(,: • I*. • • ,t y , :rt ! • • 1..'" mill. lvtivg tv"t!,. '•• • ; ••• t,• . - fr , .n'oerbellto :ttnrl• Ilt • h t.. • 1. !. t'rn n ....tatljo"ning d,auer ; ct! .• .... .. 1- - • ' • "! Of tatlV:rn o.a+ll. • I ..C.gli , llll •• •t 12 ~ :o7tents. Sio. ti : •" •• • ••• ;"-: • whoe'l In all fly:A.)3l,lkt ••-• • •' • •••• '• •'• •r lit•taiton h•-••••t• .covc. - 1 I' y .;. ..• • 2•• -is•tat• •••• -•• r• ei..t I • ••.•nt'.',. v, :to) by ,wto, . - twu lj el‘2l f•••o:11.11,e stoonteh, ;la t•.:l'.-.v w.ty of reio:tvy. On Tiestily it , :, about tw o'elork in the enintr. a iire covered At the seat nil'. T. Wykisin. Esn- s: Artlllli ,wsnt, 11,10r.1- shire. broke out in the servants' spa, tn.ents, und great fur/: the wind heir iu the npposite direction to the house, for tunattly nreventol this splendid inninion becoming a Joey to the de sourin; el !nent. Two or ttree rick: , were at onetime on tire, and the bow. in t VI:3Z.: writ i . elk; r. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. THE DR.IM4. DRURY LANZ.. A new Melo drame, entitled Th Heroine, was pro duced at this Theatre on 11 , 1 °natty. It is a translation of that beautiful French tale The Siege of Rochelle, so far as the characters and the language are concerned ; and, if the story could have been well compressed, we should suppose it would have made a very interesting? entertainment. But it would be bnpossible to introduce all the incidents of the novel into a three-act play; and they arise so naturally out of each other, from the be• ginning to the and, and are so woven together by the fine imagination of Madame de Geniis, that to wparate is to confuse them. This was the essential, and, per-. Imps, unavoidable fault of the Melo drame. The occur rences were accumulated upon each other without con nexion or order ; situations were brought into contact, which in the Novel, are connected by distant intervals; and the necessary result was, a mass of passions for which there was no preparation, and of actions for, which there was no motive The novel is itself so well known, that it would be superfluous to give a sketch of its fable. It will be sufficient to say, that the leading charmers, being gifted with new names, are all in troduced, The name of Eloise is substituted for that of Clara. There is in the original portrait of this character something exceedingly engaging. We do not admire her for her heroism so much as for that immacu late beauty by which she is surrounded. The sacrifice she offers of her life for her supposed father seems not wonderful from such a being as she is represented.— Her thoughts are above our world ; she loJks and breaths of Heaven, and her affections arc as pure and as warm as if they were enkindled in the heart of a Seraph. It is almost a profanation to place such a character on the stage. Her language may be recited ; but her tone of filial veneration and of sacred love for the man whom alas deemed the future guardian of her happiness cannot be isdleated. Mrs, West represented Eloise, and pro duced souse striking effects, particularly in the pavilion and trial scenes. But Eloise is a truncated figure of Clara. None of the elements of her character are pre served. Her devotion of her life fur her supposed father was bat one of the actions which her mind WAS con stantly inspiring. The beauty of that mind itself is kept out of view. This omission may have been un avoidable; bat it is not thmfore the less injurious. Her supposed father who is called St. Aubyn, is of a character perfectly fitted for the drama. His atrocious designs, and daring schemes, have all been retained, and they have found an excellent organ in Mr. Rae. lu some psssages he was highly impressive. In order to relieve the scene, a rural festival was introduced in the second act, in which Miss Tree exhibited her powers successfully. A more questionable attempt to work out variety was made by introduciz the servants of the Castle. Oxbery, as one of them, is. to be expeepted, for he is humouroos in every thing ; bet the love affair between the footman and Janet was gross even to in aecener. The most hazardous incident in this piece, -is the restoration of tie child to life, which is unnces sary and absurd. This piece is, we understand, the production of. Mr. It. Phillips, one of the corps of the Theatre.. THIL ARCIIBISHOP or JERUSALRIAL—The Syrian Archbishop of Jerusalem, Gregarlo Pietro Giarve, has lately arrived ill this country, mid has taken up his residence in Frith Street, Soho. He is in the dress of the Apostle St. James, with the blue turban, a loose robe, &c. His long beard, and venerable and apostolic appearance, attract greet notice, and excite much cu riosity. We learn, that the Archbishop's object in visiting England is, to solicit assistance, and obtain some of the machinery, to establish a printing-press at Mount Lebanon, fur the purpose of prep:living, and there dis tributing, correct editions of the Sacred Scriptures, in the eyreic language. Althoueh Mount Lebanon is under the dominion of a Christlau Prince, nearly all the rest of Syria is governed by, end composed of Turks. Nut, a few of them have lately tecome Christians, tbr the fanatic fury of their faith. seems to be every day ehatitig. To gain mane, very many, tions Mahorne tanism to Christianity, little mor,„ seems wanting than to distribute copLe of the Bible as tile Syrian rots in their own language ; but to prepare such works has been thund, heretolure, generally impracticable. The editions of the Bible printed in this country, for most parts of the East, have. from their total inaccuracy, boeu utterly useless. We believe, we may venture to say, without any otfeaft to the teemed, that none but a native ought to attempt to be a corrector of a Syria.: nese. A single mistake in she placing of a pint may netke the same word convey u meaning the most ludi c:oa. ler. what the author ittheeled to be of a precisely opposite - - . • The Prince of Menace (I-tot:ore IV.), aged GO years, fit into the Seine ou Thursday last. He Was drawn out shortly after, but he coal not be restored to life, t h, 4tig h eugy emaLiott wait matie for that purposo for upwards of two hours and a :lull. The Pratee bad been v.,... flrtn, LAW INI'E,LLICiE,N COURT OF KING% BENCH, Feb. 20. EXTRAORDINARY CONSPIRACY. THE KIND V. LEVY AND OTHERS. Mr. Scarlett stated, that the defendants in this Nor Mrs. Ella Levy, Mr. Hymn Alexander, Goodman. Davies, and Joseph Davies, were indicted for conspi racy to make a noise to disturb Mrs. Elizabeth Harris during the period dhow lying-in, and thereby injure her health and that of her infant. He called the fol lowing evidence : Elisabeth Harris, in September last, dresied at No. 5, Holywell-street Ella Levy, the defendant, lived next door. Witness had not spoken to any of her 'neighbours for two or three years. On the 13th of September, about 6 in the morning, witivss was taken in labour, and sent for her mother who lived opposite.. It was Sunday, and as soon as this message was scot, witness heard a violent uproar and noise in the street, and a knocking against a wainscot which separut. d the witness's room front Mrs Levy's house. This noise continued all clay : about S in the afternoon witness was delivered, and immediately there was an outcry. [Here the witness was so overcome she could not proceel. Mr. Andrews, on her recovery, proceeded to examine her. Her husband's name was tweedy ;- he was a Christian she a Jewess. They had never been married ; but she had a promise, and was shortly• to be married in a Christian church. Rosa Harris, sister to the last witness, stated, that she knew the defendants, who all lived in the houses adjoining the prosecutrix's. Mrs. Levy had said, iu the witness's hearing, that when her time arrived they would serve her out. The reason they assigned was, . that she was intimate with a Christian. Witness slated, that as soon as her sister was taken ill, the noise commenced in the street with hooting anti hallooing" Now we shall have the 3,-oungTweecly." They palled down the iron bars of the shutters. The noises of knocking and hooting continued at intervals in Mrs. Levy's house, through the Jay ; at which time witness's sister was delivered. Witness heard Mrs. Levy call out to Hyarn Alexander, and Goodman Da vies, " Now is your time boys, she has gut a young Tweedy." After this the noise was more violent than before, when they blew horns and made a noise with rattles in the strec•, is.consequenee of which her sis ter went into fits. The defendants were. found Guilty. The French Papers of the Bth inst have arrived ; and these do not confirm, nor in any manner counte nance, the rumours which lad been circulated on the übject of his Majesty's health_ It is true that the King has been indisposed, but was on Wednesday so much recovered, as to transact public business with his Ministers, to receive a deputition from the Chamber of Deputies, and to give audience to several of the dignitaries and great nblcers of the kingdom. The de bates on the new arrangement of the financial year were coneluded in Wednesday's sitting.; when the Ministerial prrded passed into a law by a majority of only 32 : the ayes wise 133, the noes 100. The taxes are thus granted to the executive Government down to the let of Jilin 1820, a period of nearly 18 months s so that one great cause of anxiety to Ministers, and a powertbl engine of control over their meaures, is ins. paired, or suspended in its operation. Charlotte Hill was, on Tuesday, conticted at th Middlesex Sessions, of having dreadfully abused her niece, l'runella, a child net five years of age. The evidence detailed a series of sliceking cruelties.. One of the Jury was so mach ntfected at the repetition of it by the Chairman, as to be obliged to leave the Court for some minutes. The'chill died . soon after the scenes described took ?It ce ; ILA a bill for murde: was pre- sented, but thrown oat by the Grand Jury. The cruelty exercised towards the chill was, drenching it with water, making it stand its the yard naked, and beating it severely. The Chairman sentenced her to • six months imprisonment.. From the official returns, printed by -order of the House otCommons, it appears that the aturegate amount of gold coin issu-d from the Mtnti.in coarse of the year 1813, was, in sovereigns, 2,5 t?,: >) 7 s . (B. i n half sovereigns, 813,1431. 2s. 61. Ant sunt of silver e iu issued from the N in: in ditto, total agg.-egate, 57,61801- A letter of a recent date, fean Ma kid, repeats that the Government of Spain, has begun to talk agin about the.expedition to South America, and has dee:eed that there shall be a loan of 60 millions of teals, bb tut 600.0a0i.; but a Royal o..dinance, though it may an, thotisa the State to borrow, cannot oblige any man to lend : accordingly, there is not a dollar forthcomit g. on the oecasiod, and in the mein time the sli;ps rot, the sailors starve, and tlia soldiers desert their colours. It is alleged that the Ambassadors of Creat Brit:tin, France, Austria, awl the United States, have expressed stntrig displeasure at the decree for putt. , . to ',ll h szi,•7l rcigners cs•slaall A 1: •,•. • 7 ;.. I