The National Register.
London, England, 1818-03-30 00:00:00

CEKTIFICATES-Apuil. 48.

E. A:litineon. Liccrpool,tutewconist—T. Archer. L mbarti-strcct,
boot ittaker —J. Jackson, Norfolk. omact.iant.—
N. Hay. Nicholta-Line. merchant...-.:.;. I'. Hinton, and D. "flionws,
Bristol, chpuists.

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LOND(Xc :

310NDAY, MARCH 30, 1818.

TFIFRE has been a great number ef,arrivals• this
week from various parts of the globe.

Dispatches have bees received from Bombay overland,
dated -September 21th, which communicate the interest-
ing intelligence a battle between the Ptishwa and
the British forces, in which the latter were completely
victorious. It appears that the Government, notwith-
standing that the Peishwa had given security by 66
cession of his forts, suspected he was prepairing for
hostilities, and marched 4000 men from the Bombay
Army to meet him. He took the field with4o,ooo and
was defeated in two successive engagements, one on the
Sth of November, and the other on the 17th, in the
latter of which he was totally routed, leaving the capi-
tal, Poonah to its fate, where of eoursc the British
• Army entered in triumph.

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This success seems to have produced a magical effect
upon the other Chieftains. Seindisth has consented to
the passage of our troops through his territories in order
to punish the rintlarecs. l-lolkar has submitted himself.
entirely to the Nlarquivef Hasticzs. It is indeed to be
hopol that Al!ese mc.:surcs t ili sestore peace to the
country; we have agreat distaste to Indian Wars, and
we trust that the only anus ncm:Fary to conciliate or
subdue will be instruction and kindness.

Paris Papers of the 2,ith and 26th arrived yesterday.
The Committee to whom the law for the abolition of
the Slave Trade a•as referred, have made an unani-
mous Report, in favour of the law, with one slight
alteration. These papers are still silent. as to the ex-
tonination-oF C.astliZon. The French. Stocks are at 65
fr. 8.7, c.

American papershave also arrived containing a message
from the President for the purpose of effecting that re-
ciprocity of benefits, which was provided by the Com-
mercial Treaty between the two countries, to which
object the Co-Nem-vont of the United States appears
to have paid a promp arid just r.ttention.. .
The jourrallp 81.0-reroute... that amn before Con-
gress for the impositlon of iicavy duties on goode con-

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veyed to the British Colonies in British vessels. It seems
that four-fifths of the American Exports to the A% est
Indies are carried in British bottuazs, which being found
to be prejudicial, the measure is proposed as a check
upon the system. It is however expected to Call6e,
reciprocal proccAing on the part of this ecuntry.

We arc much plc-ascii to learn from the Canada pa-
pers, that the assembly of the province of Lower Ca-
nada, have agrced to ri.AL.:vo this country from the ex-
pellee of its Civil Governincnt. The colony is stated
to be in a flourishing condition,.and able to make many
internal improvements.

The news from France is of two Lads, that con-
veyed by the public journals, and the communica-
tions of private correspondence, which is usually, the
most interesting. The letters announce the art Jst of
the individual who attempted to assassinate the Duke
of Wellington. He is a miserable wretch of the name
of Castillon, whose motives are yet unknowu, unless
we are to credit the story of his being bribed by a set
of conspirators in Belgium to commit the net. 'We
are unwilling to believe that is the case, though the
Duke has certainly nogreat pretensions to popularity with
the• French. The character of the nation is at all
events by no means exalted by this attempt, The
assassin, is seems, we betrayed by a woman with whom
he cohabited, and he has hitherto refused to confess
any thing. Trout the silence of the Journals on the
subject, tis inferred, that the police are in pursuit of
others suspected to be accomplices. The private cor-
respondence also hints that a great change is meditated-
throughout the military commands, from which all the
Ultras are to be removed. It is even said, that Soult
is likely to be recalled, as well as some of the other
Exiles. The public journals are chiefly filled with
the Reports on Finance—that on the Estimates made
by M. Roy, and that on the Ways and Means by M.
Beugnot. The firmer occupied two .hours and a half;
and the latter four hours in reading. Of the real
object of these reports, we have spoken in our first
article, and we have only to observe, in this place, that
dreclarations of poverty come with an ill grace after a
resolution to recruit the armies, and we have no doubt
that the allied powers will remember this circumstance,
in case of any complaints. being made to them respect-
ing the burthen of the Army of Occupation.

The Duke of Wellington and the Duke de Richliea
have frequent conferences -respecting the adjustment of
the claims on the French. Government.

A Congress of Sovereigns, it seems, is to be held in
July, either at Frankfort or Dusseldorf, which, it is
expected, Lord Castlereagh will attend.

There is little domestic intelligence ,of importance
this week. There was a Meeting in Palace Yard on
Easter Monday, which afforded Lord Cochrane and
Mr. henry Hunt tLe opportunity of giving the Electors
some practical lessons in oratory.

Extract of a letter in the Courier :—" Faris, March
21.—1 n addition to the details I communicated in my
last concerning the apprehension of the person that fired
at the Duke of Wellington, you may announce the
following :—A subscription was collected at Brussels
for the purpose of remunerating the person infimious
enough to attempt the life of the Duke. Sixteen
thousand.francs were already deposited when the person
presented himself. It was agreed on either side, that
if he were unsuccessful, he was only to receive one
half of the amourt. He . fled back to Brussels, after
his ineffectual endeavour. Two persons walking in
the park in that city were overheard by an agent of
the police, exclaiming that it was absurd to enrich a
fellow who had not even grazed the pannels of the car..
riage.' This, and the testimony of the assassin's mis-
tress, are the principal circumstances which bear against
the prisoner. The result of the interrogatories is un-
known. . It is assured, and I believe correctly, that
one of the persons examined has confessed, in his exa-
mination, the day before yesterday, that the assassina-
tion list was presented to him, but that he refused any
concern in it with horror."

NVe understand that the Duke of Wellington may
certainly be expectedir. England, in the course of next
week.—Cortrier.

The Venetian MS. latciy purchased by the curators
of the I3odlein .Library, at a very large bunt, are
safely landed, and will soon be placed in that valuable
collection.

•Cold remains at 41. Is. pc: ounce ; standard .silver
is at ss, 4d.

All the theatres of Paris are about to give represen.
tations, for the benefit of the performers, clerriveil of
their athuies.hy the late.iire at L'Oderst.

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A letter from Paris of the I 9th states, that the per.
1 son who fired at the Duke of IVellington is actually its
the hands of the police, and communicates the tidlowitsg
particulars:—The efforts of the police have been crown.
cd with success ; the assassin of his Grace is in custody,
yet the police is still silent, because it is believed that
he has accomplices not yet in custody. Ilatfollowitg;
arc the facts which may be implicitly relied on :—The
execrable wretch is one Cantillion or Caintillion, for.
merly a soldier, who had taken rellige in Belgium.—
This miserable outcast, seduced by the hope of reward,
came secretly so Paris to commit the crime in question.;
he immediately. got his mustach:os shaved, and set oil
without a passport for the Low Countries, but the
~,sen'tlarnaceic would not suffer him to pass the frontiers.
Cantillion knowing that the police was after him, fan.
cied he would be more safe at Paris than any Arisen
else ; die therefore return:deem/ was arrested in the
day time on Monday last. Nothing has yet transpired
as to any confessions that he may have made, hut it ap-
pears certain, tint he has several accomplices or insti-
gators, some of whom arc already in custody.
The Duke of Wellington is expected iu England in
die cottr.e of a few days. The frequent discussions
which be has had of late with the French Ministers an
the sultject of.the liquidations, and of` the removal of
the allied troops, are said to le so important, and the
situation of affairs at this moment so critical, that it is
thought essential for his Grace to come over to advise
with his govcrement ot. the matter.—Morniieg Chro.
nick.

The Emperor Alexander was expecte:C. at Warsaw on
thest:sth of March. Great preparations acre making
for his reception.
The commander of the American squadron in the
Mediterranean has requested the Dey of Algiers to
give orders to his cruizers, not to take the liberty, in
future, of visiting American vessels, under any pretext
whatever, because as the plague prevails in the territory
of Algiers, it is much to he feared that the contagion
may he spread by these visits. He adds, that in case elf
refusal he had orders to.. give chase to the Algerine
vessels, and to sink them.
According to advices from Cor.stantinople, •Mahib-
ali-Khan, ambassador extraordinary from Persia, had
made his public t ntryinto that capital, attended by a
numerous smite. lie delivered to the Grand Seignior
presents of extraordinary magnificence ; alma:wet them
0-
an elephant of initnense size, and richly ornamented.
The Ambassador was five months on his journey front
Teheran. It was though this stay at the Porte would
be of long duration.
••FRAUICFORT, MARCH 17.—A Flanders mail arrived
on. Friday night. The following is the only article iu
the rapers of any interest.:—
" According to the last accounts frcm Paris the va-
luation of the debts to be liquidated is finished ; they
amount to the enortaceis sum of One Thousand Seven
Hundred Millions of Francs."
M-: Brougham made his grand electioneering entre,
on Monday last into Kendal. F. Du Cane, jun. Esq. el
Chelmsford, and Mr. Tower ate candidates for Mahlon.
James Webster, Esq. of London,. is a .caedidate for the
Borough of St. Ives. An application, has been made to
Godfrey Higgins, Esq. of . Skellow-Grange to offer
himself as a candidate for Pontefract. -.There is sense
idea, that Guildoril will be again disputed.
THE NORTH PCLE.—It is said that Lord Cochrane
has caused s steam boat to be built, in.which he in-
tends to make a voyage to the -North 'Pole, and from
thence to Behring's Strait. • She is tole schooner rig-
"ed. and will be accompanied by some old collier,
laden with coals, as far as Spitzbergen. Fere the coals
will be taken into the schooner ; antis the run is only
about five days to the Pole, and from thence to Belle
ring's Strait nine days; and as it is ietended to make use
of rails when the wind is fair, his Lordship is sanguine
in hope of being the first to accomplish the north-west
passage over the Pole, and thus toget both of the Par-
liamentary :awards, amounting to e 5,0001. one half
of which nearly will be expended in. th.e outfit.
The sailing of the expedition ter discovering the
North Pole, and the Northern • passage . between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, has been deferred fsr some
days longer. Lord Melville -visited the sships at Dept.
ford, for the purpose of inspecting their condition, and
the efficiency of -their preparations. His Lordship was
entertained by witnessing the activity. end courage of
the Esquimaux, who goes out with the expedition as
an interpreter, in case of any communication with the
coast of Davis'•. Strait. This Indian has his canoe on
board, with his fishing apparatus. He. is not tall, but
his form, though clumsy, denotes great strength. His
face is dear and fair ; and being- dressed like an Eng-
lish sailor, and working with the other men, he might
at first view be inistaLen fin- a uutive•of these islands !,
but his features are loge, and -the breadth and flatness
of his countenance betray his origin. The officers of
the expedition seem quite confident that the Dorothea
and-the Trent, under the command of Captain Buchan;
destined for the discovery of.the North Pole, will attain
their object ; but they. are by no means equally san-
guinesof the success of the Isabella and the Alexander
undmeaptein If •evho•. is instructed to attempt the
passage of .Davis' Strait.—rEveling Paper.

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THE DRAMA.
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DRURY LANE.

phis theatre re-opened on Monday, with the comedy
of John Bull, and. tlie afteiTieze of Obi. A magnifi-
tent chandelier, illumincted by gas, made its debut on
the occasion, and was very favourably received, as the
phrase is. It is said to have cost 1,2001. All the
griffin tribe have disappeared from the saloon, which
now resumes its pristine simplicity. Good taste cannot.
toil to rjaicc at this, for unless ugliness can be deemed
beauty, Chinese monstroAties must be offensive to every
ooe who has any ideas of symmetry and elegance at all.
vagaries, however, arc more tolerable in a then re,
than ebeuthere.

On Wedne3day appeared• Mr. foam's new version of
Rob /kb After the story had been grasped by the
rival theatre, and mangled by the minor ones, poor
Drury brinls up the rear, like a fat man in .a foot-race.
The Author, however, disdaining to tread in the steps
of his pte.doc.:ssors, very sapiently alters the plot, .till
ii, is no more like the original Rob Roy. than he to
Hercules, nar so much. filacgrerpr himself is twisted
into a lover, sighing for Diana Vernon, who sighs for
Lifts in return ; and just as the iatly is abaut to be mar-
ried, by compubion, to Raaltleigi Osbaldistone, very
opportunely steps from behind a monument (awincident
rendered venerable from its antiquity) and compels the
poor .pricA to.perform the ceremony for himself. Helen
is introduced as the mother of Rob Roy, and is 41 per—
fect fury, very poetically got-rid of by a•flash of light-
ning. The main error of all this is, undoubtedly, the
introduction of personages with whose names we were
familiar, in new situations, and displaying -sttalities
entirely different from those in the original work.—
NV hate% er be.the motives that may have occasioned the
change, it is still injudicious, for an audience-is never
tiatisiied when its old friends appear metamorphosed, or
scarcely retaining any features of identity.
Thepicee was given out for repetition amidst consi-
entble opposition. It was repeated on Thursday with
very considerable curtailments, and went (Abetter than
.on the preceding night.