The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL -REGISTER.

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DRAMATIC REGISTER.

HAYMARKE'I"FHEATItt.

A yew afterpieee was brought ont.at this. House last Monday,
under the title 'of Come and See. It has been represented as a trans-
lation from the German, but seems to us to derive its origin from
L'Avengle ,Clairvoyant, a French piece, produced some twenty
ye;irs ago at the Paris theatres with much success. The plot is in
the style of all French plays. simple but well conducted.
Capbiin Sea/wig/4, a naval officer, returnstrom sea. and pretends
to have lost his sight, for the purpose of trying the constancy of his
Lady. She, however, during ahsence, formed an attachment
with the Captain's nephew, and avail( herself of the blindr.ess of
the husband to elude Tie circumstance is soon known,
but the Captain hears it like a philosopher, and reflects with much
whim on the folly of matrirnony at his tine of life. There is a fop-
pish physician introduced, who is entrapped into marring an an-
tiquated maid, el irk aff.rdel much merriment, and which was
hei:2litened with C:e humour and sea wit of the Cipt:iin's Valet.
This plain canvass has been filled up w ith many more common.
place sentillet:t: than a piece of this nature is in :zetieral condemned
to !itiAneyed joke.; are not ‘rantit:g to pie:lse the gal-
' anti those who still retain any taste. Were these ex-
c, wi•( Iv' pruned olf, there is no donla but Coltir am! See
I.:!,l,eimii:ine to WWI its motto, and to draw cunsidcrab!e
o; v:::ttors. •

Im-I.6,lllEolcup; announced for Friday At this house were, frays
awl Yours, No Son::,. no Sapper, and Coyne and See. The lionse was
v, Ty well atten:kj, and the andiellt`V, ati they reasonably- Mi'rht
Were SAlrvllilte iu their eXi)eCtatiollS of entertainineat, when thy%
the niortitication to see Mr. Brunton enter. iu the char::crcr of au
apolo-ist. He brought them intelligence of an nuidea,,ant nathre,
whie.': not a liti:e damped the tnivtit of the eveniog, as he was
charged to coat iii the distresiog fart, that two of the best
comedians of the day, %%hose names Were in t:ie C0111:1 Hot ap•
pear in consequencc of an accident, %vide!' Matte it impossible for
them to continue their professional !aboard. The accident we un-
derstand oecnrred in Parliament•strect, neat... Catmit row. Messrs.
Mathews and Terry were together in a gig, 11C11 the reins be Caine
entangled et ith the horie'i le;z3. Their etiout: to di,en-
galzt. !item were ttnsnere,tsfol, and they tvcre thrown f .rward from
the v. liicic on tho stones %vitt.' violence. were both mach
but Mr, M,ithews is stated to have suffered (.0114(1er:11)1v
more than ME. Tole. ' Ilis thillt bone w;lg at tirAt thonght to have
b.g.t tractor et!, but this, we are happy to hear, was a mistake. I:is
wa., dreadfully cot and briiised, and, it is i*Cartli lie will not Oe
able to rcsitine his prulesional duties for sonie time.
In eon,e(inenee of this initortunate at-elite:it, 'Mr Brunton per.
formed the part assigned to Itass(ll, and the latter that of .Sir Darid,l
.I)..,n;:er, uled for Mathews. lZus,eli, taking the part on short
notice, acquitted Limselt With lilt it and loott,ntr. The sceraid piece
was No Song no Sapper, in which Mr. am the Norwich
state, made his first ippe:o-ance oil London board=, in the part of
.16:1ila, lie is active and spli ited, and !..e,a ve a characteristic portrait
of a ge!!crot;s tar. 'File part Of Margar Eta tea:, .us!ained by a youug.
Llik wholly new to the stage. S.t' poN,e,:•til a good tigore, %%Oh a
pit asivg face and mai king eyes. llcr vocal powers c' not rO-
- or tide in quality, and, i!nii:kt all 'RI' terrors, stet, stoned
fi...)ariit too notch ill her cadences. nniziing Ike ii ind was
st,bstituted for Conic and :;ee

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INCL.:1;11 TII E vritn.

Tuesday night the opera of Bich and Poor was performed for
the tirst time this season, and allorite*i a fresh opportunity for the
ammseerdent abilities of Mi:s he Ily and Mr. Fnwcett to display
themselves. In tin ir immtet view as lather amid daughter, time former
was-so impressed by her just conception of the charactur,
tilat sin. fainted before the scene was finished. They were under
the or cessitv of 71(1111(11k terin' att'r, scents, &c. and the latter part
Int the la,t wene \V its to cess.arily omitted.
(.7imoke, of 1):Iltlirm, inside his first appearance this season-last
nioit, in the character of Scroßkier in the .`age of Belgrado. Tile
latene.:s Of the hour only allows ns to say, that hi, wo. received with
th-it applanie which Ilia ;gel! powers of v.)ice anti &served.

LORD COCHRANE.

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Die following letter has been iient to S. Brnoks,Esq Chairman of the
Committee of the Electors of Westminster

hang's Bench, July 18th, 1814.
Sits—Amongst all the ocCurrences of my life, I can call to my me-
mory no one, which has produced so great a degree of exultation in my
breast, ns this, through a channel I so high!), esteem, has been
communicated to me, that, after all the machii,ntions of corruption
(bringing into play her ch icest agents) have been able to effect
against me, the Citirtns of Westminster have, mm1611)0113 voice,
pronounced me worthy of continuing. to be one of their IL-prest ntatices
iii Parlia

Merely to he a Member of the House of Commons Os now made
tip) is something too meagre to be a gr:nilicati,in to Ine. Bat, when
reflect on that lovt olcountry, that devotion to freedom, that soundness
of judgment, that wish:iken adherence to troth ,rues justice. which have
invariably mailed the proceedings of the Citizens of Westminster ; and,
when further reflect, that it is i,f Sir Francis Burdett whom they have
now, for the third Cline, made me the Colleague, how am I to express,
on the one hand, my gratitude towards Own). and, on the other, the
contempt which I feel for all the distinctions of birth, and for all the-
wealth and ail the decorations, which Ministers and Kings have it, un-
der the present sys:em, in their ;lower to bestow ?
\Vitt' regard to the case, till, agitations of which has been the cense of
this, to me most graiifti result, I am in it a apprehens'on as no the
opinions and fed.w.ts of rise word, un.l especially of the pvirple
Eogl not ; who, thour!li they may he occasionally misled, are never de-
liberately cruel or unj:ast.—U:elr let it be said of me:—The Stack
c'oisc have accused ;--Lord Ellentwou,fh has eharg-il for gni!ty ; --the
Special mare have found thin guilt ;—the Court have senteocrki la the
Was,. if Co:a/nous have expelled ; -and the Citizens of
Westminster n ‘‘, j--only let this he the record placed
against my name, and I r.hait be proud to stand in the Calendar of Cri-
minals all the days of lily life.

In requesting you, Sir, to convey thcse my sentiments to nit Cf.nsti-
tuents at large, I cannot rtfiJin Irons neguing you pin' the other Gen-
tle:llmi of the Cumminee, to accept of iny particular and unfeigned
th:inks, I am, Sir, your must obedit lit huall,:e ,ervnitt,
COCIIIIA NE.

A report is current, on the correctness of which we place
considerable reliance, that Dc Hevener has written both to
Government and to bold Cochrane. In his letter to Govern-
ment he avows himself to have personated C.'ol. Dubimrg, of
which, indeed, there could be no doubt, and reflect, on ilia
conduct of hii

A daily Paper states, " that on Saturday morning
aimut oat; o'e.oc/•, a messenger presented himself at the door of
the King's Rench prison, demanding access. Coming at so
nnser.3onable an hour, when, according to the rules of the
prison, the doors had been long shut azainst visitors, the
.Keeper at first refused admission ; but on its being stated by
the messenger, that he had a letter to deliver from Lord Sid-
mouth to Lord Cochrane, witich admitted Wu° delay, the doc;:s
were thrown open, and the bearer of this very urgent dispatch
made his way to Lord Cochrane's room. His Lordship was
enjoying that repose to which the guilty mind is a straner,
when be was roused by the hitt uder, who presented the letter
from Lord Sidmouth, dated on Friday evening, which he
said required an immedicte answer. On opening it, Loid
Cochrane found it to contain an intimation, that the Prince
Regent had struck out his name from the list of persons coin-
posing the Order of the Rath, and requiring of his Lordship
to return the insignia of that Order Lord Cochrane, as
understand, declined complying at that time with this peremp-
tory requisition."
Count Stab reinherg, Governor of Florence, has stoppo.
100 chests filled wi;h plate and ocher valuables which wei,
on the point Of being carried away for Madame Eliza Baccio-
chi (,13uonapa: te's sister ), and which had been stripper
from the State and Fai.tly from Individuals.
The island of Corfu las been formally deliverer
General Campbell by the King of France's Commiss

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