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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

that there is a serious misunderstanding betwetn
' the Emperer of Russia and the King of Sweden.
prep:it...nory to a negociation to induce Charles John
to quit Etc throne ut: Sweden. An overture to this
effect, it is said, has been mudg to him, but we can-
' nut give credit to the report, or that such a measure
could ever be in the contemplation of the Holy Al.
liunce. He has been called to the throne by the
voice of the people, and there he ought to remain
undisturbed, without the interfereace of any foreign
Power whatever. The measures taking fur the de-
fence of the kingdom are pn.ceeding with activity—
there is a plan for erecting an immune fortress• in
the very heart of Sweden. AR this seems to indi-
cate, that the Government has some fears fur the
future. On the other hand, the family of the de-
throned King are said to be soliciting the protection
of a great Power for the young Prince Gustavus.—
These Papers say, on the authority of a letter float
Manheim, that Sandt, the murderer of Kotzebue, is
dead.

The French papers to the itkii have just been
received. The fhliowing are extracts:—

I'AItIS, MAY I:).—Yl'lnel tidy b. foie MANS the King
gave aptivate audience to the Siei:iati lroba•sadcr, who
presented,* letter from Ids Soverei4n, nom', ing the mar-
riage concluded bet %cm' the [tarot of Spain, Dosa Francis
Paid, and the Princess Louisa Cuselutte of the To cs Ski-
lies. Hit Majesty afterwatds receit,ed the Ainhassudors,
()saint Dignitatiep. Ministers, Marshals, .&. The King
also received a Deputation float the Cnamber of Depu-
ties, who drliveu•d the p(ojet istyrethig the trant.it
through Akaler.
The works are continued at St. Cloud, and it is still
said, that Isis ;naked). will reside there clueing a part of
the summer.

The celebtated composer, Beethoven, has been ap-
pointed Maitre de Chapelle to the Atchiloke ItoJuly's°,
Archbishop of 01 iiiii iz.
Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg proceeds to Switzer-
land, to pay soother visit to his sister, the Grand D4lCilebi
Constantine.

The trial of Cantilion and Mariner, charged with at-
tempting to assassinate the Duke of Il'illington, cum-
menees this day; it is expected to last four days.
The report is renewed ot the approaching establishment
of a unliounl rrprestntaliosi in PI M.Sid.
Negotiations are on foot to rstablish commercialrela-
tions between Pt ossia and the Brazils.

VIENNA, APRIL 2.`1.—1t appears certain, that the two
Princesses, twin daughter► of the King of Sardinia, Mafia
Theseta, and Maria Anna (hurls at Rome the 19111 St p-
timber, !so), vi ill be married, ore to the King of Spain,
and the other to the sou of the Duchess of LUCCA, ei•det ant
Queen of Etruria.

A Russian Courier, who has passed through this city on
his way to Italy, is the bearer, it is said, of orders to
Coma Cap° d'istria,to tcturn ionintJtately to Peteisburgh;
but sonic ray, that lie is previously to go to Paris on a 1114..
t•itill Irurn ths. Litipte or of Rtir.sia.

It is generally believed that Mr. Vansittart, after
bringing forward the Budget, and providing for the
Ways and Metros of the year, will resign the situa-
tion of Chancellor a the Exchequer. It is not
understood, however, that he is to be succeeded by
Mr. Peel.

A letter from ‘Vieshington, giving an outline of
the Treaty lately concluded with Spain, says—
" The 24th January, 13,9, is selected for regulat-
ing the validity of grunts by Spanish authority; all
bet Ore that day are declared valid by the Treaty,
all subsequent to that eay are void."
Letters have reached us from Trinidad, dated the
2d of April. They announce the arrival in the
Gulph of Paria, of the Francis and other transports,
with the remainder of the British volunteers under
Colonel English. They were instantly to proceed
to Murgaretta, to join the Expedition preparing
there against the Main. The opportunity, it is
said, was never more favourable for putting a ter-
mination to the contest. The main body of the
Spanish troops, under General Martin is at least
SCO miles from the seacoast, entangled in the woods
of Armen, and cut off from all its principal comma-
nicat'ons by tha Independent threes.
1111 tRRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.OH Thursday
mcrn;ng were married, ut the pariah church of St.
Gcor;e, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Mr Hodgson,
the Earl Temple. to Lady Mary Campbell. After
the ceremony the new married pair set eff for Stowe,

IVI A Y 1:7.

the seat of the Nl..rquis of Buclingloon.—,ll3o, rrt
St. Jatne,'s church, by the very Rev, the Dtain of
Canterbury, the aut. Mr. Neville, eldest son of
Lord Ittayhroulie, to Lady Mary, second daughter
of the Marquis Cornwallis The happy pair, after
the eereurnty, proceeded to Saffron Walden the seat
of Lord Bray brooke.

On Thiirsday, Mosely Woolf, Lewia Levy, and
John Kinnear, convicted of conspiracy to derrattel
certain merchaiits and trudesmen, were brought into.
the Court of King's Bensh, and received the ful-
lowing sentences:—Woall to be imprisoned in the
county gaol of Middlesex, for two years, and to pav
a fine of IM001.; Lewis Levy to be imprisoned
two years in Gloucester gaol, mid to pay a fine of
?,0091.; and John Kinnear to be imprisoned two
years in Ilehester gaol.
The r mon who arrived at the Admiralty from..
Liverpool with the new invented cannon and car.
tinge, we are informed has given general satisfaction
to the officers- appointed by the Ordnance ; we are
es to hear this, as it greatly diminishes labour and.
danger, which are two material points in gunnery.
lu JEllillloll 10 the rxlse.htion that It.ia just aarlcd for
explormig Ilelliit s ii v, autl deteritinting tht• exi,telice
of a Clllllllltotecetion l.y scahr towards Behritig's Strait.,
another is.aboin w be undertaken by laud, which is
proceed in o.tiortlit tit thirction limn tog ILmJvat 8"
The per,this to be rittit!oy,.. I
to Company's settlesteols.
ties artlaints titidertaLing, it is caul, are seltc eii ;
aii.l, •r-. 11 toe assistance of tile North American tribes,
ooze piotpeet of success iseutrrtainetl. it will be rt-
cod.'eted. thut many years into Mr. lErite, and tome
rteently Nl'Kenzie, tell in wills the %,,m it two jig.
tmethate lasitit••, a considerable ilialat:ce tio.ts cacti
0,11 r, between 1;i-hying's Str.lll7l.llld itAlis, slily.
Last month the f.',ointoissary of the 11‘cciver for
the Arroodissement of Glen was assassinated. 1-1•.;
had to pay to the Receiver General cf the Depart-
ment of the Loire a sum of !21,000 francs. The
Gend'uotnes, who were to Lave eseurted hint arrived
in the moroing before the house, found the door
open, the house- deserted, and the chest broken opzo
and robbed. At first the Connuissery himself was
suspected of being the thief; but search being made,
his dead body was found on the banks of the Loire,
tied hand and foot, with a ;;at in the mouth, and
the skull fractured. Suspicion has fallen on hit
domestic, who has disappeared.
The Gazelle de France says, the English Govern-
ment has called fur the sole heir ache immense far.
tune held by Courtois, the old French Bae.cr, who
died lately in London. The fortuznoe hair is called
Tretin, and has hitherto lived painfully iu Nugent-
sur-eine, on the pittance arising front a small em-
ployment in the Consolidated 'lases. He has set off
to take possession of his great property.
Papers down to the Ist of the present month have
arrived front Switzerland and the interior of Ger-
many. It appears that a formal overture has been
made by an agent of the King of Portugal to the
Swiss Government, for takirrg into hit Majesty's ser-
vice, is the Brazils, a body of Swiss, on the It:ask...of
the Capitulation between that Government and the
King of the Netherlands. The differences between
the Courts of Berlin and Hesse Cassel arc said to be
nearly adjusted, and importniit diplomatic com-
munications are spoken of as having been made at
Cassel.

It is surprising that the Vice Soeiety, instead of
• declaring war rgainst the retailers of a pint of porter
or a mutton chap to a hungry customer, on the
Lord's day, do ut t exert themselves to put down
waltzing, which a'l must agree is inconsistent with
the decency and decorum of the English character.
Letters and papers from Cadiz to the 21st, and
from Madrid to the 27th ult., have reached town.
The contents of the former are interesting. It seems
that the Spanish Government had made great exer-
tions to forward the departure of the expedition, and
in consequence of instructions from Madrid, a con-
siderable number of troops had been put on board
several of the ship: of the line, and it was expected
at Cadiz that these would have sailed for South
America before the smaller vessels. An-order had,
however, unexpectedly reached Cadiz, directing that
the soldiets who had been embarked should be dis-
embarked. This circumstance has excited considera-
ble sensation, toil numeroes were the conjectures as
to the cause of this sudden alteration of the deter-
mination of the Government. It was affirmed that
the troops and vessels of war were detained in con-
sequenem of the arrival of the despatches by the
Sn-
bins frigate.
Sierra-Leone Casettes have arrived to the 20th dB -
lamary. In one of them there is a conirifliction of the
teports which found their way into the English papers
some months since, of the dreadful notrulity that prc-
vailed in that settlement. It s,%s, " the total number
of Europeans who died in the Pet.itisida, iu 1818. was
8 men, 3 women, and 2 chtkren. We lo;t no civil,
military, or colonial officers, excepting one young gen-
tleman, who died a month after his wive!, and is in-
chided in the number.

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 ofithe
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 alninu ceased in
that quarter, and that there are many bales 01 hand
that list e rent,ined 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 mind, 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 Journals, 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."

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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